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After the crystoid incident nearly destroyed all magic in Eden and killed a dear friend, Justin Slade wants payback. That means invading the angel realm Seraphina and squashing the usurper Cephus like a bug. Unfortunately, another crystoid in Seraphina is preventing the Alabaster Arch from opening a portal into the realm. Using a sky portal from the last remaining crystoid in Eden, Justin launches a desperate bid to open the portal from the other side.

Daelissa's attack on Queens Gate dealt Justin and the resistance a serious blow. The loss of his home and one of their strongest allies seems to mean certain defeat. Justin isn't about to give up. He embarks on a mission to bring the houses of Daemos to his side and seeks help from Fjoeruss, Mr. Gray himself, even if the odds of success are slim. As if the pressure isn't already high enough, Justin discovers something even more troubling. Daelissa is already in Seraphina.

Conrad Edison is cursed. His foster parents die in horrible ways around his birthday, and he ends up back at the orphanage where he and the other children are treated like indentured servants. When a man with the ability to mind control animals inexplicably tries to kill Conrad, the harrowing scrape with death gives him a new perspective on life. Determined to elude his cursed fate, Conrad decides to escape the orphanage once and for all. The phone leads him to a magical place called Queens Gate, and for the first time in his life, he dares to hope for a better life.

When Lucy Morgan drops dead along with everyone else on Earth she refuses to take death lying down even if, technically, her corpse is. She drags her ghostly social life back from the grave and enlists her friends to figure out the rules of the afterlife. More importantly, they want to discover who or what killed everyone and why the heck anyone would do such a mean thing. But what they discover changes everything. And if they can't figure out how to put their newfound ghostly powers to work, humanity will be extinct for good.

X-Files meets the X-Men Since the murder of his parents, Lucas Fowler has been avoiding death more than living life. But when a mind-controlling rogue forces him to kill people, an underground society wants him dead, and the police want him behind bars, Lucas has no choice but to plunge into a deadly world he never knew existed. Lucas discovers that he's a Scion. He has superhuman speed, strength, and the ability to enter an alternate dimension called the Blight. He wants to use his abilities for good but a rogue Scion is making him kill other Scions in a twisted experiment to gain entry ...

When Conrad meets a strange girl while practicing for the Arcane University entrance exam, she takes him through a crack in the world and into a mysterious realm called the Glimmer. Conrad's parents are seeking help from the Glimmer Queen so they can once again rule the Overworld. The Glimmer holds secrets so ancient, they predate even the First Seraphim War, and a great power that could grant Conrad's parents immortality. If Conrad can't find a way to convince the Glimmer Queen to help his parents, evil will once again rule the Overworld.

Forever Broken. When Conrad learns of an ancient artifact that might be able to reverse death, he dares to hope it might return Cora from the grave. The Broken Relic, however, is highly sought after by collectors, though nobody knows exactly what it is. After being kidnapped, chased, and nearly killed, Conrad realized he and his friends will be lucky to survive the preparations for the quest, much less the quest itself.

When Kyle Matthews decides to fight to save his job from outsourcing, he never thought he'd be beaten, shot at, kidnapped, stalked by corrupt FBI agents, or gripped in an international tug of war. After the FBI launches an investigation into the theft of sensitive software his company produces for the government, Kyle sees his chance to frame foreign employees and save his job. But Ramani Singh, one of the foreigners, catches on to Kyle's plan, and fights back. Unfortunately, that drops them both in the middle of a war between rival factions vying for control of the software. Terrible as it...

OBEY OR DIE Max Planck might be the constable in City 7, but he doesn't make the rules. Governor Alderman rules the dome with an iron fist and when he says someone is guilty, asking for details is a quick way to get thrown out of the airlock. But this time it's different. This time it's Sarah, Max's sister and last living relative, who's sentenced to die on the merciless Martian surface. For the first time in years, Max goes against Alderman, hoping to discover what Sarah is guilty of. What he uncovers might earn him his own death sentence. It also might bring change. It's time for the ...