Nocturna League (Episode 1: The Witching Book)

Avast Matey, welcome aboard the M.S. Nocturna, a ship on the nether reaches of an exotic ocean in search of hidden treasure and witchy artifacts.Join the good-shippin’ crew of scallywags, strange sea-creatures, and a fearless captain who simply must have a magical book that lies in the hands of a great, treacherous witch – Vuuya.Colette, a fiery young jobber of The M.S. Nocturna is given her first assignment off ship. She is commissioned to take part in a search for a magic tome of ancient power: Vuuya’s wish-granting grimoire. Together with two more experienced sailors and The Captain himself, the four reach the island fabled to hold a book able to make dreams come true. Will Colette prove herself as a competent and capable member of the eldritch crew, worthy of The Captain’s respect and glory all her own? Will it be as simple as getting in, sneaking away with the book, and sailing off?Unfortunately for the crew, their expedition carries more teeth than they're expecting—and it’s prepared to bite back. The grimoire of the crew’s desire is a conscious being and a crafty one at that. The book will use every trick in the… book to ensure that this island is The Nocturna’s last stop. The island descends into chaos and Colette is given a choice. Will she fight on and see through the illusions, or will she embrace the darkness like every islander before her? She must act quickly, lest the book’s control turn her allies into enemies. The task is hard, and even harder once The Captain himself is swayed against her. The lives of all aboard The Nocturna are at stake in this introduction to this thrilling, fantasy-filled, action-packed series. So, what are you waiting for? Throw off your landlubber shoes and write your friends and family goodbye. Man your stations and hop aboard, The Eversea awaits you! This is the first of the series
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The Irreversible Reckoning

It is the third year after the Landing on Pangaea, and Brynna Olivier has lost her daughter, her sister, her brother, and her first love. Hoarded onto the Lapsarian Maximum Security Prison Ship, she must survive amongst the worst of Pangaea's criminals while also contending with her new arranged marriage to Adam. Meanwhile, Alice, Quinn, and Violet try to escape the clutches of the Old Spirits.It is the third year after the Landing on Pangaea, and Brynna Olivier has lost her daughter, her sister, her brother, her friends, and her first love. Hoarded onto the Lapsarian Maximum Security Prison Ship, she must survive amongst the worst of Pangaea's criminals while also contending with her new arranged marriage to Adam. Meanwhile, Alice, Quinn, and Violet try to escape the clutches of the Old Spirits, with Quinn and Alice using their evolution to slaughter every enemy in their path, and with Violet using her wits to outsmart Caspar, who has traitorously changed his allegiance.Twenty-five years later, Brynna is both Adam's Queen and the Queen of the Lapsarian. Fighting for her life every day has inevitably resulted in her taking many lives, and now, she is unrecognizable, to both herself and to all those who love her. Quinn and Alice battle against the Old Spirits, all to avenge their second family that they lost. But as Alice's rage and dedication to the cause only grow more violent over the years, Quinn begins to long more and more for the log cabin of which they dreamed in their youth. Violet is kept imprisoned in the city of Blancstizia, with Dr. Miletus and her wife, Macie. Together, their combined medical knowledge is much needed as a new, brutal plague begins to wipe out Old Spirit families left and right.Three new voices begin to tell their stories after the Fall of the Red Anarchy: Grace, a teenaged Old Spirit child imprisoned after trying to escape her arranged marriage to Caspar; Lara, Tyre's most favorite imprisoned woman; and James, Brynna's lost love. Each is connected to Brynna deeply, in a number of profound, mysterious, and sometimes devastating ways.Their world is lost. Their family is broken, perhaps irreparably. Their lives have faced a reckoning that can never be undone, and yet there is a larger, more utterly shattering reckoning to be had. Despite it all, Brynna, Quinn, and Violet continue to fight for their lives, their family, and their freedom in this third installment of the bestselling Eternity series.
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Wes Parker: Monster Hunter (Volume Two)

In the dark, when you hear a rustling… wait a minute. Didn’t I say that last time? Let me try again. Beware the night, for it holds many evil things that exist only in nightmares. I’ve seen things that will make your heart stop, things that will turn you white—cliché, I know. That howl that you hear in the distance, isn’t a coyote or a wolf. Don’t fret, because I am the one who will save you.In the dark, when you hear a rustling… wait a minute. Didn’t I say that last time? Let me try again. Beware the night, for it holds many evil things that exist only in nightmares. I’ve seen things that will make your heart stop, things that will turn you white—cliché, I know. That howl that you hear in the distance, isn’t a coyote or a wolf. Don’t fret, because I am the one who will save you. I’m Wes Parker: Monster Hunter.My job, or calling, is to hunt the monsters that try to prey on you every night. Usually they stay in small packs or keep to themselves but things have changed. They’re gathering, preparing for something big. I don’t know what it is but I fear whatever it may be, even I won’t be able to stop it.I’m going to say right now that if you haven’t read Volume One yet, then you’ll be really lost. So turn back and Search for Wes Parker: Monster Hunter Volume One. I promise you won’t be disappointed. Well, maybe you will be. In that case to hell with you.This book is a collection of short stories that were originally posted on my blog. You can visit there, cjpikebooks.wordpress.com, for more hunting.
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The Sandman

An entrancing collection of stories based on the World Fantasy Award-winning Sandman comic book series by Neil Gaiman—the basis for the highly anticipated Netflix series and hailed by the Los Angeles Times Magazine as "the greatest epic in the history of comic books"—including contributions from Tori Amos, Clive Barker, Susanna Clarke, Tad Williams, and Gene Wolfe, among other celebrated names in fantasy and horrorThere is a dark king who rules our dreams from a place of shadows and fantastic things. He is Morpheus, the lord of story. Older than humankind itself, he inhabits — along with Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium, his Endless sisters and brothers — the realm of human consciousness. His powers are myth and nightmare — inspirations, pleasures, and punishments manifested beneath the blanketing mist of sleep.Surrender to him now.Sandman: The Book of Dreams is a stunning collection...
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A Stark and Wormy Knight

“Tad Williams’ work is an essential part of any science fiction and fantasy library” – Christopher PaoliniTad Williams’ second collection of short fiction showcases the great range of this uniquely talented writer, containing many permutations of fantastic fiction, from high fantasy, to searing, sci-fi thriller, to zombie horror, to comic-book script, to horror-movie film script, and much, much more. Pure entertainment from the hand of a master. Also featuring a new introduction.
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Wake the Dead (The Journals of Octavia Hollows #1)

With a touch of her hand, Octavia Hollows can restore life. Yet, she couldn’t save the man she loved from the horrific accident that stole him from her. Octavia thought she could outrun the pain, but ghosts from the past refuse to be silenced. Out of options, she chooses to retrace her wayward journey across the country in search of answers. Surrounded by baffling mysteries of the undead, what she learns about herself along the way might become her greatest weapon. Seattle, Washington: Land of cloudy skies and a great cup of coffee. Octavia blew into town in search of information, only to get swirled up in a paranormal predicament even she couldn’t fathom. A neonatal nurse is dead, and her young patient is aging at an alarming rate. Can Octavia unlock the secrets to this confusing curse before time runs out? If you like snarky humor, fantastical monsters, and farm-animal sidekicks, The Journals of Octavia Hollows are the paranormal cozy mystery novellas you've been waiting for! **
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Glitch: The Complete Adventure

From the pages of the Pew! Pew! Anthologies comes the complete adventures of Ben and his "friend" Chip, for the first time in a single, full-length novel format. Gli+ch Just when Ben's contemplating whether or not he can use his robotic arm to strangle himself, he sees an ad promoting a new mining colony on Europa. A new life, good pay, and respect await him if he can just get there from Mars. The hot girl in the ad may have helped, too. But space isn't a place for the weak, or the terminally unlucky, and when calamity strikes right out of the gate, Ben starts to think getting to Europa may take a farking miracle. The Gli+chover After a devastatingly crushing, utterly suicidal, incredibly stupid trip to Europa, Ben returns to Earth embarrassed and defeated. But Earth isn't the home he left behind. In orbit, a mass of darkness looms threateningly, and it is the only thing standing between Ben and surviving. Running out of food on his ship, the Shistain, becomes the least of his problems as he grows ill eating tainted Vienna sausages only to discover that aliens have invaded the planet and it is up to Ben to save the world. With his first mate Chip, a gay sex robot, he rushes towards Earth between hellish bouts with nausea and crippling hallucinations. In order to survive the ordeal, Ben must put his life in the hands of an android struggling with a corrupt software update that makes him hornier than a fourteen-year-old boy at cheerleader camp. What could go wrong? For Ben, potentially everything. Gli+ches Wild With Lady Luck on his side, Ben doesn't need any enemies. In a game of high stakes, he puts in all on the line, and probably loses. They said he was lucky to be alive, that surviving his perilous journey and ultimate crash was a blessing in disguise. Ben isn't one to agree, though, as he tries to up his "reward" in order to facilitate repairs to his ship, the Shistain in a poker match against Buck Rodgers; the richest man in West Virginia. Ben soon discovers that poker isn't his game as he loses his ass in more ways than one. But maybe there's a silver lining to being the unluckiest man on Earth. Or maybe that's the lie he holds onto to help himsleep at night. Either way, with Lady Luck on his side, Ben doesn't need any enemies.
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How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge

Rory Thorne must use the fairy blessings gifted to her to change the multiverse in the second book in this space opera duology.After avoiding an arranged marriage, thwarting a coup, and inadvertently kick-starting a revolution, Rory Thorne has renounced her title and embraced an unglamorous life as a privateer on the edge of human space. Her new life is interrupted when Rory and her crew—former royal bodyguards, Thorsdottir and Zhang, and co-conspirator Jaed—encounter an abandoned ship registered under a false name, seemingly fallen victim to attack. As they investigate, they find evidence of vicious technology and arithmancy, alien and far beyond known capabilities. The only answer to all the destruction is the mysterious, and unexpected, cargo: a rose plant. One that reveals themself to be sentient—and designed as a massive biological weapon. Rose seeks to escape their intended fate, but before Rory and her friends can get Rose off the...
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Soldiers of Ruin

Aspiring adventurers Aiden Wainwright and Pacian Savidge are tasked with tracking down an obscure relic, but the two friends are at odds and their comrades are forced to choose sides as they scour the land for the lost artefact. Only their valour and determination will see them through as they uncover ancient evils determined to assail their every move.
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Seth & Greyson

After being betrayed by someone he thought he loved, Seth leaves for college hoping to get a new start. But leaving his past behind is more complicated than he expected, and underneath his upbeat attitude, Seth struggles with opening up to people. Then he meets Greyson. Seth is instantly drawn to Greyson and his sweet and charming personality. But even though he feels a strong connection with Greyson, Seth’s still hesitant to open his heart to love. With the help of his best friend Callie, Seth realizes he needs to overcome his fear of commitment. But will he be able to finally admit how he truly feels about Greyson?
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