In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.

From the very beginning, Chancery cared nothing for power, but fate has forced her to gather all the staridium necessary to rule the world. She's finally ready to fulfill the prophecy, but not all her enemies stood outside the gate. When the villain who murdered her mother finally strikes, Chancery's unprepared. With Noah, Edam, and Judica on her side, she thought no one could defeat them.

She was wrong.

Broken, battered, and in bondage,

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Family can be the best ally-or the worst enemy. The saga continues in the third book in Bridget E. Baker's Birthright Series, where trust is the ultimate political weapon. Accept the world as it is... Days before her eighteenth birthday, Chancery Alamecha has more to worry about than the flowers at her celebration. She's no closer to learning who killed her mother. Her twin sister is missing, fate unknown. And she's the new ruler of an empire with...

Across the galaxy, mysteries deepen and threats increase. On Utopia, home of the peacekeeping Rashani, anti-neutrality protests teeter on the brink of riots. On the outskirts of the galaxy, the Sun God finds a derelict spaceship that somehow crossed the supposedly-impenetrable Firmament, its purpose still unknown. And on a storm-wracked jungle world, the first battle of a war between the main galactic powers approaches. Marissa Rhapsody,...

For fans of Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen, Sarah J. Maas' A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me, Bridget E. Baker begins a saga of shocking truths, deadly intrigue, violent battle, and sisterly betrayal. My mom should have killed me the day I was born. Being a twin complicates the Evian line of succession, but Chancery Alamecha is fine letting Judica inherit the throne. After all, she's the stronger sister-the merciless fighter,...

There are two sides to every story, but they can't both be true, can they? In the second book of the Birthright Series, Bridget E. Baker weaves a tale of bad things done for very good reasons and an unexpected chance at redemption. To be feared is lonely. . . As heir to the evian throne, Judica must be perfect every moment of every day. If she slips up, even once, her mother will replace her. Impossible standards, horrifying decisions, terrible truths-none...

The epic story of humanity writ large across the galaxy In the twenty-fifth century, settlements are established on Mars and the inner planets, but the stars are still light-years away, just a twinkle in humanity's eyes. Hyperspace is a myth-until it's not. A young scientist devises a theory for an engine that propels a ship at faster-than-light speed-and suddenly the galaxy is there for the taking. It's a story that's been told before in the annals...

The Deus are not supposed to interfere with mortals. But when a prophecy foretells the fall of the entire galaxy, the gods must look beyond the pantheon for help. Marissa and Arc Rhapsody escaped a life as gladiator slaves to take entirely different paths. Arc put his violent past behind him to become a diplomat, while Marissa returned to the only thing she was good at: fighting. Uncommon strength is the gift, and the curse, of her half-Deus...

Chancery may be the youngest ruler of the Evians, but she won her first battle. Thanks to her success, the powers ruling the rest of the Earth are aligning against her, and her supporters' demands grow with every passing day. Her days of hiding are over.... A 5,000-year-old prophecy and a dull black rock ruined the life Chancery planned for herself. As she navigates the roiling waters of ancient prejudice, assassination, war, and refugees, she discovers...

All These Things I've Done, the first novel in the Birthright series, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen year old with the heart of a girl and the responsibilities of a grown woman. Now eighteen, life has been more bitter than sweet for Anya. She has lost her parents and her grandmother, and has spent the better part of her high school years in trouble with the law. Perhaps hardest of all, her decision to open a nightclub...