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I didn't expect to meet a grieving ghost or her dead mother. But then, I didn't expect to find out my town had been the site of a lynching, a lynching that had left my friend Sarah motherless and had made her a victim of murder as well.

TC is a mysterious adventurer who suddenly awakes in a strange, new world. He meets a female elf in the forest who, despite being beautiful, attacks him and nearly takes his life. The encounter ends well and he manages to find his way out of the forest and reach the nearest city. Luck is on TC’s side at first, and a friendly innkeeper gives him advice on what to do next. It turns out, in order to survive in this world, he needs to have a female companion, otherwise TC won’t be able to get any jobs at the Guild.

When little Henrietta decides I'm trustworthy and introduces me to her teacher, Charlotte, I find myself wrapped up in the story of their murders. Before long, my friends and I are saving a building, solving a murder, and telling the stories that a lot of people in our small town would rather be left untold. Our best hope for ourselves and for Henrietta and Charlotte is that the truth really will set us free.

Ghosts just don’t show up for anybody. So when I meet the spirit of a former slave named Moses, I know he needs my help. But I didn’t expect to be taking on half of my town, or the powerful men who seem to run everything and have done so for years. Secrets are being uncovered, and some people would do anything to keep them buried, no matter who gets hurt. I’ll need the help of history and friends I can trust if I want to save Moses’ graveyard and protect his legacy. If only everyone believed it was one worth protecting….

Five years ago, Jo Harper did a bad thing. Dumped, injured, and in crippling debt, Jo did what any desperate woman with a PhD in psychology and above-average computer skills would: Become an elite, undetectable online romance scammer. Now Jo and her team of four young women bring in enough cash to keep them securely afloat. Their targets? Married cheaters.

Cerah Passel is a farm girl, a shepherd, but a seemingly accidental animal attack sets in motion an adventure that spans a planet. Along with her brother Beru, Slurr a boy who grew up with her family but who she can barely tolerate, and Kern, the healer of indeterminant act, they must discover the source of the great evil that is befalling the planet of Quadar.

A fiercely original debut from Leigh N. Gallagher, Who You Might Be takes readers from 1990s Southern California to a UFOlogist holdout in Nevada, the graffiti playground of Detroit, and a self-important New York art scene in an unflinching examination of how life’s most unexpected turns—and...

In the bustling industrial cities of Victorian America, soot clouds darken the skies, plaguing citizens with black lung. Rich or poor, young or old, no matter their station, no one is able to escape the life-threatening disease, and the West family is no exception.

With only her sorcerer’s powers and the swordswoman Corson to protect her, the Lady Nyctasia was forced to flee her beloved city of Rhostshyl. Solving riddles and casting spells, fighting pirates and helping escaped slaves, sword and sorcery have stood back-to-back dueling with adventure. But now, Nyc’s beloved city needs her. This is no street brawl, but a civil war, which Nyc must win...or all is lost!

In the System Apocalypse, a single title can make or break a build. And in the entire Galactic System, there are Title Seekers, those who make it their life quest to acquire the most unusual and rare titles possible. Earth, a new Dungeon World offers multiple possibilities. Not least among them, the one from a familiar set of golden arches. For the Kyaz, it’s a chance in a million to get a rare title. If he can manage to evade the machinations of a fellow Title Seeker and trust his human sidekick, Xi Ping.

Seven years after the defeat of Beldazon, Dorian and his friends encounter an even greater threat. A union of wrathful dragons, each of its members pining to reclaim what is rightfully theirs, vow to bring Zannondale to its knees. Dorian and his friends must stop this new threat, before it consumes the land in a wrathful fire of revenge.

A simple riddle was the clue that started the sword-for-hire Corson and her sorceress companion, the Lady Nyctasia, on a hunt for the greatest treasure ever hidden. But this long-abandoned treasure is the hoard of the dread Cymvelan Circle, whose scattered members are coming together again to claim what is theirs....

Fourteen years ago, Bryn Collins moved to the Eastern Tennessee mountains and never looked back - after her fiancé, Sawyer, jilted her for her despised sister, Del. Sawyer was later killed in a plane crash, but Bryn has never been able to forgive her sister for what she did and chooses to spend her days in the idyllic beauty of the rugged landscape instead. Although a life-threatening accident ended her days navigating the perils of whitewater, she still finds refuge kayaking in the local lakes. But Bryn's placid life hits the skids when an unwelcome cast of characters reenters it.

On her 15th birthday, Mira Storm Weather made a wish to not be sent on any more dangerous missions; but destiny, it seemed, had other ideas. Dark Wizard Damien Charmer has escaped from prison and is somehow more powerful than ever. With the fate of the world in their hands, it's up to Mira and her friends to discover Damien's plan and stop him by any means possible, even if it means breaking a few witch rules along the way. During this time, astonishing secrets about Mira's father and her own identity are revealed to her. Is she a witch? A human? Or something else entirely?

A girl in the one place she never wanted to be. Meeting the one person she never expected But what Peggy Nieman doesn't realize is that her life is about to change, as two broken souls fatefully collide. The only question is: Will they heal one another...or destroy one another? Because, one thing is certain: They can't quit one another.

Attorney Seth Bader and his wife, Vicki, moved to New Hampshire in 1992. Three tumultuous years later, their marriage ended and left Vicki a broken woman, driven to the edge as Seth seduced their teenage son, Joey, into a violent plot to kill her in cold blood. What followed was one of the most bizarre and harrowing crime stories in New Hampshire history.

Anthony and Mira are summoned to the side of a dying dragon. Glycinda's last deed on Earth was to hand over a book she had been protecting for years. A book that would lead them to a castle that had been lost for centuries. Anthony, Mira, and their friends set off on an adventure to find the kingdom, where they encounter a ghostly couple who need help to confront their murderer.

The ancient and enigmatic continent of Zannondale had seen its fair share of sorrow. Tortured and despoiled by the wars that had devastated its once glittering realms, it still felt the aftereffects centuries later. And now, from far back into the past, a new and more powerful evil than ever is rising, one that threatens to turn Zannondale’s fields to dust and her cities to ashes. The brutal and merciless Baron Chronus hasonly one desire and that is to rule over all, no matter what. And for two young men, Dorian and Dain, it means the end of their carefree lives forever.

Mira Storm Weather often wondered why people thought she was strange. She always thought she lived an ordinary life. However, events at Halloween would prove to Mira just how extraordinary her life could be. She had inherited magical powers. Now, Mira must gain knowledge and courage to fight the evil one in her village and find her true destiny as a witch.

Weaver and fiber artist Edith “Pen” Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt’s relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraining order against Kenneth Carpenter. Which was why her call to Sandy on February 23, 2005, seemed to come from out of the blue. During it, she told Sandy to drop the restraining order and get back together with Ken. Pen was never seen again. One man stood to gain from Pen’s disappearance: Ken Carpenter. But evidence was bleak: no blood, no DNA, no body. Until detectives found notes hidden....