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A strong match for readers drawn to literary coming-of-age fiction about complicated mothers, foster care, identity, loneliness, and resilience.
White Oleander
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Women's Fiction
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An Oprah’s Book Club pick, White Oleander follows Astrid after her mother murders a former lover and receives a life sentence, leaving the girl to move through a series of Los Angeles foster homes while trying to understand who she can become, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 5,700 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to literary coming-of-age fiction about complicated mothers, foster care, identity, loneliness, and resilience.
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The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption.
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life in prison. White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances. Each home is its own universe, with a new set of laws and lessons to be learned. With determination and humor, Astrid confronts the challenges of loneliness and poverty, and strives to learn who a motherless child in an indifferent world can become. Oprah Winfrey enjoyed this gripping first novel so much that she not only made it her book club pick, she asked if she could narrate the audio release.
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A good pick for readers who like political thrillers, intelligence operations, international investigations, and nuclear-security stakes.
Pinnacle Event
Mystery · Thriller · Techno-Thriller
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Five murders on three continents reveal that five nuclear weapons have been sold on the black market, sending intelligence expert Ray Bowman on a global search before the 2016 presidential election, with a 3.7-star average from more than 300 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for readers who like political thrillers, intelligence operations, international investigations, and nuclear-security stakes.
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"A fast-moving international thriller . . . exciting and all-too plausible" from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Sting of the Drone (Kirkus Reviews).
With the 2016 presidential election just weeks away, five simultaneous murders on three continents lead to an investigation revealing the recent black-market sale of five nuclear weapons. But who bought them? And what is their intended target?
Washington fears the bombs are timed to explode in major American cities before the election. They call on intelligence expert Ray Bowman to prevent the attack. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he follows a trail across the world to track down the missing nukes. Along the way, he discovers that the people who now control the bombs intend to do something much more devastating than expected, something that will make nuking a few cities look like a mild attack.
Drawing on his decades of experience at the highest levels of national security, Richard A. Clarke's Pinnacle Event—the Pentagon code for a nuclear threat—is a gripping international thriller told from the rare vantage point of a true Washington insider.
"Clarke delivers an edge-of-your-seat race across the planet that keeps you guessing until the very end." ―Kyle Mills, New York Times–bestselling author
"Clarke combine[s] real-life intelligence details with . . . narrative drive . . . will please political geeks and actions fans." ―Booklist
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Best for readers who like dark biker romance, brother’s-best-friend tension, enemies to lovers, morally gray heroes, and high heat.
Ace & Ember
Romance · Erotica
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Hacker Evie Emberson and her brother’s best friend, Aiden “Ace” Callahan, struggle with a forbidden attraction while enemies from Evie’s past place her in danger, with a 4.0-star average from more than 1,200 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like dark biker romance, brother’s-best-friend tension, enemies to lovers, morally gray heroes, and high heat.
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A forbidden desire. A game of cat and mouse. A love that could ruin everything. Hold on tight for the wild ride that is the next installment in Kate Crew’s extra spicy Mavericks series!
Evie Emberson is trouble. Smart-mouthed, fearless, and relentless—especially when she’s looking for answers. She’s a hacker with a past that just won’t stay buried, so laying low isn’t exactly her strong suit. Especially when he’s around.
Aiden “Ace” Hayes is her brother’s best friend—brooding, loyal, and a walking contradiction. He spends half his time at the motorcycle garage and half deep in Valeport’s underground, and he lives by a code. Rule number one? Don’t touch Evie.
But she’s not a kid anymore. She’s fire and chaos and everything he shouldn’t want. He knows getting involved would blow up the only family he’s ever had—but walking away is getting harder every damn day.
What starts as snark and stolen glances spirals into something darker, hotter, and way past the point of no return. And the more they try to hide it, the more it threatens to consume them.
Now, with enemies circling and Evie’s secrets putting a target on her back, Aiden will do whatever it takes to protect her—even if it means betraying the brother who made him family.
Loyalties will be tested. Rules will be broken.
And hearts? They’re about to burn.
TROPES
- Brother’s Best Friend
- Enemies to Lovers
- Forbidden Love
- Morally Grey MMC
- Extra Spice
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This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Historical Fiction · Horror · Literary Fiction · Occult Horror · Suspense
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In 1970, four pregnant teenagers confined at a Florida maternity home discover witchcraft and use their new power to resist the adults controlling their bodies and futures, with a 3.9-star average from more than 144,000 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
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"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
They were never girls, they were witches . . . .
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, frightened, and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by the adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid . . . and it’s usually paid in blood.
In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).
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Best for readers who like Victorian murder mysteries, social history, and established amateur sleuths.
A Compassionate Woman
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In London in 1899, a former East End criminal is murdered after giving testimony about reform at the Leysian Mission. Tabitha and Wolf investigate before local communities are blamed, following a trail through mission workers and patrons marked by fear, shame, and secrecy. Best for readers who like Victorian murder mysteries, social history, and established amateur sleuths.
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A murder at the Leysian Mission draws Tabitha and Wolf into the dangerous world of East End loyalties, old sins, and respectable secrets.
London, 1899. When a former East End criminal delivers a stirring testimony of reform at the Leysian Mission, the audience is moved by his tale of sin and salvation.
Then the man is murdered.
Suspicion quickly falls on the very streets he claimed to have left behind. As the police turn their attention to the dead man’s neighbourhood around Brick Lane, Tuchinsky, the formidable Jewish gang leader with whom Tabitha and Wolf have crossed paths before, insists that her people are being used yet again as convenient scapegoats.
Mickey D Doherty, equally unwilling to let the police stir trouble among his own East End connections, brings Wolf another piece of the dead man’s past.
As Tabitha and Wolf follow the trail through the Mission’s workers, patrons, and uneasy beneficiaries, they uncover fear, shame, and long-buried secrets. The unavoidable question is not only whether the dead man’s repentance was genuine, but also whether it was the very thing that got him killed.
Perfect for readers who enjoy Victorian historical mysteries featuring married investigators, East End intrigue, social secrets, and murder among the respectable classes.
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Jasmine Garcia recounts her life as a Deaf Puerto Rican woman navigating trauma, wrongful detainment, identity, healing, and spiritual awakening.
Once a Fractured Soul
Biographies & Memoirs
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Jasmine Garcia recounts her life as a Deaf Puerto Rican woman navigating trauma, wrongful detainment, identity, healing, and spiritual awakening. Her memoir follows the work of reclaiming her voice and sense of self after experiences that fractured both. A strong match for memoir readers interested in resilience, disability, cultural identity, and personal recovery.
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One night carved a fracture through her life so deep she still feels its echo in her chest.
After a misunderstanding spiraled beyond her control, a Deaf Puerto Rican mother found herself trapped in a place where language disappeared, humanity felt distant, and time lost its shape.
She believed walking out would be the end.
It wasn't.
Once A Fractured Soul is an intimate memoir about what happens when the world insists on telling you who you are—and gets it wrong.
What remains when everything you believed about yourself begins to crack?
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Teenage Kayla enters foster carer Maggie Hartley’s home after her mother is hospitalized for mental health treatment.
Please Don’t Hurt Me
Biographies & Memoirs
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Teenage Kayla enters foster carer Maggie Hartley’s home after her mother is hospitalized for mental health treatment. When Kayla’s relationship with her first boyfriend ends and increasingly sinister events place both Kayla and Maggie in danger, keeping her safe becomes urgent. This true story will appeal to memoir readers interested in foster care, safeguarding, and the realities faced by vulnerable children.
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A powerful, moving true story from Sunday Times bestseller, Maggie Hartley, Britain's most-loved foster carer. Perfect for fans of Cathy Glass.
Fourteen-year-old Kayla goes to live with Maggie after her mum is sectioned due to an ongoing battle with her mental health. Despite everything she had to cope with at home, Kayla is doing well at school, has lots of friends and has started seeing her first boyfriend, Harry. But when their relationship suddenly ends, things take a sinister turn and Maggie has to step in.
Supporting Kayla through her heartbreak, Maggie begins to get suspicious. Wherever Kayla goes, Harry is always there. At first, it seems like a coincidence, but when sinister things start to happen to both Kayla and Maggie, she realises they are both in danger.
Is it too late to keep Kayla safe?
From Britain's best-loved foster carer, a new and inspiring true story of secrets and hope.
A powerful, moving true story from Sunday Times bestseller, Maggie Hartley, Britain's most-loved foster carer. Perfect for fans of Cathy Glass.
Fourteen-year-old Kayla goes to live with Maggie after her mum is sectioned due to an ongoing battle with her mental health. Despite everything she had to cope with at home, Kayla is doing well at school, has lots of friends and has started seeing her first boyfriend, Harry. But when their relationship suddenly ends, things take a sinister turn and Maggie has to step in.
Supporting Kayla through her heartbreak, Maggie begins to get suspicious. Wherever Kayla goes, Harry is always there. At first, it seems like a coincidence, but when sinister things start to happen to both Kayla and Maggie, she realises they are both in danger.
Is it too late to keep Kayla safe?
From Britain's best-loved foster carer, a new and inspiring true story of secrets and hope.
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Every fifty years, a deadly quest opens the gates to Starside, where magic can be claimed instead of inherited.
Starside
Romantasy
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Every fifty years, a deadly quest opens the gates to Starside, where magic can be claimed instead of inherited. Aris enters with a modest little plan: survive the competition and kill the gods who destroyed her family. Unfortunately, her path also includes monstrous creatures, a dangerously powerful knight she already hates, and the deeply inconvenient possibility that revenge is not the only thing waiting across the gates.
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
From Alex Aster, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Lightlark series, comes her first adult romantasy. Enter the world of Starside, where swords wield magic and power is not inherited...but claimed.
Hundreds of years ago, a brutal war split a land in two. Starside is the realm of magic and immortals—the descendants of the gods, living in a power-rich paradise. Stormside is where mortals fight for scraps of that magic.
Every fifty years, the gates between them open, and fifty challengers are allowed to journey across Starside on a deadly quest to access a pool of magic that can heal, grant wealth, or extend life. Everyone has their reasons for entering, but Aris has only one: vengeance. As a child, a goddess set fire to her village, killing her family. Aris isn’t after the gods’ magic—she’s going to kill them.
First, she must survive the Culling, the king’s deadly competition to choose his fifty challengers. An orphaned blacksmith’s apprentice, Aris doesn’t have the superior weapons of the heirs from the Great Houses. But the greatest swords—ones that contain power—are not inherited or bought, they are claimed, by both sides. And when Aris claims a great sword, it makes her not just a real competitor—but a target.
Getting past the gates is only the beginning. Starside is deadlier than it seems. If the ancient creatures, magic-wielding beasts, and bloodthirsty immortals weren’t dangerous enough, a new peril has even immortals fearing what rises from the ground at night. With a blade most would kill to claim, Aris can’t trust anyone. Especially not Harlan Raker, the merciless and mysterious king’s guard who betrayed her years ago—and who may now be the key to her survival.
But Aris is hiding a secret tied to her family’s death. And when it’s revealed, not even the gods will be able to stop what’s coming…
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A strong fit for readers who enjoy humorous memoirs about ambition, the writing life, creative persistence, and the costs of chasing a dream.
Congratulations, Who Are You Again?
Biographies & Memoirs
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Called “Hilarious and illuminating” by Booklist, Congratulations, Who Are You Again? follows Harrison Scott Key’s often misguided pursuit of becoming a writer, from failed vocations to publishing success that threatens what matters most to him, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. A strong fit for readers who enjoy humorous memoirs about ambition, the writing life, creative persistence, and the costs of chasing a dream.
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A Good Housekeeping Book of the Month
This funny and wise new memoir from Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, will inspire laughter and hope for anyone who's ever been possessed by a dream of what they want to be when they grow up.
Little-known author Mark Twain once said that the two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why. He's talking about dreams here, the destiny that calls every living soul to some kind of greatness. What Mr. Twain doesn't say is: A dream is also a monster that wants to eat you. Nobody tells you this part of the American Dream — until now. In this new memoir, Congratulations Who Are You Again, readers join Harrison Scott Key on his outrageous journey to becoming a great American writer.
As a young boy in Mississippi, Harrison possessed many special gifts, such as the ability to read and complete college applications. And yet, throughout young adulthood, he failed at many vocations, until one day, after drinking perhaps too many beers and dusting off his King James Bible, he stumbled across a passage about a lonely pelican, which burst into flame inside him. In a mad blaze of holy illumination, Harrison realized his dream: to set the world afire with the light inside him. He would write a funny book. This was his dream.
With unforgettable wit and tenderness, Congratulations Who Are You Again is Harrison's instructive tale of pursuing his destiny with relentless and often misguided devotion, transforming his life beyond all comprehension: He becomes a signer of autographs, a doer of interviews, a casher of checks that are "worth more money than my father had ever imagined any of us might see, this side of a drug-related felony."
On this journey, Harrison finds that as he gains the world, he stands on the precipice of losing everything that means the most: his family, his mind, his soul. Hilarious, honest, and absolutely practical, Congratulations Who Are You Again is a no-holds-barred look at the life of every ambitious human creature, whether you want to write books or make music, start a business or start a revolution. This is a book for the dreamers.
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A strong match for readers drawn to candid memoirs about motherhood, reproductive choice, healthcare access, and the policies shaping women’s lives.
Loved and Wanted
Biographies & Memoirs
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Called “Searing” by Publishers Weekly, Loved and Wanted recounts Christa Parravani’s unplanned pregnancy, her unsuccessful effort to obtain an abortion in West Virginia, and the inadequate healthcare and environmental dangers that later threatened her children, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 50 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to candid memoirs about motherhood, reproductive choice, healthcare access, and the policies shaping women’s lives.
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The acclaimed author of the memoir Her recounts her experience dealing with an unplanned pregnancy and the decisions faced by mothers in America.
"Haunting, wild, and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood, in all its gothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading." —Lisa Taddeo, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Three Women
"An inspired memoir—and a reminder of the serious mettle required of every ordinary woman." —Stephanie Danler, New York Times–bestselling author of Sweetbitter and Stray
Christa Parravani was forty years old, in a troubled marriage and financial straits, when she moved her family to Morgantown, West Virginia, feeling lucky to have landed a teaching job at the local university and hopeful that a professor's salary and health insurance might set her young family on a steady path. At first, with terrific new friends and beautiful surroundings, Christina's optimism looked sensible; but just a year after the birth of her second child, she became pregnant again. She sought an abortion. And in the weeks, then months, that followed, nurses misdirected her and doctors avoided her to the point of ultimately failing to provide Christa with reproductive choice. By the time she understood that she would need to leave West Virgina to obtain a safe, legal (though expensive) abortion, she felt it was too late for her, her pregnancy too far along.
She gave birth to a beautiful baby boy—and another terrifying education began: available healthcare was cruelly insufficient to her newborn's needs; indeed, environmental degradation and poor health care were endangering all of Christa's children.
Loved and Wanted is the moving story of a woman's love for her children and a bracing look at the tough choices women are forced to make every day in a nation where policies leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies, their futures, and even their hopes for their children's lives.
"Reveals the cost to us all when we fail to openly personalize the politics of abortion in America." —The New York TimesBook Review
"Parravani's narrative is an American story. It doesn't just hit close to the bone; it reveals the skeleton." —Los Angeles Review of Books
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Ideal for readers drawn to occult horror, haunted buildings, parallel investigations, genealogy, and slow-burning historical mystery.
The Search for Joseph Tully
Horror · Occult Horror
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A New York Times bestseller called “A relentless, terrifying thriller” by Dean Koontz, The Search for Joseph Tully follows Peter Richardson as a condemned Brooklyn building turns threatening, while London solicitor Matthew Willow traces Joseph Tully through genealogical records and centuries of reincarnation. Ideal for readers drawn to occult horror, haunted buildings, parallel investigations, genealogy, and slow-burning historical mystery.
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New York Times Bestseller: "A relentless, terrifying thriller" from the award-winning author of The Ross Forgery (Dean Koontz).
In Brooklyn, in a historic part of that shambled borough, the flailing iron ball of the wrecker's crane is at work. One of the few buildings still standing amid the rubble is the Brevoort House, older than memory. Its only remaining tenant is Peter Richardson. Abandoned. Menaced. Alone. The Brevoort has become an unbearable burden for him. Houses, like people, can go bad, and the Brevoort emanates an evilness, an undefined terror, aimed directly at him. The house—something in the house—is telling Richardson of his impending death.
In another part of Brooklyn, solicitor Matthew Willow arrives from London seeking a man who may not exist. He has one clue, the name of the wanted man's ancestor: Joseph Tully. Willow's search takes him into the fascinating world of the genealogical detective—and uncovers a relentless pursuit and quest for vengeance through centuries of reincarnation . . .
"The kind of book you can't put down while you're reading—and will never forget after you finish. A super-shocker." —Robert Bloch, author of Psycho
"As horrifying as anything you'll read for a long time." —The Detroit Free Press
"Hallahan skillfully brings together two disparate stories in a frigid climax of suggestive '70s horror. . . . I reveled in Tully's lonely, despairing, fatalistic tone." —Too Much Horror Fiction
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A strong match for readers who enjoy dragon-shifter fantasy, desert kingdoms, deadly magic, found family, and revenge-driven heroines.
Dragon Born
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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Wylan Atwater expected to join the dragon guard, but after a blue dragon destroys her home and leaves her with scales, fire, and an uncontrollable wyvern soul, she sets out for revenge. Her journey through the Dar Desert leads to a powerful child, wyvern-shifters, a dead witch, and a stolen wand that may cost her soul, with a 3.9-star rating from more than 300 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who enjoy dragon-shifter fantasy, desert kingdoms, deadly magic, found family, and revenge-driven heroines.
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Wylan Atwater was supposed to join the dragon guard.
Instead, she watched a blue dragon burn her home, slaughter her parents, and leave her with something worse than grief: scales beneath her skin, fire in her throat, and a wyvern soul she cannot control.
Now stranded in the Dar Desert, Wylan wants only one thing—revenge. But when a vision calls her to a ghost-haunted town untouched by dragonfire, she finds a child with impossible power, two wyvern-shifters who claim she needs training, and a dead witch who refuses to surrender what she believes belongs to her.
The dragons are gathering. The dead are restless. And the wand Wylan steals from the darkness may be powerful enough to destroy her enemies—if it doesn’t claim her soul first.
To survive, Wylan must reach the imperial city of Darubai, master the beast inside her, and decide whether vengeance is worth becoming the very monster she hates.
Because the dragon who ruined her life is still out there.
And Wylan intends to make him bleed.
Dragon Born is an action-packed fantasy epic for readers who love dungeons and dragons-style adventure, dragons, dragon shifters, deadly magic, found family, and fierce female lead books. Featuring a female dragon shifter, ancient curses, desert kingdoms, ghosts, dragonfire, and dragons blood, this epic fantasy begins a dangerous journey where revenge may be the only thing keeping a heroine alive—and the one thing that could destroy her.
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