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Middle School is finally over for Grace Brooks and she couldn't be happier for her graduation. All that lies between Grace and high school is one final summer. And what a summer it is as Grace and Jack discover yet more deeply hidden secrets and embark on their most unusual trip to date. When Jack takes one too many secret trips, he finds himself facing the very real possibility of running out of time altogether. Can Grace gather her wits and figure out how to save him from the Treacherous Tunnel before time is up?

What do you do when you know your world is about to shatter around you? Do you run toward the change or try to hold on to the broken pieces so that everything doesn’t fall apart? I knew it was coming. We’d had time to ready ourselves, but nothing could have prepared us for the fall out. No one warned me our enemies would make me the pawn in their game. No one saw just how broken I would become.

Disabled and rejected in her community, Sersha has never had a best friend. Until one day, a phoenix enters her world, tied to her heart in a way no one can break. Now, this great fiery beast has adopted her as his best friend and he wants to take her away from the world she’s known until now. But Sersha’s village is in trouble and unless she can learn to work with her phoenix friend right now, they might both lose the future they were counting on. Will Sersha’s big heart be enough to forge a bond between them?

She thought she could just leave her trouble behind. She was wrong. Sersha is relieved to be able to leave Landsfall. Her people aren't safe as long as she stays, and her future lies with Kazmerev now. But when her cousin, Mally, makes a series of headstrong decisions, it plunges Sersha and her friends into trouble they can't easily escape. Getting free will push her ethics, her abilities, and her newfound friendship with her beloved phoenix. Will she have what it takes to keep her people safe?

Many people associate fashion with style and although it took me many years, I realized that they are two different things and serve different purposes. If you know anything about my company, Lady Stylistique, then you know that I see fashion as a money scheme and believe it hinders you from becoming the best version of yourself. I believe it is personal style that not only helps us better connect with ourselves, but it also helps us become the best version of ourselves, which you’ll see by the end of this book.

With their enemies arrayed before them more dangerous and powerful than ever, Sersha and Kazmerev find themselves forced to ally with those who might not have their same goals at heart - and might actually want their destruction. But, in a world of kings and subterfuge, secret war and coup attempts, they are determined to do what they set out to do - save the ai'sletta and defend phoenixes everywhere.

Frustrated at every turn, Sersha and Judicus are determined not to give up - especially not now that they hold a vital clue to the intentions of their enemies. But when someone new appears in their path - someone who claims to have a reason to stay near Sersha - neither of them are sure if they should trust him. Worse, Kazmerev doesn't agree. Can Sersha and Kazmerev survive their first fight and decide together on who to trust?

The flame of courage is burning. It's Sersha and Kazmerev against the world in this wild third episode of Phoenix Heart. With her cousin stolen and her friend Judicus once again in trouble, everyone needs Sersha to save the day. But not all is as it seems - there are villains lurking in every hill and hollow - and Sersha must use all her skills to fight against impossible odds. Her bond with Kazmerev is growing, and together, they are seeing the world in new ways, but will it be enough?

Taliesin Throckmartin killed her family on her wedding day. She remembers everything. Her own two hands ripping them apart. The screams. The shocked, blood-spattered face of her fiancé. The only thing she doesn’t know is...why? Her fiancé commits her to the Broadmoor Asylum, where she will be forced to live out the rest of her days on medication that stunts her magical abilities. Enter the wild and likely insane Louis Blou, a man who claims to be the last of an extinct clan of shapeshifters. Refusing to let Taliesin waste away, Louis orchestrates their escape.

They were the best of friends, but when Colleen meets Kyle, Miranda feels their relationship is going to fall apart. Doing all she can to keep up with Colleen—the man, the job, the nice house, the baby—Miranda descends into a pit of envy that can lead to only one very dark place.

Fleeing invaders and desperate to fulfill the prophecy in time to help the ai'sletta, Sersha, Judicus, and Kazmerev must dig deeper than ever before in their quest to save the phoenixes and all of Calicarn from the predations of the Stryxex and those who ally with them. But Sersha is starting to wonder if the prophecies are what they seem when events twist in ways she'd never expected.

Their last time-travelling mishap still fresh in their minds, Grace and Jack are on edge about what might happen next. Grace’s memories of her solo trip to the future are never far away. When the future begins to seep out into the present, they must stick to the rules or risk the consequences. They set themselves the task of finding out more about the mysterious ink, ending up in the past in a mysterious science lab. Could their new discovery also shed some light onto their mysterious friends at 21BUT22?

With the end of the school year fast approaching, Grace and Jack are looking forward to what their summer might bring. As a final goodbye to middle school, they decide to take one last trip from their science class, the place where their adventures all began. What starts out like any other trip quickly goes drastically wrong when they are spotted upon their return to class. To make matters worse, they discover the mysterious ink is having side effects not only on them, but also on their favourite travel spots.

Locked in a culminating battle against the mastermind who has been behind the Stryxex, the creatures of Sydonon, the building of the pillars, and even the marriage of Judicus's sister to the evil elven prince, Sersha, Mally, Kazmerev, Grevankin, and Judicus must decide if they are willing to sacrifice their lives and the lives of those they love to finally regain peace and hope for phoenixes everywhere.

With Judicus's sister's wedding just days away, Mally and Sersha must race to save her from a fate she does not want, save Briccatore from disaster, and save the world from being plundered of magic forever, but with allies lost along the way and every resource used up, how can they possibly keep facing the darkness with nothing but hope on their side?

Fighting for their lives, their nations, and the fate of phoenixes everywhere, Sersha must open her heart to possibilities she never expected as she fights against enemies both numerous and powerful with no one but her beloved phoenix, her ghostly ropeworker, a friend and her headstrong cousin to help. Will it be enough when the fates of so many rest on their shoulders?

Trapped in Occulus' Tower without their phoenixes to help, Mally and Sersha must face the biggest crisis of conscience yet as they see how far they're willing to go to fight the Stryxex and their other enemies for the future of phoenixes everywhere. For lovers of Dragon School, Crown of Feathers, Dragon Riders of Pern, and Howl’s Moving Castle comes the third season of the phoenix-rider serial novella series from USA Today best-selling author, Sarah K. L. Wilson, sure to fill you with the love of adventure and bright hope.

With the pain of loss still fresh in their minds, Sersha and Kazmerev flee the elven underworld with all that remains of their new allies. But even with enemies all around, Sersha's heart is consumed by Judicus and the puzzle of how to bring him back. For lovers of Dragon School, Crown of Feathers, Dragon Riders of Pern, and Howl’s Moving Castle comes the third season of the phoenix-rider serial novella series from USA Today best-selling author, Sarah K. L. Wilson, sure to fill you with the love of adventure and bright hope.

Rescued unexpectedly by allies and stuck in a foreign land, Sersha, Kazmerev, and Judicus must face the fact that nothing is what it seems and all their efforts have only played into the hands of their enemies. But the darkest times are not the time to give up hope, and together, they must choose to face the darkness and embrace a plan that could lead to their deaths.

Cut off from her phoenix by an endless dawn and captured by enemies, Sersha is about to learn who really cares about her and about saving their world. The Flamerarch who threatened her in Briccatore are just as trapped as she is, the ai'sletta and her other friends have left without her, and now even her phoenix is unreachable. Hope is dwindling in all of Briccatore, but maybe there is still a reason to persevere.