L.R. Lam

An ancient danger. A broken bond. The fate of two worlds hangs in the balance.

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‍Arcady and Everen have been separated, parted by the Veil. Alone in Vatra, Arcady embarks on their greatest con yet: posing as a noble student at the University, determined to prove their grandsire’s innocence once and for all. Imprisoned in Vere Celene, Everen is hated by his kind. When he is released to defend his people, visions of the past and the future haunt him. If he steers the wrong path, he may never create a future where humans and dragons can live in harmony.

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Time is running out. Threats rise from Arcady’s old life and their new. And between the worlds, an ancient danger is awakening. Together, Arcady and Everen can face it—but only if they can find their way back together and restore the trust that has been broken.

The last male dragon. A desperate thief. A bond that will save the world... Or shatter it.

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Long ago, humans betrayed dragons, stealing their magic and banishing them to a dying world. Centuries later, their descendants worship dragons as gods. But the ‘gods’ remember, and they do not forgive.

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Since they were orphaned, Arcady has scraped a living thieving on the streets of Vatra, dreaming of life among the nobility—and revenge. When the chance arises to steal a powerful artefact from the bones of the Plaguebringer, the most hated person in Lumet history, they jump at it, for its magic holds the key to their dreams.

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But the spell has unintended consequences and drags Everen—the last male dragon who was once foretold to save his kind—into the human world. Trapped and disguised as a human, Everen soon realizes that the key to his destiny and regaining his true power lies in Arcady.

Seven resistance fighters will free the galaxy from the ruthless Empire—or die trying.

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After Eris faked her death, she thought she had left her old life as Princess Discordia—heir to the galaxy’s most ruthless empire—behind. But joining the Novantaen Resistance, an organization opposed to the Empire’s voracious expansion, throws her right back into the fray.

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Resistance fighter pilot Clo has been given a mission: infiltrate an Empire spaceship ferrying deadly cargo to gain vital intelligence. A task made all the more difficult when she’s forced to partner with an old enemy—Princess Discordia herself, Eris.

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They discover more than they bargained for on the ship: fugitives with firsthand knowledge of the Empire’s inner workings. With this information, these women might just bring the Empire to its knees. But the clock is ticking: Eris’s brother Damocles, new heir to the throne, plans to disrupt a peace summit with the only remaining free alien people, ensuring the Empire’s total domination. Unless this band of unlikely rebels stops him, millions will die...

Despite increasing restrictions on the freedoms of women on Earth, Valerie Black is spearheading the first all-female mission to a planet in the Goldilocks Zone, where conditions are just right for human habitation.

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It’s humanity’s last hope for survival, and Naomi, Valerie’s surrogate daughter and the ship’s botanist, has been waiting her whole life for an opportunity like this—to step out of Valerie’s shadow and really make a difference.

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But when things start going wrong on the ship, Naomi starts to suspect that someone on board is concealing a terrible secret—and realizes time for life on Earth may be running out faster than they feared...

She can uncover the truth, if she defeats her demons.

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Ex-neuroscientist Carina struggles with a drug problem, her conscience, and urges to kill. She satisfies her cravings in dreams, fueled by the addictive drug ‘Zeal.’ Now she’s heading for self-destruction—until she has a vision of a dead girl.

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Sudice Inc. damaged Carina when she worked on their sinister brain-mapping project, causing her violent compulsions. And this girl was a similar experiment. When Carina realizes the vision was planted by her old colleague Mark, desperate for help to expose the company, she knows he’s probably dead. Her only hope is to unmask her nemesis—or she’s next.

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To unlock the secrets Mark hid in her mind, she’ll need a group of specialist hackers. Dax is one of them, a doctor who can help Carina fight her addictions. If she holds on to her humanity, they might even have a future together. But first she must destroy her adversary—before it changes us and our society forever.

To save her twin, she must take her identity.

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One night Tila stumbles home, terrified and covered in blood. She’s then arrested for murder, the first by a civilian in decades. The San Francisco police suspect that the drug ‘Verve’ is involved, and offer Tila’s sister Taema a chilling deal to save her sister’s life. Posing as Tila, she must infiltrate the crime syndicate running the drug to help bring it down. However, Taema’s inquiries raise dangerous questions.

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The sisters were raised by a cult which banned modern medicine. Yet as conjoined twins, they needed surgery to replace their failing heart, so had to escape. Now Tila discovers disturbing links between the twins’ past and their present. Once unable to keep secrets, the twins now learn the true cost of lies.

In a land of lost wonders, the past is stirring once more...

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Gene’s life resembles a debutante’s dream. Yet she hides a secret that would see her shunned by the nobility. Gene is both male and female. Then she displays unwanted magical abilities—last seen in mysterious beings from an almost-forgotten age. Matters escalate further when her parents plan a devastating betrayal, so she flees home, dressed as a boy.

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The city beyond contains glowing glass relics from a lost civilization. They call to her, but she wants freedom, not mysteries. So, reinvented as ‘Micah Grey,’ Gene joins the circus. As an aerialist, she discovers the joy of flight—but the circus has a dark side. She’s also plagued by visions foretelling danger. A storm is howling in from the past, but will she heed its roar?

Old magics are waking. But will the world survive their return?

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Micah Grey almost died when he fled the circus with Drystan—now he and the ex-clown seek to outrun disaster. Drystan persuades his old friend Jasper Maske, a once-renowned magician, to take them in. But when he agrees to teach them his trade, Maske is challenged to the ultimate high-stakes duel by his embittered arch-nemesis.

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Micah must perfect his skills of illusion, while navigating a tender new love. An investigator is also hunting the person he once seemed to be—a noble family’s runaway daughter. As the duel draws near, Micah increasingly suffers from visions showing him real magic and future terrors. Events that broke the ancient world are being replayed. But can Micah’s latent powers influence this deadly pattern?

The gifted hide their talents, but dare they step into the light?

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Micah’s Chimaera powers are growing, until his dark visions overwhelm him. Drystan is forced to take him to Dr. Pozzi to save his life. But can they really trust the doctor, especially when a close friend is revealed to be his spy?

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Meanwhile, violent unrest is sweeping the country, as anti-royalist factions fight to be heard. Then three chimaera are attacked, after revealing their existence with the monarchy’s blessing—and the struggle becomes personal. A small sect decimated the chimaera in ancient times and nearly destroyed the world. Now they’ve re-emerged to spread terror once more. Micah will discover a royal secret, which draws him into the heart of the conflict. And he and his friends must risk everything to finally bring peace to their land.

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Masquerade is the third and final novel in L.R. Lam’s Micah Grey trilogy.