Kazuma, a lone Alter User with an empathic heart and a hair-trigger temper, is the only one to stand as an advocate of the defenseless in the devasted world of Yokohama.

Kazuma, a lone Alter User with an empathic heart and a hair-trigger temper, is the only one to stand as an advocate of the defenseless in the devasted world of Yokohama.

When a new type of human--Alter-Users--becomes the center of an unexplained phenomenon, an elite squad of soldiers appears to keep the peace...or so it seems. This group, called Holy, has many hidden motives...and, in this case, what the public doesn't know Will hurt them. Alter-User Kazuma Torizuna may be the only one able to defy Holy in search of the truth.

Nothing ever changes. No friends, no girlfriends--nothing but a solitary life at school... So why is Hachiman so uncomfortable? Maybe it's the fact that their club room is one girl short. There's no way Yukino and Hachiman can solve the problems born from this chain of misunderstandings. The bittersweet time with Totsuka, preparing for battle with Zaimokuza, a secret side of Ms. Hiratsuka...and strip poker? Surrounded by characters sprinting headlong in the wrong direction, will the club ever return to normal?

View our feature on Ann Aguirre's Shady Lady. Whenever Corine Solomon touches an object, she immediately knows its history. But the future concerns her more when former ally Kel Ferguson wlaks through her door with a warning for her: the Montoya cartel is coming for her-but they don't just pack guns. They use warlocks, shamans and voodoo priests. And Corine has become enemy number one...

Set in the future, E's, people with psychic abilities are used to turn thoughts into power.