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"A mind-bending thriller with spiritual stakes...unexpected twists...mind-blowing revelations...and thought-provoking conflicts that challenge everything readers think they know." - Reader View ...
Emergence Featured
★★★★★ “Stayed up until 2 AM on a work night … you’ve been warned.”
Eight heroes. Two galaxies. One epic mystery.
Matthai Valtrellin, reluctant heir to a galactic dynasty, never questioned his role—until a mysterious woman appears, heralding imposs ...
The first book to the spiritual fantasy series - The Path of None - The Curse - a One-of-a-kind 284-page horror graphic novel filled with stunning vivid dark imagery - is A.G.ZoderoT’s spiritual grimdark fantasy horror masterpiece set a sinister fantasy world as we know it Not, and serves as an orig ...
HOLOGRAM Featured
Holographer David Leone has just turned forty, and he's been enjoying spicy memories of his first love, Lucille Muhr, who's now a famous actress. When the ghost image of a young girl shows up in a holographic portrait of a bride and groom, David sets out to invent a device to pre-screen space for h ...
Death's Head Featured
As the war in Europe winds down, a unit of battle-fatigued GIs are tasked in liberating the survivors of the infamous Verurteilt concentration camp, in theory a relatively simple rescue mission. Upon arrival, Sergeant Rance Hawkins and his four young charges are ordered to search an unmapped area be ...
Nowhere Too Far Featured
Over fifty years ago, Dr. Fred Carlson told the world that the possibility existed the Earth could be impacted by a pair of asteroids sometime in the future which may cause the complete destruction of all life on Earth. His warning was disputed and soon forgotten by all except a small group of pe ...
Wicked Tongue Featured
A typical night of partying leaves Daniel Blair with far more than a hangover. His myraid of strange symptoms defy explanation, as does the blood on his pillow. And something is very wrong with his tongue.
Afraid he contracted a terrible unknown illness, Daniel seeks help. But hi ...
In space, the screaming never stops.
From derelict ships haunted by madness to alien planets steeped in dread, this chilling anthology of space horror and sci-fi terror takes you on a journey into the deepest, darkest reaches of the cos ...
Hunter's Moon Featured
International bestselling author James Byron Huggins returns with the sequel to his novel Hunter, delivering a story of primal terror, relentless pursuit, and ultimate confrontation.
A brilliant but twisted Army scientist has done the unthinkable. He has become the beast, an ancient, preh ...
Sacrifice Featured
When high-status Trueborn Rajiv is attacked by a giant bhimkay spider, his rescuer, Leyta, becomes his captor. Can Rajiv learn to see the enslaved escapee Leyta as more than a non-human Tankborn? Or will he seize his chance to recapture her, knowing the gene-splicers will wipe away her brain and ...
Earth Peregrination Series Book 1 Featured
Destructive earthquakes and time-traveling portals created by massive storms take our heroes and heroines to beautiful, exotic, strange, and dangerous places. Everyday people thrown into a warrior lifestyle they never expected and didn't ask for; all while fighting demonic forces at every turn. T ...
Unbound by Shadowspire Featured
Secrets are a game to Myrna’s family. If only she were a player and not a pawn.
Myrna found a way out from under her family’s thumb via her dream job, but it’s more than it seems. Here, the ground vibrates with a power that fe ...
Plunged, First Chapter Free! Featured
A Navy SEAL. A cloaking experiment gone wrong. A battle beyond reality. Will his faith be enough?
The Matrix meets The Chosen in Plunged, a high-octane Christian sci-fi thriller of explosive action and soul-stirring faith.
When Navy SEAL Jacob Carter is forced into a top-secret ex ...
The Road to the Stars Featured
Get ready for an electrifying odyssey across the cosmos in Adam Gaffen's "The Road to the Stars," where Kendra Cassidy emerges as the unstoppable force propelling humanity into the galactic unknown, no matter what obstacles stand in her way! Amidst a world on the brink of resource catastrophe, Ke ...
Children of Alpheios Featured
A 2023 Firebird Book Award Winner & Five-Star Reader's Favorite: A genetically engineered colony on a new world. A baby born different than everyone else. A mother who will do anything to save him. On planet Eamine, twenty-one-year-old Alina must protect her baby when Mandin is born with a ...
A story of self-discovery, fortune, and fate
An unexpected adventure leads to peril, betrayal, love, and family. Where will your choices find you?
A time-traveling tale of swashbuckling battles, ...
From the Mind of a Witch Featured
When ex-FBI agent Rebecca Marte considered the possible challenges of her new career as a private investigator, she never thought one of them would be to investigate a witch charged with killing a man during a coven ritual. The job should be easy as six icons of the St. Louis business community, the ...
The Girl Who Broke the Dark Featured
Sometimes, breaking the curse is only the beginning…
Princess Eliana of Ymittos has long anticipated the day she gets to make the rules — and use her magic without fear of penalty. But until she ascends the throne, Eliana’s days are devoted to practicing diplomacy on i ...
A warrior fighting his destiny. A woman desperately seeking hers. And a magic portal that joins them both. Dál Cruinne is a world of warriors and mages, clan kings and sages. Asleep since the Dragon Wars of millennia past, the beasts have now awoken. Arlan, warrior son of the High King of the Sovere ...
Necrosis Featured
Amidst the chaos and fear of an apocalyptic virus, a mother fights to protect her daughter from the rotting remains of society. Navigating a frightening new world where survival is paramount and trust is a gamble, infection is only a misstep away. Despite her doubts and imperfections, Amy’s love and ...
Harper Brinley is running for her life. After escaping from a government holding facility where she, along with other scientists, were being forced to build a deadly weapon, she headed for the most remote place she could think of, the wild Xantifal Mountains. The one place where no one would think t ...
Princess of Wind and Sea Featured
In 1773, the prince and princess travel across the globe on a series of secret missions, and run into unexpected danger. Aisling's magical abilities are increasing, but dark forces who seek to destroy her powers are hunting them. The prince must protect her at all costs, as they fight for survival a ...
She Reigns Featured
The fulfillment of the prophecy is at hand. To claim the crown and restore peace, Attina must first defeat the tyrant king. But victory won't come easy. Known to be the most powerful of the Fae, King Henrik would sooner burn his kingdom to the ground than relinquish his throne. More than ever, ...
The Matriarch Messiah Featured
Kilty As Hell Featured
"This series is getting better and better." - Amazon Reviewer
Catriona is having a strange year. First, she found a dazed Highlander on the Hollywood studio lot where she works as a fixer and now it seems she and that big hunk of haggis are supposed to save the world from corrupted t ...
The Last Dog Featured
The Last Dog is an award-winning dystopian drama set in 2086 (2 books in the series). It received a Readers Favorite award in 2018, and won the Book Excellence Award in 2017. After the Unified World Pact of 2045, people lived in a state of peace and prosperity previously unknown in human history. Th ...
Heritage Mountain Featured
Adventure, romance, and a touch of mystery unfold in a world where the mystical and the actual coexist. Set in the majestic Adirondack mountains, when Marco Cason leads an expedition to explore the history of the mountain wildernes ...
High school mean-girl drama is bad enough, and having an overprotective magical car only makes it worse. Samantha wishes she’d followed her grandfather’s rules about not getting the car ...
Werewolves, Vamps, and Thieves!
Joe Mack and his friends head to Pittsburgh to deal with a surge of disappearances, all people with psychic abilities going missing under highly questionable supernatural circumstances. That’s enough to keep anyone hopping, but Joe can’t ignore the feeling that th ...
Three Deadly Shorts & A Poem Featured
Three Short Stories of Love and Loathing, And A Poem of Infinite Consequences Final Day With only minutes from conversion, Alana must convince her loving husband Michael that change is imminent and that he is a crucial part of her metamorphosis. But something goes wrong! Alana’s inept attempt at a e ...
The Dark Age. The Earth has turned on humanity with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and a new plague that kills the Roman Emperor himself. Barbarian invasions shatter civilizations. In this chaos, Javor comes of age in a poor, remote village. Try as he might, though, he never fits in with his own pe ...
In the aftermath of the Great War, the land of Nostraterra lies in ruins. While the Elves, Dwarves and Men rebuild their kingdoms, a sinister plan has been set in motion: the assassination of Alfrahil, Crown Prince of Eldora. As fire rains down within the city walls, young prince Alfrahil rides for ...
Lithir and Bruno are sent to find the traitor who plotted to kill Alfrahil. If they are to be successful in their mission, centuries of distrust between their races must be overcome. As the unlikely duo enters the Dwarven mines of Nerea, they confront a maniacal sect, whose power threatens to consum ...
“Stephen Colbert meets Stephen King” - Book Nerd’s Brain Candy Winner of the 2012 Laine Cunningham Award!
Withrow Surrett is more than just his neighborhood’s resident curmudgeon. He’s the self-declared vampire lord of North Carolina, a once-renowned painter, and he can make a mean batch ...
A butterfly's wing is healed, and destiny unfolds. Follow the healer's path as he walks between shadow and light. Fulgar Geth's life has been one of grief and hardship since childhood. With his strange abilities to heal and wield forces of magnetism, he is often shunned and misunderstood. Unable ...
Warnings echo through the woods…
Born with the mark of the scribe, Raela is bound to the prophetic book that directs her people underground to escape the invasion of their homeland. As the prophecy warns, this event signals a worsening doom on the horizon.
But th ...
Brandeis Clark has grown bored with spaceflight academy, so when the government offers her an assignment hunting interstellar pirates, she jumps at the chance. But Brandy’s home planet, Thurman, has never had a military and doesn’t know how to run one. Her training officer does little beyond yell ...
In a city shattered by gravity, packs of feral children roam the streets, playing, fighting, stealing, and surviving. Magpie is odd even by feral standards, and the other kids taunt him and call him Goblin. Nothing makes him happier than talking to the crows that follow him and collecting his pretty ...
Star Force pilot and hero Wyatt McCoy left his medals and career behind after the Rim Wars, disillusioned and bitter when he learns the truths behind the conflict. He takes his converted gunship, the Nellie B, and heads to the Near Fringe, salvaging derelict ships and abandoned stations and minin ...
Rule-breaking, unconventional assassins Joel “Ridge” Breckenridge and Garrett “Rett” Kennar are back, and the stakes have never been higher. The Witch Lord remains at large, orchestrating his plot against Landria’s throne from the shadows. Then tragedy strikes, the kingdom is in jeopardy, and Ret ...
A retired female cop…a sexy hero…an adorable dog…interdimensional travel…monsters galore… a recipe for pure unadulterated FUN!
The Devil Pulls the Strings, described as The Librarians meet The Magicians is a 76,000-word epic fantasy adventure set in modern-day Wentzville, MO, New York City, and 1813 Genoa, Italy, where time travel, twisted history, Slavic mythology, secret societies, Paganini’s music and one haunted hero ...
This luxury leatherbound special edition of Mistborn comes from Dragonsteel Books. It includes a bound-in, satin-ribbon bookmark, gilded pages, two color foiling on the cover, as well as exclusive artwork and a 2-page map.
If you've never read Mistborn, it's an epic fantasy novel origina ...
In a city beset by monsters, three brothers must find out who is controlling the abominations. The city-state of Ravenwood is wealthy, powerful, and corrupt. Merchant princes and guild masters wager fortunes to outmaneuver League rivals for the king’s favor and advantageous trading terms. Lord Ma ...
No matter where the watch hands turn, she’d rather remain home. But with every time-traveling trekker’s life at stake, can she stop a deadly clock? Wilda Firestone survives off black coffee and white-hot sarcasm. And despite the colorful slew of characters filing through her time tourism costume sho ...
Tora Jasper arrives home in East Tawas, Michigan after a long drive from Norfolk, Virginia. Doing so reminds her of the tragedy that befell her parents a year ago, so she doesn't want to stay too long. She wants to finish with her parents' affairs and get back to Virginia. However, her friend and ...
I Dream of Jeannie meets The Office...
Two young men discover an all-powerful blue djin and battle for control of his powers in a Detroit Suburb in 1985
Marvin is fresh out of community college and convinced he'll work his way out of the mailroom up to the executive offices. But h ...
The ancient world reveres and dreads the fierce ha-mazaans. Now, an Oracle has prophesied their destruction. Heir to the Defender’s Throne in the city of Themiscyra, Cyra is eager to fulfill her role as protector of the ha-mazaan sisterhood. Instead, she is betrayed, kidnapped as war-bounty, and shi ...
In a realm of darkness and secrets, I'll risk everything to bring my pack back together and reclaim the magic that binds us.
I can feel my world cracking when my enchanted lamp isn't returned. Zachary, loyal and brave as ever, insists on tracking down the ...
Mae Lin Zhou has struggled to live up to her father’s expectations all her life. When her dying grandmother chooses her to carry the family’s ability to make luck, she thinks this is her chance. If she can learn to control her new power.
Whisked away to Kismet Academy, Mae Lin finds herse ...
Circus grunt Charmer Fire wrangler Growing up within the grind of the enchanted Circus Faire, Crew’s unique talents have blossomed. Though, he’s been warned that the King of Hawkswing is determined to eradicate a certain species, and for his own sake Crew must keep his formidable gifts under wrap ...
Ellie unwittingly exposes her existence to the underworld when she triggers a series of ...
When the prince Adelaide seeks to overthrow tries convincing her that the legendary dragons exist and need help, Adelaide must decide where her true allegiance lies before the kingdom shatters.
Ever since the Gyndilians murdered her sister, Adelaide has plotted a rebellion to overthrow th ...
The fight to save my city has only just begun. It's time to sharpen the cat claws and unleash the spider fangs because this hybrid shifter is out to catch her prey.
I've already lost a close friend to the toxic memory-warping drug breaking the minds of everyone in the city. To make ...
Thrown into the abyss and captured by a devil, Zaki risks hell to escape. The daughter of the infamous corsair Captain Ngala and heir to his power, Zaki always understood the risks and danger paid for her freedom, but nothing can prepare her for what awaits in the halls of The Tide—home to the viles ...
2022 Maxy Award Winner in the Suspense and Horror Category Semi-Finalist in the 2021 Publishers Weekly/BookLife Prize Fiction Contest in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror category! "Knight has crafted a disturbing, horrifying, and eloquently written novel that expertly captures the sensations of desperation ...
On an intergalactic mission to save his species, fate deals Ru B’Konuwa an unexpected hand when his shuttle veers off course and plunges into a spontaneous wormhole, hurtling him across the galaxy. By chance, he crash lands on Terra, a remote, backwater planet with plenty of its own problems. Get ...
Love at first sight. Fact or fairy tale? My name is Prince Joseph and despite the fact I should probably keep it to myself, this is my love story. It was a normal day. I decided to take a ride around the pasture with my brother when it happened. The most beautiful woman of my dreams stood in the cen ...
Don’t look at me. Just don’t. My name’s Gorgiana. For decades, I’ve lived a happy, simple life, shelving books at Sunland University’s library in Florida. But my peace ended when I witnessed an assault, bringing back horrors from my past. Or course, I took care of him. His body’s no longer whole. Bu ...
Ladies don’t shame their families.
Ladies don’t confront Otherwordly threats.
Ladies certainly don’t admit some taint of the fae has touched their souls—unless they wish to find themselves confined to an Institution.
Gently-bred herbalist Jessa Caldwe ...
The first book to the spiritual fantasy series - The Path of None - The Curse is A.G.ZoderoT’s spiritual grimdark fantasy horror masterpiece set a sinister fantasy world as we know it Not, and serves as an origin story of the Dark Messiah, unraveling the Darkest of Legends, the Darkest of worlds' Cu ...
What’s buried in the sand has slept for centuries. Some things should never be exhumed... When Egyptologist Samuel Clayton inherits a gold talisman with unusual markings, he’s driven to uncover its secrets. Where did it come from? What do they mean? And why when receiving it did a flood of forgotten ...
A Steampunk novella set in the world of Iron & Blood and the Jake Desmet Adventures. The Department of Supernatural Investigation steps in when things go wrong in weird ways. When monsters start prowling the streets of New Pittsburgh, a shady monster hunter charges a fat fee to exterminate the creat ...
Kill The Night is an adventure that stretches from Paris to New York, through the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the Old West. Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison are in a race to see who will lead the Twentieth Century into the Electric Age. But the night holds tightly to its dark corners. A mysterious an ...
A desperate woman takes a perilous gamble to save her family from a brutal murderer, they go through an illegal portal to the Forbidden Colony of St. Antoni. But it proves a dangerous haven, whose citizens have created a society as different from the Post-Apocalyptic Earth t ...
We are guarded by immortals when we dream.
Dream thieves watch over the unconscious wanderings of the human mind, plucking out the most dangerous dreams before they can take root and turn us into monsters. Malcolm Jones has been a dream thief since the dawn of time, but for once, he has f ...
A ruthless outlaw determined to conquer her kingdom. A courageous stranger who saves her life. She never suspected they would be the same man… With the king bound in enchanted slumber, unrest spreads through the Seven Rivers. Outlaws ravage the land, destroying peaceful villages. Left alone to ru ...
ROBBED OF HER LIFE… …when 82-year-old Eula is stripped of her home and possessions by a scheming banker and her scoundrel son. Suddenly she is forced to begin a new life in a brutal assisted living facility. Feeling lost and broken, she soon learns that a vicious nurse is determined to make her life ...
A collection of tales blending characters through a journey into the unknown. Colors of the Soul, six stories of heightened emotions, mixes the supernatural with dark themes, and a mysterious German shepherd as a guide. Each story stands on its own, but each will have you turning the page for more.
Welcome to the Little Store of Destinies. What you’ve lost can be found… but at what cost?
There is a store hidden in the forgotten corners of the world, a place that shifts in and out of existence, waiting for those who need it most. It has no address, no grand entrance—just an old ...
Only a Talent can establish communication with the Castitaran dragons, known as numenjax. But when the communication short-circuits Confri and knocks her out cold, she thinks her part in the project is over. Until the numenjax c ...
Marked by magic, tested in blood and fire, King Hesleof is the ruler of Calibran, a bridge to his people and a bulwark against the wild chaos that once decimated his kingdom. Accompanied by his loyal sergeant-at-arms, the minotaur Ruric, Hesleof rides to meet the wise dragon Lyrroth the Benevolent, ...
A deadly bargain. A cursed prince. One kiss could break everything.
When Evonna strikes a blood bargain to find her missing brother, she’s given a single impossible task:
Kill Prince Alaistar of Darkhar by the full moon… or forfeit her own life.
They call him the Frog Prin ...
As the last of the Future Fae, her heritage drives her to discover the truth. Hidden for protection, he uses his gifts to survive. Will the Prophecy be fulfilled in time?
Rescued as a child, Skyler grew up in a royal household as an adopted daughter. Plagued by the mys ...
Cool off on the wings of Ice Dragons with the first 3 books of the epic fantasy adventure series, THE MAGIC OF LARLION. Flung off a mountain on an impossible quest. Beset by black sorcery, ice dragons and shape-shifting assassins. Befriended by a giant horned feline, a furry three-armed soldier a ...
A massacre buried by time. A curse that never died. A terror that rises every ten years… A century ago, Timothy Hurley’s men slaughtered a Wiyot Indian village—but the shaman’s curse lives on. Now, in Orca, California, the past has awakened. Blood must be repaid. And no one is safe.
Now embraced as an integral member of the pack, Aria finds herself entwined with Rafe, the enigmatic alpha who ignites a passionate connection within her. However, amidst the tranquility of Moondrift, a sinister presence lurks – the Daemonium Factiosi, thirsty for Aria's extraordinary power. As t ...
From Book 1: For fans of Twilight and The Vampire Diaries comes a new addiction impossible to put down.
She's in love with her best friend. A family grudge could tear them apart. And a supernatural secret could get them killed…Robyn can't picture life without her childhood best frien ...
What if the demon to slay was your own? Raelyn Witt’s life has imploded. Holding tight to devastating secrets, she’s spent a year putting the pieces back together. But when her brother falls victim to a baffling and deadly illness, and desperate for a cure, she puts everything else aside. In her fre ...
This genre-blending collection is rich in characters, who aren't always what they seem at first glance. Space pirates, Fire Elves, and living grotesques toake us on journeys across the multiverse and deep into the hidden crevices of the mind. These stories interrogate what it is to be monstrous; and ...
As the tropical city of Darwin slumbers, a massive armada of dragonflies approaches, their eerie hum reminiscent of the haunting drone of Japanese fighter planes on that fateful February 14, 1942.
Callum and Ande receive an invitation from Pitch to holi ...
The court of the gryphon king has ever been a dangerous and seductive place where Ishtar’s blessing is both the hot breath of passion and the cold kiss of steel. Yet as the childhood companion of King Ditanu, Iltani never doubted her place in either his kingdom or his heart. Then duty called her awa ...
It’s her first test and it might be her last. Soriya has worked her entire life to become the Greystone—protector of her city, Portents, against the growing shadows of myth and legend. All her efforts are in jeopardy when she is struck down by the destructive power of the Minotaur. Soriya must ...
Shutterbug Allison Lee is trying to survive high school while suffering the popular girl's abuse. Her life is often abysmal, but at least her green hair is savage. Her talent for photography is recognized by the school paper and the judges of a photo contest. While visiting her friend Joe, a homeles ...
United States, 2072 With the country under the threat of war, a group of time-traveling government agents devise a risky plan to keep their families safe. But transporting hundreds of years to the past and blending in may prove much more dangerous than they expected. Cyber Criminal Enforcement Agent ...
Seth is used to risking his neck. He never intended to risk his heart. Seth Tanner swore to avenge his brother’s death. But when his quest for vengeance brings him to Richmond to stop a dark coven’s next ritual murder, he’s hell-bent on keeping Jackson Evan Malone from becoming the warlocks’ next ...
He gave her a gift. Using it could bring her to madness. Ireland, 1795. Esme Doherty believes the best of everyone. Despite a drunken father, a bullying twin sister, and a failing farm, the impoverished girl refuses to allow her sunny demeanor to dim. But when her grandfather gives her a magical bro ...
Far from the safety of the castle, she's wounded by bandits. Alone in the forest, he knows he can't let her die. They find more than help in the nearest town.
Rhys Roanoak decides to abort the mission and seek a healer. This puts them on a path to intersect with the sc ...
Faerie and the human world may have survived near-annihilation, but that doesn’t mean everything is flowers and singalongs for the residents of the now-combined lands. Humans are coming to terms with finding chunks of a realm they didn’t know existed dumped into their neighborhoods, plus the Fae ...
Humanity doomed! Aliens in peril! An unemployed geek to save them all… Out-of-work cyber nerd Fitz needs a job. Frantic to make rent, the sudden appearance of a stunning redheaded woman in the plaza and a bizarre recruitment advertisement triggers his outrage. Confronting the promoter, he discovers ...
Kirkus review: People are mysteriously disappearing in Langston’s SF fantasy set in small-town Georgia. It’s 1981, and Granville high school senior Denver Stow, school yearbook photographer, is having a very bad day. His girlfriend has broken up with him—a circumstance that, to him, confirms that ...
No mad skillz, no sacred destiny, just a pink tracksuit that will take her places she never wanted to go... In this Gothic science-fiction novel series, a stylish group of twenty-something friends are torn from the Babylonian arms of 2006 West Hollywood and flung nearly thirty years into the past ...
None can resist the ravages of time. Knowledge is lost. Memories fade. But some things must never be forgotten. Over 400 years ago, twelve great warriors united the beleaguered armies of men and scoured the war-torn lands of evil, pushing the enemy back into the underground pits and caverns from ...
Penny Briggs is a perfectly ordinary woman. Until her life takes a left turn at Albuquerque… I thought my marriage would be a fairy tale. Instead, I’ve put a thousand miles between me and my broken dream, starting over with temp job in Albuquerque. Prop shopping for a TV production takes my mind off ...
"Combination of The Hunger Games, The 100 and Divergent!" They said nothing could survive outside. They lied… Welcome to Echelon, a domed city that protects the survivors of a ravaged Earth. Here, the wealthy elite live in Sky, high above the poor dwellers of Dirt. And Dirt children known as Decimit ...
Friends since their orphanage childhood, Joel “Ridge” Breckinridge and Garrett “Rett” Kennard rose through the ranks of the Landrian army together, from teenaged conscripts to seasoned fighters. Together, they became the most feared team of assassins in Landria, surviving longer that most in thei ...
Stephen, a young, disembodied soul is sent to the earthly plane by his spiritual master. After his harrowing previous life in flesh, he is petrified. But it’s part of the plan. ‘Every soul must fall into flesh to learn and grow.’ The words of the master ring in his ears—there is no escaping his sojo ...
Aisling and Prince Drayaen return home to Ireland in time to celebrate the holidays. But their festivities are short-lived. New enemies are threatening their way of life. As dark forces swirl around them, Aisling and the prince must destroy their adversaries to protect each other and everything they ...
