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Winter 1917. After years on the run from a dangerous cult, twenty-three-year-old Sasza and his father have established themselves among the Odonic Empire's ruling class. But there's a problem: Sasza is a vampire, and vampires aren't supposed to get involved in human governance. What the aristocracy doesn't know, after all, cannot hurt them.Unfortunately, Sasza is far more involved than a stealth vampire should be. Not only does he work to quell the rumors of the vampires' responsibility for an unsolved massacre, his lover is also the pro-proletariat Ilya, the Empire's Finance Minister, who tries to recruit Sasza into the same cult hunting him.Then-the Emperor declares war against the Vampire States. Diplomacy has failed. Sasza quickly learns that he will do anything to preserve peace-including giving in to the monstrosity he spent so many years concealing from even himself.

THE ENEMY BY MY SIDE.THE ENEMY IN MY HEART.Ari will never be the Heir again. Her younger sister, Dressa, was supposed to hold her place, but now Dressa's stolen her future rulership.Banished to a resort world to recover from her illness, Ari's determined to reclaim her shapeshifting abilities and race back to the capital. But a young gardener with a mysterious past is taking too much interest in Ari's new persona, and a possessive duke is bent on capturing her attention for himself.Are they both after her heart, or something far more sinister?Dressa won her freedom, won her bride-and won a kingdom she didn't want. Now, with an alien crisis brewing, she has to step up as the Heir, and maybe, soon, as the ruler.Because there's a secret at the heart of the kingdom. A secret that spans her father's entire rule and could bring everything tumbling down.And she's already let the enemy into her palace, and into her heart.When no one is who they seem and every smile is a weapon, the Truthspoken must find their way to truth before the kingdom crumbles around them.The Shadow Rule collects episodes 37-93 of The Stars and Green Magics, previously published in serial form.Note: This book has main characters who use gender neutral pronouns (they/them/their, fae/faer/faerself).

Shapeshifting powers, forbidden love, and a kingdom hanging in the balance.Arianna's always been the perfect Truthspoken Heir, the obedient future ruler of her interstellar kingdom. But when Arianna's royal shapeshifting abilities fail her publicly and disastrously at her engagement ball, she suddenly finds herself on the outside of the life she called her own.Dressa's the perfect socialite, the opposite of her older sister's rigid control. When her sister goes down with a mysterious illness and is sent away from court, Dressa's thrust into a position she never wanted. She's ordered to impersonate her sister-her body, her name, her personality, everything-and court her sister's bride-to-be.Who's gorgeous. And who's likely been sent to take her family down.Can Dressa resist falling for her sister's bride?Can Arianna find a way to take back her own name and position?When the stakes are the kingdom and control has been their whole lives, these siblings must find a way to make their lives their own.The Truthspoken Heir collects episodes 1-36 of The Stars and Green Magics, previously published in serial form, as well as three all new beginning episodes!Note: This book has main characters who use gender neutral pronouns (they/them/their, fae/faer/faerself).

While this book happens 23 years before the main events of this series, it contains characters, events, and context needed to fully enjoy the rest of the series. This is the preferred reading order, but it can also be read any time before, during, or right after books 1 and 2.THE RULER IS DEAD.LONG LIVE THE RULER.Homaj Rhialden has lived his whole life knowing his older sibling, not himself, will rule his interstellar kingdom-and as a court rake, he's perfectly okay with that. But when his parents are assasinated and the Heir goes missing, Homaj is suddenly thrust into power. All evidence points to an inside job, but who among his father's trusted advisors are his enemies?Determined to track down his parents' killers and prove himself in an increasingly hostile court, Homaj hatches a plan with his servant cousin, Iata, to use their shapeshifting abilities to switch places: while Iata impersonates him and rules the kingdom as a willing target, Homaj searches for the Heir in the capital city.But in a kingdom ruled by shapeshifters, anyone can be anyone, and not even your own identity is safe. When lies run deep enough to shatter a kingdom and family is hardly friendly, can Homaj protect both his kingdom and his identity from crumbling around him?A Bid to Rule is a fast-paced royal thriller with a genderfluid lead and glittering court intrigue! This book was first published as The Seritarchus in serial form.

My warped sense of morality embarrasses me.Ruta Pawlak is one of the most successful contract killers Pier-Upon-Pier City has ever seen. Convicted of five murders that landed her multiple life sentences, her kill count allegedly sits between fifteen and two hundred people. Some were just for practice, others for revenge, and others she executed for money to keep her potentially world-record setting reading collection going.For the first time, a biographer sits down with the legendary killer to hear her story in her own words. Get the details on her relationship with her depraved bosses and her eclectic arsenal of murder weapons from ice magic to poison to even the sun itself. From her impoverished upbringing to her introduction to the Syndicates to her bizarre affair with fellow killer Frieda Masters to Ruta's eventual downfall, this account goes beyond headlines and court proceedings, weaving a story of love, family, survival, and murder.This novella is perfect for fans of true crime, fantasy, noir, The Last Podcast on the Left, and the interview portions of AMC's Interview with the Vampire series.Humans killing other humans wasn't natural.Humans killing monsters, however, might be.

TRUST IN THE LAWA Good Citizen follows all the Laws set forth by the benevolent Government. Trust the authority of the State. Questions are against the law.BELIEVE IN THE LAWThe Government cares about you. The Government wants you to be happy. Do not deviate from the Government''s prescribed conditions of happiness. OBEY ONLY THE LAWNever question the Law, for that leads to anarchy. Always obey, lest you be found undesirable. Undesirables do not deserve life. And you, Good Citizen, want to live, don''t you?----THE LAWLESS: A Triptych collects three tales of near future America, and the people who fight against the totalitarian regime that wants to destroy them - plus a bonus story about resistance in a dystopian nightmare. 

Never get between a Dark Lord and his son.Lord Mrakota adopts the boy who is prophesied to kill him and raises Hero as his own son. Despite the meddling of rangers, wizards, and Old Mentors, Mrakota protects and guides Hero to follow in his path as a Dark Lord. However, as Hero''s fifteenth birthday approaches and everything conspires to lead him to a final confrontation with Mrakota, Hero doesn''t know if he has a choice at all. Is he doomed to fulfill his destiny and kill his own father?

A crew of salvagers plot to expose the evil dealings of Peridot's enemies, but to protect their secrets, those enemies will destroy the crew and everything and everyone they hope to save.

Skythulf wants to live. Raised in the fight pits, trained to kill or be killed, he yearns for freedom that's out of reach. He's a scythewulf: a wolf-shifter considered neither fully man nor beast, his life worth nothing to his keepers...until Brennus, knight-champion of Saorlland, rescues him from certain death and offers him a new life. When he mistakenly kills a corrupted nun, Skythulf has one chance to redeem himself and restore his honor. He must run with the Wild Hunt: an age-old trial of blood and courage, where every step hides peril and carnage. If he survives, he will be pardoned. If he fails, Brennus will die brutally at his side.Few have ever returned from the fae-haunted land, where horrors unnamed dwell beside the enchanted and the damned. There is no rest, no relent, and no mercy. In the Wild Hunt, you run or you die.