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In Pliocene Europe, warring races of aliens and humans face a new threat from North America in the third novel of the Locus Award-winning sci-fi series.
A group of misfits from the twenty-second century have travelled six million years back in time to the Pliocene Epoch. Instead of an uninhabited paradise, they discover a land overrun with two alien races-each possessing great psychic powers-locked in bitter war. After escaping the knightly Tanu,...
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An apprentice guard in the royal household of Brandishear, Chriani is a capable young warrior held back from attaining his full potential by a lifetime of dark anger. Lauresa is a princess about to be set aside as heir and married off for the sake of treaty and the only woman Chriani has ever loved. When his mentor is murdered preventing an assassination attempt within the palace, Chriani is forced to become Lauresa's protector, the two reconciling...
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The only way she can keep those she loves safe is to find the dragon and wake it.The followers of Lethir have been defeated and King Channan controls Najarind once more. Ro thinks that she and her fellow exiles can rest, but as guests from all over the Empire gather to celebrate the naming of the heir, she makes a disturbing discovery. The forces that would plunge the world into chaos are regrouping, and a storm is gathering about her. Can she find...
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Aidan makes deliveries to one small village after another. The highlight of his job, and the only thing distinguishing him from anyone in his village, is making the journey to deliver to another kingdom.
Until one day he is asked to deliver to the abandoned castle in the woods up on the hillside. On a clear day it looms over the village but when the mist sets in it's a black mark on the landscape.
It's been generations since anyone's visited or...
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Caswel Esmar, an Alfaran and rebellious knight, incurs the wrath of the Elder Council due to unsanctioned contact with mere humans. His temporary banishment to the Realm of Mortals in the form of a teenage girl sets off a chain of events involving high school power politics, serial deception, inconvenient spell casting and prevention of a cross dimensional war.
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Edie Brown has gone through life as if she were almost invisible, barely remembered. Even after becoming a doctor, her own patients and colleagues have a hard time recalling who she is. So when she is invited to interview for a position at the prestigious medical center, the Aurel Foundation, Edie can't begin to understand how or why. And, once there, Edie can't shake the impression that something is terribly wrong about the Foundation and the...
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She wakes up one day, stark naked, in a stranger's living room, without a clue of how she got there, who she is, or, really, anything that came before. Everyone seems to think she's Bia, or Beatrice Kodaly, an old woman addicted to black lotus tea, which has given her the illusion of eternal youth and also made her forget everything else. With nothing to go on but some photographs and fleeting, fragmented memories, Bia doesn't have much choice but...
8) Hide & Seek
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Enemies to lovers: Fugitive Hacker Heroine's Last Hope. "I'm the only one of the two of us who hasn't broken every written law, who's the more trustworthy here?" Whatever it takes, Aurora Maguire must complete her mission to find her friend and save his life.After exhausting every other option, she's left with only one hope. Exile.A man with no country.No loyalty to anyone but himself. Aurora endangers the life of the skilled criminal when she drops...
9) Kiss Chase
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A Lovers to Enemies Romance. "What makes you think if I get a chance to point this at your head I won't pull the trigger?" Isolated and imprisoned, Rora's situation is about as desperate as it could be. She has no hope of escape… or does she? JunkerA man with integrity.His loyalty to his mission is unwavering. Aurora's life is endangered when the man who saves her life asks for her help. Junker needs to stop Exile no matter the cost. Does she have...
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Maria Rubine. She has always known she's been living on borrowed time. She is Aurian and also an Impure, born with a genetic curse she cannot escape. Eventually, she knows, she will transform into a monster, both in body and soul.
Her time has run out all too soon in the form of the military forces of the King of Aur, the Emissary, who show up one day while she's at a coffee house in downtown Portland, Oregon, minding her own business.
It also shows...
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Sylvie Baker's memories hit a wall beyond three months ago. That was when she was discovered buried in the charred rubble of an apartment complex fire. She wonders if her past could possibly have been as strange as her three-month old life has been to date. As it is, she's not quite sure she's sane.
To begin with, she's periodically transported to a world of caves, black-tree forests, and a fairytale castle. She keeps finding little moonstones there,...
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On the island nation of Aur, where social status is valued above all things, Ione of the House of Sapphe is a liability to her family. As a child, she showed promise of being one of the exalted Scholars, those gifted with the ability to wield magic. At the age of ten, she began her studies at the Scholar College. Only, she failed miserably and was kicked out, an embarrassment her family has yet to recover from.
When her younger sister, Vivne, runs...
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Inda Young has spent the last six years trying to perfect being virtually invisible, just a drab, boring twenty-something no one thinks to remember. She hopes to leave behind a painful childhood and secrets that culminated in public humiliation and infamy, and never look back.
It's a lonely sort of existence, but a safe one.
But, just as she's celebrating the first year of her employment at the Westerly Corporation as a web designer, her quiet,...
14) Gorgon Born
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To avenge my mother, I change my fate.To alter the realm, I bargain with the fates themselves. Gorgons were once legendary for snake hair and Medusa's stone-turning gaze. Yet years after my mother Medusa's murder, we're no better than other island dwellers-isolated, forgotten, and insignificant. So when a benevolent night goddess reveals the truth of who my father is and what he's done? I leave behind all I know. Anything to seek vengeance against...
15) Siren Daughter
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To save myself, I bargain with the gods.To save my family, I bet my own life. Sirens were once known for irresistible songs. Yet centuries after our ancestor's exile, we're like every other creature in the Akri Sea-unremarkable, forgotten, mortal. When famine sweeps through the sea and drags my mother to the realm of the dead, I refuse to be like the rest of my kind. I refuse to die forgotten. To change my fate, I journey to the city of the gods....
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Il y a peut-être un moyen de quitter la planète-prison. Seul problème ? Je ne veux pas partir. Sur Terre, il y a un homme qui veut me tuer.
Sur Terre, je dors avec un couteau sous mon oreiller.
Sur la planète-prison, il n'y a pas de café, pas de pizza, pas de chocolat.
Je devrais être ravie de peut-être pouvoir rentrer chez moi.
Sauf que je ne veux pas retourner là-bas.
Je me sens en sécurité ici.
Parce que Mike n'est pas là.Et que...
17) Onslaught
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When mutants from civilization's end come roaring back from exile, telepath Langston Wheeler must confront assassination, interstellar intrigue, and a woman he can't resist.
Once, telepaths almost wiped out humanity. Years later, a brotherhood called the Gentle Hand lives to keep it from happening again. But sometimes a telepath is born outside their order.
Langston Wheeler, a young Hand with a checkered past, heads to the planet Felicitas to investigate...
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Exiles is an epic Irish historical fiction Exiles series. It is set against the backdrop of the Elizabethan wars in Ireland in the 1590s. A world of Irish clans, their politics and the fight for supremacy, where spies and intrigue prosper, where the embers burn for a rebellion against the English crown. If you love fast-paced action and adventure orientated historical fiction, then you will love these books. Buy Exiles box set 1-3 to discover this...
19) A Single Spark
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After her father is murdered by witch hunters, nineteen-year-old Mackenna loses control of her fire magic, burning down part of her village and killing two soldiers. Exiled and wanted for murder, she flees her village, pursued by witch hunters. She is rescued by a Wanderer named Foulan and his pet wolf, Myst.The Wanderers are refugees without a permanent home, roaming between the small countries of the Realms of Etylania. The rising tensions between...
20) Armageddon
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Earth weeps under the cruel tyranny of the Archons. Years of interplanetary war have devastated every colonized world, but a last remnant known as The Free Worlds of Human Space stands ready to fight one final battle. The fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
Mercy Hail and Dante Matter fly alone through the light years, desperately seeking hope for victory in the war. The last vestige of the old order of genetically engineered telepathic peacekeepers...
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