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It started with iridescent wings... now one woman must face danger and mystery beyond her wildest imagination. Created by Primordials, daemons were made in the likeness of humans following a devastating betrayal. And for nearly six hundred years, Agnes was the Mage who protected them, kept them alive, and gave them power. Since her death, the seven factions of daemons have been on the brink of war, inching closer and closer to burning the world to the ground.

Since the COVID pandemic forced a great many of us to work from home – whilst not affording that luxury to very many others - there has been an increasing debate about work, what we do, how we do it and what value we assign to it. Is This Working? An Oral History of Work attempts to answer those questions and to shed light on how Britons today view work and its place in their lives.

Kit Sharp is in Paris, where she is involved in a love affair with the stunning Evelyn Larsen, and working as an archivist, having inherited her historian father's fascination with the Bayeux Tapestry. He believes that parts of the tapestry were made before 1066, and that it was a tool for prediction, not a simple record of events. The Nazis are also obsessed with the tapestry: convinced that not only did it predict the Norman Conquest of England, but that it will aid them in their invasion of Britain.

As the Joubert Sisters navigate a world of impending war without their full magic, the Prince of Bone fights for his life—torn between the land of the living and the land of the dead—only to discover the Court of Achlys means more to him than he ever knew. Agatha untangles the prophecy that set their realm aflame. Winnie and the Druids prepare for war. Seleste faces physical setbacks in a foreign land. And Sorscha? Ah, Sorscha and her sass discover secrets in the catacombs of Araignée.

Banished in disgrace, former Detective Constable Lukarde Alfans endured a dangerous journey to a faraway, forbidden land, experiencing harrowing trauma, torment, and treachery. He arrived in Westport, a city on the western coast of the Freewilds, at the behest of a missive sent by a wizened old knight of the Castillands, and of the promise of a new hope for justice to prevail. Lukarde found himself in a city beset by corruption, imperiled by the machinations of the same dread cult that destroyed his life and sent him into exile.

In the frost-kissed ambiance of wintry England, where snow blankets the landscape and a Christmas house party twinkles with festive cheer, fate orchestrates an enchanting love story. Lady Elizabeth Breckenridge, an epitome of grace with her golden locks and captivating cerulean eyes, steps into the seasonal revelry, her heart yearning for a love that has eluded her through two bustling social seasons.

A haunted painter’s past life visions are not the creative inspiration they seemed. They’re a harbinger of her ancient revenge vow, and her FBI husband won’t find the serial killer until she fulfills it. But it may already be too late.

After a year of unimaginable violence, magic, and an all-consuming love that has followed her through countless incarnations, Julia Harrison has not only come into her own as a magic Bearer—far surpassing those women in her bloodline who came before her—but is about to start down a path that can end in only one of two ways: with her fulfilling her prophesized role as Sovereign, chalice of the World Ruler, or with the death of everyone and everything she holds dear at the hands of Cassius Longinus, the Child of Rome, in his brutal and inexorable quest to finally achieve true immortality.

What's a girl of f14 to do when she finds herself alone in the world with no one to guide her? Why, follow the Victorian self-help guide, A Young Lady's Miscellany, of course! The trouble is, the advice it offers proves less than helpful in a modern context. Muddling through, often with disastrous results, she finds a friend in her recently widowed grandmother, the door to whose small house is always open. Inept at any job she is able to get and pursued by a slew of unsuitable suitors, she must instead spend a decade navigating her own miscellany in order to come of age.

Living a rather comfortable, pretty mundane life in Victorian London is Lana. A young, timid, spirited lady who has had nothing particularly exceptional happen to her in all her years of being alive. That is, until her spontaneous meeting of two fallen archangels on the same day....

Life hasn’t been simple for the city of Thornfall’s best Blood Witch-turned-bartender. Shunned by most other witches, abused by the Academy of Elders, her love life is a dumpster fire, and even her sassy familiar doesn’t listen to a word she says. When a terrifyingly sexy man shows up at her workplace, all shadows and temptation, her current reality starts to unravel. There’s no denying that he’s dangerous for her health - her heart isn't safe, either. But as their fates intertwine, buried secrets expose themselves and the past comes back to punish them both.

Phantom of the Opera meets Beauty and the Beast in this gothic-inspired dark fantasy romance. A haunted tower, a mysterious instructor, and the lure of the music of the night...After the death of her father, Aria is left penniless and destitute. To avoid working the streets, she becomes the ward of a Count and moves to a remote town called High Tower. High Tower is a gloomy place with one vivid attraction: The theater. Lords and ladies come from afar to be seduced by a night of unforgettable entertainment.

"Youth for you, when you can appreciate it most." A blessing? A curse? One pill can restore the aged, the infirm, the terminally ill to the sprightly, energetic days of their early twenties. One pill reverses cancer, strengthens bones, restores eyesight...makes the user young again.

Holly Anderson is a lonely girl, born with the power to materialize living beings from thin air. When she decides to kidnap a "real" person to be her friend, schoolgirl Alex Miller becomes the target. But, when Alex goes missing, her close friend, James, is the only one who suspects what really happened. And, the further James pursues the truth, the deeper into Holly’s bizarre world he finds himself. Even with some of Holly’s odd creatures on their side, it is soon apparent that they won’t get out unscathed - if they get out at all.

The war between those of the Sky Empire and those of the Sea Kingdom is as old as this world of endless water itself, and Stella is trapped inside its deadly confines. Stella finally agrees to her highly anticipated betrothal with the most promising leviathan mech fighter. This fighter, a military hero, has an alarming amount of blood on his hands. She isn't after his title, but something more dangerous. Stella's plan may give her the absolution she's been searching for, or she may end up losing her life for nothing.

It is the year 2051, and technology has advanced farther than you ever dreamed. You, who have so many desires, and yet, there has been no one who can keep up with the ferocity of them. Until now. Meet your new futanari A.I., Felicite. Beautiful, sexy, state-of-the-art biological matter over a powerful machine that’s just as hard as you are needy.

In a refugee shanty town on the outskirts of a vast and opulent imperial capital city, an insidious sect of demon worshippers, the Cult of Ebon, began to prey upon the Gathered, a diaspora of peoples displaced from their nations in the aftermath of a mad tyrant's ceaseless wars of conquest long ago. Unwilling to overlook these heinous crimes against a vulnerable, underserved populace, Constable Lukarde Alfans began an investigation that brought him far too close to the truth, leading him to become the cult's next target.

This is the first story of the seven-foot-tall warrior, Green Snake. Along with her two plain human partners, the adventure seeking Bowman, and Scott the Gambler, the trio find themselves separated after a job gone wrong. Each discover their destinies as they travel through a world of fairies, mutants, wizards, and many other races. A life changing quest awaits two of them unknowingly.

After a failed attempt to end her life, Alia Carter leaves her childhood home to become a waitress in the state's most prominent hotel. Traumatized after her mother’s death, she silently grapples with her pain until she saves the life of a mysterious man who reveals to her a world of true magic, and terrifying wonder. Eric Wynter is a vampire Ward sworn to protect the creatures of the city. After centuries of heartache and loneliness, he is finally ready to end his existence.

The Realm of Reason is but one of many within the Taeron Cosmos, where Ancients rule over classes of immortal Creators and Sylphs. All within the Realm carry the same mission - to educate and prepare premortal offspring for a journey to mortal worlds. One premortal needs more preparation than most. Huldah might be the daughter of the High King, but that didn’t protect her from the Darkness, who invades her mind, terrorizes her sleep, and vies for control. A fledgling Sylph, Flora, volunteers to undergo the dangerous assignment of guiding Huldah.