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It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of fairyland. Three-headed trolls, horses that carry their masters up mountains of glass, giants and dwarfs, monsters and magicians, fairies and ogres - these are the companions who will thrill young boys and girls of all lands and all times, as Andrew Lang's phenomenally successful collections of stories have proved.

Hunter has spent the last two years running in place. Trying to get ahead of the bills. Trying to provide for her sister, Piper, and her nephews. Trying to finish her nursing education. Trying to keep Piper out of her criminal husband's claws. Big, bad Jed Wolfe is a con artist, a manipulator, and he's currently doing 10 years for counterfeiting. Now is Hunter's best chance to convince Piper that he's bad news and that they can survive without him. Except the mortgage is overdue again, there's an eviction notice stapled to the front door, and Hunter can see it in Piper's eyes.

From celebrated fantasy author Den Patrick comes Witchsign, the first novel in a fresh and exciting new fantasy trilogy. It has been 75 years since the dragons’ rule of fire and magic was ended. Out of the ashes, the Solmindre Empire was born. Since then, the tyrannical Synod has worked hard to banish all manifestations of the arcane from existence. However, children are still born bearing the taint of the arcane, known to all as witchsign. Vigilants are sent out across the continent of Vinterkveld to find and capture all those bearing the mark.

Twisted into a picture of darkness, Red carries with her the souls of the lost girls. Thrown into a trafficking ring at such a young age changed something inside of her. The sorrow in place of her heart seeks one thing and one thing only, revenge. Seeking to right the wrongs of a blood-chilling world, Red lures each of her captors into a spiralling battle of justice and fear.

Only her personal bodyguard, Hans, remains loyal. Hans claims to know the real Ava but she finds that hard to believe - after all, she's been the villain so long that she can't remember anything else.Deep in exile, Ava learns her kingdom needs a hero, and she might be the only one who can save it. The catch? She'll have to ally herself with the people she blames for her downfall. But in a game of life and death where the stakes are an entire kingdom, winning over her enemies will only be the beginning. Can one fugitive save her people, her kingdom, and - hardest of all - herself?

When Daria discovers a breach in the wall while on her patrol, and saves a family from infection by three hungry wolves, Daria herself is saved by a wolf hunter she had believed to be nothing but an urban legend: the Red Hood, Maireni Damaschin. The mysterious woman in a red cloak seems to possess inhuman abilities.

Red Riding Hood runs a local tavern with her grandmother Ruby. She doesn’t need a man in her life to be happy, and she prides herself at being an independent woman. During a busy night, a highwayman named Robin One Eye shows up offering her protection, as a pack of werewolves in the area have become a threat to the local public. He requires a fee, but Red refuses. She's ready to to take her chances with the wolves.

Jeff Walker's Outer Red. A fantastic new science fiction/fantasy spin on a classic fable. Enter a world where a young female ship captain is sent to retrieve information vital to the Galactic Kingdom; a new threat has emerged, and the galaxy is in danger. Can she and her computer companion - GRIMM - get back onto the charted path and return home? Or will they be hunted down and killed before the mission can be completed? Listen to find out more.

It's Penny Dreadful meets Supernatural in this exciting retelling of the classic Red Riding Hood fairy tale with hefty doses of badassery and steampunk. See how New York Times best-selling author Melanie Karsak puts her unique spin on this timeless tale, blending it into her richly-built and award-winning steampunk universe.

I was trying to avoid any werewolves in my life, and now I have to live with one? I want to worry about human things like how to dress for the first day of a new job or how to sneak a silver dagger past the metal detectors when I get there. But when you’re working in a company run by vampires, human concerns become trivial. What’s not is figuring out why my undead bosses are trapping and killing werewolves. But that might not be the only secret hiding in the walls of the WWL Corporation, and what I soon discover could turn the supernatural world on its head.

Beware the wolves in sheep's clothing. In this erotic retelling, Scarlett is going through quite a change. From girl to woman, and woman to lusty werewolf. Only she doesn't know it yet. Sensual dreams guide her towards the huntress who aids her grandmother deep in the woods of Black Forest, while secrets and superstition collide to guide her way to a destiny she never knew was meant for.

Crown Prince Boris's life was perfect–a wife, a child, and his father's favor for a job well done. Until his brother's traitorous plot steals everything from him, forcing him to run for his life for fear of losing what little he has left.

Tony Price is once again put to the test as an invading army from the nearby town of St. Peter attempts to lay siege to Red Glen, hoping to claim it as compensation for the loss of their own town in the wake of the war at Greening colony. A daring and ambitious raid has robbed Tony of nearly half his army and there is no time to enlist the aid of cats, dogs or any other allies. The fate of Red Glen rests in the hands of Tony, his devoted soldiers and a band of brothers known only as Hawks.

Ryder is back and finally able to tell her story, it’s her turn to leave your jaws dropping. When two of Ryder’s best friends go missing, everyone starts to lose hope in finding them but when something about their disappearance leads to a fragment of Ryder’s past that she thought was dead and gone, Ryder has a choice to make. Will she face the demons and save the people that matter most to her? Or will she succumb to the death grip that her past has on her and lose her friends in the process?

Lord Lochlan was cursed in the womb, condemned by the perceived crimes of his parents. On the 13th year of his birth, the red glow of the moon washed over land and sea like a faded bloody stain. A constant reminder of the curse that marked him before he was born. Every night he gazed at it like he was lured and haunted by it. It followed him, it beseeched him. It called out to him. Just once he wanted to see the moon glow as everyone else saw it. Bright and illuminating. But he knew that would never be possible.

Reckless, desperate, and distraught, Noa Sullivan leaps into a collapsing portal in the explosive finale of Shattered Blue - the jaw-dropping, award-winning first installment in The Light Trilogy - in wild hope of rescuing her little sister Sasha. Now Noa and the fae brothers who love her - Callum and Judah Forsythe - must find a way to survive not only across worlds but between them, in places so treacherous and deceptive their own minds are twisted against them. As the three fight to survive their passage, they battle not only enemies, but themselves.

One month after Chloe’s victory over Mania, everything seems back to normal. Actually, it’s better than normal. But things take a downward spiral when Mount Aetna, a volcano thought to be extinct, erupts in Petros’ capital. Soon, what initially seemed like nothing more than a a natural disaster proves to be a sign of an imminent supernatural threat.

To save the present and secure the future, Chloe must return to the past, to an age when the stuff of myth is a terrifying reality. With the Councilman’s guards hot on their trail, Chloe, Damian, and Ethan dive through a mystical portal that transports them to the ancient hills of Ourania where they swiftly learn that Petros is literally crumbling in the warpath of Mania, the powerful rogue Asher who’s hell-bent on ruling the world and erasing every trace of Duna, the true creator against whom the rebel gods are fighting.

Eighteen-year-old Chloe Zacharias is perfectly content being an outsider. But an ancient prophecy has different plans. Petros is a well-oiled machine of an empire. Everyone’s life is mapped out perfectly, from the day of their birth until their much anticipated Coronation at age 75 when they’ll become ruler of their own personal paradise. But when it becomes clear to the powers that be that Chloe could uncover their secrets and dismantle their world, the rulers of the Underworld send cunning Hermes on a mission to destroy her before she can realize who - and what - she is.

In a magical kingdom far away, there lived cursed princes, warrior women, and powerful heroes. Hunting Red is a sexy genderswapped Little Red Riding Hood retelling where the heroes have become heroines, the heroines have become heroes, and nothing is as it seems.