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Olivia Markham lives a complicated life. By day, she’s a star CIA officer working a cover as a graduate student in Vienna. By night, she’s a self-appointed, kick-ass superhero wearing a harlequin's hood and wielding a wicked bō. Life is about to get more complicated. The sexual predator that Olivia tracks one July evening to Vienna's Stadtpark calls himself Asmodeus, a demon’s name. What Olivia doesn’t know is that Asmodeus has followers he calls bogomili, after an ancient sect of believers.

A world without evil is all Queen Arlena has ever known. But when an ominous pentagram appears in the sky, her innocent days of blissful court life, playing politics with other races, and daydreaming of marrying the stoic elven prince Talen come to an abrupt end. When an eerily familiar phantasm warns her of the imminent collision of a parallel world ruled by an ancient sorceress, Arlena must confront the true nature of not only her own world, but her very existence.

Get ready to fall in love with the characters in a stunning new dystopian series that will take you from the depths of an underground city to a surface world scarred by war and ravaged by solar winds. Join Kimber on a dangerous journey through the wasteland of post-World War III America in search for the evidence of inhumane genetic experimentation that could free her people from a life of lies and servitude.

In the third book of Aurelia's Diaries, our girl is on her own, living with her best friend and enjoying the freedoms of being an "adult". She experiences joy and heartache, silliness and seriousness, heartbreak and happiness, inspiration and despair, romance...and terror. Cheer her on as she heads straight into her long awaited mission for the church.

Sammie Flowers was a typical 15-year-old who preferred to keep to herself, and for good reason. Starting her fifth school in two years’ time was rough, though understandable. Occurrences forced her parents to uproot from another city and move to places where they were unknown. Ocean High in Santa Barbara was supposed to be another new start for her; however, Sammie makes friends with another who is just like her, named Becca, with the belief the two will be lifelong friends - only to learn Becca had other ideas.

Mira would rather climb mountains alone than hide in the confining village, despite warnings of griffins. She met a griffin, and he didn't harm her; in fact, he saved her life. But his friendship isn’t enough to protect her or her village.

Dive into the diary of a teenage girl, raised by a widowed father, as she navigates school, work, friends, and a dating life. See her grow into an intelligent and beautiful young woman, who is starting to figure out what she wants from life. Based on the fact that the author always wanted to have a daughter with his wife, this is a speculation as to what that daughter might have been like.

At three in the morning, Detective Ame Bassette receives a panicked call from her sister Delphine who has just killed her drug-dealing boyfriend. Ame makes a snap decision—to risk everything to save her sister from spending life behind bars. Together, they go on the run, but quickly discover that some secrets will follow wherever you go.

Witches. Ghosts. An ancient secret. Enter a world of myth and magic through this contemporary fantasy and mystery reimagining of Jane Austen’s beloved classic, Sense and Sensibility. The small New England town of Tarryville, Maine is steeped in history, having been settled by the Dartwood and Farris families who fled Salem during the witch trials. The Dartwood sisters, Eden, Mariah, and Melissa, unexpectedly return home after their parents are found murdered. Upon their arrival, the girls are plagued by dreams in which dark spectral beings haunt them.

Can Aderyn stop a hidden danger before it destroys those she loves? The quest to discover the truth about the legendary Fated One has taken Aderyn and her friends across a continent and back. They’ve faced monsters, evil humans, and dungeons that nearly destroyed them. Now, they’re ready for something different. A chance meeting with Aderyn’s brother brings them to the city of Finion’s Gate to compete in the Glory Games, where Owen fights a series of duels and the others compete in tiny dungeons, all for the applause of the crowd.

As if being a high school senior in a small Texas town wasn’t hard enough, Cooper has bigger things to worry about than who he’ll take to prom and whether or not the Poisonfoot Padres will win homecoming. He has less than a year before his eighteenth birthday, when a curse placed on his family will doom him to live in coyote form forever.

Princess Meiling harbors a deadly secret. Her people believe her lack of magic to be a curse, so she has spent her life in the background, all but shunned from court. But she does have magic—and it’s the magic of legends. When the secret of her magic is threatened, she is forced to flee her home into the dangerous wilderness with nothing but a begrudging warrior as protection. Handsome and taciturn Tan Shangdi isn’t happy to have his career waylaid, but he will do whatever it takes to fulfill his duty and protect Meiling with his life.

It is 1975 and fifteen-year-old Julie Ann Wilson is living the good life. Her future is bright. It has to be. She is a good girl, a smart girl, a fortunate girl. Nothing can stop her—except death. So begins Julie's journey with death in the cemetery where she resides with The Discontents—those like her who cannot move on to their next place. She is persuaded to return to her life, learn her story, and hopes to be released. She awakens to her Forever Summer at the family's lake house.

After narrowly escaping the clutches of the conniving and dangerous Shi family, Aranya and Kai find it more difficult than ever to work together amid the pressures of their secret mission, and the constant danger of the monster-ridden wilderness they travel. An unexpected kiss only serves to complicate things further. Can Aranya learn to trust Kai? Or will the slow unraveling of his secrets doom the chance of them becoming anything more than enemies?

A year after high-risk missions to stop terrorists, arms dealers, and criminals, CIA officer Olivia Markham no longer operates in the field. Instead, she runs a clinic for immigrants in a backwater Balkans capital. Olivia has also found a modicum of peace—and someone to love. Her career trajectory? A safe desk job at Langley. Until the day terrorists attack the clinic, upending Olivia’s world and sending her back into active fieldwork.

"Daizzle's World" is the second story in the "Tales of Faerie" fantasy series, written mostly for upper middle-grade listeners. Daizzle is such a fun and happy character, Vee decided to give her her own book! In "Daizzle's World" you meet her fairy podsisters and learn that the Mother will soon bestow a great gift on the denizens of Faerie. But dark forces are afoot as Arachnia, the spider-witch, schemes to steal the Mother's Gift for herself.

Arri's days had always been built around predictability, until one day, when a delivery of a dozen red roses arrived for her with an unsigned ominous message… Despite all efforts to avoid the inevitable, her seemingly normal parents reckon with the one truth they had tried to avoid... Nicholas is coming, and he wants their daughter. In an attempt to escape her fate, Arri finds herself being pushed even closer to it. As everything changes her journey begins.

After their dramatic escape from Grid City, Jane and her friends flee to United West, desperate to reach their last batchmate before she’s decommissioned. With the agency hot on their heels, their mission won’t be easy. But help arrives from an unexpected source.

Kallie Brooks thought her worst problem was running out of limes during Happy Hour. That is, until she left The Lazy Gecko one night and found a young woman’s lifeless body in the back seat of her car. In a town as small as Owhiro, Florida, news travels fast—and so does suspicion. But with the assigned detective miles away in St. Petersburg, she soon fears the tragic case is slipping through the cracks. With her best friend Tess and her ever-resourceful dad by her side, Kallie dives into the mystery, uncovering shady characters and buried secrets.

Minister's daughter Frankie Lou McMasters has come back to Ruby Springs, Texas with her daughter, Betsy, eleven years after running off to marry the town bad boy. Her mild notoriety as a bad girl is prime gossip for her childhood enemy, Poppy Fremont, now choir director of Faith Community Church—where Frankie Lou's daddy, now retired to Florida, was the preacher.