Twenty-year-old Elora Laiken accidentally ended up in this dimension with a broken heart and the staggering grief of having witnessed the massacre of her entire family. Her body was so brutally damaged that her species was categorized to-be-determined. The one stroke of good fortune was that she landed in the best possible place; a very old and secret society of vampire hunters with the medical means to put her back together and the willingness to do it.

There was no home or family to return to, even if she could. But nothing would stop her from using the extra-abilities she gained from slipping dimensions to work for The Order of the Black Swan and try to keep her friends alive.

When it comes to romance, she has a wealth of options. Will she choose the modern-day knight who saved her life? Or the sexy prince of elves who thinks she’s his mate? Or perhaps the incredibly magnetic, sizzling hot vampire?

They want him dead, but he won’t die. He’s too angry, too cursed… and too damn good at killing.

When Venir the Darkslayer finds himself at odds with the corrupt Royals of Bish, they cast him out of their festering cities and into the wastelands. But exile is no punishment—it’s a death sentence. Because in the Outlands, the Underlings are waiting. Patient. Hungry. Endless.

While the Royals drown themselves in decadence, Venir sees the truth—an ancient menace is rising, ready to swarm the surface and wipe humanity from the map. No one else dares to face it. No one else even believes.

But Venir is not alone. Beside him stand a rogue named Melegal and a handful of other killers, outcasts, and warriors—each deadly in their own right, and each with reasons to hate the world as much as he does.

Together, they will carve their way through monsters, mercenaries, and magic. But in the end, Venir knows it will come down to him—the only man savage enough to do what must be done.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

Mosca Mye’s father insisted on teaching her to read—even in a world where books are dangerous, regulated things. Eight years later, Quillam Mye died, leaving behind an orphaned daughter with an inauspicious name and an all-consuming hunger for words. Trapped for years in the care of her cruel uncle and aunt, Mosca leaps at the opportunity for escape, though it comes in the form of sneaky swindler Eponymous Clent. As she travels the land with Clent and her pet goose, Mosca begins to discover complicated truths about the world she inhabits and the power of words.

In this enthusiastic, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous ode to bookshops and booksellers, 84 known authors pay tribute to the brick-and-mortar stores they love and often call their second homes.

In My Bookstore our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite bookstores and booksellers have given them over the years. The relationship between a writer and his or her local store and staff can last for years or even decades. Often it’s the author’s local store that supported him during the early days of his career, that continues to introduce and hand-sell her work to new readers, and that serves as the anchor for the community in which he lives and works.

My Bookstore collects the essays, stories, odes and words of gratitude and praise for stores across the country in 81 pieces written by our most beloved authors. It’s a joyful, industry-wide celebration of our bricks-and-mortar stores and a clarion call to readers everywhere at a time when the value and importance of these stores should be shouted from the rooftops.