THE LEGENDARY LOOT HUNTZekiel enters Salt Crest City and is warned about the wasteland's impending danger. He joins Castin, Tule, Elijah, Theia and the Librarian during a risky rescue mission. Despite a strong desire to leave magic in the past, the city begins to rise into a poisonous sky by a mysterious magnetic force. The shadow grows faster over mud-covered waters as time starts running out. The key to survival is hidden in clues of elemental items and supernatu...

Amira, Zekiel, Anon, Saige, Zayika, and Omar are chosen to compete, communicate, and strategize in order to survive their toughest battle: confronting the past in order to save their future and get back to Earth. Each are given magical abilities which reflect the most integral parts of their personalities, strengths, and mental weaknesses. The mind is a powerful place, but what happens when you have to escape it?

THE MIND IS A POWERFUL PLANET.A mysterious bottle is regretfully left behind at a waterfall. Townspeople Theia, Aadavan, and Lorelai fall deeply into its spell when discovering the cursed substance. Once consumed, a portal emerges from the rushing waters, opening a gateway to a planet that heightens consciousness. They are lured to step in by a powerful force.Lorelai is anchored with worry from haunting hallucinations, Aadavan's rising desire for control re...

The second half of events take a more sinister, violent, and darker turn. What was once the planet's game becomes a nightmare of hide and seek for the remaining speakers. A color-coded curse spreads through Zayika's hair, invasively digs into her brain, consumes, and subsequently controls her. The journey to saving herself is seemingly impossible as she becomes further under the influence and grasp of ultimate self-destruction, desperately attempting to preserve her dissipating mind.

On the eve of Charder's age-related death, ten years after the events in the Hunters Unlucky novel, Arcove comes to tell Charder goodbye. Their conversation sparks a chain of events that will have a profound impact on the rest of the island, as well as on Arcove personally. "Lullaby" appears for the first time in this collection.The collection also includes two other Hunters-related stories, which were previously published individually. "Awake" occurs two years after the end of the...

From the bestselling author of the Emperor's Edge series...When Delia chose to major in archaeology, she imagined herself as the female Indiana Jones of the Southwest. She didn’t imagine herself crawling through abandoned mine shafts, scrounging for rusty pickaxes and gold pans to sell on auction sites, but Indiana Jones didn’t have to make student loan payments.Scouring the mountains of Arizona with Simon, her best friend and computer geek extraor...

**John Dies at the End's "smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next" (Publishers Weekly) and This Book is Full of Spiders was "unlike any other book of the genre" (Washington Post).Now, New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin is back with What the Hell Did I Just Read, the third installment of this black-humored thriller series.**It's the story ...

The rapidly changing city of Janloon is ruled by jade, the rare and ancient substance that enhances the abilities and status of the trained Green Bone warriors who run the island’s powerful clans.Pulo Oritono is not one of those warriors. He’s simply an apprentice jade setter with dreams of securing clan patronage and establishing a successful business. His hopes are dashed, however, when a priceless jade weapon is stolen from the shop where he works.Now, Pulo has three day...

New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin’s hilarious and horrifying John Dies at the End series continues with If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe."Pargin once again delights with scathing social commentary thinly disguised as an outrageous action novel...This is a feast."—Publishers Weekly"Within the snarky humor is an incisive commentary on social media and the state of our connected ...

Bara has lived her life knowing that she is going to have to spend every waking moment learning or go mad, and even though she has a boyfriend, friends, and distant family... her future is bleak.With a family letter, she sees her chance to grasp a future, even without magic in it. She has a chance to step into the human world, and with the blessing of her boyfriend and her friends, she decides to go through the extraction of the cursed magic she was born with.The next morning...

Survival is just the beginning. Ella must fight for love and freedom on the rim of the galaxy...Years ago, the skies blackened with the arrival of the Vepar to Earth. Dominant and secretive, they changed the world, ruling over Earth with fear.Ella’s always been a survivor, a fighter. But now kidnapped, she finds herself on a foreign planet and running for her life.The three men she fell for made a mistake. A grave mistake, and now their blood-mate, ...

To make Helen stronger, Seiichi and his group decided to delve into a dungeon. However, at the same time, Destra, known as "Suredeath" and a "God Apostle" of the Demon God Cult, who possesses the deadliest abilities capable of killing everything, is also challenging the same dungeon. Meanwhile, Helen's hometown is threatened by an ominous force even as they undertake their dungeon quest. This is the tenth installment of the popular isekai fantasy series, characterized by its blend of tensi...