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Author
Series
Cece Rios volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When her vicious tía, Catrina, seizes the throne of Devil's Alley and sets her sights on the living world, Cece Rios must do everything in her power to stop the bruja queen from taking control of the four elements.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Rui has one goal in mind, honing her magic to avenge her mother's death. Yiran is the black sheep of an illustrious family. The world would be at his feet, had he been born with magic. Nikai is a Reaper, serving the Fourth King of Hell. When his master disappears, the underworld begins to crumble, and the human world will be next if the King is not found. When an accident causes Rui's power to transfer to Yiran, everything turns upside down. Without...
Author
Series
Guild hunter volume 16
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Raphael and Elena are experiencing their first ever year of true peace. No war. No horrors of archangelic power. No nightmares given flesh. Until...the earth beneath the Refuge begins to tremble, endangering not only angelkind's precious and fragile young, but the very place that has held their most innocent safe for eons. Amid the chaos, Elena's father suffers a violent heart attack that threatens to extinguish their last chance to heal the bonds...
Author
Series
Stay a spell romances volume 6
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Clara Savoie knows Henry Blackwater is practically in love with her. But for some strange reason, the broody grim won't ask her out on a date. Taking matters into her own hands, Clara shows up on Henry's doorstep with an offer he can't refuse. Now he's the newest member of the High Tea Book Club. As Henry falls under Clara's effervescent spell, he shows her what commitment from a necromancer truly means. But the dark secrets of Henry's past won't...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the Parisian life of leisure she imagined. Desperate and lacking options, she allows herself to be recruited to Napoleon's Grande Armée. As a naturalist, her near-magical ability to heal any wound with herbal mixtures invites awe amongst the soldiers...and suspicion. For behind Cornelia's vast knowledge of the natural world is a secret she...
Author
Publisher
Hoopoe, an imprint of The American University in Cairo Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nadine is a jinn tasked with one job: telling the stories of the dead. She rises every morning to gather pomegranate seeds -- the souls of the dead -- that have fallen during the night. With her daughter Layala at her side, she eats the seeds and tells their stories. Only then can the departed pass through the final gate of death. But when the seeds stop falling, Nadine knows something is terribly wrong. All her worst fears are confirmed when she...
11) Beastly beauty
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When handsome thief Beau enters the castle that appeared out of nowhere he finds himself trapped in Arabella's curse, which can only be broken if she finds a boy who loves her for her true self -- a seeming impossibility for a girl who has been told she is impossible to love.
12) Diavola: a novel
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Anna has two rules for the annual Pace family destination vacations: Tread lightly and survive. It isn't easy when she's the only one in the family who doesn't quite fit in. Her twin brother, Benny, goes with the flow so much he's practically dissolved, and her older sister, Nicole, is so used to everyone -- including her blandly docile husband and two kids -- falling in line that Anna often ends up in trouble for simply asking a question. Mom seizes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Remy Pendergast, vampire hunter, and his unexpected companions, royal vampires Lord Zidan Malekh and Lady Xiaodan Song, are on the road through the kingdom of Aluria again after a hard-won first battle against the formidable Night Empress, who threatens to undo a fragile peace between humans and vampires. Xiaodan, severely injured, has lost her powers to vanquish the enemy's new superbreed of vampire, but if the trio can make it to Fata Morgana,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"His name is Joshua Knight. Once a respected explorer, the press now calls him the Tarnished Knight. He took the fall for a disaster in the Underworld that destroyed his career. The devastating event occurred in the newly discovered sector known as Glass House--a maze of crystal that is rumored to conceal powerful Alien antiquities. The rest of the Hollister Expedition team disappeared and are presumed dead. Whatever happened down in the tunnels scrambled...
Author
Series
InCryptid volume 13
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Mary Dunlavy didn't intend to become a professional babysitter. Of course, she didn't intend to die, either, or to become a crossroads ghost. As a babysitting ghost, she's been caring for the Price family for four generations, and she's planning to keep doing the job for the better part of forever. With her first charge finally back from her decades-long cross-dimensional field trip, with a long-lost husband and adopted daughter in tow, it's time...
16) Necrobane
Author
Series
Warden novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Aelis de Lenti, Lone Pine's newly assigned Warden, is in deep trouble. She has just opened the crypts of Mahlgren, releasing an army of the undead into the unprotected backwoods of Ystain. To protect her village, she must unearth a source of immense Necromantic power at the heart of Mahlgren. The journey will wind through waves of undead, untamed wilderness, and curses far older than anything Aelis has ever encountered. But as strong as Aelis is,...
17) Hyde & seek
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Whatever happened to all the old monsters? The vampires, the werewolves, the ghouls . . . Daniel & Tina Hyde wiped them out, to make the world a safer place. But nature abhors a vacuum, supernature even more . . . Something's got to fill the gap left by all those monster clans. The question now is, what happened to all the old aliens? The Martians, the Bug-Eyed Monsters, the Reptiloids and the Greys? They're coming out of the shadows with a vengeance,...
18) The beloved
Author
Series
Black Dagger Brotherhood. Main series volume 22
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When his daughter, Nalla, falls in love, the Black Dagger Brotherhood's deadliest fighter, Zsadist, must confront the future and face the reality he may not be able to protect her forever.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books / Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true -- particularly since the PI is investigating the most shocking crime to hit Bloomington, Indiana, in decades. A local woman has vanished, and the last time anyone saw her, she was in the backseat of a police car driven by a man impersonating an officer. Marshall Miller's internship puts him at the center of the action, a position he relishes...
Author
Series
Immortals after dark volume 20
Publisher
Valkyrie Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Take a spooky Halloween tour of the mysterious Lore in this stand-alone installment of the Immortals After Dark series by #1 New York Times best-seller Kresley Cole. A demon soldier of fortune... Rök Kours dives into a dangerous mission, only to cross swords with the one woman who bewitched him. A cursed Wiccan mercenary... Poppy Dyer has never let her uncontrollable magic interfere with her work, but she can barely withstand one demon's charms....
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