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Welcome to the Pick's Pocket, where the spirits are high, but the stakes are higher. In the depths of the Sedrian swamp, Pickett, the accidental swamp witch, spins tales to keep her ramshackle bar afloat. Only her loyal sidekick, Edie, knows the enchanting act is just a clever ruse. Yet, Pickett harbors more than magical secrets; a looming loan threatens to snatch the very bar they call home from beneath their feet. As if unpaid debts weren't enough, the undead decide to crash the party, sending patrons fleeing and Pick's Pocket into peril. With a loan shark demanding more than magic tricks, Pickett finds herself juggling not just spirits, but the haunting threat of financial ruin. Now, Pickett must pull off the ultimate vanishing act to save her bar. But can she keep the loan shark at bay, the spirits in check, and settle her debts? Or will her magical mishap lead to a hilariously haunting disaster?

Years after the mysterious death of her father, sixteen-year-old Josie Owens wants nothing more than to carry on his legacy as an engineer aboard November's Dawn. This colossal walking ark has traveled the bottom of the oceans carrying the last remnants of humanity after an all-consuming flood. But Josie's dreams drown when she discovers the secret her father died for: the ark was never meant to stay submerged. This knowledge makes Josie, and those she loves, an instant target to those who would sacrifice anything to keep the status quo from changing and to those who want nothing more than to upend the firm hierarchy. At the same time, a glitch in the navigation system sends November's Dawn directly toward a miles deep trench.Faced with a multitude of challenges, Josie wonders if pursuing her father's last wishes is worth the cost. Corruption and injustice permeate the last vestiges of humanity, but what if the great unknown of the world above is worse than their fragile existence below? If she follows her father's vision, the ark could be destroyed on the surface. If she follows the rebels, revolution could tear the ark apart from within. One way or another, Josie is the only one with the knowledge to make the final decision. If she makes the wrong one, not only will the ark fail, but the last spark of humanity will fade into darkness.

"I would go to Hades and back for you." An easy thing to say. A much harder thing to really mean. In an ancient Greek world of monsters and legends and gods, Doug wants to make it on his own without the influence of his father's reputation. In the kingdom of Larissa, far from the home of his birth, Doug is making a pretty good start. He has a steady job selling dairy treats at a franchise location and Doug's outlook is bright. And then Doug meets Princess Larisa, and the two fall madly for each other. But her father, the king, will have none of it. After all, Doug appears as nothing more than a yogurt slinger-not nearly good enough for the princess. Doug must prove his worth. Under the orders of a dark influence, the king challenges Doug to complete twelve tasks. Doug makes the only decision a hormonal, confident young man can. He accepts. While Larisa stays in Larissa to search out the source of the king's odd behavior, Doug takes his nerdy brother Modifixeus on a trip of a lifetime. Along with a gaggle of automatons and the blessing of Zeus, Doug finds himself over his head almost immediately. If he doesn't find a way to complete the tasks, Larissa and all of Greece will fall to the dark influence. Even worse, Doug and Larisa won't get that magical kiss they just know is in their future-if they survive long enough to experience it. Going to Hades was a given. It was the "and back" part that looked iffy.

Orphaned and alone in the world, Arvin heads to the only place desperate enough to take him: the camp of a war chief. Though the elders in charge of assignments aren't impressed with Arvin, the war chief himself, Evrick, finds his alchemy skills and unique way of solving problems interesting-and possibly useful. With the help of his brilliant wife Visteria-who has goals of her own-Evrick plans to raise Vastard from its humble standings into a legitimate Fourteenth Kingdom, equal to Greenshade and Tyrrane in power. He sets Arvin to solve a mystery locked below the sand in an ancient underground ruin, a source of power unlike anything any of them have ever seen. When Arvin and Visteria make a breakthrough, their celebration is cut violently short by the arrival of a vicious, unkillable race of beings that quickly ravage the human army: the Chromium. Now Arvin and Visteria must use all of their skills to thwart the rise of the Chromium or the Fourteenth Kingdom will fade before it ever has a chance to shine. And the chromium will spread across the Thirteen Kingdoms destroying all in their wake, and possibly beyond. Their time is running out.

Brave and clever young Masika, the daughter of a diplomat and niece of an emperor, has discovered a pair of ex-gods in a secret dungeon below the Fell Citadel. She promises to return them home, only to be thwarted by the king of the gods himself-High King Oldam of the Alir.So Masika takes matters into her own hands and sets off to find a way to bring her new friends to their home despite the high king's wishes. But a deal with a very questionable imp painted on a playing card in a seedy tavern, sets the trio on a desperate adventure for help to the Alir's constant and deadly enemy, the gods of the Darrish empire.Can Masika, no matter how resourceful, hope to overcome the will of two sets of deities to keep her promise?Hostile armies, ancient sorcerers, and primordial monsters bar the way, but none is so formidable as . . . Masika's most elegant and proper older sister, Meritities.

Fauna never dreamed she'd be part of a true family. Reconciliation with her brothers, acceptance from her best friends, and the romantic potential with Tucker all paint a bright picture. Her computer repair store is more successful than ever and she has a steady gig with Detective Flores solving cold cases. Yet she still has so many questions about where she comes from and why her empathic abilities are expanding. The tranquil façade shatters when Fauna's uncle resurfaces-her father's brother whom her mother was always afraid of-with a pair of adopted twins who apparently can spontaneously start fires. What's even creepier? Her uncle seems excited when people around the twins are burned to death. Fauna has to find the truth to protect the children and the shaky family she's built. While helping Flores clear his innocent cousin of murder, the bodies pile up. Fauna must find a way to stop the twins while protecting them from her scheming uncle. But her uncle has other plans.

The seeds of a legend grow in tales told around campfires and in whispers in dark corners of taverns. Magdalena Verran is a legend, a hunter who never misses her mark or loses a bounty. But now that legend is about to come to an end. For over three-hundred years, she's harvested souls as an indentured servant to a pair of bickering gods. With her team of horses and an impressive magical blue scythe for a hand, Mags is poised to deliver the last soul she owes, then her debt will be settled and the gods can go pick on someone else for a change. But life-even one centuries old-is never that simple and reaping leaves behind scars on the families and the harvester. Before she can turn in her scythe, Mags's past transgressions catch up to her in the form of a trio of young criminal wannabes. Saving them just might be a way to balance her sins. But between the involvement of the gods and the trio's own recklessness, Magdalena finds her skills-and patience-tested. Somehow Mags must find a way to avoid angering the gods further, complete her new bounty without adding more blackmarks to her soul, and save the trio of young adventurers who seem determined to wind up dead. Pulled in multiple directions, Mags's legendary skills are put to the test. One misstep and she endangers the lives of her young companions and her own soul.

Taking over an island nation of pirates should be easy for Hettie Stormheart, First Daughter of the merciless Island Witch, but leading her coven of twenty-seven siblings who can't agree on anything is like herding drunken cliff pigs.When a foreign diplomat warns of an invading lord threatening their way of life, Hettie's got to whip her sisters into fighting shape to defend their home, only the invading army is unlike anything they've ever seen: beast-like men and amphibious assassins who can swim circles around them.To make matters worse, Hettie's only hope of victory is a cursed magical artifact: Deryl, a sentient eyeball who hates magic-wielders and is more annoying than all her siblings combined. But as Hettie struggles to keep her ragtag group of defenders together, a new adversary emerges. One more ruthless and unexpected than even the shadow beasts that hunt them in the dark.With Deryl's help, Hettie must overcome the invading army and protect her home from those who seek to destroy it. The true cost of victory may be higher than she ever imagined, and the fate of the island nation-and the Daughters' Coven-hangs in the balance.

Which is more deadly: the secrets we keep from each other, or the ones we keep from ourselves? Stefani Palmieri is a woman on a mission. A long-hidden technology, the Bridge, consumes her every waking moment, a compulsion that seems to come from outside her. All she knows is she has to get it working as fast as possible, while ignoring the sense that she is not herself. Struggling to adjust to a life of school, a home, and a family, Marri Palmieri misses her time as a homeless orphan. At least then she didn't feel the inexplicable urge to kill her adoptive mother Stefani, nor did she have visions of a strange man following her, a man no one else can see. Karl Yonnel has lost the two things that mattered most: his life in the Lancer Corps and his relationship with Stefani. Dishonorably discharged for doing his duty, he ekes out a living ratting out criminals for money to police who'd just as soon see him dead as a traitor. But when Stefani approaches him with a new job, he'll be forced to infiltrate those same police to uncover a growing conspiracy that threatens the entire city. As Coldgarden's long-buried secrets come to light and the city begins eating itself from the inside out, Stefani, Marri, and Karl will have to contend with threats both human and alien in their desperate efforts to save their dying world.

"With visceral prose, heart-aching emotion, and positive neurodiverse rep, Campbell and King paint an immersive post-apocalyptic world with characters you''ll want to root for." - Al Hess author of World Running DownAfter solar flares wipe out electrical grids worldwide, a small community survives by selling data recovered from decrepit hard drives and rare books. Nostalgic for the days of big business, the commune''s founding members call themselves Corporate and micromanage everyone. Raised into the hustle, Iris Ecosia''s ADHD brain rebels at Corporate''s strict structure. It''s not all bad though. She attracts the attention of Robert Lycos, the son of one of the Shareholders, but their relationship comes to a crashing end when she loses focus at a critical moment and a vital piece of equipment is destroyed.The mistake plunges her into debt. Corporate demotes her to an indentured gardener. Her romance with Robert dissolves. Worse, there are no paid sick days in the post apocalypse. So when Iris''s whole family falls ill, starvation is soon knocking on their door. Meanwhile, the Shareholders live like tycoons. Iris and her family are not alone in their poverty or their impotent rage at the corporation who keeps them poor, hungry, and dependent. An underground revolution intent on toppling Corporate wants to recruit her. She can still do big things if she joins them, but if she''s caught, the Shareholders won''t stop at destroying her. They''ll go after her family too. 

In humanity's last city, you're either consumed by a monster, or you become one. Sheltered in their fortress city, the last humans live in constant peril, assailed from without by alien invaders and from within by a deadly disease intent on mutating every citizen. After her best friend's grisly death at the segmented claws of the alien revenants, Ward Chief Iazmaena Delgassi vows to restore safety to her city by running for a magistrate position on the city council. For if the aliens ever truly penetrate the walls, humanity will lose itself to the jaws of the hungry beasts. On the night of her hard-fought victory, Iaz finds her boyfriend dead by his own hand, his last message to her a warning. Now alerted to the conspiracy orchestrated by Gene Sequencing, a tyrannical government agency with no accountability and a monopoly on the disease's deadly secrets, Iaz forms a conspiracy of her own: a secret team to steal and decipher their restricted files. For reasons Iaz doesn't understand, Gene Sequencing is determined to destroy her. Vowing to protect the city from threats both inside and out, Iaz must balance her duty with her desire for justice. If she fails at either task, humankind will be a thing of the past, just another extinct species.

Heavy lies the head that wears the crown. Heavier still if you add the weight of the basket it's in. Somehow, Keane, the ex-mercenary king of Greenshade, must outwit a wicked usurper from within and an overwhelming army from without. And if that weren't enough on his royal plate, when Keane flees with his pregnant queen and brainwashed mother-in-law, his own nefarious past rears up to smack him in the face. A thousand miles away, Keane's best friend Sarah, a swordswoman and sorceress-in-training, treks toward the only possible ally strong enough to help them: the goddess of either beauty, seduction, obsessiveness, or insanity. Depending on who you ask. Meanwhile, the child of a god commands all the powers of hell in order to grow an empire large enough to swallow the mortal world. Can Keane and Sarah pull enough allies from an adversarial countryside to take back a kingdom, defend it from an empire, and defeat the greatest threat the world has ever known? Keane is an accomplished smartass, and Sarah can blow out a candle from across the room.It should be fine.

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Some mistakes haunt the guilty,While others seek revenge.Roger leaves the house filled with the memories of his father's abuse to follow his sister, Kara, to the big city. He's fleeing the trauma of his childhood, though his debilitating anxiety disorder stays with him. Kara finds a psychiatrist to help with that, a kind man named Mark Stephenson. Then Roger finds an affordable place in apartment 34 at Sunnycrest Apartments and a girlfriend, Lisa. Life is finally looking up.That is until Roger realizes the girl across the hall, Alice, has a father very similar to his own. Brian's screams mixed with Alice's are too much for Roger to handle. He feels like he has to save the girl from her father's violence, but his own fear and trauma interfere, and Alice dies.As he tries to move on, to get past the biggest mistake of his life, Alice has other ideas.Now Roger must do for himself what he couldn't for Alice. Make it out of Sunnycrest alive.