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Stella Sedgwick is a lost cause. Banished from etiquette lessons and unsure of her future, Stella dreams of a writing career and independence, but 1860s England offers little opportunity beyond marriage or servitude for a sharp-tongued, dark-skinned girl. When her late mother’s former employer summons Stella to London, he tells her of his intention to bequeath one of the family’s great estates to her. It’s a life-changing inheritance, but one that will precipitate a legal battle that would be easier if Stella were married.

Not too long ago, the cyborg NSLICE-00P—Non-Standard Leashed-Intelligence Cybernetic Enforcer—was an unstoppable machine of war. But when a fateful murder caused her to be launched into a whole new reality, she slowly began to realize that she could be something more . . . if she wanted.

The cyborg known as NSLICE-00P—Non-Standard Leashed-Intelligence Cybernetic Enforcer—was created to be an unstoppable weapons platform that could take out even the strongest of heroes. But when she was cast out of her own reality, she found herself without orders or a controller—but with a new lease on life. Joined by her loyal compatriots—and a beyond-loyal corps of cyborg-enhanced critters—NSLICE-00P is taking an active role in shaping her altered circumstances. Part of which means gathering allies for the Empire.

When Princess Reva seeks a trade alliance, she doesn't realize her hand in marriage may be required to save her people from starvation. With more than one suitor fighting for her hand, her plans are thrust into chaos when there's a fatal attack in the cove. After she is ripped away from negotiations against her will, loyalties are tested as rumors of a deadly magic pearl—and the constant meddling of a determined sea elf and a dastardly pirate captain—put Reva into an impossible position.

The sibling king and queen take Ren to their austere fortress, where she is entangled in a series of deadly trials meant to test her magic and her bloodline. She is a spectacle. A tool. A captive. Forced to navigate a world of torture, manipulation, and demons, Ren knows she can trust no one. Not even Garrick, the man she now understands is forbidden to her. The one that, against her better judgment, she's falling for. She's prepared to pay for her freedom—but when the cost is her heart, the price may be more than she can bear.

Not long ago, NSLICE-00P—short for Non-Standard Leashed-Intelligence Cybernetic Enforcer—performed her job with cold, calculated, merciless obedience. When she was ordered to destroy something, it got seriously destroyed. Unfortunately, that led her to take out her own creator before he created her, casting the cyborg out of her reality and into a world of magic, levels, and skills, with her very own dungeon core and no one to tell her what to do. As it turned out, fate put NSLICE-00P in the right place at the right time: she's become a legit heroine in this new existence.

Jake didn't think his night could get worse, but that was before his train stops deep underground and zombies attack and things go from worst-day-ever to run-for-your-life terror. Liv is good at running, mostly from other people straight into a bottle of vodka. But as chaos erupts on the city streets, depending on others may be her only chance at survival. London is gone. The world has ended. In the chaos that remains, seven strangers fight to escape the city.

She's unlike any one or any thing else: a Non-Standard Leashed-Intelligence Cybernetic Enforcer aka NSLICE-00P. The first of her kind, she's let loose into a universe of superheroes on behalf of her sinister masters to destroy all who oppose them. And everything's going according to plan—until NSLICE-00P gets hacked and sent into the past to kill her own creator before he creates her. Obeying orders as always, she wastes the poor guy. Unfortunately, there are consequences to initiating a reality-breaking time paradox. The most significant: total ejection from that reality.

Years ago, Elle Blackford's parents made a desperate deal with the fae kingdom of Ashwood. While her mother and sisters reconciled themselves to a future among dangerous immortals, Elle and her father studied forbidden magic, hoping to find a loophole. Until Elle's father died, forcing Elle's sister to marry Prince Fitz, heir of Ashwood. But Elle has a plan to change their fate. She knows that ghosts wander Ashwood Forest until the royal family sends them into the afterlife. Ghosts that can be returned to life, and she's determined to save her father from his premature death.

From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color. Edited by Wall Street Journal best-selling author Abby L. Vandiver, this thrilling anthology will keep you on the edge of your seat. Includes "Midnight Escapade" by Jennifer Chow, "Lucky Thirteen" by Tracy Clark, "Murderers' Feast" by H.C. Chan, "In the Matter of Mabel and Bobby Jefferson" by Christopher Chambers, and many more.

How to optimize your health, finances, relationships, and spirituality, even if you have zero experience in Moon magick. Are you feeling lost - unable to relax or sleep? Have you lost touch with your health and life-work balance? Do you find yourself trying so hard to push for something but it stalls or fails to work out? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you could use the moon’s eight phases to find the right path for your life and live to the fullest.

Out of a clear, blue sky, a mysterious alien race wreaked havoc on planet Earth, thus beginning the Melter War. Millions of people died. But a savior emerged; Lisette Fox and her Belus Corporation supplied the weapons and technology to defeat the Melters and brought peace back to the world. Some two decades later, Bobbie Chan, a child at the outbreak of war, now works as a doctor caring for the ultra-elderly. Bobbie encounters a previously unidentified disease, Rejuvenation, which makes the old young, but has homicidal side effects.

This collection is a comprehensive guide for the beginner or advanced student to develop their knowledge of divination, astrology and tarot and learn the different ways in which they interact. It also allows you to learn western and eastern astrology so that you have an in-depth understanding of all your birth charts, as well as adding to your directory of meanings when reading tarot.

Have you ever wondered what astrology, horoscopes, and the Zodiac are really all about? Have you found yourself being curious as to what your astrological sign and birth chart really mean? If so, then this beginner’s book of astrology secrets could open your eyes to what astrology really is and how deep it goes beyond just your Sun Sign. You will truly get to grips with the building blocks and obtain an in-depth understanding of your natal chart, soul, personality and destiny.

Do you want to grow hardneck garlic? Do you want to diversify your current home based business? Garlic might be the answer.

Runa, alone, survives the massacre. But a traitorous mage has captured her king’s essence - his vital energy, linked to a long line of wolf-shifter rulers. Unless Runa can recover that power by dawn, the mage will command not only her, but also her kindred. Yet Runa is the weakest of the pack. Her quest will fail unless she finds help, and the dark winter woods is deserted but for a small dog and a young soldier.

A heartbreaking betrayal cost Sam Wentworth a beloved member of her monster team, and she’s determined it won’t happen again. Humans suck. All Sam wants is to grieve alone with the surviving members of her team, but she has information people will kill for. Now she’s stuck between a delusional girl obsessed with an imaginary monster, an overbearing descendent of the game’s creator, and a violent hate group determined to end Maiyamon for good.

Bobbie Chan has escaped the clutches of the all-encompassing Belus Corporation and she, and her comrades, are forced to seek sanctuary amongst a band of renegades - outcasts who eke out a meager existence in the barren wastelands which emerged from the Melter War. However, Bobbie finds herself at the heart of a game plan, devised by the renegades, to bring the Belus Corporation to its knees.

The youngest daughter of the Sea King cannot wait to be old enough to go to the surface and see the world of humans. Her first visit there changes her life forever when she saves a prince from drowning, and comes to love him above all others. For the chance to win his love and gain an immortal soul, the little sea princess is willing to risk everything.... First published in 1837, Hans Christian Andersen’s haunting tale of love is brought to the English language in this unabridged edition, which has been translated directly from the original Danish into English.

Thinking is like life, some insatiable hunger you'll never quite satisfy. In his debut collection, Scott J. Moses presents 13 tales of supernatural horror and everyday woe.