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Born a daughter into the kingdom of Jinu, Xiuying knows nothing but rejection and betrayal, even as a young child. She is left forgotten and raised by maids while her parents, disgraced by her gender, tells the rest of the kingdom that she’s dead, when the only thing she wants is love. And eventually, her father and king, Qianfan, sends her away to an abandoned island… to die.

Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, goblin-infested years just before The Blacktongue Thief. The goblins have killed all of our horses and most of our men. They have enslaved our cities, burned our fields, and still they wage war. Now...

Xiaofan, the princess of Jinu, thinks she has it all. Her parents love her. Her father gives her everything she’s always wanted. And she looks down at the peasants from her high throne like she’s better than them. But then her parents have another child. Jinhai, the first-born son. The future king of Jinu. And Xiaofan feels her entire world crumbling beneath her. To make matters worse, she discovers that she has an older sister, Xiuying, whom her parents had sent away many years ago. And now they’re telling her she’s next.

Born a daughter into the kingdom of Jinu, Xiuying knows nothing but rejection and betrayal, even as a young child. She is left forgotten and raised by maids while her parents, disgraced by her gender, tell the rest of the kingdom that she’s dead, when the only thing she wants is love. And eventually, her father and king, Qianfan, sends her away to an abandoned island… to die. But all hope is not lost. She meets Hua who, along with the rest of the island villagers, welcome her into their home with open arms, and twelve years later, Xiuying falls in love with a handsome prince, Zhang Wei.

Qianfan’s wishes have finally come true. After years and years of trying, the kingdom of Jinu has been blessed with a son! Jinhai, the new prince and his father’s greatest joy. However, disappointment ensues when Qianfan realizes that Jinhai is nothing like him. That he’s weak, emotional, and unfit to be a king. A shame to the family name. But Jinhai knows that he can become the greatest king of all, the greatest king to the people who live within the kingdom walls.

The Hokkaran Empire has conquered every land within their bold reach - but failed to notice a lurking darkness festering within the people. Now their border walls begin to crumble, and villages fall to demons swarming out of the forests. Away on the silver steppes, the remaining tribes of nomadic Qorin retreat and protect their own, having bartered a treaty with the empire, exchanging inheritance through the dynasties. It is up to two young warriors, raised together across borders since their prophesied birth, to save the world from the encroaching demons.

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona into conflict—with each other. It will take all of Penric’s wits, his wife Nikys’s wisdom, and the hand of the fifth god’s strangest saint to untangle the threads of their future.

When old Eddie, the marina handyman, tells Jackson his nephew has been thrown in jail for taking a man’s head off and asks for Jackson's help, Jackson just can’t turn down an old fishing buddy. He wishes he did, when he and Blackhawk are thrown knee deep into America’s worst nightmare. Full blown terrorism comes to a small town.

**A New York Times Bestseller** Former Special Forces Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face to face with a conspiracy where nothing is as it seems. Hot on the...