The Nutcracker is back—but so is the Mouse King, and now she must choose between them...No one believes Marie’s story about her magical journey with the Nutcracker Prince. She’s even started to doubt it herself.But then her brother Fritz brings his fellow cavalrymen home for the family’s annual Christmas party—and one of them demands she return the Mouse King’s seven crowns to him. The Nutcracker finally reappears, and the familiar battle lines are drawn, b...

Passion. Betrayal. Highway Robbery.When a highwayman’s ransom wipes out her savings, Jenny Blair no longer has the funds to get her sister away from an abusive marriage. What’s a girl to do in a world where men take the money and drink it away?Catch the highwayman herself, of course, and earn the reward money for turning him in.But the highwayman is nothing like Jenny expects. Not only does the silver-tongued rogue have the favor of the fai...

Worcester, Massachusetts, 1897. Regina Prince needs money. Without an investor to get her father's bicycle motor company up and running, she and her younger sisters will soon be going without food, let alone the fripperies of fashion. The only financier to return her letters is a man she's sure she hates—which means she has no hesitation about blackmailing him.Walter Ellis needs to find a worthwhile investment opportunity before his father demotes him to a mail clerk, or w...

When the winds bring her unsettling news from the emperor’s war, Marie leaves home once again to find Dietrich Lang. This time, she’s going to make sure they can stay together, even if it means dragging generals into dreams and facing the emperor himself. But even when you can fly and move between worlds, it’s not so simple to turn armies aside and catch kings—especially when the dream world still has unrevealed secrets…Curse and Crown is the magical and action-packed conc...

Anyone but the earl will do. Or so she thought…Octavia Sewell appears to have it all. But none of her material things matter if she lacks the freedom to make her own choices. Unfortunately, she has no idea what she wants. All she’s sure of is that she’ll do anything to escape the horrible earl her mother insists she marry…even if it means compromising herself with her brother’s handsome best friend…W. Clifton is always ready to rescue a damsel in d...

New York, 1897. The study of insects has been Cecilia Downing’s lifelong passion, but when both her professional and domestic hopes are dashed, she finds herself wondering if she is an entomologist—or merely an entomologist’s discarded mistress? Cecilia retreats to her family’s home in the Hudson Valley to rest, regroup, and maybe research ant species, only to find that her uncle has hired her childhood friend to redesign the estate grounds.Daniel Carter hasn’t seen Cecili...

Once, Tarcienne was united under the rule of the Rose Queen. But that was before the Rift. Before the magic disappeared...Orphaned Calixta has spent her entire life as an indentured servant to the heartless Countess of Vauvillers. After she discovers her mother's journal and a few seeds inside, she takes the chance to plant them, hoping for a connection to her long-lost parent. When they instantly grow into a forty foot tall weeping willow, she gets more t...

Love and money clash in the hilarious world of cotton magnate Jasper Plum. His two sons chase after very different dreams. Stephen, a level-headed fellow, sets his heart on a kind factory worker, Martha. But will her honest ways win over his status-obsessed father? Meanwhile, Frederick falls for the glamorous Lady Valeria. Is she truly smitten, or after the Plum fortune? Dashing Sir Arthur Lassell complicates matters further, vying for the attention of both beauties. Find out if love conqu...

This anthology is the essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. In this, the eighth installment of the series, the anthology continues its commitment to uncovering the best prose writing happening across the continent from Ireland to Eastern Europe. Also featuring an erudite prefatory essay written by Eileen Battersby of the Irish Times, Best European Fiction 2017 is another essential report on the state of glo...

An inspiring story of unarmed civilians of all ages who took on the Gestapo, the SS, and the Wehrmacht—and outwitted them at least 20,000 times.Code Name: Zegota: Rescuing Jews in Occupied Poland, 1942-1945: The Most Dangerous Conspiracy in Wartime Europe tells the story of the only secret organization in occupied Europe set up for the sole purpose of saving Jews. The first book on the subject in English, it details the danger and complexity behind Zegota ...

The Prince and the Pauper gets a modern makeover in this adorable, witty, and heartwarming young adult novel set in the Geekerella universe by national bestselling author Ashley Poston.Imogen Lovelace is an ordinary fangirl on an impossible mission: save her favorite character, Princess Amara, from being killed off from her favorite franchise, Starfield*.* The problem is, Jessica Stone, the actress who plays Princess Amara, wants nothing more than...

IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.“No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful.”—School Library Journal, StarredA Book Sense Top Ten PickA Publisher’s Weekly Choice of the Year’s Best BooksA