J.M. Hofer delivers page-turning tales of adventure and sorcery in her award-winning novel, Islands in the Mist, and its sequels. Set in Iron Age Britain and steeped in Welsh legend, her series brings to life the mythic world before the arrival of King Arthur. In Book I, the great warrior Bran is called home from the battlefield to his mother's deathbed. He vows to solve the mystery of what fatally attacked her in the night, for though many have dismissed it as a wolf attack, she insisted with her dying breath it was not. On his journey for answers, Bran encounters the fiery prophetess Lucia and her strangely-gifted stable boy, Gwion, both of whom will loom large in his future. Upon returning home with the terrifying truth about the threat they are facing, Bran finds himself at odds with the hot-tempered Aelhaearn, determined to become their clan's next chieftain. Fate will wind tightly together as they attempt to defeat the creator of their nocturnal enemies—a creator who is patiently pulling all who oppose her deep into the seductive maelstrom of her power.

Thirteen years ago, a woman came out of the Burly Wood carrying a small wooden box. She died on the Great Wall getting it over.Calum O'Brian is fifteen, average in every measurable way, and keeps a journal about it. Then a stolen box etched with flowers lands in his hands, and it does something it has never done for anyone else: it glows. It hums with drums nobody else can hear. It pulls him west, toward the forest no one crosses. And when he holds it near certain people, it tells him, without words, who not to trust.The same week, he is picked for the Eighth Clan's team in the Clan Games — five contenders, ten clans, one summer to train. His mentors have their own reasons for wanting him close. So does a masked rebel in the Green Forest who calls himself the Hero, and who knows more about the box, and about Calum's mother, than anyone in the Clans will admit.Every faction on Echo Island wants what Calum is carrying. The box wants him to run. And the Games are about to start.Book One of Echo Island, a five-book fantasy series. For readers 11 and up.

Legally Blonde meets A Deal with the Elf King in the debut spicy standalone adult romantasy from the acclaimed author of How to Hide in Plain Sight, the Sunken City series, and the Soul of Shadow trilogy.One hundred years ago, the elves appeared on Earth.Beautiful, brilliant, and filled with unearthly grace, they swarmed the libraries and universities: Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Beijing. They made for the humans’ fountains of knowledge with eerie precision, as if they’d spent millennia studying Earth before their arrival.Once there, the Elf King made an announcement: we're looking for something, and once we find it, we will leave you in peace.Quinn Kallister doesn't believe him. Seven years ago, she watched her father be murdered and her brother kidnapped by a pair of elves. Since then, she fought to gain admission to Harvard for one reason: to find the answers no one will give her. To do that, she must spy on Daerios Ariar, the most powerful and terrifying of the Sun Princes. Quinn is set on gaining the prince's trust and learning the elves' secrets—until an unwanted attraction begins to form between them that neither can deny.