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Marilla "Rilla" Blythe, the youngest daughter of Gilbert and Anne Blythe, is nearly 15 when the First World War begins making news. Seemingly overnight, the men of the town are being called up to enlist. Rilla, who had long yearned for adulthood, finds new responsibilities as the war wages on.

The seduction of a Horseman's beast is a powerful thing. It's something Bram can't escape, or won't. Consumed by power, his beast has gained control, and now, the royal has another problem. He doesn't think he's worthy of redemption, believing he deserves his dragon prison, after what he's done and who he's killed. Losing the last remnants of his humanity, though, was a small price to pay to free Chloe's world from the grip of the deadly fae realm.

The first novel written by Charlotte Bronte, The Professor follows a young man named William Crimsworth on his teaching career in Brussels as well as the relationships he forms while residing there. At the behest of the headmistress, Zoraide Reuter, William tutors fellow teacher Frances Henri in English and finds himself falling in love with her. Jealousy drives Zoraide to dismiss Frances from the school as well as refusing to assist William in discovering her whereabouts.

Our vows played through my mind on auto-play, while I contemplated the plausibility of the impossible. It was too much to take in, my devastating losses were many, and my new reality was getting harder and harder to accept. The thing is, grief and desperation are a lethal combination, and that combination forced me to do the unthinkable. I got away with it, too. Until I didn't....

Mere mortal. Fae hunter. Oh, and the apocalypse? Yeah, that happened! She's an unstoppable human. He's an immovable beast. But the fae have scorched the earth and humans are next.... Chloe Etain, stumbled into an ancient war between the light and dark that has culminated in her world being thrown into darkness and pre-industrial chaos. Vampire-like creatures roam free, feeding on unsuspecting humans. Chloe knows the truth though and, possibly, how to stop it. But as a mere mortal, what can she do? That's when the fates step in.

Most humans have fallen prey to the scorch. Only one will rise...a hero. Who would have imagined that war would turn out to be one of the good guys? Yes, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse - that war! Mere mortal Chloe Etain did, that's who. She's still an unstoppable human and he's still an immovable beast, and now, they know how to stop the other horsemen.

Set in Vienna at the turn of the 19th century, the romantic entanglements of four young individuals, Fritz, Theodor, Christine, and Mizi, offer a sharp social commentary and insight on the influence of personal and social morals on relationships.

Horseman boyfriend rescued? Check. Vampire screwing everything up? Of course. Two Horsemen down. One to go...For centuries three Horsemen have reigned, their corruption unchecked. Until recently, the entire fae realm was unknown to humans. That is until their wicked ways turned the skies of the human world to ash. The royal Horsemen's iron rule plagued everything they touched. But no longer. With famine and death gone, things have come to a boiling point. The battle between worlds and wills was inevitable.

As the curtain falls on the March family's tale, we revisit the Plumfield clan 10 years later, all grown up and finding their way through life's adventures and misadventures.

Chloe has never run away from a battle in her life, and she's not about to start. As an apocalyptic nightmare unfolds before her, the enigmatic Bram Tice joins her quest as they try to undo the damage the unseen powers unleashed on their world. Chloe races to unlock her murdered professor's secrets, the key to it all. But she discovers her reluctant companion has even darker, more dangerous secrets of his own. Feeling every ounce of her mortal being, Chloe enters a new world of high- and low-caste fae, vampiric scabs, and still, somehow, finds a strength within herself to fight back.

I discovered the truth of who Olin really is, and he tried to kill me for it. Me, Nathaniel, our students - we’re not murderers, but he’s putting every single one of us at risk, and a modern witch hunt is just around the corner with him on the loose. We must deal with him. My mother has returned. We have been wary of portal magic ever since her disappearance, but she’s brought with her a tale far more perilous and wilder than I ever could have imagined.

The last place any of us expected the newest mage to come from was the past and a book. But Olin’s arrival has brought answers. He knows why some mages can do magic and why some cannot. We all came to Europe to get answers about magic and our history, and that’s exactly what we’re getting, in the most unexpected ways. While we scour Germany, France, Scotland, and other countries for information and books, Nathaniel and I shakily try to repair what has broken between us. But I’ve noticed something new in Borden’s eyes when he looks at me.

Nathaniel and I thought we were alone in this, until the day our enemy walked through the door, showing us the impossible things he could do. Borden Stewart was the last person we ever thought we could trust - I certainly don’t, but Nathaniel has forgiven and forgotten. As a new semester at Alderidge University starts, the stakes are higher than ever. There are ramifications to Borden leaving the Society Boys. Now all of us - our work - are targets. And how am I ever supposed to focus on school, when the call to bring back magic grows more intense by the day?

College is hard - classes, homework, bullies. But, being the daughter of renowned professors, I grew up at Alderidge University and was on track to have an easy start to my freshman year. Until I met Nathaniel Nightingale. Aloof and mysterious, Nathaniel’s hands were covered in scars that told me he had a violent history. He started asking questions about my own, and then dark secrets in our family lines collided after a strange discovery in the library. We found words with power, and they unleashed abilities in the both of us that had been lost to the world.

An impossible choice. Should he save the woman he loves but can never have, protect humanity, or avoid a prison sentence that would stretch for eternity? Archer is a half breed, caught between two opposing heritages - the Jacks, a bloodthirsty race who kills for sport, and the Readers, a docile race trying to save humankind. Two years ago, he betrayed the Readers, though, in a last-minute change of heart, saved them from ultimate destruction. But now he’s all alone, wallowing in unrequited love.

Daveth encounters a mysterious fae. She is the most beautiful women he's ever seen. But she has a secret she cannot tell.... With Daveth by her side, she explores the unfamiliar land of Loch Ains, meeting new people and bonding in ways a human and fae shouldn't. The forbidden love. But one day, that will all change, and Daveth must rescue his beloved fae from her horrible fate. Will Daveth rescue his beloved? Or will her secret past get the best of her?