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There is no bigger monster than I. Not in truth, not in lie.The Horn has divided Elphame.The oath breaker has been found. A Court of One has answered.The last Crow has come. The Last War has started.Justice has begun.The bells toll over Whitwick.The Gate will never close again.Removed from the protection of the Dark Court, the last Crow must find the answers to stop a Fae invasion of the mortal realm and save those she loves from certain death at the hands of the Caller of Crows. From enemy territory, Perdi stands as a Court of One, against all others.

Why be lost to illusion, when your purpose awaits at time's end?What would ordinarily be the end is only the beginning as the Chronicles of Fayble series continues with a fresh retelling of two classic fairytales. Peter Pan meets Snow White, blending the mysterious world of Neverland with the wanton deceptions of a queen who will do anything to hold on to her beauty and her tenuous grasp on her people.After an unusually long slumber, Petra awakens at the edge of the forest, outside of the enchanted walls of the shrouded kingdom, kept hidden through the use of fine golden dust known as 'sift'. But her fortunes collide with the enigmatic Captain Hook's, leading her on a quest for freedom with an unexpected ally in tow.The pair make for an unlikely duo as they hamper Queen Wendolyne's influence over the realm, destroying the fallacy of contentment and bringing the kingdom to its knees. Still, the queen refuses to go quietly into the night, sending a huntsman in pursuit of her father's greatest indiscretion, alongside the recovery of a valued family heirloom with which Petra refuses to part.A run-in with the seven lost miners in the midst of their travels leads Captain Hook and Petra toward an unsettling discovery that will forever change the ways of Neverwoode and their standing within the world of Fayble-faith, trust and pixie dust. Following the second star to the right takes them to the truth that exists only at time's end, where folklore and fantasy meet reality.

We all will pay tithe in the end.The horn blows over Elphame.The warning is ignored.An oath has been broken.The wild hunt has begun.No lie can save you.The truth cannot set you free.Elphame has called for blood.We all will pay tithe in the end. In Elphame, where every Crow Taken faces slavery and certain death at the hands of Fae, Perdi is the first to survive and the last to be Taken. Cut off from the mortal realm, the horn of Elphame sounds for only her. An oath breaker has been named, and the call has tasked Perdi with hunting down the truth before wild magic decides the fate of them all. It rests on Perdi's shoulders to save herself, her people and the man she loves from an unstoppable power-the Caller of Crows.

They've Taken the wrong Crow...The bells toll over Whitwick.The Gate has opened. The fog fills the streets.The Fae have come. The screaming has started.The Taking has begun. The Gate closes once again.They took the last Crow.Named a Crow, Perdi learns how to survive in a land where she has been marked for death. Now that she is on the run, her enemies realize they've Taken the very last Crow.

Fear nothing, trust no one...The bells toll over Whitwick.The Gate has opened.The fog fills the streets.The Fae have come.The screaming has started.The Taking has begun.The Gate closes once again.They have their Crow.In Whitwick Gates, where every mortal child faces the risk of almost certain death at the hands of Fae, Perdi is named the next Crow, a sacrifice to Elphame. But once inside the Sidhe, the Fae will question if they've taken the wrong Crow.

Windows show us the world outside. As Mark Cornish discovers, his classmate Glenda can create windows to other realms-not all of them friendly.A window offers people a view of the world outside. For Mark Cornish, seventeen, a high schooler with a wayward single mother and someone with no prospects, windows offer an escape from reality.That escape comes through the person of Glenda Cron, a classmate of his with an unusual ability. She can open windows-gateways-to other worlds. And she isn't human, not exactly. She comes from Tellkar, a world somewhere in another galaxy, a world of shape-shifting, magic and various abilities.It seems that Glenda-real name, Glynarra-is wanted by one of the most powerful kings on her world. King Lensa wants to acquire her powers, and when she won't transfer them to him-which would mean her death-he places a curse upon her head. If she travels to another realm, she can only stay a maximum of three days.Mark agrees to help her, even though he has no powers and no special abilities, save one. He won't give up. As the two journey from world to world, searching for a way to defeat Lensa, they find themselves drawn to each other.However, the curse is the real problem, and when the final showdown comes, it remains to be seen which is stronger-black magic or love.

Every revolution begins with a spark.In a world torn apart by war, one nation remains standing-Cinder City. It is surrounded by three state rings-Fringe, Boundary and Limits-and run by the Authority, President Atlas Gold, the tyrannical leader of the golden city. The population is divided into two groups, the rich and the poor, the Solvents and the Insolvents, and controlled under the threat of being named an Ember-a death sentence.Each year, Cinder officials open their Golden Gates and hold the Ember Harvest of all eighteen-year-olds. The Harvest is a test of the potential Embers. It is said that over three hundred years ago, the Insolvents had grown tired of their treatment and had mastered innate abilities to help them wage war against Cinder City. Now, as a precaution, every child is tested for the Scoria Singularity, remnants of the genetics from a time the world had been almost destroyed overnight, for the Authority would never risk another war. He would remove the sparks-the Embers-before they started another revolution.For Ezra, an Irish Chippewa-the last of the Chippewa people and recently named a potential Ember sent to Ember Gates-survival is in her blood. As the Ember Gates transforms her and the others, Ezra must determine who her real allies are, what parts of herself she is willing to sacrifice and where her newfound love fits into the cruel world of Ember Gates. Ezra will be pushed to the limits, having to decide between her humanity and staying.

When art and illusion collide, no one is safe.

Of all possible outcomes, I never thought I''d say goodbye to you like this.After the murder of Cassidy Jones'' mother and the sudden illness of her best friend Harriet, Cassidy must leave the safety of Petriville and brave the unknown both to find a cure for Harriet and the peace she''s struggling to achieve. Plus, only then will Gina release Eric from prison.It''s a new time for the world and for Petriville. Cassidy yearns to find the truth behind her mother''s murder and to understand why Eric betrayed her to Gina Petri. Without these answers, she cannot move on. But for Harriet and many others, the longevity drug fails, and they age rapidly.Gina, who''s in prison for the murder of Cassidy''s mother, knows more than she''s letting on. But neither she nor her daughter and successor, Susan, give Cassidy the truth. No matter how Eric tries to explain why he made a deal with Gina, Cassidy won''t listen. In her heart, she knows it was to keep her safe, but to admit that betrays her mother''s memory.However, if she is to keep Eric out of harm and to help Harriet, she must leave Petriville and find the antidote. With this in mind, Cassidy, her brother Liam and friend Jonas head out to find what they need. If they fail, fifty-two lives are at risk and Cassidy will never find the peace she''s seeking or ever tell Eric that she still loves him.

Once Jenna, now Michael...soaked in blood but cleansed by love. I sink my teeth into the pulsating artery. Crimson red blood sprays across the misty fog.Michael is a transgender teenager who is well on his way with his gender transition and finding a life path that better suits him. And as if that weren''t enough of a freak-out for the teen, he''s been turned into a vampire...a Nosferatu! Luckily, Michael has a group of good friends to help him through his struggles, and who would think that this would be when he''d find love for the first time?But just to keep his already-interesting life in a wee bit more turmoil, a murder leads to a discovery that could change not only his life but the lives of everyone he knows...and loves. 

Paintings can stir emotions, but for Julia, emotions bring paintings to life...literally.Ice Princess.That''s what the kids at St Peter''s High call seventeen-year-old Julia Parsons, the girl who doesn''t show emotion. But that all changes when Julia loses the protection of her late mother''s charmed necklace, and the emotions that have been locked deep inside her are unleashed. Now, after years of priding herself on being calm, cool and collected, Julia is forced to accept two life-altering revelations-she can feel just as deeply as any other teen and her emotions can make paintings come alive. As Julia struggles to control her ability, she discovers that her boyfriend, Nick, is trapped inside a mural that she herself created. She enters the wintry world to save him before it''s painted over but quickly realises that a mysterious force is keeping Nick tethered to the work of art.Unless Julia can learn how to harness the power of her new and unfamiliar emotions, they won''t make it out of the painting alive.

What started as homework ended in fireworks.Emma has one foot out of her small Southern town. She spends her weekends memorizing facts and figures and spending time with Alex, her best friend, while she still has time. In six months, they’ll be out of there.Nonetheless, every day that the quiet, determined high school senior hops in Alex’s hand-me-down car and goes to school, she spends more time within the confines of her favorite books than hanging out with the high school entourage—that is, until an English project becomes so much more than an assignment.Suddenly, with the help of a bad boy on a horse, Emma embarks on a journey to find herself and escape her comfort zone, all the while learning lasting lessons about friendship and the power of love. Yet, in the end, she has to make the choice—to love or to leave?

At five years old, Cassidy had outlived almost Earth’s entire population. Now, at sixteen, she’s in a forbidden relationship with an unworthy Earth boy.Cassidy Jones was five years old when her parents escaped Earth with her and her brother. They were safe in Earth’s orbit in the town of Petriville—hovering at the center of an indestructible sphere—when the meteor impacted Earth and killed Cassidy’s grandparents, aunt and cousin.But now, eleven years later, Gina Petri, Petriville’s founder, assigns a mate to each youth. When Cassidy refuses to participate in this forced mating, her dissent places her and her family in Gina’s firing line. This becomes especially pertinent when Cassidy enters a communication pod and meets an alluring hologram. Eric isn’t in Petriville and he insists Gina will murder his people if she discovers their existence, because he is one of Earth’s few survivors.The more Cassidy gets to know Eric, the more she’s drawn to him—and the feeling seems mutual. He has lost so much in his life and her compassion for him runs deep. Despite the intensity of the static electricity when Cassidy and the hologram of Eric touch, she yearns for the day when she will meet him in person.All the questions will be answered when Petriville returns to Earth, and that day is quickly approaching…

Adam has a secret. But maybe Charlie has a few of his own.Adam’s got a secret and nobody knows.He’s promised himself never to get into relationships and risk revealing it, but Charlie Fielding has a way of getting under one’s skin. One party, one kiss and Adam is faced with a horrible choice—tell Charlie the truth or keep quiet. And either way, lose the only friends he’s had in years.But Charlie might have a secret, too—and everybody knows but Adam.

Brianna must break the curse of the Chakka Chakka and save her family and friends.Brianna is just beginning to settle into her new life in the Crystal Castle when she and Issah are attacked by the Abrasaxons’ mortal enemy, the Chakka Chakka. These small blue flying humanoids burrow their slender spiral horn into a host’s ear until it pierces their brain. Once the horn is embedded the Chakka Chakka chatter, squeak and whisper semi-intelligible sounds day and night, sending the host mad.Brianna wants to help the Abrasaxon defeat them, but there are those who spurn her efforts, including her half-brother, Hashnok. With the help of her friends she follows the clues to the mountains and finds the secret of the Chakka Chakka.Armed with this information, she sets a trap to capture them. Brianna is injured in the battle, though, and her greatest challenge may turn out to be finding a cure not only to save the other victims, but to save herself as well.

What do you do when the troll at the end of your garden tells you everything you ever believed in is a fantasy and your fantasies are reality?When Jake moves from California to his new school in Oxford, he knows he is going to a different country, but he doesn’t realize he is entering a whole new world.His first clue is when Gorm, a nine-foot, three-thousand-year-old Irish gnome, appears at the foot of his garden and gives him three special powers—powers that are of absolutely no use to him—or so he thinks.But when things start getting really weird and Jake discovers that there’s an ancient prince from Tír na nÓg who is out to get not only him and the girl he is in love with but the whole of mankind, too, he also discovers that the powers Gorm has given him are more useful than he could ever have dreamed possible.

Her whole world has been flipped upside down. She’s lost…and only he can find her.Lori Black had everything she could ever want—security in social standing by being one of the most popular girls in school, a hot boyfriend, and a set path toward her future. But her brother’s overdose flipped her world upside down and now nothing makes sense.After spending a year away from home, Lori is ready to try to reclaim her old life. But a lot can happen in a year, and when Lori returns, she realizes she isn’t the superficial girl she left behind and maybe she doesn’t fit the space she used to.Rejected by her old friends and struggling to deal at home, Lori is lost. And the only person capable of understanding her is the quiet boy, Archer, whom no one knows anything about.It is Archer who brings Lori the possibility of being found.

Volatile and unstable, Amy stands at the precipice. Will she fall into the chaos and despair of insanity or ascend into brilliance and redemption?Amy Miles is fifteen and crazy. Or at least that’s her greatest fear. Her severe bipolar disorder, with its roller-coaster manic and depressive episodes, is ruining her life. Yet in Amy’s mind it’s accepting the pills and therapy—not the disorder—that will brand her as ‘crazy’.When Amy lands in a residential psychiatric program, she befriends take-charge Mallory, and the two create family as they try to salvage the shards of their broken minds. While there, Amy also discovers that her illicit drug use has robbed her of her ability to dance and she is forced to weigh how hard she’s willing to work to reclaim her lost talent and potential. But, despite a promising beginning, when Amy falls back into denial, the tragic consequences cannot be undone.Amy is left to decide whether to give up altogether or to accept her diagnosis and the tools she needs to battle her disorder, to learn to dance again and to forge a new and improved version of herself. Will she step up to the edge of her brilliance and shine?

Lady Frederica Felton, or Freddie to her friends, is poised to return to Mapleton Manor boarding school for Sixth Form. After a summer at home in Monaco, Freddie is more than ready to see her friends again...and she''ll find herself in numerous escapades along the way, collecting wristbands as she goes.Midnight feasts, great escapes and ghost stories-life at Mapleton Manor is anything but boring, especially for someone like Freddie. Whilst fiercely loyal and fun loving, she is the go-to girl for contraband and fashion advice. Freddie is the girl to know.But the next couple of years won''t all be fun and games. As well as exam pressure there are rotten teachers to contend with, and a friend Freddie isn''t so sure has her best interests at heart...There are difficult choices to be made. First love to experience. Heartbreak to be had. But with her friends at her side and her fearless nature, will Freddie take her world by storm?

The dangerous quest to find her father and fix her shattered world brings Brianna more than she ever expected.Brianna is determined to elicit help from her elusive Abrasaxon father, Hakon, to conquer the evil Tyban, Zelig, who has invaded her world. But her journey to the Crystal Castle is full of perils that she and her newfound companions are ill equipped to overcome. Danger comes in many forms-tiny vengeful Nixets, a resurrected Yabix and ruthless Tyban who have crossed into the mortal world.As they surmount each challenge, Brianna wonders if she will ever get control of her newly blossoming-and daunting-magical abilities, and how to handle her growing attraction to her new companion, Amon. Her resentment toward her father for failing to prepare her for the inheritance of her ''gift'' flares again when a young woman they save from death, Issah, claims to be her sister. But there is no time for ill feeling with the heart of the Abrasaxon existence, the Crystal Castle, dying, and Hakon and his fellow Direktorate members missing. The two girls combine their untested magical abilities to rescue their father and save the twin lands of Okana and Okiyarra from destruction.