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In a world rebuilt after the Rift Wars, where steel titans and elemental magic collide in high-octane arena combat, one teenager dares to dream beyond the ruins. Pepper Walker isn’t a hero. He’s just a high schooler working dead-end shifts at Rocket Burger, dodging bullies, and obsessing over Golem League matches. But when fate catapults him from fan to fighter, he'll need more than heart to survive—he'll need strategy, skill, and a golem of his own.

June 1293. David, King of England. Philip, King of France. A holy war neither man wants to fight. A militant pope. A treacherous baron. A jealous brother.

Among the Academy's warrior-thieves, Annev de Breth is an outlier. Unlike his classmates who were stolen as infants from the capital city, Annev was born in the small village of Chaenbalu, was believed to be executed, and then unknowingly raised by his parents' killers. Seventeen years later, Annev struggles with the burdens of a forbidden magic, a forgotten heritage and a secret deformity. When he is caught between the warring ideologies of his priestly mentor and the Academy's masters, he must choose between forfeiting his promising future at the Academy and betraying his friends.

Throughout her studies, Ceony Twill has harbored a secret, one she's kept from even her mentor, Emery Thane. She's discovered how to practice forms of magic other than her own - an ability long thought impossible. While all seems set for Ceony to complete her apprenticeship and pass her upcoming final magician's exam, life quickly becomes complicated. To avoid favoritism, Emery sends her to another paper magician for testing, a Folder who despises Emery and cares even less for his apprentice.

It will take everything they've learned to stop the rise of evil. The last dragon's egg is discovered in the treasury of Veldwaite, launching Lorit and Chihon into a battle with the Temple Priests. They rescue a young Wizard and enlist his help in the fight to stop the Temple from harnessing the power of the last dragon. Now they're the masters, training him. They've come a long way since the farm. Fought many battles. But will it be enough to save the dragons from the clutches of the Temple in their last effort to ensnare the world in darkness?

Rags the thief has never met a pocket he couldn’t pick, but when he’s captured by a sorcerer with world-ending plans, he realizes even he is in over his head. Forced to use his finely honed skills to nab pieces of an ancient fae relic, Rags is stunned to discover that those “relics” just happen to be people: a distractingly handsome Fae prince, a too-honorable Queensguard deserter, a scrappy daughter of a disgraced noble family, a deceptively sweet-natured prince, a bona fide member of the Resistance, and him. Rags.

The first title in a new Forgotten Realms series focusing on the popular Dungeons & Dragons game character class of Fighters. Each title will feature characters with a different exotic style of fighting.

In a grim not-so-distant future where debt and drugs run rampant, Margot Azenari studies memory editing alongside the offspring of the rich and famous. She dreams of erasing the bad memories from her childhood. Margot makes plans to escape the pain of her past, but her plans go awry when her mentor, Dr. Xander, asks for her help with a secret project.

The cruelty of the capital and the power-hungry King Arden have scattered Bleak and her companions across the continents. On the run in a foreign land, Bleak finds herself tied to some unexpected strangers. When the answers she yearns for are finally within reach, she must face the hard truths of her past and take her fate into her own hands before it’s too late. Meanwhile, secrets and magic unravel as a dark power corrupts the realm. Bleak’s friends are forced to decide where their loyalties lie, and who, if anyone, they can trust.

Toxic mist drives all life to the brink of destruction, and the conqueror queen, Ines, has her talons in the kings of the realm. Bleak, having discovered her true heritage, must now scour the lands for the one thing that might save them all. But the search is a treacherous one - and it will push her to the very limits of endurance. Amidst secrets, lies, and the intricacies of battle, Bleak and her companions learn just how far they’ll go for the ones they love. But will it be enough?

Gwen's family had one rule: stay out of Grandma's garden. But when an annoying cousin pressures her into breaking it, she pulls an ancient book from the old well and unleashes a dark magic from its ancient prison. The magic needs a new host, and Gwen is chosen. Faced with her own powers she didn't realize she possessed, Gwen must learn to wield her magic, before it takes over her soul and destroys the world.

Think twice before running away! That is the piece of advice Ean McMurrin wished he could have given himself before he defied his parents by leaving. Master's Touch is an action adventure, fantasy fiction novel filled with magical dragons, leprechauns, shapeshifters, and fairies. In this mystical world, Ean is destined to be king and Talent Master, if he can rescue the Irish teen, Adair O’Conner, and survive blood thirsty plants, carnivorous bunnies, and assassins determined to stop them from reaching their destination.

It's been 12 years since the Elf king and great protector, Paron Elloy, died fighting the Mother Dragon. He was the last of the Guardians of the Balance to fall. Since then the world has been weary under the weight of the twin prophecies; one foretelling the end of the world the other foretelling a possible salvation. Fear has been building since Paron's death. However, unbeknownst to all, a 13-year-old thief holds the keys to the prophecies, the elven throne, and a new generation of Guardians.

Everything Elle Hartmut and her friends thought they knew about the alien menace - and the nature of their universe - is wrong. With mounting evidence that the aliens behind the Darkness reside on a hyperdimensional plane above space-time, Elle and the Dark Sentinels will need a new approach to win. However, preventing the impending alien invasion will test their team in ways they never imagined. The ancient artifacts wielded by the Dark Sentinels may hold the key to victory.

Durante il suo lungo apprendistato, Ceony Twill ha tenuto nascosto un segreto al suo stesso mentore, Emery Thane: ha scoperto di poter praticare forme di magia diverse dalla propria, un'abilità da sempre ritenuta impossibile da acquisire. Ormai è giunta al termine del suo percorso e sta per affrontare l'esame finale, ma proprio quando tutto sembra andare per il verso giusto ecco che gli imprevisti si mettono sulla sua strada, complicandole un bel po' la vita.

It has been 10 years since the police had charged him with the murder of his wife - an accusation that almost destroyed Jason’s life before finally being declared innocent. Now, all he wants is to retire and disappear into oblivion. Jason liked his plan, and it should have worked. Then, a strangely dressed man blew up his plan and sent him to training - warlock training.

The werewolves and vampires go to war with each other over a family feud. Brixton and Helena decides the only way to stop the war and bring peace to both families is to take their own lives. Daynikson is crowned afterward. Daynikson falls in love with a mortal. They are executed because of their love. Before they are killed, the mortal woman gives birth to a boy. The son of Daynikson falls in love with one of his own, a vampire. They are made into slaves from their own hearts and minds. The only way out is to end their lives. Will they or will they break free?

Before St. Augustine earns his position as bishop, he and his teenage son must save the good name of the early Christian Church and rescue an altar boy from the clutches of a soul-capturing daemon. To do so, one of the two must travel to an unknown spiritual realm called the Neither, which lies between Purgatory and Hell, risking their eternal soul in the process. This Masters Reimagined tale is written as if Gothic painter Michael Pacher painted his St. Augustine Confounds the Devil masterpiece specifically for the story.

When the young chieftain Zoë Wind discovers the notorious Rex Timber is out of hiding, she goes into overdrive to track him down to the ends of Skoldrun to avenge her father’s murder at the hands of Timber five years earlier. Little does she know, Timber is on a quest to collect the runestaves worn around the necks of Skoldrun’s four chieftains with a plan that could spell the end of the clans.

Seventeen-year-old Kaylin has been on the run, hiding her untapped abilities for six years, but rescuing a mysterious guy risks exposing the depths of her power. The manipulative sector groups hunt her kind. Life has never been easy, but resisting is even harder. This harsh, new world will no longer allow her to remain hidden.