The maid I hired recently has been taking care of my every need, but I can’t rely on her forever— I have to show her I can stand on my own, too. So I’ll use my school’s ski trip as a chance to prove I can look after myself and make friends with my classmates! I’m sure my maid will be surprised by how much I’ve grown...that is, as long as she doesn’t end up following me to the camp out of worry...

There’s something really strange about the maid I just hired! No normal person could be so beautiful, or cook such amazingly delicious food, or know exactly what I want before I even ask. She must be using magic—right, a spell is the only thing that can explain why my chest feels so tight whenever I look at her. I swear, I’m going to get to the bottom of what makes this maid so...mysterious!

I just can’t trust the maid I hired recently that’s why I have to keep my eyes on her at all times. But since she’s so cute, she’s going to draw way too much attention if I let her come to school with...Um, why is that girl longingly watching us? No matter how mysterious and suspicious my maid may be, I can’t let someone else take her away!

The maid I hired recently has been causing me all sorts of problems. She won’t look afterherself, even when it’s rainy or cold. And after receiving a mysterious letter, she says she can no longer work for me! Despite all the trouble, there’s no way I’ll let her leave—not when I’ve come to rely on her so much. Besides, how am I supposed to win at the upcoming sports festival without her cheering me on...?

I’ve finally worked up the courage to tell the maid I hired recently I love her...but just as she’s about to reply, an unexpected guest barges into the manor! What’s more, she says she wants my maid to go back with her...?! There’s no way I’m letting that happen—not when I haven’t gotten a chance to hear her response yet, ande specially when I don’t even know what kind of“love” it is I’m feeling...

In such stunning novels of crime and character as Die Upon a Kiss, Sold Down the River, and A Free Man of Color, Benjamin January tracked down killers through the sensuous, atmospheric, dangerously beautiful world of Old New Orleans. Now, in this new novel by bestselling author Barbara Hambly, he follows a trail of murder from illicit back alleys to glittering mansions to a dark place where the oldest and deadliest secrets lie buried . . . Wet Grave It’s 1835 and the relentless glare of the late July sun has slowed New Orleans to a standstill. When Hesione LeGros--once a corsair’s jeweled mistress, now a raddled hag--is found slashed to death in a shanty on the fringe of New Orleans’s most lawless quarter, there are few to care. But one of them is Benjamin January, musician and teacher. He well recalls her blazing ebony beauty when she appeared, exquisitely gowned and handy with a stiletto, at a demimonde banquet years ago. Who would want to kill this woman now--Hessy, they said, would turn a trick for a bottle of rum--had some quarrelsome “customer” decided to do away with her? Or could it be one of the sexual predators who roamed the dark and seedy streets? Or--as Benjamin comes to suspect--was her killer someone she knew, someone whose careful search of her shack suggests a cold-blooded crime? Someone whose boot left a chillingly distinctive print . . . His inquiries at taverns, markets, and slave dances reveal little about “Hellfire Hessy” since her glory days in Barataria Bay, once the lair of gentlemen pirates. Then the murder is swept from his mind by the delivery of a crate filled with contraband rifles--and yet another telltale boot print left by its claimant. When a murder swiftly follows, Ben and Rose Vitrac, the woman he loves, fear the workings of a serpentine mind and a treacherous plot: one only they can hope to thwart in time. All too soon they are fugitives of color in the stormy bayous and marshes of slave-stealer country, headed for smugglers’ haunts and sinister plantations, where one false step could be their last toward a...Wet Grave.

Daughter of the Forest is a testimony to an incredible author's talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love. Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader; Diarmid, with his passion for adventure; twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling; rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight; and the young, compassionate Padriac. But it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift. To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror. When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once. Juliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The maid I hired recently is just too suspicious. I can’t get thoughts of how beautiful she is out of my head, and I can’t stand seeing her talk to anyone but me…What could she be doing to me?! My classmate Gojouin says this is “love”—but just what is “love,” exactly? I’m determined to find out, no matter what it takes! This time, will I finally be able to express my true feelings for her…?

In order to continue living with Lilith, Yuuri decides he wants to become a cool, dependable adult. What kinds of efforts will he make in order to grow up more quickly? And how will Lilith react as she watches Yuuri find his own ways of maturing...?

IT'S A PRISON BREAK! Purgatory Remedial Academy is holding its annual school festival, where Kyousuke Kamiya couldn't be having a worse time. After recovering from the athletics festival, Renko Hikawa has been hounding Kyousuke endlessly, which only makes Eiri Akabane even more aggressive in her own attempts to seduce him. Right when life seems like it couldn't get any more complicated, the Akabane family decides to pop in for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Kamiya, who demand that their children drop out! With the school's deadly exams coming up and Renko breathing down his neck, will Kyousuke finally sort out his feelings for the Murder Maid before time runs out in Psycome's killer finale?!