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After the Wild King’s defeat, the Faery Realm is still reeling from the consequences of his reign. Transformed Halflings can’t return home, the Elf Camps are destroyed, and mysterious stone fae continue to wreak havoc throughout the realm.

With just ten days left till her folks' loan comes due, ever-pragmatic Charlotte Delaney is officially throwing in the towel on the bet that she made with her sisters. It looks like it's up to her to save their parents' café and beloved home with a marriage of convenience to her family's rival. It's time to get the in-name-only nuptials over with. Of course, Charlotte's never been one to easily admit defeat.

After a near-fatal plane crash, fighter pilot Captain Eric “Kisser” Donaghue is a changed man. By day he labors to regain his confidence in the cockpit. By night he moonlights as an off-Strip boxer, fighting for prize money to pay for his younger brother’s third stint in rehab. In the ring, no one cares he once had a face that launched a thousand one-night stands—and neither does Eric. He’s only there to win. Yet he can’t take his eyes off the new ring girl, a glitz-meets-pageant-queen vision of blonde perfection.

Set against the backdrop of WWII, this achingly beautiful middle grade novel in verse based on American history presents the dual perspectives of Claire, a Midwestern girl who longs to enter high school and become a nurse even as she worries for her soldier brother, and Karl, a German POW...

Stella Woods has just quit her job. And there’s nothing like a little vacation at her sister’s Floridian mansion to contemplate her future. Unfortunately, Stella’s brother-in-law mixed up her arrival date and has already offered the pool house to his best friend. Brooks Larsen wasn’t looking for anything but a good time when he came to visit his old college friend. Only, he hadn’t expected his buddy would have a gorgeous woman waiting for him—in nothing but a towel—just minutes after he arrives.

Meadow Sweeney’s future is entirely mapped out. Her younger brother Jonah will continue their family legacy, and Meadow will rule the ruthless Ruxton Springs, Colorado, cluster. That is, it was until Jonah goes missing. Now, Meadow will do anything to get her brother back, including sacrificing the two pawns her mother brought from Fissure’s Whipp to track him down.

I've been crushing on my coworker for months. And now he's moving...across the country. I've got one shot to make my move. We're all holed up in this amazing house upstate and tonight I'm going to sneak into his room and finally Make. Something. Happen.

Acting on a tip from an anonymous source, Trinity investigates an art trafficking ring at a high-end Seattle gallery. She turns to handsome FBI agent Kyle Richards for help after being spotted by the crooks.

Not long after Katrina overhears two people talking about robbing the bank where she works, her attached garage explodes. With the help of her neighbor Frank Davis, she escapes the burning home after a storage shelf falls over, trapping her beneath it. The co-owner of Protection Inc. has one thing on his mind for the week of Christmas - rest and relaxation - but when his favorite neighbor needs his help he calls in his team. Unable to turn their backs on someone Frank clearly has feelings for, the co-owners agree to help out Katrina.

With the memories of Julian's assassination still plaguing her, Christiana returns to the royal palace, settling into her new life as a future royal. However, the palace is plunged into turmoil when young serving ladies are found brutally murdered with the use of Crimson Fire, a deadly poison created by Christiana's mentor, Marek. With the lives of the castle's inhabitants resting on her shoulders, Christiana calls on Marek to assist in tracking down the copycat killer who mysteriously obtained a lethal secret only known to the two of them.

Amalia had always heard the music of the night in her dreams, but it wasn't until one day, when she was traveling back from town, did she find out what the true source of it was: a strigoi. The last thing she remembers is being bit, then finding herself back at her camp. Everything seemed strange from then on, but why was that? Was it all a dream? Or did she really come in contact with one of the most feared creatures of her people?

There is nothing more dangerous than an insane witch. Liliya Romanov is bipolar and schizophrenic. Her mother, Dima, had no choice but to curse her with an invisible fence. Nineteen-year-old Astra Romanov is an outsider among normal people. She would like to be anybody but who she is, a third-generation witch. Her family are magical. Astra struggles at the family witchcraft business. Her grandmother Dima is a 187-year-old shapeshifter.

An unknown enemy. Loved ones in peril. A battle for survival. Tatya has sent the demon who pursued her back to Hell. Now she’s about to open a healing center and use her gifts to help those in need. The only one she can’t help is the man she is in love with, the vampire master, Vanse, who lies in a coma. When an ambitious vampire arrives in town with designs on Vanse’s family, Tatya’s plans are turned upside down. Her best friend, the local shaman, Forked Lightning, puts his life on the line to help, but chaos and tragedy follow when Tatya is kidnapped.

Devastated by the sudden loss of her father, Imogene Mussomeli is left adrift, engulfed by a profound sense of loneliness and despair. Though she's an accomplished woman, she feels like a vulnerable little girl again. Despondent and questioning her entire life, she takes a leave from her prestigious university job and returns to her family's Midwest home, hoping to recover and help her mother, who's just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

There's nothing, not anymore. No perfect life. No clear path. Just...nothing. I didn't want the life my parents mapped out for me. Being the piano prodigy was never my goal. It was theirs. I craved normalcy, a life of my own. I should have been careful what I wished for because one second, one moment of anger was all it took to rip away everything that mattered. Now I'm left with nothing but regret. He thinks he can save me, but the shadows that surround always pull me back, reminding me of what I'd done, of what I'd wanted. He's a rock god. I'm a nothing.

In the final installment of A Year in Paradise, we fly through town and catch up with every couple to grace the series so far. But while Christmas shopping and holiday parties light up the windows, one lonely resident comes to the unfortunate conclusion that Paradise Valley might not be for her.

The Wild King’s reign continues as his army of stolen fae grows larger and fiercer. His magic invades their bodies and minds, and the Wild fae follow his every command with a slavish devotion. Except for Feya, the only one who seems immune to the king’s transformative powers. Though she resists, she doesn’t have the heart to defy him or leave her home in the Dead City. Until it becomes too dangerous.

Life as a small-town housewife in Paradise Valley is usually what Sally Greenhill needs. With four kids and a busy wife to keep her preoccupied, she’s got more than enough to do from sunrise to sunset - at all times of year. But as Deputy Candace Greenhill becomes bogged down in an arsonist investigation, Sally begins to suspect that the ring of flaming rebels might be closer than any of them had foreseen. With Halloween right around the corner, both Sally and Candace are too busy to keep an eye on the precocious son with an eye for adventure...and trouble.

Astrid, a young woman living in the small, cozy town of Crimson Barrow, has always been different. Phenomena she cannot explain plague her every day of her life. One day, after a wretched morning in the square, she finds herself the unlikely target of a mysterious faction desperate to capture her.

The Roswell Chronicles tells the story of Samantha Haut and her cousins as they find themselves caught between a group of greedy Wall Street bankers and some pissed off aliens from outer space. Ever since the Roswell crash in 1947, the Haut family has secretly held onto a series of journals that contain details of advanced alien technology. Whenever the family has needed money, they quietly sold one of the inventions in those pages. This is fine until an investment banking executive learns about these journals and steals them.