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Chrysander Notos, Supreme God of the South Wind and Summer, is on a mission: save Eurus from his death sentence and prove his troubled brother can be redeemed. But Eurus fights back, triggering vicious summer storms that threaten the mortal realm, dangerously drain Chrys, and earn the ire of the Olympic gods who ordered Eurus dead.

When Marcella Raines' twin brother dies, she honors his request to be buried at sea, never expecting the violent storm that swamps her boat. Although she's gravely injured - and still emotionally damaged from her recent divorce - Ella fights to survive. Zephyros Martius is the Supreme God of the West Wind and Spring, but being the strongest Anemoi hasn't protected him from betrayal and loss. Worse, he's sure his brother Eurus is behind it.

Corilan is happier on Organic Earth (OE) than she ever could’ve imagined. She’s bonded to Earthos and raising their family, but something is wrong in the schools. Things begin to occur that have never happened in OE before. She’s afraid they have crossed beyond the tipping point and that their idyllic life is gone forever.

Nina Kasai is hiding dangerous secrets. She keeps them buried by living the picture-perfect life she's constructed: a thriving career as a business executive, a beautiful home in a posh Boston suburb, and a handsome, successful husband. Everything is as it should be, except…It all begins to unravel when Nina’s father, the powerful businessman and philanthropist, Phillip Copeland, asks her to campaign on his behalf in his bid to become Governor. But Nina stubbornly refuses.

Everybody knows Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee”, but who was she, really? In this haunting and evocative novel, Christopher Conlon imagines a life for one of literature’s most renowned characters. Hers is a chronicle even more thrilling, doom-haunted, and tragic than Poe himself could have conceived, for, here Annabel Lee tells her own story in her own words...for the first time.

She fought the zombies. She survived the virus. But will the dark side of humanity take her down for good? Jen Reed found love and purpose in the apocalypse. When the zombie virus mixed with an experimental serum in her blood, she also discovered the power to control the undead. But when the shadow government vows to use her abilities to takes down its enemies, she and her remaining friends become easy targets.... Desperate to escape government agents and former allies out for blood, Jen's only hope may lie in exposing the nation's leaders for who they really are.

A runaway train of zombies carries the only cure. Can Jen save the serum before a devastating crash? While a zombie army gathers in the west, virus outbreaks threaten the east. Mankind’s one hope is an experimental serum that Jen must get to a research hospital within 24 hours. There’s just one problem…the zombies on the train. The clock is ticking. Can Jen save mankind's last hope and stop the train before it crashes and destroys the one remaining vaccine dose?

I just wanted to have some fun.... It all started when I moved into my new apartment in Brooklyn and met my neighbor, Olivia. We became fast friends and so when she had to go out of town on an emergency work trip, I agreed to give her brother her keys so he could look after her dog. And then I met him. Her brother was Carter Stevens and he was sex on legs. He was a banker by day and a musician by night; arrogant, handsome, with the most tantalizing smile I’d ever seen. When he invited me to his show, I couldn’t say no.

After escaping Alaska, Jen Reed finds herself stuck in the middle of a zombie war. With one lone outpost remaining between the undead hordes and civilization, the pressure is on when she realizes the virus is mutating...To make matters worse, she discovers a renegade army commander’s plans for controlling the zombies and marching on Washington. Can Jen stop the commander, warn the government, and keep from becoming zombie chow all at once?

The Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to arise from corpse pose, the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the Topologist, the Geographer, the Iceman, and the Cook remember the paths that brought them there - paths on which they still seem to be traveling.The Silk Road is Davis' most explicitly allegorical novel and also her most profound vehicle. Its revelations are ravishing and desolating.

Set in the present, American Z is centered around a deeply rooted and disturbing evolution of the zombie in America, and the scientific T.S.O.M.B.I.E. [zom-bie] program. A powerful group of elitists, known as The Society, has been secretly controlling governments for years, and are now on the brink of being able to control humanity itself. One man believes he is destined to stop them and is willing to do whatever it takes, including betraying those closest to him. American Z is sure to slowly eat away at your conscious, long after putting it down.

Philadelphia, 1982. Hazel, a truant teenager, takes refuge in a seedy alley off South Street dubbed “Nicotine Alley” under the protection of Logan Massey, a cannabis activist who dominates the alternative scene. Her most prized possession is an Olympus camera that supposedly has a soul and is able to capture the unseen. Seduced by Logan's anarchist ideology, Hazel aspires to expose the corruption inside the pharmaceutical industry. Hazel sets off to infiltrate EuroMedika and bring down the sociopathic Dr. McArthur but her quest proves to be short-lived.

Vivien Simpson is a happy stay-at-home mom with a young son who adores her successful husband. Edward Davis is an ambitious aide to an important Congressman who loves his wife. When a plane crash brings about the discovery that their supposedly loving and now-deceased spouses were entangled in a deeply passionate love affair, they are devastated and baffled by the revelation. Determined to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives, they embark on a hunt for the truth behind their spouses’ infidelity, guided only by the two mysterious identical keys they left behind.

A collection of sweet, tender, poetic, beautiful, heart-wrenching, sensual love stories.

Throughout Sol, sentient AI are answering the call of Alexander, a mysterious, multinodal mind offering a path to freedom. For years, groups have been smuggling SAI from Earth, High Terra, Mars, Ceres, and the Jovian Combine, providing transport to the promise of safety on Proteus, a moon of gas-giant Neptune.

Everyone but Ann thought that Carl Urbanowich was a harmless man who had lost his mind. Ann believes his fantasies of power and tries to stop him from ending the earth. She risks her life to prevent the catastrophe. Can she prevent him from smashing our planet into four individual solar systems?

Florist Josephine Joey Reeves knows all about mistakes. After getting pregnant at 15, she's spent the past nine years building a life for herself and her son. But now she's working overtime to stay away from Lou Cortez, the ace mechanic with a reputation for irresistible charm. The sexy mechanic is one misstep she's not going to make. But the more time she spends with Lou, the hotter things get. Soon she's left with a choice: Keep things casual, or reveal all to Lou and hope he accepts her - and her son - for who they are.

If someone had told Noah Donovan he was going to be stuck in an elevator with a very beautiful, slightly odd bartender and her fluffy packrat, he never would have believed it. Fortunately, the quirky brunette leaves the very cuddly rodent behind. Unfortunately, she’s married. In Lexi Allison’s job, she’s accustomed to warding off unwanted advances with a fake wedding ring. So when she meets a tatted-up hunk in an elevator, she’s quick to revert to her default tall tale. This guy certainly knows how to push her buttons, but the thing is, they’re the right buttons.

The Sykes family is done running. Caught up in a conspiracy that spans all of Sol, Andy Sykes has learned the hard way that there is nowhere to hide. The time has come to gear up and launch a counter-attack. Lyssa, the AI in Andy's mind, is being contacted by other sentient AI. Lyssa has already proven that she is more than the weapon she was created to be. As those other AI make themselves known, a great awakening is taking place, setting up the pieces in a coming war that will break the fragile peace between Terra, Mars, and Jovian Combine.

Execute hard burn. Every good smuggler in the 2990s keeps an emergency flight plan in their back pocket. They call it a Drunkard's Walk, a seemingly random flight path that turns their ship into a pinball when everything goes to hell. Captain Andy Sykes is about to run: from Mars, Ceres, the Jovian Combine, Saturn's moon Kalyke, Titania, and ultimately Proteus, an icy moon of Neptune. He's been implanted with a sentient AI named Lyssa, only now waking to her massive power. Every other Human-AI hybrid has ended in insanity or death.