After surviving the Old Spirit attack that destroyed Adam's city, James, Quinn, Alice, and Violet travel to their newest refuge, a massive village buried deep within Shadow Forest. Miles away, Adam and Brynna are captured by the Old Spirits, and Paul, Tyre's right-hand, offers Brynna a deal she cannot refuse, even if taking the deal means betraying Adam, to whom she has grown closer.After surviving the Old Spirit attack that destroyed Adam's city, James, Quinn, Alice, and Violet travel to their newest refuge, a massive village buried deep within Shadow Forest. Miles away, Adam and Brynna are captured by the Old Spirits, and Paul, Tyre's right-hand, offers Brynna a deal she cannot refuse, even if taking the deal means betraying Adam, to whom she has grown closer. In her new job as Don's second-in-command, Brynna works in Town Hall, which puts her in daily contact with Adam much to James's dismay. Quinn and Alice are appointed to the new Armed Forces division of Security, and together, they train for Active Duty, and Violet excels in her studies under the head Medice of Pangaea and is happily in love with Nick until she meets a dangerous boy named Caspar. While facing tension within and threats from without, Brynna and her new family count down the days until they strike the Old Spirits, or the Old Spirits strike them.

In Blyton's final book about the girls at Malory Towers, Darrell becomes head girl. Unfortunately not all the girls are as responsible as she is and in her last term Darrell sees many changes in her old school friends.

From international bestselling, award-winning author Mary Ting comes a heartwarming page-turner about the beauty of being with family, second chances, and the magic of Christmas, when anything is possible ... A gorgeous and festive island treat for fans of Debbie Macomber, Sheila Roberts, and Jenny Hale."The sweeping island scenery and romance left me feeling refreshed. This was a mini escape!" ~First for Women Magazine SOMETIMES ANGELS COME IN HUMAN FORM. When Kaitlyn Chang receives an invitation to spend Christmas with her family on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, she feels it may be the perfect medicine for everything wrong this holiday season. She immediately throws herself into helping her sister's struggling art gallery. She even begins to paint again. It's tempting to just move to Kauai, but she has obligations back in Los Angeles. Life gets complicated when circumstances keep putting her close to Leonardo Medici. Not...

‘Who am I?’ Viviana wonders when – after seeing whales during the school swimming competition – a weird new boy causes her to suffer bizarre recollections of an alternative life of outlandish landscapes and experiences. And when her parents vanish, with no trace of them ever having existed, Viviana is left wondering all the more: Who am I?Helle's parents were evacuated with the rest of Pripyat when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant melted down. Left behind, she was raised by wolves and remained unnoticed by the world until an internet video brought her to the attention of Louisiana State University anthropology PhD candidate Janice Grayson. Aggressive but insecure, Janice wins a grant to study Wild Girl of Chernobyl and moves quickly to capture the feral girl. Through a series of bold, and expensive, maneuvers, she manages to smuggle Helle back to the university, where the study itself melts in directions she never could have predicted.

Armed with a wooden stake, martial arts, and the will to resist a vampire’s mind control, Rachel struggles to avenge her mother’s death in The Chosen. Then she meets Quinn, her soulmate, who is part of the world she has vowed to destroy.

Gwen has only ever known life as a priestess of the High Serpent King, Belial the Glorious. Specially trained as a wraith dancer assassin, Gwen is preparing for a life dispensing justice in the name of her dragon gods when she successfully repels an attack by the Resistance upon Belial’s temple. Suddenly catapulted to a position of status, Gwen is chosen to assassinate Ezekiah, the Prophet“I never wanted to be a killer—an assassin—a Wraith Dancer. But as a priestess of the High Serpent King, Belial, I had little choice in the matter. Still, despite my inward desire for a life of perfect peace, it must be said that I was one of the best. Blood had splattered across the front of my tunic. At my feet lay the body of an infidel called Peka; his throat sliced open from ear to ear; the bones of his left thigh and right arm shattered. He had come with a group of rebels hoping to desecrate Belial’s temple here in Babale. I could not allow that.”Gwen has only ever known life as a priestess of the High Serpent King, Belial the Glorious. Specially trained as a wraith dancer assassin, Gwen is preparing for a life dispensing justice in the name of her dragon gods when she successfully repels an attack by the Resistance upon Belial’s temple. Suddenly catapulted to a position of status, Gwen is chosen to assassinate Ezekiah, the prophet of the Resistance. But when she’s captured, Gwen is shown the dark side of the dragons and their utopian society and the unsuspected kindness of the man she was meant to kill. She wants to remain faithful to the Serpent Kings, but her doubts are growing, and her time with Ezekiah has awakened feelings within her she never thought to have. Moreover, in Gwen’s absence, something has happened to make this wraith dancer a costly liability to the dragons, and she cannot be allowed to live any longer.

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Everything that goes bump in the night is true and they are coming for you.With one living older brother, I thought that I would be in the clear of having to take over the family business. I could play pretend in the human world and none would be the wiser.Until I find out my brother has gone missing and now, I was the sole heir to the Van Helsing clan! What must my father be thinking?I'd never been proficient at the game of masks. I tended to talk better with my fists than my mouth and I wasn't about to hold back from telling the supernatural community what was on my mind.That's if I could live long enough to do it.

Light meets dark. Secrets meet truth. It's been three years, twenty-five weeks, and five days since Isis Blake fell in love, and if she has it her way, it'll stretch into infinity. After a run-in with her mom’s ex-boyfriend, she scrabbles to remember what she’s lost to amnesia. Her ex-nemesis Jack falls deeper into a pit of despair, and his girlfriend Sophia does all she can to keep him to herself. But as Isis’ memories return, she finds it harder and harder to resist what she felt for Jack, and Jack finds it impossible to stay away from the only girl who’s ever melted the ice around his heart. As the dark secrets surrounding Sophia emerge, Isis realizes Jack isn’t who she thought he was. He’s dangerous. But when Isis starts receiving terrifying emails from an anonymous source, that danger might be the only thing protecting her from something far more threatening. Her past. ***This book contains language and sexual scenes, some of which may be unsuitable for younger readers. ***This is the second book in the Lovely Vicious series.

This hard Sci-Fi novel is the fourth book in the “Stasis Stories,” a series of optimistic tales of technological innovation in the near future. They follow Kaem Seba, a sickly and financially destitute young man with extraordinary math talents. With his friends, he’s developing a device that allows them to stop time within limited volumes of space-time. In this 4th story, Kaem has been treated with gene therapy for the anemias that made him so weak. In combination with his extraordinary memory, his newfound physical fitness is letting him perform at a high level in a karate class. The company he, Arya Vaii, and Gunnar Schmidt founded to commercially develop his time-stopping discovery is starting to make money. Currently their profits come from their use of the phenomenal physical properties of a time-stopped segment of space-time to build rockets.But people are also clamoring to use Kaem’s invention to stop time for those who are dying. Not just the ones who want to skip a few years until there’s a cure for their disease, but also the patients in critical condition who will die for the lack of blood, or for the lack of the right surgeon, or because there are too many sick patients for the hospital to save them all.Oh, and they’re still working on their plans for a space elevator… **