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The people cry out for a hero, but who will answer? When the abominable horde overtakes the Kingdom of Altodare, three reckless faeries are sent on a quest to parts unknown to find heroes who will fight for the innocent against the forces of evil. But the team they assemble leave something to be desired. Can this unlikely team overcome their differences and rally the kingdom out of apathy before all that is good is destroyed? Join these unlikely heroes as they travel across land, sea, and outer space itself.

Bram Gold is a Courser, a hunter-for-hire who deals with supernatural creatures, mystical happenings, and things that go booga-booga in the night in the Bronx, New York. The Bronx is the home to several immortals, who are notoriously hard to kill - so it comes as rather a surprise when one of them turns up murdered, seemingly by a vampire. In addition, binding spells all across town are either coming undone, failing to work, or are difficult to restore.

Cass Wheeler's first day with a new SWAT team doesn't exactly go as planned. What was supposed to be a easy takedown becomes a violent nightmare as the rogue mage the team faces turns out to be far more powerful than expected. Now Cass has to take the reins and pull her team together in order to survive the carnage and take down the mage before the death toll rises.

The mistakes we make can last a lifetime. In my case, that's been centuries. Millennia. I vowed I would never again steal her away to the Underworld. I broke that vow. She is here in my realm. My house. My bed . . . And she says she forgives me. But there is still so much she doesn't know.

Persephone: All my life, I've had questions, holes—gaps in my mind. Now, too much is clear. Everything I thought I knew about the world crumbles around me as a truth I can no longer deny takes its place with a violence that leaves me trembling. Reality distorts to make room for a fate I wish we didn't have to face. Grief is a burden that weighs heavy on my heart, but for them—for life—I will fight. Even if it takes my very last breath. Even if it costs the final beat of my ravaged heart.

Our night together is increasingly difficult to keep hidden, because Ben Donahue is now the nation's hottest pro-football receiver. Ben broke my heart and I thought I'd buried most of the pieces, until a high-profile criminal case hits my desk and Ben's name is on it. What is Ben doing on a mafia don's witness list? It doesn't take long to realize Ben isn't the all-American boy the world believes, and there are parts of his past that can no longer stay hidden. So, I do the hardest thing I've ever done. I confront the man who destroyed my soul.

Jaws arrives in movie theaters - soon to forever shatter expectations for summer entertainment. Theater manager Nate Burton and Spence Reeves, a former Buffalo soldier with remarkable talents, face the frenzied and, sometimes, lethal challenges associated with this blockbuster movie’s arrival. Nate, who has had to delay his college dreams, also falls for one of his college-bound employees, but must contend with her boyfriend, whose cool superiority inspires a frustrating blend of envy and jealousy.

Xander Moore is the senior pilot at the Rapid Defense Center, the clearinghouse for America's defensive drone force. Although only in his mid-thirties, Xander is the "old man" at the Center, as other pilots are barely out of high school. But these kids, as gamers most of their lives, are skilled at remote drone operation and combat tactics.

Here are twenty-four original short pieces of fiction on the theme of sex, by twenty-four prominent authors living in Canada. Heather O'Neill, Lisa Moore, Michael Winter, Zoe Whittall, Pasha Malla, francesca ekwuyasi, Drew Hayden Taylor, Tamara Faith Berger, and Susan Swan are among these. But we won't tell you who wrote what.

He was my one and only . . . until he chose his rockstar lifestyle over me. When his tour brought him back to town and became my next-door neighbor, my baby bump is on full display. Just my luck. So, I did what any girl would. I lied and told him it wasn't his. He'd never choose us over the Rockstar lifestyle. But every time I see his piercing blue eyes and tattooed, muscular body, my heart begs me to reach out. I can't risk the chance of rejection again for me, or our child . . .

Falling for your brother's best friend is the lamest play in the book. What can I say? I'm putty in his hands every time he flashes that crooked smile my way. But Maddox crushed my heart when he admitted to having no recollection of the night we spent together. And now living under the same roof as him is becoming unbearable. Especially since I'm carrying a secret I won't be able to hide much longer.