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Selah loved to visit her grandparents. Grandma May always baked her favorite cookies and played fun games with her. And now Grandma May has trusted Selah, her sisters, and her cousin with a very big secret. In all of her five years, Selah had never imagined anything as incredible as the land of Faylea. And she never could have imagined that one day she'd be able to have special powers. She definitely couldn't imagine that one day she'd meet a monster that would become her friend.

Kelsie Moore doesn't have much to complain about these days. She is loving life working as a nanny in the Hamptons alongside her best friend for the summer. She's had lots of sun and beach time. She's also had lots of dates which would typically make her very happy. But ever since her best friend coupled up with a boy from the beach, for the first time, Kelsie finds herself wanting more than just a fun night out with a boy.

Nevaeh is on a mission! She - along with her two sisters and cousin - has a job to do, and it's not just a boring old normal job. They have been entrusted as the guardians of the most amazing - and shocking - magical world. And they need to get back there as soon as possible because when you let creatures in from the human world, such as cute little kitty cats, apparently, very bad things can happen.

There was nothing May liked better than having her granddaughters visit, especially when it came to the holidays. They loved playing games, building snowmen, and drinking hot chocolate together. But this Christmas was going to be extra special. Grandma May felt that they were finally old enough for the surprise. They were old enough to keep her secrets and young enough to still believe in magic.

Ava can hardly believe her eyes when she sees the tiny magical creature. Fairies are real? Then again, she'd seen a lot of things that were new to her since she and her three cousins had become the guardians of the magical world called Faylea. She'd almost gotten used to the idea of a sweet flying dragon, but she never in her wildest dreams would think that she'd be talking to a fairy.

The gods never sleep.... As the mortal vessel for the Muse of Comedy, Lia Youlos lights up every room with laughter and smiles. But there are darker forces at work, and they want to snuff out her light forever. Cooper Hanover is a hardworking paramedic who healed Lia after a fire, but something happened that day, something medical science couldn't explain. And if he doesn't figure out how it works soon, the next healing could kill him. Lia's smile and sharp wit tempt him to love again, and he's not going to let anyone, not even the gods, take her from him.

The prophecy: Every generation, the nine daughters of Zeus are reborn, and with their rebirth are also nine Guardians. They will be marked by the gods, and given gifts to protect his treasure. Their abilities will only be unlocked when they find their muse. Callie O'Connor's life has never been the same since the Muse of Epic Poetry came alive inside of her. Now, she's on the other side of the country, working as civilian psychologist for the Navy and leading her Muse sisters in their quest to reopen the Theater of the Muses.

His fate is to save a planet in crisis. Survival comes second to that. That’s what Kade of House Shadow Wing has always believed, ever since his parents were executed for their political beliefs, and he was jailed for daring to be their son. Just his luck that a female human diplomat with hard eyes and a silver tongue would choose the most inconvenient possible moment to barrel in, upending all of Kade’s carefully constructed plans.

A riveting new haunted house mystery boxset that will keep you guessing until the end! The Haunting of Abram Mansion and The Haunting of Quenby Mansion.

Sometimes the only way to do the right thing is to break the rules. Love, Lies, and Murder is a collection of 19 short stories that explore the extremes of human emotion and the conflicts that result. Every story will leave you tense and breathless as the characters race to a conclusion that is as unexpected as it is satisfying. Intense and gripping, each story features a hero that seeks justice and the triumph of good over evil by whatever means necessary - regardless of what society’s rules find acceptable.

What happens when an EMP sends California back into the stone age? When an EMP bomb knocks out the power in LA and the rest of the United States, Ailani Ho's main goal is to survive the end of the world. Then she discovers her sister was on a plane when the bomb exploded, and she can't rest until she knows if her sister is alive or dead.

Maxine Winters, an overworked yet successful veterinarian, finds herself trapped out at sea when an electromagnetic pulse erupts over South Florida. Stranded and concerned for her family's safety, she must rely on her wit to reach landfall before the storm hits. Little does she know that the incoming category four hurricane is the least of her problems.

Affairs aren’t permitted between staff members at St. Michael’s Asylum, but Carmen and her handsome young psychiatrist find a way to sneak in a kiss or two in empty storerooms when no one’s looking. It doesn’t take long for her suspicions to rise, however, as she gets to know some of the patients. Why are some kept locked in their rooms, doped to the gills? And where are the two dozen patients whose names appear on the med lists, but whom she’s never met? Moreover, what’s so forbidden about the ancient passages snaking beneath the two-hundred-year old monastery?

In Montana, Josh cleans up after the students of the Montana Shifter School. In Washington, his brother tracks superhuman soldiers from his high-tech lair. In Chicago, his sister solves crimes with the help of Team Wyrdos. These dogs are WereHumans. And since they were born, the Consortium has been hunting them down to dissect them and learn their secrets.

No, cyborgs are only good at three things: following orders, destroying whatever target you point them at, and walking calmly into the vaporization chamber when it’s time for them to be decommissioned. PX-12, better known to his friends as Pax, adequately performed two of those functions during his stint in the Ilarian military. D-8, his unit-sibling, performed all three exceptionally well. For that reason, when D-8’s unique distress beacon activates some seven years after Pax saw him destroyed, it would doubtless be quite surprising if Pax were still capable of being surprised.

Once upon a time, Menkhef stood up to a powerful pharaoh, and lost. That’s a poor track record for someone acting as the lynchpin in an imminent supernatural war. Humanity is caught between an absent angel and a vengeful demon. The Council of Thirteen still lacks its final two members, and Menkhef - better known to his friends as Snag - is the only vampire whose mate has not returned. Holed up in an underground tomb complex beneath the oldest pyramid in Egypt, he and his comrades must watch as Bael’s forces gather in preparation for the final battle.

Genetic-manipulation survivor Jay Doe lives alone in the mountains. Abandoned shape-shifting dog Bayard lives surrounded by firefighters. They're both hiding from the Consortium. They're both about to be found. And the Consortium doesn't take prisoners; they take volunteers for the Biomedical Team to play with. If Jay and Bayard want to survive, they're going to have to learn to trust each other. They're going to have to learn to trust themselves. And they're going to have to escape from hell.

What’s the worst betrayal you can imagine? It doesn’t matter what you just answered. Duchess has done something worse. Before she killed her husband during a frenzy of vampiric bloodlust, he begged her to honor a single request. She failed him, and she’s been paying for that failure for the last 400 years. But Duchess’ lost love has finally returned to her. Reincarnated as Chan Wei Yong, the former king’s musketeer is now a hardened CIA undercover agent working in the seedy underbelly of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Ryder isn’t a stupid woman, and she knows better than to volunteer for things. Volunteering always gets you into trouble. So it’s really no surprise when her undercover operation to retrieve Temple Akenzua from the belly of a Regime prison goes tits-up in fairly short order. With Ryder stuck on the wrongs side of the bars, the rescue mission has now become a mission of survival. Her only hope - and Temple’s - lies with her comrades in the Shadow Wing. Ryder just needs to stay alive until they come up with a plan.

Hank is a teenage hacker. Forced to barter her computer skills for a meager wage, she knows the work she does isn't exactly legal, but Hank needs the money to support her family. When a colleague is murdered before her eyes, she is forced to question what she does. Confronted with a chance to save a girl's life, Hank must choose between doing what's right or protecting those she loves. Hacker is the novella prequel to Sulan, a fast-action YA dystopian series.