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Comet! is the fifth in a series of near future sci-fi/thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation which has rendered her a genius and an athletic phenomenon. In Comet!, she and her team begin exploring outer space using the wormholes she produced in Rocket. Unfortunately, Comet Hearth-Daster is on a trajectory to strike the Earth. Though it is smaller than the object that wiped out the dinosaurs, it still weighs 300 million metric tons and if it hits, it will wipe out civilization and may render the human race extinct.

Tau Ceti is the sixth in a series of near-future scifi/thrillers whose young heroine, Ell Donsaii, has a nerve mutation which has made her a genius and an athletic phenomenon. In Tau Ceti, she is continuing to find uses for the quantum entangled wormholes that she has discovered. These wormholes aren’t big enough to send people through, yet they are making huge changes in our world. Ell used one to send a small rocket to the third planet of Tau Ceti where it's sending back images of intelligent but primitive beings that can fly!

Thanks to the mindspeech lessons she’s receiving from the black dragon, Lily is temporarily benched from Unit Twelve - until her brain acclimates and the risk of total burnout passes. At least she has her new husband, lupi Rule Turner, to keep her occupied. But when her mentor calls in a favor and sends Lily to a murder scene, she’s suddenly back on active status - despite the hallucinations she can’t keep at bay. With one touch, Lily knows the man was killed by magic, but her senses don’t warn her how far the conspiracy goes....

A bundle of books number one (Next Door) and number two (A Neighbor’s Lie) in Blake Pierce’s Chloe Fine Psychological Suspense Mystery series! This bundle offers audiobooks one and two in one convenient file. In Next Door, Chloe Fine, 27, finds herself forced to confront her own dark past when her troubled twin sister needs her help. In A Neighbor’s Lie, FBI Violent Crimes Division Special Agent Chloe Fine, still reeling from the secrets of her past, finds herself thrown into her first case: The murder of a nanny in a seemingly perfect suburban town.

Have you ever gotten to the place where you just couldn't take it anymore? Dreams. Programs. Jobs. Relationships. There are so many different areas where we feel like calling it quits. It's time for an honest conversation on how not to give in to the temptation to give up. Nicki Koziarz is a woman who has thrown in the towel a time or two. In fact she's quit just about everything in her life. But with God's help, she's discovered a few habits that have helped her and others conquer the choice to quit.

A bundle of audiobooks number one (If She Knew) and number two (If She Saw) in Blake Pierce’s Kate Wise Mystery series! This bundle offers audiobooks one and two in one convenient file. In If She Knew, 55 year old empty nester - and freshly retired FBI agent - Kate Wise finds herself drawn out of her quiet suburban life when her friend’s daughter is murdered in a home invasion. In If She Saw, when a couple is found murdered and no suspects are apparent, Kate Wise finds herself called out of retirement.

Fatherless and poor in a remote village where men, money, and faith determine everything, her only hope for a decent life is to marry before her 18th birthday. Though her prospects aren’t good and her options aren’t appealing, to live as an unmarried woman is a life sentence of silence and solitude. Emma has to try to make a match. But when a beautiful, antlered boy appears in her dreams and tempts her to join him in the forbidden woods, another path opens to her. Finally, after a life devoid of possibilities, Emma has a choice to make: to run from her future, or fight for it.

Aral Kingslayer has nothing to lose - and only justice to gain. Torn apart by the death of his goddess, he must avenge her in order to save himself from being lost forever.... It’s been nine long years since the death of his patron, Namara, and exalted assassin Aral Kingslayer desperately misses the thrill and glory of being a higher power of justice. Now he is haunted by the ghosts of the past - and by the ghost of the lost goddess herself.

A forgotten magical power lying dormant in the shadows. Human civilization on the brink of destruction. A young elf looking to find her place in the world. The future of magic falls into Petra's hands when she first sets out to explore the world, only to discover a prophecy that foretells of her role in a great revolution. She's keen to seize her calling, until she discovers that it requires her to face off against her own mother. When she succumbs to her curiosity and enters the human world, Petra feels rebellious.

The Last Midnight shares the brief romantic interlude between rock star Dixon Day and his most devoted fangirl Emily Dunkel, who died in a car crash while driving home from his concert. In death, Emily finds herself walking toward the fabled bright light at the end of the tunnel of her afterlife, but she is never quite able to reach it. Her soul will never know peace until she finds the true love she never experienced while living.

Lizzie Ashton thought being a professional fire impeder was dangerous, but using her magic to stop bombs, guns, and fires before they start is nothing compared to what happens when Abel storms back into her life. Abel needs assistance with a dangerous task that only Lizzie can do. She hesitates to accept his job offer, as what little she knows of his dark past unnerves her, despite their moments of attraction. But when the local police department calls her in on a disturbing murder investigation, Lizzie must put aside her misgivings and partner up with Abel.

What lengths is someone willing to go to for power? How many lives need to be destroyed or ruined to gain the highest level of control possible? Will a simple colony takeover be the answer, or do you need to hold an entire nation hostage? These are the questions everyone should be asking themselves when selecting a new premier, but no one believes someone could be that corrupt or harmful.

Two is an eliminator, a trained assassin. She has one mission - enter the portal, eliminate a rogue general, then activate her microchip to wipe her memory. But she knows a secret that would rock the foundations of the Institute’s training program. Armed with only a tiny dagger and the truth of their future, she enlists the help of her partner, Four, to escape their fate.

In this sequel to The Scribbled Victims, the young and lovelorn vampire Orly Bialek is out to avenge the death of her mother by killing Mirela Cobălcescu. It would seem unachievable as the all-powerful and ever-suspicious Mirela is the source of Orly's bloodline and over 5,000 years her senior. But when the opportunity for revenge presents itself, Mirela surprisingly offers Orly the impossible.

Though I’ve been exonerated through the Necromancer Trial, there are those who are convinced that I am a devil-woman who should be exiled, or worse, killed. I’m trapped by the Laws of the Lost Texts. I can’t simply buy a ticket to the train and leave. I have to endure the Bridal Auction and hope my newfound friend, Quade, will be able to purchase my hand in marriage. If he fails his bid, I will be married off to one of the Crats. I’d rather be declared Unclaimed and condemned to a life of servitude to the community.

When I was younger, my mother saved my settlement from the unblessed dead that would have killed us all. It cost her everything to reveal her necromancy and sent shockwaves through our stringent religious settlement. Convicted of heresy against our sacred lost texts, she died soon after. Since then, I have worked hard to maintain my pious standing so that when I turn 18 I will be selected by a suitable husband at the bridal auction. As the large clock in town square ticks down to my 18th birthday, the dead have been appearing in my garden.

Living the immortal life of a vampire hasn’t been easy for Yelena Solodnikova. With all her heart, she loved the ancient vampire Marcel, who made her, and expected to spend eternity with him. But after over a century together, Marcel disappeared without a word, leaving Yelena brokenhearted. To make things more difficult, Yelena goes completely against the nature of her vampiric race by developing a conscience, and begins to feel guilt for all the mortals she kills each night in Los Angeles.

New Earth, 2296. Two years after the destruction of a universal surveillance system called the Intercept, New Earth struggles to keep crime under control. The citizens are free but not protected.

In a radiant world of endless summer, the Intercept keeps the peace. Violet Crowley, the 16-year-old daughter of New Earth’s Founding Father, has spent her life in comfort and safety. Her days are easy thanks to the Intercept, a crime-prevention device that monitors emotion. But when her long-time crush, Danny Mayhew, gets into a dangerous altercation on Old Earth, Violet launches a secret investigation to find out what he's hiding. An investigation that will lead her to question everything she's ever known about Danny, her father, and the power of the Intercept.

When Genevieve was sent to the future, she didn’t think she’d be able to fit in. A year later, she has great friends and the chance to go to college - something that wouldn’t have been possible in her own time. Jenny is just getting the hang of being a princess and can’t wait for her wedding day. What she doesn’t expect is a visit from Maurelle, an evil fairy bent on destroying everything Jenny holds dear.
When Jenny and Genevieve are switched for a second time, they are thrown back into worlds they never thought they’d see again.