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The Illuminati has the world by its feet, but not me, Stevie Ray Collins. I refused to give them my free will. It’s going to be one hell of a fourth of July in my neighborhood. This time, I’m coming with my guns loaded, just like the gunfight at OK-Frecking-Corral. Or at least that’s my theory. The fight for mankind has just begun. Our old government has fallen. Famine blankets the countryside like a frozen winter. Aliens have joined the Illuminati as allies. They are known as the peacemakers, but there is little peace.

With help from a mysterious caretaker and a forgotten friend, Stevie barely escapes death. Val wants to rekindle their relationship, but Stephanie has unresolved issues with him, and questions his loyalty. They have to put their problems aside when they discover that Dom and Jeffery are held captive in the Shadow Sphere: a dark, gloomy land inhabited by ghouls. Time is of the essence. Val and Stephanie must rescue their friends before they vanish to another dimension and are lost forever. Can Stephanie and Val save Dom and Jeffery in time?

Stephanie has come face to face with her celestial father, Mustafa. Beautiful and cold, he has his own agenda for someone close to Stephanie’s heart. In the meantime, a heavenly war breaks out, and Val and his army must return to their spiritual form to fight for the greater good, abandoning Stephanie, Jeffery, and Dom with an unlikely ally. Now, Stephanie must pull her boot straps up and get ready for one hell of a fight. But who was the accomplice in kidnapping her, and will Stephanie triumph and bring down the almighty Illuminati, or surrender?

After three years of good behavior, Stephanie is released from the insane asylum. Moving to New Orleans, she is looking forward to a new start. Just when Stephanie is starting to relax, an unexpected visitor comes calling. Aidan's sister Helen brings a message from the Family, warning her to stay out of their affairs. Stephanie soon discovers what the Family is hiding and begins looking for answers with the help of an unlikely source. There are others like her, but she doesn't seem to be welcome to the celestial clan. As new enemies surface, Stephanie must stand up and fight.

When coffee shop owner Josie Sparks spots her ex boyfriend picking out a Christmas tree with a new girl, she does the unexpected. She grabs his roommate, Noah, and lays a kiss on him right in front of her ex. The new girlfriend assumes they’re dating, and Josie and Noah decide to go with it.

NEARLY TWENTY YEARS HAVE PASSED since the end of the devastating war between dragons and man. Following this conflict, the country of Armea has stabilized. However, when the city of Sorranon falls to flame and fury, panic begins to grow anew. In the West, on a quiet farm, Anastasia Daren faces a decision. Torn between home and vengeance, she forges a new path, unfamiliar and exciting. In the eastern capital, Edrik Greywine, guard to the king, is confronted by strangers claiming to hail from an apocalyptic future. Differing ideals brew trouble for both king and country as other threats rise.

Kit Morgan has always hated change—he’s as steady as they come. At least, that’s what his friends think. Feeling trapped by a routine he never wanted but everyone expects, Kit is almost glad when his life suddenly falls apart—especially when it leads to him running into his middle school girlfriend, Skyler, who happens to need a fake fiancé for a family reunion. The two pick up where they left off seventeen years prior, and Kit reverts back to the friendly and fun-loving person she knew for the semester they were together.

Allie has sworn off dating. Which is unfortunate, because the cute guy at the grocery store has finally struck up a conversation, and shy and sweet Ben is even more adorable than he looks. When an ex shows up trying to rekindle the flame at the same time her mother tries to set her up with a neighbor, Allie ropes Ben into being her fake boyfriend to get everyone off her back. Ben has been in love with the stranger at the grocery store for months despite never speaking to her.

Raised among the secrets and shadows of Crete, Icarus finds escape soaring through the sky with her finest invention, a pair of wings. But when she flies too close to the sun, Apollo finally sees the woman who has haunted his visions for a year. The woman he is certain is meant for him.

Elspeth has performed her greatest heist yet: stealing the Sacred Prince from the capital just as a release of dark magic turned its citizens against him. That was the easy part. Now she has to safely deliver the reluctant refugee across the province to her camp where he believes the Bandit King will bargain with his army to help Otello reclaim his stolen throne. Except, she is the Bandit King, and that bargain is a marriage arrangement.