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Jonah Rowe sabía que no lo sabía todo sobre sus habilidades como once, un humano que puede acceder al poder de sus auras. Pero sabía lo suficiente como para no creer en los mitos sobre los dioses griegos. Esas eran historias para niños. Hollywood. Hasta que llegó la sibila.

A cabinetmaker, private investigator, journalist, mystery lady, homemaker, police officer, true-crime writer, and flavorist. Between them they witness, investigate, perpetrate, and are victims of serious crime. Murder in the midst of carjacking, fraud, statutory rape, theft, vindictive bullying, and serial arson.

Phoenix was my kryptonite. My weak spot. My indulgence. After she left me, I was broken beyond repair. I didn’t think I would ever feel whole again. But then she came back. And all my broken pieces started to piece back together again. When the lies and secrets she’s kept from me come between us, I don’t know where to turn anymore. Everything I’ve been taught tells me that she’s dangerous. That I should be running for the hills when she tells me who she really is. But my love for her doesn’t care about the risk. My heart was hers a long time ago. There was no changing that.

Ever since the demise of the Mountain King, Hermon Cordillera’s daughters have stepped up and shared the throne as queens of the Osiris Realm. But when women go missing from the kingdom, they are unable to find whoever is responsible for the growing number of abductions. Meanwhile, Mykal—the young wizard—continues honing his magical skills with his mother, and his tactical training with Blodwyn, his oldest friend. Living in secret within the ancient library ruins, they are surprised when a young woman shows up asking them for help.

After killing his father and attempting to evade his calling as a magician and protector of the realm, Yeolani disappears deep into the forest. But when he is granted limitless power and irreverently refuses to master it, unintended havoc—and intervening fairies—drive him toward a more purposeful path. The third book in the riveting Wise Ones series, Life Giver follows Yeolani on a journey laden with magical mishaps and encounters with capricious creatures.

Explore the distant realms of your imagination. Dive deep into alien worlds, learn how a kingdom that knew only light brought darkness to the world, and gasp with horror at the annihilation of an entire species. Covering a myriad of thought-provoking topics—from alien cultures to human relationships and genocide—each of these five stories encapsulates the wonder of human, and humanoid, curiosity and strength.

Roland swore to protect and raise the small dragon princess as his own. Feared by humanity and dragonkind alike, the warrior monk is a renowned swordsman, and his skill in Netherworld magic is legendary. However, it is the child who fuels the fear burning in the hearts of both dragon and man. For the child is more than a child: She is a weapon, designed by the dark gods to unite all dragonkind under one banner and wage the final war against humanity, wiping them out forever. Roland has made an allegiance with the dragon child, threatening both dragon and man.

Any who believe the Freetown Bridge to be a monument to freedom have sadly misjudged the dark intent of the Frisian Inquisition. Thousands of slaves have been snatched to help with its construction, and the fears of its purpose are building across the continent. Unable to stop themselves, a small group of adventurers from the renegade city-state of Aberddu seek to join those who would destroy it. A ragtag gang of mercenaries, priests, and greenskins prepare to stand up to the might of the Red Inquisition, before they discover that the enemy is closer than they realized.

Campagne anglaise, 1958. Le village idyllique d'Olney St. Mary s'était maintenu dans son environnement paisible pendant plus de 900 ans. Jusqu'au jour où deux adolescents sont frappés par une mystérieuse maladie. Le docteur Hilary Newton, nouvellement arrivée, soupçonne une grippe banale d'être à l'origine de leur maladie. Très vite, le docteur et les habitants d'Olney St. Mary sont plongés dans un cauchemar, alors que la maladie ravage la population locale. Bien que les médecins utilisent les derniers médicaments disponibles, le nombre de morts ne cesse d'augmenter.

Life hasn’t been easy for Cady Caldwell, struggling first with her drug-addicted parents, then mistreated by the husband she though would be her savior. But there has always been one thing to keep her going: protecting her younger sisters and ensuring their lives are happy. Forced into hiding to escape her abusive marriage, Cady is shunted off to Garrison, Montana, to live with a paternal grandmother she doesn’t know…and doesn’t want to. It seems that those two sisters, and an equally determined grandmother, are hell-bent on looking after her...and getting her to live again.

This participatory interactive collection of experimental poetry is designed to promote and provoke reflection and revision, and to push back against categorizations as a matter of form or otherwise. The forms reflect bits and pieces of story wrapped into all aspects of our lives. I hope you will enjoy this collection, dedicated to those who question, wonder, and continue to strive to fill in the missing blanks.

When James Bryan Cullen takes on convict transportee Elizabeth Bartlett in 1796 as a housekeeper, his challenge is to convince her that life on Norfolk Island is worth living. But how do you come back from being wrongly accused of a crime, then exiled to the other side of the world? He is 32 years older, transported on the First Fleet, long a free man, a constable, a landowner. She’s pregnant; her life such as it was, in tatters. With nothing to lose, Elizabeth settles into an existence as a convict slave, waiting for her master to expect more than cleaning and cooking.

Marvin Spangler is a self-centered, ill-equipped teacher of high school history, tasked by his principal to form an auctioneering team that has a chance in hell of winning a Tennessee state championship. He assembles a team comprising three very different souls: Larry Jr., the damaged prodigy, is led by fate; Eric, the obsessed jock, by unrequited love; and Helen, the usually disinterested beauty, by an inexplicable fascination. Together they surrender to a journey that carries them to the cusp of the summit of their dreams...and the nightmares awaiting far down below.

At the edge of the Pennine Moors, Detective Sergeant Blackshaw and his rookie colleague, Detective Constable Lumb, are called to the scene of a double murder committed on a burial ground. They discover that the case is connected to an ancient Celtic cult. Desperate for career advancement and obsessed with solving the mystery, DC Lumb immerses himself in the group—and disappears. Amid a chain of unexplained deaths, the Sergeant Blackshaw attempts to unravel the plot. But with scarce evidence, can he prove his theory—or will he have to accept that there is no way to catch a phantom?

Accepting an offer from his uncle, Lord Beddington, to learn about estate management, William Duncan gets involved in raising money to support their local hospital. After a series of unfortunate accidents to Lord Beddington and his wife, William is persuaded by his aunt’s rival on the council to enlist the help of his father, General Duncan, whose previous visit resulted in a yachting catastrophe, still remembered with anguish by his uncle. Her daughter, Lavinia, is coordinating the hospital PR campaign and sets out to trap William into marriage.

Barengaria, Thane, and Yardena live with an abusive stepfather in the basement of a shabby house on the coast of Maine. After they discover the addresses of relatives in a cache of rotting Christmas presents, they begin writing to them secretly. But it seems like escaping from the prison their stepfather has constructed for them will not be easy, and anyone who even attempts to help them faces grave danger. With their stepfather's presence looming over them like a deadly shadow, can they find their way to freedom...and at what cost?

Avoiding her home and an arranged marriage, Dody travels to Reno to help a friend. What she doesn't see coming is a stranger who captures her heart. But can she find him again? Greg never expected the feelings that overtook him at the barest glimpse of the beautiful stranger on the train. But can love born in a moment last a lifetime?

Three years have passed since Roxanne left. She’s obeyed and fulfilled Remo’s every wish. His latest command, however, will send her back to Earth. Aware her presence Earth-side is furthering Remo’s plans, Roxanne delves into an impossible chase against time, the preternatural community, and herself. But she might already be too late, and Roxanne experiences firsthand that when desperate people are pressed against a rock, they’re willing to commit just about anything.

Warrior. Monk. Wizard. He is Roland of the High Crags. As a warrior monk, he has taken vows to protect humanity from all forms of evil. To protect the innocent and the weak, and to unflinchingly face his foes, no matter the odds. For centuries, that meant that the Bretan monks faced the hordes of dragon armies who pushed mankind into the snow-capped mountains of the High Kanris. But one day, a dragon nobleman asks Roland to take his remaining heir, a seven-year-old dragon princess, and save her from those who wish to destroy her.

Seeking asylum from the wreckage of her life, Yvette Grimm arrives in Australia and overstays her holiday visa. Desperate to carve a life for herself as an illegal British migrant, she invests her hopes in a palm-reader’s prophecy: She is to meet the father of her children before she’s 30. But Yvette is already 29, and the quest takes her on a picaresque journey of self-discovery and transformation. Set in Perth against the backdrop of Australia’s migrant history, present and past, Nine Months of Summer is a moving, relevant, and at times comical story of personal growth.