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Society has collapsed. The lights are out, and they're not coming back on. Foods and tools that were once commonplace are now scarcities to be fought over. The population is rapidly dying from countless causes. Meg and the others are still alive, but just barely. It seems like every effort they make boomerangs back. There are enemies around every corner. With limited options, Meg and the others allow two new members to join up with them.

The Caldwells and Montgomerys have been feuding for generations, and through the years, Margaret and Cole have been secret friends, secret lovers, and outright enemies. For the last six years, they've both pretended the other didn't exist - it's hard to get along with a Caldwell when she always gets what she wants. It's hard to trust a Montgomery when he'll go out of his way to break a deal.

A woman who has nothing, Delia Woodson is desperate. That's why she agrees to it. Because she's a painter, no one is buying her paintings, and she's desperate. She has bills to pay, food to buy. Someday she might actually want to live in her own apartment instead of on her friend's couch. And all she has to do is paint baby-faced angels on an indecently rich corporate shill's ceiling. Because he just can't think of any other way to spend his money? And she just can't think of any other way to make it.

Twenty-five year-old Azriel doesn't know much of the world beyond Shiva Puri, the village where she and 200 other farmers live in the foothills of California. Dreams of becoming a professional dancer have been dashed by injury, and it seems her marriage to Daniel, the village manager, is the crowning achievement of her young life. Azriel's rural existence is pleasant, if not exhilarating, and so the world goes on. Until it doesn't.

As Audrianna Foster lies recovering in the sumptuous manor of her nemesis, Maria, she mourns the idyllic life she has lost with her lover, Kendis. When she awakens from a drunken evening in Kendis's bed, her memories are hopelessly fragmented. What has happened, and what is real? In the dangerous web of intrigue spun by opposing groups of the Children of Gavrilek, nothing less than the fate of the world hinges on Audrianna unlocking the key to her memories. Who is her ally, and who is waiting to betray her?

After serving three years in jail for a brother, Kings of Chaos enforcer Shadow is done denying himself. The silent man, known for making problems disappear, spent years holding on to a secret that kept him from the one thing he wants most: Blue. Beneath the hardened exterior of this warrior rests a heart that beats for one woman. Laying all his cards on the table, he risks upsetting the balance among the Strongs and the club to complete the family he always wanted.

The universe is a hamburger. That’s what sixteen-year-old Nicole Taylor learns when a mysterious time-bending stranger saves her from a rampaging cyborg centipede. See, the top bun? That’s our dimension. The bottom bun? That’s the monster’s dimension. And the patty? That’s a dimension where the two worlds meet—and the Reavers can attack. The Reavers are horrific cybernetic killing machines, and their plans for the top bun? Well, they’re as terrifying as you’d expect. But Nicole isn’t helpless. She has a rare gift. She can bend time around her and even stop it completely.