Evil stepmothers aren't born—they're made.

After a devastating plague nearly destroyed humanity, Vespera never expected to leave the safety of her rural homestead. But the ruling royals chose her to help repopulate the kingdom's capital city, and a single peasant girl can't defy a power-hungry new government without a death wish.

Things go from bad to worse when, instead of rewarding her loyalty as promised, the city officials doom her to a life of servitude and labor in the lowest class of society. When blind obedience to her rulers leaves her unemployed, homeless, and estranged from her family, Vespera’s attempt to change her fate and avenge the peaceful life she lost leads to even more trouble.

Because in a city swarming with nobles, soldiers, and rebels, revenge will come at a desperate cost...

If you can't get enough of Grimms' twisted Fairy Tales and Kiera Cass' The Selection series, then this is your next addicting read.

Grab a copy of Girl in the Dark to start this chilling, villainous royal dystopian fantasy story today!

Heartbreaking yet heartwarming – a coming-of-age story filled with love, loss, and blossoming friendships.

Freddie’s life isn’t like it used to be – he’s alone, homeless, and carrying a secret that threatens to swallow him up. Every day is a struggle, until he meets Violet Johnson.

Violet’s life is going down-hill. Her parents argue, her little brother’s stopped speaking, and she’s about to move schools. She used to be popular, she used to be happy, but now she feels as though that is all slipping away.

Having to grow up quickly and find their way in the world, Freddie and Violet grow closer despite their differences.

Focusing on everyday issues faced by teens and young adults, The Boy Who Lived in The Ceiling will leave you asking: Are some people invisible to us?

“Expertly written with a voice I would follow anywhere, The Boy Who Lived in the Ceiling wrapped a spell around my heart from the very first page, enchanting me with a poignant tale of first love, heartbreak, and second chances. I couldn’t put it down.” —Chelsea Bobulski, author of THE WOOD and REMEMBER ME

Claire Hinterland and Penny Hingston might be attending classes on opposite sides of the country, but they share something in common: they can see the ancient beings from myth and legend that are coming through the veil. Which results in both attending classes at Unveiled Academy.

Get both the Penny and Boots Complete Series Omnibus AND Paranormal University Complete Series Omnibus - 8 books total - to attend class and find out how to protect themselves and the world from these creatures.

Paranormal University:
At the University of Paranormal Studies, class is starting.

Claire just received her letter of acceptance despite the fact that she didn’t apply. Why does the university want her?

Because ghosts, vampires, werewolves, elves, dragons…They exist, and more are crossing into our world every day. The problem? Many of them want to kill us.

Claire has a rare ability to actually see these creatures. See? Heck, her best friend is a drunk leprechaun.

Coming from a small town, Claire thought her future prospects were flipping chicken at the local fast food joint. Now she’s traveling to Boston, where she’ll learn how to fight this ‘mythological invasion’. She never thought she’d be in a class called Vampires 101 but…

Claire’s a soldier in this new war – she will be humanity’s most dangerous asset.

And if Claire and her classmates fail? If they don’t learn fast enough and fight hard enough?

Well, graduation won’t matter too much when the world is reduced to ashes.

Penny and Boots:
Not everyone can see the ancient beings from myth and legend as they slip through the veil.

Penny Hingston can’t just see them… she’s best friends with one.

Perhaps that’s how Penny and Boots landed a recruitment letter for the Academy of Myth and Legend.

Who’s Boots? She’s a serpent. Not just any serpent — she’s a Rainbow Serpent, an ancient Australian Dreamtime legend come to life. It's actually not so unusual these days. Mythical creatures are tumbling through the Veil every two seconds. The Academy not only teaches its students how to fight the bad ones, but to protect the good ones as well.

That's why Penny joined. She’s only there to make sure Boots stays safe. Once she figures out a plan, she’s out. At least, that's what she’s trying to convince herself — and her new friends, including Cisco. It's only a coincidence that Penny blushes when he talks to her, really!

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What do you have when you blend a pinch of litrpg, a touch of farming simulator, a sprinkle of epic fantasy, a whole cup of Isekai, and a dash of Home Alone?

You have Arnold’s life.

Accidentally murdered by a cleric in another universe during a botched resurrection, Arnold, a semi-pro gamer, wakes upon an altar to find himself incarnated into the overweight body of a farmer who could have been his fatter twin. He’s not the hero. He’s not the villain. He’s certainly not the chosen one who is there to save the world. He’s a clerical error.

It could be a bad joke, but apparently, it happens so often that they have a standard procedure for returning you. That standard procedure doesn't apply to Arnold.

Now stuck on a new earth, in a new universe, with no way home, Arnold must use his gaming skills to figure out how to level his farmer class to 100 and gain a second class which doesn't make him want to beat his head against the wall. There is just one small problem: farmers don't gain experience from killing monsters. Like at all.

Follow Arnold on his hilarious journey as he stubbornly comes to grips with his new reality and tries to change his destiny from that of your typical farmer.

The last thing Ben Shepherd wanted was another war. But sometimes the universe won’t take no for an answer.

His body and spirit mangled by a lifetime of combat, Shepherd, a retired Navy SEAL, has retreated to the desolate desert of New Mexico to heal his wounds and dodge his demons. All he wants now is peace and quiet.

Both are shattered one starry night, when an alien ship crashes nearby. Out of the ship crawls the last, dying member of a conquered civilization. It’s been shot down by an extraterrestrial enemy, the vanguard of a ravenous force hunting for a new homeland. With its last gasp, the wounded alien injects Shepherd with a high-tech serum that gives him near superhuman powers.

Now, with a new body but a soul as fractured as ever, Shepherd becomes the reluctant leader of the human resistance against the coming invasion. With enemies on all sides, the man who couldn’t bear the guilt of seeing one more friend die in battle now finds himself charged with protecting the entire planet.

How Molly has survived military life this long, we'll never know.

When her implanted computer interface is hacked by a nascent AI, Molly has to escape. 

Grab the ENTIRE Ascension Myth Series today in one GIANT boxed set! Over 3,000 pages of Space Opera excitement!

Between the militaries' high tech security shields and advanced personnel protocols, it makes getting out in one piece for Molly nigh on impossible.

What’s more, her new “companion” has a spunky attitude which only complicates matters further.

And her biggest problem?

The swiftest and most efficient way to get out is also the most embarrassing.

This boxed set includes all 12 books:

1. Awakened
2. Activated
3. Called
4. Sanctioned
5. Rebirth
6. Retribution
7. Cloaked
8. Bourne
9. Committed
10. Subversion
11. Invasion
12. Ascension

If you like your space opera with snark, action and characters that support each other, you will love The Ascension Myth where we find out if a dysfunctional genius can change the universe.

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We double-dog dare you NOT to fall in love with Molly.

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This series has some cursing. Perhaps hilarious cursing, but cursing nevertheless. We suggest you don't read this series if cursing bothers you.

As an immortal War enters its final chapter…
A girl and a boy start the first chapter of their new lives…
But none could see, what secrets and surprises, lurk deep in the darkness of space…

THE SAGA BUILDING UP FOR A THOUSAND MILLENNIA… IS FINALLY READY TO BE TOLD…..

The story begins as an Empire that spreads across an entire star system starts preparing for an inevitable war against an unseen enemy from beyond the realm of the known, an enemy that is determined to destroy everything and at any cost. Leading the defenses of The Empire are The Imperium who have gathered a group youngsters from far and wide to begin their initiation into their ranks before the war begins... and within this group, there are two that stand out... a girl and a boy...

They stand out as they are the first of their people to be allowed a chance to enter the ranks of The Imperium in generations as it was generations ago that their people had lead rebellion against The Empire. This rebellion had failed and as a result their people were pushed into exile, an exile that only came to an abrupt end when this War came calling... but with them now being cautiously welcomed back into the mainstream fold opportunities such as having their representatives being allowed an opportunity to be a part of The Imperium have now become a reality. But even within The Empire there still whispers of discontentment amongst those who continue to feel they should be more careful in extending this welcome...

Against this backdrop, this fast-paced story will introduce you to a diverse cast of authentic characters that come together to bring this world alive!

This is their story. The story of how they try and find a place for themselves in a changing new world as their old world begins to collapse… two lost souls alone in the vast star system trying to help each other find their true paths... just as a great War charges ahead on its path to them!

DESTINIES WILL BE CHANGED... LIVES WILL BE LOST... WHEN THE PAST & PRESENT COLLIDE!

This is the story of an epic war between Darkness & Light... the story of how an immortal war finally died... this is the story of the Dance of Darkness & Light...

Witness the beginning of the end with… Episode 1...

The first novel in the Poseidon's Children series from the acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series.

One hundred and fifty years from now, Africa has become the world’s dominant technological and economic power. Crime, war, disease and poverty have been practically eliminated. The Moon and Mars are settled, and colonies stretch all the way out to the edge of the solar system. And Ocular, the largest scientific instrument in history, is about to make an epochal discovery...
 
Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his long-running studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey’s family, which controls the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans for him. After the death of his grandmother Eunice—the erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur—something awkward has come to light on the Moon, so Geoffrey is dispatched there to ensure the family name remains untarnished.
 
But the secrets Eunice died with are about to be revealed—secrets that could change everything...or tear this near utopia apart.

With great power comes greater mayhem…

Alison is a teen Drow with a past that’s been erased by the murder of her mother and the betrayal of her father.

Well, someone’s going to have to train the girl to use her powers wisely.

Good thing there’s a boarding school created to do just that.

High school is hard. Facing mountains of homework, that cute wizard, mean girl cliques, and mastering magic alone is nearly unbearable.

Enter her new best friend, Izzy. Izzy has a past that could get someone killed.

Too bad she can’t remember a thing.

She's a teenager with no idea who she is or what the power is growing inside her.

Becoming fast friends is a no brainer. Better to tackle the trials and tests awaiting them together.

Especially when they involve dark magic, malevolent forces, and a lost dragon egg.

Welcome to the School of Necessary Magic. Not since Hogwarts has learning been this magical…or dangerous.

For the first time ever, you can get the entire Alison Brownstone School of Necessary Magic in one giant boxed set! All 8 books are included for one low price.

Dark is Her Nature
Bright is Her Sight
Wary is Her Love
Strong is Her Hope
Wicked is Her Smile
Strange is Her Life
Determined is Her Path
Epic is Her Future

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If smart phones and GPS rule the world - why am I hunting a magic compass to save the planet?

Austin Detective Maggie Parker has seen some weird things in her day, but finding a surly gnome rooting through her garage beats all.

Her world is about to be turned upside down in a frantic search for 4 Elementals.

Not 3, not 5…but 4. Why is it always 4?

Each one has an artifact that can keep the Earth humming along, but they need her to unite them first.

Unless the forces against her get there first.

A compass, a telescope and untapped magic are her only tools.

Will she join forces with an army of gnomes? Can she get the hang of even a simple spell to defend herself?

Included in this boxed set is:

1. The Magic Compass
2. The Gnome's Magic
3. The Elemental's Magic
4. The Magic Quest

From the best selling author of The Leira Chronicles

Magic exists. Too bad it might kill us all. Click read for free or buy now and join in the adventure in The Magic Compass!

You could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.

A peerless American storyteller, Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury— eighteen startling visions of humankind’s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin. In this phantasmagoric sideshow, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Provocative and powerful, Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth—as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.

When a world’s fate rests on her sword, will a loyal soldier obey her king or follow her heart?

Militess Halina is an accomplished leader, a fearsome soldier, and the unapologetically tough bastard daughter of Ursinum’s king. When she’s ordered to gain the allegiance of Shadow Mage Gethen — a notoriously dangerous necromancer whose brother is an enemy king — she assumes the negotiations will be simple: Either he’ll pledge his loyalty or she’ll remove his head.

But the Shadow Mage isn’t what she expected, nor is his situation. Intriguing and powerful, Gethen’s the only man preventing the return of an ancient menace that threatens their world. And though he hates to admit it, his sorcery is failing and he needs her help.

Suddenly Ursinum’s dispute with Gethen’s brother seems petty, and Halina must decide who’s best served by her sword: her king or every man, woman, and child in the four kingdoms and beyond.
 

Magic, adventure, love, and suspense abound in the first novel of Monica Enderle Pierce’s Militess & Mage series. Epic fantasy that’s perfect for fans of sword and sorcery fiction with a touch of enemies-to-lovers romance.

"Free people don't live in cubicles!"

      —Big Richie minutes before he caught the wave that ended his life.

Some people just knew how to go out in style. 

Tim had never been one of those guys. 

Tim was always a planner. 

The plan was to get into college, graduate, and find a well-paying job.

That plan was coming together nicely until he saw a presentation to get paid to play The Etheric Coast.

At his graduation ceremony.

After watching the company's employee recruitment video, Big Richie’s words had a whole new meaning. 

He could spend his life going from a cubicle at work to a one-bedroom apartment and back again...

Or he could take a leap of faith by entering a virtual world of unlimited possibilities. 

And get paid.

Now he just has to figure out how to get the job of his dreams, help his parents financially, and catch the attention of the girl of his dreams.

It was time for him to catch his wave.

Tim sure hoped it didn't kill him first.

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Everything you know is about to change.

Victoria Brie is getting her life together. She may be just a cashier, but she has big dreams and high hopes for what comes next. In the meantime, she has everything that matters: her family and her best friend.

If only life were that simple.

When she comes home to find her parents murdered by an elf — yeah, an elf — she’s thrust into a world of magic, mystery, and a madman who wants her dead. The question is… why? Merged with a powerful artifact created by an evil mastermind, Victoria is hunted, stabbed, burned, shot, and attacked in the street… but she’s a survivor, damn it, and no one’s taking her out. She falls in love with the magical underground city of Fairhaven, and when the elf who assassinated her parents comes after her new home, she not taking any prisoners.

Read the series Amazon reviewer Tony D. says is "a truly wonderful world that is easy to get lost in! Huge fan of Boyce, and she has created another huge hit!"

The Fairhaven Chronicles box set includes all four books in the series.

975+ pages. 375+ five-star reviews. Find out why people are so intrigued by this thrilling boxset of an urban fantasy saga with sarcastic ogres, wise-cracking wizards, and a brutally addictive full-contact sport called Berserk. Your only regret will be not starting it sooner.

WARNING! This story contains cursing because these eighteen-year-olds are honorable rebels. If cursing offends you, you might not like this book.

Five years ago, everyone knew sorcery and magic were nothing but myths. One spectacular incident proved them wrong. Now men and women of power flaunt their supernatural abilities openly, using them for both good and evil.

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Southwest Nights:
Sorceress Lyssa likes her reality TV and strawberry ice cream, but her day job of hunting down rogues and criminals doesn’t leave her much time for either. And that’s when she’s not worrying about containing a powerful and dangerous spirit forced on her.

Paranoia is her other hobby, and it’s hard to burn away all evil in the world when she’s not sure if she’s working for the good guys. There’s also the small problem of people from her past popping up and trying to kill her.

When gangsters surprise her with powerful artifacts on what should have been a routine mission, Lyssa is drawn into an investigation that threatens to upend what she thinks she knows about her past.

With two enchanted guns and an attitude, this is one sorceress who isn’t going to let anyone stand in her way.

Southwest Days:
They say there’s no rest for the wicked, but there’s even less for those hunting them.

A surprise message about Lyssa’s brother from the island home of the sorcerers destroys her new-found balance. She’s obsessed with finding out the truth about what happened to him, and that means investigating her own people.

Nothing gets done in the world of sorcery without calling on favors. When a report of a bizarre attack in southern Arizona surfaces, Lyssa has a chance to earn some political points and make the world a little safer. She never expects a quick investigation of an abandoned mine might turn into a fight for her life against bizarre creatures.

Evil comes in many forms, and a woman can’t always avoid a trap by knowing it’s coming.

It’s time for a monster hunt in southern Arizona, but Lyssa isn’t so sure the real monsters don’t walk on two legs.

Southwest Truths:
Sometimes the only way out of trouble is blowing up everything and everyone around you.

When a mysterious enemy starts assassinating sorcerers, Lyssa ends up as their next target. Corruption stalks the Illuminated Society, and she’s unsure who among her so-called allies is plotting against her. It doesn’t help that as a woman who makes her living taking down dangerous criminals and terrorists, she’s built up a huge list of dirtbags who would gladly pay to see her dead.

What do you do when the truth doesn’t set you free?

Not one to wait around for trouble, Lyssa takes the fight to the enemy. When more conspiracies come to light, she’ll travel to the heart of the Society to uncover the dark secrets around her brother’s disappearance and the dangerous spirit she’s kept at her side for six years.

But no plan survives contact with the enemy.

Lyssa isn’t ready to stop until the scum conspiring against her are destroyed. Blood and bullets will spill from Arizona to the Indian Ocean. It’s time for the Semiautomatic Sorceress to put her life and soul on the line.

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Welcome to the world of Fál.
A murderous outlaw confronts his past.
A princess has a monster at her mercy.
A desperate woman turns to a dark sorcerer for help.
A young magician learns to follow her heart.
An aging warrior makes his last stand.
Dive into a new fantasy world full of monsters and magic in the Tales of Fál, featuring over 500 pages of stories of heroes, villains, and everything in between.

Hunter by name – Hunter by nature.

Can DI Hunter Wilson keep Edinburgh safe when he is the hunted?

Detective Inspector Hunter Wilson is woken in the early hours of the morning by a call from his son. Cameron’s flatmate was murdered. Why would anybody want to kill a young woman recently arrived in the city?

Hunter must call in the new Major Incident Team (MIT) to lead the investigation due to the reorganisation of police services. Hunter's ability to be involved, however, is put in severe doubt when someone from his past decides to take revenge on him. He goes missing, and his team have no idea where to look for him. Who would want to stop Hunter in his tracks?

Meanwhile, Hunter's team must work closely with the MIT, with or without him, to solve the murder in this taut crime thriller.

Does real life emulate fiction? Or does fiction emulate real life?

All five books of the BrainTrust examine topics ripped from today’s headlines: Pandemic, Global Economic Meltdown, Deportation. How closely will the world follow the BrainTrust script?

Long ago, the President for Life expelled all foreign engineers from Silicon Valley. They moved to…

The BrainTrust:

A fleet of immense cruise liners jammed with teams seeking the next great breakthrough

A locus freed of bureaucracy and autocracy, a thorn in the side of every dirtside power.

A home for creativity where no problem is unsolvable, but no crisis is as simple as it seems.

A clean, well-lighted place for …  ferocious commando assaults, and desperate copter combat.

The Heroines:

Dash: the plucky mad scientist.

Ping: the bouncy itty bitty ninja with the Real Big Gun.

Jam: the quiet, resilient commando with the grace of a dancer.

The Frightening Fact: A little too much of it is coming true.

The Genres: near-future hard sf techno-thriller with a helping of political satire. If you can’t laugh about your favorite politician, journey elsewhere.

Otherwise, Come Aboard the BrainTrust.

Every book a Prometheus Award nominee.

​If you like Robert Heinlein, Michael Crichton, Charles Stross, or Ayn Rand, buy your ticket and come aboard.

What do you get when you cross Storms of Magic and Hidden Magic? Storms and Shades!

Grab the 8-book collection of both completed series today!

There's even a cross-over event in each book 4, you don't want to miss these epics series!

The first part of the boxed set includes:

In a time when magic rules the sea, she only trusts her sword.

Abbey has always been an outsider in Holdgate. While the people of her adopted city dominate the seas with their weather-controlling storm magic, she prefers the work in her father’s blacksmith shop.

Besting any foolish enough to question her skills with a sword.

But when her father is falsely accused of murder, she has to sneak aboard a stormship and take to the seas in a quest to clear his name.

Teaming up with a young storm mage and a no-nonsense Captain, Abbey sets off on a swashbuckling adventure.

She’ll soon learn that the legendary Storm Raiders--a terrifying group of seafaring pirates--are all too real.

Storms of Magic include:

Storm Raiders

Storm Callers

Storm Breakers

Storm Warrior

Then the second part of the boxed set includes:

The Truth will set you free, but what happens when the Truth is a Lie? 

Rhona and her paladin brother Alastar belong to a holy people who have waged war on witches and warlocks and their clans from the highlands. 

But when she uses magic to save his life, their world is thrown upside down. 

On the run, having left all they knew behind they have to rely on those who hate Paladins. All magic is evil, the High Paladin taught... But Alastar starts to understand that he might have been misled. 

If his sister uses magic, and she isn't evil...what does that mean for his beliefs? Brother and sister soon find themselves aligned with magic users and thrown in with the clans in a war against sorcerers and paladins alike, with only one hope of uniting the land--the legendary Sword of Light. 

It was lost years ago, and quest after quest by the holy paladins could not retrieve it. When you know the truth about magic... anything is possible. 

Hidden Magic Chronicles includes:

Shades of Light

Shades of Dark

Shades of Glory

Shades of Justice

All they wanted was to trade. Others had different ideas.

Join a world where humans and animals interact in a fight against the enemies of civilization. Three volumes with over 800 pages are contained in this one set!

Braden and his mindlinked Hillcat build friendships with other sentient creatures and extraordinary humans as they try to create a world of Free Trade, but obstacles stand in their way. As they encounter intransigent humans or power-hungry mutants, they fight for what they believe is right.