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Alina Ravenscroft has a plan: graduate from Coven Crest Academy, master her magic, and join the king's powerful coven of witches. The only problem? The king is her grandfather, and he insists she can't attend without a knight by her side. A bodyguard. A babysitter.

Orphaned and separated as young children, the Freischin sisters are nothing if not survivors. Now, in middle age, Pearl is blindsided by a sexual harassment allegation at the school where she's taught for decades, while her sister Scarlett is left penniless after her husband is imprisoned for embezzling. Meanwhile, Pearl's son Declan, a college student and track star struggling with anxiety, quits school when he becomes entangled with a young con-artist. Scarlett's daughter, former tennis phenom Helena, needs help as well.

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!

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.

Will is a good kid, sweet and thoughtful with a genius IQ and a smart mouth. But when his powers reveal themselves, he’ll have to learn to control them or face the wrath of his archangel aunt. Lucifer’s returned, tracking an emotional escapee hell-bent on wiping out humanity. This new foe spreads disease the likes of which the world hasn’t seen since the Bronze Age. Before all life on Earth is destroyed, Lucifer must seek help from his sisters. With thousands of demons running amok, the siblings will have to do whatever it takes to stop them, even if it means disobeying God.

Running the North Pole and making good on the promise of comfort and joy for a few billion people is no simple two-step around the Christmas tree. Mr. and Mrs. Claus have always worked in tandem to do just that so when her third husband realizes it's time to peace out and move on to more Heavenly pastures, the angels and all the elves know what time it is. They need to find Tiffany Saint-Nicholas a new man.

With Grace’s magic in the hands of a stranger, Julia will stop at nothing to take the power for herself. Desperate and out of allies, she’ll turn to a mysterious entity, freeing him from captivity, and using his strength to take from the Tituban what’s rightfully hers. Grace’s coven is without a Priestess. They need guidance and with the discovery of a blood-born Tituban and the great witch’s grimoire, they believe they’ve found the leader they require. But, when Wendy rebuffs their request to join them, she’ll put herself in more danger than she can handle alone.

Stuck with the God of War while aiding her mother in the mending of Greece, Kore thought lessons of drawing life was all she had to worry about. But when she and Ares witness a mortal battle on a near by beach, a power is unleashed and it's more than she could ever control.

Study Break, a collection of interconnected contemporary Young Adult short stories written by Gen Z authors, explores different parts of "the college experience," from questioning your major to questioning your identity.