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A tormented shape-shifting hero--once almost a god, now much more than a man--freed against his will from an eternal darkness, must overcome his rage and the pain of his tragic past by accepting the love of a remarkable woman with an extraordinary gift.

A breathtaking, solitary creature, the last of his race, is irresistibly drawn to a mysterious woman with no memory of who she is but is in obvious peril.

He looks out of place in Dela Reese's Beijing hotel room. With his feline yellow eyes, he's like nothing from her world. Yet Dela has danced through the echo of his soul and knows this warrior will obey her every command. Hari has been used and abused for millennia. But he sees, upon his release from the riddle box, that his new mistress is different. There is a hidden power in Dela's eyes, and with her, he may regain all that was lost to him.

When the Glass Princess develops a magical ability to commune with dragons and create fire from air, a power she cannot control, she must work with King Saxon to save their kingdoms and their lives.

When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, Hollis is shocked and thrilled. After all, she's grown up at Keresken Castle, vying for the king's attention alongside other daughters of the nobility. Capturing his heart is a dream come true. But Hollis soon realizes that falling in love with a king and being crowned queen may not be the happily ever after she thought it would be. And when she meets a commoner with the mysterious power to see right into her heart, she finds that the future she really wants is one that she never thought to imagine.

Cursed by a vengeful witch, William of the Dark will die if he ever falls in love, murdered by the woman who steals his heart. His lone shot at redemption is a book filled with an indecipherable code. Now, centuries later, he's condemned to a string of one-night stands, until he finds the only woman able to set him free. The closer they get, the more she hungers for his touch, and the stronger a mystical desire to kill him becomes. Will he risk his heart and life, or will the curse ensure his end?

Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are at it again. Escaping disaster by the skin of their teeth, they find refuge in Toll, a strange gateway town where visitors may neither enter nor leave without paying a price.

When fifteen-year-old Hark finds the heart of a deity, he uses it to save the life of his best friend, Jelt. But when the heart starts to transform Jelt into a monster, the loyalty between friends is strained.

Bone Criers are the last descendants of an ancient family charged with using the magic they draw from animal bones to shepherd the dead into the afterlife, lest they drain the light from the living. Ailesse has been prepared since birth to become their matriarch, but first she must complete her rite of passage: to kill the boy she's destined to love. Bastien's father was slain by a Bone Crier and he's been seeking revenge ever since, but his vengeance must wait.

Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny have been despatched to assist a group of scientists who are investigating a mysterious black hole which has appeared on a Somerset hillside.