From [Yen Press](https://www.yenpress.com/the-way-of-shadows/): For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art—and he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly—and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics—and cultivate a flair for death.

As Lt. Det. Esh Voss follows the darkening trail into Mia's death, his fight with insomnia begins to take over. His ongoing problematic relationship with Intuitive Counselor Jonah Leif, is only complicating matters and unlocking even deeper, more painful secrets from his tragic past. Refusing to accept that his nightmare visions may be real, and not just fragments of a sleep disorder, Voss tightens his grip on the tenuous reality he subscribes to at the determent of his own safety and care for those he protects.

Honduran teenager Eli Santos is plucked from his troubled life by an extraterrestrial scout to participate in a galactic tournament that will decide the course of over a trillion lifeforms. But can Eli forge a relationship with his beast and challenge the despots who would seek to conquer everything, or is he doomed to fail? A galaxy waits nervously to see how the Titan King Tournament unfolds…

From Seven Seas: Ann was once shy and withdrawn until her crush on pretty boy Jem makes her take notice of the world around her. But her blossoming love life hits a snag when Jem attracts the attentions of Rae, the most beautiful girl in school. Sure, it might seem like your average high school love triangle... until an identity-snatching alien from outer space jumps into the fray and things go helter-skelter!

It's the 17th Century, and the powers of Europe are struggling violently for dominion over the oceans. Danielle, daughter of a Spanish lady and a French merchant, flees her constrictive upper-class life when she receives a disturbing letter from her father, entrusting her with a strange miniature astrolabe. But on her way from Barcelona to Marseille, her life is threatened, she nearly drowns, and she is befriended by a handsome pair of travelers...but Angeline and Leon are definitely not what they claim to be. Source: Chromatic Press

Alessandro Leone is a young and brilliant actor. Luca Arcadi turned his back on his wealthy family to become a writer. Adrian Hoeg is a famous Danish theater director. Marco Amedei is nineteen year old lead actor. The lives of these four men intertwine amid the setting of a Venice theater. They find themselves drawn into in their own drama, filled with romance, deception, and anguish. It's said the only difference between a comedy and tragedy is the ending. Will this simply be a comedy of errors? Or will the ending be filled with futile deaths?

XENOTYPE is an dark science fiction series that combines the best of western storytelling with shonen battle manga! This genre redefining epic introduces the high-flying transformation hero ESPER and showcases his first contact with the enigmatic horrors of the BLACK DIAMOND conspiracy! If you're a fan of Akira, Attack on Titan, Bio-Booster Armor Guyver or Tokyo Ghoul, XENOTYPE is going to blow your mind! Don't Miss Out! Featuring the art of multi-award winning mangaka, Odysseas Theodoratos! If you've found your interest in mainstream comic books waning as traditional storytelling is undermined by social agendas that pay no reverence or respect to decades of world building and character development -- if you long for a return to high-octane action with heart -- this is the series you've been waiting for!

At once heart-rending and eye-opening, this true-life memoir is a shocking yet intensely moving first-person account of one woman’s experience of growing up in Japan’s yakuza society. Born into the family of a wealthy crime boss, Shoko Tendo lives her early years in luxury. But labeled “the yakuza kid,” she soon becomes the victim of bullying and discrimination from teachers and classmates at school, and of her father’s drunken rages at home. As her family falls into debt and her father’s influence wanes, Tendo falls in with the wrong crowd, and other men begin to appear in her life. By the age of fifteen she is a gang member, by the age of eighteen a drug addict, and her twenties are marked by a series of abusive and violent relationships with men. Tendo sinks lower and lower, time and again an unwitting victim as she struggles to define her role as a woman in the violent, sexist, and drug-addled world she is thrust into at a far-too-tender age. After the death of her parents and her own attempt at suicide, she begins a tortuous, soul-searching reevaluation of the road she has taken—and it is only a startling, unconventional act of empowerment that brings her back from the brink. Initually an OEL, it was first published in the West and then serialized as manga in the East.

Namiko is a naive mermaid with a pink tail, flowing silver hair, and the most beautiful voice. It is her dream to sing of love and hope to her beloved Eiji, a member of ExciTe, a Japanese pop-duo who happens to be searching for a special maiden. Following the melody beset by her dreams of romance, Namiko flies from the Atlantic region to Japan. Despite chasing this personal love-story, Namiko carries with her the divine commission given to all Merpeople by The Father of Love with her. The human world declines more and more as it slips further and further into the influence of the Shadows, causing humans to forget love and seek decadent independence which is the source of the world's chaos. Merpeople are commissioned to sing to all humans, teaching them of true love and a coming new world of peace. However, the queen of Shadows, Lady Sin and her warriors seek to eradicate all Merpeople along with their songs to preserve the current world and advance human progression. By gathering "Progeny", humans who embrace shadows, Lady Sin seeks to awaken the "Heir to the Light Bearer" who will revive an ancient kingdom, sealing the fate of the world's future. Upon arriving in Japan, after an unexpected chance to meet her beloved Eiji being squandered, Namiko meets a mysterious traveling music conductor and a dapper owl named Oliver. During their exchange, she is gifted a special pearl of divine power and is revealed to be Pearl Maiden, the one who will seal away the Shadows. Namiko takes on her mission with a wistful reluctance as the mysterious songs of ExciTe tug at her very soul. Not knowing that Eiji and his partner Teppei hold deep secrets of their own, Namiko is teased with constant chances of the long-awaited rendezvous as the peridot-eyed celebrity reaches out to her. However, the enemy continues to advance, rapidly coming ever closer to awakening the Heir who will transform the world into an empire of shadows. With the future of the world at stake, Namiko must ask herself a question to which the answer seals the fate of the world: "What's more important: Her love? Or her Duty?"

Lonely, unpopular middle schooler Milo has a secret: he's actually Magical Maiden Mimi, the plucky heroine that protects the city from the cuddly-yet-vicious aliens that threaten the peace! When a magical slip-up leaks his identity to the public, Milo finds himself with the fame and admiration he's always dreamed of... but embracing his new popularity might push him away from the things that matter the most.

Rivals-turned-lovers Peony and Silkrose finally set out on their long-awaited honeymoon, but the awakening of a powerful new Battle Princess threatens to tear the two apart for good! Meanwhile, in an alternate universe, Dianthus and Silkrose reluctantly join forces to put on the perfect party for their princess, but will they be able to hold it together with Peony’s affections on the line?