Collection: Adult

House of Blades is the first book in The Traveler's Gate Trilogy by Will Wight, the author of the New York Times bestselling Cradle series.

Simon can only watch helpless as his family is killed and his friends captured by enemy Travelers-men and women who can summon mystical powers from otherworldly Territories. To top it off another young man from Simon's village discovers that he's a savior prophesied to destroy evil and save the realm.

Prophecy has nothing to say about Simon. He has no special powers no magical weapons and no guarantee that he'll survive. But he sets off anyway alone to gain the power he needs to oppose the Travelers and topple their ruthless Overlord. It may not be his destiny but Simon's determined to rescue his fellow villagers from certain death.

Because who cares about prophecy really?

Series Description

The Traveler's Gate Trilogy is the first work from Will Wight, the author of the New York Times bestselling Cradle series. The trilogy establishes his style of fast-paced, cinematic fantasy action, with an emphasis on colorful magic, humor, and progression.

Traveler's Gate follows a boy who isn't the chosen one but chooses to save the world regardless. He explores mystical realms, saves the innocent, gains new magical powers, and fights monsters with a giant sword. Think anime on the page, or video games without the numbers.

For those who would love Cradle but who don't want to commit to a long twelve-book series, there's Traveler's Gate.

Rudy meets Moneyball in a sexy yet warm-hearted, second-chance football romance for fans of Sarah Adams, Tessa Bailey, Monica Murphy, Kristen Callihan, and Lucy Score, as the analytical, math-nerd, type-A daughter of a tough love coach is assigned to babysit the team's adrenaline junkie pass rusher.

**DELUXE LIMITED EDITON with interior 4-color character art, designed chapter headers, and stenciled edges!**

Chelsea Parker, 26, knows football, thanks to growing up with a football coach for a father and two linebackers for brothers. But Chelsea's true passion has always been math: crunching numbers to predict statistical outcomes for everything from football to stocks to romance. Chelsea dreams of merging her two passions to become the first female head of analytics for an NFL team. But for now, she's got to convince the powers-that-be at her father's new team, the Mastodons, the worst in the NFL, to give her that entry-level position in the front office.

Luca Maguire, 26, a pass rusher and adrenaline junkie with a famous last name, knows this upcoming training camp with his new team, the Mastodons, will likely be his last, if he can't get out of his own way long enough to make the cut. The dire nature of his circumstances is the only reason Luca didn't quit on the spot when Coach Parker assigned his daughter, Chelsea, a statistics-loving, spreadsheet-making math nerd, as Luca's "personal coach" for the duration of camp. More like his babysitter, if you ask Luca.

Well, okay, Luca didn't quit for that reason and another one: the thing that happened seven years ago between Luca and Chelsea as strangers, when Luca's college football team stayed at the same hotel as Chelsea's mathletes squad. Luca would never admit this to Chelsea, especially not with her being Coach's daughter and the newly assigned bane of his existence, but the truth is Luca hasn't stopped thinking about that cute little mathlete who ditched his ass seven years ago, right before their clothes came off, ever since.

Ellenora Morgrave has a problem letting go. When her emotions grow unruly, so does her magic, and the creatures she accidentally raises from the dead refuse to return to the grave. In a kingdom where necromancy exists solely to investigate crimes against the crown, Ella's undead family could spell her end. But when her father is murdered and her stepfamily stands to inherit not just his estate but his post as head necromancer, Ella must turn to investigations of her own.

Prince Silas has a problem hanging on. Over the years, he's gained a bit of a reputation. But as sole heir, he's used to the things he cares about being torn away, including the wild and slightly terrifying girl with a penchant for collecting wounded creatures he fell for in his youth. When his valet dies under suspicious circumstances and the palace guard can't be trusted, he knows just who to turn to.

Together, Ella and Silas dig up a conspiracy, old wounds, and the dead. But setting things right will test the walls they've built to protect themselves, and as Prince Silas realizes he's found something worth holding onto, Ella may be forced to finally let go.

The Sky Will Hold is a meditation on life: life inside a second marriage, life in middle age, life as a stepparent. It's a close look at desire and addiction, at love and loss, at learning how to let go while still holding on to what is necessary. Elizabeth Hazen doesn't back away from sticky topics, we see the inner workings of blended families, parenting a nearly-grown child, and living in an aging body with all the freedoms and pitfalls it can bring. This collection is a mantra of survival and love and continuing to move forward and always, always, believing the sky will hold, even when all signs point to the opposite.

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Elizabeth Hazen's new book is full of wise musings on being in the middle of things. Not least middle age: in the clever "Real Estate for the Blended Family (Or What I Learned from Zillow)" she considers a real-estate ad for a light-filled house with "square/footage enough to hold all our misgivings." Hazen's sensibility has the square footage to hold moments of anxiety and hope, often within the same poem. As she says, "I've tried to learn to want things/ as they are." She has a keen eye-lipsticks in a drawer are "little tubes like shotgun shells"-and a fresh sense of humor: "Yesterday a groundhog waddled across/the yard while I tried to understand/ What to wear now that I'm not young." This is a poet who helps us live with ambiguity, and with the "thickening green/ of passing time."

Mary Jo Salter, author of The Surveyors

Elizabeth Hazen's third collection astutely surveys the embers that have gone quiet, fires burning within, and what a person considers setting newly ablaze. "For years I waited for a sign-directive/or disaster-to dictate what came next, but time//is patient, has nowhere to be," says the speaker of "Woman at Forty-five." Compassionate and wry, the personal narratives of The Sky Will Hold also turn their attention to formal pleasures: expansive gloses, an unforgettable sestina, and a masterclass in shaping stanzas. This book is a powerful, quietly startling interrogation of the midlife landscape.

Sandra Beasley, author of Made to Explode: Poems

Into a world of "edge and threat," Elizabeth Hazen's The Sky Will Hold delivers redeeming loveliness. Grateful attention to life's small magics, such as a pebble offered by a crow and a lover combing his fingers through a horse's mane, suffuse the collection. Love poems in a range of forms-for spouse, children, a dying father-manifest kindness and beauty. Love of self comes hardest, given the masks women feel pressure to wear. Hazen's poetry, however, "makes teeth" instead of falsely smiling, integrating a welter of feelings into a whole more true than sweet, because it is also lovely to claim ourselves "without apology."

Lesley Wheeler, author of Mycocosmic

Elizabeth Hazen's The Sky Will Hold sees straight through to the bone-whether navigating blended family dynamics, middle-age awakenings, or the tender, fraught terrain of mothering a nearly-grown son. Hazen's lines are taut as a held breath, each word carrying weight without excess, each image landing with startling accuracy. Here is a poet who knows how to look-at landscapes, at marriages, at the self-and who trusts her readers enough to show us exactly what she sees. The Sky Will Hold solidifies Hazen as a poet of remarkable formal control and emotional courage, capable of holding contradiction and complexity in perfect, devastating balance. Charlotte Pence, author of Code and Many Small Fires

They threatened his life. They hurt his kid. Can this gifted ER doctor deliver payback without becoming addicted to revenge?

Dr. Zack Winston craves vengeance. A confident emergency physician who holds lives in his hands every day, the loving father struggles to guide his sixteen-year-old daughter through her post-traumatic stress disorder. When a patient attacks him at the ER, his guts tell him the vicious cartel hasn't moved on... and the incident was a planned attempt at murder.

Convinced he's the only one standing between his family and disaster, Zack realizes his single-minded focus is damaging his relationships. But his rage burns hot after an assassin infiltrates his hospital and bullets start flying.

Will he stay on the right side of the law, or will he stray from his oath and mete out bloody justice?

Death Agent is the gritty third book in the Dr. Zack Winston series of medical thrillers. If you like morally gray choices, page-turning twists, and intense fight scenes, then you'll love former emergency physician Mike Krentz's psychological suspense.

Buy Death Agent to overdose on retribution today!

A new collection of poetry from Pushcart Prize and Bram Stoker Award nominated author Maxwell I. Gold!

"Complex and atmospheric... Amongst the unease and sense of foreboding, there is belief in the power of one's heart to prevail." -Booklist, starred review

"Neurotica is filled with stitched words, seamless, that express breathless desolations and scorching devastations..." --Ai Jiang, Bram Stoker and Nebula award-winning author of Linghun

Thirty-two bold new literary poems including "A Stretch of Highway", "A Prelude to Madness", "A Picture of Dead Stars in the Sky", and more paint a modern, interpersonal portrait of the Jewish poet.

Neurotica features an introduction from Bram Stoker Award winner John Langan (The Fisherman).

Contains Two "A Rip Through Time" Novellas

Cocktails & Chloroform

For modern-day detective Mallory Atkinson, being trapped in the body of a Victorian housemaid means overcoming endless obstacles. Her current challenge is winning over the suspicious young parlormaid, Alice. Mallory's plan starts with teaching the girl to make Molotov cocktails, which is a perfectly valid science experiment and not at all a desperate ploy to gain Alice's attention. Before the lesson can begin, though, Alice receives a letter that has her slipping off in the night. Concerned for her safety-and naturally curious-Mallory follows.

Mallory finds Alice at what seems like a simple dance hall, watching young men and women flirting and whirling in pretty dresses and dapper suit-coats. But nothing here is what it seems, and what starts as a simple surveillance exercise turns into a full-scale spy mission with Mallory's boss, Dr. Duncan Gray, at her side. Before the evening is done, those Molotov cocktails are probably going to come in handy.

Set between "A Poisoner's Ring" and "Disturbing the Dead"

Schemes & Scandals

It's Mallory Atkinson's first Christmas in Scotland. Victorian Scotland, that is. Also, as the twenty-first-century detective learns, Christmas really isn't a thing in Victorian Scotland. It's all about Hogmanay. But her boss, Dr. Duncan Gray, treats her to an early gift of tickets to the event of the season: a Charles Dickens reading. There, they bump into Lady Inglis-the lovely widow who has sent Gray sexy letters trying to entice him back to her bed.

Lady Inglis introduces Mallory to Dickens-the meeting of a lifetime-but in return she wants their help. She's being blackmailed. Someone stole letters she wrote to another lover and is threatening to publish them.

Mallory isn't sure what to make of Lady Inglis, but no woman deserves that, so she insists on taking the case with or without Gray's help. Growing tension between them soon tells Mallory that Gray is hiding a secret of his own. She has until Hogmanay to uncover the blackmailer...and, hopefully, to put things right with Gray so they can enjoy the holiday together.

Set between "Disturbing the Dead" and "Death at a Highland Wedding"

Though strikingly debonair and quick to win the admiration of nearly everyone he encounters, Kohei Sugihara has led a gloomy and withdrawn existence ever since he developed severe hearing loss in junior high. But in college, a chance encounter with his ever optimistic classmate Taichi Sagawa ignites an undeniable shared spark that eventually blossoms into love. Kohei's final months in college now overlap with an early-start program at his future workplace, and Taichi is juggling more and more professional responsibilities of his own. The pair struggle to find time together, and Taichi's birthday is fast approaching... Don't just jump in--experience the journey that's captured readers from the very beginning. Catch up on the series and discover why it's impossible to put down. Explore these must-read titles: I Hear the Sunspot I Hear the Sunspot: Theory of Happiness I Hear the Sunspot: Limit Volume 1 I Hear the Sunspot: Limit Volume 2 I Hear the Sunspot: Limit Volume 3 I Hear the Sunspot: Four Seasons Volume 1 I Hear the Sunspot: Four Seasons Volume 2 I Hear the Sunspot: Four Seasons Volume 3

Another delicious installment in the Bakeshop Series set in Ashland, OR!

As autumn settles over the charming hamlet of Ashland, Oregon, ushering in cool, crisp breezes and a stunning show of color, everyone at Torte is keeping warm by whipping up a bevy of fall treats and spicy lattes. Jules is nearing her due date, and the whole town is abuzz--placing bets on when the twins will make their grand debut. Helen and the team are working on a secret surprise baby shower, complete with cupcakes, cookies, and a feast fit for royalty, or maybe just a mother-to-be.

Meanwhile, Lance and Arlo are busy planning their nuptials in what is sure to be as close to a royal wedding as Ashland has ever seen. But when the high-end wedding planner they hired is found dead in the frigid waters of Ashland Creek, what looks like a tragic accident, a slip on an icy bridge, quickly reveals itself as something much more sinister. Jules knows at once--this was no mishap. A killer is loose in Ashland, and they may be ready to strike again.

He may be the guide, but she's the one taking them to the finish line in this Brittany Runs a Marathon meets Wild Hearts Can't be Broken contemporary romance.

Nearing thirty, Jensen Larsen still hasn't hit her stride. The visually impaired assistant disability coordinator never chases what she wants. Jobs. Friendships. Love. Faced with another romantic disappointment, she's ready to run toward what she wants, just like her brother. The year they turn thirty, men from her family run a marathon and find the love of their lives.

There are a few obstacles in her way; Jensen hates running, and her idea of a marathon is binging Bridgerton. Trust issues from past relationships continue to make it difficult for her, as a blind woman, to find a guide runner she trusts. Enter her brother's best friend, Dr. Garrett Marlowe.

For the last five years, Garrett has only worried about himself. Outside of being a reluctant cat dad, Garrett isn't looking for emotional attachments. Until the woman who both vexes him and makes him smile needs help.

It may not just be Jensen's stride that Garrett, the experienced marathon runner, is helping find. As Jensen deals with her trust issues, Garrett faces the pain of the tragic event that led him to seal off his heart. With each running session, Jensen and Garrett must learn to trust each other and themselves.

But marathon training, just like life, is a mental game, and the obstacles they face may trip them up before they even reach the starting line.

At fourteen years old, Derrick Broze was secretly cutting himself and battling the demon of self-hatred. Within a couple of years, the attacks on his body progressed into abusing his mind with an abundance of drugs and alcohol. On this self-destructive path, he was also doing damage to nearly every young woman he encountered in an attempt to find true love.

After spending the better part of his first two decades of life drowning in depression and desperately desiring to connect with his drug-addicted, imprisoned, and mostly absent dad, Derrick found himself being pulled into the same world of drug dealing and criminal activity that had ensnared his father.

Before he knew it, he was hooked on crystal meth, cocaine, and Xanax-and indebted to a local drug kingpin. As he attempted to navigate the drug business and a maze of lustful relationships, he began to realize that he was not finding happiness in his drug-fueled, chaotic mess of a life.

Soon enough, he would find himself arrested and continuing the "family tradition" of spending time behind bars. It was in this space of losing his freedom that he began his journey towards healing his trauma, understanding his mental health struggles, and uncovering his spiritual path.

This is Derrick's story of learning to love himself, forgive his father, and discover his purpose. Follow the ups and downs of his journey as he struggles to become a man of his word.

A new path...

After Ena's bold decision to join Ty in the Underworld, she must navigate her status as the only witch in a society of daemons. Charged with posing as his witch-slave for her own safety, she learns to embrace her dark side, all while grappling with the guilt of her decision to leave her sister and Coven behind.

A growing love...

After waiting for nine years, Ty finally has what he's always wanted-Ena. As their trust and bond grows, Ty must grapple with his many conflicting responsibilities to his people, to Ena, and to himself. Can he have everything he wants or is hope for the future only a delusion?

An unknown future...

As Ena and Ty work together with daemon and witch allies alike, they must find a way to break the bond to Iblis, setting right that which the witches broke centuries ago. But as they uncover more about the amulet, the ritual, and the very Gods they worship, they find that everything is not as simple as it once seemed. Together, can they forge a new future, for their peoples and themselves, or will their differences forever keep them apart?

The Unknown Daemon is the second book in the Omnis series, a spicy dark romantasy series based on Greek mythology with forbidden romance and unique magical cultures. It is perfect for fans of From Blood & Ash, Lady of Darkness, and the Broken Kingdoms series!

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