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The forces he glimpsed at the close of his first ordeal now draw him into a struggle that reaches beyond a single world, where rival powers, buried histories, and a looming Cataclysm press in at once — and where every faction he meets justifies terrible things in the name of order.\n\nStretched across competing loyalties and identities, Vis must work out who he truly is and what he is willing to sacrifice before catastrophe arrives. 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Can she survive his bossy demands, or will she fall for the devil she's supposed to despise?","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kkfhaepgnabs3gxcr7gbaptb.jpg","LKHDt4R5peu6_2Sii_r=lCo~R4Vr",434,[504],{"id":505,"slug":506,"name":507},"01kkfhaepabhxge4a0sehe76wv","kyra-parsi-mvst","Kyra Parsi",[509,513,517],{"id":510,"name":511,"slug":512,"is_fiction":19},33,"Contemporary Romance","contemporary-romance",{"id":514,"name":515,"slug":516,"is_fiction":19},4,"Romance","romance",{"id":518,"name":519,"slug":520,"is_fiction":19},38,"Romantic Comedy","romantic-comedy",[522],{"id":523,"slug":524,"name":525,"position":209,"is_main_entry":19,"parent_id":7,"parent_slug":7,"parent_name":7},"01kkfhaera642bxmge1mqc70q5","bad-billionaire-bosses-cnoe","Bad Billionaire Bosses",{"pace":113,"complexity":7,"audience":116,"mood":527,"themes":531,"setting_period":7,"summary":499,"content_warnings":7},[528,213,529,530],"romantic","lighthearted","spicy",[532,533,534,535,123],"enemies-to-lovers","fake-dating","only-one-bed","forced-proximity",{"id":537,"slug":538,"title":539,"description":540,"primary_cover_url":541,"cover_blurhash":542,"first_publish_year":260,"community_rating_avg":543,"community_rating_count":276,"page_count":544,"authors":545,"genres":554,"series":566,"enrichment":567},"01kkfh2586mggad7tegy2hmg12","marrow-kag4","Marrow","Forensic anthropologist Dr. Jack Sorensen is a respected scientist by day and a ruthless serial killer by night. 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Can these two killers set aside their deadly rivalry to face a world that hunts them?","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kkfh259zvptqxbz83rbhctmw.jpg","L5A1bdx^00RNNP.TMaRi8wR4Ino#","2.90",322,[546,550],{"id":547,"slug":548,"name":549},"01kkfh259sz8gqs0ckwenzh04z","trisha-wolfe-n2y0","Trisha Wolfe",{"id":551,"slug":552,"name":553},"01kkc4vp6z6rx2a9c2y6pk9ypp","brynne-weaver-i0hs","Brynne Weaver",[555,559,560,564,565],{"id":556,"name":557,"slug":558,"is_fiction":19},37,"Dark Romance","dark-romance",{"id":514,"name":515,"slug":516,"is_fiction":19},{"id":561,"name":562,"slug":563,"is_fiction":19},5,"Thriller","thriller",{"id":487,"name":488,"slug":489,"is_fiction":19},{"id":197,"name":198,"slug":199,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":113,"complexity":7,"audience":116,"mood":568,"themes":570,"setting_period":7,"summary":540,"content_warnings":7},[118,119,569,318],"complex",[532,571,217,123,176],"rivals",{"id":573,"slug":574,"title":575,"description":576,"primary_cover_url":577,"cover_blurhash":578,"first_publish_year":226,"community_rating_avg":97,"community_rating_count":37,"page_count":579,"authors":580,"genres":585,"series":591,"enrichment":600},"01kkfgzbskkm9kjsvfjs3e78as","lecorchee-le-chuchoteur-2-cvxn","L'Ecorchée - Le chuchoteur 2","Seven years after facing the Whisperer, Mila Vasquez works in a department for missing persons. 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She is determined to let nothing stop her quest for vengeance, not even Beck North, the man who saved her and won her heart. 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Once a proud soldier and surgeon's apprentice, he struggles to protect the men in his bridge crew from certain death while discovering he can manipulate a mysterious energy called Stormlight. Across the world, Shallan Davar travels to study under the brilliant heretic scholar Jasnah Kholin, whose secrets may determine the fate of her family — and all civilization. Meanwhile, highprince Dalinar Kholin is haunted by visions during the highstorms that show him ancient warriors called the Knights Radiant. 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What the king doesn't know is that Wendlyn is also where Rowan Whitethorn lives, an ancient Fae warrior who serves the Fae queen Maeve, and who has been tasked with training Aelin in the raw, barely controlled magic she has spent years suppressing. Their training is brutal, their early relationship a sustained antagonism, but through it Aelin begins to claim the fire and power she was born with. Back in Adarlan, Chaol Westfall risks everything to support a rebel movement, and Dorian Havilliard struggles to hide his growing magic from his murderous father. 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