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In 1958, a rumble goes down outside the brand-new high school in Honeyville, Texas. Chaos ensues, a life is lost, and Johnny Kinross disappears. But in 2010, someone finds him. Orphaned at the age of 10, 17-year-old Maggie O'Bannon finally finds a permanent home with her elderly aunt in a small Texas town. Working part-time as a school janitor, she becomes enmeshed in a 50-year-old tragedy where nothing is as it seems and the boy of her dreams might vanish when the bell rings.

It was a big lie. The biggest lie she’d ever told. It reverberated through her head as she said it, ringing eerily. “Are you in love with Noah, Mercedes?” Cora asked. “I mean...I know you love him. You’ve been friends forever. We all have. But are you in love with him?” If it had been anyone else - anyone - Mercedes would have stuck out her chest, folded her skinny arms, and let her feelings be known. She would have claimed him. But it was Cora. Brave, beautiful, broken Cora, and Cora loved Noah too. So Mercedes lied. And with that lie, she lost him.

The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn't speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would sell his soul and lose his son to the sky. My father wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free. But freedom will require escape, and I'm a prisoner of my mother's curse and my father's greed. In a land purged of enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love...a bird?

Kjell of Jeru had always known who he was. He'd never envied his brother or wanted to be king. He was the bastard son of the late King Zoltev and a servant girl, and the ignominy of his birth had never bothered him. But there is more to this man than his parentage. More to this man than his blade, his size, or his skills, and all that Kjell once knew has shifted and changed. He is no longer simply Kjell of Jeru, a warrior defending the crown. Now he is a healer, one of the Gifted, and a man completely at odds with his power.

Bayr of Saylok, bastard son of a powerful and jealous chieftain, is haunted by the curse once leveled by his dying mother. Bartered, abandoned, and rarely loved, she plagued the land with her words: From this day forward, there will be no daughters in Saylok. Raised among the Keepers at Temple Hill, Bayr is gifted with inhuman strength. But he’s also blessed with an all-too-human heart that beats with one purpose: to protect Alba, the first girl child born in nearly two decades and the salvation for a country at risk.

An insidious curse is weakening the Norse kingdom of Saylok, where no daughters have been born in years. Washing up on these plagued shores is Ghisla, an orphaned stowaway nursed back to health by Hod, a blind cave dweller. Named for a mysterious god, Hod is surrounded by prophecy. To Ghisla, he’s a cherished new friend, but to Hod, the girl is much more. For when Ghisla sings, Hod can see.

New York, 1960: For Benny Lament, music is his entire life. With his father’s deep ties to the mob, the Bronx piano man has learned that love and family can get you in trouble. So he keeps to himself, writing songs for other musicians, avoiding the spotlight…until the night his father brings him to see Esther Mine sing. Esther is a petite powerhouse with a gorgeous voice. And when Benny writes a hit song and performs it with her, their collaboration thrusts the duo onto the national stage…and stirs up old issues and new scrutiny that the mob--and Benny--would rather avoid.

" On nous maltraite. On se sert de nous. On nous troque, on nous abandonne. Mais on ne nous aime que si rarement. Qu'il en soit ainsi. À compter de ce jour, plus aucune fille ne naîtra à Saylok. " Guerrière la plus féroce de son clan, Desdémone a toujours suscité l'admiration et l'envie des hommes de l'île de Saylok. Aussi, quand elle est reniée et abandonnée par Banruud, le chef du clan voisin et le père de son enfant à naître, la rage lui fait commettre l'irréparable.

When infamous outlaw Butch Cassidy decides to go straight, he discovers that too many of the powerful men he crossed won’t let bygones be bygones. To have a chance at a new life, he’ll have to become someone else entirely. A brief, fateful encounter with the celebrated singer Jane Touissant on the eve of his escape offers a glimpse of what might have been, but Butch disappears, leaving her behind, until their paths unexpectedly converge again in Paris.

Massachusetts, 1780. Depuis la petite ferme isolée du Massachusetts où elle travaille comme servante depuis ses dix ans, Deborah Samson rêve de Boston, de New York et de Philadelphie, de découvrir des endroits qui n'ont pas encore de nom... À vingt et un ans, elle attend impatiemment le jour où elle pourra enfin goûter à la liberté et explorer le monde. Alors, quand la guerre pour l'indépendance des colonies éclate, elle trouve dans la cause américaine, opposée à l'oppression anglaise, un écho singulier à sa propre situation.

Une terrible malédiction affaiblit depuis des années le royaume de Saylok où plus aucune fille ne naît. Alors quand une orpheline, Ghisla, échoue sur ces terres maudites, elle devient l'objet de toutes les convoitises. Hod, le jeune homme aveugle qui l'a recueillie, sait qu'il ne pourra pas la protéger, aussi lui propose-t-il de rejoindre la Colline du Temple où les dernières filles de l'île ont été rassemblées. Lié à Ghisla par une mystérieuse prophétie, il a l'intime conviction qu'ils ne seront jamais vraiment loin l'un de l'autre.