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Maximillion Sinclair is certain of exactly one thing: he wants to tell Isadora how much she means to him. Execution is not as simple as desire. Can he overcome the battles in his own mind to convey his deepest adoration? War between witches and dragons appears inevitable—unless Sanna can get rid of an infamous and sneaky black market witch named Casandra. When Casandra elevates her efforts against dragons to endanger one Sanna loves, all the safety she's created begins to crumble. Taxes, Wildrose, and Maximillion keep Isadora racing from one thing to the next. Everything is fine.

Maximillion Sinclair isn't pleased about the threat burned into sand dunes along the Borderlands, but he's even less pleased with who wrote them. When a nemesis from years ago threatens the Central Network again, he's ready to keep his beloved home from utter destruction. Isadora is prepared to have a child. Anytime now would be great, in fact. From midwives to crib placement, she's ready to go. Until life sends a twist her way she didn't expect. Meanwhile, Sanna is blissfully happy taking care of a new baby dragon.

Isadora Spence knows one thing for certain: she loves Maximillion Sinclair. When Max sweeps her to Wildrose Manor as his wife, she quickly realizes that not all is as it seems. She's forced to ask the most frightening question of all: Is love enough? When Isadora requests three months to decide whether to stay handfasted, Max immediately agrees. He adores Isadora, but saying the words isn't easy. His admittance would require something he's not ready to give. If he doesn't tell her that he loves her, will Isadora stay?

After years of struggle and heartbreak, Isadora Sinclair straps firm walls around her heart. She can endure no more. When a mystery illness falls on the Central Network, she stops using the paths and falls to work. Ambassador Maximillion has his hands full. Not only are witches dying left and right, but Network leaders are hiding in fear. Saving the Central Network is up to him, a Potionmaker named Toni, and his adopted son Ean. Can he keep himself healthy to save his witches?

Charlie has always brought magic and mayhem to Maximillion's life, but when Torr is taken captive by a rival Western Network tribes, things are about to get even more exciting for the two beloved brothers. Meanwhile, the long-lost sea dragon Mushi whisks Sanna to the Eastern Network, embroiling her in the war between sea dragons and mermaids. Can Sanna assist the sea dragon's survival? Or will her interference create more problems? When Isadora receives The Complete History of Watcher and Defender magic, she can't wait to sit down and read.

When Council Member hopeful Ronald Torkelson attacks Isadora and all Watchers, she decides it's time to take a stand. Unfortunately, not everything is what it seems with Ronald, she finds herself in over her head. Meanwhile, Maximillion struggles to find convincing proof against Ronald, nor any hint as to who he is behind the mask. When Isadora is taken hostage, he has to rely on those he loves to help him find his wife. Sanna is more than ready to have her own space, but she didn't realize that home building had so many options—and required so much currency!

Sanna Spence can cast spells, chop vegetables, and manage herself, thank you very much. Well, for the most part. After months of magical training and practice, she thinks she's ready to live on her own as a blind witch in Letum Wood. When she realizes she's not there yet, it's time to do something big. Live in the Network. With her mentor Gilbert at her side, what could go wrong? Her sister, Isadora Sinclair, is determined to find a job. How hard could it be? Seamstress, baker, librarian. There has to be something in the Central Network she can do.

Isadora has harbored a secret dream for years: she longs to work for the education office. Finally, her wish has manifested. Sort of. Intrigue at the castle sets Isadora and her Watcher magic on an expected path. Sanna's new friend, Damien, isn't what she expected. When they're forced to work together to save the forest and mountain dragons from starvation, Sanna has her own lessons to learn about what she really wants. Max is growing older, but that doesn't mean he's ready to retire. Right? He needs a break, not to forsake his career. Then again, maybe the High Priestess is right.

If there's one thing that could draw Sanna into the dangerous dark heart of Letum Wood, a dragon is that thing. Sanna and her dragons take their lives into their hands and trail a mystery into the deepest recesses of the forest. What they find is not what any of them expected. Greater explorations require Sanna to part from her favorite beasts and head into the unknown alone. Meanwhile, Almorran magic presents to Isadora in a rather unexpected form, requiring Caroline, Baylee, Isadora, and the magical detection team to join together and discover what to expect next.

Max doesn't see wraiths . . . but he does. After a near-death experience with the plague, memories of Max's mere and pere haunt him. He can't sleep, can't rest. When his aunt Serafina dies, he must come face-to-face with the truth—and the family—he's been avoiding for years. Meanwhile in Letum Wood, the sisterwitches are struggling. After Mam's death years before, tension has driven them apart. Only hard work, sacrifice, and vulnerable determination can pull them back together. Unfortunately, Sanna's worst nightmare comes to pass. Poachers from the Southern Network have taken Luteis.

Remy Dauphin is ready to start over. But starting over isn't as easy as he thought. When he returns home from working abroad, problems abound. His older brother, Claude, is a drunk lech. His parents are aging rapidly, and there's a question of inheritance, employment, and old wounds. Not to mention the insistent grimoire hounding him for attention. Disaster strikes, and Remy's world grinds to a halt. He's left standing in the ashes with one thing: a magical manor. New love, new family, and new life await Remy. Wildrose is the answer, but no good magic stands alone.

Charlie Dauphin and Max Sinclair have been best friends since they met on a rainy night at twelve years old. They share more than a powerful magic, a sprawling manor, and a hunger for justice and danger. The Advocacy belongs to both of them. The Central Network, and then the fate of Alkarra, rest on the shoulders of two extraordinary men determined to save the world. With a team of Watchers and Defenders at their back, they'll do just that. But the winds of fate will turn such motivation against them. Charlie and Max have taken on more than any witch could bear alone.

Members of the legendary silkmaking clan in the Southern Network understand one thing: the clan keeps the Sirilas magic in balance by obedience to its rules, and the Sirilas magic keeps them alive. When loyal, steady future Guide to the Clan Andrei Kuzmin finds a sword that stands in his way to ease and prosperity—quite literally—he's shoved out of his stable world and into a new magic. A magic that doesn't care about the requirements of the Sirilas magic.

Wealthy landowners own the Eastern Network, so uneducated witch Vittoria Gutia isn't about to make any waves. She either works as a lavanda maid, or she and her beloved nephew starve to death. That sort of math is pretty simple. When an unexpected savior lands in her lap, fate falls with him. La Salvatorra—Giver of Justice—beckons her with him. To save her nephew, Vittoria takes the reckless Landowners' soon-to-be-disastrous offer. She's thrust into a glittering new court, a world without conscience, and the burden of saving her entire Network.

Rae Burke is a brigand assassin, and he's good at what he does. But when the winds of change whistle by, he throws himself into the chance for freedom and safety for his family. Wren Burke knows that she trusts her husband, so she accepts the grimoire he shoves into her arms, plunges into the wild forest with her three children, and throws herself into the mercy of magic and mayhem. Ghosts from Rae's past won't let him, or the magic, go so easily.

Ya plenamente asentados en Carolina del Norte, Claire y Jamie deben hacer frente al estallido del conflicto entre la Corona inglesa y las colonias americanas en 1767. Mientras Claire procura salvar a su marido de los acontecimientos históricos próximos que ella conoce, Jamie debe decidir si seguir los requerimientos de los partidarios de la Corona y hacer aquello que es mejor para su familia o seguir sus propias convicciones y arriesgar la estabilidad de sus seres queridos.

Hunter continues his journey through his icy alien world. Having adapted to the merciless conditions beyond the Bunker, he has begun to expand his "territory" and explore new points on the map around the enormous Pillar.

Mildred Graeme is a witch that knows what it’s like to fail. She loathes small talk, struggles with magic, and grew up wretchedly poor. When her best friend Evelyn gains power and threatens to obliterate the Network, Mildred must overcome her fear of failure to save the lives of those she loves. Even if it means betraying her best friend.

Sisterwitches Isadora and Sanna Spence aren't sitting back anymore. In fact, they're both tangled in separate new worlds—ones they didn't anticipate. Despite the Dragonmasters home burning to ash, Sanna is certain of one thing—she will not be a tyrant, even though managing a brood of frightened dragons falls on her reluctant shoulders. When a devastating tragedy strikes the Dragonmaster families, Sanna is forced to face a world she never knew existed.

As a summer of swords approaches, everything Astrid hoped for is coming true. She’s found her wolf. A war looms on the horizon—just what a young hero needs to make a name for herself. The path to becoming a warrior of legend is finally clear. Until strange powers awaken in Astrid and her wolf, Maera. Meanwhile, Queen Rosamund has made good on her promise of conquest since taking the throne. Thyrden’s armies march for the Wolfmoors. Wielding forbidden magic, she’s determined to succeed where her father could not. Nothing short of total victory will sate her ambition.