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The operation aboard the Daedalus was a success, but the aftermath threatens to undo everything the Jax and his team have achieved. Separated from his ship, he is forced to work with Penny, the agent of a notorious black-market arms dealer. Their lifeboat has taken serious damage, and the only way they can survive the maelstrom is to journey to its center. Safety lies aboard an ancient ship. However, Jax immediately finds himself facing a new challenge at the behest of a new master - all the while avoiding the prior ones who want their pound flesh...and credit.

When her widower father inherits a castlelike estate in the mountains of West Virginia, twelve-year-old Jen is thrilled. It seems like a wish come true. But she quickly realizes that not all change is positive. Her dad has a mysterious new girlfriend, Moura, who slowly drives a wedge between Jen and her father. Furthermore, Moura has an unusually strong—almost obsessive—interest in the antiques that fill the mansion, especially a beautiful glass globe that Jen finds hanging in a window.

Five years ago, Jennifer left behind Plum Island and the beloved aunt who raised her after her mother's untimely death. Coming back is bittersweet, but work calls, and she's caught up in helping her friend produce her new television series, Cobble Cottage Mysteries. Until she visits her Aunt Betty to find the Beach Plum Cottage in disrepair and her aunt gravely ill. Jennifer immediately sets about fixing things. She doesn't want Aunt Betty to call upon the old island contractor, but when she sees a rugged man with piercing green eyes, her thoughts—and heart—flip on their head.

Budapest is a city of secrets, a place where everything is opaque and nothing is as it seems. It is to this enigmatic city that a young American couple, Annie and Will, move with their infant son, shortly after the fall of the Communist regime. Annie hopes to escape the ghosts from her past; Will wants to take his chance as an entrepreneur in Hungary's newly developing economy. But only a few months after moving there, they receive a secretive request from friends in the US to check up on an elderly stranger who also has recently arrived in Budapest.

From New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and queen of the Jazz Age, seeming to float on champagne bubbles above the mundane cares of the world. But to those who truly knew them, the endless parties were only a distraction from their inner turmoil and from a love that united them with a scorching intensity.

Caroline Shaw's life unravels and reblooms on the quaint shores of Plum Island, New England. After the loss of her father and the end of her fifteen-year marriage after her husband's cheating, Caroline and her fourteen-year-old daughter, Jules, seek a fresh start. Destroyed and in pieces, she knows she can make it through and get her life back on track.

The king knows Raven killed his son and he doesn't want revenge. He wants help finding an heir to replace him. What kind of twisted plot is this? If she doesn't help him, Raven can't complete her most important mission. But there's something else going on here. The Malendesh army are using the dangerous, magical ore to hide and abuse their sea serpents during war exercises. The foreign military's up to something dark. Has their king noticed?

How can Raven and Leander stop a war with a distant kingdom? First try to make nice. When that fails, bring along your fire-breathing dragon. Raven is still serving in her kingdom's special forces. Her latest mission is a special request to restore peace and return the prisoners of Malenspire. The island kingdom is far away and Raven has time to think about telling the king she was responsible for his son's death.

Welcome to the Threndoren wedding. Raven is there with Chui by her side, along with all of Brighton. But who is that with William Moss? No time to figure it out. The dragons grow restless, and the dogs start barking—An ominous sign. The "I do's" are broken up by giant frogs crashing the ceremony and attacking the guests. Murphy is ready with her axe, fighting them off in her wedding dress. Is there enough of the shrinking potion to take care of the rest? Raven needs to find a solution before the next creature to morph is something more deadly. She seeks out the alchemists who may have a plan.

New creatures in the kingdom are magically mutating—and attacking legionnaires. Fortunately, Raven and her dragon have Chui Welby on her side and an entire division of elite legionnaires approved to use battle magic. How hard could fighting off a few new monsters really get? The island kingdom of Malenspire has agreed to the exchange of foreign guests. It's just her luck that Raven and Leander are assigned to chaperone the Malendesh newcomer—who turns out to not be so new.

Aurora was raised to lead, with the expectation that she will one day become ruler of the Mer of Triste Island. There’s just one problem. Nobody’s bothered to ask Aurora if she wants to be queen. Chafing at the confines of her role, Aurora risks everything for a chance at a new life. Ready for adventure, Aurora washes up on Siren Island at the feet of one very bewildered video-game designer. The clock is ticking before the Royal guards find her, and Aurora is determined to experience everything that life on Siren Island can offer.

The stories in this anthology range from quietly strange to ambitiously speculative. Humans transform into cosmic energy or sentient algae. A man wakes up in a new body in a world with continents cut out, months absent from the calendar year, and souls misplaced. Students at a high school regularly vanish without a trace. A woman descends into the depths of the ocean and encounters all-knowing creatures who may have the answers to her deepest questions.

Raven Alby's first foreign diplomatic mission was a success with her familiar and dragon, Leander by her side. But now that the WarMage is back, funny things are happening with the land she calls home. Lomberdoon is showing strange new signs of life. Just like her old warrior grandfather, Connor predicted. It's not just magical ore and deadly dragon diseases anymore. Now, the plant and wildlife are changing years after magic's return. Including . . . giant killer rodents. Maybe the sea serpents knew what they were talking about after all.

When thirty-three-year-old Athena Matthias is asked, yet again, to be a bridesmaid, she’s not exactly enthusiastic about the idea. Still reeling from a messy divorce from her wife, she’s never felt less inclined to celebrate love. But Athena can't say no, especially to one of her oldest friends, and at least it's a destination wedding, which means three days of sun and sand.

Raven Alby and the STAR force have an important decision to make. Will they help the citizens of Malendesh and their king prevent a military overthrow? Or will they return home and prepare for war? It's an easy choice. Raven and the red dragon, Leander run toward a fight—not away. They stand with Malendesh. And if they can free the magically enslaved sea serpents filling the waters around the island, even better.

Professor Erika Szymanski makes wine science accessible to non-experts. Rather than approach wine science as body of facts about wine, Szymanski explores how wine science can open up multiple ways of seeing, understanding, and appreciating wine. Too often, wine science is presented as a comprehensive body of knowledge that enthusiasts aiming to become experts should memorize. This book instead uses scientific research to explore wine as an endlessly rich cultural phenomenon.

After taking the Protectorate under her rule, the pinnacle of the Seven Stars pantheon, Nyx Marcus, can only see one dark path: kill her love’s murderer. When she finds herself at odds with her sibling Stars, Erebus, and Phoebe, she discovers that they have a secret, and to keep it, they will protect his killer.