Old World Fantasy

Earth belongs to mankind once again. But not everyone has the same vision for the planet. Dean visits Earth, touring the colonies, and quickly learns that not all remaining humans are pleased with the new changes to their planet. The Restorers are determined to build a pre-Industrial Revolution state, claiming technology will only destroy them again. Dean must infiltrate the group and learn their master plan before they go too far.

In Boulder, Allison "Lex" Luther barely gets her niece to safety. In Los Angeles, Scarlett Bernard is nearly shot in the back. It seems that a powerful enemy is unhappy with the Old World leaders' plans to form a government, and they've coordinated a strike against those rare individuals who can undo magic itself.

After her twin sister’s brutal murder, former US Army Sergeant Allison “Lex” Luther vowed to protect her niece, Charlie. So when two vampires try to kidnap the baby, it quickly turns into a fight to the death - Lex’s death, that is.

The girl doesn't remember a thing about her life, but the intricate tattoo on her arm is proof that she's from the Dragonfly Territories and that she's protected by the king. Which means a reward for Piper if she can get the girl home. The one sure way to the Territories is the 401, a great old beauty of a train. But a ticket costs more coin than Piper could make in a year. And stowing away is a difficult prospect - everyone knows that getting past the peculiar green-eyed boy who stands guard is nearly impossible.

In an Empire run on necromancy, dead sorcerers are the lifeblood. Their corpses are wrapped in chains and drained of magic to feed the unquenchable hunger for imperial conquest. Born with magic, Arienne has become resigned to her dark fate. But when the voice of a long-dead sorcerer begins to speak inside her head, she listens. There may be another future for her, if she’s willing to fight for it. Miles away, beneath a volcano, a seven-eyed dragon also wears the Empire’s chains. Before the imperial fist closed around their lands, it was the people’s sacred guardian.

The year 1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black, white, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century, into the present and beyond.

After helping Astrid conquer Cerro Torre, Simon and his female companions head north to search for his ex-girlfriend Joanne, who vanished in Patagonia. They arrive at a cherry orchard where Joanne once stayed and meet the enigmatic Roux sisters. Sophia and Amelia abandoned their modern life in France to embrace a simple, rustic existence in the South American wilderness. Though equally beautiful and spirited, the sisters share a bitter rivalry. Simon finds himself both flattered and unsettled as they openly compete for his attention. During his stay at the orchard, Simon grows increasingly ...

The traditional retold fairy tales in this volume speak of the awesome and the marvellous, of the perilous and the exhilarating. We shall explore the traditional, age-old stories for children our ancestors have told us about Dragons. These fairy tales of awe have grown and flourished all over the globe, although as you travel futher East it’s likely that you’ll find more dragons — and also kindlier ones. For not all dragons are the same: they’re not really siblings to each other, they’re more like removed cousins. Some are imbued with fire, others with light, and others with rain ...

What if you suddenly woke up in a strange, Utopian world 300 years into the future… and you slowly came to the realization that you were the one that created it? When a 40-year-old recovering alcoholic IT professional named Alex awakens in the chiseled body of a handsome 30-year-old man three centuries into the future, he immediately discovers two things… One, apparently time travel is really possible and Two, this incredibly advanced future civilization is vastly different from the old one. In this vibrant utopia with no countries, no money, and no war, every job is appreciated and the...

Four women, and a freshman year beyond his wildest fantasies. My life flipped upside down the day an older woman decided to take interest in me. At nineteen, I thought I had a normal, boring college life. Then she walked into my life with her knowing smiles and promises of pleasure I’d never imagined. Before I knew it, my mundane freshman year transformed into an education no university could provide. I had no idea how much my life was about to change. Volume 1 includes books 1-5. His First Taste His First Seduction His First Lesson His First Challenge His First Encounter

Mysterious spores spread across the Earth, unseen, undetected. They embed in the sinuses, move to the brain, and colonize the entire nervous system. When the takeover is complete, they kill the host and animate the body, making them truly undead, flesh-devouring zombies.

Dotty Parsons knows the noises in the chimneys aren’t jackdaws nesting as the old cook says. After all, it’s December and who ever heard of a bird that whistles? But it is only when the feisty young Welsh girl finds her dead mother’s locket hidden up the playroom chimney that she really begins to suspect there’s more to the Calendar House than meets the eye. What Dotty doesn’t know is that the locket is the key to a long lost magic…and keeping it is going to be a whole lot more trouble than she had bargained for. Award-winning children’s magical fantasy fiction from #1 ...

He promised to protect her. But some promises can break the world. As a forgotten ritual nears completion, Commander Doric is drawn into a web of ancient bloodlines, haunted visions, and a child at the heart of it all. Nessa is more than she seems, and the closer the veil between worlds thins, the more Doric begins to fear what saving her might cost. In a world unraveling, loyalty is no longer clear, and sacrifice may be the only path to salvation. When the final moment comes, his choice will echo far beyond the battlefield, leaving ash where hope once stood.

College never felt this exhilarating. I felt crushed under the weight of college life, watching my confidence shrink with each passing day as I pined after a girl I couldn't bring myself to approach. Then Claire walked into my life with her knowing smile and an offer I couldn't refuse - she'd teach me everything I needed to know about being a man. My education started in this little café downtown, the kind of place where the coffee came in actual cups and the pastries looked like art. But it was her home that changed everything--that first night with her blew past every fumbling fantasy ...

From California to Colorado, the Old World is filled with complicated women, volatile creatures, and nulls with attitude. This unmissable collection includes the stories that run in between and alongside the Old World novels, allowing listeners to catch up with favorite characters and find clues about the future of this bestselling series.

All her life, Sashi’s mother warned her not to get involved with werewolf problems. But Sashi, a witch who uses magic to heal sick and injured bodies, has never made a habit of ignoring trauma. When she meets an abused shapeshifter that no one else seems willing to help, Sashi will risk everything - including a budding romance with a human, Will - to save a woman who can’t save herself.

She just wants to be a freeuse toy for her first time, and he’s more than willing to use her. Willow I’m 25 and newly single and my only boyfriend and I never did the deed. It’s time to be a super slut, so someday I won’t regret not having a wild time in my 20s. And what better place than a freeuse party? I’m ready to be pounded hard and used all night long.... and I want to start with the sexy, older vampire I lock eyes with as soon as I enter the party. The vampire pushes all the right buttons and looks like he knows exactly how to please a woman. Lucky for me, while a bunch of ...

In this exquisite collection of children’s folktales, Zitkála-Šá shares the legends that were handed down to her through generations of Yankton storytellers. These tales display the wide range of insights and observations that accrue to such stories through repeated iteration, but they also benefit from the sharp ear and finely tuned sensibility of Zitkála-Šá as a writer. Her characters seem to speak to us—often crying out to us—in the same tones that Zitkála-Šá must once have heard.

After taking the first step towards coming to terms with the traumatizing event that seems to be the key to her fiery spirit. And committing an act of violence which she herself believes has removed her from being judged as a normal human. Lyeh has made a life changing decision, to abandon her humanity. She will now start her third year at the Academy not as a human from Earth but as a Flame Nephilim, a Type 1 Divine Entity. She is one step closer to graduation. But how will this transformation affect her friends and their ability to graduate, and survive past their twentieth birthday?

She was born to destroy a dark lord. But she’s only eleven—and trapped in a magical prison. Mara has spent her entire life in the “cabin realm,” a tiny magical world created by her late father to protect her and her mother. Outside its boundaries lies Ellendra — a once-beautiful land now ruled by the cruel sorcerer Lord Sycorath. Sycorath wants Mara dead. Because when she turns eighteen, her magic will awaken — and she’ll have the power to defeat him. But Mara’s starting to sense that something’s not right. Her mother is hiding things. The cabin realm may not be as safe as...