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Wyatt is a schizophrenic firefighter from New Jersey. Gabriel is the quick-witted, bisexual Messenger of God. Together with their siblings and Earth's first vampire, they must defeat the most twisted and depraved demon the world has ever known before she closes the gate between Heaven and Earth, enslaving humanity and slaughtering millions.

The Before doesn’t matter, only The After. In a post-apocalyptic Earth ravaged by nuclear war, humanity struggles to survive amidst the aftermath of radiation that has altered their DNA. Amongst the survivors, elemental magic runs through their veins, while a select few have developed extraordinary powers. Amaia is a fierce leader in The Compound, a powerful community in Monterey, California, that’s been fighting to defend its borders against a series of attacks from the undead.

Malibu Washington (yes, that’s her real name!) is an R&B singer turned influencer with a voice that will bring you to your knees and a face made for magazine covers. She survived a messy divorce from Tyrese—her first love, father of her son, the man who made her famous, and the one who broke her heart. Now she’s engaged to Jaylen, a man who promised her forever.

Charmed meets Pride and Prejudice. Like any good mysterious witch, Amaya seldom ventures further than the woods that surround her cottage. She fills her days with foraging, spell testing, and reading. Amaya would happily spend all her days and nights curled up with a steaming mug of tea or playing her harp. Anything would be preferable to trying to contain Rue, the chaotic runaway bride who suddenly appears on her doorstep insisting they're fated mates. Rue is determined to take charge of her life and by extension Amaya's.

A bond forged through secrets. A devastating, simmering attraction. And beneath it all, the truth that will save or doom me. The heart-wrenching sequel to Among Shadows.

After my father’s death, my stepmother assumed control of my life. She believes I’ll cave to her demands, even when that means arranging a marriage to a man who makes my skin crawl. With no other choice, I ran toward comfort. The Blacksmith, a kind soul the fae have turned their backs on. He’s allowed nothing: no name, no rights, no wife. To be with the man I want, I’ll have to make a deal with a God. An immortal being who promises to help at the cost of one night together. An idea that makes me burn with desire.

Due to a traumatic family event on a past winter, Ivy doesn’t do emotions, love, or Christmas. Unfortunately, this year her best friend is having a destination Christmas wedding in Lapland, Finland—a winter wonderland full of holiday spirit. There, the air is fresh, crisp, and full of magic. Additionally, Ivy is the maid of honor, and she’ll be walking down the aisle with her best friend’s brother, Saint. He’s the only man in this world that has been able to warm her cold heart. Somehow, she’ll try to avoid this wretched holiday and her feelings for Saint.

In all her years as queen, Allydia has shown mercy only once, long ago, to a man whose fate had been decided for him. Now, as her people rebel and talk of civil war spreads like a virus, she’ll have to be as ruthless as ever to crush her enemies, including the man she pardoned all those years ago. Wyatt will do anything to protect what’s left of his family. But, with his anxiety through the roof and his dead wife stopping by for a chat, his latest sacrifice may prove too great to bear.

They say that true love is ever lasting and can endure through every test. The limits of Ariel Day and Devon Knight’s love are being tested with every mark she’s instructed to extinguish, and every clue he investigates bringing him closer to finding out her darkest secret.

Discovering she is another world’s prophesied heroine was not something Hannah Winters could have ever predicted. However, having accepted the mantle of Aerisia’s Artan, Hannah must now move beyond the pain of the past and conquer her magic in order to save this land.

In a world where powerful men hold all the control and magic is the ultimate privilege, Aila grew up with two secrets: Spy to a powerful man and the only wielder of Darkness! She was groomed to kill and to lie, and she learned, from a very young age, that her own power could become her weakness. But her latest mission will either force her to reveal herself or to betray her only friend!

Gwen Carter is pissed. After gaining a second magical disability, the last thing she needs is a summons to her hometown of freaking Hoodoo, Texas. After accepting an inheritance too complicated to refuse, it goes from bad to "oh crap" when she witnesses a horrifying murder by black magic. As Gwen climbs higher on the suspect list, she’s terrified that she has yet to break the family curse.

Once, I believed the planes between the witches' and warlock’s realms were separated by happenstance, like some sort of cosmic yin-yang. I was woefully naïve back then. The summer of my 24th birthday, the head of our coven made me a proposition. A 17-year peace deal is ending, and they must deliver a witch-bride to the warlock king in the parallel plane within six months’ time.

Lady Luck missed her flight to Dublin. My enemies, however, did not. All I need to do is stay alive until my 45th birthday, and then the rest of my life will be mine to screw up without the help of my family’s curse. A couple rogue vampires and the hottest man I’ve ever laid eyes on will do everything they can to derail my plans. Okay, maybe I don’t mind the hot man so much. Hopefully the ancestors will help a sister out for the next 36 hours. Midlife isn’t supposed to be this dangerous.

With the angels destroying his last chance at happiness, Cain seeks revenge. Knowing he’s no match for them in a fair fight, he goes after those they care for, determined to take from them what’s been so brutally withheld from him for millennia: comfort, stability, love, and family. As her father’s cruelty spreads to the man she loves, Allydia can no longer hide. She must confront him, consequences be damned.

The COVID-19 pandemic provided extraordinary challenges and opportunities, but the reality of being in business is that you are consistently confronting obstacles. This compilation of interviews from peer experts was created to bring you the advice you need exactly when you need it. This book is your firsthand introduction to 48 trusted experts who understand you and your business’s needs because they are business owners, entrepreneurs, and CEOs themselves. They want to see you succeed and grow—and graciously share their knowledge so you can take it and make it work for you.

Before she was an author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels, N. D. Jones was an educator. In her essay, she reflects on her 20-plus years as an educator in a field where most public school teachers and administrators are middle-class White women responsible for the academic future of more than 20 million students of color. Jones’ insights come from her years of facilitating cultural proficiency professional development for employees in a White-dominated public school system where all is supposed to mean all, yet racial inequity and disproportionality persist.

The 1960s are bursting with music and movement and love in San Francisco, perfect for a budding artist like Blake. Unfortunately, the art world is not welcoming to people of her gender or her multi-racial heritage, making it tough to land an internship that could put her on the map. That, plus the fact that Blake's family has been notoriously riddled with bad luck, makes her feel like she can't catch a break. Things only get worse when Blake starts to have ominous, confusing visions that grow stronger and more frequent.

The war for the Gate rages on; one army of monsters against another. When a Tituban witch falls into Gabriel's lap, Lucifer thinks she's the siblings' saving grace. But as her feelings for her new lover grow, Gabriel worries about Wendy's safety...and their relationship status.

When you need advice for what is happening in the world right now as it affects your business, you don't have time to take a course and become the expert. You need to tap into the knowledge of those who have already figured out the next steps. This compilation of interviews was taken in the first six months of the pandemic when the world was both at a standstill and changing moment to moment.