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Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.

"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....

When a mysterious bomb goes off in town and Aeri's closest friends are turned to stone, it becomes a race against the clock to stop the demon who is still at large. Every six hours, another bomb takes out more people.

From the moment she was bound by magic and transformed into a deadly warrior, Max dreamed of escape Instead she went to war. She saved the coven she was enslaved to defend from unearthly destruction, but only at the cost of her own freedom. Now Max has been taken captive and forced to become the champion of a demigod in a deadly game where the losers die--or worse. Alone and unarmed in a strange, magical city, Max must battle bizarre creatures with...