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She fell through time a captive, but rose as a War Queen.Dr. Kenna Amari thought her greatest challenge was translating ancient Norse runes in a sterile university lab. But when a temporal rift violently rips her from the 21st century and drops her into the brutal, blood-soaked mud of 9th-century Scandinavia, her knowledge of history becomes her only weapon for survival.She is immediately claimed by Jarl Bjordal, a fiercely possessive and ruthless Viking wa...

She fell out of the sky into his territory. He had been watching for her for three seasons.Smokejumper Briar Solano bails out over a wilderness fire above Howling Ridge, and the wind off the fire column throws her into a valley no fire map names. She lands in front of a grey wolf big enough to end every argument about whether she is alone. Then the wolf is a man, Ronan Beckett, alpha of the pack that has held this valley for four generations, and he looks at her the way a locked do...

She remembers every word ever spoken to her village. That is why they took her sister's name first.Katrina Hart is thirty-seven, the oath-keeper of Ashcombe, and the only person alive who carries the Concord word for word: the ancient bargain that holds the border between the mortal villages and the fae courts. Every twenty-four years her village owes the courts one life. This spring, the life is hers.The Collector who comes for her is Talan Vey, who has taken tithes for se...

Nash Cole went into the blowup for his brother and came out something else.Eleven seasons on a hotshot crew taught him fire. It didn't teach him why the burn scar on his chest started itching, why his eyes flash gold, or why the woman who pulled him out of the black looks at him like he's the answer to a hundred-year-old question.Sera Vane has been running from the Vigil for a century. She knows what Nash is becoming, because she watched it happen to herself. The fever is c...

BACKBURN (The Sapphire Crew, Book 1)Sadie Quinn survived the burnover that killed her captain. Ray Delgado counted his crew past him on a Helena flank road and went back in for a seventh man who was already safe, and two seasons later Sadie is still the one left standing in the ash, doing the arithmetic. Now she has talked her way onto the Sapphire Hotshots, the best handcrew in Montana's Bitterroot, and she means to earn her place on the line and never miscount a fire again.

The land is dying of drought. So is she, of loneliness.Cora Barlow has run Las Mesas Ranch alone for three years, watching her wells fall foot by foot while a land consolidator circles with a buyout offer and a deadline. What she needs is a ranch hand. What she hires is Levi Hartman, a quiet drifter who hears a failing pump a pasture away, works like the country itself taught him, and keeps his past behind his teeth.Levi is a cougar shifter, exiled from his leap for a mercy...

Her bear chose him on the first morning. Bryn Halvorsen said no.In Montana's Alder Creek valley, the Halvorsens of Honeypine Ranch keep good fences and a secret held for four generations: they are grizzly shifters. Eldest daughter Bryn runs the cattle, answers to no one, and means to refuse the mate her bear picked. A refused bond can sicken a bear. A forced one would cost Bryn herself. Her rule is simple: instinct is pressure, never permission. Every step gets chosen, by both of t...

Every debt is written. And what is written is owed.Tamsin Brandt is twenty-three, human, and the best tracker of her generation, and none of that is why Karvhal Academy lets her through its gates. She is there because her family owes the Tally 1,440 marks, a debt she did not make. The law is simple: graduate, and the Brandt page is wiped clean. Fail, be culled, and the debt doubles, and falls on her sixteen-year-old brother.Karvhal is the winter school where the seven shift...

She was sent to kill him. Juno Voss is the Tempest Eyrie's best killer, war-captain of the storm dragons, and her uncle Lord Kael has given her one order: the Prime dies before anyone can leash him. Nash Cole, the first Prime in three hundred years, should have been an easy target. One bolt of lightning out of a clear sky. It wasn't. His fire answered hers, white-gold meeting blue-white, a resonance unseen in three centuries, and Juno did the first dishonest thing of her life: she told her...

She talks to her hives. He has not spoken to anyone in ten years.Maren Ellery has kept her bees on Larke Orchard ground for nine years, beside an old woman who treated an orchard like a promise. When Agnes Larke dies, her will leaves Maren the orchard and its business outright. It also leaves her the orchard house's reclusive owner in residence, a one year covenant neither can break, and a bloom contract they must work together.Rowan Larke is a black bear shifter who buried...

He has felled trees for twenty-six years. She is the one who was sleeping inside this one.Kellan Dray is the best hand faller on Washington's wet coast, a man whose stumps have never once told a story he could not stand behind. On the first morning of the Alderon Ridge clearcut, he makes his opening cut into a hollow ancient cedar and opens the heartwood on a sleeping woman.Nyssa Veral has slept in the Mother Cedar for two hundred and seventeen years, bound by a covenant to...

He went down the cable for a survivor. The sea had been keeping her for fifty years.Coast Guard rescue swimmer Silas Crowe lives by being in the water before the clock runs out. On a storm night off Cape Hatteras, his hoist brings up the impossible: wreckage from the Calista, a freighter lost with all hands in 1975, and a woman alive in it. Warm. Breathing. Twenty eight, in a dress fifty years out of date.Maris Delaney was on the Calista's manifest. The manifest says she dr...