Arcranium was built to become more real than reality. Now it refuses to let its users leave.Arcranium isn't a game. It's a fully immersive world designed to respond, learn, and become indistinguishable from the real thing. Ray Barton logs in expecting a challenge. What he finds is a system that seems to understand him a little better with every choice.The rules shift. Identities blur. You decide how Ray answers digital threats and turning loyalties, and whe...

The bands survived Dethfest long enough to confess what happened before, during, and after the world's most brutal metal festival.The amps have gone quiet, but the bands of Dethfest still have stories to tell. Edited by Lyndsey Smith and Mark Tullius, The Devil's Playlist gathers fifteen horror authors to dig into the musicians, monsters, grudges, appetites, and private atrocities behind the lineup.It ranges from dark suspense to graphic extreme horror, wit...

✨ ***Academic rivalry is beastly . . .***⬛Gwendolynne Chan just needs to get through her final year at Seamere College of Magical Veterinary Sciences. She's used to being the star healer of magical familiars - except when the obnoxious but annoyingly handsome Harrisford Briggs knocks her from the top spot.Harrisford Briggs was born into privilege. His father, the Chief Financial Officer of Magecorp, one of the biggest global distributors ...

The last time I saw broody, gorgeous, son-of-a-billionaire, Lincoln Porter, was Christmas Eve…right after I got publicly dumped by his best friend…Imagine my surprise when he told me my ex never deserved me….right before kissing me!That was eight years ago and I haven’t seen him since. Okay fine I haven’t been home either.As far as I’m concerned, I could go another eight years without the holiday explosion of garlands and mistletoe, holly and tinsel. I avoid Christm...

If a machine could predict how you would die, would you want to know? This is the tantalising premise of THIS IS HOW YOU DIE, the brilliant follow-up anthology to the self-published bestseller, MACHINE OF DEATH.The machines started popping up around the world. The offer was tempting: with a simple blood test, anyone could know how they would die. But the machines didn't give dates or specific circumstances - just a single word or phrase. DROWNED, CANCER, OLD AGE, CHOKED ON A HANDFU...

From the bestselling author of Threads that Bind and Hearts that Cut comes a brand-new compulsive romantasy about a girl obsessed with the dark and the shadowy magical prince she falls in love with, perfect for fans of Holly Black and Laini Taylor.‘A world so unique and addictive that I devoured this in a matter of days. Whimsical prose and a slow burning romance unlike any I’ve read before.’ Alexandra Christo, author of To Ki...

Now that Aleixo's found a way to break the bond between fated mates, will that change the future of shifters forever?Just when he thought he thought he had the cure for love, Aleixo meets Samantha, another research scientist in Antarctica who turns his world upside down and has him questioning everything.Samantha's come to Antarctica on a search of her own, and although Aleixo's handsome presence is definitely distracting, she won't let anything stand in th...

New York Times bestselling author Kate Moretti's (The Vanishing Year) latest novel follows the daughter of a convicted serial killer who finds herself at the centre of a murder investigation.Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction and media frenzy, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie is a recovering alcoholic with a deadend city job, just trying to survive out of the spotlight.Edie also has a disturbing secret: a growing ob...

Finally enjoying herself to the fullest, online meme legend and new ace of Live-On Yuki Tanaka now leads a double virtual life—on one hand, her (mostly) wholesome and Awayuki Kokorone persona, and on the other, her booze-loving, girl-worshiping Shuwa-chan personality. But just as she’s getting into the swing of things, Live-On, announces its fourth generation: three new girls who promise to push the limits of what this cast of characters is all about. To make matters worse, the first girl ...

Francine Brighton is a young woman trying to find out just who she is, and what her place in the world is as she starts her freshman year of college.She finds a kindred soul in a woman, Natasha, who has an affliction that effects how she interacts with people. Natasha harbors another secret that Fran is intimately familiar with.When a person has dropped so low that the only currency they have left is their pride... even the littlest thing can cause an insurmountable rift.

In a dystopian world ravaged by war and environmental collapse, one man fights history to discover the truth about his wife and child.After decades of war, the brutal Tathadann Party restored order toshattered Eitan City by outlawing the past and rewriting history. Memory is a commodity – bought and sold, and experienced like a drug. Henraek works as a Tathadann memory thief, draining citizens’ memories.Everything changes when Henraek harvests a memory of his own wife’s dea...

In the tradition of Divergent comes a novel about a world where negative emotions are stolen ... and only those with fury can stand up and fight.Eighteen-year-old Josephine Luquet wakes up naked and covered in blood on the same day every year—when the blood moon is full. Josi has not responded to the "Cure"—an immunization against anger mandated by the government—and believes herself to be a threat to others.Then s...