Shadows loom from a forbidden continent. Secret lineages are at last revealed. And time is running out. On Earth, Maeve is able to wield magics unlike anything before. Minds open to her, and blue fire races between her fingers. Her heart aches to return to the Realms, and Rodan, even though the trials await. Yet to do so would guarantee future pain. In Visantium, Rodan is confronted by the sorcerer king Sebastian, and learns that there are more traps awaiting him on the road to the final duel. No matter how prepared he is, he cannot claim victory unless he first accomplishes a cutting personal challenge involving Maeve. Worlds apart, the pair must reunite in order to overcome the growing threat from Attica, and to ensure their joined destiny. The sequel to Catching Pathways, Catching Embers is the next book in the ongoing Five Realms series. Content Warning:Catching Embers is an adult dark fantasy romance, with events both past and present which could be triggering. Read with care.

In Miami, Florida, seeking her younger sister, 16-year-old Ashline Wilde, a Polynesian volcano goddess, joins forces with other reincarnated deities. But trickster Colt's diabolical plans threaten them all.

A woman who held the fate of kingdoms. The exiled Fae seeking her. A sorcerer king gone mad. Maeve Almeida once wielded magics, journeyed beneath twin suns, and crowned a king. On Earth, she takes her memories and pours them into books her readers believe to be fantasy. Only she knows the truth. Rodan has bridged time and space, striding through worlds to find the woman who was at the center of his fall from the high throne of the Five Realms. When he does, he feels the same pull toward Maeve that he once did, on that night many years ago. The two of them set to right the damage done by Sebastian Sekou, who Maeve called friend, returning to the Realms to run the trials together. At each turn, they must conquer unique and deadly challenges. As intensity grows between Maeve and Rodan, the two face looming threats on all sides, and they must ask themselves what is worth the risk. Content Warning: Catching Pathways is an adult dark fantasy romance, with events both past and present which could be triggering. Read with care.

From #1 bestselling author Glenn Beck and coauthor Mikayla G. Hedrick comes a tale with a chilling but timely discovery: if our lives are filled with stories, then whoever controls our stories controls our lives. In a new world run by Topos, Inc., the United States of America only exists as a fading memory. On the path to utopia, the pillars of culture—religion, art, history, and science—have been decimated. The past is dead, and Topos killed it. Sixteen-year-old Ember remembers the day her parents were taken by Topos seven years ago. The only possession she has from them is a leather notebook containing the history of the world—contraband that could send her straight to Sleep Camp. When Ember is selected to serve on Topos’s task force to reduce underage extremism, she has one chance to start a new life, but it may cost her everything. Seventeen-year-old Sky has run away to a town of savage Holdouts who refuse to live under the rule of Topos—and who might be able to tell him if his whole life has been a lie. As the Holdouts slowly but surely win Sky over, he must decide what “true” really means, and if the truth even matters in a world ruled by an absolute power. As they carry their secrets, Ember and Sky become unintended accomplices to a secret society plotting to overthrow Topos. And when they find themselves on the wrong side of the most powerful corporation on earth, they have two options: beat them or join them.

How did I get here? Its taken 19 years to get to where I am today, and even now, I dont know it all yet, but Ill try and cover it as best I can. I am an explosive individual who loves his work, is passionate about life, and has wild dreams. English was my favorite subject in school, and introduced me to a world of reading and writing, but that never took off until one of my greatest dreams was crushed. It was in the midst of the heartache that I found writing was an amazing way to let off the emotions that were bottled up inside. And now, three years down the track, its become something I do out of force of habitexpress what Im feeling through poetry.

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Seeing things that no one else can is more than enough of a burden for anyone. Drake McCarty however, finds himself thrust into the position of liaison to an alien race at the tender age of sixteen. Bole and the other exiled Royal Guardsmen are friendly enough, and the work is fascinating. However, Drake is also often required to run dull errands for the large shape shifting aliens. A two story tall glowing blue elk might be something a National Park Ranger can explain away to a frightened tourist, but for anything in a populated area a human representative is needed. Meanwhile the civil war that drove the aliens from their home-world has arrived on Earth and the conflict begins anew. Drake is just learning to cope with the fact that his life is constantly in danger when an alien pod falls from the sky. Within hours of it striking an island in the border waters between Russia and the USA, McCarty is sent to retrieve the debris. He arrives to find international tensions the least of his worries. Inside are three embers, infants of Bole’s species; desperately afraid, injured, and carrying a dangerous contagion. Military medics make two startling discoveries; the embers have imprinted and bound themselves to McCarty, and the disease that they carry is terminal.