"Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice-catastrophic events known as Drains-leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. After the Dark One fell, the world went back to normal . . . for everyone but them....

Life is bleak but uncomplicated for sixteen-year-old Tess, living in a not-too-distant future where the government, faced with humanity's extinction, created the Chosen Ones, artificial beings who are extraordinarily beautiful, unbelievably strong, and unabashedly deadly. When Tess begins work at Templeton, a Chosen Ones training facility, she meets James, and the attraction is immediate in its intensity, overwhelming in its danger. But there is...

Pendant un été magique, Genny Valente s'évade pour aller observer la faune dans les montagnes sauvages. Rien ne lui laisse croire qu'une bête plus inquiétante qu'un léopard se terre dans la forêt... un homme, un des Élus, trahi par son don et tourmenté par ses souvenirs. John Powell a fui son destin et son devoir, mais il voit en Genny sa seule chance de rédemption. Il la traquera, l'enlèvera, l'aimera comme seul un sauvage est en mesure...

Samuel Faa, fils adoptif de domestiques, est un avocat gitan qui a le pouvoir de contrler les esprits. Isabelle Mason, de la famille Mason de Boston, est riche, privilégiée et raffinée en plus d'avoir le don de guérison. Deux Élus, ils ont en commun un passé d'amour et de trahison, et un avenir compromis par le destin... jusqu'à ce qu'ils se retrouvent emprisonnés sous terre. Sans issue. Incapables de nier la passion qui brûle toujours en...

Princess Ellyria Rose found her special places in the books she read. Imagining herself in far off lands, she would dream of the knight who might rescue her one day from her dull, everyday life of needlepoint and lessons on becoming a lady.Princess Ellyria Rose yearned for adventure and on her sixteenth birthday she got her wish, being rescued by the man of her dreams. Little did she know that would prove to be an adventure she did not expect to have.Betrayed...

Post-worldquake, when electricity is infrequent and the Internet is extinct, but magic is flourishing, five students at the Tusitala School for the Gifted, Troubled and Strange pool their resources and magical abilities to defeat an evil publisher who intends to use the power bound up in books to destroy the universe.

Two short tales putting a spin on some common stories.Chosen OnesWhat happens to teenaged heroes once they've fulfilled the prophecies and saved the world? Well, the lost prince of Atlantis is going to speed dating events in Manhattan, and having a surprising meeting.SourceThe stories all suggest that the US military would get the cool alien space tech, and we'd have to trust them to do the right thing with it. More likely, the recipients would be...

There were consequences facing Coyote Hunter for her crime of choosing to kill her abusive white husband. Coyote Hunter prayed, "Oh, Great Spirit, please allow your servant to reach her loved ones. Please guide and protect this weak woman. Please let the babe be introduced to the Spirit World. I have placed all my trust in you, Great Spirit." The Great Spirit would answer her prayer, but not as Coyote Hunter trusted within her heart. There would...

When a group of archaeology students from Oxford University set off to study an ancient stone circle, they have no idea they are about to be sucked into an age-old battle of good versus evil.The Callanish Stone Circle has remained untouched for centuries, surrounded by the swirling mists of the Isle of Lewis. But while the ancient stones appear to be unchanged by the passing of time, somewhere a clock is ticking, getting ready to reveal the site's...