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Known as a harbinger of bad omens and blamed for Demons eating her family, Reia is shunned by her entire village. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice—be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster.

Some women rise from their ashes, Aria tends to be the one making the ashes nowadays. Aria’s world is unraveling into utterly, beautiful chaos. Will she become the savior the Nine Realms need, or will she become the monster they’ve made? Are you brave enough to enter the Nine Realms? There’s a queen rising, and in chaos, she’ll reign.

All I wanted was a date to accompany me to dinner with my parents. A decoy to distract my mother from her ongoing mission to find me a husband. What started out as another awkward dinner ended with us being run off the road. Turns out my pretend boyfriend isn't who I thought he was. He isn’t even the man I was supposed to hire. And he has secrets that might just save us from the nightmare unfolding around me.

I’m Everly Abbott, and I work for one of the most dangerous vampires in the world. He’s known as Alexius, the Hunter and he’s also one of the oldest. We’ve been invited to a gathering of ancients like him, and we can’t pass on this opportunity. We’re hoping to gather information, anything that might draw us closer to the group behind Jacob’s murder, the events in Alaska, and the threatening email I received. However, we’re not the only ones attending with our own agenda.

Ten years ago, I fell in love. The pop princess and the rock star. On paper, we should never have worked. In public, she was a sweet girl-next-door bubble-gum pop singer. But when we were together, her passion matched mine. I was ready to make her mine forever, and then she told me it was over.

I was human, just like my parents. And when I turned eighteen, I decided to work for the vampires after college, too. We had worked for their nest for over five generations, and I wanted to continue that tradition. But then, the master of the nest died. The new master of the nest is not so kind or good at the job. We need help. I need help. The new master is letting the vampires get out of control. I’m Everly Abbott, and I need a solution to this before more people get killed. But, the solution might be more dangerous than the problem.

She thought she could just leave her trouble behind. She was wrong. Sersha is relieved to be able to leave Landsfall. Her people aren't safe as long as she stays, and her future lies with Kazmerev now. But when her cousin, Mally, makes a series of headstrong decisions, it plunges Sersha and her friends into trouble they can't easily escape. Getting free will push her ethics, her abilities, and her newfound friendship with her beloved phoenix. Will she have what it takes to keep her people safe?

My throat is always on fire. My mouth is always dry. The only thing that helps? Human blood. As much as vampires need it, it is also our curse. Blood can drive us mad if we’re not careful. That madness breeds a wickedness as the need for blood reigns supreme. We revel in it, desiring the power and vitality it gives us. When we drain someone, we get high; it’s a rush that some vampires love to chase once they cross that line. Vampires will do anything to get it and there’s nothing that will stop them from killing hundreds.

Taliesin Throckmartin killed her family on her wedding day. She remembers everything. Her own two hands ripping them apart. The screams. The shocked, blood-spattered face of her fiancé. The only thing she doesn’t know is...why? Her fiancé commits her to the Broadmoor Asylum, where she will be forced to live out the rest of her days on medication that stunts her magical abilities. Enter the wild and likely insane Louis Blou, a man who claims to be the last of an extinct clan of shapeshifters. Refusing to let Taliesin waste away, Louis orchestrates their escape.

Rescued unexpectedly by allies and stuck in a foreign land, Sersha, Kazmerev, and Judicus must face the fact that nothing is what it seems and all their efforts have only played into the hands of their enemies. But the darkest times are not the time to give up hope, and together, they must choose to face the darkness and embrace a plan that could lead to their deaths.

Disabled and rejected in her community, Sersha has never had a best friend. Until one day, a phoenix enters her world, tied to her heart in a way no one can break. Now, this great fiery beast has adopted her as his best friend and he wants to take her away from the world she’s known until now. But Sersha’s village is in trouble and unless she can learn to work with her phoenix friend right now, they might both lose the future they were counting on. Will Sersha’s big heart be enough to forge a bond between them?

Disabled and rejected in her community, Sersha has never had a best friend. Until one day, a phoenix enters her world, tied to her heart in a way no one can break. Now, this great fiery beast has adopted her as his best friend and he wants to take her away from the world she’s known until now. But Sersha’s village is in trouble, and unless she can learn to work with her phoenix friend right now, they might both lose the future they were counting on.

Fleeing invaders and desperate to fulfill the prophecy in time to help the ai'sletta, Sersha, Judicus, and Kazmerev must dig deeper than ever before in their quest to save the phoenixes and all of Calicarn from the predations of the Stryxex and those who ally with them. But Sersha is starting to wonder if the prophecies are what they seem when events twist in ways she'd never expected.

Caught in the middle of a coup attempt, a vicious war on phoenixes, and a curse brought down on them by an ancient octopus religion, Sersha and Kazmerev must dig deep to find ways to save their friends and their world. But when they are pushed to the very limits both physically and in their friendship, will they have what it takes to keep on fighting for hope, or will they fall into despair?

With their enemies arrayed before them more dangerous and powerful than ever, Sersha and Kazmerev find themselves forced to ally with those who might not have their same goals at heart - and might actually want their destruction. But, in a world of kings and subterfuge, secret war and coup attempts, they are determined to do what they set out to do - save the ai'sletta and defend phoenixes everywhere.

Cut off from her phoenix by an endless dawn and captured by enemies, Sersha is about to learn who really cares about her and about saving their world. The Flamerarch who threatened her in Briccatore are just as trapped as she is, the ai'sletta and her other friends have left without her, and now even her phoenix is unreachable. Hope is dwindling in all of Briccatore, but maybe there is still a reason to persevere.

What can a phoenix rider do when her phoenix is missing? Alone in Briccatore with an untrustworthy ally and no phoenix available, Sersha is in over her head. The sun is stuck in the sky and until night falls again, she is on her own. Can new friends, new puzzles, and the return of unexpected allies be enough to help her realize the last wish of a dying man?

Frustrated at every turn, Sersha and Judicus are determined not to give up - especially not now that they hold a vital clue to the intentions of their enemies. But when someone new appears in their path - someone who claims to have a reason to stay near Sersha - neither of them are sure if they should trust him. Worse, Kazmerev doesn't agree. Can Sersha and Kazmerev survive their first fight and decide together on who to trust?

With the pain of loss still fresh in their minds, Sersha and Kazmerev flee the elven underworld with all that remains of their new allies. But even with enemies all around, Sersha's heart is consumed by Judicus and the puzzle of how to bring him back. For lovers of Dragon School, Crown of Feathers, Dragon Riders of Pern, and Howl’s Moving Castle comes the third season of the phoenix-rider serial novella series from USA Today best-selling author, Sarah K. L. Wilson, sure to fill you with the love of adventure and bright hope.

Trapped in Occulus' Tower without their phoenixes to help, Mally and Sersha must face the biggest crisis of conscience yet as they see how far they're willing to go to fight the Stryxex and their other enemies for the future of phoenixes everywhere. For lovers of Dragon School, Crown of Feathers, Dragon Riders of Pern, and Howl’s Moving Castle comes the third season of the phoenix-rider serial novella series from USA Today best-selling author, Sarah K. L. Wilson, sure to fill you with the love of adventure and bright hope.