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The Tantamount is gone. Her captain dead, her crew lost, and Nel Vaughn is broken. Alone, on a world of distractions with a bitter Kelpie who won't let her forget.On the Fata Morgana, indifferent to any survivors, a seven-tailed Kitsune whom some call mad moves towards his own goals. Of Draugr and golems and mist. And someone else Nel believes gone.The Black is a dark place, nearly as dark as the bottom of her drink. When Castor Sharpe comes c...

After their escape from pirate captain Margit Ansdottir, Dagrun Lund and fellow Intelligencer Calder Rahmson witness the pirates' destruction of towns along the coast of Swyford. Along with the Lavais shipyards, sea-going vessels and warehouses of food have been destroyed.The city of Tarklee must be warned, before the pirates rejoin their co-conspirator, Grand Freeholder Tarmo Holt. Avoiding pirates at every turn, Dag and Calder journey to the...

Marie Jenner just wants out.Marie's life has taken a bad turn. Marie's shrink, Dr. Parkerson-who most definitely does not believe in ghosts-has committed her to a mental institution, deeming her a danger to herself and others.As Marie desperately tries to talk her way out of the institution, ghosts start showing up in her room. Most just want to chat, but some of them believe that one of the hospital staff is killing patients. They want Marie ...

Spring has come to the northern kingdom of Torel. No longer a fugitive, Aidan Gairden has claimed Heritage, the ancestral blade of his royal bloodline, and rules as Crown as the North. But even as the snows of winter thaw, darkness spreads across the continent of Crotaria, threatening its four realms with eternal night.In the north, Torel's capital sits vulnerable as the Ward marches west to fight a misguided war, leaving Daniel Shirey scrambl...

After her first mission for the Fair Seas Treaty Alliance, Intelligencer Dagrun Lund returns home to find that her twin sister Inger has disappeared. Using all of her skills as well as her strong Trait, Dag stows away on a ship and follows her sister to Strongrock, an island that is home to pirates. On Strongrock, Dag discovers that the pirates are hiding dangerous secrets, secrets that threaten to ensnare Inger and turn her against her countr...

The ability for people to control (to some extent at least) fire has long been held as one of the major events that contributed to human evolution, but when fire eludes or escapes our control it is also one of the most destructive forces on earth. Associated with passion, power, transformation and purification, fire is a ferocious element with an unquenchable appetite.Discover the power of Fire and the creatures that thrive on it in these twen...

The badly damaged Tantamount docked at Port Border, seeking repairs, new crew members, and work. First Officer Nel Vaughn tries to drown her memories of the disastrous battle with the Guild in dingy taverns.But there's little time for remorse and healing. Port Border is overrun with Alliance soldiers and their mysterious cargo, the Draugr. Soon, Violet, the kitsune cabin girl, discovers an old enemy hidden in the dusty port town.Dodging their ...

Kara Fonti finally has a home, people she considers family, and a magical ability that keeps Reo free from his Guild. Nothing can ruin her happiness, not Mage Guild, not her mother, not even the fact that Reo is avoiding her.But when her friend Chal goes missing in Seyoya, Kara leaves her safe haven, determined to use all of her talents to find him. And she does, by falling into the same magical trap.When wild magic creates chaos, Kara, with R...

Max is haunted by a girl with green eyes. He ignores the odd visions, but then he meets the girl face to face. Her name is Julia, and she and Max knew each other once, in another world…and now she needs his help.The borders between realities are thinning, and Alastair Hammond's experiments into the existence of parallel universes are dangerous and destructive.Marooned within a bewildering series of alternate timelines, Max and Julia are forced...

Luta Paixon and the crew of the Tane Ikai have made it back to Nearspace safely, but that safety is short-lived. As if a disastrous diplomatic mission to the crow-like Corvids isn't enough, Luta's old enemy Alin Sedmamin is back-and asking Luta to help save his life. In exchange, Sedmamin is offering secrets stretching back more than a century into Nearspace's past-secrets that could prevent a war.Meanwhile, Luta's brother Admiral Lanar Mahane...

Ishmael has been cured, but at what cost to him and his allies?Two members of Ishmael's Pack are missing in action. The rest are either cured, powerless, or unfit for the public eye. The Wyrd Council has been destroyed from the inside by politics and murder, and its last members have scattered to the wind, unwilling to pick a side.Ishmael's few allies have taken shelter in a bunker in Halifax, waiting for him to recover, waiting for him to cho...

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Marie Jenner needs some sunshine.Marie's past year has been tough. She lost her apartment, and her mother, and she's been beaten up more times than she cares to count. She decides-on the advice of her shrink-that exercise will help. So, she joins a softball team.But there's a problem, of course. A dead girl is hanging around second base at Marie's first game, and she won't leave. She won't even tell Marie her name. So Marie decides to do a lit...

Aric Rawlings is the first man in the Riverman village to inherit Shaman powers in generations. Still trying to control his new gifts, Aric and his lover, Faelin, a true Conjurer, must work together to combat their new enemy, Burrage, another true Conjurer.Burrage has the spell and the ability to complete the curse placed on the Rivermen. With the people of the Bridge turned against them, Aric and Faelin will have to save themselves and protec...

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A tattered photograph. A lock of hair. Keepsakes of his mother have triggered strange dreams for Max, dreams of a dank prison cell and an oddly familiar teenaged girl. But it's the disturbing vision of a train accident that convinces Max to investigate his mother's death.During his investigation, Max discovers a connection with Julia, a classmate with dark secrets of her own. Her mother also died mysteriously and was linked to Project Mindstor...

Faelin Keetley has kept secrets all in her life: she can read, a skill that none but the Conjurers are allowed. And she has taken over bookbinding jobs from her father, when women on the Bridge are forbidden professions. Her father's death leaves Faelin with even more dangerous secrets. His last words were a spell, and all his life he's been hiding a room full of hundreds of spellbooks. Worse, his death leaves her to the mercies of the C...

Get ready to step into the back alleys of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens's London, and explore the alternative worlds of steampunk in this new guide book by fantasy author Krista D. Ball. Ball takes readers on a fascinating journey into the world of the Have-Nots, and explores the bustling, crime-ridden London during the Georgian and Victorian eras. Discover the world of knocker-uppers (it's not what you think), mudlarks, and costermongers....

Captain Luta Paixon of the far trader Tane Ikai needs to know why she looks like a woman in her thirties-even though she's actually eighty-four. She isn't the only one desperate for that information.The explanation might lie with her geneticist mother, who disappeared over sixty years ago, but even if her mother is still alive, it's proving to be no small task to track her down in the vast, wormhole-ridden expanse of Nearspace. With the ruthle...

Thrilling Tales of Canadian superheroes... and villains! 75 years ago Canadian cartoonist Joe Shuster co-created the world's premier superhero: Superman. Over the decades the genre has gone from camp to counter-culture, from pop art to postmodern, from noir to new wave. Today's superheroes feature in bestselling novels, hit TV shows, Hollywood blockbusters ... and Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories. Mexican luchadores wrestle primordial evi...