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Elowen was born with a blood debt hanging over her head, one the Shade Lord will collect upon her twenty-first year. Unwilling to succumb to a fate of having the life siphoned out of her in order to extend the shade’s, she flees the mortal settlement and makes for the Fae Realm of Aetherya with a single dagger in hand. Leijla is bound to the Fae Queen by a terrible curse, which forces her to do unspeakable things in accordance with The Queen’s will. Her latest assignment: to hunt down the fugitive Elowen Lockwood.

FROM AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR CASSANDRA DOON, COMES A FUNNY, WITTY, AND DIABOLICAL ROMCOM. ONE THAT WILL LEAVE YOU WONDERING "WHAT IN THE WORLD DID THE TOWN FOLK OF LANCASTER EAT FOR DINNER." Genie Alden runs the quaintest little skincare shop in Lancashire—if you ignore the tarot cards, the Death card's morning greetings, and her product line featuring Belladonna. Business is booming, especially her special consultations for women who need more than just a good moisturizer. Let's just say some problems require... creative solutions.

After trading her high-stress pharmaceutical career for the healing herbs of a Cotswolds village, Ivy Blackthorn thought her biggest worry would be winning over sceptical locals. She was wrong. When Ivy inherits her great-aunt's apothecary in the picturesque village of Thornwick Green, she's determined to bridge traditional plant wisdom with modern science. Nine months in, she's finally earning the community's trust, until the village's biggest critic, Mrs Enid Hartwell, collapses at the Spring Fair—clutching a teacup bearing Ivy's shop logo.

Jonas and Yenna lead normal lives as a London pub owner and a journalist...but they moonlight as notorious thieves with their five-member crew of unlikely criminals. Since the night twelve-year-old Jonas and his feisty red-headed neighbor—who happens to be a witch—knocked over a corner shop, the two have been inseparable. Until Yenna's magick breaks and the two of them have to face the traumatic after-effects. After years apart, Jonas brings Yenna in for one last heist—to steal a diamond from the Millenium Dome on New Year's Eve 1999, just as the clock strikes midnight.

On the run from their pasts, a man and a woman are forced together by the weather and by necessity. When a radio news broadcast reports that a body has been found further back along the road on which they are traveling, tensions rise and it's only so long before the truth must come out. But the truth is never quite what you imagine.

A cursed treasure. A second chance at love. And a perilous adventure on the high seas. Lillian loved her life at sea. Which is why she’s a little salty that the pirate captain she gave her heart to abandoned her on dry land. But when one of his crew tells her the treasure she helped him find was cursed, she sets off to save Captain Kale from what he’s become. Lillian thought that when Kale retrieved the Kingsword he’d be made the pirate king. Instead, the sword has corrupted him into a heartless, violent monster.

The Shade King has declared himself emperor, and will stop at nothing to carry out his plan of claiming dominion over all. However, the Fae are distrustful of their new monarch and refuse to militarize–not believing the shade kingdom is a valid threat to their beloved, untouchable realm. While Elowen and Teagh travel to Sadhyah to rescue Isolde, Leijla embarks on a quest to rescue her father. On her way, she encounters a mysterious being with an ominous message, an unlikely ally, and the destruction the shades have wreaked on the mortal realm.

Strange things can be said of the forest that spans the border of two kingdoms long at war. An evil sorcerer has made it his dominion, or an elegant enchantress has claimed it as her domain and grants wishes to those who chance upon her, or maybe the forest is guarded by an ancient and wrathful spirit. But Katya calls the forest home, living a life of magic and charms with her partner Ivan. But a threat looms over their forest, some darkness and danger that Ivan swears to protect her from.

Everything begins with a secret. Fourteen-year-old Dawn Weathers was a happy and robust teenage girl about to embark on her first year of high school when her father shared a dark secret. Dawn was the offspring of an angel and demon, her blood was celestial. Her adventures over the next couple of years are rocky. Until she moves to a small midwestern town. Suddenly she’s thrown into a world of vampires, demons, and first loves. As unknown elements become noticed and more secrets are revealed, she learns there is a lot more than just fire in her blood.

Sabine has returned to Lynk to deliver justice for her sister’s murder and stop her husband from waging a war that could destroy the realm. To succeed, she may have to topple the very crown she swore to protect.

Max and Hannah have each made themselves a promise. He’s finally going to ask a woman out for the first time in nearly 10 years. And since he can’t stop thinking about the beautiful woman who teaches water aerobics at his gym, she seems like a great place to start. Little does Max know Hannah has made a promise to swear off men for the foreseeable future.

Merrick Forrester doesn’t do relationships. Not anymore. After enduring multiple heartbreaks, he’s convinced that everything beautiful eventually starts to rot. So when he meets the captivating and mysterious Drue Hart, he does his best to avoid her—that is, until he discovers the secret she carries. It’s then he decides getting close to her is worth the danger to his heart.

It is 1926. Cora Gudmundson is determined not to yield to pressure to marry and settle down like a proper lady should. Cora wants a life of adventure, so she saves her money and books a cruise to London on her own. Her mother is appalled, but her father agrees to let her go.

For generations, the people of Nelebek have lived under the shadow of Morlet—a tyrant king wielding dark, ancient magic. Ruthless and unstoppable, he has hunted down the fabled Order of the Krigers, magical warriors tied to enchanted weapons that once protected the realm. Eleven have fallen. Only one remains. Sixteen-year-old Kaia has no idea she’s connected to that lost legacy. In a kingdom where whispers can get you killed, Kaia lives like a shadow—unseen, unheard, untouched by the king’s iron rule. Until the day she locks eyes with the tyrant himself—and something deep inside her awakens.

Ondine chose her future. She jumped. And everything changed. Now Altered in body and thrust into a culture she barely understands, Ondine must navigate a world far more complicated than she ever imagined. Her transformation has consequences she never anticipated, ones that reach beyond her own fate to Regiatus, the people she loves, and the fragile balance of Neridia itself. As buried truths about her past come to light, the cost of her choice becomes impossible to ignore.

Fl. 1700The tides of fate demand blood. Sybil's entire life was spent scraping the bottom of the barrel, sneaking scraps, and making do with what little money her brother Walter could smuggle back to London from Nassau. But as time passes and the last delivery from her brother becomes more distant, she soon realizes that she might finally be on her own. With nowhere left to go she ventures out across the ocean, desperately hoping to retrace her brother's footsteps.

She was meant to destroy the king. Now she might carry his child. The Order of the Krigers has awakened—and the tyrant king, Morlet, will burn the world to find them. Village by village, he hunts the twelve chosen warriors meant to end his reign. But Kaia, the last and most powerful of them all, is no longer just his target. She’s his obsession. To break the ancient curse binding them, Kaia must do the unthinkable: bear a child before the Krigers strike their final blow. But the prophecy is unclear—who is the father meant to be? Her loyal fiancé, Vidar?

A revolution is brewing. After the Desdemona fires, Quistix, Twitch, and Aurora are now wanted fugitives with hefty bounties on their heads. With a little help from an old friend, they soon become embroiled in a perilous underwater quest near the rumored lost city of Elathia alongside a forgetful old wizard named Irenas Parnix and his beautiful shape-shifting granddaughter, Violet. Beneath the raging waves of the Radiant Sea, they must join forces with an old foe to battle, Kackaroth, an aggressive water dragon.

Enter an enchanting and romantic new world from the New York Times Bestselling author of the Trylle Saga. Isadore Dellamousa is a talented muse in a magickal kingdom, chosen to perform at royal festivals. But her life is far from glamorous, overshadowed by her controlling mother and the dark secrets of her past. When Isadore meets the enigmatic enchanter Soren Tomoleo, sparks fly—both on and off the stage. Together, they create magik unlike anything Wespen has ever seen. But their growing bond defies the strict rules of their world.

It only takes one night. There’s no way Brandon Monet could have feelings for Winter Stratford. At least, that’s her assumption. As her brother’s best friend, Brandon has been off limits for as long as she’s known him - but that doesn’t stop the undeniable current of electricity that Winter feels when he’s around.