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Love. It's the most widely used deception in the world. It creates weakness within the mind, leaving rooms for distractions, and threatens to hinder my goals of success. I won't allow something as inconsequential as love to get in my way. Even if it means pushing away the only one who's ever made me feel something. Remy Solace. She's a dangerous distraction. She's the sun, threatening to incinerate the darkness from my soul, and keep me from focusing on what really matters—what I've always wanted.

A war-torn veteran with no future, Ames is offered the chance of a lifetime, an opportunity to return to the fight greater than he had left it. His benefactor, a billionaire tech tycoon, replaced what the war had taken from him: his arms, his legs, and his hearing. Now Ames is stronger, faster, and deadlier than ever. But it comes with a catch. Service to the evil shadow government controlling the world. Will Ames betray his oath to defend freedom and democracy, or will he fight to his last breath to uphold what his country once stood for?

A god is dead. In her place, a thousand petty gods spring up, seizing the power Tai refused. Now, he must join a centuries-old shaman, a bawdy tribesman, and a teenager who hates him in a desperate race to reclaim that god's power, before the new gods and the old destroy everything they love. Don't miss the penultimate book in this epic fantasy series filled with unexpected heroes, dark magic, intrigue, and nonstop adventure. Suitable for all ages, it's perfect for fans of D. K. Holmberg, Will Wight, and C. J. Aaron.

I used to be sweet and innocent . . . but that was until Hunter put his hands on me. Now, my body craves his, and we've crossed the point of no return. My stepmother demands that I seduce a rich jeweler to secure our fortune, and under normal circumstances, I wouldn't mind. He's hotter than hell, I've been crushing on him for years, and after catching Hunter pleasuring me over the hood of his car, he wants me too. There's only one problem: now that I have Malcolm's attention, I'm not sure I want to leave Hunter's arms.

At first, it is a rescue mission, but soon Danny, Stefan, Ed, and Elsa find themselves in a fight for survival. A perilous journey across an underground sea brings them to a lost island and fresh adventures, but their attempts to return to the surface only serve to make their situation worse.

It's no secret that I hate Phineas Yates, but what most people don't know is that I have a very good reason why. One hot summer, he broke my heart in the worst way, and I promised myself then and there that I would never fall prey to the sinner of Pembroke Prep again. Even if it meant reinventing myself into a girl I barely recognized. There is a fine line between duty and desire. I'm not just any girl; I'm a princess. When my family begs me to get engaged to save the family name, I'm trapped with no way out.

Against all odds the rebels have defeated the Councilate, combining Ella’s insight into magic with Tai’s resonant strength. But barely a month into independence, smugglers begin to report strange bodies in the woods - scarred, mutilated, shunned by the forest creatures. Still, they have more pressing concerns: racial tensions in the city, peace talks with the empire, and finding food for the approaching winter. Until one of the bodies turns up alive, and flooded with unbelievable power.

In New York, all 17-year-old, social misfit, Warren Brennan wants to do is graduate, get out of his backwoods, western New York town and draw comics for Marvel Comics. But the best-laid plans of chubby nerds who are suddenly thrust into the role of fighting for humanity’s survival often go awry when an odd, overpowering yellow-tinted rainstorm engulfs the world. With it, the deadly virus swiftly spreads around the globe, killing and mutating untold millions, creating an exponentially growing army of the undead.

Making a certain kind of video with my enemy (who happens to be everyone's favorite baseball player) was not my proudest moment, but I blame the alcohol for Spencer's smirk three seconds before our clothes ended up on the floor for our one-night mistake. He said he deleted the video, which is why I didn't expect the jerk to interrupt my date a few months later to break the news that we have a problem. His solution is to avoid the press by staying at his lake house to hide away and I stupidly agree. The next thing I know, I have two tiny eyes staring at me.

What would you do if you only had two weeks to live? That's the very question billions of people are grappling with after news an asteroid, named Colossus, will impact Earth and bring about an extinction level event. Many are in shock; some turn inward and towards God while others lash out in panic and violence. There is nowhere to go and nowhere to hide . . . except for a select few who have been chosen to go live in bunkers deep below the surface.

The universe is not as peaceful as the Reunification Commission pretends. Despite rumors of war and revolution, RuComm is sending out diplomats and scientists. They say it is a time for peace. For Ted Holloman, fresh from the RuComm Academy, it is a time of duty and service. Outbound from Earth, Ted has problems of his own. His best friend is in love with Wandering Star’s linguist, a woman with gold flecks in her brown eyes. Too bad being in love is against RuComm policy, and the ship’s AI is always watching.

Private investigator Frank Harken’s worldwide fame has only made him more cynical. And living in a giant mall covering the entire USA only serves to drive him nuts on a daily basis. So, when a femme fatale barges in asking Harken to track down her sister, he knows when he’s heard an offer too good to be true.

When a time agent lets his historically significant student get killed, Josh is the only agent that can take his place. This event is causing the universe to play fast and loose with physics, allowing the sins of the ONLE time agency to haunt them from the past. Will ONLE survive this attack? Can Josh figure out how resurrection works and get the girl? Will Raj find a curry that doesn't leave him running for the toilet? Join the adventures of Josh and the rest of the ONLE time agency to find out.

Survival is hard enough in the outer colonies - what chance does love have? Life can be harsh and lonely in the outer colonies, but miner-turned-farmer Abraham Bauer is living his dream, cultivating crops that will one day turn the unforgiving world of Alkirak into paradise. He wants more, though. A companion - someone quiet like him. Someone to share his days, his bed, and his heart. Gael Sonnen has never seen the sky, let alone the sun. He’s spent his whole life locked in the undercity beneath Zhemosen, running from one desperate situation to another.

Each year across the United States, there are mysterious and unexplainable firsthand encounters by average people. These encounters beg the question, do monsters exist? From east to west across the US, professionals are actively researching these encounters to prove once and for all that these creatures do exist. American Cryptids takes you on a journey across the country, visiting each state along the way.

On the verge of wasting his life in the crooked Texas town of Ten Spot, 17-year-old Nacho Blanco meets Zadie Abernathy and sets out to prove her innocence in the murder of the local psychiatrist. Nacho wants nothing more than to brush the dust of his two-bit hometown from his life, and finding the murderer of Lincoln Hardcastle might be just the ticket to punch his future elsewhere.

In a land on the brink of war, Gryff Worden discovers his family slaughtered, his farm in ruin. Mortally wounded, he stumbles upon a timekeeper, an old woman of the northern forests, one who tracks the infinite paths of each life. She offers him a sunwield, a medallion promising to return him to the pivotal choices that swayed his life's journey. Her only condition - he must wear the bronze charm until the end.

Nearly three thousand years ago, the Prophet penned the Song of Prophecy, foretelling a time when darkness would engulf the world and threaten all life. The Malatirsay would come, the Chosen One to save the world of Dizhelim, wielding magic unseen in centuries. To prepare for this future time, the Hero Academy was built, its sole purpose to train the One. But it has lost its focus throughout the ages, not watching vigilantly for the signs of the end.

Raphael and Renata Le Page, a brother and sister team, are hired to take a group claiming to be scientists up a remote mountain, where a plane has gone down with close to one billion stolen Euros onboard. Flown beneath radar detection, only a handful of people know of its existence. While the Le Page siblings are just doing the job they have been hired to do, the ruthless criminals are after the cash. The one thing none of them are counting on is that blood-thirsty beasts have roamed these mountains for thousands of years.

Owen Montgomery is arrogant and unfeeling—with cold, haughty manners and a British accent sharper than any knife. I've been secretly in love with him for years, knowing there's no way he could ever notice me. The scholarship girl. The poor girl. Until that night in Ibiza . . . I vow to focus only on my future. Little do I know that I've awakened an obsession in Owen that will soon outgrow the halls of Pembroke Prep and spill over into the real world. Owen wants me, and he'll stop at nothing to have me.