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Son of the village leader and prophesied to wield the goddess' sword, Rucus feels nothing but pressure. Nightmares haunt him from witnessing the murder of his father, expectations weigh on him, and he still knows nothing of the sword's mysterious power. But what is even worse is the secrecy. Something is happening in his village and no one will tell him what. Is it a series of coincidences or is it all connected? How does his mother's past play into his future? And when the time comes, wil...

Sheik has lost everything: her village, her family, even her memories. All the young elf has left is a recurring dream. To her, though, it's a nightmare. The village leader believes she is someone special, meant to find the mythical Sword of Elilah. But Sheik has no such ambition, wanting nothing more than a place to call home.Meanwhile, far to the east, a rebellion is brewing. An evil tyrant has risen to power and threatens to end the peace between nations. Follow Sheik in The Swo...

A desert pit fighter plots to overthrow the immortal kings who terrorize her homeland in this first thrilling adventure in a blood- and sand-fueled epic fantasy series.“Breathtaking.” —Robin Hobb, New York Times–bestselling author of Fool’s AssassinSharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings—cruel, ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their ...

Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novella!Nebula Award nominee for Best Novella!Shortlisted for the 2024 RUSA Reading List: FantasyA New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2023 PickA Slate Best Books of 2023 Pick"Gripping action set in vast spaces writ as clean and spare as a dry bone . . . the result is tremendous."—The Ne...

A New York Times Bestseller!From Colleen Houck, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Curse, comes Recreated, the second book in the epic Egyptian-inspired Reawakened series, about a seventeen-year-old girl must literally go to hell to save the love of her life.Lily Young thought traveling across the globe with a reawakened sun prince was a grand adventure. Now she’s about to embark on the journey of a ...

***NO.1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Instant New York Times Bestseller*Discover the high stakes, action-packed romantic fantasy hit of the summer! Featuring a relic-hunter searching for an ancient Fae object to restore the magic to her world - and the cold-eyed Fae captain seeking the same . . .**I’m going across the River. And I’m going to save us all.Yaseema is a brilliant scholar and loyal servant of the Empire — or so they think. By day, she catalogs the f...

A world in peril. A fading faerie king. A lie that could shatter the Trianid.The Battle of the Second Slayer is won, but peace in Dúramair is short-lived. Ylvain’s darkling elementals still roam the kingdom in a violent storm, leaving chaos and destruction in their wake. Even Faer Dinnán, the faerie king, is fading, and unless the darklings are stopped soon, all of Dúramair will find itself in mortal danger.It falls to Alyen and the new Trianid to stem this...

They were sent into solitude, yet neither of them was ever truly alone.Wrongfully accused of insulting a man of higher rank, a bright young man is banished to a remote post where he must stand watch over a signal fire. Batu isn't entirely alone, though. There's an orange-robed monk who checks in on him from time to time, and he's somehow befriended a golden eagle. But strange things begin to happen when the guard changes in the next tower over.

The second book in Colleen Houck's Reawakened Series, where Lily must now not only travel across the globe, she must enter the Netherworld (hell), to save the love of her life, Amon.If Lily thought traveling across the globe with a reawakened sun-prince was an epic adventure, she's now in for the journey of a lifetime. Amon has left his sacred duty to the gods and transported himself to the Netherworld, what we know as hell, to live out the rest of his yea...

A thrilling, inventive follow-up to The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones, a "rare master of the storyteller's art" (Greenmanreview.com)As a snowfall blankets 8th century Mosul, a Persian noblewoman arrives at the home of the scholar Dabir and his friend the swordsman Captain Asim. Najya has escaped from a dangerous cabal that has ensorcelled her to track down ancient magical tools of tremendous power, the bones of the old ones.To stop the cabal...

Taj Odin Xavier returns home to find his father dead and his king ready to surrender the key to the city-state hes always called home. His friends are all dead. But remnants from his travels and things found and earned along the way push the renegade army threatening Eternis to decimation. After saving the city from capture, Taj turns his aggression towards the city that let his father down; the same man that spent a lifetime serving it. He cast down the churches of all faiths, save those ...

In this adventure, Annabeth encounters more oddities in the subway than usual, including a two-headed monster and a younger blond girl who reminds her a little of herself. This is the story fans have asked for, in which Annabeth Chase teams up with Sadie Kane. The demigod daughter of Athena and the young magician from Brooklyn House take on a larger-than-life foe from the ancient world. Perhaps even more disturbing than the power-hungry god they encounter is the revelation that he is being...