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In Potshot, Nevada, Thea MacTavish strives to save her community from a man whose history compels him to change all she holds most dear. Extortion, a prowling wolf, and family ties stress the single mother to the breaking point. Then Thea must allow into her home a prickly man who attacks everything most essential to her peace of mind. Half Cherokee and victim of both wildfire and prejudice, Bramden Hayes battles his ghosts with science. He plans to make Potshot fireproof and personal attachments have no place on his agenda. Bram confronts Thea's reluctance to board him, then forces the ...

A rapacious mage rips the veil between realities to pursue an escaped captive. Into a world innocent of magic and meager sciences, mysterious powers and creatures surge through the rift. This triggers events leading to earth-shattering changes to this world and others. Ensnared are naive inhabitants and their natural world. Dead voids replace entire sectors of terrain and sea. Blood winds strip living flesh while bizarre plants and animals prey upon the unwary. Sea vipers ravage coastlines exposed by ice melt. Seasons no longer follow historical patterns. What happens to natives proves most...

What constitutes a border? In the geographical sense, they consist of areas defined by rivers, mountains, and deserts. Physically a boundary prevents people from doing what they choose to do—and sometimes keeps them from harm. When a mental frontier limits you, who powers this abstraction? Why you do...of course.

Our connections make us who we are—imperfect and entirely human. Ah, love, unruly love, offering us bonds to expand our lives—or narrow our horizons. Meet a scientist who travels across a continent to grapple with his persistent restlessness, an exhausted mother leaning into the precipice toward desire, a second wife elevating herself to beloved status, a design engineer wrestling through her painful history to embrace the present, a wounded equestrian finding solace—and more—in her Grandmother’s Italian villa, and a hellion tackling the uncharted territory of softer emotions. ...

Both marvel and monstrosity continue to surge through the thinning mist between worlds. Sorcerous storms envelope oceans and continents, setting fire to ancient forests and disrupting once thriving ecosystems. The race to save not just this world, but those linked to it heaps destructive pressure upon each link necessary to triumph. In this world ravaged by sorcery, FORGED IN MIST begins where BORNE OF MIST ended. Elishandra and Zen’s compatriots battle on two fronts, separated by mission and geography. Grievous injury and death shrink their numbers, diminishing their chances of survival....

We are never-ending and our lives boundless. Recognize in the essence of every living being that you meet a part of yourself. -Excerpted from “An Analysis on the Infinite Nature of Matter” by Mage Touleramanie In the conclusion of MISTBORN CHRONICLES, CHOSEN BY MIST begins where FORGED IN MIST ended. The battle to save this world—and others—intensifies. With more fronts to this conflict opening with each dawn, the defenders grapple with diminished resources to prevail. Success—or failure—depends upon individual choices of each with cataclysm pending. Meanwhile Morchem calibrates...