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The Rift Saga reaches its thundering conclusion. Kase, Brell, and Rumcole have survived betrayal, battled across fractured realms, and forged impossible alliances. Now the dark mage Kregryn moves to resurrect an ancient evil and only these three unlikely heroes stand against the coming storm. With time itself unraveling and monsters pouring through unsealed portals, the final confrontation awaits on a cursed island where a black tower pierces the sky. Friendships will be tested. Sacrifices will be demanded. And the fate of every realm hangs upon a single desperate gambit.

Conrad Clarke, former RAF pilot and alleged gangster, gets a text – and a visit – from The Allfather. Odin has a challenge for Conrad: Sign up to protect England from wild magick and get a commission in the King’s Watch. All he has to do is find a missing witch. Simple. Conrad never could resist a challenge. Before you can say “Ragnarok”, he’s plunged into a world of gods, mages, witches, dwarves, and one very aggressive giant mole.

The Loom is Unraveling. Maya Reyes is a young Threadweaver with the power to mend the very fabric of reality. But as the fabric of Aethermere begins to tear at the seams, she finds herself drawn into a web of shadows that goes far beyond mending threads. Dark forces conspire to manipulate the Loom, and its delicate balance threatens to collapse.

A formidable alien armada stands on the brink of vanquishing the cosmos, their gaze set firmly on every inhabited world. The last line of defense? An eclectic crew of improbable champions: a maverick starfighter pilot, a daredevil stuntwoman, a lethal super-assassin, and a cosmic prankster with alien tricks up his sleeves. Their mission is to shield not just humanity, but billions of other intelligent lifeforms spanning the multiverse.

This bundle includes three audiobooks following the cursed orphan Conrad Edison: The Living Curse, The Anchored World, and The Broken Relic.

What would you do if you saw the zombie apocalypse coming and had time to prepare? Where would you go? Who would you take with you? Who could you trust? Following their flight from zombie-infested New York and flush with cash from a recent inheritance, Army veteran Lee Riker and his sister Tara are holed up with their new friend Steve-O in a multi-million-dollar Miami Beach waterside mansion. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Nobody knew where it came from. Nobody knew why it came. When an eight-foot-tall man made of stone appears in the middle of a busy city center one July afternoon, two-bit (and antisocial) reporter Andy Pointer assumes it's just a publicity stunt. Indeed, so does everyone else...until the Stone Man begins to walk, heading silently through the wall of the nearest building, flattening it, and killing several people inside as a result.

Emma is a sorceress— but she doesn’t know it. A rare breed of fae, Emma is whisked away to a regal realm where dragons breathe fire, griffins fly, alicorns battle and wolves hunt monsters. In this land of pagan ritual and dark deception, a cult of shadow seeks her blood to raise a dark god, and the greatest danger of all could be her own mate. Ethan is a disgraced wolf who desires to be king. He forged an unbreakable bond with Emma at first sight, but loving her means putting the country at risk. A prince by day and a vigilante by night, Ethan must keep his identity secret, or face execution.

Emma has been given a quest by the gods to save her country from destruction. If she’s to preserve the future of the fae, she’ll have to become the strongest sorceress that’s ever lived, bring down the cult that seeks her power, and defeat the dark lord that threatens to rule over the kingdom.

Life is going smoothly for Freya Holmes for a change. She has new partners—from the Legacy Foundation, no less—and the most pressing problem she’s facing is an infestation of ghouls in the Garden District. Hardly something to worry about. Then the unthinkable happens, and a couple is killed in their home. Right before their terrible deaths, somebody called on the phone and told them to play jazz if they didn’t want to die. The couple blew off the call, and paid the ultimate price.

From number-one worldwide best-selling fantasy author Morgan Rice comes a long-anticipated science-fiction series debut. When SETI finally receives a signal from an alien civilization, what will happen next? A 13-year-old boy, dying of a rare brain disease, is the only one able to hear and decode signals from outer space. SETI confirms it is a real signal. What is the message? How will the world react? And most of all: are the aliens coming?

Dr. Julie McCray, astrophysicist, isn’t looking for second chance romance. Not even close. She’s focused. She needs to save the planet from a dystopian future as Earth temperatures soar. Julie’s rover, 40 million miles away, discovers living bacteria hiding under the Martian surface. Scientists examine its DNA profile and agree that, with a slight amount of genetic engineering, it can absorb vast quantities of carbon dioxide, exactly what the planet needs to survive. The President orders the government to commandeer Julie’s Mars mission and bring the living bacteria to Earth.

The NPCs have free will, the war never ends, and the only real human in the game has no idea what he’s doing. When Hank Carlisle tries to unplug his son’s computer from the internet, he inadvertently triggers the Transference System and ends up being transported into the game world of Magicadia. He finds himself stuck in a land of magic, monsters, and malfunctioning code. He's also mistaken for the game’s creator, who happens to be his son, George.

Jim Atteberry is a single parent college professor, laboring over an endless pile of essays while indulging in his radio astronomy hobby. But when he hears an apparent distress call from the Ross 128 star system, he is hurled into a deadly mystery. And what he discovers could either save the world... or destroy it.

People are growing ill; eyes changing color, burning up with a fever so fierce that it causes them to go crazy, attacking those around them, spreading the infection like wildfire. People are trying to escape the unknown sickness, but there is nowhere to run… nowhere to hide… The only chance for the survival of the human race is to stay and fight. However, they're unaware of what they're fighting. What they're up against is much greater than anything they could ever imagine. This is just the beginning... Could this be the end of humanity?

In less than twenty-four hours a vicious viral epidemic destroys virtually all of the population. Billions are killed. There are no symptoms and no warnings; within moments of infection each victim suffers a violent and agonising death. Only a handful of survivors remain.

Charlie7 is the progenitor of a mechanical race he built from the ashes of a dead world—Earth. He is a robot of leisure and idle political meddling—a retirement well-earned. Or he was, until a human girl named Eve was dropped in his lap. Geneticists have restored Earth’s biome and begun repopulation. But primate cloning is in its infancy; human cloning is banned. Far from a failed genetics experiment, Eve is brilliant, curious, and heartbreakingly naïve about her species’ history. But Eve’s creator wants her back and has a gruesome fate planned for her.

Deep Scythe is a modern military thriller that blends naval aviation, black-budget warfare, and psychological operations into a story where the line between innovation and insanity becomes impossible to see. When global tensions begin pushing the United States toward a new kind of conflict, military leadership quietly approves an idea so unconventional it never should have survived the briefing room.

Ilea survived the eclipse on Erendar, and she didn’t return alone. With the Meadow settling in Hallowfort and her third class finally unlocked, Ilea finds herself looking for new ways to test and improve her powers. After duelling a few locals, delving into the depths of a rotten, forgotten tomb, battle-testing her Sentinel students, and herding a literal bunch of cats, Ilea decides to get back to her roots.

Noah, an orphan from Earth's last days who, as a child, was smuggled to safety across the stars, is now nearly a man and a leader to the young enclave of Earthborn who reside on Sora. When the tranquility of their settlement is shattered by a shocking assassination attempt, Noah turns to his combative younger brother, Erik, Lucas and Asha's only child by blood, for aid.