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After striking a dangerous deal with the queen of trees, Garrett, Breanne, and their friends must push through a harsh Mexican jungle teeming with giants and dragons. If they fail to reach the portal to another world before it closes, Queen Pando will unleash trillions of sentient trees upon humanity. If there is to be any hope, Garrett will have to become the leader his friends need, reinforcing the loyalty of his band of sages. But one of Garrett’s friends is hiding a deadly secret, while others are silently awaiting their own chances for revenge.

Meeting Rebel Kane on the set of Hoop World Magazine’s Nekked photo shoot was a dream come true. Hooking up with her in the dressing room was unbelievable. But when she became co-owner of the pro basketball team that I coach, I was caught with my pants down. Being the MVP of the WPBL was an honor. So when I was asked to pose nude for the most popular sports magazine, I jumped at the chance to show my athletic body. Meeting Ansel O’Shearon was the icing on the cake. Every straight woman in the league has fantasized about him and that sexy beard. I was fortunate enough to ride it.

As the Heliovirus ravages the guests and crew of the cruise ship Aria, teenagers Dylan and Amy face a quarantine while their loved ones fall ill. Docked indefinitely in San Francisco Bay, the teens and those aboard face another grave threat as a seeded terrorist group uses the situation to their advantage. With every choice possibly being their last, will Amy and Dylan have what it takes to survive?

Emboldened by the support of Maine law enforcement officials and a prominent physician, Jackie and Curt embark on a crusade against AlzCura. They have compelling evidence of unethical business practices and countless numbers of unreported patient deaths related to their miracle cure for Alzheimer’s. But when the physician is found hanging in his office, they lose a key witness in their case against the pharmaceutical giant.

Jack was in the middle of an ordinary life when time slipped for a moment and he found himself somewhere in his past. The time slip only lasted a few seconds, but he couldn’t let it go. As curiosity became obsession, Jack was swept up into a reality he never imagined. He was not who he thought he was, and no one around him was who they appeared to be either. Jack’s true life was being lived at a scale that his mind could not comprehend, where forces of good and evil, birth and death, were in a constant battle.

Gryphon Long was the forbidden fruit that I just couldn’t resist. His brooding demeanor had me panting after him despite my friends’ shallow warnings to stay away. If not for the interventions of friends and family, we could have been a power couple. Instead we went our separate ways without even as much as a hookup. Who knew it could be so hard to fall for a guy? Ten years, later we have a second chance to be together.

Khallani’s love for her man is tested when she makes the unthinkable decision to become his ride-or-die chick in hopes of finally getting the love she desires. But at what price? She quickly realizes things are not what they seem. This young thug’s life is filled with secrets. Can her love for him weather the storm, or will she run for shelter?

Adrian is the son of Poseidon, and heir to the sea's throne. As a merman of the royal court, he’s sick of being underwater, and dreams of living on land.

Cynthia and her brothers had heard the stories about grandpa, who could summon demons and compel people to die with a curse. Maybe, they also possessed the ancient powers. At first, they caught smallish demons who had assumed the shapes of rabbits and birds and then, larger ones like those who resembled the neighbor kids.

At these supernatural academies, romance is enchanting and friendship is magical. Become immersed in a world where magic is around every corner....

It’s the summer of 3129, 1,000 years after meteors destroyed most of life on Earth. The city of Akhet endures in the barren desert landscape of what remains. Ethos, an artist living in poverty within the gilded city, renders commission work for the families of missing girls. When his best friend reveals she and the vanishing citizens are all witches, they discover the horrifying link between the disappearances and a godlike elite named Ra.

Two miles up, in the heart of an ice desert a thousand miles wide, it's now or never. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is more like a moon base than anything on Earth, but buried deep in the ice beneath it is an even more distant and foreboding place. Andrew Heller has been never short on stories of inadvisable adventure, and tonight he has one last chance to come home with the story of a lifetime—or die trying.

It's been nine years since the last Chaos. Nine years since anyone has been properly mated. Now wolves are feral with the need to claim a mate, abducting females, and auctioning them off. Daniella Woods is the daughter of the alpha of the Carvingwood Pack. Having trained all her life to help defend humans and wolves alike from atrocities such as these, she’s shocked when technology used to track abducted females surfaces. And the one with the tech, it none other than Dockhills Alpha, Donovan.

The crusade to expose unethical practices by AlzCura Pharmaceuticals and the deaths caused by their miracle Alzheimer’s cure intensifies, but the suicide of a person of interest and an astonishing response to the evidence from the Food & Drug Administration threatens to unravel the efforts to bring the guilty parties to justice.

“Return within six months or humanity dies” were the last words Garrett heard as the portal snapped shut behind him. As he and his sages scramble to escape the carnage of warfare and dragon fire on an unfamiliar planet, they encounter a girl who knows one of their names… Breanne Moore.

For 17 years, Ezra Newport and his parents were habitual immigrants, traveling from their Ottoman Empire home across 20th-century Europe. As the Newports migrate to Belfast, Ireland, Ezra wants nothing more to settle into a consistent life and lay the foundation of his architectural dreams. But after a strange, mechanical bounty hunter murders his mother and prompts the disappearance of his father, Ezra discovers that his parents had actually been on the run. Now, their enemies are targeting him, and they won’t stop until he is dead.

Sunny Grimm finds a strap around her son's head with an embossed symbol between his eyes. This is the mark of awareness leaping, where players launch into alternate realities and anything goes. Investors make millions. Critics, however, refuse to call it a game. They argue that reality confusion will end humanity. Labels aside, there are many who play. And many who lose. Sunny Grimm goes on a mad search for her son and the people responsible for allowing him to play. The only way she will find him is to not lose herself in the search. The Maze is more than a game.

Adam Potter returned to Cargo City wanting to start a new life after recovering from a nasty breakup with his cheating ex-boyfriend. Adam bought a three-story building, opening his own detective agency, hiring a flirtatious college student for an assistant. Adam’s first case fell from a tree. Patrick Valdez is a blue blood aristocrat who loves to Cosplay, but also has a stalker who hides behind masks. He wants to get away from his devious boyfriend who’s blackmailing him.

Born with special abilities, N8 and the rest of “the children” have lived underground their entire lives, where they’ve been led to believe there was a nuclear war that left the Earth’s surface uninhabitable. The scientists chose what information they were given, what TV shows and movies they could watch, as well as what they were allowed to eat. It was only a matter of time before he and the others started questioning their very existence.

Out of the Light of Darkness is a compelling collection of short stories that deal with ephemeral moments, unforgettable relationships, and death. The longest story, a novella, tells the tale of a teen trying to understand and find the good in his father. Listeners will be pulled into the story as they see Matty struggle to see light in a man who is shrouded by darkness.