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Los Angeles, 2001- Mike Green thought he’d left covert politics behind and built a new life. But when Mike's new life collides with a mission under Tony McCollister's command, the threads that once only connected them now inextricably bind them together. Between the black ops orchestrated in Washington and the gang war raging on the gritty streets of Los Angeles, the real battle is protecting life from a system designed to erase it.

Mike Green built a career writing about dead girls, but nothing could have prepared him for the file he stumbles on at the National Archives: the death of Delilah Grennan, a murdered Soviet dissident with ties to the Russian underworld. What begins as research becomes obsession, until her voice bleeds into his and paranoia pushes him deeper into the shadows.

War is coming to Célesia, and five unlucky souls will be her heroes. Lord Adélard Eisenhardt, once the kingdom's greatest knight, is dragged out of retirement and back into a court rotting with ambition for the crown and apathy for its subjects. As foreign banners dance on the horizon, he must protect the boy king, while his daughter faces the same ruthless politics he so despises. Léontine walks the halls of power, determined to master court politics and hold onto her conscience in a world that rewards cruelty.

Vincent depended on his boyfriend, James, to stand up for him—until a violent hate crime results in James’s murder. Weeks after his funeral, James reappears, perfectly healthy, but changed in ways that neither of them can quite understand. Now, Vincent must uncover what truly happened on the night they were attacked. In the face of an apathetic police force and a growing number of missing gay men, Vincent and James work to identify the criminals who attacked them.

In the mist-shrouded city of Idrion, where magic is law and every mage wears a mask, both literal and political, power belongs to the guilds, and reputation can mean life or death. But when a forgotten guild on the brink of extinction takes in a mysterious apprentice named Jasten, the Veiled City begins to stir. Jasten is no ordinary newcomer. Beneath his rustic charm and too-wide smile lies something older, sharper, something watching. His arrival at the crumbling Virelyn Spire is not chance. It is intention.

James Janis, a freedom fighter and hunted fugitive journeys across the world to find his purpose trying to protect innocent lives from the tyrannical global Federation. A regime, under the control of antichrist, that has replaced the previous international government establishments. James joins up with a religious based resistance faction that is staging a grand operation that can save thousands of lives from the Federation's grip. An operation that could fulfill an ancient biblical prophecy predicting a future second exodus.

A silent war fought by the scourge of society. Ember knew the war; she’d fought in it for years. But lines are blurring, and trust is dangerous. Either smother in distrust or burn in someone’s lies. The divide grew with every whispered word.

Joseph Bailey—recently fired after a student-scandal—moves to Baxtor Springs, hoping to publish a novel unlike his previous textbooks. After a massive explosion claimed hundreds of lives in Baxtor Springs, Joseph feels inspired to use the tragedy in his writing. But would it be malicious to write about the victims as an outsider? Alone in his smart home, Joseph asks his Home Device to play a record—but his words are misinterpreted.