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The arrogance of success. The criminality of using it to crush people under one's thumb. A license to destroy. More than a single life, entire cultures replaced. For a few credits more. Find the crime! Rivka can't touch him or can she? Will he allow it? In this part of space, he calls the shots. The Federation is on the outside looking in. From the frontier, a single business starts to take over. Not a crime family, like Nefas, but a single individual forcing people to sell their souls. Unlimited power. Like Satan has returned and demanded payment.

Most fairies are obsessed with love. But not all. There are evil fairies out in the world who don’t care about peace, love, and romance. They are obsessed with their greed, creating trouble for others and destroying all that is good in the world. Paris Beaufont won’t stand for that. However, facing fairies with dark magic will put her to the ultimate test. It’s difficult to fight villains who don’t play fair and will stop at nothing to get what they want. Can Paris stop the evil tooth fairies before they destroy Happily Ever After College?

Zaena's close to securing the final artifacts she needs to save her people, but doing so requires her to strike deals with the most dangerous elven tribes. Thousands of years ago, diplomacy failed, and she has only hope to convince her it'll work this time. Team Princess has advanced too far to succeed without the help of powerful humans. Zaena doesn't know whom to trust when every human around her wants to take advantage of her power for their own agenda. A surprising request from an ally forces her into a deadly race against time.

Enter the world of Metamorphosis Online, a fully immersive video game where players compete for spots in the Global Top 10 - ranks that actually pay you to play the game. Gracie doesn't play the game to make money...at first. Broke, single, and working a crappy job as a blackjack dealer, Gracie's just blowing off steam and having fun. Can playing a new type of immersive game help her overcome real-life issues, or will it cause more problems?

Dorothy spent most of her life doing the right thing. Now, widowed and with a cancer diagnosis, she’s ready to cut loose in the world of PIVOT. After learning magic and defending a caravan from a set of elves with a seriously overblown sense of superiority, Dotty had only one request: In her next game, she wanted to be uglier. So, she’s an orc now, tusks and all. And when she finds out that a group of dragons have been posing as gods to prey on orc villages, she is not going to stand for that...even if it means giving a legendary orc shaman the dressing down of his life.

The same military base where Oz was created witnesses the birth of another AI. The only problem? The military is the one who sets the ground rules. So, what is a new daddy AI supposed to do? Meanwhile, others are attacking the college, and Giles has to get his game on to protect his students - Space Archaeologist style. And Molly is faced with the biggest and most dangerous meeting of her whole adult life. She is going to meet her parents.

Fueled by their loss and a need for redemption, the team devise a daring plan to retrieve the second cross and unmask a potential traitor. Just when victory is within reach, they are blindsided by an insidious betrayal and must fight to survive a relentless assault. The Court of Blossoms is crumbling, their allies have been captured or injured, and all hope seems lost. But hope often glimmers brightest in the darkest moments.

What happens when an Academy dropout joins a mercenary company? Catastrophe! Anarchy! Moral disintegration! In short, you have quite the mess. But for Kaylin, that is just another day in the life as she and her crew fight and plunder under the shadows of Ziammotienth. The young wizard has found a place among the rough and tumble sell-swords and adventurers. But deep down, she fears the secrets within and beneath are calling her deeper than she imagined. But before she can even dream of plunging back in, there are debts to be paid, alliances to be forged, and secrets to be rooted out.

Thief Kaylin is trying to keep her crew alive in Waypoint, the last bastion of civilization before the remains of a once-great half-elven city in the shadows of Ziammotienth. Many venture out to the ruins. Most do not return. Is Tolan's Doom just a legend, or is it much more? Adventure and intrigue swirl around Kaylin as she fights for her crew and gets into more trouble than she could ever have expected. Her world is changing, whether she wants it to or not.

Dark Wizards gather in Seattle for a meeting. Alison isn't about to let them set up business in her town. Her friends have her back, even if one of them may be a traitor. A dark wizard escapes the raid. Doesn’t he realize a Brownstone won't give up? After he frees the Fremont troll, Alison has to think fast to protect innocents. But wrangling a stone giant wasn’t on her agenda.

Paris has almost everything she wants: her parents, her friends, and Happily Ever After College. But her fairy tale is about to be interrupted. A new evil has its eye on the fairy-godmother college. For a long time, another group of fairies has lived in the shadows of the godmothers. And they won’t stop until they destroy the place they loathe. When Paris learns these forces want to take down her college, she springs into action. However, these new villains don’t fight fair. They are known for being just as rebellious as Paris Beaufont.

Crime can only be regulated by those who are purely good. Too bad that the Los Angeles law enforcement is full of corruption. Gen Beaufont is going to have to take out the trash. In a city where crime has spiraled so far out of control that even the criminals themselves are begging for more law enforcement, Gen knows she has her work cut out for her. But when she starts digging deeper into the mysterious police matters plaguing the city, she uncovers a sinister plot that no one could have anticipated.

Molly is back from the dead. And now even more capable. But the transformation is not without more serious issues. Problems that not even ADAM can help with. Feeling cursed, she undergoes a vision quest. The rest of the team prepare for the General's clandestine assignment back at the base.

When Terra chose to wield the power of her patron goddess, she expected challenges. What she didn't expect was to become a magnet for magical adversaries, each more cunning and powerful than the last. Now, she faces a new breed of enemies, ones who wield magic that rivals her own god-gifted abilities. But why are they targeting Terra? And what do they want with the artifacts of a goddess? Terra's journey has taken a perilous turn. Gone are the days of simply fending off pursuers. Now, she's entangled in a game with twisted rules and high stakes.

Barnabas has destroyed the Committee's research facility, but his victory came at a cost: his friend Jeltor remains captive and brainwashed. He isn't going to stand for that. He is going to find and rescue his friend, no matter what it takes. But what will he do when he has to decide between saving his friend...and saving an entire planet?

There is a problem with Courtney's company and those that wish to have Courtney step down. Amanda and Anja are working on the base and have purchased an AI to help. Unfortunately, the AI had to be purchased after-market and already has a personality. What do you do when a prurient AI is connected to a ton of guns all around your house? Heavy Metal is fighting inside the ZOO and outside the ZOO. Is their ability to hide the bodies outside of the ZOO going to cause problems? There is a billionaire on one side and our team on the other.

The secret contained the heart of Ambar'ogúl and a coin placed on the Crown's altar. But not without her father's help. Will L'zar Verdys risk everything for the daughter he just met and the throne he never wanted? Cheyenne will have to take a trip to the other side to see the destruction in L'zar's world and learn more about him and the rebellion. L'zar's rebels are ready to fight to stop the coming war and the creeping blight, and they need Cheyenne to join them. Will her halfling blood be the edge they need?

She didn't mean to use magic. She didn't even know she had magic. She just wanted to save her brother, who was dying in her arms. Accused of using illegal magic, and sentenced to a cruel death at the hands of the city's guards, Hannah has no choice but to trust in the aid of a strange old man who wields unimaginable power.

Magistrate Rivka Anoa and her team are ordered to get to the bottom of what's plaguing businesses across the Federation. Getting supplies and turning those into a product that can be sold is the foundation of every business. When those basics devolve, it throws the system into disarray. A new mob with a new life, sending legitimate businesses into turmoil. Or is it? Rivka has to get to the bottom of it and quickly.

Trev has accepted the truth of Cassie's vision of him becoming a great hero meant to save the Earth and stop the machinations of the dangerous corporation 46P1. While Trev, Jack, and Cassie are a good team, they've got a long way to go before they're ready to take on the most powerful company left in the broken world.