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In a near future powered by impossible technology, Lyra Meitner has solved humanity’s greatest problem: unlimited, clean energy. Her invention, the Prometheus Seed, liberates civilization from scarcity and shatters the grip of global energy empires. But fire was never meant to be stolen without consequence.

Settling into my new job proves more problematic than I thought. I was promoted without even applying for the position. Yay me! Rose and Director Tumnus think I’m perfect given my Fae heritage. Unfortunately, with the new role comes their expectation that I understand their culture, which I don’t. Every decision I make, Rose questions. Then there’s Patrick, who’s recovering from his mind wipe. He thinks there’s something between us. How can I get him to understand there isn’t? Hannah’s in police custody, and the magic in the prison is affecting her health.

Jobless: Attendance is low at the institute where I teach. Who hires in January? Homeless: My apartment burned down in a fire. So now Little Prince, my Beta fish, and I are living with my parents. Single: Um. Yeah. (Ignore my slightly reddened cheeks.) The adult children of my parents’ friends have stable jobs, homes, partners, and kids. And I’m thirty and still figuring things out. So doing my best to ignore the pressure. And after Gramps hurts himself doing Tai-Chi, my parents and grandparents suddenly want to ‘talk’. Yikes! What now? And then there’s Hannah, my best friend since university.

She's gone viral for all the wrong reasons. He needs a wife to save his soccer career. What could possibly go wrong? Ophelia Finnegan is an accountant by day, a wannabe novelist by night, and a lifelong romantic-comedy fanatic—especially when it comes to charming British heroes and happily-ever-afters. But when a disastrously public grand gesture turns her into an internet punchline, Ophelia is convinced her own love story is officially canceled.

The gift that saves humanity may be the one that destroys it. Volume II – The Gift & The Price continues the epic science-fiction saga inspired by Greek mythology, where progress is no longer measured by what humanity can build, but by what it is willing to sacrifice. In Ignition of Doom, a breakthrough meant to secure humanity’s future ignites forces that cannot be contained. The Novum Gift reveals how salvation can arrive disguised as opportunity, as power is welcomed without fully understanding its cost.

Willow was like any other teenage girl until a fatal car accident left her an orphan with the ability to see ghosts. Relocating to live with her grandparents, she hoped to lay low to survive the rest of high school and maybe figure out the whole "seeing the dead" thing. But with ghosts popping up in the middle of class, Willow was struggling to keep the gossip at bay. No one thinks you're normal when you get caught having a one-sided conversation alone.

When Earth’s global lattice begins to fail, salvation arrives in the form of the Novum Gift, a flawless quantum patch that restores stability overnight. Power flows cleanly. Cities breathe again. The world celebrates a miracle it never earned. Lyra Meitner isn’t convinced. As she studies the Gift’s behavior, Lyra discovers unsettling patterns buried beneath its perfection.

Earth’s planetary shield still holds, but Hydra is no longer testing its strength. The viral intelligence unleashed by the Novum Gift is hunting the cryptographic keys that govern humanity’s last line of defense, probing, duplicating, and adapting faster than any response can counter. Each failed incursion teaches it more. Each safeguard brings it closer to breach.

The trail to the missing brother leads her to bizarre people wielding ancient, unspeakable powers. Indeed, the very fabric of reality strains to hold back the evil they attempt to unleash on the unsuspecting residents of Anaheim Hills, California.

Samantha Moon would go to the ends of the Earth to stop Elizabeth.... Or into another world entirely. Fourteen years ago, her life forever changed, entwined with the darkest of dark vampires.

Samantha Moon is back and doing what she does best: solving crimes, finding killers, and helping those who can't help themselves. For years, Samantha Moon has wanted to be normal. It seemed an impossible dream...right up until it happened. Well, sort of. Normality is a relative thing for an immortal former vampire. Now, with the final defeat of Elizabeth firmly in the past, Sam's world changes yet again. A seemingly routine case walks in the door of her new office and soon proves that in her life, nothing is ever simple.

For Maia Delacroix, hunting is second nature. When she lands a new case finding out what happened to a missing minotaur, she finds the most complicated case is now at her feet. With cold leads she recruits a few of her friends to help her solve this case and bring the minotaur home. The case brings up demons from her past she’s not ready to deal with, reminding her of all she has to lose. Before she can solve the case, the very people who took the minotaur have now taken Elaina, and it’s a race against the clock to find her before she falls victim to the kidnappers.

Maia Delacroix is a hunter of people and magical artifacts. She enjoys her life as a mage and bounty hunter. Her life is full of excitement and danger, with very little responsibility. The Mageri shocks her with a new ward. As a recently orphaned teen, Elaina’s witch mother kept her somewhat isolated from the magical community, but now, Maia is to entrench her into the magical lifestyle. But Elaina has secrets, and it soon becomes clear that Elaina is no mere witch.

Never in a million years would Elaina Stone guess that she’d be rescued by demons and live a life on the run, but that’s her life. Fearing she has accidentally killed her mother, she lands in New Orleans. She barely makes ends meet as a floating chef when she’s approached with an offer.

In the world of Terae, a war-torn place ravaged by eldritch monsters and wild magick, a young officer named Airis suddenly finds herself in the midst of a rebellion in humanity’s last city. Along with two close friends, she begins a long journey to secure a home for her lost people. Amid all this, a new romance blooms, secrets of a lost empire reveal themselves, and heroes are forged in the flames of combat.

Airis has taken on the Vanixian Crown, ever determined to secure a place for herself and her people. What darkness lies under the streets of the Aestori city? What dastardly plans do the Goddesses have in store for our heroine? The drums of war are sounding ever closer as the saga continues.

Set immediately after the events of volume one, Airis finds herself once again having to navigate a foreign world to make it back to her people. Follow along the incredible adventure as our High-Commander fights back against the punishing world of Terae. More stats, new powers, and a new quest; there are plenty of interesting things bound to happen in this new exciting installment. Witness the Rise of Chaos.

In the year 2444, two noble sisters, Sasha (15) and Adrianne (11), have survived a nuclear fallout, only to be torn apart. The ground splits open, and Adrianne is thrown from her horse, plummeting into the ravine. Spurned on by the hope that Adrianne lives, Sasha embarks on a journey through the desert to face the ravine that claimed her only sister. Meanwhile, deep within the earth, Adrianne is running for her life. She took something that did not belong to her.

Noble sisters Sasha and Adrianne, along with their faithful companions—a satellite and a tiger—have defeated Tartarus, freeing the subterranean city of Mu from a dangerous tyrant. In gratitude, the council gifts them a powerful nuclear machine. Their mission is to journey to the surface with the machine and jump-start civilization. However, Tartarus, hiding like a snake in the grass, soon gains possession of the nuclear machine.

When twelve-year-old Zelia agrees to spend the summer with her Aunt Joy, she hopes for a peaceful, not-too-boring summer. The moment she sees her aunt dancing up the road in her kaleidoscopic dress, Zelia realizes she’s in for an adventure. Zelia soon abandons everything she thought she knew about herself and the “real world” as she dives into a magical book and embarks on the dual path to discover her surprising powers.