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Having rescued her people in the eastern territories and thwarted another plot to undermine Armelia, Iris throws herself back into the work of governing her duchy. It's only through work that she can make herself forget her growing feelings for Dean, but she can't avoid thoughts of marriage forever. A foreign prince has come to the duchy seeking an alliance--and Iris's hand to cement the deal. If Iris gives herself to the prince, she secures Armelia's future...and gives up her heart forever.

The daughter of a star and a mortal, Sheetal is used to keeping secrets. Pretending to be “normal”. But when an accidental flare of her starfire puts her human father in the hospital, Sheetal needs a full star’s help to heal him. A star like her mother, who returned to the sky long ago. Sheetal’s quest to save her father will take her to a celestial court of shining wonders and dark shadows, where she must take the stage as her family’s champion in a competition to decide the next ruling house of the heavens - and win, or risk never returning to Earth at all.

أُرسلت ألوسا، قائدة القراصنة ذات السبعة عشر عامًا، في مهمة لاستعادة خريطة قديمة مخفية؛ تلك الخريطة التي تعد السبيل إلى الوصول للكنز الأسطوري، وفي هذه الأثناء تعمدت ألوسا أن تقع في أسر أعدائها؛ ما يمنحها الفرصة المثالية للبحث عن الخريطة في سفينتهم. تفوق ألوسا في قوتها طاقم القراصنة شديد القسوة والعنف، ولم يعد يحول بينها وبين الخريطة سوى شيء واحد آسرها، رايدن، مساعد القبطان شديد الذكاء الذي يتمتع بجاذبية ساحرة، لكن لا داعي للقلق، فألوسا تحمل في جعبتها بعض الحيل، ولن يتمكن قرصان واحد من إيقاف ابنة ملك القراصنة.

Livia Blackburne gathered sterling reviews for her fast-paced YA debut, Midnight Thief. In this thrilling sequel, Kyra employs her preternatural thieving skills to preserve a shaky alliance with the Palace. Keeping her newly discovered heritage a secret, Kyra must embrace her Makvani blood to save the city from her Demon Rider kin and their bloodthirsty wildcats.

Seventeen-year-old Violet Winthrope is destined to marry a nobleman if her father has anything to say about it—and he usually does. But Violet yearns for more out of life than being a wife and mother. She dreams of being a powerful sorceress. The problem is she has no magic...until the day she stumbles upon a fragment of a crystal that appears to have stars inside. Enthralled, Violet is compelled to steal it from her father’s study and keeps it hidden on her person.

On the outside, 17-year-old Selena McKinley is like any other teenage girl. Yet Selena has always felt as if she doesn't belong. She is counting the days until graduation, when the arrival of a stranger turns her world upside down. lost princess, they call her, the catalyst for a war involving a world that Selena was taken from as a child. Then there is Titus, the shape shifter whose blue eyes and claims of destiny hold her heart captive. Can Selena find the strength to do what she must while following her heart?

Karou wird von Verrat und Trauer gequält. Jetzt hat Karou nur noch ein Ziel: den jahrtausendealten Krieg zwischen den Chimären, zu denen sie selbst gehört, und den Seraphim zu beenden. Gemeinsam mit ihrem einstigen Feind Thiago – dem Weißen Wolf – zieht Karou sich in die Wüste Marokkos zurück, um dort eine neue Armee zu bilden.

Centuries before she was born, Skye Tomaganuk was a subject of the most important prophecy in Estilorian history. As one of three half-human daughters born of the Corgloresti, Saraqael, she is part of the fulfillment of Knorbis' Great Foretelling. What she doesn't know is just what the Foretelling entails for her and her sisters. As Skye and her sisters continue their training and visit each of the Estilorian class homelands, they soon learn how much impact their human emotions have on their father's kind.

For avid student Olivia Murdoch, life on the Estilorian plane is filled with wondrous adventure. Every lesson about her new existence is both exciting and challenging. Along with her sisters, she embraces this non-human half of herself. Helping with her lessons is her Gloresti, James. Teacher, scholar, and distractingly attractive, James takes on his roles of Olivia's guide and protector with equal dedication. As he learns the human emotions that Estilorians no longer experience, he starts to see Olivia as much more than just an assigned pairing.

In the blink of an eye, Trinity finds herself in front of the elite Royal Guard from the mystical Kingdom of Angor. They tell her she’s Angor’s lost princess and heir to the throne. And the royal blood that runs through her veins gives her immense powers. It also means rebels opposing her father’s rule will stop at nothing until she is captured, or dead. As Trinity discovers the life she lost, she must learn to control her emerging powers and survive at all costs.