The Kingdom of Restwick faced its greatest crisis since its founding, plagued by a two-year-long monster outbreak. In desperation, King James IV turned to ancient magic to summon a priestess.But the girl who appeared in the summoning circle was far from a willing savior. Clad in strange, foreign clothes, the gorgeous yet fierce girl declared:""This is abduction, pure and simple! And all who stand here are guilty! I've no obligation to help you! Much less save you!""Furious and resentful, t...

⁣⁣Dad’s my hero.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣Since Mom passed away, he had taught me to be strong and accept our lives without the woman we both loved so much in it. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣But Dad isn’t the only man I could always count on.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣When he takes me to his beautiful cabin in the mountains, where we would spend one whole summer with his two best friends, Shepherd and Davis, I didn’t expect to fall in love. Let alone with both of them.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣It was innocent at first, but it quickly turned into something m...

Seven's Tales From the Alley explores a variety of people, human and otherwise, from the world we thought we knew. Chasing after the Alleyman's Tarot and Alleyman Podcast, this Urban Fantasy anthology steps from alley to alley as it chases its core story. As hard to pin down as the dream thing that drives it.Follow mage Jimmy Talon and the Russian vampire Alexcia Koslov on their roadtrip across middle America after trouble; Meet Huan Pai, proprietor of the strange Imports ...

An entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligenceCloudy with a Chance of Starships takes readers on an irreverent expedition through the marvelous world of astrobiology, using as a guide the most important equation in science since E=mc2. With an irresistible blend of wit, insight, and the latest cutting-edge research, Seven Rasmussen looks at the thrilling possibilities of life in the cosmos through ...

Juno⁣⁣ ⁣⁣As his student, I should’ve kept my distance.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣Out of all the guys in the world I could’ve fallen in love with,⁣⁣ it had to be my new teacher.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣We fell in love slowly, hidden from others.⁣⁣ Keeping it secret, and falling deeper each day.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣But no love is perfect, and we learned it the hard way.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣When the truth came out and he left town,⁣⁣ he left me broken and alone.⁣⁣ He’s to blame, at least that’s what everyone says.⁣⁣ But to me, he’s still th...

Binti had one ordinary face and one extraordinary figure. She knew which one people noticed. At twenty-five she had a college degree, no job, no husband, and a father who called her a burden to her face. That same night she opened her mother's Almera cupboard in the dark, took the jewellery kept for her wedding, and walked out of her Kochi home at four in the morning. She had no plan. She had no contacts. She had never been to Bangalore. What she had was a six month promise to herself. Eit...

I hated him at first sight.I know he hated me just as much.But annoyingly, I'm now forced to work on a school project with the new student, the rude, aloof Connor Harman.My good friend Ethan seems to know Connor from somewhere else, but won't admit it, even though he clearly hates Connor too. Ethan finally tells me that if I knew the truth about Connor, I would run screaming.But the more time I spend with Connor, the more I realise he isn't what he seems, an...

Emma Lawson is a good mother. She makes her son's sandwiches into triangles every morning. She puts a little drawing in her daughter's lunchbox. She loves her husband. She laughs at the right moments. She remembers everyone's name. She also has a small glass vial in her handbag. Between 2022 and 2024, five people died at ordinary gatherings in Valencia, Spain. A street festival. A school parents' evening. A birthday dinner. A children's fete. A New Year's party. Nobody connected the deaths...

Kirian was a former warrior, a mercenary. She agreed to impersonate Lord Hardor's wife and suffer public punishment for adultery, with the promise of help to free her sister who had been condemned to serve as a rower on a cargo galley.But it was far from simple. Slowly recovering from the punishments, Kirian would have to seek assistance for the task that lay ahead of her, and those that might help would have an agenda of their own.In uncompromising, horrific detail, Clare S...

If you've made the decision to open up your ham radio world by going for the General Class License, great! General is certainly more challenging than Technician, but The Fast Track to Your General Class Ham Radio License explains the reasoning and technology behind each correct answer on the General Class exam so you'll understand and remember the subject matter.Created by an experienced ham and adult educator, it's like having your own, patient, experienced, good-humored mentor fo...

Anya was tough. She was a security expert, an ex-marine familiar with working in a war zone, under fire, whether in a combat role or, as was more common for her these days, protecting or rescuing civilians who had had the misfortune to become embroiled in the conflict. And she was very good at it.Surely what she saw in the company's laboratory was some sort of simulation, a test for her? All she had to do was to dive through the glowing metallic ring in the middle of the room into ...

Maeve McKinnon, a computer nerd from the Prosperia system, is wrongfully accused of a capital crime. She avoids the death penalty, commuting the sentence by signing on to a hit intergalactic reality show. Contestants compete in weekly challenges, winning means a ratings boost. The contestant with the lowest ratings is voted off the show each week, never to be heard from again.Now Maeve is trapped on a luxury ship, dozens of warp gates from Earth, with celebrities, mutants, and othe...