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For the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times best-selling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, with stories of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and friends in a variety of eras and forms. King and Klinger have a simple formula: Ask some of the world's greatest writers-regardless of genre - to be inspired by the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The results are surprising and joyous.

Marriage between sinners has its inevitable messes. If you’ve been married longer than a week or two, you know how the hard realities of life in a fallen age can come crashing in. Perhaps you had a season of “once upon a time,” but soon enough you realized that this marriage, in this world, is not yet your “happily ever after.”

Not even Blu and Madeline's combined magic can hold against an unknown attacker who threatens the life of Tadric, the sole heir to the Summer Lands. Without him, the Lands will fall into the chaos of civil war, and the life Madeline has fought and suffered for will be lost. Madeline’s magic deserts her when she needs it most. Can she choose between two strangers to find the truth?

When Monique Duchesne sees the police outside her door long after midnight, she fears they are waiting for her. Instead of interrogating her about her past again, they want to talk about her murdered neighbor. A man she barely knew. Convinced the police suspect she knows more than she admits, Monique risks everything to find the killer before her world explodes. The deeper she digs, the closer the killer gets. Is the murder a coincidence, or is someone targeting her?

Willowvine yearns for inclusion. Banished by the elven community for bringing bad luck as an orphan, she wishes she could earn her way back in...just to have the pleasure of turning them down.

Winter is over and Lena is ready to leave the relative safety of Pearl Two, a closed community in Portland. A member of her party is missing. The woman they trusted for months is lying. She can’t be sure of anyone. With each step, she confronts the physical threats lurking in the wilderness and struggles to hold onto her dream of creating alliances to heal their future. Haunted by memories of the past and driven by the hope for a better future, she searches for the strength to built unity from the growing anarchy.

Detective Sofie Allen believes anarchy is only a scandal away. With crime lurking around every gangway of the elite-ruled space station, closing cases requires a delicate balance of politics and justice. But she sees the local power equilibrium shifting dangerously when the head of a ruling family is brutally murdered. Facing pressure to pin the homicide on a lowlife, Detective Allen desperately tries to contain the stress that could reveal her hidden genetic medical disorder. But as she pushes the investigation forward, she fears the lethal consequences will rain down on an innocent.

The unknown enemy destroyed his old life, along with his ship and family leaving Kalin, to the mercy of his old foes. The new life he’s offered must be a lie. Kalin is conditioned to follow orders. So when the captain offers him the leadership of the team, searching for a way to survive, he can’t say no. Kalin enlists the help of old friends to save the fleet from destruction. Will they find the answer before the enemy attacks? Follow Kalin’s struggles to save the last remnants of humanity.

On the edge of space and at the brink of extinction, humanity’s fate rests in the hands of one rookie officer. When an old enemy attacks another ship and survivors escape to a nearby planet, an eager young lieutenant is surprised when he’s named commander of the rescue mission.

Serena witnesses one callous act too many, one indignity on top of a thousand indignities. She won’t bow down so readily any longer. The Meta are not invincible, and their influence does not extend to the hearts and minds of the people. The whispers become a rallying call: rebellion! Twenty-five years of subjugation under the Meta leaves the human colonists of Free Faith fearful and wary. Their overlord’s brutal and capricious ways have pushed them too far. Serena vows to stop the Meta, no matter how much it costs her.

Willowvine faces the final quest with Springheart and Tom by her side. One more Stone of Power to be restored to the Guardian, and she will get her dream. No one will stop her from joining Elven society. The Stone of Orphan was taken so long ago that no one can remember the story, only that it meant orphans were bad luck and so must be exiled. The quest takes Willowvine and her companions on a search for clues that leads her to the one place she swore never to revisit.

Willowvine yearns for inclusion. Banished by the elven community for bringing bad luck as an orphan, she wishes she could earn her way back in…just to have the pleasure of turning them down. So when a mysterious client hires her to save her race from extinction by recovering the stolen Stone of Power, the outcast elf leaps at the opportunity. Paired with a fellow orphan, Willowvine battles resentment at having to rescue the very people who shunned her.

Kidnapped to a magical world, Madeline faces prophecy, sacrifice, and betrayal. Can she survive long enough to return home? Madeline’s day started with a bomb threat and ended in a magical world where she was supposed to be the savior. In her old life, Madeline knew how to control everything. In this new world, she can’t do anything right. The prophecy she’s supposed to fulfill is about as clear as a pond covered in scum.

Her magic is gone, and Madeline is running out of time to save the world. The Well at the Center of the World is waking, and neither the books in the Elven library, nor the circle of stones leading to the gate between universes give her the answers she needs. Evil emanates from the well even before the dust, wind, and the seductive voice come through. Every clue leads to another riddle. An ally will betray her, a sacrifice will break her heart, and no one has the answers. If she fails, everyone will die.

After rescuing the survivors of an attack, and revealing their enemy was as human as the rest of the fleet, Pen expected an interesting new challenge. Talking to school kids about the mission, wasn’t at all what she had in mind. Tempted to join the civilian intelligence force, she struggles to find purpose as the fleet comes together. Then, hidden in a list of mundane communications, Pen finds a message that will threaten their survival.

A budding rebellion among the Sidhe threatens the tenuous peace. Was Quinn’s sacrifice for nothing? Quinn Larson kept the Real Folk hidden, but the cost was more than any man should bear; Cate - the friend who he hoped would become something more - is dead. His sight is still bespelled and his spirit broken. He wants to withdraw and heal, but someone is stealing fairy treasure and their babies. The ancient Druids have awoken with an unknown agenda and lot of power at their command.

A new victim killed with magic. A missing politician. An old case that won't stay solved. For a fairy and a sprite, using magic to solve crimes is the right thing to do. But now, magic isn't working. Something is blocking the spells that would reveal the crimes. Humans can't do magic, so crime is now part of the magical community. Finding the person behind Heath's murder is proving impossible. Two more cases land in Bramble and Fernlight's laps. Bramble, not quite used to working with brownies, now has to put up with a sidhe investigator pretending he’s better than everyone.

The first three HOP-D cases in one. Includes Blood Magic Blues, Ritual Magic Rock, and Deadly Magic Dance. If you love complicated crimes and magic, you’ll love the first three HOP-D cases. Grab this box set today to solve magical murders, kidnappings, and conspiracies.

A blood ritual demands a life to save a people. Can Madeline forgive the past enough to save her nemesis? Madeline’s nemesis from the law firm has been snatched through the veils between the realms, and she's landed in the hands of a people known as the Choi. Was it Madeline’s spell gone awry that brought her? Guilt pushes her to make it right. Skye Greatmother knows that her people, the Choi, face extinction without the ritual. She’s betting the future of her people on the blood power of a strange woman from a foreign land.

Madeline Higginbottom is a warrior in the courtroom. But her trial skills are useless when she’s transported to an alternate dimension and forced into the role of foretold savior. And with the prophecy’s actual mission unclear, her odds of surviving long enough to get home shrink by the minute.