When Lei, seventeen, is stolen from her home to become one of nine Paper Girls, the Demon King's concubines, she proves to be more fire than paper.

A ferryman, gently shepherding the people of Prospera through the retirement process when the monitors embedded in their forearms fall below 10 percent, Proctor Bennet, of the Department of Social Contracts, receives a disturbing and cryptic message from his father, while The Support Staff, who keep Prospera running, organize a revolution that causes Proctor to question everything he once believed.

One hundred years after falling asleep, Aurora wakes to the kiss of a prince and a kingdom that has dreamed of her return, but her happily-ever-after seems unlikely as she faces the loss of everything she knew and a cruel new king.

In this near-future retelling of the Dickens classic "A Tale of Two Cities," a deadly revolution breaks out in a New York City divided by light and dark magic.

Recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan, expert arms instructor Lin Chong, disgraced, tattooed as a criminal and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who wants her dead, joins these mountain outlaws who live on the fringe of society—and who are ready to make history or tear it apart.

"The Final Day immerses readers once more in the story of our nation's struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation, and terror. After defeating the designs of the alleged federal government, John Matherson and his community have returned their attention to restoring the technologies and social order that existed prior to the EMP attack. Then the government announces...

In Romania in 1989, when people who say or do the wrong thing disappear, ten-year-old aspiring writer Ileana copes with fear, hunger, and cruelty by writing new endings to stories, including her own.