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At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices' skills to deadly effect: it takes 10 years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder - guilty of worse.

The second novel in the brilliant new series from the best-selling author of Prince of Thorns. In Mystic Class, Nona Grey begins to learn the secrets of the universe. But so often even the deepest truths just make our choices harder. Before she leaves the Convent of Sweet Mercy, Nona must choose her path and take the red of a Martial Sister, the grey of a Sister of Discretion, the blue of a Mystic Sister or the simple black of a Bride of the Ancestor and a life of prayer and service.

For 300 years, Sister Autumn has incited wars, burnt villages, killed kings, and released plagues at the bidding of the grimoire. When an order from the grimoire sends Agatha to the Kingdom of Merveille, she already anticipates the worst. Unless she wants to face the wrath of the Goddess, Agatha must keep her head down and do as she's commanded. But when the grimoire orders her to marry a pompous prince and play the role of a peasant "accepted" by vicious aristocrats, she finds herself at the center of a war between the classes and an age-old prophecy.

Jackal is proud to be a Grey Bastard, member of a sworn brotherhood of half-orcs. Unloved and unwanted in civilized society, the Bastards eke out a hard life in the desolate no-man's-land called the Lots, protecting frail and noble human civilization from invading bands of vicious full-blooded orcs. But as Jackal is soon to learn, his pride may be misplaced. Because a dark secret lies at the heart of the Bastards' existence - one that reveals a horrifying truth behind humanity's tenuous peace with the orcs, and exposes a grave danger on the horizon.

Leila T. Salvatíraas, Savior of Thessen and magical Queen of Her realm, is worshipped by all. Except Her father. He wants Her dead. The Sovereign’s Tournament - a centuries-long tradition designed to select The Savior’s husband - is days away, but Brontes’ plan to overthrow his daughter ignites, shifting the objective of the competition from marriage to murder. Can Leila save Herself and Her beloved, or is their untimely end - and the corruption of Her realm - inevitable?

Red and the Wolf have finally contained the threat of the Five Kings, but at a steep cost. Red's beloved sister—Neve, the First Daughter—is lost in the Shadowlands. But Neve has an ally, even if it's one she'd rather never speak to again—the rogue king Solmir. Together they must journey across a dangerous landscape to find the mysterious Heart Tree—and finally claim the gods' dark, twisted powers for themselves.

Lizbeth Rose is awaiting the arrival of her sister Felicia and her husband's younger brother Eli in Texoma. Both needed to leave the seat of the Holy Russian Empire in San Diego after Felicia's burgeoning wizardly power in death magic became the reason for kidnapping and assassination attempts from her mother's family of high-powered wizards in Mexico. Yet bad news has travelled ahead of them, as Eli is called back to San Diego, taking Peter along with him, splitting them apart in more ways than one as their enemies' plans for revenge come to fruition.

Bib’s semi-retirement from killing for the gods isn’t going so well. So when he’s asked to help an angry 12-year-old girl with out-of-control powers, he embarks on a quest hoping for some redemption. But as Bib takes his sassy young charge under his wing, a voyage to the temple almost ends in disaster after a deadly ambush.

Magiere the dhampir and her partner, the half-elf Leesil, are on a journey to uncover the secrets of their mysterious pasts. But first their expertise as vampire hunters is required on behalf of a small village being tormented by a creature of unlimited and unimaginable power.

Number-one best-selling science-fiction erotica author Emily Tilton brings you her naughtiest vision of the future yet. When 18-year-old Mary Haven goes to meet the woman who will be her senior sister-wife in the household of the elder of the traditionally-minded Assembly of the Concord, she feels sure she has received a great honor in being taken as the elder's fourth eon-wife.

Life at the Tower can be incredibly exhilarating...Eight-year-old peasant girl Bevenlee sees an aura around fourteen-year-old Princess Ukee and within hours they’re en route to the Tower, where for five centuries one hundred Sisters have attended the precious Mothers who give birth to the gods that walk the land....and eternally unforgiving. As a Sister, Bevenlee learns new skills and makes new and loyal friends, but suffers torment and terrible injuries from Sisters and gods alike.

The night the old empress passed into the void, two daughters were born in the Shadow Court—one a ruler, the other a traitor. Bookish and ill-suited for the vicious world of the shadow fae, Lorna escapes her sister's wicked designs by fleeing to the Court of Sky. But once there, she finds herself in an unfamiliar world, surrounded by enemies. As she struggles to make peace with her betrayal, she must decide—who can you trust when you're fighting for the wrong side?

The Sisters of the Crescent Empress is the second book in Leena Likitalo's Waning Moon Duology, a fabulous historical fantasy based on the lives of the Romanov sisters. We all think we know how the story ends...with the Crescent Empress dead, a civil war has torn the empire asunder. No one seems able to stop the ruthless Gagargi Prataslav. The five Daughters of the Moon are where he wants them to be, held captive in an isolated house in the far north.

She’s been waiting for this day...for many lifetimes. Morgan Thorne can’t die. And she can’t rest. It’s been 300 years since she last saw her sisters and lost the battle against the evil Zachariah. And all this time, she’s been waiting, preparing, getting stronger for this very day...the day she must face her greatest foe and her greatest fear, losing her sisters again. She can’t let that happen. But with Zachariah at full power and in the flesh once more, the stakes are higher and the battle more fierce.

The Shadows sisters’ powers are unlocked when their grandmother dies and leaves each of them an amulet that is the key to unleashing their family powers - powers that had been kept a secret from the girls their entire lives. Now thrust into a world where paranormal magic exists, they have to learn to navigate it all on their own. Chaos Shadows realizes she can control water. Soon, she learns that magic isn't as simple as people think.

When the world as she knows it comes crashing down around her, Erika Lily follows the plan her boyfriend Staff Sergeant Jason “Ransom” McIlwain had prepared for her. Caught off guard with him on a mission, Erika does what she can to secure her two dogs and family of friends. But with large gaps of her memory gone and manifesting strange powers, Erika does not know what happened to her or her friends, but she suspects it has something to do with the magic circle her group cast and their leader’s diabolical new wife, Jewel.