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Trust can be a dangerous thing. Trusting your instincts, trusting your friends, but more so, Trusting your heart. Because the General wasn’t what I thought he was. No, he was so much more. More than the cruelty and malice I believed consumed his soul. More than the darkness in his eyes and the monsters he commanded. And now he needed my help. Help with the Rift that ruptured and caused our worlds to collide. But as the truth started to unravel, I was left asking myself how far into his world was I willing to let myself fall? And more than anything…

A blink of an eye. That was all it took for my world to end. For it to literally crumble beneath my feet. The Rift that tore through the land and opened it up to unearthly danger. After that, everything changed, and I had to change with it. Any hopes for the future I may have had, now lost and a new me forced to be reborn. Each day in this brutal new world was a fight for survival. One filled with living nightmares and all those myths and monsters I had once read about as a kid. But there was one important thing I had never learned about in school…

In Kestrius, peace is a lie held together by power. When a rival House proposes an alliance that could unite the provinces, Auretta Ashwen knows it for what it is: treason disguised as diplomacy. If her family refuses, they risk isolation. If they accept, they may ignite a civil war. Her brother Arden is heir to House Ashwen, but he wants no part of the future laid before him. While war gathers on the horizon, he is torn between duty, freedom, and the crushing shadow of his family’s legacy. Ra’el, a talented warrior raised up by House Ashwen, is drawn into a secret mission that places ...

Kyra Ait Ravenblood remembers almost nothing of the night her power first manifested—only pain, ruin, and the certainty that people died because of her. Taken in by the Spellbound Arch and sent to train in the haunted city of Mistbreak, she is told that discipline, sacrifice, and service are the only path left to her. But as she struggles to master her ringpact and survive the deadly politics surrounding mages, elves, uncanny factions, and the mysterious Spellthief, Kyra uncovers secrets that threaten not only her future, but the fragile order of her world. Hunted by the past and driven ...

Rome and Dex's happily ever after is next.

In the near future, social behavior is not debated, it is modeled. Elections, markets, activism, and public opinion are shaped not by persuasion, but by vectors, coordinated micro-interventions whose individual effects are invisible, but whose aggregate direction is decisive. Marek is one of the best. An elite social engineer operating alone with a powerful AI, he is hired by corporate and political clients to solve problems that no longer respond to argument or ideology. He does not argue. He optimizes. He believes the system still holds.

Marek Myers is an up-and-coming goalie, but he's also not out. At least, he wasn't. Because one kiss with the wrong man slams Marek out of the closet and into the spotlight. Determined to make the best of a bad situation, Marek goes on the offensive, charming the media one interview at a time, happy to be the poster boy the media is after. Only, not everyone is pleased with the attention Marek is receiving, and he finds himself traded to a different team.

I have rules. Very important rules. No real names, no strings, no seeing each other again. It's always worked out well for me, and it's the only thing that keeps me focused as I try to climb my way into professional hockey after nearly torching my career. I should have been king of the ice in the paraprofessional league, but instead, I let my anger and bitterness get to me. Now I'm forced to claw my way back into relevance, starting with a community team. That would be fine if the one amazing, anonymous night I had with a total stranger didn't end up being the Wolves' new coach.

There are many words for what Oliver does for a living, and none of them are very kind. Oliver's time in that industry is nearly at an end, so when a gorgeous older man with sad eyes stumbles into his path, Oliver finds it impossible to turn him away. Victor looks at him like he's an angel, even when Oliver feels like a devil, but he knows better than to hope. After all, men like them are only ever destined for star-crossed love. As months of separation carry on, Oliver realizes that maybe he really is willing to fight for what he wants and, more importantly, for who.

In this rich new audio production, acclaimed British American actress Rebecca Hall brings one of E. M. Forster's most admired works to life in this classic tale of human struggle. A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, is wooed by both free-spirited George Emerson and wealthy Cecil Vyse while vacationing in Italy. Though attracted to George, Lucy becomes engaged to Cecil despite twice turning down his proposals. On hearing of the news, George confesses his love, leaving Lucy torn between marrying the more socially acceptable Cecil or George, the man she knows would bring her true happiness. Should Lucy choose social acceptance or true love?

It should have been an open-and-shut case: the suicide of Tye Horton, the designer of a cutting-edge video game. But Detective Jo Wyatt is immediately suspicious of Quinn Kirkwood, who reported the death. When Quinn reveals an internet stalker is terrorizing her, Jo is skeptical. Doubts aside, she delves into the claim and uncovers a link that ties Quinn to a small group of beta-testers who had worked with Horton. When a second member of the group dies in a car accident, Jo's investigation leads her to the father of a young man who had killed himself a year earlier.

Ander Forrest renounced blood magic to become a nurse-healer in his rural hometown, far from the drama of wizardry and espionage his sister Kate craved. When Kate goes missing in action, Ander finds himself the legal guardian of her gifted twins and receives a cryptic warning from Kate’s husband to protect them before he, too, disappears.

Buckle up for another terrifying trip through the twisted minds of sixteen masterful storytellers in Kevin J. Kennedy’s 24th Horror Collection anthology – The Sinister Edition. This chilling new volume delivers a blood-soaked banquet of horror, perfectly crafted for fans of the strange, the grotesque, and the utterly unforgettable. From the ashes of the apocalypse to the darkest corners of the digital world, this collection spans a nightmarish spectrum. You'll face unspeakable body horror, stalk the streets with the undead, and howl alongside werewolves under a cursed moon.

Whoever convinced me that quitting my job as an interpreter to take over my dead aunt’s farm should be covered in honey and left for the ants. Oh wait…that was me. I was burnt out and ready for a change, but I didn’t expect what came with it. An orchard full of fruit I’m allergic to. A bunch of farm equipment I don’t know how to use. And a vindictive, vicious groundhog who has made it his life’s mission to drive me to the brink of madness.

The Green Dungeon thrived. Despite the Council's attempt to destroy her, Jennifer Conners, a Blue World soul, remained a viable Dungeon Core in Green World. With the defeat of Werner Oswaldo, Jennifer had leveled up. Her human experience and Garden Core existence made for a unique outlook on dungeons. She filled her garden with Green World people and Blue World items. She built her floors, mobs, and traps with an exhilaration she'd never felt as a human.

After forty years away, Cam Carpenter returns home for her mother’s funeral—and into the arms of a stranger. But when morning comes, she finds out that Shiloh Sampson, the woman whose arms she woke up in, is the daughter of Cam’s first girlfriend—the woman who ruined her life. Shiloh thinks she'll settle for the commission on the sale of Cam’s house; neither she nor Cam expects their sudden attraction. A tornado ripping down Cam’s family’s house causes a series of events that reveal long buried truths about Shiloh’s mother leading her to turn to Cam for understanding and the...

Where the Sleeping Lady Lies is a science-based thriller that follows 35-year-old ecologist Samantha Rose as she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that could trigger a global catastrophe. When a series of devastating earthquakes ravage Anchorage, Samantha receives a call from her close friend Jackson, a special ops team leader, revealing that several of their mutual friends are missing and presumed dead. But as Samantha arrives in Alaska to attend the funerals, she learns that their disappearance is far from ordinary.

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