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Lira of Stone watched her home burn and clan fall beneath the sword of the warlord known as the Dragon. Alongside her exiled brother and his band of refugees, she will fight the forces that conquered her island.

Six royal daughters vie to become empress of the Chicome people in a competition only one will survive.

In the present, Other Neferet has far from given up her goal of immortality and world domination. As she operates in secret, the new High Priestess, Anastasia Lankford, works toward gaining peace for the Other World vampyres. But just as Other Kevin's broken heart will take time to heal, peace will also take time and work, and not all of the Other World vampyres want peace. Why should they return to being shunned by humans, especially when they've had a taste of power?

Fog rolls into Tulsa, and with it comes Darkness. Zoey knows something is up, and that the something involves Neferet, but Neferet can't possibly be freed, right? Other Neferet and her companion, Lynette, arrive in Woodward Park to set this world's Neferet free from her grotto prison, and discover there may be those who sympathize with their cause.

Only days after a corrupt election and brutal street war, one last bloodthirsty game has begun. The players? The twenty-two most powerful, notorious people in New Reynes.

Drake's friends Mina and Caspar, their dragons, and Worm were trapped in stone by the evil wizard Astrid who has stolen their dragons' powers, but Drake himself was saved from a similar fate by Astrid's sister Hulda; now because of his strong connection with Worm, Drake is able to help his dragon to break free, but to free the others they need the assistance of three other dragons—a lava dragon, a sea dragon, and a wind dragon—and they have to do it before Astrid can steal the powers of even more dragons.

The evil wizard Maldred has stolen the gold and silver keys which will allow him to releasethe Naga, the powerful Earthquake Dragon at the center of the earth--so Drake and several of the otherDragon Masters travel to the Naga's Temple in the Dragon Islands, to try and stop Maldred, and preventhim and the Earthquake Dragon from destroying the kingdom .

A young family wakes to a ruined world - their city has been devastated by meteors, and Heather, Brendan, and their newborn twins are among the few survivors. A nearby mountain - the site of a tragedy that underlies Heather’s life - looms over the city, unharmed by the meteors. While other survivors struggle to stay alive, Heather is drawn to the mountain. Mythology, humanity, love, loss, devastation, and redemption drive this story forward, reminding us that it is the people we love who are the most important thing of all.

Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn's YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic. After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A flying demon feeding on human energies.

Damsel meets A Heart in a Body in the World in this incisive and lyrical feminist fairy tale about a princess determined to save her sisters from a curse, even if it means allying herself with the very witch who cast it. The Princesses of Ever are beloved by the kingdom and their father, the King. They are cherished, admired. Cursed. Jane, Alice, Nora, Grace, and Eden carry the burden of being punished for a crime they did not commit, or even know about. They are each cursed to be Without one essential thing—the ability to eat, sleep, love, remember, or hope.