The Right of the Firstborn: A firstborn eighteen years of age or older may answer a call-to-arms from any noble family. The task, once completed, will mark the individual as an independent adult, free to leave their parents’ home, seek higher education or employment, purchase land, marry or not. This right may not apply to women in Jessa Copeland’s city but, when she hears that Rowan Eckersley needs volunteers to travel with him to the Forgotten Isle, she disguises herself as a man and answers the young lord’s call-to-arms. Rowan means to find the Lost Goddess who has struck their city with an incurable plague, and kill her before the plague takes his mother’s life. Jessa hopes to win her independence. Risking life and limb seems to her a small price to pay for the opportunity to escape her engagement to Beau, a man who would never permit her to go to school or learn a trade. Something else awaits Rowan and Jessa on the island, however, something far more dangerous than the goddess’s monsters and undead minions: true love. This is the first installment in a companion series for Asta and the Barbarians. Each new novella will introduce a couple who will be aiding Asta in a new mission in the long-awaited sequel, Asta among the Chosen.

On the day the Holgarians attack her town, Asta is blessed by a warrior god and is empowered with the heightened senses and unnatural healing abilities these foreign invaders possess. Grief-stricken and paralyzed by terror, she's hauled onto the conquering general's ship and taken across the sea. One year later, Asta graduates from warrior academy with honors and is chosen as one of the king's personal Defenders. She will finally have the opportunity to kill the man who gave the general his orders, and avenge her family. She doesn't expect the king to be young or kind, or completely oblivious of what his men are doing overseas. He has been told peaceful negotiations are going well. But Asta knows better. Asta must find proof of the general's treachery and bring it before the king so that she can save unconquered provinces from meeting the same fate as her hometown. But the king's counselors suddenly start dying, and the king himself is hounded by foreign assassins. Revenge will have to wait if Asta's going to keep the king, the mainland's only hope, alive.

When Maddock returns from his time in the armed forces, he’s hailed as a hero because he defended the region’s largest iron ore deposit against Holgarian invaders. But all Maddock sees in the mirror is a coward, one who will never be able to make amends for his secret failure on the battlefield. Determined to try, he sets off to fulfill a promise he made to Byx, his departed brother-in-arms. Belhina has been skating by on her earnings and the money her twin, Byx, sent home. Now that he’s gone, she has a choice to make: find yet another job to supplement his wages or get married. Her best friend and the son of the town’s clockmaker are both ready to take her to the church but, for Belhina, finding another job is the more preferable option. Then Maddock approaches her, offering his home and his wealth while asking for nothing in return. Because Belhina has read about the strapping young aristocrat in her brother’s letters, she knows she can trust Maddock. So she accepts his proposal. As if marriage to a stranger wasn’t hard enough, a spell falls over the couple that makes them switch bodies at the midnight toll. This could only be the work of a celestial being but are they friend or foe, and what reason could they have for this interference?

Thanks to the technology of a face-changing choker, Taren and the kids have finally found a home on the remote planet of Hatzee. They are settling into a “normal” life and have managed to stay hidden in plain sight. But when Jael sends Taren a distress call, Queen Miyako discovers his hiding place—and then all hell breaks loose. When Ezie and Zabbaam learn of a secret community of people who were altered in an attempt to replicate Project Chameleon, Ezie realizes she may be the cyborgs’ only salvation. She desperately wants to help, but she’s worried Iskar’s research could fall into the wrong hands. Jael and her cousin are investigating the drug trafficking organization responsible for killing her mother and injuring her uncle. When her cousin is captured, Jael knows the only person she can call on for help: Taren Platinum. Sparks fly as their investigation takes off, but the closer they get to the drug kingpin, the closer Queen Miyako gets to capturing Taren. Will Taren manage to escape Miyako once and for all, or will the queen finally get her revenge?

The Right of the Firstborn: A firstborn eighteen years of age or older may answer any call-to-arms from a noble family. The task, once completed, will mark the individual as an independent adult, free to leave their parents' home, seek higher education or employment, purchase land, marry or not. This right may not apply to women in Jessa Copeland's city but, when she hears that Rowan Eckersley needs volunteers to travel with him to the Forgotten Isle, she disguises herself as a man and answers the young lord's call-to-arms. Rowan means to find the Lost Goddess who has struck their city with an incurable plague, and kill her before the plague takes his mother's life. Jessa hopes to win her independence. Risking life and limb seems to her a small price to pay for the opportunity to escape her engagement to Beau, a man who would never permit her to go to school or learn a trade. Something else awaits Rowan and Jessa on the island, however, something far more dangerous than the goddess's monsters and undead minions: true love. This is the first installment in a companion series for Asta and the Barbarians. Each new novella will introduce a couple who will be aiding Asta in a new mission in the long-awaited sequel, Asta among the Chosen.

New York Times bestselling author Anya Bast introduces her newest paranormal romance, set in the world of Norse mythology… A damned Viking warrior. Centuries ago Broder Calderson committed murder. As punishment, he was given over to the dominion of Loki, the Trickster God, made part of the Brotherhood of the Damned and condemned to an immortal life of battle against the Blight, blood-drinkers from Hel. A mysterious woman he can’t resist. One thousand years to the day he was damned, Loki allows him a woman as reward for his good service and repentance of his crimes. Once Broder sees Jessamine Hamilton, he is overcome with need. But Jessa is no ordinary woman, and the truth of who—and what—she is could have dangerous consequences. A tormented man she can’t deny. Though a future together is impossible, the warrior’s touch ignites an irresistible passion in Jessa. But every heated kiss pushes them closer to destruction. Forced to return to the brutality of his Viking past to protect her, will Broder surrender forever to his darkest impulses?

Keeping promises can get you killed. Dr. Jessa Sweeten was just a child when her little sister, Jasmine, was kidnapped. Jessa has dedicated her life to helping the survivors and victims of life in her little part of the world. For the first time in twenty-six years, a credible piece of information has led to Jasmine’s whereabouts. Domenico ‘Nico’ Amatucci is the second son of the powerful Amatucci crime family. The public and legal face of the organization, he’s promised to bring Jessa’s sister home, even if it gets him killed. When cooperating with the police is the only way to save both women, he jumps in with both feet. When legal tape and the threat of international recognition slow the progress of the recovery attempts, Nico and his family will go rogue to get the job done. But what happens when the person they’re rescuing is lost in her own mind and attacks anyone who comes near her? Will Jasmine be the one to get everyone killed? Or will Jessa’s lifelong hopes of seeing her sister again be smashed to pieces and threaten her new life of happiness? Don’t miss the sixth book in the thrilling Amatucci Family series by Sadie Jacks. If you like strength in the face of adversity, damaged women who still manage to get the job done, alphamen who are willing to put it all on the line, and the kind of love only dreamed about, then pick up your copy of Finding Domenico today. TRIGGER WARNING: This book is for mature readers. Please be aware that there is talk of potentially triggering topics within this book with references and/or detailed descriptions of violence, physical, mental abuse, rape, suicide, murder, and other sensitive topics that some readers may find offensive.