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Charmed meets Pride and Prejudice. Like any good mysterious witch, Amaya seldom ventures further than the woods that surround her cottage. She fills her days with foraging, spell testing, and reading. Amaya would happily spend all her days and nights curled up with a steaming mug of tea or playing her harp. Anything would be preferable to trying to contain Rue, the chaotic runaway bride who suddenly appears on her doorstep insisting they're fated mates. Rue is determined to take charge of her life and by extension Amaya's.

'Amber's series breaks the rules in the best way. Her main character is strong, capable, and unapologetically powerful. There is no damsel here. This story is filled with fast-paced action, an in-depth world, and a romance that goes from simmer to boil. If you like romantasy, read this!' RAVEN...

Dianna is hellbent on revenge. As the last shred of her humanity is ripped from her, she decides to embrace her monstrous side and set the worlds alight. Samkiel alone refuses to believe that she has become the monster that everyone else sees, and he'll do anything in his power to save her from herself, even if it means losing her. With every realm now at risk from Kaden's army, and a myriad of new threats on the horizon, Samkiel can't afford to let his guard down. And as Dianna's thirst for blood only increases, he is running out of time to save them both.

Can there be peace without bloodshed? Now in control of a court, Faye allows those without magic entry, offering protection and sanctuary from those who possess it. But when her actions infuriate the old houses in Necromia, Faye is determined to rule without bloodshed and protect her people from the immortals who view the realm of Anaria as it has always been—the peasant lands. As tensions build, the Court of Lace and Bone, led by a sadistic dark-blooded queen named Delilah, openly challenges Faye.

The Totters of Totown live bright lives in the shadow of Anansi's Peak. Well, all except the Scrooge, who lives on the mountain, throwing snowballs and chasing away all who try to bring Giftmas cheer their way. Merithia knows that, but when her only true friend and their entire family may have to work off gifting debt they can't afford to pay, she decides to venture up the mountain for advice from the Scrooge, who has watched them from afar for decades.

Orphaned and separated as young children, the Freischin sisters are nothing if not survivors. Now, in middle age, Pearl is blindsided by a sexual harassment allegation at the school where she's taught for decades, while her sister Scarlett is left penniless after her husband is imprisoned for embezzling. Meanwhile, Pearl's son Declan, a college student and track star struggling with anxiety, quits school when he becomes entangled with a young con-artist. Scarlett's daughter, former tennis phenom Helena, needs help as well.

Alina Ravenscroft has a plan: graduate from Coven Crest Academy, master her magic, and join the king's powerful coven of witches. The only problem? The king is her grandfather, and he insists she can't attend without a knight by her side. A bodyguard. A babysitter.

In all her years as queen, Allydia has shown mercy only once, long ago, to a man whose fate had been decided for him. Now, as her people rebel and talk of civil war spreads like a virus, she’ll have to be as ruthless as ever to crush her enemies, including the man she pardoned all those years ago. Wyatt will do anything to protect what’s left of his family. But, with his anxiety through the roof and his dead wife stopping by for a chat, his latest sacrifice may prove too great to bear.

They say that true love is ever lasting and can endure through every test. The limits of Ariel Day and Devon Knight’s love are being tested with every mark she’s instructed to extinguish, and every clue he investigates bringing him closer to finding out her darkest secret.

When Sole awakens from the darkness, a terrifying plague that killed her family, she is left with the one thing she never wanted: Magick. She soon discovers that this rare power, thought to be long lost, has the ability to save her world. The tyrant King of Sundom summons her to serve his own purpose, setting her on an incredibly perilous journey. Sole soon finds herself navigating a dark web of politics, alluring power, desire, and great evil.

Discovering she is another world’s prophesied heroine was not something Hannah Winters could have ever predicted. However, having accepted the mantle of Aerisia’s Artan, Hannah must now move beyond the pain of the past and conquer her magic in order to save this land.

In a world where powerful men hold all the control and magic is the ultimate privilege, Aila grew up with two secrets: Spy to a powerful man and the only wielder of Darkness! She was groomed to kill and to lie, and she learned, from a very young age, that her own power could become her weakness. But her latest mission will either force her to reveal herself or to betray her only friend!

Gwen Carter is pissed. After gaining a second magical disability, the last thing she needs is a summons to her hometown of freaking Hoodoo, Texas. After accepting an inheritance too complicated to refuse, it goes from bad to "oh crap" when she witnesses a horrifying murder by black magic. As Gwen climbs higher on the suspect list, she’s terrified that she has yet to break the family curse.

Once, I believed the planes between the witches' and warlock’s realms were separated by happenstance, like some sort of cosmic yin-yang. I was woefully naïve back then. The summer of my 24th birthday, the head of our coven made me a proposition. A 17-year peace deal is ending, and they must deliver a witch-bride to the warlock king in the parallel plane within six months’ time.

Fairy tales have been spun for thousands of years and remain among our most treasured stories. Weaving fresh tales with unexpected reimaginings, At Midnight brings together a diverse group of celebrated YA writers to breathe new life into a storied tradition.

Lady Luck missed her flight to Dublin. My enemies, however, did not. All I need to do is stay alive until my 45th birthday, and then the rest of my life will be mine to screw up without the help of my family’s curse. A couple rogue vampires and the hottest man I’ve ever laid eyes on will do everything they can to derail my plans. Okay, maybe I don’t mind the hot man so much. Hopefully the ancestors will help a sister out for the next 36 hours. Midlife isn’t supposed to be this dangerous.

With the angels destroying his last chance at happiness, Cain seeks revenge. Knowing he’s no match for them in a fair fight, he goes after those they care for, determined to take from them what’s been so brutally withheld from him for millennia: comfort, stability, love, and family. As her father’s cruelty spreads to the man she loves, Allydia can no longer hide. She must confront him, consequences be damned.

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Before she was an author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels, N. D. Jones was an educator. In her essay, she reflects on her 20-plus years as an educator in a field where most public school teachers and administrators are middle-class White women responsible for the academic future of more than 20 million students of color. Jones’ insights come from her years of facilitating cultural proficiency professional development for employees in a White-dominated public school system where all is supposed to mean all, yet racial inequity and disproportionality persist.

Nineteen-year-old Eris Telari was never supposed to rule Brucia. She’s always been more interested in swordplay than courtly intrigue. After her brother’s assassination, however, Eris has no choice but to take up the crown and defend her city against an invasion led by an undefeated elven warlord. With Brucia’s forces decimated, and a siege looming, Eris needs help. Who better to repel the elven invaders than a band of elven mercenaries? Their leader, Ruith, is as charming as he is deadly, and used to getting what he wants.