In order to break a curse on her kingdom, Isla Crown, the young ruler of Wilding, must compete in the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play, and to survive she must lie, cheat, and betray--even as love…
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- Two kingdoms on the brink of battle. One prophesied empress to unite them, who finds herself caught between two princes, and the fact that love alone may not stop the coming war.
- In a world where witches face persecution, Rune leads a double life, masquerading as a socialite during the day and transforming into the vigilante known as the Crimson Moth by night, and forms a complicated alliance with the witch hunter Gideon…
- Seventeen-year-old Quell is reluctantly inducted into a magical debutante society of social elites where she must bind with her forbidden magic while evading the assassin who has been tasked with hunting her kind.
- Desperate to stop her beloved from marrying another, sixteen-year-old Evangeline Fox strikes a deal with the mythic Prince of Hearts leading her down a dangerous path that may ultimately end in her destruction.
- In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.
- Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being--and each has met an untimely end. Her remaining relatives are the elusive Hawthornes, an eccentric family…
- On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the…
- At sixteen, Honora "Nora" Holtzfall is the daughter of the most powerful heiress in all of Walstad. Her family controls all the money--and all the magic--in the entire country. But despite being the center of attention, Nora has always felt like an…
- In a world where the children of the gods inherit their powers, a descendant of the Greek Fates must solve a series of impossible murders to save her sisters, her soulmate, and her city.
- Gwen, the blacksmith’s daughter who yearns to be a knight, disguises herself to compete in the men-only Tournament of Dragonslayers in order to free Lady Isobelle from her fate as the tournament’s prize. In the process, the two women’s pact for…
- Eighteen-year-old Mira Owens leaves her hometown of Timber Plains, Kansas, hoping for a fresh start at college—but when strange animal attacks begin and a mysterious classmate named Julian saves her from a deadly fall, she realises the town’s old…
- Fifteen-year-old Cam Reynolds is just a “normal” human attending a school full of witches, werewolves and other paranormal peers—until a shocking vision of a murder flips his world upside down. As he discovers his rare gift of clairvoyance, he must…
- After she has served a year of hard labour in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a…
- Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her…
- One girl caught between the freedom she always wanted and a sister she can't bear to leave behind. Under the cover of the Night Forest, will Lucha be able to step into her own power ... or will she be consumed by it? This gorgeous and fast-paced…
- Blaze, born into a fire-wielding dynasty yet marked by a disastrous storm she unleashed at birth, has lived shunned and powerless — until she and her twin brother are called to compete in the deadly Choosing Rite for the empire’s throne. Amid court…
- Kiva, a girl forced to heal prisoners of war who must wager her life in a series of deadly elemental trials, all to save the rebel force's queen.
- An amnesiac sword-for-hire and a village girl with a strange magical power become entangled in worlds-altering events, and each other's destinies.
- Teen plant-witch Sage Bishop is desperate to save her family’s longtime apothecary while perfecting an “emotional recovery” tonic—so when her ex-best friend and first crush Ximena Reyes shows up at work, and Sage’s brew is stolen and used to erase…
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