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Vexa Tzarnavaras, funeral home assistant and amateur necromancer, is trapped within her own mind, isolated from everyone who cares about her, unable to help as Aethon, her 600-year-old power crazed ancestor, goes on a destructive rampage. Her lovers Ethan, the cursed werewolf, and Gwydion the exiled Unseelie Fae, worry for her; but only Cole, the once rival necromancer turned ally and lover, can reach her. But the intimacy of sharing minds, and the secrets he hides, makes him reluctant to give Vexa the support she needs.

My name is Coralee Eldimire and I was dragged into the secrets my family has been keeping from me. The Eldimire Aquarium and Animal Sanctuary, was more than that. It was a testing site. A testing site for shifters. The place I thought was made by hard work and passion was actually made by torture and the deaths of creatures I never knew existed.

There is a vampire in the night...ready to destroy the lives of Vanora Socoli and her older siblings. His ancient hunger and great evil will forever change their lives. There is a vampire in the night...waiting to fulfill an ancient prophecy and conquer the world. But first, he must wait for the right moment to finally reveal himself to the young woman he believes is his right to claim: Vanora.

A Breton princess at the peak of the French Renaissance, Lilac lives prisoner in her parents' castle after a wicked secret is revealed on the eve of her 10th birthday soirée. Years later, her coronation ceremony looms, and Lilac prepares for the worst...until a mysterious letter arrives from The Witch of Lupine Grotto, detailing a curious offer to cure her darkness forever. Lilac begrudgingly trades her coronet for a cloak and ventures into the forest Brocéliande in pursuit of the impious enchantress at the edge of town.

Since the events of her uncle’s wake, things have only grown more complicated for Vexa. The new, uneasy alliance with Gwydion has given her, Cole, and Ethan a tentative hope for a way to break the curse that is slowly turning Ethan into a monster. Unfortunately, that hope is quickly dashed when Gwydion's twin and opposite Gilfaethwy escapes and steals an artifact of incredible importance.

Entrapped in her grief and sorrow, Lexi roams through life with no purpose. She has not been the same ever since an accident took away her high school boyfriend and soul mate. For a while, Lexi could still feel Matt with her and the dreams reassured her that they were still connected, but with time, the dreams started to fade and the pain of his absence deepened. She was convinced that he was gone, and with him, so was part of her soul, the part of her soul that had been imprinted by Matt.

Vexa’s life has always been a bit unconventional, but things have recently taken a sharp right toward the ridiculous. Aethon, her 600-year-old ancestor, has the candle. Vexa's power is bound to it and though she survived, no one knows when he'll show up again to try and break the bond. With the help of rival necromancer Cole, Vexa races to master the powers she's suppressed most of her life. Abrasive and enigmatic, Cole makes her heart race for more than one reason. But Ethan, the gorgeous werewolf who helped her defeat Aethon initially, is in trouble.

Christy normally deals with girls in her fairy godmother gig, but ready for a challenge, she decides this time to take on a boy. Helping Roark Turner find his perfect girl certainly wouldn’t be a challenge for a veteran fairy godmother, especially one about to retire, even with as little magic as possible. After all, Roark’s perfect match is his best friend, Stephanie Bowers - best friends since kindergarten. It should have been easy. But Cupid starts shooting arrows into Roark, forcing the mortal to fall in love and bending his will.

Maria Reyes has fought all her life, to graduate high school on time, to go to college, to get the degree she's always wanted. Yet she still wants more; she wants to go back to school and become a nurse in order to help even more people and, to that end, she’ll show up at her ma and pa pharmacy job and get by day to day. At least she has her work wife, Kim, to help pass the time. So as the normal, typical boring day starts to take an odd, if not horror movie cliche, turn she can only grit her teeth and gear up for another fight. At least she won’t have to fight this fight alone.

The latest in a long line of powerful necromancers, Vexa is just trying to live a normal life without starting a zombie apocalypse. But after 27 years of suppressing her powers, Vexa's secret catches up to her in the form of a strange candle, a relic of the days when her ancestors had complete power over life and death, and in a gorgeous man with a terrible curse – Ethan. As Vexa's life is thrown into chaos, Ethan is the only one who can help her control the candle and introduce her to a paranormal world she never knew existed.

What if Cinderella had been sent to kill the prince? Kayden never thought of herself as the belle of the ball, but she finds herself in the royal palace, surrounded by society darlings - and the only thing she has in common with them is that they're all vying for the prince. They're after his crown. She's after his head. Her mission was simple - get close to the prince, and kill him. Kayden entered the palace under a lie. On the outside, she may look like a princess, but beneath the mask, a killer lays in wait.

There are some things you just can't run away from. For Lexi, that something was this screwed-up, newfound reality that she encountered; and no matter how much Tyler may try to protect her from his kind, it is just too late. Lexi is involved in his world far deeper than she can possibly imagine, and as she is haunted by her past, Lexi is forced to make a choice between her soulmate, the one who she thought was gone forever and the one who restored her soul, bringing her back to life with the ties of a blood imprint.

There were several things Vera was quite skilled at. Wielding a blade and pretending to be human were two of them. Following the rules and controlling her anger, were not. Raised in the heart of the Matherin Empire, Vera spent most of her life forced to hide what she was, and what she could do. Until, one day, she foolishly confronts a strange male she spies tailing the Crown Prince. Not only does the altercation not go as planned, but the male claims she possesses a power his people vitally need. He’s desperate to return home, and he refuses to leave without her.

Sparks fly as a self-sacrificing PA contends with a notoriously arrogant actor. But are they doomed from the first take or will they wrap with a happy ending? All film buff Rye Williams wanted was to be the best PA in Hollywood. Having left her fallback career, to the great consternation of her family, she's determined to take her shot behind the glamorous limelight. Until she finds out her next client is the most publicly notorious, most undeniably irresistible actor on the set of their very delayed production.

I never imagined I’d see them fall. After attempting to negotiate peace only to be betrayed by the one woman who promised me everything, Asha, myself, and Commander Dubois’ daughter Mary-Anne are on the run. With nowhere to go but the outskirts of Austin, we flee to the wilds of Lago Vista, Texas in the hopes to find safety, but find only carnage in their wake. A full-scale assault on the planet Earth is beginning. Now in the middle of it all, we have only one choice: to join the revolution and fight for our planet’s safety.

I never expected to be abducted. But here I am, standing on board their ship, facing them down for the first time in my life, seeing the true face of the Earth’s invaders from another world. My task is simple: to act as Earth’s emissary and negotiate peace. But it is far more complicated than it seems. I know nothing of politics, and even little of persuasion, but I have no choice. I must do this to keep my friends, and my world, safe. I cannot afford to fail humanity.

I was never afraid of monsters—at least, not until They came: the visitors from outer space. Six years later, at the age of seventeen, I'm just about to graduate from school and declare my career of choice. The Midnight Guard—who protect our community from the vicious things that lie outside our walls—calls to me, and a shortage of applicants instantly lands me a spot in their ranks. But when I am bitten by an alien on a supply run, I begin to dream of things not of this world—and will soon find that my life is about to change forever.

Amanda Stroken has always been unlucky in love, which has led her to become a workaholic. When her boss decides to close the business for three weeks during the summer, Amanda’s friend – Macey, takes this opportunity to sign her up for a dating app. But with mercury retrograde starting, her luck is bound to get even worse.

I’ve finally found my family. Some blood. Some chosen. They’ve stood by my side through everything, never faltering. But what I’ve feared has finally come to pass—my love for them has made them targets. The vampires have taken Cian, and new powerful threats are rising from their ranks. Making matters worse, Dante’s secret has been revealed. The gods know he is really Hades, and they have seized him to unleash their vengeance.

The critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it’s ridiculous. It’s a badge of pride. These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few chuckles while chasing down those bazillion guns. As Kaitlin Tremblay explores in Ain’t No Place for a Hero, the Borderlands video game series satirizes its own genre, exposing and addressing the ways first-person shooter video games have tended to exclude women, queer people, and people of colour, as well as contribute to a hostile playing environment.