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When the goblin moon rises, strange things happen. Coffins float down the river, hobgoblins crawl out from their dens, and alchemists pore over ancient texts in search of the art of creating life. One man fights a secret battle against cruelty and injustice with wit, ingenuity, and a lethal lack of compunction.

Pilot Tris Miles is finally getting the recognition she deserves. She is a trusted captain and confidante to her boss at Westin Charter Company, and mentor to her young co-pilot Bruce. Tris is offered a coveted promotion and the opportunity of a lifetime - to fly a prestigious “angel flight”, transporting a critically ill woman from a remote town in northern Canada to the US for medical treatment. But Tris needs more than professional success. Still alone almost three years after her lover Bron’s death, Tris meets Mike, a local pilot with a secret past he refuses to discuss.

Princess Zhenya is in love with the rain. Heir to a century-old curse, she spends her life in royal captivity lest she be carried away by the wind. On the eve of an arranged marriage, she makes a fateful choice that sets the curse in motion. But the wind she fears may hold the key to her freedom. Hounded by vengeful wraiths, Zhenya must risk her soul and uncover the truth about the curse. Or else she may become the very terror she flees.

In a crippled airplane thousands of miles from home, Tris must prove she can lead.... Propelled by grief and natural ambition, pilot Tris Miles is not content with her job as a first officer for tiny Clear Sky Airlines. She wants to be a captain - the only way she knows to prove her worth as a pilot and atone for a deadly mistake. To further her career, Tris accepts a prestigious job with Tetrix, Inc. But her dream of becoming pilot-in-command twists into a nightmare.

Colton Grey is Hollywood’s resident bad boy. A connoisseur of alcohol, pills, and women, he has been sent by his publicist to dry out on her cousin’s farm. What he finds there is more than a chance at redemption. Haven Morrow is everything Colton is not - responsible, down-to-earth, and saddled with problems she didn’t create. With a mentally ill mother and sociopathic brother, Haven spends her days trying to save the family farm.

What if there was an alternate dimension where the world's mythologies coexisted? What if it not only held the secrets of your past but your future? What if it was as easy as stepping through a doorway? Calli, reeling from a broken engagement, moves into her grandmother's farmhouse. While trying to repair her present and prepare for a new future, she stumbles across a mysterious man who holds the key to both.

After a chance find in a smugglers' cave, Tom Wild is kidnapped by a stranger and whisked away to London to face a secretive and ancient group of magicians. He is presented with an agonising choice: join them and forsake his old life and family forever or face a grisly death. Tom quickly realises that all is not as it seems and that the group’s leader is engaged in a dangerous game of magic, power and war. At stake is the future of England, her King, and the very existence of magic.

With her father away on the king’s business, Lady Brianna has begun to feel like a stranger in her own home. Her aunt turned step-mother, the Lady Joanna, has done more than just manipulate her way into the lord’s bed. With the aid of her son Derrick, Joanna has plotted to rid Castle Densmore of its true heir so that she alone can rule. But Brianna has no intention of surrendering her ancestral home. She plans to fight back.

Bizarre things are happening in the little town of Hobb's Church, where Sera, Elsie, and Jedidiah are hiding from the vengeance of the Duchess. While Jed and the lensmaker Mr. Jonas construct a magical engine to raise a sunken island, the young ladies must deal with ghosts, hobgoblins, and a school of mischievous girls. On the other side of the world, Francis Skelbrooke decoys the Duchess's spies, leading them on a chase across the continent of Euterpe (stopping every now and then to bring a villain or two to account). But the vengeful fairy has other spies: one of them in Hobb's Church.