Earth is under attack.With unknown motives, super villain Oblitorus, is orchestrating a worldwide invasion. Attacking cities with bizarre monsters and minions and taking on the worlds' established superheroes.The mysterious organization SafeGuard enlists agent Brax to recruit a new group of heroes from the reaches of time and space to fight back.Will this new group defeat Oblitorus, or will the revelations of who SafeGuard splinter them and doom earth to destruction...

The world is dying. Cyra, a ray of light in this dark world, finds a clue that may just reverse things. She sets off on a journey, through a broken world smothered by a deadly Smog that inflicts people with The Bronch, a disease that steals your mind as it slowly drowns you. All the while, mysterious Vampiric gangs, that appeared overnight, now rule what remains of the cities; imprisoning the last holdouts of humanity to slowly milk them of their lifeblood. Cyra battles against th...

Julie Kagawa’s bestselling series The Iron Fey captivated the imagination—and hearts—of readers of all ages with its mix of magic, fantasy and romance. Enjoy this special bridge novella, which takes place between The Iron King and The Iron Daughter**.**Meghan Chase used to be an ordinary girl, until she discovered that she’s really a faery princess. After escaping from the clutches of the deadly I...

Never mess with the relics of the old gods… or the pixies who once guarded them.After her mom’s disappearance six months ago, Bethany Aodhán has been running their tavern in old Deva—something her family had been doing ever since a light-fingered pixie lost them the job of guarding the treasures of the old gods eons ago.Then her brother, Lugh, is attacked, his best friend murdered, and the tavern firebombed. A confrontation with a former lover lead...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hounded—“a superb urban fantasy debut” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—comes an Iron Druid Chronicles short story in the captivating Carniepunk anthology.The ancient Druid Atticus O’Sullivan gets more than greasy corn dogs and flat soda when he visits a carnival in Kansas to which his apprentice, Granuaile, drags him. He runs across a barker with a strange power over the crowd: at...

Villains have all the fun—everyone knows that—and this anthology takes you on a wild ride through the dark side! The top villains from seventeen urban fantasy series get their own stories—including the baddies of New York Times bestselling authors Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Kelley Armstrong, Seanan McGuire, and Jonathan Maberry.For every hero trying to save the world, there’s a villain trying to tear it all down.In this can’t-miss anthology edited ...

The race to claim Agrona’s Claws continues…Agrona’s claws—three godly artifacts that, when used together, have the power to either extend darkness or utterly banish it—were deliberately hidden eons ago so that no man or woman would ever again wield them. But nothing stays hidden forever, and the Crown of Shadows was recently unearthed and stolen, despite Bethany Aodhán’s best efforts to stop it.Now Beth and her brother Lugh must seek out the Sword ...

With the majority of their class and the entire capital wiped out, Yogiri and Tomochika left behind the Kingdom of Manii in search of additional Philosopher’s Stones, the energy sources they were told to gather if they ever want to make it back home. Having received one stone from the Sage Sion, a second from Risley, and having taken a third from the self-styled War God Raiza, the pair next set their eyes on a new country in the east, following a lead on the potential location of another S...

The ability for people to control (to some extent at least) fire has long been held as one of the major events that contributed to human evolution, but when fire eludes or escapes our control it is also one of the most destructive forces on earth. Associated with passion, power, transformation and purification, fire is a ferocious element with an unquenchable appetite.Discover the power of Fire and the creatures that thrive on it in these twenty-one stories, including: the true ins...

An ordinary kid by the name of Aikawa Kanami winds up in a fantasy world operated by RPG video game rules—but this isn’t good news. He awakes in the bowels of a gargantuan death trap called the Dungeon. Narrowly escaping thanks to his grit, cunning, and newfound arsenal of magic spells and skills, he wants nothing more than to get back home to Earth and the invalid sister who needs him. His only lead? It’s said that whoever makes it to the hundredth and final level can have any wish grante...

WHERE NO ONE KNOWS YOUR NAME...Thanksgiving, 2075. Shadowrunning vampire-mage Rick “Red” Lang used to make his living hunting dangerous insect spirits and twisted mages, but when he awakens after twelve years of involuntary hibernation, he finds the rest of the world has gotten even stranger.Red begins piecing together what had happened during his lost time—and who put him under in the first place. But as he journeys through the neon-drenched ruins of Chica...

Sometimes it all just goes wrong.After the Lady of Battles orders a hopeless mission into gargoyle territory, only Captains Vaspara and Sorac survive.Now that they have escaped and everyone back home thinks they’re dead, the two captains see a once in a lifetime opportunity to escape their bloody destinies.But where can a succubus with a conscience and a firedrake who only wants to fly off into the sunset with his closest friend go to be safe?