Fatemarked

Sienna, Theo and Vic are finally safe, but they all know it won’t last. Though her best friend has changed, she’s no longer the timid girl who needs protecting, Sienna finds it hard to let her go—especially when the Reeks attack. Vic was changed in Prison Black, for better or worse, and she no longer needs anyone’s help to destroy the monsters…she is the monster. Jayla would give her life if it meant keeping Caspian and Em out of harms way, but she know it won’t be that easy. Trapped in Governor Greyson’s world there is only one way to escape—by trusting others, people she has no idea their allegiance, and hoping she can prevent what she knows is coming…a war. Caspian will not let Jayla die. He knows she’s still alive, Simon ensured that before he betrayed them, but for how long. Time is running out. The Reeks have broken through the wall around the Void over and over again. There is only so much they can do without a way to stop them, but Caspian knows Jayla is the answer…and he will find a way to save her, even if it kills him. Gunner finally has a father, a man who was willing to sacrifice himself to protect Gunner, but can he trust him? He doesn’t want to get too close, all he’s experienced is pain, but there’s a pull towards Simon that has Gunner reaching out and wanting to know him. But there’s one big problem…now that he has him, how can he possibly let his father go? There is a way to stop the Reeks once and for all, but a sacrifice will have to be made. Who will be left standing in the end? And can they end this before it's too late … before they lose everything?

In the spirit of fantasy epics like George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones and Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings, The Fatemarked Epic promises immaculate world building, an ancient prophecy, a mysterious source of magic, interesting characters, war, political intrigue, and romance. The Hundred Years War has ravaged more than three generations of kings, queens, and citizens across the Four Kingdoms. Corrupt rulers dominate. Religious intolerance runs rampant. The cycle of vengeance continues to turn with the seasons. An ancient prophecy by a legendary oracle has been long forgotten. The prophecy promises the return of peace to the Four Kingdoms on the backs of a chosen few, the fatemarked, individuals marked at birth and blessed with specific magical powers. One shall be the Kings' Bane, and will bring death to the warmongering rulers, using fear to force peace; another shall be the Peacemaker, bestowed with the rare ability to heal. Opposite sides of the same coin, dark and light, death and life, the Kings' Bane and the Peacemaker are responsible for the fate of an entire continent. As they fight to achieve their destinies, adversity will hinder them in every realm: in the frozen north, assassination attempts and a brutal power struggle; in the holy west, a vicious queen and her self-righteous army of warriors; in the mysterious iron-clad forest of the east, revenge and glory rule the day; and in the southern empires of Calyp and Phanes, maturing dragons, slaves, and a civil war. To truly fulfill the oracle's prophecy of peace, both the Kings' Bane and the Peacemaker, as well as the other fatemarked, will need to overcome those who seek to destroy everything in their pursuit for power.

In the spirit of fantasy epics like George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones and Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings, The Fatemarked Epic promises immaculate world building, an ancient prophecy, a mysterious source of magic, interesting characters, war, political intrigue, and romance. The Hundred Years War rages on, with tensions between kingdoms growing ever more strained. While Annise G�ric and her forces march on Castle Hill to retake the northern throne, her cousin, Rhea Loren, wages a naval war against Blackstone. Meanwhile, Roan Loren and Gwendolyn Storm struggle to breach the gnarled, vine-choked undergrowth of the Tangle in their quest to reach Knight's End and learn more of the true purpose of the fatemarked. In the south, a Calypsian empress is murdered, and her daughters fight to claim the empire and wage a civil war against their estranged father's armies. In Phanes, slavery runs rampant while a rebel group fights to free the oppressed people. A master named Jai Jiroux looks to help the rebel cause, an act of treason punishable by death.Surrounding the Four Kingdoms is the pall cast by the Kings' Bane, who continues his quest to kill eight rulers and thus fulfill the Western Oracle's ancient prophecy, which he believes will pave to way to peace across the realms.

When the pack leader's son rejects our bond and exiles me, I'm convinced things can't get any worse. After I'm thrust into the center of a cataclysm spanning two realms, I quickly discover how wrong I was. I never asked to be different. I never asked to be the illegitimate daughter of a female wolfshifter who broke her mate-bond and screwed a mysterious stranger. My sire, whoever he was, couldn't be bothered to stick around and deal with the chaos he caused. Now, I'm the one causing chaos. I have no control over the destructive storms that rage around me every time I get upset. And it's not just happening in the human realm—my powers spill over into other realms as well. When I'm abducted by a formidable fae warrior who's convinced I'm about to be responsible for the death of his world, my only hope is to become more powerful than either of the men controlling my life. My shifter mate didn't want me at all. Now a dangerous fae magician wants me dead. To get out of this mess, I'll have to confront the mystery of my own past—the crime that led to my birth. Forget about fate-bonds. This she-wolf is taking charge before everything goes to hell. * * * Rejected by the Pack is a 110,000-word standalone rejected mates paranormal story with an HEA ending.

In 1763, an 11-year-old boy named Thomas Chatterton began publishing mature works of poetry. Before long, he was fooling the literary world by passing his work off as that of a non-existent 15th-century poet named Thomas Rowley—which he did until unmasked by Horace Walpole. Brought up in poverty and without a father, he studied furiously and went on to try and earn a living from his writing. After impressing the likes of the Lord Mayor, William Beckford and the radical leader John Wilkes, he eagerly looked for an outlet in London for his political works, but was unable to make a decent living and, despairing, poisoned himself at the age of seventeen. Chatterton had a significant impact on Romantic artists including Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats; with numerous notable poems, plays, and paintings having been dedicated to him since his untimely demise. This new collection contains classic essays from various writers on Chatterton's life and work. Contents include: “Sonnet to Chatterton, by John Keats”, “Thomas Chatterton 1752–1770, A Biography from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 6”, “Monody on the Death of Chatterton, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, “Thomas Chatterton, by Henry Francis Cary”, “Thomas Chatterton, by Mabel E. Wotton”, “Poem of Thomas Chatterton, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti”, “Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley, An Essay by Edmond Malone”, “Resolution and Independence, An Excerpt by William Wordsworth”, and “Thomas Chatterton, by William Charles Mark Kent”. Read & Co. Books is publishing this brand new collection of classic essays for the enjoyment of a new generation of readers.