Fantasy Relationship

I could see her wince on my video feed and, to my great delight, I could hear her pump working from in my office. I listened to the rhythmic whir of the machine and watched as it tugged on her. I've got a dirty little secret. I'm not the kind old man my employees think I am. I didn't hire all those new mamas because I wanted to help them out; I hired them because I've been secretly filming their pumping breaks. When one of my girls comes to me for help fixing her broken pump, she makes all of my sweetest, creamiest, milkiest dreams come true! Psst... We can't tell you anymore here. Take a...

Zara and her friends knew they hadn't solved the pixie problem for good. Far from it. The king's needs grow deeper every day he's stuck in captivity, while his control over his people gets weaker. It's made him vulnerable. And now there's a new king in town.

Kaylee Cavanaugh screams, someone dies. So when teen pop star Eden croaks onstage and Kaylee doesn't wail, she knows something is dead wrong. She can't cry for someone who has no soul.

She broke into his cabin. Now he wants to break her in. Cassie is stranded on a remote mountain in a blizzard. Her car is dead. Her phone is useless. And the only sign of life is a single light flickering through the snow. Logan is a recluse for a reason. When the strange woman pounds on his door, begging for shelter, his first instinct is to shut her out. But she’s soaked, shivering, and stubborn enough to force her way inside. Now she’s in his space, under his roof, wrapped in his blankets. And he can’t stop watching her tremble. What starts as reluctant shelter turns into a ...

All over the country, a strange phenomenon is happening. Some teenagers who die aren't staying dead. They are coming back to life, but they are no longer the same - they stutter, and their reactions to everything are slower. Termed "living impaired" or "differently biotic," they are doing their best to fit into a society that doesn't want them. Fitting in is hard enough when you don't have the look or attitude, but when almost everyone else is alive and you're not, it's close to impossible.

After publishing a ghoulish article on how to make saltwater taffy in a haunted kitchen, accomplished screenwriter and playwright Kate Milford has shifted her talents toward books for young audiences. In Milford’s first novel, 13-year-old Natalie knows there’s something unnatural about Dr. Jake Limberleg when he comes into her father’s bicycle-repair shop. But when Limberleg claims he can perform miraculous healings, Natalie begins to seriously doubt whether she’s up to the challenge this potentially dangerous man presents.

What if your town was sliding underwater, and everyone was ordered to pack up and leave? How would you and your friends spend your last days together? While the adults plan for the future, box up their possessions, and find new places to live, Keeley Hewitt and her friends decide to go out with a bang.

In the first book of the Shaw Confessions, the companion series to the New York Times best-selling Mara Dyer novels, old skeletons are laid bare and new promises prove deadly. This is what happens after happily ever after. Everyone thinks 17-year-old Noah Shaw has the world on a string. They're wrong. Mara Dyer is the only one he trusts with his secrets and his future. He shouldn't. And both are scared that uncovering the truth about themselves will force them apart. They're right.

***Ian Book of the Year Finalist*** *** Wishing Shelf Awards Finalist *** *** Readers' Favorite Finalist *** It’s not all tinsel and candy canes for Santa’s daughter! Grumpy, workaholic Santa always favored Tina’s younger brother, grooming him from birth to fill his boots when he retires. There’s just one problem – Nicholas, Jr. hates Christmas. He even writes anti-Christmas songs for his rock band, Black Ice. When their father winds up in the hospital, it falls to Tina to leave college in sunny Florida and temporarily return home to the frozen North Pole to run the family ...

Ayenee is not what they were promised. The man-made eighth continent was supposed to be a neutral land where the nations of the world could come together in peace. But when the Last War wiped out nearly all life on the planet, Ayenee became a refuge for the dwindling human population left behind. Over a century later, it stands as the center of new life in a changed world. However, by altering the face of the planet, humans have reawakened magic and monsters long ago forgotten, and those things are seeping back into reality more with each passing day. Lita and Rain will both do anything to ...

She owns the night. He only survives it. Zara Vale lives in neon and venom. She’s the reigning queen of Club Nocturne, a secret underworld haven for shifters, sirens and every other teenage monster trying to claw their way free. With her bite and her stilettos, she rules the dance floor and the back alley deals—until Jace arrives with scars that don’t heal and eyes that don’t flinch. He’s not part of her world. He’s a street rat with nothing to lose and too much to hide. But when a new drug starts turning shifters into soulless predators, Zara needs help from someone who ...

Madison's prom was killer - literally. For some reason she's been targeted by a dark reaper - yeah, that kind of reaper - intent on getting rid of her, body and soul. But before the reaper could finish the job, Madison was able to snag his strange, glowing amulet and get away. Now she's stuck on Earth - dead but not gone.

He was off-limits, older, and forbidden—but I let him ruin me anyway. Cassie I came back to Shotgun Peaks to take over the bar my father left behind—not to fall for Reid Maddox, the brooding mountain man who practically raised me. He’s too old, too gruff, too dangerous. But one look from him strips away everything I swore I wouldn’t feel. The way he touches me, claims me, owns me—I can’t quit him, even when the town starts to whisper. Reid Cassie Lane was never supposed to be mine. She was off-limits, a walking reminder of every promise I made to her father. But now she’s all ...

X-Men meets Heroes when New York Times best-selling author Scott Westerfeld teams up with award-winning authors Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti in the final book of an explosive trilogy about a group of teens with amazing abilities. After the shocking conclusion to Swarm, the zeroes are scattered, on the run, and desperate. They're up against challenges from within and from the world around them, and one thing is certain - an epic showdown is guaranteed.

Kayla Delacroix never believed in the legend of the Ice King. She came to the frozen north in search of answers—not a cursed king bound in ice, not a war older than time, and certainly not the kind of hunger that burns beneath his cold, unyielding exterior. But when her touch shatters his prison, she realizes too late that some myths are very, very real. Eldric was once a king. Now, he is something else. A monster forged in ice and vengeance, a ruler who has spent centuries waiting for the one thing that could set him free. Her. But waking Eldric means awakening everything that hunts him....

After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom, or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy?

Nobody expected Dru Anderson to survive this long. Not Graves. Not Christophe. Not even Dru. She's battled killer zombies, jealous djamphirs, and bloodthirsty suckers straight out of her worst nightmares. But now that Dru has bloomed into a full-fledged svetocha — rare, beautiful, and toxic to all vampires — the worst is yet to come. Because getting out alive is going to cost more than she's ever imagined. And in the end, is survival really worth the sacrifice?

Lili St. Crow staked her place among writers of dark fantasy with the release of Strange Angels, the first book featuring night hunter Dru Anderson. Here teen Dru returns, a little wiser but still beset by supernatural terrors that would have most girls her age running for cover. What else would you expect for someone with nonhuman blood coursing through her veins?

She went in with a mission—but he wants her on her knees, marked, and begging for more. Maren I was trained to seduce, infiltrate, and kill—not to feel. But walking into the Crimson Court as a courtesan, I didn’t expect General Urzak Ironmaw to be this brutal. This dominant. This obsessed. Every look, every command pushes me closer to the edge. I'm here to steal the Iron Heart and walk away. But the deeper I get, the more I forget who’s seducing who—and the more I wonder if I want to be caught. Urzak Maren says she’s here to serve, but her eyes tell a different story. She’s ...

Lauren DeStefano’s Wither was called a “thought-provoking debut, reminiscent of The Handmaid’s Tale” by Kirkus Reviews. Its chilling follow-up, Fever, continues 16-year-old Rhine’s tale - set in a dark future in which men and women die by age 25, and young girls are sold into marriage to keep the population growing. Rhine has finally escaped her marriage. But what hope can the outside world offer when death looms ever closer?