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An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive. Mahina's terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them. The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young. Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison.

Pirates, slavers, and deviants! Captain Sass Collier leads her motley crew across the treacherous rings of gas giant Pono, seeking a cure for the steady decline of Mahina Colony. Tantalizing clues point to Sagamore, Mahina’s sister moon. To get there, Sass needs to upgrade her decrepit skyship. Her crew of would-be heroes need to earn their space legs. And ex-cop Sass is probably the wrong person for the job. But no one else is willing to try. Only the deranged denizens of the rings can enable them to reach Sagamore. The social rejects in orbit prove as dangerous as the asteroids.

Five months there. Five months back. And seven months waiting for the planets to align. In a tiny ship never meant for deep space. Denali is one hell of a trip. But the leading mind in nanite medicine is stranded there. Captain Sass Collier wants him back, to cure failure to thrive syndrome in her own colony. Each of the crew has a motive to embrace the risk. The lucky ones wish for adventure. Adventure is assured. But Denali holds another prize beyond their wildest dreams. Can Sass hold her fractious crew together, get the goods, and meet her launch window home?

Captain Sass Collier got her crew to Denali. Can she bring them home again? Marooned 35 million miles from their home moon. Not enough fuel to reach orbit again, let alone Mahina. The locals seem friendly. But the planet Denali itself is hostile, from volcanoes to microbes. Thrive has 6 months until their launch window opens–and closes.

Pestilence, Plague, or Poison? Princess Alba must save the dragons before it’s too late! When disease strikes the dragons of Mount Fornax, Alba and Fyrian suspect the sinister new troll instructor of performing dark alchemy. But a twist of magic sends suspicion falling onto Alba, making her the target of unwelcome scrutiny. With time running out before the dragons succumb to the disease and Fyrian too weak to help, Alba must join forces with an old enemy to uncover the truth behind the plague before it turns deadly. Join Alba on this page-turning adventure to rescue the dragons!

Dire Justice Invades Mount Fornax Princess Alba’s plans to seek justice for the dragons of Mount Fornax turn to disaster when a treasured friend becomes the target of an unfair witch hunt. With a single dragon and only three days to mount a rescue before a gruesome execution, Alba and her friends must risk their lives to infiltrate the stronghold of the most powerful witch in the Known World.

The dragons fall under the spell of a loyalty elixir keyed to King Magnar, and only Alba and her friends can save them from exploitation. But Alba becomes trapped into a deadly magical obligation, and she must work within its confines to sabotage her enemy’s plans to turn the dragons into his own personal army. Out numbered, outsmarted, and out of ideas, Alba may have to sacrifice her own freedom to protect the dragons.

There are some lines that shouldn’t be crossed, some boundaries that shouldn’t be pushed—but sometimes you just can’t fight what’s meant to be. These stepbrother studs are easy to hate and hard to love, as their insatiable stepsisters know all too well, as they find themselves loving, then hating, then loving them again. And again. And again. Some of these stepbrother studs are tattooed, damaged, even downright dangerous—but they’re all sexy, handsome hunks who are hotter than hellfire and, ultimately, just simply irresistible.

Cleo has it all: she's a wildly successful CEO, alpha of a powerful bear shifter clan, and a total knockout. But when a business deal puts her on the wrong side of a powerful coven, she's magically exiled to the middle of nowhere. Cleo is forced to let go, trusting in the kindness of two handsome ranch hands to get back to her old life.

Coal is the hard, black heart of the mountain town of Stillwater, West Virginia, but far beneath it lies something much darker, an evil beyond time, waiting to rise and bathe the world in blood and fire once more. When unwitting miners dig into its tomb, only Kyle - Stillwater's prodigal son - and paranormal investigator Maya stand between humanity and Hell. Time is short and evil runs deep in…Still Water.

Meg Deveral and her widowed father had been the victims of a great injustice, but they were powerless to right the wrong that had been committed against them. Then Jack Masterman came to live in the small fishing village of Penderow. Although Jack was haunted by his own troubled past, he vowed to get justice for the Deverals.

Over the course of a single night, mystical fires tore through the sky and reduced most of Earth to ash. Ten years later magical fire burns again, but this time it's in the hands of a young girl named Skylar. Exiled from her adoptive home, Skylar must now struggle through ruined lands and religious zealots who believe she's an agent of the Devil. An even greater threat exists in the form of shadowy sorcerers from another world who covet her blood.

As the daughter of a Colorado County coroner, 17-year-old Cameryn Mahoney is no stranger to death. In fact, shes always been fascinated by the science of it. so shes thrilled to finally get some hands-on experience in forensics working as her fathers assistant. but Cammie is in for more than she bargained for when the second case that she attends turns out to be someone she knows the latest victim of a serial killer known as the Christopher Killer.

Let me make this clear right here, right now: I, Halley Dawson, do not care that Preston Wright is kissing other women. Not a lick. Not at all. Nuh-uh-freakin'-uh. I do care that he's doing it six feet away from me behind a gaudy velvet curtain - making him my competition in this year's kissing contest. Why do I care, you ask? Because I've had an unfortunate crush on the insufferable idiot since I was 16 years old, but I also know it's never going to happen.

For a thousand years, The Old Town has stood as humanity’s last bastion against the maalkonis, malignant black mists that reduced the rest of the world to ash. They are kept at bay by rusty machines on the town’s walls. In order to survive, the dwindling population depends on one another. Since a young age, Justīne has embraced the harsh responsibilities that accompanied her apprenticeship on the last farm in existence. Her younger sister, Anna, is beginning her own apprenticeship as well.

Five years ago we lived in the same house. He was the ultimate bad boy. And my foster brother. Now, he's back. Tougher, harder, meaner. All of it aimed at me, because I was the one who sent him away. It's payback time. He wants his pound of flesh, and I am helpless to say no.

I'm running from my past, but he might catch me first. I'll do anything to stay hidden, even if that means working at the scariest club in town. Then, he shows up, mysterious and yet strangely familiar. And so damn sexy.

Every person is born with a unique energy signature that shapes everything from personality to learning style. Human Design is a system that teaches listeners how to make informed, courageous decisions by breaking these signatures down into five types: Manifestor, Projector, Generator/Manifesting Generator, and Reflector. This clear, easy-to-use guide teaches how to determine energy type in addition to key concepts about how each informs how the mind works, how to communicate with friends and family, and what occupations and work styles will help each type achieve their goals most effectively.

It is the seat of judgment. The pinnacle of holiness. It is the Ark of the Covenant… and it’s the most dangerous weapon in existence. A group of fanatics wearing masks of Egypt’s gods slaughter the curator of Cairo’s most famous museum. A cleaner in Washington, DC, discovers a decapitated head on top of a replica of the Ark of the Covenant. And someone is sharing videos of the deaths with extremists all over the world.

“Wright has become a master of the psychological thriller. Her characters are totally recognizable people whose actions are the result of complex motivations and who strive to rebuild their lives on the rubble of too many demolished dreams. Powerful reading for all readers, not just mystery...