It's 2065, and when beta versions of the AI in people's heads start turning hostile and people with them start dying and disappearing, Reed will have to decide what to do with his, who seems to have developed feelings for him. In the meantime, he meets his dream guy and starts embracing the Art Deco counterculture he's always...
In The Vampire Grinch, a Christmas-loving human and his Christmas-hating vampire boyfriend fight and make up just in time to celebrate the holiday. In Vampire Claus, a vampire and a human meet on Christmas Eve and deliver gifts to children. In The Vampire's Dinner, a vampire hires a companion each Christmas to tell his truth to before draining them, but this year's victim changes things up by...
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Abaddon is terrible at being a devil and hasn't met his soul acquisition quota, so he heads to Earth and finds the brightest soul he's ever seen, one that's sure to fill his quota---a religiously devout musician named Seth. But the more time he spends around Seth and his unusual abilities, the more conflicted he feels about damning him to Hell, even though letting him go could mean losing him...
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Now that the people in the airship have found their new home, they have all new problems to conquer, like keeping the peace and preventing another war. Meanwhile, a team of Hell Divers and Cazadores set out together to look for possible survivors in a bunker in...
In A Case of Possession, Lucien and Stephen try to figure out where their relationship is going while they work with Stephen's group of magic practitioners to solve some murders. In Flight of Magpies, Lucien and Stephen struggle to find balance in their relationship as Stephen's work and more magical dangers keep piling up. In The Long Way Home, a psychic works with a skeptical cop to solve a...
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With a coup at their doorstep, Serefin, Nadya, Malachiasz, and friends flee the palace and end up on a quest into a dangerous forest of legend. Each has their own goals and motives, but each might be nothing more than a pawn to the gods in a much bigger...
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Fifteen-year-old Squib is running goods down the river when he witnesses Regence Hooke, a crooked cop who already has it out for him, murder someone and is rescued by a dragon named Vern. Vern was content to drink vodka and watch TV, but when his friend convinces him to let Squib live and give him a job, he develops a soft spot for the boy, and they just might have a lifelong friendship---if they...
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Nadya can communicate with the gods, and she may be the last cleric in Kalyazin who can do so, which is why she's been hidden away in a monastery---in the hopes that she will turn the tide of the war in favor of her country. But when her monastery is attacked by the enemy---Tranavians---she flees and teams up with three others, including a Tranavian blood mage, in order to sneak into Tranavia,...
Perle (a siren) is chained to a tub on Captain Kian's ship when another pirate captain, Dejean, attacks and, upon finding Perle, decides to help them. Perle hates humans and still wants to kill Kian, but as they grow closer to Dejean and his friends, they realize some humans might not be so bad after...
Everyone knows Drosselmeier as the mysterious toymaker and godfather to the Stahlbaum children who gifts them with a Nutcracker one Christmas Eve. From his childhood as a foundling in a forest, to his confusing teen and young adult years with different families in Germany, to his old age making toys for Klara, this book tells the story of his...
