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For Millie and the Siren of the Seas' crew members, the Southampton departure is bittersweet, as they leave behind new friends that they’ve made, including Halbert Pennyman, an area homeless man. Within hours of the ship leaving port to head back to Miami, the ship's chief of security discovers the Southampton Strangler could very well be on board. As disturbing events begin to unfold, Millie is convinced that not only is the strangler on board, but she's also managed to get on the killer’s radar.

I'm working with my ex to save my daughter. He's using his magic to get me back. The god of chaos is tired of my interference and orders his minions to kill me, but his plan fails and my daughter is abducted. I am forced to work with Caton and the council to find Rereck's stronghold and save Mina, while Caton makes various attempts to get me back into his bed. I'm sure his motives are political due to my business partnership with the most powerful demon alive. But in our efforts to find Mina, we discover a lost temple that once housed an artifact that Rereck can use to return.

I'm no stranger to the supernatural world. In Ravenholde, vampires, shifters, and demons are just as common as criminals, but infinitely more power hungry. So when my grandfather asks me to hunt down a phoenix terrorizing the town, I suspect his motives are less than trustworthy.

They’ve been engaged since they were children, so he sees no need to woo her. She wants a love match and is determined to find an alternative suitor. Perhaps a Christmas trapped together in snowy London will change both their minds. Lord Comerford has returned from the navy to claim his title, but ton life appears shallow after active service and the woman he has been promised to since birth seems a frivolous child, only interested in parties and clothes.

What would you do to survive the apocalypse? What begins as a beautiful summer day ends in disaster when a massive solar flare strikes the Earth, burning out all electronic devices around the planet and plunging the world into darkness. Kirstie and her high school friends are stranded at an amusement park in southern New Hampshire with no way to return to their homes outside of Concord. Her mother, Danielle, is trapped in Boston when the disaster strikes; rather than seeking shelter in the city, she begins the long and dangerous journey home to find her daughter.

Hold on to your cauldrons, because the Six Twisted Sisters are back and ready to tackle the latest supernatural disaster! After quieting the chaos caused by that pesky, magical hurricane, the sisters could sure use a break. But that's not how their twisted luck works. Before they can even breathe a sigh of relief, a levee mysteriously breaks, flooding parts of the city making gondolas a viable mode of transportation. The sisters could sit back and enjoy their beignets anyway, but that has never been their style.

Astra Arden had never expected to come back to Florida—let alone embark on a new career with a talking owl sidekick and a goddess who knew when someone was about to die. But when Alice Windrow, a philanthropic young woman from the small town of Forkbridge, comes to her sister Ami for a card reading, Astra's life takes a turn for the unexpected.

A lush gothic from best-selling author London Clarke, Dunmoor is a tale of generational curses that threaten to destroy the most innocent and vulnerable. England, 1818. Lady Helena Winters hasn’t seen her husband in over a year - not since he disappeared without a trace. Torn between seeking a new purpose for her life and longing for her husband to return, Helena travels with her father to Dunmoor House for a fundraising ball. Although the estate was once her husband’s ancestral home, it has recently been purchased by Luke Lennox.

Clementine has been taken by a creature of darkness. Dorin is a fiend in love who must find Clementine before losing her forever. While on his desperate search, Dorin pens eight dark and romantic monstrous tales, written only for Clementine.

He knew the risk it would present to the rest of his family to whisk Lyssa from the hospital and change her. Even knowing that, though, how could he be expected to sit back and do nothing when any moment could be the last chance he would have to save her? He was frightened. He was hurting. He was angry, damn it! While he was never human, can he, in a race against time to save her life, retain his humanity in an effort to preserve hers? Or must he do the unthinkable and face an eternity without her?

Alexandra Small is almost seven years sober and married to one of Britain’s 10 hottest footballing hunks. They live in gorgeous Brighton, where she has a fabulous job. Allie has it all. Until one dreadful day, when she very publicly doesn’t. When her perfect world crumbles, a face appears from Allie’s drunken past, hell-bent on revenge.

In the Skies of the Empire, there are only two things more terrifying than dragons: the attentions of the gods and the machinations of the fae. Airship pilot Cassidy Durant finds herself entangled with both when a faerie named Hymn saves her life in exchange for protection against unknown enemies. This complicates her simple life of cargo trading, since affiliating with the fae is a death sentence in the Empire.

The mysterious village of Brell isn't found on any map and has the habit of fading in and out of the surrounding river mists. In spite of this, the ordinary villagers living there don''t like anything strange. Or anyone. Althea Morgan is odd and small and doesn't fit in. Growing up, she hopes to leave Brell behind. Perhaps even go to Moor, the capitol city, and study at the famous university there. But it isn't to be. One day, a dangerous stranger appears, and before she knows it, Thea has stumbled into the extraordinary world of Thornwold.

“Nye at her engaging, insightful best.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Acclaimed poet and Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to those less fortunate, in this collection of more than eighty original and...

When an unknown vessel destroys Earth without warning, only one human woman survives. The vessel is feared to belong to a people known only as 'The Decimators' who are rumored to destroy all those they deem to be lesser species, before retreating to their own space on the edge of the galaxy. However, 200 years later when the woman is unfrozen, she sets out to uncover the truth about The Decimators, her rescuers, and pursue a technology called the 'Resurrection Chamber,' which she believes can bring back humanity.

What if the dysfunction of an autoimmune disease—where the body attacks itself—is a roadmap for understanding the internal conflicts that fracture our churches? In Transformed by Trials, Dr. Dixon offers a startlingly distinctive perspective on the intersection of chronic illness and...

“אני אשיר השנה את מה משתנה,” אמרה לבי. “לא אומרים מה משתנה,” אמרתי לה. “את קטנה. את לא יודעת.” לאיתן, האח הגדול, קשה לפנות את מקומו לאחות הקטנה, שמחליטה שהשנה...

ליום הלדתו מבקש איתן מהוריו שיכינו לו עוגה עד השמים. האם יקבל את מבקשו? וכיצד יגיע למרומי העוגה כדי לנשף על הנרות? ספור שופע הומור המשלב מציאות ודמיון. נעמי...

Glendola Burnet trained for years to become a member of the Elite, but after suffering a personal tragedy, she fled from her homeland and left her future behind. Now, five years later, at the onset of a war in the mortal realm, she discovers her friend is missing, and to get him back she will need to work with the one person who has the power to destroy her newfound stability.

A deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins when magician Natasha Semenov and no-nonsense detective Hamilton Baker are thrust into a complex criminal investigation that neither may survive. When a murder occurs literally on Natasha's club's doorstep, it unravels a sophisticated global network of crime, forcing the unlikely pair to navigate a world of deception, long-buried family secrets, and a thirst for revenge that spans generations.