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Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.

Lei is now known as the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to slay the Demon King. In order to gain the support of the rebel clans in their attempt to overthrow the monarchy, Lei and Wren must make a treacherous journey that's further complicated by the large bounty on Lei's head. Meanwhile, a plot to bring down the rebel uprising is taking shape, fueled by dark magic and a quest for revenge.

Hannah Monksman is the captain of the spaceship carrying the last of Earth's whales to a new paradise planet where they'll have a chance to reproduce. People have been watching her journey on social media, but they don't know she is actually Kim Teng, who won her role as Caretaker with the help of underground operatives known as the Crusaders. But when one of the whales, Adonai, begins acting strange, she starts to wonder if they were ever supposed to reach their destination.

The fall of the veil between the human world and the Dark is inevitable, and the Lord of Shadows is preparing to set his plan to destroy Maya's neighborhood and the rest of the human world into motion. But Maya is not going down without a fight, and with her friends Eli, Frankie, Zeran, and Eleni by her side, she's prepared to go up against the Lord of Shadows and his powerful army.

Adam and Amelia Wright have been married for ten years, but things are not going well. So, in attempt to save their marriage, they go on a weekend getaway to Scotland for their anniversary. When they arrive at the remote, derelict church, things start to go terribly wrong and they find themselves trapped by a snowstorm. Soon, it becomes apparent that someone lured them there, and they must discover who before it's too late.

In the conclusion to the series, three sisters will fight for the future of the island. The battle with Katharine has left the rebellion in tatters, and Jule's legion curse has left her mentally unfit to rule. Arsinoe searches for a cure at the same time she strives to stop the ravaging mist from harming more of the land. Katherine, meanwhile, rues her attack on the rebellion--necessary as it was--for the loss of her beloved Pietyr. With no one to rely on, Katharine begins hearing the whispers of dead queens, telling her not to trust Mirabella who presents a truce.

Abigail Lovett manages The Passage Inn near the Appalachian Trail in the mountains of North Carolina. However, the town where the resort is located has a troubled past--it is the last-known location of a series of missing persons. When journalist Landon West comes to investigate the case, he too disappears. Then Landon's brother Trey arrives to find his brother. Abby thinks his efforts are in vain until she finds a key piece of evidence, putting Abby herself in danger.

After his father is killed in car accident, seventeen-year-old Hemingway Jones takes his father's body to Lifebank, the cryogenic preservation research center where he interns. Hemingway succeeds in bringing his father back to life, but he questions the life he has given him as his father's skin has turned ashen gray, he can't exist in temperatures above fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit, and hydrogen sulfide has become his only source of food. Facing arrest for his actions, Hemingway is given an offer: go to prison and leave his dad to die a second time, or replicate the experiment for the owner of the lab.

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives with his father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library, and they try to keep their heads down and avoid outside attention. When libraries are forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic, including the work of Bird's mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old, Bird tries to ignore it completely. But when he receives a cryptic drawing, he finds himself embarking on an adventure to find her. He soon learns more about the reasons behind his mother's disappearance, but his journey also opens his eyes to the reality of the world around him.

Nestor Lopez isn't your typical kid. He has a psychic ability to talk to animals. When Nestor and his mother move in with his grandmother, he's pulled into a mystery involving a shapeshifting witch whose power grows during a solar eclipse. With the next eclipse fast approaching, Nestor must hurry to save the new town he calls home.