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Emerge
Series · 7 books · 2015-2020

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#1

The Awakening

2015

One of the most powerful of her generation. They tell her he is her equal and she must learn to protect herself from their enemies. When Allie Carmichael finds herself caught up in a dangerous world of immortality she never knew existed, nothing is as it seems. As a latent Immortal power awakens deep inside her and her first gifts begin to emerge, Allie must learn to adapt to her power before it overwhelms her. But she’s years behind her peers, with precious little time to catch up. They say it is time to put her mortal life behind her, but she still feels like the normal girl she always thought she was. The Awakening is the first book in a series of dark, paranormal urban fantasy tales. If you like high-stakes action, strong female leads, and something more than the usual suspects (vampires, werewolves and shifters), then you’ll love the Immortals of Melissa A. Craven’s imaginative world.
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#1.5

The Edge

2015

Alienated by everything that sets him apart, Aidan McBrien suffers in silence. He is the most powerful Immortal of his generation, but he chooses to live behind a mask to protect himself, even from those he loves. They can never know how much he struggles just to get through each day, overwhelmed by the pain and loss of everyone around him. As he fights a constant battle to control the gifts that threaten to push him over the edge, he dreads the day his world will look to him to fulfill a prophecy that he doesn’t even believe in. As Aidan’s equal, Allie Carmichael endures the same isolation, but in complete ignorance of her true nature. When she meets Gavin, Allie sees a tiny glimmer of the life she wants to live, and the person she wants to be, but her instincts tell her it will never work. Allie and Aidan have led parallel lives on opposite ends of the earth, but their paths are about to converge. With others making decisions for them, will they ever truly understand the immeasurable power they posses, or the prophecy that might not be about Aidan after all?
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#2

The Judgment

2020

They claim the prophecy is about her. They say she will lead the Immortals into an unknown future. But she is angry. And that anger is all she has left. Allie Carmichael has so many secrets she doesn't know what-or who-to believe anymore. After dropping a truth bomb that changed her world, Greggory McBrien has disappeared without answering the questions that have haunted her for months. The knowledge that her life was built on a foundation of lies and manipulation has left Allie in a twisted mess of emotions. She still feels overwhelmed with guilt for her mistakes that left her scarred for life and Quinn a captive of the Coalition. When she returns to school and her normal routine, Allie finds herself constantly dancing on the edge of losing control of her power, too afraid and too furious to confide in anyone—even her broody best friend, Aidan, who could be more than just a friend after that night in Agra they don't talk about. An encounter at a dangerous Immortal nightclub gives Allie and her friends a chance to discover what really happened to Quinn. But as Allie continues to struggle with the nightmares that only Aidan can keep at bay, she doesn't understand what her clairvoyant gift is trying to tell her. Just when she begins to put the pieces together, she fears it might be too late, and this time the price for her mistakes will be much too high. Last time she was afraid. This time she is angry.
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#2.5

The Volunteer

2017

Her ancient Mayan family struggles in the modern world but ... Is the cost of living forever worth her sacrifice? Santi is a young Immortal on the brink of setting out on her own, but her family is drowning in debt and overwhelmed by the stress of living paycheck to paycheck with no end in sight. When Santi meets the indomitable Immortal, Livia, head of a company called Soma, she is ready and willing to accept her position as one of Livia's most trusted agents—along with the income that will save her family's home. Among the most technologically savvy of her kind, Santi must prove her worth. But Santi has no idea what she's volunteered for.
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#3

The Captive

2017

Preorder Emerge: The Captive at the special publisher price of $0.99 The Captive releses on August 28th and will return to regular price soon after. A moment of distraction has cost him his freedom but Quinnton Loukas has a dangerous secret Held as a captive of the Immortal organization, known as Soma, if his secret is discovered it will be used against him. From the moment of his Awakening, Quinn has struggled with an addiction to his power. The rigid self-control that has kept his addiction at bay is now in the hands of another. If Livia discovers what he is capable of, she will drive him to become the monster he fears is lurking deep inside his soul. His only hope is to escape before she has that chance. But there are others at Soma. Those he’s grown to care for and refuses to leave behind. Thousands of miles away in India, Sasha blames herself for the capture of the boy she’s loved nearly all her life. As she and her family work to find a way to bring Quinn home, Sasha is caught up on a journey of her own that will take her far from everything she ever thought she wanted. Drafted by the Senate into a brutal training program, Sasha begins to discover who she truly is and how little control she has over her own destiny. Sasha and Quinn have always shared a special bond, but with their lives moving in opposite directions can they ever go back to the way they were? Or is there something much more complicated about the future of their relationship? Immortality. Prophecy. Power. Join Quinn and Sasha in this coming of age, paranormal and urban fantasy with themes of adoption, diversity, supernatural, and historical fiction. Emerge Awards: YA Books Central Top 4 Finalist - Best Indie of 2016 Winner 2016 RONE Awards for Best Cover Design 2015 Dante Rossetti YA Awards Finalist 2015 USA Best Book Awards Finalist 2015 International Book Awards Finalist Top 50 Indie Books of 2015 Recomended Reading Order: Emerge: The Awakening (Book 1) Emerge: The Edge (Book 1.5) Emerge: The Scholar (An Illustrated Character Journal) Emerge: The Volunteer (An Emerge Short Story) Emerge: The Judgment (Book 2) Emerge: The Captive (Book 3) Emerge: The Catalyst (Short Story coming tothe Marked by Fate Origins Anthology Fall 2017) Emerge: The Heir (Book 4 coming this winter)
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#4

The Heir

2018

The last Immortal Queen of Indriell has named her heir. The title means nothing to Allie Carmichael. Nothing but more drama and attention she never asked for. Allie loves her newly discovered royal grandparents, but she just wants to finish her senior year of college and start her first job. Not step forward as the princess of a long dead nation she knows precious little about. At twenty-one, she considers herself an adult and has finally found the normal life she’s always craved. As normal as it gets for a young Immortal legacy—prophecy or not. For years, Allie and Aidan have gone their separate ways, doing the college thing and just living their lives. Apart. It was his choice to sever their ties. A sacrifice to give her the time she needed to come to terms with her bond with his brother, Darius. A sacrifice she’s come to believe was necessary for all of them. But when Allie discovers that Aidan hasn’t been in school all this time—and his family hasn’t heard from him in more than a year, she struggles to contain her rage and the powerful judgment that burns within her. Protecting Aidan, even from himself, fuels her every breath. She would do anything for him. Even step forward as the heir. The Mortal Instruments meets Red Queen in the Immortals of Indriell, a series of dark, paranormal fantasy tales.
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#5

The Betrayal

2019

Four years ago, Allie and Aidan parted ways. She had a new life that didn’t include him. He had a secret he couldn’t share. Aidan: It broke his heart, but to save her, he had to set her free. Shielding Allie and his family from his new life is the only thing that keeps Aidan going. That, and his special bond with his partner, Naomi. Together they have an important job to do. Convince the Milan Initiative they can be trusted to lead an army of Syntrophos—an army that is loyal to Aidan alone. But betrayal is like a cloud hanging over them. It lurks in every corner, leaving Aidan and Naomi unable to trust anyone but themselves. Allie: Reeling from the loss of the most important person in her life, Allie’s spirit is broken. Her only anchor in the storm is her Syntrophos, Darius McBrien. With Aidan’s inexplicable absence, Allie distances herself from the McBrien family, finding solace in an unexpected friendship. Determined to keep her indomitable sister, Livia behind bars where she belongs, Allie moves on with her life. But as the brewing war in the Dreamworld reaches new heights, Allie and Livia must work together with Navid and Quinn to stop the dream walker who threatens the very lifeblood of the Dreamworld. Allie has been warned. Someone close to her will betray her. But her clairvoyance didn’t come with a rulebook and Allie has no idea who she can trust. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\_ Recommended Reading Order Emerge: The Awakening (Book 1) Emerge: The Edge (Book 1.5) Emerge: The Scholar (An Illustrated Character Journal) Emerge: The Volunteer (An Emerge Short Story) Emerge: The Judgment (Book 2) Emerge: The Catalyst (Short Story ) Emerge: The Captive (Book 3) Emerge: The Assignment (An Emerge novella) Emerge: The Heir (Book 4 ) Emerge: The Betrayal (Book 5)

Author

Melissa A. Craven
Melissa A. Craven
Author · 28 books

Melissa A. Craven (the "A" stands for Ann—in case you were wondering) was born near Atlanta, Georgia, but moved to Cleveland, Ohio at the age of seventeen. She still thinks of Cleveland as home, so it was only natural for Emerge to take place there. Today, she is back in Atlanta—for some reason she can't seem to stay away from the ungodly heat that makes her long for things like "lake effect snow" and wind that will knock you flat. Melissa decided a long time ago that the “life checklist” everyone else was clutching so tightly in their fists, just wasn’t for her. She does everything backwards because she is weird like that, but then, she is an artist and artists are notoriously "unique" and "quirky." She is an avid student of art and design, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of West Georgia in 2009. She worked as an interior designer for several years, but she's always thought she might like to be a writer when she grows up. In her spare time, if she has any, she enjoys shopping for derelict furniture she refinishes to exercise the interior design part of her brain.

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