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The blood of the Ancients is the most coveted ingredient in all of Damaris. The fabled elixir made from it grants those who drink it life that extends far beyond natural means. There is no higher honor in the kingdom then being granted the privilege of bidding for it. And the people found with the cursed blood? By law, they are the rightful property of the kingdom. They are tributes.

It has been a quiet two weeks since their ill-fated mission to stop a human trafficker, and the crew of Huli Jing has spent the time recovering: Zan has relaxed back into their normal routine of meditation, exercise, and intellectual debates at a high-level vin lounge; Soo-jin’s arm is halfway healed, and she’s getting ready for her first date with her favorite commander; and Bob has been flexing his growing power with new and exciting interdimensional antics.

Between raiding Red Caps and dives into the local dungeon, danger seems to lurk around every corner. Adventure. It makes Hall wonder if he should remain as Lord of Skara Brae. The excitement of life in the wild calls to him, but so do his responsibilities. Both duty and adventure collide when members of the Greencloak Rangers, Hall's favorite faction from the original game, arrive in Skara Brae seeking Leigh's help in her role as Druid Custodian.

With his glory days behind him and nothing but life as a loser to look forward to, Zane can’t wait for MythRune. A first-of-its-kind immersive fantasy game that promises to provide just the escape from reality a washed-up athlete like him needs. But when his younger brother learns he only has weeks left to live, Zane is forced to take his gaming to the next level if he’s going to afford to pay for his brother’s operation and ditch their sorry life forever.

Hall had thought he knew everything about the game, but he’s finding every day that things are different in this new, broken version of Sky Realms Online. There are new game elements, new enemies, and even new locations. After just barely surviving his first boss fight, Hall finds himself in one of those new locations. He's become the lord of a ruined and isolated village called Skara Brae, deep in the middle of hostile territory. Hall and his companions must make the long trek to the city of Silverpeak Keep for much-needed supplies, or they'll risk losing everything.

War dawns on the Asuria continent, and Long Fang will participate. He will forge himself through blood and shed off immaturities. He will rise higher and faster than anyone—or at least try. In this war, there is no right or wrong, only victory or death. Everything is on the line. Can the Lonely Mountain sect grow, adapt, and thrive? Can Long Fang reach the peak before his enemies? The entire world watches with bated breath. This is Cultivator vs. System, and only one can triumph.

Hirrus Callabryn has gotten his revenge against the players who unleashed the Merciless Plague and killed his wife. He's happy to wait for the weekly reset to rejoin his wife in their quiet small-town life. But he isn't the only freed NPC. Far to the west, an unscrupulous evil builds an army of disillusioned NPCs, and Hirrus is tasked to stop it...or else face deletion. Aided by the boisterous adventurer, Alric, Hirrus must find and stop the manipulator before it's too late.

The Ragnarok Tournament is in full swing and The Family Jewels are finally getting the hang of things. They’re leveling up, working as a team, and proving they’ve got the stones to compete with the best. Ben’s confidence is growing—maybe even a little swollen—and for once, it feels like the family might have the tournament in the bag. But just when Ben thinks he’s found his groove, his old guild rolls in and stirs up trouble, leaving the whole crew facing stiff dungeon time.

Follow Henry, a small Trickster Octopus trying to survive in a vast and unfamiliar ocean. He must navigate dangerous and mysterious waters, contend with magic-enhanced marine life, and find civilization—all while armed only with his wits, the ability to temporarily copy skills, and the tools of a bored and forgotten System.

Lia’s meeting was on the 60th floor, in a corner office, with a view of Chicago that took her breath away. When the power went off, her gut told her something horrible was happening. Then she saw the plane heading for the building. She had to get out.

Finding herself in a strange new realm, in a sleek new body not her own, Nikole must learn to survive fast. She quickly befriends an elite healer and his masterfully skilled crew, hoping to find safety in numbers. But bigger problems lurk on the horizon than monsters of the wild. This new world is on the brink of war. Nikole, whose main starting skill is being unskilled, is forced to take on a role far larger than she’s comfortable with. She’s torn between helping her new friends and a desperate desire to go home. How could anyone so ordinary be expected to do such great things?

Clarity's home is her spaceship. Living on the move. Planet to planet. When money trouble forces Clarity and her traveling companion, Irohann, to take on passengers, Irohann worries his secret identity will be revealed. He's a canine alien on the run from an empire of sentient plants, and their queen has a personal vendetta against him. Heartsick at the idea of losing their ship, Clarity accepts an offer that's clearly too good to be true, and they find themselves swept up in the crazy schemes of a rogue AI in a stolen robot body, and her haphazardly assembled team of disparate aliens.

Private Investigator Gaia Charmer brings new meaning to the words "Earth Angel". This mysterious (and bipolar) bombshell has the power of the Earth itself at her fingertips, but the murder of her best friend knocks her world off its axis. Out for blood on the killer’s trail, Gaia and a tough-as-nails sheriff must overcome Landkind — a secret society of movers and shakers with influence over Earthly landforms — and a vicious enemy with the key to her true identity.

Villains Online: Big Bad is a Superhero LitRPG adventure that combines superhero action with everything you love about LitRPG. Strategic battles, character progression, and unpredictable twists and turns that await in this exciting new series.

Forced to flee from the Confederation, Captain Viar of the Bastian Navy is on the run. Fearing that he is marked a traitor to his people, and facing the same fate which befell his father, he seeks a way to redeem himself to Supreme Commander Freist when a prime target approaches. War is inevitable, and he is in position to execute. On a mission to find Steven Chancey, the prime from which his clone, Garret Cushing derived, Ambassador Spar deploys on a new ship with a member of the Litar Guard.

When Kenny is chosen for InterRealm, a real-life wargame where defenders are portaled in from their homeworld, he is forced to survive in a violent fantasy landscape. Build a powerful presence in InterRealm, and his homeworld will likely remain safe. Fail, and the invaders will break through. To top it all off, the game master in his head couldn’t be any less impressed with his assignment. Someone obviously botched their chances when they chose future-college-dropout Kenny. His opportunity to prove everyone wrong starts now.

The Boys meets Logan in book two of this thrilling superhero series from Hunter Blain, best-selling author of the Preternatural Chronicles. Follow Sol as he learns his incredible and deadly powers, hurdles a maze of bureaucratic marionette strings, and comes face-to-face with a ghost from his past.

Marooned at the edge of Terran space, engineer Hemlocke Shaw must join forces with his sworn enemy and combat his greatest fears in an effort to save his friends, and the countless other souls on the isolated Outpost 21. And corporate Peacekeeper Paige Angstrom, teenage outcast Volara, and bounty hunter Emrald Re hurtle towards a secret research facility hidden in the volcanic wilds. As they fight to unmask the nefarious forces behind a ring of disappearances and gene-splicing experiments, it becomes clear that their failure will mean the end of humanity itself.

Ty Draker has never been one to back down from a fight, but going undercover in a brutal, no-holds-barred fighting tournament—his best lead in the hunt for a home-grown terrorist planning another attack—is something he hadn’t expected. Assuming a new identity, he must adapt quickly to survive. Meanwhile, the fallout from the deadly encounter in Ventura, California, still haunts him, and the shadowy forces tailing him are as relentless as ever, with answers slipping further out of reach.

Former soldier Karl Thorson enjoys the independence of choosing his own clients, but the jobs he accepts always take a turn for the weird and the dangerous. From fighting an ancient sorcerer beneath a lost Mayan city to a deadly cat-and-mouse chase with a voodoo priest through an off-shore oil rig, Karl Thorson can’t seem to escape shoot-outs with the supernatural. Can he fulfill his contracts, survive brushes with witches and magically juiced outlaw bikers, and maybe, just maybe, enjoy a cold beer?