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My acts are vicious and cruel, vile and life-taking. My demands are unquestioned no matter how depraved. There’s a monster inside me, and the wounds that scar my soul are dark and deep. I’m Dante Simone. Underboss of the Chicago Outfit. She walks into the audition, eyes snapping with a fire that could cost her life - if she were to unleash it. Piper Tate crawls beneath my skin on our first encounter. Her audition, a condition of employment I’ve sat through a thousand times, is like no other. It’s magnetic, cementing my traitorous eyes to her lithe form.

While Charles, the Quinn corporation’s beleaguered CEO, fights to navigate the political intrigues of the other powers on the planet, Moses Smokoska and his little brother abandon their father’s homestead to put on armor and learn what it means to go to war.

When detective Raymond Dehane’s covert operation goes awry, it awakens an ancient creature from its slumber deep in the Mariana Trench. Kaiju groupies Devonte Rhodes and Dr. Skylar O’Hara must work with him and the military to find a way to stop its reign of terror. Caught between fascination and horror as they witness the creature’s destructive power, the three work tirelessly to find a means of protecting what they love, even if it means killing this entirely new species.

A megalomaniac god is pursuing a millennia-old vendetta, and Leif must learn to wrangle a newly awakened power to either become a hero or a villain. He will leave his old life and run from creatures he believed were reserved for myth and legend. He travels across the realms while struggling to tame the blinding rage that comes with his new demi-god like power. Will Leif survive the intra-realm quest and prevent Ragnarok or will he fail to control his awakening?

The Quinns are dead. All but one. And he's out for vengeance. But in a war fought over control of a world, the price of vengeance may be more than the planet can take.

Kyra may have made a poor decision. She joined the invaders. Now she must survive the coup that trapped them on the planet and the “sponsor” who guarantees her safety among them as long as she obeys…in everything.

For centuries, the Quinn corporation has granted power to those families that pre-existed them on the planet. Now, with a war on and everything at stake, Charles will burn that legacy to the ground in order to purge the planet of those who would stab his family and corporation in the back and reward those who will help them win the war. Meanwhile in the mountains, rival commanders vie for the loyalty of the invader's army as both sides prepare to spill their blood once more across the stones of the embattled world.

As a veteran of four other wars, Citizen Carthalo should not be on this world, and he certainly should not be burdened with commanding over half the army. Yet, after the crippling losses suffered, that is precisely where he stands. Now, he must lock horns with the commander of the other half of the army, over both the course of the war, and the future of the world they fight over. In Enemy of My Enemy, no one is safe, not even from their friends. Join the adventure to find out who will fall, who will stand, and who will claim the world when the dust settles.

When war comes to your planet, you fight, but not everyone fights for the same side. While Charles, the Quinn Corporation’s beleaguered CEO, fights to navigate the political intrigues of the other powers on the planet, Moses Smokoska and his little brother abandon their father’s homestead to put on armor and learn what it means to go to war. The war might be fought among the stars and in the air, but it will ultimately be won on the ground, man-to-man and sword-to-sword, across a continent that spans the world.

Totality is the most luxurious resort the Hart Hospitality Organization has ever built. Located on the beautiful tropical island of St. Andrews, this is set to be the biggest resort property the company has ever created. There's just one problem; the man they've put in charge of it - a man named Silas Kirs - just might be insane. The Hart Organization sends one man to spy on Silas for them: report back, tell them what's happening, and do what he can to make sure the resort opening during a total eclipse of the sun goes off without a hitch.

For a homicide detective, a day on the job means hunting killers while trying not to get killed. If you’re a homicide detective in Los Angeles, it also means dealing with the most overwrought, desperate, and deluded criminals anywhere. When you’re a brand-new homicide detective spending your days and nights in the gritty underbelly of the city that never sleeps with a tetchy veteran murder cop for a partner, you must keep your cool and your wits about you when the bodies start hitting the floor.

Answers. They’re hard to come by. The way the Outfit obtained them rocked us to our very core, but we’re overcoming the loss and looking ahead. The war is here, and preparations will take Piper and me to Boston and into a meeting with the other American Mafia organizations. Except a single call renders the meeting null and void. An attack has taken place in Chicago that results in Madeline’s kidnapping. Miami is responsible. They will be eliminated. And I’ll be the one to see it done.

With the shitshow in Miami behind us, Piper is finally mine. I'm on the brink of accepting something I never thought possible. I think I'm falling in love, but how would I know? The monster's never allowed such emotion to fester, and he doesn't find this instance to be an exception. He lays down the law. If Piper's going to love me, she has to accept him, too.

It was an ordinary day in the ordinary life of Henry and Ralph: two brothers whose life existed for mischief and mayhem. Get up, make a mess, and go to school. But today was not an ordinary day. It started with the Mississippi River and something that should not exist. And then it invaded the school: a monster. A monster that adults don’t see and don’t believe in.

Piper Tate has cast a spell, making me into a man who blurts Italian endearments without thought. One who gives her full thumbprint access to my penthouse. A guy who makes her breakfast and serves it to her in my bed, even though it drives me crazy. She’s taken care of me - something I never thought I needed. And yet, when she uses that access, I bail.

Miles and Harper are on the cusp of middle age. Living a good life in the big city, they’re resigned to being childless. But when Harper suddenly learns that she is pregnant with twins, their somewhat boring marriage gets a much-needed kick in the pants. As they welcome a pair of beautiful little boys into their career-centered world, what should be the happiest moment of their lives quickly spirals into a pattern of heartbreak and paranoia.

My acts are vicious and cruel, vile and life-taking. My demands are unquestioned no matter how depraved. There’s a monster inside me, and the wounds that scar my soul are dark and deep. I’m Dante Simone. Underboss of the Chicago outfit. She walks into the audition, eyes snapping with a fire that could cost her life - if she were to unleash it. Piper Tate crawls beneath my skin on our first encounter. Her audition, a condition of employment I’ve sat through a thousand times, is like no other. It’s magnetic, cementing my traitorous eyes to her lithe form.