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Prosperity comes at a price. In Praesidium, that price is freedom. Strict laws and a harsh penal code ensure ordinary criminals become bond-slaves. But the most serious traitors are turned over to the wizard to be suspended in a dreamless frozen state known as Stasis. Miner is one such criminal, suspended forever—until Ennek, the youngest son of Praesidium’s Chief, stirred by the horror of Miner’s fate, sets him free. Ennek has always skirted the edge of the law.

Conall thought he'd buried the past with his brother. But when a cryptic summons surfaces—tied to a long-vanished village and a wolf who should be dead—he's forced to retrace the path of the disbanded Squad 54. What he finds in the shadows could unravel not only their fate, but the fragile balance between elf and humankind. Back in New Torwood City, Princess Rowan Andula is done playing the figurehead. With a seat on the ruling council, she's ready to fight for her family's legacy—until the city's giant mech guardian begins to fail. Talos isn't just a machine. He's the heart of the city.

For over a 100 years, the secret of the hidden eggs has been waiting - waiting for a Dragon Mother to call them to life. With a species driven to extinction and only Nadine, a Dragon Whisperer, left with the power to break the egg’s dormancy, life hangs in the balance. But, she is not the only seeker. Can Nadine find the eggs before the king does, or will she die in a ritual to darken a dragon? The king’s relentless pursuit of power traps Nadine between her sense of duty and finding her true love.

From Sophie Kim comes the second book in the epic fantasy based on Korean mythology, an unflinching roller coaster ride of action, romance, and intricate fantasy lore.

Kim McDougall presents the prequel and first book in her Valkyrie Bestiary series. Three Half Goats Gruff: Who is the mysterious captain of the Guardians? Kyra Greene, pest controller of fantastic beasts, takes on a rock troll and meets the man who will haunt her dreams for the next 321 nights. Dragons Don't Eat Meat: Someone is killing dragons. When Kyra Greene finds an abandoned baby dragon, she doesn't want to bring him home. But until she can hunt down his thunder and stop the dragon killers, she's on babysitting duty.

Rowan doesn't just work with machines—she hears them. The hum of engines, the whisper of gears and wires—they speak to her through the magic that flows from her mech hand. Whether she's fine-tuning the colossal automaton that protects New Torwood City or toiling in her workshop, being a mechanic is the only life she truly enjoys. But the Regent's Council wants more. They demand a princess who will embrace the pomp and ceremony of royal duty, not a tinker with oil-stained hands.

Elis learns the dreams he's been sketching for months are visions of a near future. He's confronted with his greatest challenge since losing his mother, Iana. His task is simple, retrieve the urtar stone. His obstacles, monumental. The list of adversaries standing in his way begins with Perseus and his wife Andromeda and the god of time himself, Chronos. All while keeping three seven-year-olds with curious minds out of harm's way. His burden lightened with the support of the Protectors of Time, the descendants of Zeus and Mui but still a task he has to complete.

Danae and her brother Leon, descendants of Zeus, are thrust into a world they barely understand. They have a new responsibility to protect and serve the goddess Ember and the Castle of Teskom after Danae’s husband, Itra, a descendant of Mui, failed to protect the castle from an attack lead by Poseidon and Medusa.

What if the cost of freedom is the very thing that threatens to destroy who you thought you were? Nadine’s daring escape from the Northern Kingdom did little to calm her fears. When she dropped Lady Christine’s dagger in the hidden dragon tunnels, she left a dangerous clue that provoked King Radolf to carve out a serious and potentially deadly change to his plan for world domination. He is not afraid to use the vilest of methods to lure in innocents to be part of his plans to retrieve what he has lost. Now Nadine must prepare for a battle she never intended to be part of.

Below Nadine’s medieval village, the fragile peace that dragons and mankind had died to forge, is about to shatter. A power-hungry King bent on revenge discovers the legend of a darkened dragon heart. The story explodes into a plot to eliminate the church hierarchy that destroyed his mother. He must have a dragon hatchling. Nadine wakes to the screams of her village being destroyed by dragon fire, as the last dragon mother exacts her vengeance at this cruel betrayal of mankind. And she takes hostages.

From New York Times bestselling author, Kim Harrison, comes the first book in an exciting urban fantasy series; packed with the perfect balance of wry humour and thrilling action, which will delight fans of thrillers and fantasy alike. Rachel Morgan is a white witch and runner working for...

Alissa is steadily advancing in her magical studies with the last surviving Master at the legendary Hold. But she’s haunted by dreams - dreams revealing that other Masters have survived. Alissa’s dreams lead her to a distant island where she and a rescue party discover countless Masters, alive and part of a flourishing magical society. But instead of being welcomed, Alissa finds that she herself may need to be rescued. The Masters’ leader, Keribdis, believes that she should be Alissa’s teacher, whether Alissa likes it or not.

In a desperate attempt to save King Jeric’s life, Imari drew upon the power from the Tree of Wisdom, hidden deep within the forsaken lands of Sol Velor. But Imari could not have known that by doing so, she would also free Zussa—the Great Deceiver—who had been bound between worlds since the beginning of time.

Sable has been exposed for who she is: Imari, the illegitimate daughter of Istraa’s king, and a Liagé—someone born with forbidden Shah power. After 10 years of hiding and surviving in the bitter cold Wilds, she is finally returning home. But it's not the homecoming Imari envisioned. After all, her father proclaimed her dead ten years ago, and with an anonymous Liagé leader operating in Istraa’s shadows, attacking villages and burning down temples, her father fears the people will blame Imari. It could mean his throne, and her life.

A year after the sudden and devastating death of her parents, Liv Price faces the inevitable task of packing up her childhood home - on her 21st birthday, no less. Her plans are thwarted as disaster in the form of an earthquake strikes, and Liv is sucked into another world. Alcatar, a land full of magic and mystery, awakens something within her that is wild and dangerous. Liv is desperate to return to Earth, but the powers-at-large only want one thing: her blood.

Orochi, the king of the dragons, has ordered his brothers and sisters to destroy humanity. It falls to a young hero to assemble a team and stop the dragons' rampage. It falls to the Century Blade. This is a short story set in the world of the award-winning Mortal Techniques. It is designed to be listened to as a stand-alone story, completely independent from the full-length novels set in the same world.

For 15 years she’s defended humanity with Neti by her side. Hunting down rogues and slavers and training together has strengthened their bond. She’s at peace with her place on Earth, at least until she discovers that crystal shards are being stolen from Dingir. They travel to Kur, suspicious of another plot to restore the Anchor Crystal and re-join all dimensions into one, and quickly discover that a councilman is working in the shadows. But something larger is brewing; the ancient past is waking up.

Azerick has come back from the abyss in order to try to unite all the races against the return of the old gods who seek to destroy them and enslave the few that survive the brutal purging. However, fighting ancient gods may be the least of his troubles as he battles to unite a fractured kingdom, save a brilliant son traveling a dark path, and hold together the splintered soul of his own humanity.

Every one of us has the beast inside. But for Kyrie Smith, the beast is no metaphor. Since she was 15, when she first shape-shifted into a savage black panther, Kyrie has questioned her humanity and moved from town to town, searching for a way to feel human again. Kyrie's lonely life changes forever while waitressing at a cheap diner. Investigating screams from the parking lot, Kyrie stumbles upon a blood-spattered dragon crouching over a mangled human corpse. The dragon changes back into her coworker, Tom, naked, dazed, and unable to remember how he got there.

The stormriders land their winged stallions on the airy battlements of Isse Tower. Far below, the superstitious servants who dwell in the fortress's lower depths tell tales of wicked creatures inhabiting the world outside - a world they have only glimpsed. Yet it is the least of the lowly, a mute, scarred, and utterly despised foundling, who dares to scale the tower, sneak aboard a windship and then dive from the sky.