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London, 1861: Ten-year-old Nell belongs to a crew of mudlarks who work a stretch of the Thames along the Ratcliffe Highway. An orphan since her mother died four years past, leaving Nell with only broken dreams and a pair of satin slippers in her possession, she spends her days dredging up coals, copper and pieces of iron spilled by the river barges – searching for treasure in the mud in order to appease her master, Benjamin Murdstone. But one day, Nell discovers a body on the shore. It’s not the first corpse she’s encountered, but by far the strangest.

Gemma lives with her mother in an isolated antique shop in Michigan, near a small patch of woods that conceals an enchanted gateway to fairyland. She knows she's not supposed to go into the woods - her mother Virginia has warned her multiple times about the monsters that lurk there - and yet defiantly, curiously, she goes anyway. Virginia understands her daughter's defiance. She knows the lure of the woods all too well. Her mother warned her about the monsters that resided there, and she also did not listen. Until a witch cursed her true love, Ash - Gemma's father - into the form of a beast.

"You should be here; he's simply magnificent." These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the kaiju (Japan's giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw. Every story in the collection turns to the fantastic, the mysticism of the past, and the absurdities of the future to illuminate the spaces we occupy when we are at our most vulnerable."

Warning: Contains intense action, adult situations, threesomes, and untraditional relationships. After slaying a leviathan of the deep, and gaining a magic he barely understands, an ordinary fisherman finds himself entangled in a magical game of the gods with the fate of his planet as the prize. Dean becomes Oakley's champion, competing in the Minotaur's Maze. He travels through a portal to Mixonia, a city of wonders, filled with magic and monster girls of all sorts.

The action ramps up with Dean struggling to defeat the Minotaur's Maze. Team Core will push him to a new level, and that blasted Thero plots in the shadows. Join Dean and Team Ola as they strive to save Planet Oakley.

Battling a wolf to save a little girl’s life makes Argus Brock a local hero. But what the small town of Redstone doesn’t know is that the tough teenager is a secretly a werewolf, which means the wolf Argus bit during the fight is now a werewolf, too. But unlike Argus and his wolf pack siblings, this wolf man is far from tame.

In the late Jurassic Period, an Allosaurus lives, thrives, and rules. One hundred and fifty million years later, in a bizarre twist of fate, Dylan Armitage's life becomes entwined with this ancient predator. Over the years, this carnivore grows ever stronger, faster, and fiercer. She is a monster and she is coming for Dylan and his family. Dylan's father always said, "There are different kinds of men in this world." Turns out, there are also different kinds of monsters. The question that haunts Dylan is, what kind of monster must he become to protect everyone he loves?

In this fantasy fiction tale, Famous takes on the path her mother walked and talked about in a magical journal. Sent by Jeremiah, Famous gets tested on her journey in the forest, where she faces wizards, mysterious monsters, and a peculiar magic book. A journey infused with many unforgettable characters and secrets that will spark the curiosity of listeners.

Emma Smith, a girl with chrisolite-green eyes, lives in a marvelous rural village by the lake. Some inexplicable mystical occurrences, which she experiences together with Mr. Fog, will forever change her life...and yours!