He didn't ask to be the chosen one. Unfortunately, nobody asked him.Twenty-year-old Ren Akiyama has a perfectly ordinary job at a community theater. His responsibilities include cleaning up popcorn, helping customers, and staying out of trouble.Saving fantasy kingdoms was never part of the job description.But when a mysterious invitation transports him into a place called the Playhouse, Ren discovers that he's been cast as the leading character in a...

At this school, ordinary girls carry extraordinary weapons.Yuki has transferred schools more times than she'd like to remember. All she wants is a fresh start, a few good friends, and a chance to graduate without getting into another fight.Unfortunately, trouble has a way of finding her.Armed with a customized metal yo-yo, Yuki enters a school where rivalries are settled through combat, strange weapons are surprisingly common, and a mysterious organ...

What would you do if someone with your face showed up at your door—and claimed you were the one who didn't belong?Nineteen-year-old Aya Mori has spent eleven months searching for her missing brother, Haru. Every lead has ended in disappointment. Every answer has created more questions.Then, just before midnight, a girl appears outside Aya's apartment.She has Aya's face. Aya's voice. Even Aya's memories.And she claims to be the real Aya Mori....

In the shadows beneath Tokyo, the hunter has become the hunted.Beneath the crowded streets of modern Tokyo exists another civilization. Rats live in hidden settlements, trade in scavenged treasures called Shineys, and settle disputes under an ancient set of rules known as the Alley Code.Kuro is a skilled swordsman who makes his living tracking down those who don't want to be found.When an anonymous client offers a substantial reward for locating a f...

When Noah Mercer pulls back his shower curtain one morning, he expects a normal start to the day. Instead, he finds a witch asleep in his bathtub.Her name is Wren Bell. She is nineteen, sarcastic, strangely comfortable in porcelain, and hiding from people who already know exactly where to look for her.At first, Noah only wants his bathroom back. Then the floating toothbrush happens. Then the black birds begin watching his apartment. Then a mysterious woman named Adelaide Cr...

Mia Harper's life is quiet, predictable, and painfully ordinary.Then a purple tentacle monster grabs her ankle at the beach.She names him Mochi, hides him above her aunt's bakery, and quickly discovers that her new eight-armed problem has strong opinions about snacks, stolen socks, romance movies, and Mia's love life.Especially her love life.When Mochi decides that Mia and her aquarium coworker Jonah clearly belong together, subtlety is not part of the plan....

The night shift was supposed to be boring. Then the new girl breathed fire on a frozen burrito.Eli Carter has spent nearly two years working overnight at Lucky Stop, a gas station where strange customers and questionable decisions are part of the job. Nothing surprises him anymore.Until Rhea Ash gets hired.She's hardworking, unusually strong, painfully honest, and completely unfamiliar with how normal people behave. She also happens to be a dragon.

Ben Carter thought he had found the perfect apartment: cheap rent, decent space, and just enough distance from his recent breakup to start over.Then he met Mara.She is sarcastic, stubborn, possessive of one particular blue mug—and very much a ghost.At first, Ben only wants to survive sharing Apartment 4C with a woman who walks through walls, changes the television by herself, and has strong opinions about everything he does. But somewhere between arguments, strange ...

What if the person you fell in love with disappeared every time you looked away?Nineteen-year-old college student Ethan never expected an argument over a convenience-store sandwich to change his life. Then he meets Mika, a mysterious girl with a sharp sense of humor, a talent for drawing, and one impossible problem.Whenever someone stops paying attention to her, she disappears.Photographs change. Conversations vanish from people's memories. Even the...

Buying an entire town for one dollar seemed like the deal of a lifetime.Unfortunately, the town doesn't officially exist. And it doesn't want anyone to leave.When Noah Finch stumbles across a mysterious online auction, he makes an impulsive purchase that sounds too ridiculous to be real: an abandoned town called Bellwether.But when Noah and his older brother Jamie arrive to inspect their new property, they discover something impossible.The r...

The hallway is hungry. Whatever you do, don't feed it.When Mara Ellis moves into a cheap apartment at Southwell House, she expects noisy neighbors, unreliable plumbing, and maybe a few strange smells. What she doesn't expect is a bowl of cat food left outside an apartment that doesn't exist.Every night at 9:13, something in the hallway begins to eat.Nobody can see it. Nobody wants to talk about it. And the longer Mara stays, the more the building se...

Ethan Cole's biggest problems used to be paying rent, surviving college, and dealing with difficult customers at his part-time job. Then a mysterious girl starts texting him warnings about his own death.At first, Ethan thinks it's a prank. But when her warnings save him from a bus accident, a collapsing ceiling, and an apartment fire, he realizes something is seriously wrong.The girl calls herself Iris Vale. She looks about nineteen, carries a black umbrella, and claims to ...