Being a fledgling vampire is hard, especially when you want to eat everything with a pulse. It's time for Victoria's first feeding, and Harlow has taken it upon himself to teach her how to be a proper vampire. But what could a werewolf possibly know about being a vampire? Blood and Water is an exciting new paranormal series featuring a sexy werewolf, a curvy vampire, steamy romance, and tons of adventure.

Days away from becoming completing her first year at Miss Castwell's Institute for the Magical Instruction of Young Ladies, Changeling-born Sarah Smith might just get away with posing as an upper-class Guardian girl named Cassandra Reed. But strange visions of a Lightbourne destroyed by Miss Morton's revenant army keep Sarah from enjoying her achievement. Plus, the Mother Book, Sarah's one secret advantage and the ultimate entrée in Guardian society,...

Tormented by his mother's death... Taken for granted by his father... Trained in deadly martial arts... Jason Steed is looking for a place to call home. He finds what he's looking for in the Sea Cadets-an elite group of British youngsters being groomed for lifelong service in the military. But when a routine training exercise goes awry, Jason finds himself in the middle of a secret mission. The future of the world hangs in the balance...and Jason...

Through a painstaking gathering and synthesis of the surviving documents of Georgia social history before the Revolution, many of them fragmentary, Davis re-creates much of the texture and quality of life in that southernmost province. In addition to black slavery, religion, and education, he examines such elementary questions as: what kinds of buildings Georgians lived in, how they solved their transportation problems, the nature of criminal law...

Victoria Lee's fight for life started at birth. As she grew into a young woman, the fight continued leaving her little room to breathe the air she needed to grow. Daddy and I's protection came from a natural place Momma's protection-from a broken one, a scathed and loveless childhood. Although Victoria's childhood is far from loveless... it seems lifeless, so Victoria begins to ignore her natural instincts and becomes more attentive to those that...

An orphaned teenage girl tries to survive on her own and understand her magical powers while a sorcerous plague sweeps the country. She may hold the key to its cure, but what she really wants is somewhere she can call home and family. This story by Ugandan author and film-maker Dilman Dila starts in a realistic African setting that becomes more and more fantastic as it goes, drawing us into his world of magic and spirits.

The ethereal Sakrosians existed for millennia, relying on their collective energy to conjure a magnificent city. Not content to remain unchanged while creatures of the Gaia developed, the Secrecy Magistrate experimented with creating a new species. But the Fledglings didn't embody Sakrosian ideals as intended. The Prophetess, Lita, convinced the Council that Fledglings had the potential to evolve, if a Directive was established to ensure their survival. El,...

Theron, the Eradicator, has one job: to protect the people of Starcast by killing the deadly creatures that attack them. That's it. Being an Eradicator comes with a heavy price, however, for he's strictly prohibited from having any kind of personal contact with the villagers. But one night, he sneaks into the town's harvest festival, anyway, and meets Xia, the lovely, young healer's apprentice. As Theron and Xia grow close, it becomes harder to tell...

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The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations in the world today. But in truth, the New World of the 18th century was dotted with failed colonies, and New South Wales nearly joined them. The motley crew of unruly marines and bedraggled convicts who arrived at Botany Bay in 1788 in leaky boats nearly starved to death. They could easily...