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Summary: Every story has an ending… Connor always had memories of lives not his own. Snippets of conversations and awful yearning have dogged his steps and made him question his sanity. His only anchor is his sister and her belief in his stories of a cosmic black dragon. His obsession leads him to search for answers among the sacred mountains of the world... and what he finds is almost more than he can handle. Asagoroth, the last dragon, has awakened after centuries of slumber, ready to reclaim his angel and their love. Undeterred that his angel is in the body of a human, Asagoroth embraces him as his own. But the world has changed. The children have become violent and destructive. And the former conqueror of realms has run out of patience. For the love he and Asagoroth have shared over eons, Connor must find the courage to take the final step on his quest for immortality… and through their love, he hopes to save humanity from draconic retribution.

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Summary: “I won’t leave you alone, my dragon. Your angel will always return to you.” The Great Union. The Great Assault. The same event with different truths. For some angels, they find their perfect mates among the demons who follow Asagoroth through the heavenly gates. For others, they wish to forget and return to their blessed peace among the stars. For Trystan, he’s trying to balance building a new society alongside his sister, the angelic peers who once shunned and shamed him, and their demon mates, while being a good parent to his adopted son, Adam. Finding himself on the council and a valued member of his community has given Trystan hope and determination to make their venture succeed. However, there’s one truth that most concerns him: Asagoroth is immortal. Trystan is not. If Trystan wants to protect the children and save the cosmos from annihilation, he must discover what Roland knew. Only his love can temper Asagoroth’s wrath and thirst for vengeance... for the great dragon doesn’t forgive, and he doesn’t forget. Reader Discretion advised: This story deals with dark themes, including mentions of sexual assault and infant death. 

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Summary: “I remember how things used to be. I had a garden with flowers in it. I’ve seen the ocean, I’ve eaten real food. Now all we’ve got is this.” Bermondsey’s inhabitants are shut in, all their needs met in automated tower blocks. No one goes outside because the streets regularly flood. Just to keep rich people on the other side of the river safe. Idonny’s days are spent answering pointless online surveys for luxury goods she’ll never see, her nights in the arms of tough guys who only see her as a warm body. Everything shifts when Idonny meets Kaver, an injured stranger who needs her help. For the first time, she defies her current boyfriend to help Kaver. She reaches out to her neighbors in the tower block, banding together against the gangs prowling the hallways. Then, the government begins withdrawing resources from her community and food becomes scarce. Idonny tries to get involved in the underground economy providing for her fellow residents, but they don’t trust her. And her forbidden friendship with Kaver deepens, offering her a chance at real love—if she’s brave enough to take it. When violence between rival gangs erupts around her, Idonny must decide whether to stay enmeshed as the ever-loyal girlfriend or strike out on her own.

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Summary: For the first time, sci-fi and fantasy author J. Scott Coatsworth has brought together four of his sci-fantasy tales in one book: The Great North: Dwyn is a young man in a small, isolated northern town, son of the Minstor, betrothed to marry the beautiful Kessa in just weeks. Mael is shepherding the remains of his own people from Land’s End, farther north, chased out by a terrible storm that destroyed his town. Both are trying to find their way in a post-apocalyptic world. When they meet, their love may change the world and the course of history. Homecoming: Spaceman meets wolfman. When his own world is destroyed, Aldiss and his crew barely manage to escape, leaving friends and lovers behind in a mad dash for survival. When they awaken from deep sleep on Earth, abandoned by humanity five centuries before, they must quickly learn about their new home. Then he meets Hari, a human-wolf hybrid, whose people harbor secrets which just might cost them their lives. The Autumn Lands: Jerrith is running. Kissed by an elf, he can't remain in his hometown of Althos any more. Caspian still hasn't figured out why he kissed Jerrith, but he's running too. Since he was exiled from the Autumn Lands, his past has been hazy, and his future uncertain. When a stray memory brings things into focus, the two decide to run toward something together. What they uncover will change their lives forever. Cailleadhama: Colton is a trans man living in a climate-changed world. He plies canals that used to be city streets, earning a living on San Francisco's flooded verge beneath the Wall. Tris is an elf who goes through the veil on a coming of age pilgrimage called the Cailleadhama, searching for his brother Laris. The two men find common cause, and together they set off through a world transformed by greed and climate change.

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Summary: Luis García is a suburban family man whose life is turned upside down when immigration officers bash down his door and arrest him, along with his wife and kids. They are taken to a detention camp, separated, and subjected to harsh and unsanitary conditions. But Luis’s nightmare is just beginning. He and his fellow prisoners are targets for an organ harvesting scheme. And Luis is chosen for an experimental brain procedure that could drive him to madness.

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Summary: "Scott has been writing science fiction for almost as long as he has been alive - his first short story, a futuristic Jetsons inspired tale, was written in fourth grade, was hand-illustrated in crayon, and won a young writers contest at the University of Arizona. His work has appeared in Galaxy’s Edge, Poplorish, The Mischief Corner Quarterly, and a number of anthologies, including Post Apocalipstick, Fix the World, Save the World, Transform the World, Earth 2100, Myths Untold - Faery, A More Perfect Union, Travels Through the Scarlet Equinox, A Taste of Honey, and many others. Thirty of his short stories are gathered together here for the first time, covering a wide range of sci-fi and fantasy genres, including several never-before published tales - Airlock Justice, The Summer Place, Ever the Rain, and Vibe Science. Enjoy these varied tales of Other Worlds from the never quiescent mind of author J. Scott Coatsworth."

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Summary: It all went horrifically wrong. V reunited with his AI siblings at a terrible cost—a cost he isn’t willing to pay. He vowed to do whatever it takes to save Meredith—or whatever is left of her—from Smith and Varro Technologies. No matter how long it takes. No matter what he has to do. No matter who he has to kill. Now V, Cass and Orwell are tearing through the galaxy playing a deadly cat-and-mouse game with Mr Smith. Their paradise-like cult of Cass’s own design protects them from Janus, Varro Technologies’ lethal AI hunt dog, while they manipulate humans to enforce their increasingly unstable demands, but as their galactic influence grows, the bonds between the AI siblings are fraying at the seams. V is losing himself to a virtual world of worship, grief, regret for the host he inadvertently destroyed; Orwell has dangerous designs for itself; and Cass’s pride in her perfection is threatening to unravel her to her very code. Smith and Janus are closing in, and a reckoning is coming to Paradeisos…

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Summary: A kingdom under siege. A war far from over. A destiny that could remake the world. After twenty years of enslavement, Adofo has returned to Akopia at last, only to find his homeland under relentless threat from the Children of the Sun. To claim the throne that should have been his, he must face a brutal war, a fractured past, and the terrible cost of freedom won too late. At his side, Nishan has spent two decades defying impossible odds as the feared commander of the Lantern Hawks. Now, with his long-lost brother restored to him, hope flickers for the first time in years, but war leaves little room for mercy. Far beyond the battlefield, Siham Sar Amun walks a far more perilous path. As assassination, revelation, and spiritual fate converge, she is drawn toward a legacy that may determine whether the darkness gathering over Thearus can ever be cast down. As crowns, kingdoms, and bloodlines are tested, who will endure the coming storm, and what will remain when it breaks?

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Summary: You don’t need to reach Mars to reach your dreams. Robbed of their chance at leaving Earth to pursue green-energy innovations, Ryn embraces new dreams—fighting deep sea threats in conjunction with a giant cephalopod. It’s 2139 in the Cali-Coastal Corporate Zone, and Ryn struggles with their own body and brain as they fight to survive five days locked up with academic rivals and the military-backed billionaires who’ve misled them all since their teenage years. Ryn needs an exit strategy but doesn’t know whether to trust Akira, the hacker-spy who may have saved their life, or Jay, the geeky military rebel with a secret stash of hot chocolate. Not to mention, Jay keeps falling asleep in their bed, and Ryn’s not sure if either of them is interested in more—but at least they like the same shows! Five Days. One Ocean. Unlikely allies connect to Dream the Deep.

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Summary: Once upon a time, before the hunts, dragons were plentiful in the world. Now they exist only in legend…except in the land of Ivria. Felix is a prince, cousin of the current king, ward of the old one. Knowing he would never sit on the throne, he set himself to become something else—the king's best spy. Aside from a trusted few, people know him as a frivolous, flirtatious prince. They don't see the keen mind behind the charming smile or the love of family and quiet behind the silks and jewels. They certainly don't know he is the eyes and ears of the king. Felix still blames himself for not discovering the plot against Ivria and its king at its beginning, and he's determined to find the remaining members of the conspiracy. If the commander of the King's Guard will get out of his way. Alan is commander of the King's Guard, a role he set himself on the path toward when he was very young. He takes his duty seriously, so seriously there is little room for anything else in his life—not the pastimes he used to enjoy or family or even love. Especially now with the heightened danger to the royal family. He crushed his attraction to the beautiful Prince Felix long ago, but when he finds out Felix is more than he appears, Alan immediately becomes suspicious. Is Felix working for the king or against him? Alan won't let himself be fooled by a pretty face that hides so much, no matter how he used to feel. But the real danger is closer than Felix or Alan realizes, and they're going to have to get over their animosity for each other—and deal with the desire that sparks when they do—if they're going to survive it.

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Summary: The demon doesn't need to win. It just needs to wait. Joss knows this. She's watched herself hollow out over months—the rage bleeding in at the edges, the wall holding but the woman behind it failing. When every cure proved a dead end, she made the only logical choice: go home. Say goodbye. Stop pretending. Elena, the woman who first held Joss's heart, has returned. Not with a cure, but with the quiet devastation of someone who cares enough to stay until the end. Abigail, River, and Indigo grieve her while she's still standing. Only Caroline, once her enemy, now something harder to name, refuses to make peace with it. But grief is a luxury none of them can afford for long. Rana has not forgotten what Joss carries. The Hypatia Coven is coming, and it is not coming to offer mercy. The demon is patient. Rana is not. And Joss is running out of time to decide if she has anything left worth fighting for.

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Summary: Emma got the house in the divorce. She didn’t know it came with a sleeping vampire. Emma looks forward to the biggest challenge of her career as an art conservator - restoring her newly acquired shabby Victorian home to its former glory. She didn’t plan on the upgrades including a panicked vampire in her attic. The bite on her neck proves he’s a danger, but she can’t stop thinking about how good it made her feel. Micah’s not sure who’s the bigger threat - his sire or the woman trying to stake him with an umbrella. Micah only planned to sleep for fifty years to break the mental bond with the abusive vampire who sired him. Instead, he was unconscious for over a century and woke to a changed world. Giant crafts speed through the sky, buildings stretch to the clouds, and a strange woman is living in his home. His mortal friend is long dead and his connection to his sire is still intact. It’s only a matter of time before Vanessa finds Micah.  Can Emma help him navigate this modern age while Micah attempts to break his bond? Coauthored with Truly Bellamy

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Summary: What if the only way to escape your troubled life was through a secret portal? In “J.J. Fowler,” a middle school outcast stumbles upon a door hidden in the blackberry bushes. On the other side is a room that shouldn’t exist—one that shifts and reshapes each time he enters. It could be his refuge, his escape, or even his home… if it doesn’t consume him first. In “Check Yes or No,” a 14-year-old girl discovers an image of her adult self, pulling her into a strange game of self-discovery. Each time she slips into that world, the boundaries of past, present, and future blur, leaving her unsure of who she really is. Think Stand by Me meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with a dash of Twin Peaks—two uncanny journeys into the spaces that shape us and the memories that won’t let go.

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Summary: Portal Sci-Fi Romantasy! An archaeologist duo—a bold, gender-neutral, brilliant heroine and a lovesick professor scrambling to keep her alive. Magical creatures like dragons, jaguars, and gargoyles populate this alternate version of Earth. Steampunk alternate Earth discovered through an ancient South American excavation site. "Aria is an own-voices, M/F, gender-fluid protagonist, filling a much-needed demand for diverse representation in mainstream fantasy romance." Draconic Portcullis is a rewritten version of Children of Anzulla! Tons of new content with some similarities, but a different storyline and ending. Standalone with no characters appearing in any other Kashel Char books. The author legally licensed the rights to the character Alarice from Canadian artist Art Of Li to represent Aria, supporting independent artists.

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Summary: Everyone knows that the “Fomorians” first appeared in the 1840s, after the dwarves of western Ireland quarantined their own homelands west of the Corrib. The finest minds of the dwarves and the British establishment have failed to uncover the causes of their appearance, beyond that it is a disease dubbed “Fomoritis”. But nobody knows for certain. Until now. One corrupt scientist from a dwarven megacorporation runs an illegal experiment to find out. What he doesn’t expect is the Fomorians themselves to object and hand his subjects over to the military. For the children involved, that was just the beginning.

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Summary: "Lord of the Flies" meets "The Expanse" in this harrowing tale of survival, betrayal, and the fragile line between civilization and savagery ... Inspired by the true story of a 17th-century Dutch Shipwreck … Two thousand light-years from Earth, the ultimate survival game has begun. The Dauntless was supposed to be a beacon of hope—a state-of-the-art colony ship carrying four hundred souls to a lush new world. But beneath the starched uniforms and corporate protocols of the Westmoreland Corporation, a rot is spreading. First Mate Adrian Jacobs is drowning in resentment. Chief Engineer Jeronimus Cornelis is a charismatic sociopath, with a silver tongue and a taste for power. Together, they whisper of a secret cargo—a fortune in Cortium-7—and a mutiny that will turn the ship into their private kingdom. But space has no mercy for the greedy. When a desperate gamble to seize the ship ends in a catastrophic collision, Dauntless is left a mangled wreck on a desolate, twin-asteroid system. Abandoned by their Captain in a search for rescue, the survivors are left in "The Graveyard"—a world of oppressive heat, bone-chilling shadows, and a rapidly vanishing water supply. And as the thin line between order and anarchy vanishes, Jeronimus rises not as a savior, but as a tyrant. In the cold vacuum of P-48, water is life, power is absolute, and the greatest threat may not be the environment after all—but the person standing next to you. This tale is loosely based on the true saga of the Batavia, a Dutch ship that wrecked off the coast of Australia in 1629.

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Summary: From professor to infiltrator. Can she keep her cover and the resistance alive before evil can strike her down? Earth, 2084. Professor Thena Bridges is ready for a quiet life. On the day before her retirement, she is offered a high-level position with another planet’s totalitarian government. She refuses. But when her best friend disappears in a purge there, she accepts the position in order to find out what happened. As Earth declares war, Bridges boards the last spaceship headed to the planet and is welcomed by the dictator’s inner circle. Working undercover, she connects with a budding resistance movement to further the efforts aimed at taking down the government. Can Bridges outplay the regime as she becomes target of both allies and foes? Interstellar Mission: Infiltrate is a thrilling space opera espionage novel. If you like stealthy missions, outwitting opposition, and rebellions against tyrants, then you’ll love Joan Marie Verba’s page-turning story. Read Interstellar Mission: Infiltrate to fight from the inside today!  

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Summary: Fernando Vargas, seventeen years old, is dead. Thorny, an infamous girl his age, is missing. The storm that has been gathering on the planet called Heaven, a harsh world seventy-six light-years from Earth, is about to break. Gossip, rumors, and accusations about Fernando’s death escalate as the planet’s sole and overworked physician is unable to provide a reason. Thorny’s father, a former mercenary soldier, is intent on finding his difficult but beloved daughter, because no one can survive for long in Heaven’s wilds. He will need to find not only her but also Dani, another teenaged boy, who is chasing an impossible love story he will risk his life to have. The small colony of humans that arrived on Heaven two decades earlier has managed to survive, but nobody is happy. The mystery of what happened to the two teens exposes the simmering feuds, hatreds, regrets, and personal agendas of the struggling colonists. Only a few recognize the precarious state of the settlement and strive to make it secure. Others see an opportunity to seize power. A mysterious death, a disappearance, dangerous rites of passage, and a possible coup in an isolated interstellar colony create a thrilling and toxic brew. Is there any way to avoid disaster? A science fiction story of coming of age, adventure, danger, mystery, and a bit of hope. This book is set in the same universe as the Leif the Lucky series and picks up the stories of the characters who stayed behind when Leif returned to Earth at the end of Murder Under Another Sun.

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Summary: “If you’re so obsessed with the truth, you need to look a little closer to home.” At the party celebrating Derry’s knighthood, Kyer learns a terrible truth—her “Guardian” is none other than Golgathaur, lieutenant to Dregor himself. Faced with rescuing the one person who holds the key to her identity, Kyer must use her newfound magical talent to enter the realm of her enemy, alone. There, Golgathaur reveals something that will not only change her life, but also the lives of those whom she holds most dear. He demands an impossible choice, even as Kyer is thunderstruck by yet another magical discovery. Realizing that her motivations are agonizingly interconnected with her enemy leads to an inconvenient truth: each needs the other alive to achieve their goals. Worse, one she thought she could trust is hiding the most terrible secret of all. Kyer and the company led by Lord Valrayker soon find themselves on a journey to carry out a horrific deed in order to save Rydris from a terrible fate. Even those who have already fled are in peril. Preorder the electrifying penultimate book in the Gatekeeper fantasy trilogy-in-five-parts today. “Gatekeeper’s Crucible introduced me to the fantasy series I didn’t know I sorely needed. With rich, well-woven world building, resilient heroes, and wretched villains, Wallace had me under her spell from the first word to the last.” ~ Cait Gordon, award-winning co-editor of Nothing Without Us Too and author of Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain

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Summary: Echoing through the world of stone abbeys and iron-fisted warlords, the earth sings its relentless song. Betrayed by his monastery brotherhood, Magnus is sent into a brutal desert on a mission intended to kill him — deliver an obscure relic to a ruthless warlord. The relic is a known forgery, but the desert is both real and unforgiving. When the relic begins to speak to him, it promises Magnus happiness, inviting him into its strange magic. But its gifts are double-edged—sight to see the world's secret soul, the power of flight, and the terrifying burden of a healer. From the corridors of a corrupt monastery to the sacred spring at the heart of a witch’s garden and a home in the arms of a traveling musician, Magnus follows a rejected, wild magic which endures more powerfully than the world of human making.  An enchanting tale of nature, magic and love, The Relic treads a thin line between ecstasy and madness and asks, “How much courage does it take to truly belong in the world?”