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By #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, the first book in a stunning new series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue. Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And...

I never thought I'd step foot in Royal Manor again. But four years later, here I am...back to finish my senior year at Royal Hearts Academy. And forced to face Jace Covington. My first friend. First crush. First kiss. The one I left behind. Only—he isn't the same boy I gave my heart to. This new Jace is as cruel as he is gorgeous. And he's determined to make my life a living hell. Along with the rest of his glorified family and crew of tyrants. They expect me to worship the ground they walk on like everyone else, but I'd rather eat dirt.

Little did I know my love and freedom would be taken to form a new alliance. Brutal, possessive, and dangerous, Lucian is feared by all. Including myself. When his father is assassinated, Lucian takes his rightful place as head of the Cotroni family. They rule the Mafia with an iron fist, and he's set his sights on my family. Until now, we've been the only threat, but when a new one emerges, my father is forced to arrange a marriage between Lucian and me.

One day I'm Royal Elite School's small fly, the next I'm hunted and left to die. He doesn't only shred my life to parts, but he's also coming after my heart. He thinks he broke me, but the new princess will bring the king to his knees.

When an executed murderer's fingerprints turn up at a new crime scene, Kay Scarpetta investigates. Prepare for the kind of riveting suspense this best-selling author delivers so well...

A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted.

You don’t know me. You think you do, but you don’t. The only thing you know is my name, and even that’s a lie. I’m king of Boston, lord of criminals, ruler of an underworld empire. Or am I? Only one thing’s for sure: I operate alone. Until I cross paths with a brazen little thief who sets my whole kingdom on fire.

My brother’s best friend bullied me, rejected me, and left me with a secret baby girl. I couldn’t shift and had psychic visions. I was the plus-size weirdo and avoided like the plague. He was the next Alpha and my worst bully. Until he took my innocence, then broke my heart. I ran from him, far away. But now I’m back…only to become his forced mate. Being at the bottom of the social ladder all my life wasn’t fun. But I got over it. And I got over him, even though I see him in our daughter’s eyes every day. But now my visions tell me to go back to our pack, to the heartbreak of my...

My billionaire boss forces me into marriage…then knocks up my plus-size curves. He’s twice my age and daddy’s former best friend. He’s also notoriously ruthless. I’m the socially awkward virgin he likes to prey on because he wants revenge. When I make a mistake as his PA he punishes me…by forcing me to become his wife… He may be a great single dad to his adorable little daughter… But to me he is grumpy, demanding, and rude. He works me into the ground until he breaks me. And then he blackmails me and drags me to the altar, leaving me no choice. He’s obsessed with me and ...

From New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance comes a chilling suspense thriller featuring Ali Reynolds, a former TV newscaster drawn into a deadly mystery fueled by online deception and revenge. On a dating site, SingleatHeart.com, bored housewives can find romance with married men looking...

I take her off the street. Then I marry her. Because she’s MINE. I arranged to marry her for an alliance. But she disappeared. I’m the Pakhan and much older than her. I always get what I want. So I hunt her down. She says she’s innocent, that I have the wrong person. That she’s not my arranged bride. But she doesn’t realize that as soon as I laid eyes on her, she’s the only one I want. I don’t do feelings. My heart is made of ice. But when she trembles, I take her into my cold arms. I will torture anyone who hurts her. I will kill anyone who puts her in danger. She’s mine to...

When the vicious Blood Brotherhood prince I’ve been hidden from all my life finally comes to claim me at my wedding and kills my heinous groom, he gives me one choice—stay here and take my chances with the unknown force raining poisoned arrows on my ceremony or leave with him as his bride. He’s the man I was raised to fear. He’s the most ruthless warrior in all of Malhaven. Few dare to even speak his name. But with my family’s safety on the line, I choose the unthinkable and agree to become his queen.

Cricket Wakefield had a bright future. A life filled with love and dreams of dance. A future that was shattered the night she was brutally murdered. But the dead don’t always stay dead. And the living moves on without them. A year later, Cricket is awoken by a necromancer’s magic with no choice but to join the woman’s carnival, to hone her newfound skills amongst others like herself. When the Carnival arrives at her old town, Cricket learns that more victims have been discovered. Victims decorated with black dahlias just as she had been.

First, he rejected me. Now, I have to give him my plus-size curves and breed his baby. I’m the awkward human everyone avoids. The Alpha humiliated me and didn’t want me. Now I’m selected by Operation Human Mating to be the Alpha’s forced mate. I run, but he ties me up and drags me back, because he wants to impregnate me. I’m the weird nerd. I helped design the algorithm that matches Alphas with humans. But it betrays me by spitting out my name, to be mated with the guy I hate. He publicly broke my heart and made me feel as small as possible. If he thinks I’ll come easily, he’s...

He has a strand of my hair in his nightstand drawer. Coiled like a secret. Kept like a trophy. That’s when I realize Darren Marinko isn’t collecting my father’s debt. He’s collecting me. $47,000 to the due to his boss. That’s what my dead father left me. No money. No memories. Just debt and the attention of their most brutal enforcer. Darren shows up at my café. Tells me I owe $500 a week or I lose everything. I tell him where to shove his payment plan. He smiles like I’ve given him a gift. He doesn’t threaten me. He just… watches. Learns my schedule. My habits. The way I ...

He wears a necklace he never takes off. A saint’s medal. Silver chain. Pressed against his chest like a penance. Something about it won’t let me go. Eight years ago, my sister was murdered. No answers. No justice. Just a closed casket and a phone call that split my life into before and after. I came to this city to find the man who killed her. I found Roman Caruso instead. Stop asking questions. Some truths have teeth. That’s all he says. That, and leave before you end up like her. I tell him I’m not going anywhere. He looks at me like I’ve just sealed my fate. Then he looks at me...

She needed me as her protector, her shield against the world, but my need for her ran far deeper. She was the balm to my restless desire, the answer to my burning hunger. My escape. My refuge. In her eyes, I was a savior, a knight in tarnished armor. Little did she know, I would become her darkest nightmare. One taste, one moment of surrender, and I would never let her go. He was the only man who could offer me the help I so desperately needed. Falsely accused of a crime I hadn't committed, I was now a fugitive, forced to live on the streets and constantly looking over my shoulder. Never in...

I thought I was ordinary Rory Franco: college student, artist, and over-protected daughter. Then, mages barge into my family’s home, murder my parents, and whisk me off to a university known as Villain Academy. It turns out I’m Persephone Bloodstone, the long lost heir to one of the five royal families of dark magic. I’m destined to learn how to manipulate the world with fear—and to stand beside the four other scions: the scorching-hot, arrogant young men who rule this school. The four of them crush anyone who doesn’t kowtow.

The galaxy was once terrorized by the Sturm, a group of “species purists” intent on destroying any human with genetic or cybernetic enhancements. Fashioning themselves as the one true “Human Republic,” the Sturm cut a bloody swath across the stars, killing billions before finally being defeated and driven into the far reaches of Dark Space. Centuries of peace bred complacency. Everyone believed the Sturm had died out in the Dark. They were wrong.

In Laith, when the moons are high, Tavarra gains the ability to walk the land, losing her seahorse-like tail. But should she remain out of the water, a curse will consume her, turning her into a beast with sharp fangs and long claws. A creature that, on some nights, becomes a rampaging monster.