Lux has spent lifetimes running toward danger. It was easier that way. If someone needed saving, she knew exactly who she was. If there was a fire, a monster, or an impossible choice waiting somewhere in the dark, she'd find it. Staying still has always been harder than walking into the flames.Pan has spent just as long pretending he didn't want anything to stay.These days, though, he's growing apples instead of trouble. Building stone walls instead of knocking them down. T...

She was shot on camera. Her body disappeared from the morgue.Chloe has watched the security footage. She has seen her best friend walk into a dark alley, get shot.Mandy’s body is gone.The police have no explanation. Chloe is expected to grieve, accept what happened, and move on. But something inside her refuses to believe in injustice.And Chloe is determined to find out why.Her search leads her back to Mandy’s last case, a cold investigation involvin...

One of This Year's Hottest New YA Series — GoodreadsWhen the world doesn't wantyou to be who you are,you must become more yourselfthan you knew you could be.London. 1789. More than anything in the world, Wendy Darling wants to be the captain of a ship, but women aren't allowed in the Royal Navy. When she learns the Home Office is accepting a handful of women into its ranks, she jumps at the chance, joini...

Enter the dark side of romance that New York Times bestselling author Penelope Sky does oh so well. Captured by her brother's enemy, London becomes a pawn in Crewe's game. But the pair can't deny the sizzling hot attraction between them. Get ready for your next obsession!Joseph Ingram made the mistake of stealing from me—four million dollars. He took my intelligence without paying for it. And thought he could get away with it.Think again.Now I'll ta...

It's Halloween. Time for witches and ghouls and… a sacrifice.Trapped in the human realm, Aidian d'Alamine is cursed with an ordinary life. But he's a fairy and a demon, and ordinary is… well, for ordinary people. His only way out is to find his way through the veil and go back to pitting demons against fairies in a war that will see him ruler of the realms. At least, that's the dream. In the meantime, he'll distract himself with the demonologist Orion Ston...

From the corporate battlegrounds of Marvel to the cutting-edge worlds of Heavy Metal Illustrated, Joshua Sky has spent his career writing for some of the most iconic genre brands. Now, for the first time, Nervous system brings together 16 original stories by the award-winning author.This definitive collection includes several never-before-published works exploring the concept of forever, the grit of the human spirit, and the eternal value of family. Featuring a special introduction...

I wasn't sure what changed my mind about giving London to Bones, but something did.Now London is officially mine. She's sassy, feisty, and she still tells me off when I have her under my thumb.I love it.Now I have a deal with the Barsetti brothers, Josephine is still pining for me, and revenge is heavy on my mind. I'm not sure what to do with London now that I've decided not to kill her.But I'm certainly not going to fall in love with her.

Let me tell you a secret: skateboarding is magic. I don't mean you have to be a magician to do it. In fact, anyone can skateboard. I'm going to show you exactly how I do it, why I do it and what I love most about it. So come with me... Learn how Sky Brown, the youngest person to win a medal in skateboarding at the Olympics, fell in love with the sport. Then, she'll share how to skateboard - from flip tricks and grab tricks to air tricks and slide tricks - and offers insider tips and sage a...

Noise is one of the most ordinary conflicts of modern life. It enters homes through roads, walls, windows, ceilings, gardens, flight paths, nightlife streets, construction sites, public events, bells, fireworks, and the daily routines of neighbours. What one person hears as celebration, tradition, transport, business, play, or progress may be experienced by another as lost sleep, stress, fear, intrusion, or the slow erosion of peace.The Noise Around Us: Traffic, Neighbours,...

Changing career in adulthood can feel frightening because it seems to threaten everything already built: income, identity, confidence, routine, and security. Yet most adults who change direction are not starting from zero. They carry years of experience, judgement, discipline, responsibility, people skills, problem-solving, and resilience into the next stage of working life.The Career Change Manual: How Ordinary Adults Start Again Without Starting from Zero is a pr...

Loneliness has become one of the defining quiet struggles of modern life. It can exist in crowded cities, busy workplaces, active online spaces, marriages, families, classrooms, care homes, and homes filled with noise. It is not simply a private sadness or a personal failure. It is shaped by the way people now work, move, live, age, communicate, care, and search for belonging.The Loneliness Age: Friendship, Work, Cities, and the Search for Belonging explores how mo...

Forensic science transformed justice by changing what could be known, tested, challenged, and proven. Forensics Changed Everything tells the fact-based history of the sciences that moved criminal investigation beyond confession, reputation, eyewitness memory, and suspicion, and toward physical evidence that could survive time.From early autopsies and poison detection to fingerprints, blood testing, ballistics, trace evidence, forensic laboratories, DNA profiling, cold case...