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Seventeen-year-old musician Xue faces a lifetime of servitude until Duke Meng offers her freedom in exchange for serving as a musician in residence, but Xue soon discovers the Duke is a celestial ruler with ulterior motives and she must unlock her past to prevent an impending war in the Six Realms
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Guild hunter volume 16
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Raphael and Elena are experiencing their first ever year of true peace. No war. No horrors of archangelic power. No nightmares given flesh. Until ... the earth beneath the Refuge begins to tremble, endangering not only angelkind's precious and fragile young, but the very place that has held their most innocent safe for eons. Amid the chaos, Elena's father suffers a violent heart attack that threatens to extinguish their last chance to heal the bonds...
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"In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they lurk, its been five years since young witches and lovers Caro Rabbit and Iccadora Alice Sickle were both sentenced to that forest for a crime they didnt commitand four years since they shattered one anothers hearts, each willing to sacrifice the other for a chance at freedom. Now, Caro is a successful royal Saint-harvester, living the high life in the glittering capital...
4) Dragonfruit
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"In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person's greatest sorrow. But as with all things that offer hope when hope has gone, the tale comes with a warning. Every wish demands a price. Hanalei of Tamarind is the cherished daughter of an old island family. But when her father steals a seadragon egg meant for an ailing princess, she is forced into a life of exile. In the years that...
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"Zenya was a teenager when she ran away from home to join the Mecha God's warrior sect. She was determined to earn her copper wings and protect the people and city she loved. Under the strict tutelage of a mercurial, charismatic leader, Zenya became Winged Zemolai. But after twenty-six years of service, Zemolai is disillusioned with her role as an enforcer in an increasingly fascist state. After one tragic act of mercy, she is cast out and loses everything...
6) THE FAMILIAR
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
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Eli, who possesses unique magical abilities, and Malcolm, desperate to escape his past and save his mother, join forces to retrieve a dangerous magical artifact in the mystical underbelly of London
"Eli doesn’t know who he is or who he came from. Three years ago, he was found by his now-best friends, Sunny and Max, who gave him a home in a magical sanctuary doubling as a Caribbean restaurant. What Eli does know is that he can heal a wound with...
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The first epic fantasy from David R. Slayton, author of the Adam Binder series, Dark Moon, Shallow Sea is a powerful story of divine betrayal, ghosts, and mystery, perfect for fans of Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson.
Raef seeks revenge on the knights of the sun god for murdering his goddess, the moon. Her death stopped the tides, darkened the night sky, and left the shades of the dead without a path to the underworld. Now they rise each night in a...
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"Whispers of The Forgotten" In a quaint seaside town, mysterious whispers from the past echo through the narrow streets, drawing a curious young woman named Amelia into a world filled with forgotten secrets. Each chapter unravels a different aspect of the town's history, revealing hidden connections between its residents and a long-lost relic that holds the key to their intertwined fates. As Amelia delves deeper, she discovers love, betrayal, and...
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Having destroyed the Luaranz Kingdom and South Runan Kingdom, Erhin has finally laid the foundation for the New Eintorian Kingdom. However, as king of a fledgling nation, he faces a mountain of new problems. With the kingdom's coffers low and a food shortage on the horizon, Erhin decides to focus on stabilizing domestic issues while keeping the other nations in check. Unfortunately, the neighboring countries now see the New Eintorian Kingdom as a...
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Step into the haunting world of Havoc: The Rise of Ɖavo, where the brutal war that gripped Croatia in 1991 is just the beginning of a genocidal wave that threatens humanity's very existence. But one man has been planning for this all along. To him, the Battle of Vukovar and the spread of violence symbolize an imperfect world that needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up. He sees himself as a hero, a psychopath, an invincible death machine,...
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Ten creepy, scary dark fantasy short stories that will turn you blood to ice.The hour is getting late. A fire crackles and pops and the group huddles together closer to the fire, basking in the comfort of its warmth and light. The s'mores are a pleasant memory.Somewhere off in the distance an owl hoots. Crickets are chirping and the eerie howl of the coyote punctuates the symphony of night sounds.It is time for spooky campfire stories. You know, the...
13) Tumba de brujas
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El mal siempre encuentra la manera de regresar
El aquelarre entra en alerta ante la noticia de que un grupo de brujos está tratando de traer al plano físico a un poderoso demonio. Atemorizados por la idea de que Asmodeo esté buscando reencarnar, suman esfuerzos para proteger a la nueva integrante de su clan, quien podría convertirse en el vehículo perfecto para que este ser regrese a la vida. Entonces, el coven se divide para cumplir con su...
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Julian Crane is eighteen years old, a noted deviant with no regard for the rules and a penchant for trouble. After the murder of his grandfather, he leaves his Christian faith opting for the study of occultism and the magical arts. Through experimentation, Julian discovers that through the altered states of lucid dreaming, one can visit the mysterious realm of the seven dream worlds. Upon discovering that both the soul of the dreamer and those of...
15) Midnight Fear
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Even the strongest of vampires has a breaking point: for Marcelle, it was being tortured by a witch in New York and trying to return to her regular existence as if nothing had happened. She has too much to do to allow herself to focus on something as trivial as trauma. Occult hunters accost her witch allies; an aggravating pyromancer needles a fiery thorn in her side; and the coronation of one of her lovers, the vampire crown prince of New Ulster,...
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Aceptar la oscuridad es la única manera de enfrentarla
Simón Pálafox ha sido invadido por algo oscuro y maligno. Una sombra arcaica que araña su alma y lo conduce al límite de la locura. Él intenta sobrellevar su vida tras la catástrofe del virus Inframantis, al tiempo que –a su alrededor– el mundo no logra abandonar el miedo constante de saber que Cielo e Infierno son una realidad.
Tras varios meses de confinamiento, Adrián y los demás...
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She wants to spend forever with him, though she's unsure this will turn out this way... After maintaining an online relationship for months, Silas moves in with his brother in Alaska, in order to make things offical with his lover. Things go as planned, until a deal is made with a vengeful angel that wants to rewrite all of God's work - this being the creations on earth. Believing this to be a purification, a tragic event occurs that forces the brothers...
18) Shades of War
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THERE'S MORE THAN ONE ROAD TO REDEMPTIONIt began as a simple request: Journey to Asur's Pass, an isolated military fort in the savage wilds of the Northern Jungles and escort a wayward son back to the safety of his family farm before the tensions building between humans and dark elves erupt into a full-blown civil war.But nothing is ever simple for someone who finds trouble as easily as Sevy does. There's a madman roaming the jungles, and the ghosts...
19) Without a Shadow
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You can only teach your shadow one trick . . .
Adlai Bringer remembers going to the desert market with her father: The colorful tents, the wink of gold, and her father's shadow, black as night, as it moved of its own accord and stole whatever trinket she wanted. He called it the Shadow Game.
After her father disappears, Adlai keeps going back to the market determined to find some trace of him and stealing what she can with her shadow. Until one...
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I thought planning a wedding would be easy, but I was so wrong. "Farrah … There are important matters that we must discuss. Please return home soon."The Fae part of my heritage demands that I need to get my estranged Fae father's blessing before I wed. I haven't seen him in years, and I don't know where in Faerie he is, but if I don't get his blessing, it will turn into a curse that will eventually poison my upcoming marriage.But Faerie is no place...
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