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Fifteen year-old Rae Kerrigan never really knew her family's history. Her mother and father died when she was young and it is only when she accepts a scholarship to the prestigious Guilder Boarding School in England that a mysterious family secret is revealed. As Rae struggles with new friends, a new school and a star-struck forbidden love, she must also face the ultimate challenge: receive a tattoo on her 16th birthday with specific powers that may bind her to an unspeakable darkness. It's up to Rae to undo the dark evil in her family's past and have a ray of hope for her future.

It's time. The past can't stay buried forever...Rae Kerrigan and her friends thought all their problems were solved. The corruption in the Council has been exposed. The hybrids have been released from their unjust prisons. And Jonathon Cromfield - the evil puppet master pulling all the strings - had finally been put in the ground. 

When Argyle invites his best friend, Simon Kerrigan, home for the Christmas holidays, he wants to save Simon from staying at Guilder Boarding School on his own. Simon comes along and doesn’t expect to find much more excitement in the tiny Scottish town where Argyle’s family lives. Until he meets Beth, Argyle’s older sister. She’s beautiful, brash and clearly interested in him. When her father warns him to stay away from her, Simon tries, but sometimes destiny has a hope of it’s own. 

The three books of this YA/NA series cover love, betrayal, coming of age, magic and fantasy. Be prepared to fight, it's the only option. 

When 16-year-old Elise is ripped from her home and taken to the royal palace as a permanent "guest", she thinks her life is over. Little does she know it has only just begun. After befriending a group of other captives, including the headstrong Will, Elise finds herself swept away to a world she never knew existed - polished, sculpted, and refined until she can hardly recognize her own reflection.

It’s time to face the music - except there is no music, just a low warning of a war that is to come. There are no other options but to confront Cromfield. No more running, no more hiding. Rae Kerrigan will be forced into an eternal life sentence if they do not stop him. Except how do you stop a madman who cannot die? How do you risk the lives of everyone you love, your family, friends, and the lives of innocent people? Rae is running out of time and possibilities. Will the sins of the father be the sins of the daughter?

Be prepared to fight, it's the only option. The world keeps turning...careful not to fall out of step. When the Kreo settlement falls under attack, Evie and her friends are spirited away to the last place in the world they'd ever want to be...a vampire prison. With the fate of the kingdoms hanging in the balance, they bind themselves to an unlikely ally, sealing a covenant they might give their lives to keep. The prophecy is waiting. A silent adversary is moving in the dark. Can the friends recover the lost stone?

As an insidious darkness sweeps across the land, Evie and her friends find themselves in a race to fulfill the prophecy. Instead of arriving at their destination, the friends find themselves stranded on the shores of a distant land. A land where the rules don't matter and nothing is as it seems. In the quest to band together, powers are tested and relationships are strained. No matter how hard they try to move forward, it always seems like they're falling several steps behind. Will they find the stone and stop the darkness in time? 

Everyone needs to be a hero at one point in their life. The small town of Elliot Lake will never be the same again. Caught in a sudden thunderstorm, Zoe, a high school senior from Elliot Lake, and five of her friends take shelter in an abandoned uranium mine. Over the next few days, Zoe's hearing sharpens drastically, beyond what any normal human being can detect. She tells her friends, only to learn that four others have an increased sense as well. Only Kieran, the new boy from Scotland, isn't affected.

Gabriel Alden’s problems were supposed to be over. The man who had enslaved him had been destroyed. The girl he was supposed to kill had become his saving grace. And the people he had been sent to infiltrate had ended up as family. So why, when everyone else had found their happily ever after, was Gabriel still out in the cold? Dark memories, hidden shadows, and secrets too terrible to imagine haunt his every breath - chasing after him as he races around the globe, searching for the truth. Can he ever truly escape his past? Will he ever have a shot at a future?

Having escaped from the sorcerer's clutches and narrowly made it across the icy plains, Evie and her friends thought the worst of their troubles were behind them. But the past has a way of catching up with you. And their problems have only begun. Trapped in a place beyond the reach of the five kingdoms, the friends find themselves battling creatures that haven't been seen since the Dark Ages, and this time, sheer luck and bravery won't be enough. Somewhere in the distant sand lies their salvation. Somewhere in the shadows, a mysterious enemy is coming to claim it as well.

For the first time in hundreds of years, the five kingdoms were at peace. United by the band of young heroes who'd won the Great War, the realm had entered a time of wealth and prosperity unlike anything it had known before. New families. New Beginnings. Old alliances were on the mend. But such a thing can never last.

Rebekah and Jamie are happy but discontent. Sometimes it feels like everything important has already happened, that the peace their parents fought so hard to bring them is just a strange limbo they can't break out of. They want adventure, they want to make memories of their own. When a pair of new kids show up at their school, it looks like they might finally have their chance. It isn't long before the twins open up to the mysterious new strangers. Sharing secrets they thought they'd never tell. Asking questions they never could have imagined.

From best-selling author W.J. May - each shade is a different genre of the fantasy, paranormal and romance - all from different series!

Like most teenagers, Rouge is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to be. With little knowledge about her past, she has questions but has never tried to find the answers. Everything changes when she befriends a strangely intoxicating family. Siblings Grace and Michael, appear to have secrets which seem connected to Rouge. Her hunch is confirmed when a horrible incident occurs at an outdoor party. Rouge may be the only one who can find the answer.

How time flies...When Evie and her friends find themselves trapped in the sorcerer's cave, they think all is lost. But rescue comes from the most unlikely of people. And with it comes the most terrible truth. With the five kingdoms divided and the realm on the verge of collapse, the prophecy is more urgent than ever. But the road is treacherous and the friends are on the other side of the realm. New alliances must be forged and friendships are tested as they set off to fulfill their destiny, only to find that the fates may have something different in store.

When Evie and her friends set out to fulfill a long-awaited prophecy, they never thought their adventure would turn into a nightmare before their very eyes. Trapped in a cavern beneath the ground, they find themselves going up against a creature so twisted and terrible, they wouldn't have believed it was real. Their strength is tested, and friendships are strained. But, as they soon discover, the creature was the least of their problems.

Rae Kerrigan has proven herself a vital asset to the Privy Council, and yet, they still question her loyalty. Back in London, Rae returns to find that everything isn't exactly as it seems. The Privy Council may be officially offering her and her friends their jobs back, but not everyone is as eager to call a truce. Sides are chosen. Lines are drawn in the sand. Rae finds herself torn, not only between two futures, but between two loves.

After years of fighting, Rae Kerrigan and her friends find themselves at the end of the line. Only one remaining person stands in the way of them getting everything they’d ever wanted. Peace, safety, the chance for a normal life. But in Rae’s case, that "normal life" might include a little more than she bargained for....

Is it really living when you spend your life in a cage.... The wait is over, the dust has settled, and the captives have finally been claimed. Elise thought the deadly game was finished, but the more time she spends in the palace, the more she begins to fear the real game has only just begun. In the aftermath of the ceremony, each of the friends try to adjust to their new life. But some are having more trouble than others.