R. A. Mayes

For fans of Alessa Thorn's Mercenary and Magic series and Naughty Dog's Uncharted games. Rise of the Shadow is the first book in The Shadow Series, an action-filled contemporary fantasy with hidden magic, found family, morally grey characters and a steamy enemies-to-lovers romance. For eight years Caeli had been on the run. For eight years she had been hunting treasure and making a reputation alongside her partner in crime, Vincent Sinclair....

Four wacky guys take on a pack of rich stuffed shirts. Rick is a slobby but good-natured snowboarder who is mending a broken heart after splitting up with Anna. Rick has headed back to Bull Mountain, where he and his buddies Luke, Anthony, and Pigpen spend their days riding the slopes and their nights partying hard. But after Papa Muntz, the city's founder and largest landowner, passes on, his son Ted sells most of his property to a wealthy but pompous...