A girl with a mission. A god with a deal. A story that could change everything. When 17-year-old Akoma Addo stumbles into a world of ancient gods and modern magic, she'll have to choose between saving her father... or staying true to everything…
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- Ever since Mira Kyler helped her half-brother Luc cheat his way into the role of Virdei's leader, she's used her lie-powered magic to blackmail members of court. Kaidren Vale has magic that can detect the nature of someone else's power with a single…
- (First book in series) When Bee and her group of fellow runaways meets a Lost Boy who takes them to Neverland, they discover that the land is actually a war zone under seige by pirates who will stop at nothing to steal the land's magic, and Bee and…
- (First book in series) Hana Ozawa is the newest face at the Gourmand Academy of Culinary Combat, a school that will teach her how to fight monsters AND how to turn them into delicious meals. Hana is a natural, but so are her classmates, and she…
- Harper grew up loving her grandma Gigi's stories about pretty brown girls with magic from the stars, but they were just that--stories...until Gigi's sudden death awakens a dangerous power building beneath Harper's skin. Desperate for answers, Harper…
- (First book in series) While investigating her brother's mysterious disappearance, eighteen-year-old August teams up with a shapeshifting boy to infiltrate a secret society of monsters and those who control them.
- Destined to duel to the death to uphold a centuries-old curse, Emma and Malcolm, two teens from rival magical families, defy fate when they fall in love and scheme to end the witch's hold over their families.
- In the first book of a new series inspired by African mythology, dragon gods rule the earth and sky—until the gods are betrayed, and one girl embarks on a journey to save the world from war and ruin.
- Every year horror-loving Simone Washington throws an epic Halloween party for her classmates. Party-planning is her favorite escape from the dark secrets in her past, and this year, she's taking things up a notch with an invitation-only event to…
- (First book in series) In 1926 Jazz Age Harlem, where reapers, once-human vampires with a terrifying affliction, stalk the streets, 18-year-old Elise Saint, heir to her family's reaper-hunting business, reunites with a friend-turned-enemy to…
- Evan Wilde, a Black girl who writes contracts on behalf of wealthier folks who exchange some of their life for minor deals with devils, enlists a devil’s help to bring vengeance upon the magical ruling class.
- (First book in series) Nineteen-year-old orphan Kidan Adane, heiress to a fallen House of humans tethered to vampiric creatures called draniacs, navigates her duty to foster human-draniac relations, but when her sister is kidnapped, Kidan suspects a…
- Alex Wilson hasn't been back to Indigo Harbor, the seaside village where she grew up, in years. In fact, she can barely remember anything about it. But when her grandmother dies unexpectedly, Alex will have to return to her childhood home to say…
- Told through three perspectives and timelines, Reggie and Maeve are tasked with a history assignment about the rise and fall of a pirate Republic from their island home, uncovering long-forgotten legends and discovering that magic may be closer than…
- (First book in series) After she saves a man from drowning, Haley wakes up in a pocket universe that appears as a gothic estate and helps three brothers whose job it is to protect her world against a penultimate evil.
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