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For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal to end as soon as possible. But peace is just another kind of battlefield, and it doesn't last forever.

Tarisai longs for the warmth of a family. But her mother's plans for her include a magical command that Tarisai kill the crown prince once she gains his trust. Can Tarisai resist being made a pawn?

After eight years, Evadne will finally be reunited with her older sister, Halcyon, who has been serving in the queen's army. But when Halcyon unexpectedly appears a day early, Eva knows something is wrong. Halcyon has been charged with a heinous crime, and has been sentenced to 15 years. Suspicious of the charges, Eva volunteers to take part of her sister's sentence. But they quickly learn that there are fates worse than death.

Faith Herbert is a pretty regular teen, aside from the small matter of recently discovering she can fly. She soon notices that both animals and people have begun to vanish from her town. Only Faith seems able to connect the dots to a new designer drug infiltrating her high school. To protect those she loves, she will have to confront her hidden past and use her newfound gifts, risking everything to save her friends and beloved town.

When doctor Rikki Kinn is threatened while investigating a deadly new plague in the Congo, the only one who can protect her is the native Amiri, a member of the Dirk & Steele detective agency, whose special talents endanger her heart.

Joining the Dirk & Steele Agency turned Eddie's life around. A pyrokinetic and former car thief, he cannot refuse an assignment to cross the continent in order to rescue an extraordinary woman in peril, even though he fears losing control of the destructive power of flame at his fingertips.

An ex-cop with extraordinarily heightened senses follows a trail of death to Taipei, and finds the woman of his heart there, the childhood love he once believed dead, whom he must now protect from an unspeakable evil.

Gifted and cursed with the ability to see the future, Kitala Bell must save M'cal, a seductive merman who has risen from the watery depths, from the grasp of an evil witch, a passionate alliance that threatens their lives and their very souls.

A tormented investigator goes to "Sin City" Las Vegas, where a beautiful, feral headliner needs protection from a terrible darkness that is threatening her world.

There are those who do terrible things in this world, and others who simply watch. As a gargoyle, sworn to protect the weak, Charlie can do neither. He has been imprisoned by a witch, and his only release will come at his own destruction, or through the help of clairvoyant Aggie Durand. Sweet as a kiss, she is the one dream he does not dare desire, and yet, she might be his soul's salvation.