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Rasim al Ilalio doesn't mean to cause trouble wherever he goes, but a year of disasters lies in his wake. A war is brewing, but returning to his beloved city of Ilyara isn't an option--not until he's brought a friend home again, and has warned their people of the conspiracy he believes affects them all. But in the distant Shenryalan steppelands, a new threat emerges: not just human scheming, but magical beasts that have slumbered for centuri...

The safe, predictable life Rasim al Ilialio once knew is in shambles. It isn't exactly his fault-he didn't mastermind the fires that have struck his beloved home city of Ilyara, or the poisoning of Northland lakes, or the kidnapping of a nomadic prince-but his quick thinking did see the patterns that linked all of those terrible events together. Small conspiracies to hold power all over the continent are leading to a terrible uprising against ...

Rasim is no stranger to bad luck. Orphaned at birth, he holds his place in the Seamasters' Guild by dint of quick thinking and sheer stubbornness. Possessed of little magic but a sharp mind, his greatest talent seems to be finding trouble-or perhaps escaping it just in time. No one is more surprised than Rasim when he earns a place on the fleet's flagship, sent North for a daring mission. Storm, treachery, piracy, and outright war sail with ...

¿¿¿It's good luck to earn the king's regard...isn't it? Seamaster journeyman Rasim's quick wits have helped to save his beloved home city and earned him the dubious honor of studying with the diplomatic Sunmasters. But not everyone is happy that magical knowledge is being shared, and when the king orders the guilds back to the Northlands on a sensitive political mission, it may well cost Rasim his life. Seamaster-born, Sunmaster-trained, R...

Disaster follows Rasim al Ilialio wherever he goes. Ilyaran witches are prized by the slaving countries that surround Rasim's peaceful desert home, but the city's magical prowess has always kept them safe. The Northlands, however, are not so forgiving, and a shocking raid shatters what remains of the already- shaken Seamasters' Guild. Now Rasim is torn between pursuing the truth behind the continent-wide plot he's discovered, or helping to...

Some things do go bump in the night. Bounty hunting used to be the Cassidy brothers' bread and butter, but Chris encouraged his bright, sensitive little brother to abandon the family business for college. Unfortunately, sometimes what you want isn't what you want: with Nick's absence, Chris feels stuck hunting monsters-human and otherwise-and has to cope with their authoritarian father on his own. Since Nick left, distance, resentment and ...

Ancient rivals, worst of friends, best of enemies: dragonlord Janx and master vampire Eliseo Daisani are the threads upon which a tapestry of lives and loves are woven across the centuries. From the coldest Russian nights to the heat of Chicago's greatest fire, nothing brings the immortal adversaries together--or tears them apart--like a woman.And there is always a woman.Vanessa Grey has been at Daisani's side for decades, but the secrets born...

Agent Alisha MacAleer has put the past behind her as best she can, but her trust in the CIA is no longer what it was...and the Agency's faith in Alisha is fractured, too.When a mission goes sideways-again-thanks to her ex-lover Frank Reichart, Alisha's loyalties are called into question. Furious to learn that brilliant but treacherous Brandon Parker is back developing the next generation of his sophisticated artificial intelligences, assigned ...

Alisha MacAleer left the spy game months ago to settle into a normal life, but when treacherous, brilliant Brandon Parker appears on her doorstep, Alisha is forced to draw on old skills and contacts to give him the help he needs. His latest artificial intelligence project has taken an exponential leap toward self-awareness, and every agency and organization on the planet wants a piece of it. Furthermore, they don't care who they go through to ...

When CIA Agent Alisha MacAleer's cover is blown by ex-lover Frank Reichart, she's forced into a spy game that draws a curtain back on a world she never even suspected existed…The clandestine Sicarii have hired Brandon Parker, the brilliant, estranged son of Alisha's handler, to develop an artificial intelligence capable of enforcing their divine right to rule. No one, not even Brandon's father, imagines he can do it-not until Alisha herself fa...

There is a story of a beast, and a merchant's daughter, and a curse that must be broken. This is not-quite-that story. Amber Gryce believes in magic the way anyone does: as a thing of the past, marked now only by the long reign of an ancient queen sworn to live until her stolen son is returned to her. Such stories are romantic but distant for Amber, surrounded by family and wealth. But like magic, wealth can disappear. Left destitute, Amber's ...

It's good luck to earn the king's regard...isn't it?Seamaster journeyman Rasim's quick wits have helped to save his beloved home city and earned him the dubious honor of studying with the diplomatic Sunmasters. But not everyone is happy that magical knowledge is being shared, and when the king orders the guilds back to the Northlands on a sensitive political mission, it may well cost Rasim his life.Seamaster-born, Sunmaster-trained, Rasim now ...

REVEL IN THE CHAOS OF THE AFTERMATHThe laws that governed the Old Races for time immemorial have been broken. Ancient rivals are scattered. Friendships are ended. What was hidden begins to step out of shadow and into the light.And after millennia of imagining this moment, the Old Races discover they are unprepared for what it brings. Human magic subtly infiltrates the world as dreamwalkers face down dragonlords and Orpheus's mythical songs res...

July, 1945.Soldiers are coming home from the war...and monsters come with them.THE REDEEMERRosie Ransom wants to defy convention and keep her job, even when her boyfriend comes home from war. But there's defying convention, and then there's executing a demon on the factory floor. Rosie is ready to roll with the demon-slaying power that's awakened inside her-if she can figure out how to make it work on command…THE HUNTERCrippled by monsters in ...

Rasim is no stranger to bad luck. Orphaned at birth, he holds his place in the Seamasters' Guild by dint of quick thinking and sheer stubbornness. Possessed of little magic but a sharp mind, his greatest talent seems to be finding trouble-or perhaps escaping it just in time.No one is more surprised than Rasim when he earns a place on the fleet's flagship, sent North for a daring mission. Storm, treachery, piracy, and outright war sail with the...

Benedict Fairburn does not quite need his ailing great-aunt's fortune, especially since he'll have to marry to get it. His family, however, thinks otherwise-as do many of the eligible ladies in London-and the pressure is mounting. An embarrassment of attentions fill Benny's time, but the young lady he prefers roundly dislikes him.Claire Dalton, cousin to one of Benedict's oldest friends, is too busy debuting in Society to pay much attention to...

Discover where it all began... Never mate with humans. Never tell them of our existence. And never kill one of our own. For time immemorial, the Old Races adhered to these laws... ...except, of course, when they did not. Tales of hidden yeti, mad harpies, and selkies who dared to risk all reveal the path that led to the Negotiator Trilogy... ...and most of all, of Sarah Hopkins, a beauty born to London's slaughterfields...

A city hidden for five thousand years. A man so ancient his early history is lost to time. A woman who has nothing to lose&hellip, Lorhen, oldest and most ruthless of the immortal Timeless, put aside the sword long ago for a quiet life. But peace doesn't last forever, especially for a man whose age can be counted in epochs, and the mortal life he's built unravels as the Keepers, a society of historians who record Timeless lives, l...

It is a truth universally accepted that well-bred members of Society are not beleaguered with magic.For Elsabeth Dover and her sisters, that truth means living in a perpetual state of caution, never using their sorcerous gifts in public. Elsabeth chafes under the stricture, but not enough to risk the possibility of good marriages for her sisters...until she meets handsome, arrogant Fitzgerald Archer.Elsabeth, attracted to Archer's wit and offe...