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Sun Aranya just wants a stable job so she can care for her ailing grandfather. After years of relentless magic training, she has finally earned a city wardenship—only to discover on her first day that annoyingly handsome Shi Kai is laying claim to her position. There’s only one option: they’ll just have to compete for it. But while Aranya and Kai are forced to work together until one of them wins their competition, trouble brews in the empire. Whispered threats of enemy invasion abound, and magic-wielders are disappearing across the empire without a trace.

We rely on our intuition, even though we don’t fully understand what it is, how it works, or if we can even trust it. In this fresh, mind-opening book, Elizabeth Greenwood takes us on a sweeping investigation into the subject, exploring how, in our data-driven world, we can harness intuition in our day-to-day lives. Digging deep into her personal experience as well as insights from neuroscience, psychology, feminist texts, psychics, and everyday people with extraordinary intuitive ability, Greenwood explores what we know about intuition.

This book offers realistic, sustainable strategies for building a long-term, profitable business on Amazon. Whether sellers are burgeoning entrepreneurs or own the e-commerce channel at an established brand, they will benefit from the strategic thinking and in-depth Amazon know-how delivered in an easily digestible format.

While Nicholas lays the final plans for Arri’s destruction, he is still haunted by the Old Ones’ last words, the prophecy that has foretold his defeat. And yet, he is so close—he can taste the power he craves, emboldening him to play dirty, to do whatever it takes to get what he wants. He is ready to embrace his destiny, and he is more dangerous than ever.

Jane lives on an island of trash. And even though she has to scavenge garbage and deal with sinister robots, she still loves her home. It’s all she’s ever experienced, from her most cherished memories to her foggy past that she can’t quite remember.

Jane is a leftover clone. Created for an unknown purpose, then abandoned at a rundown facility outside Grid City, she has a knack for trouble and a burning desire to find out why she was made.

On a frigid winter night, Daniel Klein was stabbed to death in his penthouse suite by his wife, Julia. At least that’s what the police report reads. The truth, however, is far more sinister. After relocating to a remote cabin in the middle of the mountains, Julia’s only goal in life is to piece together her broken past. But questions about that fateful night arise when Logan, Julia’s brother-in-law, shows up on her doorstep—with evidence that things are not as they appear.

Thanks to James, Anna, and the people of North Park, a stable, thriving community has arisen from the ashes. The stable part is the problem. In the two decades since the great dying, only one male baby has survived for more than a few days.

Nothing in James’ young life could have prepared him for this convergence of apocalyptic events. The vast wealth his father forced upon him is as worthless as the banking empire that created it. He won’t miss the money. James didn’t ask to be born into wealth. He would gladly trade it all to protect the Blue River Ranch and those who live there. The greatest tragedy of his young life is that he can’t even do that. How can he when he may not even be able to save himself?

Betrayed by love, Anna’s new life suits her just fine. With memories of youth and the Blue River Ranch pushed to the back of her mind, college life in Oregon is perfect. Then came V-1....

Jane’s investigation into the origins of her clone batch stall when her best source, the enigmatic Dean, disappears. Unable to continue her search, she heads to college and tries to settle into a normal life. But on her first day at Harbortown University, Jane meets a girl who looks just like her.

Emmy Jenkins knows what it feels like to have a serial killer come after her. She escaped him twice. Emmy and Brian must start over in a new town, away from the tragic events and the killer’s family. Unfortunately, he escapes custody. The authorities think the killer committed suicide by drowning himself in the river. They do not locate his body, but they do find a girl drowned in Elk Lake. Her death is ruled an accidental drowning, but Emmy knows he is still alive. And he is coming for her.

Three years ago, Alžběta Černá, an officer in the Czech military intelligence, learned that she’s got angel blood. In fact, she’s one of the Elioud, the hybrid race tasked by Archangel Michael to protect humanity. A lone wolf, Beta ignores her newfound ancestry.

Felicity Chen isn't looking for love. Her thriving craft business in the heart of New San Francisco keeps her too busy for a personal life. When fate brings tall, blond, and mysterious Carl Jenson to the door of her shop, she jumps at the chance to have a little fun. Carl gave up on love years ago. Spying for the government of the Restored United States isn't a career that comes with a future. He's is drifting along between jobs when his brother drags him to a yarn store on a personal mission.

The knowledge gained in the Repository directs Aderyn, Owen, and their team to the distant, lawless city of Obsidian, in search of the next clues to the Fated One quest. Obsidian is dangerous for low-level adventurers, and the overland journey through monster-infested wasteland takes months. When they learn of a dungeon called Gamboling Coil that can transport adventurers instantly anywhere in the world, they leap at the chance. But nothing in the dungeon is as it seems, and it will take all the team’s skills to make it out alive.

Pop superstar Jojo needs to disappear for a few weeks to finish writing songs for a new album and get some space from her controlling manager. Fortunately, when her trademark makeup and wigs come off, she’s practically invisible to reporters and fans. At a lakeside cabin in Vermont, she can work without distraction, until one evening when a father and daughter paddle their canoe up to her dock.

Continue on a journey that chronicles an experimental group of 23 genetically engineered children, as they come of age in an underground city that has forced them into a life of servitude. After Kimber and Tristan find and expose a truth so dark that it breaks the bonds of their slavery, another secret surfaces that has been long buried: The cave civilization of Inanna, thought to be last metropolis on Earth, is not the last surviving city. A journey ensues across the wasteland of America, to a place where beauty, surprise, and unparalleled tragedy awaits.

Proving her family innocent of treason is taking a toll on lady-turned-maid Juliet. Her latest investigation has brought her into the service of the spoiled Miss Dunbar and her salacious older brother, who pursues Juliet despite repeated rebuffs.

Sixteen-year-old Song Liena is just one of the many peasants in the empire until the discovery of her unexpected magic upends her world. She's ripped from her family and forced to join the hundreds of elite magic-wielders fighting to graduate from the empires rigorous Academy with their lives and honor intact.

Berlin, 2011—The War on Terror is ten years’ old and shows no signs of abating. While on a high-stakes operation to unearth a terrorist cell on the verge of a devastating attack, newly minted CIA officer Olivia Markham spots a young woman being harassed by a group of immigrants. Unable to stop herself, she intervenes. For better or worse, her actions affect the mission objective. The instincts that made Olivia a stellar CIA recruit threaten her ability to work in the field.