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Life at Castle Ambrose isn’t all bad for Janna. She has a secret - she can communicate with the sea serpent living in the loch. When merchants visit Castle Ambrose, Janna hears that the earl of Ambrose’s sons are still alive but imprisoned. If she can free them, they can round up rebels from across Hamlin and rid themselves of the filthy usurper.

Branwyn St. Clair is running from her wicked stepfather when she stows aboard the first ship she comes to. Little does she know, it is the infamous elven pirate ship, the Moonbeam. When cabin boy, Johnny Pate finds her in the hold, they form an uneasy alliance. Life aboard the Moonbeam is not what she expects. The ship soars through the clouds in search of plunder. But the biggest theft of all has already occurred....

Sixteen-year-old Princess Mareleau is convinced she'll never marry, no matter how many hearts she has to break. She’s been in love before, and it cost her everything. Why look for a second chance? But when she finally meets a prince who doesn’t bore her to tears, she allows herself to hope. Will that hope lead her to happiness…or betrayal?

Sabina is a gifted 18-year-old girl living in Sydney in the year 2037. She carries a unique secret that she used to be the Chosen One who failed to stop the apocalypse from occurring in the year 2887. As she died, she asked the True Maker to let her be reborn in 2019 and to keep her powers.

After many ordeals, Sabina faces her nemesis Rangda. But will Sabina overcome the evil that she tries to stop? Having stopped Pierre Beaumont's evil scheme, Sabina and Alex are recuperating in Hawaii. Peace doesn't last for long though, as the mysterious Martin Al-Sham re-emerges. Martin's associates kidnap Alex to force Sabina to help him with a dangerous expedition.

Linny is stuck in a boarding school in Maine, knowing she is cursed to die before her 16th birthday. But this is nothing new. She's done this many times, over many centuries, so she dare not hope it will be different. But then, Quinn Ramsay, descendant of the Sidhe king who cursed her, arrives to fight a very different battle.

All series must have an official starting point, and as the best-selling author of the Saving History series, I can verify that this is Ian’s beginning. As Ian wakes up on is ordinary 17th birthday, he never imagines the havoc and devastating consequences the day would bestow upon him. Not only is Ian’s life in jeopardy, but so are his parents’ and his best-friend Kayla’s’. Losing time in Ian’s life happens to follow the pattern of looming danger that surrounds him.

In a Victorian world, one girl finds herself forced to face the Top Hat society - an assembly of demon-hunting gentlemen who have haunted her since childhood. Lucy O’Rourke believed that the day her twin died was the last time she would ever have to face the society of demon hunters that left her family broken. That is, until the day she discovers her twin very much alive and her mother quickly succumbing to a deadly disease.

In the ancient world, when the days were short and the nights were long and moonless, one boy questions the customs of his village - a thing others would never dare to do. He is Omi, and he knows something isn’t right about the place he calls home. Soon, his curiosity puts him in danger, and what he learns changes everything. He flees the village, pursued by the wicked hierarchy he’s challenged, its leader desperate to maintain control. Lives are lost, homes are destroyed, and Omi vows to bring justice to the culprits. But to have his revenge, he must first survive the wild.

En Una Joya para La Realeza (Un Trono para Las Hermanas, Libro Cinco), Sofía, de 17 años, se entera de que Sebastián, su amor, está encarcelado y listo para ser ejecutado. ¿Lo arriesgará todo por amor? Su hermana Catalina, de 15 años, lucha para escapar del poder de la bruja –pero puede que este sea muy fuerte. Catalina puede verse forzada a pagar el precio por el trato que hizo -y a vivir una vida que no quiere.

Girl, Serpent, Thorn is “an alluring feminist fairy tale” (Kirkus Reviews) about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse. There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. But for...

Most protagonists are heroes confined to the pages of a book...most heroes are not Watchers. When Laney sends William home to be healed by his father, she thinks she will never see him again. After all, his home is in colonial Massachusetts in the story she wrote last year. But when William’s words and actions mysteriously begin to appear on her page, she wonders if she’s lost all control over her characters and their stories.

In 1884 London, 12-year-old Albert Gladwyck must decide whether to follow his generous heart or learn to harden it in the harsh world in which he lives. As a River Thames scavenger, he has made the find of a lifetime, a wrecked boat full of goods, washed up on the Isle of Dogs and hidden from view. To save himself and his mum from severe poverty, he must try to make salvage from the wreck before the other mudlarks find it, before the bully, George Hardly, catches up to him, before illness and death from the poisonous river have a say in the matter.

Gul has spent her life running. She has a star-shaped birthmark on her arm, and in the kingdom of Ambar, girls with such birthmarks have been disappearing for years. Gul’s mark is what caused her parents’ murder at the hand of King Lohar’s ruthless soldiers and forced her into hiding to protect her own life. So when a group of rebel women called the Sisters of the Golden Lotus rescue her, take her in, and train her in warrior magic, Gul wants only one thing: revenge.

A thrilling new fantasy about the lengths two sisters will go for each other from Rebecca Ross, the extraordinary Sunday Times and New York Times number-one-bestselling author of DIVINE RIVALS. Perfect for fans of Ember in the Ashes, Sky In the Deep, and Court of Fives. Two sisters… one...

An enthralling fantasy adventure that follows a teenage girl chosen to be the human sacrifice in a deadly game between three heirs who will do anything for the crown. “A deadly dose of danger and ancient magic in a cleverly penned fantasy, perfect for fans of An Ember in the Ashes or Three...

Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal underground in the wake of a failed French Revolution. A CITY DIVIDED A DEADLY BETRAYAL The French Revolution of 1828 has failed, and Paris is in...

Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal underground in the wake of the French Revolution. In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the...

On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm… Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work...

Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as “delightfully deadpan” (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called “a clever, romantic farce” (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical...