Reychel, a young slave, has been deprived a view of the outside world unless in the presence of her master. Windows are shuttered, curtains drawn. She is the only one who does not have the freedom to see the sun, but her master allows her to see the world when in his presence. He allows her a special audience where she entertains the man with imaginative stories.

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Torberta, orphaned at an early age, hears ghosts. Everyone thinks she is crazy so her guardians enroll her in a school for children with emotional problems. Life is as normal as can be expected at school. Torberta has a few friends but most of the kids avoid her.

When strange things begin to happen at school — power outages, fires, students being injured — Torberta must listen to the voices and try to save her classmates and herself before it is too late.

Mawhiney has written a powerful young adult novel that is disturbing in its honest portrayal of an orphaned and outcast teen who suffers harsh treatment at the hands of her guardians and her peers. (more…)

Transitioning to life as a vampire has been a struggle for Cynthia; she has no one to explain the rules. Is she allergic to garlic? Will holy water burn? The one thing she does know is that vampires can be killed. Her partner was murdered, and now the vampire hunters are on her trail. Cynthia has decided to leave North Carolina behind and is heading for California. On the way, she rescues Josie, a teen in trouble, a wisecracking, smart and funny runaway who certainly makes life entertaining. Together with her family, Cynthia will face the vampire hunters and adjust to her new life as one of the undead and, in the process, discover love.
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Amanda Flynn contracted an mysterious virus years ago, a virus that kills almost everyone who contracts it. Those that do survive become violent and kill with no qualms. Amanda is different. She has gained the supernatural strength and the ability to use her mind to control others and read their minds, but she resists the urge to kill. But these powers tempt her to see just how far she can take these extraordinary abilities. A spate of violent deaths in a Colorado town has convinced Amanda that the virus has been released and the government believes she holds the key to a vaccine. But no government, no agents can detain a woman who holds such power.
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Jim Oster, a bio-engineer, inadvertently tears a hole between two realities, and in the process, his beloved wife Val is killed. A grieving Jim must enter this world and find the Dark Gulf, a place where souls eventually ascend or are forever swept away in darkness, if he ever hopes to be reunited with his wife.
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Abby Cooper, psychic extraordinaire and FBI profiler, has been recruited by the CIA as a spy. Some nasty criminal types have stolen a drone from the U.S. military, a drone which contains powerful software that has the ability to detect a person’s unique aura. With the software in the wrong hands the world’s leaders can be targeted and terminated by identifying their one-of-a-kind aura. With no time to spare, Abby and Dutch Rivers work hand in hand to retrieve the software before something terrible happens. But Abby quickly finds out that world leaders are not the only targets.
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The corelings rise from the earth each night as the sun sets. These demons have one objective: wipe out all humans. The magical wards the villagers use can be breached, and the wards that have the power to kill have been lost for generations.

Now a group of young survivors sets out beyond the safety of their warded villages to seek the ancient knowledge that can save mankind. A great battle looms on the horizon and these brave young fighters are all that stand between the demons and the rest of the world.
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Skye has yet to find her true love, but with the help of her Aunt Mary’s love potion all that is about to change. The potion, found in a second-hand spell book, promises to deliver her true love within seven days, and although Skye is skeptical she has nothing to lose. Prince Aryan also seeks his true love, and if he does not find her soon he will be forced to marry a stranger. With the Queen’s blessing Aryan is granted leave from the fairy court to search for her. With the help of a well-meaning aunt and Queen mother will true love finally be revealed to Skye and Prince Aryan?
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Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and spy, has broken her magical vows, her former master is dead, her magic is weak and she has been exiled from the city she served. With determined assassins shadowing her every move, Isyllt seeks refuge in Assar.

Deep in the desert, a ghost wind is unleashed, a wind that strips flesh from bone and leaves death in its wake. The wind is driven by ancient spirits who after centuries of imprisonment are now finally loosening their bonds.
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Jianna Belandor, liberated from the rebel stronghold by Falaste, has now convinced him to escort her back to her home so she may be reunited with her beloved father.

What Jianna finds is not the beautiful city she remembers. Not only has her father left the city but much of the Veiled Isles lies in ruin stricken by plague and violent uprisings. (more…)

Change is upon the Veiled Isles. A great shift in magic is about to occur and that shift will destroy the world as it is known. Humans will no longer have a place. Time is short and only a small number of people have the ability to sense the oncoming change. They will have to pool their magic to stop the oncoming cataclysm, but can enemies put aside generations of hatred for the greater good?
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Brendan Douglas has spent years in hiding. Máelodor, an evil mage, is determined to use Brendan to open King Arthur’s tomb so he can claim power for the Fae. But Brendan knows he must be stopped, and the only way to do that is to retrieve a special key which he gifted to a woman he abandoned seven years ago. Elisabeth Fitzgerald is about to be married to a man who can provide a stable home. But just days before the wedding a man she thought was dead, a man she loved deeply, has returned.
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Sunday Woodcutter is the youngest of seven sisters, all named after days of the week. Sunday loves to write stories, but is sad and a little lonely because no one will listen to them. One day she meets an enchanted frog named Grumble who begs to hear her stories. Soon Sunday and Grumble fall in love. After a kiss goodbye, love’s true kiss, Grumble is transformed back into Prince Rumbold. (more…)

Harry Turtledove takes readers on a journey through time with “what if” scenarios that will fascinate and entertain fans of speculative fiction. Atlantis and Other Places features twelve stories that give alternate histories of famous historical events, historical figures and creates a detailed history of the lost island of Atlantis.
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Father Chris Mognahan is a member of the secret society Hetairia Melchizedek which studies biblical omens. Chris is tasked with investigating a particularly brutal crime on a college campus. He quickly realizes the murder has a connection with the final biblical prophecy. One of the seven archangels is preparing to blow her horn, heralding the end of times, but the prophecy threatens to be fulfilled too soon. (more…)

Mikayla is a typical teen. All she wants is to be with friends play video games and enjoy a life with little responsibility, all that changes when she is attacked and has a near death experience. When she returns from that moment between life and death Mikayla can see auras, pretty cool. Well not really. The auras are really demons and Mikayla has been tasked with seeing them dispatched back to hell.
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Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh is the Dept Head of the Innovative Crime Investigation Unit, known as the Rule 34 Squad. Liz follows illegal internet activity and she has uncovered an alarming pattern in a group of sadistic murders, all of the victims had been arrested for illegal spamming of a bizarre sexual nature, bringing fantasies to life. (more…)

Tess Livingston, an FBI agent, and Ian Ritter, a journalist, are rushed off a bus in Ecuador. Neither has any memory of how or when they got on the bus. They both have tickets to Esperanza but they do not know why and no one is bothering to explain it to them.

When Tess and Ian come together a prophecy will be fulfilled and the tiny town of Esperanza, a town overrun with brujos, will wage war. (more…)

 The Fiend and the Forge is one of the most thrilling fantasy series for children that I have read in years. It is always exciting to read an author who writes children’s literature that does not subscribe to the theory that simpler is better. The characters Neff creates are layered and often flawed but rise to greatness though great loss and tragedy that they have suffered. You will be hard-pressed to find more interesting and engaging characters in this genre.
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This anthology contains thirty-one stories that will make the little hairs on the back of your neck stand at attention. Come along for a trip to the rural areas of America where folklore becomes reality, to the brightly lit cities where demons await, and then travel to the ghost town that is Chernobyl. Each story takes you on a creepy journey where nothing is as it seems.
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