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And with that, Betty Talbin is swept into the society of the Inter-Story Intercessors, where even a housemaid like her can become empowered by a love of reading. But her days working for wealthy relatives in 1930s England seem long ago now that she has joined the dragon guardian of all stories. With her friends in the story worlds depending on her, Betty, with Blackwick, her loyal protector, keeps a constant vigil. But a sinister faction has emerged, The Epilogues, bent on releasing the evil two-headed dragon from the Netherworld.

Scarlet Singer survived the truth, but survival has a price. The hidden world of magic is no longer a nightmare she can deny. Witches are lying. Monsters are real. And the demon who once hunted her is now the only one who may be able to save the boy she loves. To keep Zig alive, Scarlet agrees to an impossible bargain with Dagon, the ancient sea-born being tied to her across lifetimes.

In the back of an ambulance, River Greer counts each breath her little sister takes until the final one: Sage’s body is giving up, ravaged by a mysterious illness. The late-night rush to the ER, however, turns into a surreal nightmare when River is abducted and ferried across the universe to the fabled Thule: a world beyond worlds, where Victorian mores collide with magic and Arthurian legend.

20-year-old Lane was perfectly happy living in her big sister's shadow. The great Faraday Tanner, who invented the gravdrive and inspired the movement to found the moon's first independent colony, was the unequaled voice of the post-melt generation. That is, until an unimaginable tragedy cut Faraday’s legacy short. Wracked with survivor's guilt and desperate for her sister's utopian dream to succeed, Lane embraces her job on the moon: lunch lady—which is more than her parents think she can handle.

In 1930s England, eighteen-year-old Betty Talbin is a servant to wealthy relatives. Trapped in dismal circumstances, she relies on her love of reading to escape the drudgery of real life. Books become magical portals into other worlds where she befriends the characters from her favorite stories. She soon learns that others share her gift, a secret society called the Inter-Story Intercessors, who, along with the fictional characters she has met, join her quest to save her cousin from the clutches of an evil vampire and the universe from greedy, titanic dragons.

In the vast, lawless ocean beneath the thick surface ice of Jupiter’s moon Europa, independent undersea miners compete against megacorporations for natural resources, and pirates hunt for unwary prey. Kassia Mc Cullough will stop at nothing to enact revenge on Pretorious Grant, the man she holds responsible for her father’s suicide. When Grant's half-brother escapes from prison, Kassia may just have her chance to capture her elusive and powerful enemy. Earth Detective Max Danzig has his own reasons for pursuing the nefarious siblings.