Bestselling author Melissa Ferguson invites you to curl up by the fire with two delightfully cozy holiday novellas that will fill your heart with festive joy.Dashing Through the SnowLeft heartbroken on the eve of a romantic getaway, Willow embarks solo on The Christmas Express--a two-week train ride full of sparkling lights, whimsical surprises, and unexpected connections. With the help of a charmingly grumpy conductor, a mischievous elf, and a glo...

Thousands of years ago, the Celestial Kingdom fought the Daemo of the Underworld for mastery over the world called Terra and won, unleashing such powerful spells that Terra itself became a virtual mana node. But now, Terra is healing, and with the mana the Celestials depend on drying up, they are growing desperate. In the Eastern Empire, whose Celestials have allied with the Daemo, a gladiator named Amazonia is given her freedom in exchange for becoming a Reaver Knight who must find a way ...

10,000 years ago, when a planet-killer asteroid threatened to destroy their world, the organic robotic servants of a race known as the Ancient Children, uploaded the consciousness of their creator species into their ships and set off to find a new home. Upon finding Earth and conducting experiments on abducted humans, the Servants decided human females to be a compatible species to their creators, while males were deemed irrelevant. Yet, the Ancient Children found males fascinating if frig...

An old friend has sent you a book he swears is true, about a young man born under a curse to become the avatar of an eldritch god, who will destroy mankind's civilization and slay its people. When cultists attempt to kidnap Jonathan Goldspear, he is forced to leave his comfortable Victorian life behind and join an expedition to last untamed land in the world. There, he will encounter eldritch horrors and betrayals, deep and bitter, yet also unexpected love and adventure, as he fights both ...

In War Chess, a person playing a piece cannot just take another piece as in normal chess but must fight to take possession of the square, with the knights, rooks, bishops, and especially the King's Champion piece, all superior to the pawns. Yet occasionally, a pawn will unexpectedly defeat a far greater piece and upend all the carefully laid strategies of those playing the game.Jonathan Goldspear and Myste Bannon want nothing more than a normal life together. But when the Scottish ...

Truly, it is a terrible thing to be the Chosen OneWhen Myste is abducted by Edward Frankenstein and Professor Eaton-Young, she must once again call upon Practical Girl's help to save herself. But the Lord of the Night has plans for her and Jon as well, who is told to wait and become a member of the Explorer's Club or risk her death. Myste, in turn, must use both Terramagica and Aethyr to fulfill his goals, then find a way to balance her affinities for magic or risk madness...

With the engagement of Jonathan and Myste finally settled, they are ready to begin their new life together, traveling to Londinium upon the newest and safest airship of the day, the Zephyr. But neither Xavier Redstone nor Henrietta Eaton-Young have forgotton Jon. Bombs have been planted somewhere in the airship, and unless Saul Sherlock and Jack Watson can decipher the clues, this flight of the Zephyr will be its last.

An unexpected treasure. A treacherous journey. A thrilling adventure that will shape her future.Jane lives on an island of trash. And even though she has to scavenge garbage and deal with sinister robots, she still loves her home. It’s all she’s ever experienced, from her most cherished memories to her foggy past that she can’t quite remember.But when a doll shows up in the latest batch of garbage, everything changes. Unlike the rest of the junk, the doll i...

A rebel pixie princess. A deadly competition between five faerie clans. Will she win the crown or die trying?Pixie pirate Quinn may be an outlaw, wanted by all five faerie clans, but she prefers it that way. All she wants is to finally become a captain and bury her true identity beneath the rolling waves. But when the sudden death of her twin brother causes her to plot a vengeful heist, a shocking betrayal unmasks her for who she really is—her people’s last livin...

When Zahra Mandel is given an ultimatum by her mother, she has no choice but to throw herself completely into the sport she’s grown up in, even as the unexplainable pain she lives with grows worse. If she doesn’t get recruited at the North American Cup, she has to quit competitive fencing.Her situation goes from bad to unbearable when Trid Chang, the boy who stole her gold medal at the last tournament, becomes her new assistant coach. Suddenly, Zahra’s forced to train under the one ...

A heartwarming adventure for kids ages 8-12 with a missing dog, a determined girl, a pink-haired aunt, and themes of faith and friendship.Twelve-year-old Kimmy trusts dogs more than people.After all, her dog Bo never made fun of her for having one hand. But two years ago, Bo disappeared.When Kimmy stumbles across a magazine photo of a dog in upstate New York that looks just like Bo, she knows she has to find him. Her parents seem oddly unsupportive,...

Prequel to the Elioud Legacy seriesSix months ago, Olivia Markham testified in the grueling murder trial of her cousin Emily’s killer. When her boyfriend Jamie surprises Olivia with a trip to Ibiza, party island of the world, her family and friends urge her to go. After all, Emily had been her best friend, the one she’d planned to room with at Brown University her freshman year.Olivia gets her chance to let loose—only not in the way anyone could foresee.