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Vivienne has poured so many hours into the massively popular VRMMO The Seven Cataclysms that she has more of a life inside the game than out. It's a fitting irony, then, when one day she wakes in the body of her maxed-out demon-mage 'Vivisari'—and finds that now, the game really is her life. But the world of Seven Cataclysms isn't what she remembers. A hundred years have passed since the game's concluding events, and Vivisari is a hero of myth thought long dead.

The iron-clad Reality of the world cannot be denied, and the Void cannot be filled. The many true threats to Zeme remain hidden for the moment, allowing all of humanity to thrive in their various shelters. Those who wield Magic devote themselves to their people, giving them a chance to exist.

Nothing good happens after two A.M. Beatrice just had the week from hell. After being brutally murdered in the dead of night at her job, she wakes up in the presence of a goddess who offers her the chance to reincarnate in a new world governed by a game-like system. Accepting the offer, she takes the opportunity to reinvent herself. Taking the name Cassandra, she appears in this new world, but before she can even start exploring the starter dungeon, she is ambushed and turned into a vampire.

Alex knew life with an angel and demon would bring its challenges. After feuds with monsters and the lords of Hell, he’s got the scars to prove it. Yet between each crisis, Alex, Rachel, and Lorelei share a deep romance and a daily life that makes the dangers all worthwhile—even if some of those days between crises aren’t entirely peaceful, either. COZY SHADOWS collects twenty novelettes and short stories threaded in between the novels of the Good Intentions series, ranging from pure steamy romance and fun to supernatural action and adventure.

Ella Pickering is drowning in debt. Once a Unity skymage trained to make aerial supply runs in the Great War with the Ranneas Empire, following a crash, she now uses a wheelchair and works gruelling shifts making magical weapons in the Unity workshops, thinking of better days. One night, Ella witnesses an experiment by engineer Jackan Grissom go awry. His device morphs into a crude rocket blasting skywards before falling into the war's spell-ravaged No Man's Land. But this inspires a dangerous dream: could such a device reach the moon—the forbidden home of the gods?

Alvin had another rough week, but at least this time, he had Gothy with him. Travelling from Utah to Nevada, they were able to set up two more Settlements. Then they had to visit the world of Fey to rescue the kids of the Beatty, Nevada, Settlement. Just when things looked like they were going well, the Developers got involved. With the very rules of the game changing, Alvin found himself in a new position. Gothy pledged herself to him through the game system, leaving her collared and bound to obey his every whim.

He knew it was a dumb stunt from the start. A midnight run through a cemetery to impress a couple of girls isn't the stuff of legend, but Alex Carlisle longs to escape the crushing mediocrity of life after high school. Then, he stumbles upon the ritual, the cultists, and two bound and bloodied women. Alex intervenes, and the ritual blows up in his face, leaving him bound to them both: Rachel and Lorelei, an angel and a succubus.

Elise is finally back above ground; but she's not home free just yet. The Gray family is still missing, and their situation is a little more complicated than she first thought. The only one she can locate is Nick, the older brother, and he has been captured by the Blood Syndicate, an international crime organization headquartered in one of the most dangerous regions of the continent.

Alex Carlisle owes a debt beyond cash. Once upon a time - all of three months ago - Alex found himself in a foreign land hunted by mercenaries and demon lords. Only the intervention of a sultry, playful jinn got him home again. Zafirah didn't help him for free. Now she's come to collect. With her sights set on a dangerous family of ancient sorcerers, Zafirah needs every edge. She needs not only Alex, but the friends and lovers he brings with him. Her quest threatens to extract a price from angel, demon, and mortal alike...and most especially the witch who brought them all together.

After the death of Mori Gladius, the champion of the human lands, humankind is still reeling. Belzu is on the run, and Levithus has the Sword of Alexander. With Salvos finally reunited with her companions, perhaps... this is the perfect chance to deal with one of her problems once and for all.

An Earth member of the medical recovery team on Transport Station Zenith, Harper meets two mysterious strangers from an unknown world. With intense eyes and even more intense desires, it’s easy for the two sexy-as-sin aliens to prove how good it can be with them. Styx, a leader from Rogue 5, knows Harper is destined to belong to him and his most trusted enforcer, Blade. But when Styx is betrayed by one of his own kind, she’s caught in the deadly crossfire.

Tala has returned to her new home, her mission successful, and her money-pouch temporarily refilled. Gold is still an ever present concern, but more pressing hurdles lie before her. Her inscriptions have been renewed and completed, granting her newfound power that she must learn to control, and she has a long list of tasks to complete before she can join the ranks of the powerful Archons.

Danger lurks in the shadows. While the war is over, things aren't so simple for Talyn. Simply returning home is misery, and soon afterward, the Guardians give her a bodyguard so they can step back. A bodyguard who immediately complicates her life. Unfortunately, the consequences of Talyn's actions are finally unfolding. Now conflict is brewing within Castra's guilds. For once, Talyn isn't a target, but that doesn't mean the brewing conflict will avoid those she cares about.

The Kingdom Rescue. Magic locked away. A kingdom lost to time. A rebellion that begins with a flame. Issalitia was once a land of blooming magic and wonder—now, it festers under the cruel rule of a tyrant king who cages his people inside their only escape is to live happily or run away and die at nightfall. Arysalia, the defiant Spring Fae princess, is tired of living without adventure. Alongside her fiercely loyal best friend Samarra, she dares to challenge the king by stealing what he loves most.

While Tala is still burdened with an overly large debt, she needs to balance repayment with learning opportunities and surviving the arcanous creatures increasingly focused on her. Additionally, she must explore her newly acquired magical items, investigate a potentially lethal source of consumable power, and get back home with the caravan, trusting her defensive magics to keep her whole. She has found that the world is bigger than she ever imagined, and what she had thought was the peak of power is only the beginning of her journey as a Mage.

All Dr. Brianna Lewis wants is a cup of coffee. Coffee to make slaving away in her cell culture lab at Green Fields Biotech a little more bearable on a Friday afternoon when everyone is home already. What she doesn't count on is a group of terrorists blowing up all the entrances to the building and taking her and a select few others hostage. Bree soon finds herself conflicted. Not only does she know their charismatic leader, she also starts to suspect that there is a lot more to this than the hunt for an illegal bioweapon....

In the future: A united Earth, to deal with the problem of population control, divides its population into classes of citizen and non-gratis. To be born a non-gratis means a life of little freedoms and the constant possibility of being assigned to work on a colony. Lacking citizenship, every aspect of their life is controlled from where they live down to marriage and childbearing regulations. The only possible escape from life as a non-gratis is to qualify for one of the limited slots available for entrance into the military.

For Max Duncan, the word Sundown means one thing … run. Corpses infected with a mysterious, incurable virus are roaming free throughout the United States, feasting upon the living. The Duncan family compound in Montana is Max’s only hope for survival—but to get there, she has to flee from South Carolina and survive crossing several states with her daughter Jack in tow. Max has a choice to make. Does she risk her own life, and her daughter’s, to find the man she’s always loved? Griffin Wells was Max’s high school sweetheart, and he has no idea that Jack is his child.

Through tribulation and hardship, Tala has managed to return to the human lands, her freedom hard won, her self intact. Her family and friends await her, but her time away has left its mark. She has to face new trials—face the new weight that she carries—and somehow find a way though things that she has never faced before. While that isn’t exactly new, she is now no longer alone. Supported once again by those who care for her, she is given the tools and help that she needs to deal with the continued threats on her life and her very soul.

The Netherworld: it is a hellish landscape inhabited only by demons. Joining the ranks of newborn demons, Salvos is thrown into the violent, anarchy-ruled landscape of that world. To survive, she will have to learn, she will have to adapt, and she will have to evolve. She will gain experience to reach new Levels of power. Her curiosity aids her but her pride could be her fall. It is the nature of the Netherworld to avoid or conquer any threats faced. After all, the law of evolution is survival of the fittest, and Salvos is a survivor.