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In Ancient China, a young woman will make a stand against evil, and her courage will herald the dawn of a new order: The League of Demon Hunters. But before the League, there was the Brethren. Zen drew her sword, the Sword of Divinity Xuan Yuan, and she held the sacred blade aloft for all to see. The late afternoon light caught Xuan Yuan's burnished copper, and the sword gleamed like the sun.

Journey through the colonies of 19th-century Australia with three stand-alone novels of love, loss, survival, and redemption. In 1806, a fateful decision sends Eleanor Marling from the salons of London to a prison ship bound for New South Wales. She is put to work at the female factory of Parramatta. English settler Grace Ashwell flees an abusive lover in Hobart Town, with six-year-old Violet in tow. Deep in the wilderness, they find a crude hut inhabited by an escaped convict long presumed dead.

This is the sequel to the war story On Either Side, and you will need to have listened to the original to understand this one. The second book is set in the early 1970s and follows the exploits of Karl Wulf's son, Carl King, and his girlfriend, Zari Wulf, once married to his father. New characters are introduced as well as some old ones. Let's go hunting Nazi war criminals!

Peter Stewart grew up on a unique version of the Arthurian legends taught him by his father, a harebrained quantum physicist. But Peter disbelieves anything which cannot be scientifically explained. Lily Portman is an orphan with a secret: she can see creatures that are invisible to everyone else. These creatures control every human being she has ever met to varying degrees...until she meets Peter and his father. When a mysterious stranger stages an accident which nearly costs Peter and Lily their lives, Lily learns that she is not crazy after all, and Peter discovers the truth of his father’s stories....

Georgian England, 1789: As the French Revolution rages, the English nobility offer sanctuary to many a refugee. Captain Dalton Evans arrives in Dover to meet a distant cousin, expecting to see a spoiled aristocrat. Instead, he's conquered by the simplicity of his new charge. And his best friend Thomas Archer isn't immune to her artless charm, either. French émigré Cecile Beaumont didn't expect that impersonating her own mistress would introduce her to a most mesmerizing man. Now she must play out the masquerade, or risk life, freedom - and her heart.

Violet is running out of time. In a court of godly angelic Seraphim, the only way to survive the trickery and secrets of The Burning Temple is to seduce the despotic Emperor’s sultry shifter son. Yet is he as much a prisoner as her in his Gilded Cage? Violet must undertake the Test by Monster to become a bodyguard to the Emperor: a Fae Knight of the Seraphim. If she fails, her vampire and angel lovers will be tossed into the Abyss. At last, Violet meets her creator, and the dangerous truth is revealed....

Arabella Holmes - yes, daughter of that Holmes - wants to return to her job as a purveyor of abnormal science. She has temporarily been demoted to a botanist, until her love interest, Henry Watson - yes, that Watson - can help her get her less-than-professional outbursts in check. Henry is tired of his new role as doctor, tired of the lack of adventure, and tired of keeping Bella's escapades out of the papers. Five girls are missing. Gone from locked rooms in their own houses. Arabella and Henry are called upon to help solve the kidnappings, but all they unearth is more danger.

Druid Twilight: The Loom of Destiny is an epic journey to first-century ancient Britain, a fictional story set in a pivotal historic time. The key characters, Caedwyn and Brianna, each with long Druidic ancestry, are at the center of a reawakening of ancient powers that some believe will result in an apocalyptic catastrophe for the world. Druid Twilight is an allegorical tale of our times: an age of transition in which ancient powers clash with the emergence of a new way, a new system of beliefs that may either engulf the archaic ways or force their unexpected expansion.

Charlotte MacGregor lost the thrill of conquering mountains five years ago when her sister disappeared on a hiking adventure without her. Still guilt-ridden, Charlotte heads for a vacation to rustic Vermont with a friend - where she's surrounded by reminders of her devastating loss and plagued with unanswered questions. Matiu Christiansen is an outdoors buff. He works multiple jobs to save for his dream of owning an outfitter in New Zealand. He's never quite felt at home in the United States, and he yearns for his Maori roots, but his attraction to Charlotte puts a kink in his plans.

As the masters and special section begin to expose and disrupt the machinations of the Lyrans, Penelope must struggle with the dichotomy of God and thedevil, the harshness of war, and the myriad challenges of the nine universes. In the process, she discovers an ancient secret hidden beneath the streets of London itself. In order to prevail, she must first learn about the true nature of justice, master the tigress within, and ultimately, accept the terrible consequences of her actions.

A centaur is killed by an assassin. Who hired the assassin? And why? The centaur, Selo Cezerus, was a willful and thoughtless creature who caused havoc wherever he went. He made enemies in the centaur community and amongst the residents of Brimstone.

London in the 19th century of the Second Universe seems the perfect refuge for Penelope Victoria Steele and Elizabeth. But instead of proving to be the green and pleasant England that they had so hoped for, the pair quickly find themselves embroiled in the machinations of mysterious figures, shadowy cults, and a book that promises to reveal the master plan of an alien enemy. Worse, Penelope discovers a side to herself that she had never known existed and becomes unsure if she, or it, will triumph.

Earth pilot Maeve and her son Davin have joined the Ixtrayu, hoping to avert the destruction that their leader, Kelia, has foretold. But will Maeve's burgeoning Wielding powers be enough to thwart the machinations of Elzor and his lightning-wielding sister, Elzaria, before everything the Ixtrayu have ever known is destroyed in Elzor's quest for ultimate power?

Interpol cop, Anna Leyton, spirals down into a hopeless vortex of sexual and emotional turmoil, as she fights to keep her professional cool in her latest assignment. A boxing referee is dead in a river, and millions of dollars are placed on sexy boxer and playboy Freddie La Salle's next fight. What will happen when the charismatic suspect she is tracking turns on his charm and seduces her? Will passion take control? Find out in this suspenseful, action-filled, pulse-pounding adventure that will take you on a roller-coaster ride of passionate romance, deception, danger, and love.

For 30 years, Elaina has sat in her tower, fingers caught in an eternal dance, cursed to weave the tapestry of life on her loom. Bound by an enchanted mirror whose magic shows her the distant lives of the people of Camelot, she must forever watch a land which remains ever beyond her reach. Elaina despairs that she will ever experience more than just the shadows of life, until one day, a face appears in the mirror that will change her life, and possibly her fate, forever.

English settler Grace Ashwell flees an abusive lover in Hobart Town, with six-year-old Violet in tow. In her head, escape is easy: find work in the northern settlements and earn enough for passage home to London. But the terrain beyond the settled districts is wilder than Grace could ever have imagined. She and Violet find themselves lost in a beautiful but deadly land where rain thunders down mountains, the earth drops away without warning and night brings impenetrable darkness.

Isaac and Scarlett Bailey’s attempts to escape the smuggling syndicate have left their lives in pieces. Isaac’s children are missing, and Scarlett’s battle with the darkness inside her has just become far more difficult. As the search for the children escalates, long-buried truths begin to surface, blurring the line between myth and reality, enemy and friend. Home is no longer safe, and risks must be taken.

Loosely based on the story of Lanny and Nicole Donovan, The Illicit Game is an odyssey chronicling the rise and fall of their booming multi-million-dollar cocaine and prostitution business. Lanny has come a long way since his days as a paperboy. It all started in the ‘80s, with his Colombian girlfriend Maria. These days, he’s an advocate for legalizing the world’s oldest profession, prostitution. It’s his street name, “Junior”, that’s on people’s lips when it comes to cocaine.

In the Third Universe, the Union Jack flies proudly over the entire continent of North America. England is the greatest power in the world. But another force rules over the crown. It is a mysterious group called the Masters. And their sinister servants, the Bookmen, enforce their laws against advanced technology. The fires of dissent have not been extinguished, however; the Free Radicals study scientific advances in secret, and Penelope Victoria Steele has joined their rebellion.

Newly single and still reeling from the revelation of her ex’s infidelity, only just about ready to stop wearing her engagement ring, it’s safe to say romance is the last thing on Rosie’s mind at her employer’s lavish summer party. Then Ethan Harber bursts on the scene. Rich, handsome, uncompromising, and dangerous, the magnetic connection between them is instantaneous, and Rosie finds herself drawn into a confusing and intense world of uncertainty and passion.