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My name is Joy, and I've always lived up to it—smiling through problems, finding silver linings, believing tomorrow will be better. But over a month ago, my optimism met its match when I was kidnapped while searching for my missing best friend. Now I'm a prisoner of New Orleans' most dangerous crime lord, thrust into a world I never knew existed. Vampires are real. Vampire mafia? Also real. And something is stirring inside me—a power I can't explain that's the only reason I'm still alive.

Joy Lansing is at a crossroads. Her kids have all flown the nest and just when she thought she was going to spend her golden years with her husband of 30 years, she finds herself single again and looking to rebuild a life she no longer recognizes. Lucky for Joy, she has her three besties and her coven by her side. Because she’s going to need them when she lands a movie role and finds herself hexed by a jealous co-star.

Take a journey to joy! Sophia has lost her joy and goes on an adventure shaped by the four seasons and four elements to reclaim it. Journey with her as she travels in search of her song, power, wholeness, and ancestral wisdom. This is an enchanting modern fairy tale for anyone on a threshold or in transition. Has life been draining your joy? Enter the story alongside Sophia and find ways to welcome more joy and meaning back into your life. Journey to Joy celebrates the gifts of animal guides, healing herbs, nature’s inspiration, and discovering our deeper kinship with one another.

Who better to narrate today's best science-fiction stories than today's favorite science-fiction stars? This exciting collection features many.

What do you get when you mix mystery and speculative fiction, then toss in the holidays for good measure? A mobster Santa, genetic hanky-panky, Victorian villages, time-travelling detectives, Krampus, eerie bell spirits, and more-this collection of short cross-genre fiction is the perfect counterpoint to traditional holiday stories!

A girl from Kansas wins a ride to orbit in a lottery. A physicist sets up a mysterious experiment on the same ship. When the experiment is turned on, the girl from Kansas takes the ship through the mysterious Beyond to a new star. Thus begins an intriguing future history in which humans have a rare talent for exploration that is the envy of all the Galaxy.

Indrajit Twang is the 427th epic poet of his people, the only person alive to carry their entire epic history and mythology in his head. His people are dwindling in number, and if he can't find a successor in the great city of Kish, their story will disappear with them. Fix grew up a foundling on the ancient streets of Kish and is making his living as a mercenary. The woman he loves married someone else, and Fix has turned to buying and selling risk on the black market - but is he trying to impress her, or prove something to himself?

As a child growing up on her grandparents' ranch, Brinlee never imagined running it by herself, much less converting it into a refuge for innocent children fleeing a brutal war. And she never would have believed how much one toddler's sunny little presence could brighten her lonely road. With all the suffering and pain surrounding them, will Joy's influence reach farther than she knows?

The universe is darkening. Joy and happiness are being sucked out of everyone, everywhere, and nobody seems to know how or why it’s happening. Except a young woman who goes by the very name of Joy. Stealing a spacecraft and crash-landing on a frozen planet, Joy begins to use her mysterious sense to track down and experience the memories of a man named Lothar. Through Lothar’s various memories of an ancient tradition called Christmas, Joy witnesses the destruction of happiness and watches as a dreadful war claims the lives of many.

After Anova sacrificed her humanity to save the fae she loves, Death comes to collect on their deal. But when his demand of her is something they can’t stomach, Anova knows there is only one fae who can help. Even if he is the one hellbent on having her, the cruel King Hellmyr.