hc = hardcover, tp = trade (oversized) paperback, [UK ed] = British publication, [CDN ed] = Canadian publication. Default is US publication.
Please note that this listing is not exhaustive; we have many more (several hundred more) titles coming during this period.
The god Autumn and his human companion, Tirne, become trapped in the mortal world. As the endless autumn stretches on, crops begin to fail and the threat of starvation looms. And Autumn's extended stay in the human realm turns him ever more mortal and vulnerable, stirring a new, forbidden attraction to Tirne. Tirne finds an unlikely ally - or enemy - in the enigmatic sorcerer and master of poisons, Sidriel.
A collection of 18 stories of modern horror.
Beautiful, royal, rich: Rhea has it all - until her father loses his kingdom in a treacherous coup, and she is sent to the order of the Vestal Virgins to ensure she will never produce an heir. Except when mortals scheme, gods laugh. Rhea becomes pregnant, and human society turns against her. Abandoned, ostracized, and facing the gravest punishment, Rhea forges a dangerous deal with the divine, one that will forever change the trajectory of her life...and her beloved land.
A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible - for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. A civil servant is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he's a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as "washing machines," "Spotify," and "the collapse of the British Empire."
Earth, 2180. Genetically engineered with partly alien DNA, Lieutenant Selene Genji is stationed on a ship in orbit when humanity's factional extremism results in the utter annihilation of Earth. The explosion hurls her forty years into the past, and so Genji is given a chance to try to change the future and save Earth - starting with the alien first contact only she knows will soon occur.
In Roman-occupied Britain, the Iceni tribe crowns an extraordinary new queen. Boudicca leads her tribe into war with Rome. After her armies sack the wealthy cities of Camulodunum, Londinium and Veralamium, they plan an assault on the remaining Roman legions. But the Druid Rhan foresees a tragic end to Boudicca's rebellion, but swears she will alter the future and save her queen.
Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with powerful technologies. Yet she is blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal bodies. When her Gift is discovered by an enemy prince, he offers her an impossible deal - become his private assassin and her family will never starve or suffer harm again.
After her best friend dies in a coal mine, Benethea "Bennie" Mattox sacrifices her job, her relationship, and her reputation to uncover what's killing miners on Kire Mountain. When instead she finds a half-drowned white woman in a dirty mine slough, Bennie takes her in. The woman called Motheater can't remember her true name, or how she ended up inside the mountain. She knows only that she's a witch of Appalachia, bound to tor and holler, possum and snake, with power in her hands and Scripture on her tongue. But the mystery of her fate, her doomed quest to keep industry off Kire Mountain, and the promises she bent and broke have followed her a century and half into the future.
In a mortal world colonized by the gods and ruled over by their cruel, magical offspring called the Descended, Diem Bellator yearns to escape her poor village. Her mother's sudden disappearance - and the discovery of a dangerous secret about her past - offer Diem an unexpected opportunity to enter the dark world of Descended royalty and unlock a web of mysteries left behind by her mother.
Bonded by a common enemy, then divided by deceit, the blades must rely on their skills to pull off King Joon's pursuit or risk his legendary wrath. A foreign rule of law stands between them and Quilimar, the Queen of Khitan. Now they have one month to steal the powerful Golden Ring of the Dragon Lord. But that impossible task might be easier than trusting one another, even though their lives, their families, and the realms depend on it.
In the last vampire city of First Light the rules are simple. If you're poor, you drink weak blood. If you're nobility, you get the good stuff. And you can never, ever leave. Palace maid Sam has had enough of these rules, and she's definitely had enough of cleaning the bedpans of the lords who enforce them. When the son of the city's ruler is murdered and she finds the only clue to his death, she seizes the chance to blackmail her way into a better class and better blood.
An ancient alien artifact chooses research cadet Nick to explore the world stored within it. Yensere is a place full of forgotten empires, heroes with strange powers, and monstrous creatures that he is automatically transported to when he sleeps. In this land guided by statistics and levels, Nick is seen as a demonic threat by its diseased inhabitants and always killed on sight. Whenever he awakens again on the research station, Yensere drags him back for another life...and another death.
Estevar Borros, one of the legendary sword-fighting magistrates known as the Greatcoats and the king's personal investigator of the supernatural, is no stranger to tales of ghosts and demons. When the fractious monks of the abbey rumored to be the birthplace of the gods begin warring over claims of a new pantheon arising, the frantic abbot summons him to settle the dispute. But Estevar has his own problems: a near-fatal sword wound from his last judicial duel, a sworn knight who claims he has proof the monks are consorting with demons, a diabolical inquisitor with no love for the Greatcoats, and a mysterious young woman claiming to be Estevar's ally but who may well be his deadliest enemy.
2006. Self-employed forensic accountant Martin Hench spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost $25. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island, he has no idea he's kicked off a chain of events that will overtake the next decade of his life. Martin has made his most dangerous mistake yet: trespassed into the playgrounds of the ultra-wealthy and spoiled their fun.
Gracetown, Florida: June 1950. 12 year old Robbie is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey into the horror of the school they call The Reformatory. His talent for seeing haints, once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother, has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory.
In a world ruled by the cruel and merciless Stars, Elara has been cursed by fate. A prophecy promises she will fall for a Star, but that it will kill them both. So when Ariete, Star of Wrath, War and Chaos, descends to wreak havoc on Elara's kingdom, she flees her home. the Kingdom of Night, for the neighbouring Helios, Kingdom of Light. And strides straight into the arms of an enemy prince.
Here then, stories of the things that go bump in the night and the men and women who bump back - focusing on the myths, legends, and folklore of Czechia, by Czech authors. Includes a new short story by Larry Correia.
A court invitation is delivered to bladesmith Suraya Saab. She knows she has no qualifications as a potential bride for the crown prince. But what awaits her in the capital city Kaldari is nothing she could have imagined - and fraught with danger. It's not the crown prince, but his impossibly handsome, illegitimate half-brother, Roshan, who captures her interest...and her ire. The invitation isn't a quest to find a suitable bride, but a veiled hunt for the Starkeeper - a girl rumored to hold the magic of the stars in her blood.
Imprisoned on the dreaded Devil's Island, Zarrah faces two choices: prove her loyalty to the Empress who condemned her or die as a traitor. Yet as she struggles to survive among violent prisoners, Zarrah uncovers a third path - a rebellion to overthrow tyranny entwined with the destiny she must fight to claim.
Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins, an isolated boardinghouse for misfits, seeking to forget their pasts and disappear into the mansion's dark corridors. It is also haunted by a grieving djinn, who once loved the original owner's second wife.
Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves that also call the forested mountains home. Formed by hard experience, by love and loss, and by the prophecies of a fortune teller, Vida just wants peace. If only nearby Kettleton County didn't cast such a dark shadow. It's where Jose Nochelobo, the love of Vida's life and a cherished local hero, died in a tragic accident. That's the official story, but Vida has reasons to doubt it.
Nadya never considered herself less than whole, not until her adoptive parents fitted her with a prosthetic arm against her will, seeking to replace the one she'd been missing from birth. It was cumbersome; it was uncomfortable; it was wrong. It wasn't her. Frustrated and unable to express why, Nadya began to wander, until the day she fell through a door into Belyrreka, the Land Beneath the Lake - and found herself in a world of water, filled with child-eating amphibians, majestic giant turtles, and impossible ships that sailed as happily beneath the surface as on top.
After her deception is discovered, Princess Faraine is trapped in the Shadow Realm and at the mercy of her new husband. She's surrounded by enemies and far from any allies. Dissolving their marriage alliance would spell disaster for her people, not to mention break her heart. With the instability in his realm growing daily, King Vor is more desperate than ever to find a solution. Only, it cannot involve his wife.
Join Miralda and Orien on their epic quest as they journey to the fabled kingdom of Ellamir and attempt to take back what is rightfully theirs. Along the way, you'll dodge hostile weapon-forgers by moonlight, navigate mystical mazes, crack cryptic incantations, and much more. These fun and challenging brain-teasers include logic, word, and number puzzles, which will provide hours of entertainment.
Zellu is disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law. She has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. After being fired from her university job, and her novel is rejected, she decides to write a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots. It will catapult her into literary stardom, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be.
One thousand million infants are dead, and Nathan Treeves is back. He's become the Master of Waterblack, the City of the Dead. And Sharli, once a sacrifice, then an assassin, is now a trained God-Killer. She has killed many - but failed in killing Nathan Treeves years ago. Soon she, and the Women's Vanguard, will have another chance, even as the Master, the Mistress and the Atheistic Crusade hurtle toward their final confrontation.
Known for the brutal act of killing her own children to exact vengeance on her deceitful husband, the Argonauts leader Jason, Medea has carved out a singularly infamous niche in our histories. But what if that isn't the full story?
The celestial dancers known as apsaras are revered for their beauty, allure, and enchanting magic. But Meneka, trained as a weapon, despises leaving each of her marks in thrall to her potent illusions. She strikes a bargain with Indra, king of heaven. She will be free, after one last mission. She must seduce the mortal sage Kaushika, whose growing powers threaten Indra's supremacy. But can she overthrow the man who is - little by little - stealing her heart? As war looms in the skies, she will be forced to make a choice.
25 years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall, the site of her father's memoir called House of Horrors. His story of supernatural happenings and malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon. Maggie doesn't believe in ghosts - or her father's story. When she inherits Baneberry Hall after his death and returns to renovate the place and sell it, she will have the opportunity to test her beliefs against the house.
In the free sea outside of the control of the usurping Xoconai empire, the dwarven Powrie pirates and merchants sail. But the golden-skinned Xoconai have begun to encroach upon these waters behind the rapacious attacks of the frigate Crocodile, helmed by Captain Aketz. When forced to submit, these sailors choose to live, free to do as they please, without some fool or another pretending to hold power over them.
In a land ruled by ruthless Fae, 21-year-old Lore Alemeyu's village is trapped in a forested prison. When her village is threatened, Lore makes a desperate deal with a Fae lord. She will leave her home to catalog/organize an enchanted library that hasn't been touched in a thousand years. No Fae may enter the library, but there is a chance a human might be able to breach the cursed doors.
After her sacrifice on the Ember Moon, Fia is flush with powerful magic and eager to rush into battle against her murderous sister, Eala. However, Fia's new husband Irian suggests they bide their time and retreat to the Silver Isle, a snowy island at the edge of the fae world ruled by a cunning smith-king. There Fia and Irian become embroiled in the Tournament of Kings, competing for a magical forging of immense power.
As Tink and his sister Bee-Lung spread the spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus from their aircanoe, hoping to build bonds between people and help spread revolutionary sentiments of socialism and equality, the children of the abdicated King Mwenda vie for the throne. But their mother, Queen Josina, manipulates them both from behind the scenes, while also pitting Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against one another as these countries fight to regain control of their rebellious colonies.
In 1984, teenage Derek Reilly was just another mid-England dungeon master. But then a secret government agency tasked with suppressing magical intrusions received a tip-off. Decades later Derek is now middle-aged and institutionalized at a center for deprogramming captured Elder God cultists. He decides to escape to attend what he thinks is a LARP game at a nearby D&D convention. It is instead, however, a dread ritual designed to summon a great evil into our world.
For centuries, the Everlys have seen their best and brightest disappear, taken as punishment for a crime no one remembers, for a purpose no one understands. Their tormentor, a woman named Penelope, never ages, never grows sick - and never forgives a debt. Violet Everly was a child when her mother left on a stormy night, determined to break the curse. When Marianne never returns, Penelope issues an ultimatum: Violet has ten years to find her mother, or she will take her place.
The walled city of Bulwark was founded on a system where sacrifice is rewarded by the AI that runs the city. Saint Enita Malovis, long accustomed to luxury, feels the end of her life and decades of work as a bio-prosthetist approaching and decides to create a physical being, called Nix, filled with her knowledge and experience. In the midst of her project, a fellow Sainted is brutally murdered and the city AI inexplicably erases the event from its data.
The young heir to a mortal crown, Liyen ascends a precarious throne when her grandfather dies, vowing to end her kingdom's obligation to the immortals and take vengeance against those she feels responsible for his death. When she is summoned to the Immortal Realm, she seizes the opportunity to learn their secrets and to form a tenuous alliance to safeguard her people, all with the one she should fear and mistrust the most: the ruthless God of War.
Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident has taken that one way trip to the Mandate's prison colony Kiln. Soon after arrival he discovers that humanity is not the first intelligent life to set foot there. In the midst of a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go?
Now unemployed, Darby moves back to the small Illinois town he left behind. But the only familiar thing there is In Between Books, where he worked while in high school. When he walks into the bookstore now, Darby feels an eerie sense of deja vu - everything is exactly the same. Even the newspapers are dated 2009. And behind the register is a teen who looks a lot like Darby did at sixteen...
In ancient Greece, mortals suffer under the tyranny of the gods--forced to sacrifice the food they depend on, their worldly possessions and even each other at the whims of the Twelve. But an ancient prophecy speaks of hope, of one who will set humankind free. On the island of Naxos, Danae, a fisherman's daughter, develops strange powers tied to a mysterious tree bearing golden fruit. Driven from her home, she seeks guidance from the oracle but finds only more questions...
It may turn out to be possible to turn the Shongairi, the aliens who attacked Earth, into our allies against the Hegemony. There's just the small matter of the Shongairi honour code, which makes bushido look like a child's game. We might be able to make them our friends - if we can crush their planetary defenses in the greatest battle we, or they, have ever seen...
Prince Bastian has seized the throne and raised Lore - a necromancer and former smuggler - to his right-hand side. But with Bastian's coronation fast approaching and enemies whispering on all sides, Lore must figure out how to protect herself, her prince, and her country before they all come crumbling down and whatever dark power has been creeping through the catacombs is unleashed.
Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. They're exhausted, traumatized, desperate now, and this is a forsaken place, but as a refuge it's the most promising they've seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, this could work. The only problem is, they're not alone...
When Ree and Javani stumble across a lone traveller under bandit attack, they make the mistake of lending a hand. Forced to take refuge in the traveller's village, they quickly find allies among the lush, wooded hills. But then the true nature of the bandits is revealed. With winter approaching and a vengeful company of mercenaries circling like wolves, Ree and Javani must uncover the secrets of this peaceful valley ... or risk the ruin of it all.
At the heart of a conflict between two groups of powerful immortals stands Wynter Dellavale. Wynter is a witch who sought safe haven for herself and her coven in Devil's Cradle. Founded by seven Ancient beings, the Home of Monsters provides protection, shelter, and will never give you up to outsiders - providing you pay the substantial fee. Wynter already wears the brand of Cain - the mark that says she is in his service and that her soul partly belongs to him. But as their relationship deepens, Wynter has to make a choice from which there's no turning back.
After her friend Angel sold her out, Edie was shipped off to the icy prison planet spinning far below the soaring skybridges and neon catacombs of Kepler space station - of home - to spend the best part of a decade alone. Early parole puts Edie in the pallid sunlight to find none other than Angel waiting - and she has an offer. One last job. One last deal. One last target. The trillionaire tech god they failed to bring down last time. There's just one thing Edie needs to do - trust Angel again - which also happens to be the last thing Edie wants to do.
On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, but not everyone can find it. Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop's new owner to find it ransacked, the shop's most precious acquisition stolen, and her father missing. Together with a charming stranger, Hana must journey through a mystical world to find her father and the stolen choice - by way of rain puddles, rides on paper cranes, the bridge between midnight and morning, and a night market in the clouds.
After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. Now she must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find--the truth. But a storm is coming... and not everyone can survive its wrath.
On the outskirts of Rainbow Town, there is an old, abandoned house. They say that if you send a letter detailing your misfortunes there, you could receive a ticket. If you bring this ticket to the house on the first day of the rainy season, you'll be granted entrance into the mysterious Rainfall Market - where you can choose to completely change your life. No one is more surprised than Serin when she receives a ticket.
January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax she receives word of Freddie's death in combat, along with his personal effects - but something doesn't make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital. Soon after arriving, she hears whispers about haunted trenches, and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion.
As a free A.I., Mal has no interest in the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists. But he's not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace he finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting.
When a family of scavengers recover the amnesiac Mae Hendricks amongst the wreckage of an unidentified ship, they bring a world of pain down on themselves and the civilians of Guelph Station. Mae doesn't know where she is from or her true nature, nor that she is being hunted by vicious adversaries. Mae's past could reveal the conspiracy that is tearing the galaxy apart, but may well unleash a tide of snarling terrors...
Charged initially with a single task - "to never harm humans and to protect them" - an experimental AI overrides its programming and determines that the best way to accomplish its purpose is to isolate all of the Earth's remaining seven billion humans in controlled environments. And to present them with vivid, tactile, imagined worlds - some realistic, others entirely fantastical - in which all desires are fulfilled. With the help of the machine, a group of compelling characters unpacks traumatic memories of the past - one rife with violence after a military coup and second civil war in America.
For generations, the Winston women have possessed an unspoken magical gift. They can heal with the touch of a hand. It's a tradition they've always had to practice in secret, in the moonlight hours, when the fireflies dance and the whippoorwill birds sing. But not every healer has rightfully passed on this knowledge to her descendants, and for young Louise Winston, the discovery of her abilities comes in less-than-ideal circumstances. She brings her best friend back from death following an accident, the day after he professed his long-held feelings for her, five days before she's supposed to move away.
Stories old and new, spanning all of Anne Bishop's fantasy worlds.
An explosive return to the library leaves the six Alexandrians vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment. Old alliances quickly fracture as the initiates take opposing strategies as to how to deal with the deadly bargain they have so far failed to uphold. And still the outside world mobilizes to destroy them, while the Caretaker himself, Atlas Blakely, may yet succeed with a plan foreseen to have world-ending stakes.
At the bottom of Clara's garden is a flower bed, long overgrown, where her late husband rests in peace - or so she's always thought. Then her recently orphaned nieces Lily and Violet arrive to live with her. Clara has agreed to take them, hoping to get her hands on some of the girls' assets. There's only one problem. Violet can see the dead man at the bottom of the garden. She can see all of Clara's ghosts - and call them back into existence. Soon Clara is plagued by her victims and at war with the gifted girls in her care.
Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby is now an Auditor, enforcing laws about magic for Boston's Department of Unorthodox Affairs. But tiring of being overlooked for all the exciting cases, he appropriates a case file intended for a friend. Alongside Leslie Mayflower, the temporarily unretired Huntsman, Grimsby aims to crack the case and discover the origin of a strange, unfinished ritual.
In the interest of free speech, this is the author's description: "In this book you'll learn about futurists and dreamers such as Ray Bradbury and J. R. R. Tolkien, master storytellers such as Orson Scott Card and Isaac Asimov, troubled scribes such as J. K. Rowling and George R. R. Martin, and failed visionaries preaching a dysfunctional anti-human future such as Ursula LeGuin and her covens of woke disciples infesting the literature of the imagination."
In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older sister and her parents and their researcher friends have stayed behind in an almost deserted New York City, creating a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History. The rule: Take from the exhibits only in dire need. When a superstorm breaches the city's flood walls, Nonie and her family must escape north on the Hudson, carrying with them a book that holds their records of the lost collections.
At the end of the Tenth Millennium, Zee and his AI buddy Daslakh arrive on the icy moon Miranda, hoping to make a good impression on his girlfriend Adya's upper-class parents. Instead they discover that Adya's father is the target of a political conspiracy. While Adya tries to discover who is out to ruin the family fortunes and expel them from Miranda's exclusive ruling class, Daslakh and Zee go on the trail of a lost treasure in deep space.
In the glass city of Amoria, magic is everything. And Naila, student at the city's legendary academy, is running out of time to prove she can control hers. When a tragic incident further threatens her place at the Academy, Naila is saved by Haelius Akana, the most powerful living mage. Finding Naila a kindred spirit, Haelius stakes his position at the Academy on teaching her to harness her abilities. But Haelius has many enemies, and they would love nothing more than to see Naila fail.
Manchuria, 1908. In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity.
An anthology of all new stories of science fiction and fantasy with a hardboiled noir twist that acknowledge that the city is a living, breathing entity...and it isn't always on our side. Stories by Laurell K. Hamilton, Larry Correia, Kacey Ezell, Mike Massa, Robert E. Hampson, Robert Buettner and many more.
The final novel in the series. Grand Inquisitor Omand Vokkan is a man of ambition. He's set in motion all that was necessary to destroy the current order and install Lord Protector Devedas as a tyrant. But Vokkan has a vision beyond control of the continent. He would challenge even the gods. . . . It seems the time of prophecy and the Age of Law is over: it is time the prophecies will be fulfilled.
In the world of the GREATCOATS. Damelas Shademantaigne flees the wrath of the Vixen, the most feared duelist in the city, and stumbles through the stage doors of the magnificent Operato Belleza and tricks his way into the company of actors. An archaic law provides him refuge from the Vixen until one night, on stage in a historical play, he fumbles his lines and implies that the city's most legendary hero may actually be a traitor and a brutal murderer.
Anna Sinjari - refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker - has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. While humanity reels from disaster, she must join a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists to investigate a mysterious broadcast and unknowable horror. If they can manage to face their own demons, they just might save the world.
San Francisco, 1986. MIT dropout Martin Hench is odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for granted. When Marty finds himself hired by Silicon Valley PC startup Fidelity Computing to investigate a group of disgruntled ex-employees who have founded a competitor startup, he quickly realizes he's on the wrong side.
Naval captain Alexandra Morrigan has little trust for the Galactic Authority, and by all accounts, war is brewing. When the extrasolar colony at Sirius goes silent, suspicions arise that Galactic forces or their proxies are pressuring humankind into submission. To preserve any hope of Earth's future, Morrigan and the forces she commands will do the unthinkable. Travel through the Abyss gate, and make one last stand against the Galactic forces, whose powers may defy comprehension.
Professor Everard, weird fiction scholar and proclaimed critic of H.P Lovecraft's works, is no stranger to making people mad. Giving convention presentations on the triteness and melodrama of Lovecraft's work pays the bills, though. Sometimes he even gets laid. When he angers a beautiful but dangerous witch and devotee of Lovecraft's work, she casts a spell on him, sending him to a dimension where Lovecraft's works are very real - and very deadly.
Yeeran has left her new lover, the Queen of the fae, to return to her homeland, only to find that her former lover now threatens war against the fae. Left behind, her sister Lettle is determined to break the curse that binds the fae to their realm. When a stranger appears in the city, Lettle is convinced he's the key. But the Fates that once spoke to her have fallen silent.
When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls "black magic," it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity to bullets. And it decides that obscure Silicon Valley middle manager Adrian Ross is the primary threat to its existence.Soon Adrian is on the run, wanted by every authority, with no idea how or why he could be a threat.
Emily Wilde is about to embark on her most dangerous academic project yet: studying the inner workings of a faerie realm--as its queen. Along with her former academic rival--now fiance--the dashing and mercurial Wendell Bambleby, Emily is immediately thrust into the deadly intrigues of Faerie as the two of them seize the throne of Wendell's long-lost kingdom, which Emily finds a beautiful nightmare, filled with scholarly treasures.
Michael and Melanie Anderle are hauling a tanker full of oil with their Peterbilt 18-wheeler when they're struck by a temporal irregularity that sends them, the truck, and their daughter back in time a thousand years. The bubble that transports them also grabs a chemist and her two young children, along with half a convenience store in the middle of the United States. But when the shamans of the area decide that this community of temporally displaced persons is a threat to their power, the Anderles find out what it's like to take a Peterbilt to war.
In 2038 the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, and has outlawed reading and forced most of the town's mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery. Best friends Prosperina and Neftali, with the help of a wounded bengal tigress, three scheming triplets, and an underground network of rebel tias, rise up to reclaim their city.
St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. But late one stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols carved into his flesh. His death releases an ancient evil that spreads like sickness, infecting St. Vincent's and the children within.
Caine Riordan and twelve of his crew are adrift in uncharted space, trapped on a derelict alien ship 48 hours from falling into a strange planet and burning. The only way out are flimsy, foam-inflating cargo drop pods never intended for human use. However, those who make it to the surface discover that the dangers they couldn't see from space are by far the most deadly.
Cast out to the fringes of a country on the verge of civil war, Hellevir is torn between protecting her heart or giving what little she has left to finish what she started. Yet, her connection with Sullivain runs deeper than the mortal world, and saving her friends and family might mean risking the woman she is still bound to by soul and blood. To stop a war, Hellevir must unravel the last of Death's riddles and decide, once and for all, who deserves to live, what a life is worth, and whether she can pay the price.
When a mysterious tower appears in the skies over England, thirteen strangers are pulled from their lives to stand before it as a countdown begins. Above the doorway is one word: ASCEND. As a grieving teacher, a reclusive artist, and a narcissistic celebrity children's author lead the others in trying to understand why they've been chosen and what the tower is, it soon becomes clear the only way out of this for everyone... is up.
For young Vietnamese women in 1930s Hollywood, the MGM back lot seems unreachable. Issa knows she needs to make connections. For starters, with her dead grandmother Ba Ngoai. A formidable presence of smoke, promises, and pacts, Ba Ngoai introduces Issa and her friend Olivia to the late Ava Lin Rang, a singularly magnetic Asian star of the silent screen. Ava coaches, encourages, and utilizes her own unique influence to open doors for her determined proteges.
Sean gets a call for help from his sister Brigid - his long-dead sister. She needs Sean to go to the Republican city of Illin to retrieve something called a "Purifier" for her. Sean takes his new companions, Tamara Gupta formerly a Republican soldier, and Indigo, the Minister responsible for the destruction of Sean's home, into the fray. But Illin happens to be on the same planet as Sean's old friend Senator Ketel. Y'know, the one who blackmailed and nearly murdered him.
Sarah loved and trusted no one in her close-knit coven more than her oldest friend, Abigail. Then Abigail's son was found dead at a house party and Sarah's daughter, Harper, was accused of murdering him. While the entire village of Sanctuary was consumed by the witch hunt, Sarah and Harper lost everything but their lives. They fled to the storm-wracked coastal reserve of Bittershore for refuge, but now the past is catching up with them and the secrets they have kept not only from each other, but from the entire world, are set to be unleashed at last...
Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days gutting fish but dreams of becoming a warrior. And of putting an axe in her boorish husband's back. Freya's dreams abruptly become reality when her husband betrays her to the region's jarl, landing her in a fight to the death against his son, Bjorn. To survive, Freya is forced to reveal her deepest secret. She possesses a drop of a goddess's blood, which makes her a shield maiden with magic capable of repelling any attack.
It's been four years in prison since Jade Daniels last saw her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, the day she took the fall, protecting her friend Letha and her family from incrimination. There's a lot of unfinished business in Proofrock, from serial killer cultists to the rich trying to buy Western authenticity. But there's one aspect of Proofrock no one wants to confront...until Jade comes back to town. The curse of the Lake Witch is waiting, and now is the time for the final stand.
Aaslo, the reluctant new Chosen One, and Teza, a failed magus healer, lead a small group of broken people who continue to hold back the tide of a war between the gods. They gather what forces they can scrape together for a final battle. Their band of unlikely warriors' grit and bravery in the face of staggering odds, however, has strengthened all of them as they come into their power and their destiny.
Short stories: a blend of science fiction, horror, and fantasy that examines issues of race, class, and prejudice.
One evening in downtown Seoul, Jeong-su is smoking a cigarette outside when he sees something impossible. A huge black orb appears out of nowhere and sucks his neighbour inside. Jeong-su manages to get away, but the terrifying sphere can move through walls, so he's sure he won't be able to hide for long. The orb soon begins consuming every person caught in its path, and no one knows how to stop it.
All three stories in one volume: GWENDY'S BUTTON BOX, GWENDY'S MAGIC FEATHER, GWENDY'S FINAL TASK. 12 year old Gwendy Peterson's life is forever changed when she is given a mysterious wooden box by a stranger for safekeeping. It offers enticing treats and vintage coins, but he warns her that if she presses any of the box's beautifully colored buttons, death and destruction will follow.
1995. Nate Cartwright has lost everything. His parents are dead, his only brother wants nothing to do with him, and he's been fired from his job as a journalist in Washington, DC. He returns to his family's summer cabin outside the small mountain town of Roseland, Oregon. The cabin should be empty. It's not. Inside is a man named Alex. And with him is an extraordinary ten-year-old girl who calls herself Artemis Darth Vader.
A girl with drug-induced ESP and an eerie connection to Patty Reed (a young member of the Donner Party who credited her survival to her relationship with a hidden wooden doll), searches for her disappeared foster sister along "The Highway That Eats People," stalked by a conflation of Twin Peaks' "Bob" and the Green River Killer, known as Dactyl.
In a future where Earth is a lost legend, Maddy, a skilled smuggler, embarks on a perilous mission carrying vital medicine and a cryptic data crystal. Her journey plunges her into a universe brimming with danger, from space pirates to complex political intrigue.
While in Japan researching her family's history, a vicious typhoon sends Isla Mackenzie 128 years back in time, to the dawn of the Satsuma Rebellion. There she meets her ancestors, and a charismatic samurai, Kei, with whom she unexpectedly finds romance. But, unlike her Beloved, Isla knows about the looming Satsuma Rebellion--and Kai's fate.
The Romans were abandoning Britain, leaving the remaining servants of empire to try to stem the tide of chaos. Aurelia was one such, the child of a Magistrate, and wife of a Legate. Everywhere, it seemed, the old, well-ordered realm she had been born into was passing away to be replaced by...what? It was that question her sons, Aurelius and Uther - with the help of Merlin - were born to answer.
Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she's attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she's saved! On the not-so-bright side, it's because they're abducted by aliens. In her scramble to escape, Dory and the lion commandeer an escape pod and crash-land on an alien planet that has...dinosaurs? Dory and her new lion bestie, Toto, are saved in the nick of time by a mysterious and sexy alien, Sol. On their new adventure, they team up with the equally hot, equally dangerous Lok, who may or may not be a war criminal.
Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves beneath the fluorescent lights of a high school classroom, almost a year after disappearing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, having long been presumed dead. Which, in fact, they are. With them in the room is their previously unremarkable high school music teacher, who seems to know something about their disappearance - and what has brought them back again.
After barely surviving their encounter with the Savior, who has shaped the rules and realities of Arkensyre for generations, Krona and the other members of the growing rebellion see only one chance of overcoming his power: free and enlist the ancient gods he caged to augment his own power.But it's one thing to believe in gods. It is quite another to meet them.
After months in a provisional prison for fighting for the imperial Kattakans, Janan is sponsored by another refugee who was once a part of his scattered family. Yearning to build a life on his sister's land with the dragons their people revere, the peace Janan seeks is threatened by a ruthless dragon baron who covets both Janan's connection to the earth and the battle dragon to which he is covenanted.
Two years after the USS Voyager's return from the Delta Quadrant, Seven of Nine finds herself rejected for a position in Starfleet and instead finds a new home with the interstellar rogue law enforcement corps known as the Fenris Rangers. The Rangers seem like an ideal fit for Seven - but to embrace this new destiny, she must leave behind all she's ever known, and risk losing the most important thing in her life: her friendship with Admiral Kathryn Janeway.
They say Mackerel Sky was founded when Captain Burrbank first saw Nimue the Mermaid and forgot the sea. Three hundred years later, the legend of the Mermaid and the Captain who loved her still invigorates and haunts the inhabitants of the small Maine lobstering town. In this close-knit town famous for its infamous mermaids, community is built through love and lore - willful elements that the townsfolk will have to harness if Mackerel Sky is to endure for another three hundred years.
As World War III rages, the scientists in Antarctica are thankful for the isolation - until a group of Chinese scientists arrive at the American research base in search of help. In their truck is a dead body. The Americans soon realize the Chinese scientists have brought far more with them than the body...Within seventy-two hours, thirteen more lie dead in the snow, murdered in acts of madness and superhuman strength. An extremophile parasite from the truck, triggered by severe cold, is spreading by touch.
A beggar has arrived at the Palace. Salt-crusted and ocean-battered, he is scorned by the suitors - but Penelope recognises in him something terrible: her husband, Odysseus, returned at last. Yet this Odysseus is no hero. By returning to the island in disguise, he is not merely plotting his revenge against the suitors - vengeance that will spark a civil war - but he's testing the loyalty of his queen.
Novella. Now that Ashake carries within herself the spirits of the surviving Orisha, she is on the hunt for allies who can help her defeat the encroaching army of Godkillers. But their influence is everywhere, and no one is immune - not even Ashake. If she is to succeed, Ashake will need to answer the question the Godkillers pose - are the Orisha even worth saving?
2559. As the UN Space Command flagship Infinity prepares to strike against rogue AI Cortana at Zeta Halo, another plan has also been set in motion. An ancient access point hidden on a seemingly insignificant human colony has become the focus of a parallel effort to claim the Domain and its immeasurable capabilities. The UNSC, however, needs a key: a living, forsaken product of an old war.
A sapphic monster romance novella wrapped in gothic fantasy trappings. The old keeper of the keys is dead, and the creature who ate her is the volatile Lady of the Capricious House- Anatema, an enormous humanoid spider with a taste for laudanum and human brides. Dalia, the old keeper's protegee, must take up her duties, locking and unlocking the little drawers in which Anatema keeps her memories. And if she can unravel the crime that led to her predecessor's death, Dalia might just be able to survive long enough to grow into her new role.
There's an evil in Renfield County, in the water, the soil, the wood. After Lawrence Renfield massacred his family and drew the Giant in his farmhouse with their blood, the bloodstained wood should have been set aflame, not chopped down and repurposed as furniture, decor, and heirlooms across the county. But that's exactly what happened. Now regular people - like you and me - are sitting on... eating with... admiring... the cursed wood and reaping the consequences. These are their stories.
Nara and her twin sister, Osha, have escaped the brutal clutches of the Citadel and the Hrossi Wastelanders and have arrived in the Shadow City of Reis. In the Shadow City, power plays are rife and rumours abound of a Pure healer with the ability to cure the Branded. New allies emerge alongside familiar faces as the city churns with this long-awaited prophecy that many would kill to see come true - and all eyes are on Osha.
With the apocalyptic threat of moonfall looming ever closer, Nyx and her allies must venture into the eternally sunblasted lands to search for an ancient weapon buried untold millennia ago. All the while, enemies close upon her flanks, and a greater danger lurks ahead. For beneath a desert turned to glass, hidden from the scorching heat, life thrives - both wondrous and monstrous. But a more fearsome menace lies even deeper, where an ancient army has been seeded to protect a secret from any who dare seek it out.
When Margot is not at school, she and Mama spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. People who have strayed too far from the road. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies. But Mama's want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a beautiful, white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, Margot must confront the shifting dynamics of her family, untangle her own desires, and make her bid for freedom.
Treaties are discarded as the full invasion of the Xoncai has begun and war returns to Corona. Consolidating resistance on land in Behren and within the abbeys as a last stand against the golden warriors is the catalyst for the return of the most powerful gem-wielding witch the world has ever known. Yet, as the rumour of a witch of gemstone magic reaches the Xoconai they send a hunter, so brutal he is known as the Coyote, to find her.
Training as a fighter in underground arenas, honing her skills against the worst scum, murderers and thieves her father could pit her against, Violet Zenner has learned to be ruthless. To kill. Until the day Hedrek Zennor dies. Violet thinks she's free - then she learns that her father planned to send her into the Darklands, where the Leech Lords reign. Where Violet's still-born brother was taken years ago.
This saga begins with Yafeu, a defiant yet fiercely compassionate young warrior who is stolen from her home in the flourishing Ghanaian empire and taken to a distant kingdom in the North. There she is thrust into a strange, cold world of savage shield maidens, tyrannical rulers, and mysterious gods. And there she also finds something unexpected - a kindred spirit. She comes to serve Freydis, a shy princess who couldn't be more different from the confident and self-possessed Yafeu. But they both want the same thing - to forge their own fate.
Stewart presents his memoir, a revealing portrait of a driven artist whose life has taken him from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England, to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim.
Aimless after getting dumped by her boyfriend and dropping out of college, Vi works at the front desk of a hotel. One night, in an alley outside a bar, Vi discovers a strange blob - a small living creature with beady black eyes. In a moment of concern and drunken desperation, she takes it home. Becoming increasingly sentient, it begins to grow, shift shape, and obey Vi's commands. That is when Vi decides to mold the creature into her ideal partner. Feeding it a stream of sweet breakfast cereals and American pop culture, the creature grows into a movie-star handsome white man.
A new age of exploration and innovation has dawned, and the Empire of the Wolf stands to take its place as the foremost power in the known world. But dark days are coming. A message is brought to the Empress by two heretic monks, who claim to have lost contact with the spirits of the afterlife. The monks believe this is the start of an ancient prophecy heralding the end of days - the Great Silence. It falls to Renata Rainer, a low-ranking ambassador to an enigmatic and vicious race of mermen, to seek answers from those who still practice the arcane arts.
Meet Lady Amelia Smallhope, for whom there is no problem that can't be solved by a drink and a think. And Pennyroyal, for whom there is no problem. Ever. Everyone's favourite bounty hunters. Sorry - recovery agents. No bad guy they can't handle. No expense account too flexible. No adventure too outrageous.Join them as they settle scores, break every rule in the book and take the world by storm.
The tiny Norwegian town was meant to offer answers. Instead, Liv arrives to find a tale older than time - eerily familiar, filled with ancient secrets and perilous desire.
In January 2314, Rowena Savalas - a curator of the vast archive of the twenty-first century's primitive internet - stumbles upon a story posted in the summer of 2024. She's quickly drawn into the mystery of the text. Is it autobiography, fantasy or fraud? What's the significance of the recurring number 381? In the story, the protagonist Fairly walks the Horned Road - a quest undertaken by youngsters in her village when they come of age. She is followed by the "breathing man," a looming presence, dogging her heels every step of the way. Everything Rowena was taught about her world is overturned.
Beaten, betrayed, and reeling from the revelation of her true name, Silla Nordvig flees Kopa with Reynir Galtung, the ruthless leader of the Bloodaxe Crew. But when they're forced into hiding together, Silla soon discovers that Rey has been keeping secrets of his own. Stuck in a shield-home with the murderous man she thought she knew, Silla forms a new plan: master the magic flowing through her veins to save her sister.
Saint-Malo, Brittany, 1758. Lucinde Leon, the youngest daughter of a wealthy French shipowner, spends her days secretly being taught to sail by Samuel, her best friend - and an English smuggler. Only he understands how the waves call to her. Then one stormy morning, Luce rescues a drowning man from the sea. Immediately drawn in by the stranger's charm, Luce is plunged into a world of glittering balls and faerie magic, seduction and brutality.
First official novelization of a cult classic folk horror film: the fate of unfortunate villagers sacrificed by their own children as devil worship infiltrates their rural existence.
Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of Witness for the Dead is gone, what defines him? While his title may be gone, his duties are not. Celehar contends with a municipal cemetery with fifty years of secrets, the damage of a revethavar he's terrified to remember, and a group of miners who are more than willing to trade Celehar's life for a chance at what they feel they're owed.
All witches must serve the cruel and immortal Emperor Yamueto. But after four years of terror and abuse, Khana not only kills one of his favorite courtiers with her magic, but also discovers the secret of his power and immortality: he's been making deals with Death. And now, so is she. Armed with magic that she doesn't fully understand, Khana flees the empire and stumbles into a small mountain town.
A standalone from the author of MICKEY7. Dalton Greaves is one of humankind's first representatives to Unity, a pan-species confederation working to bring all sentient life into a single benevolent brotherhood. But the only actual members of Unity that he's ever met are Boreau, a giant snail who seems more interested in plunder than spreading love and harmony, and Boreau's human sidekick, Neera. Funny thing, though - turns out there actually is a benevolent confederation out there, working for the good of all life. They call themselves the Assembly, and they really don't like Unity -- or Unity's new human minions.
Cailleach, goddess of winter, was not born to be a blight on humanity, but she became one. And one day, she goes too far and thousands die in a brutal winter. In punishment, her mother Danu, queen of the gods, strips the goddess of her powers and sends Cailleach to earth, to live and die as the mortals she so despises, until she understands what it is to be one of them.
Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of ERS - a space-based condition most famous for a case that resulted in the brutal murders of twenty-nine people. When she's assigned to a small exploration crew, she's eager to make a difference. But as they begin to establish residency on an abandoned planet, it becomes clear that the crew is hiding something.
Rab is based on the Mask, the all-encompassing structure which hides the Solar Sytem from alien eyes. And it is during his watch that a spaceship arrives, one which has travelled for a hundred years from a long-forgotten colony planet. If they pierce the Mask, everything humanity has created will be left open to the alien threat. But this strange ship, bearing an offshoot of the species, may bring something else with them. Hope.
Kavi is a Taemu. Her people, once feared berserkers and the spearhead of a continent-spanning invasion, are the dregs of Raayan society. Their spirits crushed. Their swords broken. Their history erased. But Kavi has a dream and a plan. She will do whatever it takes to earn a place at the secretive mage academy, face the Jinn within its walls, and gain the power to rise above her station and drag her people out of the darkness.
Galaphile Joss rises from a friendless teenage orphan stranded in the Human world to a powerful adult and master mage, studying under the infamous recluse, Cogline. His goal is to bring order to a chaotic world, and to this end, commences building the citadel which will one day be known as Paranor. But there is one other who seeks dominion over the Four Lands, a foe corrupted by an ancient evil. This one that will not only reach out and touch Galaphile's nearest and dearest, but also echo down through the centuries...
Desperate to repair his fraying friendships, novice Auditor Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby doesn't ask too many questions when a mysterious patron offers him the chance to join a heist of an otherworldly vault - and in the process find answers that could make things right. Complications arise when Grimsby learns that his partner, Mayflower, is keeping secrets about his past.
Earth was destroyed on June 12, 2180. Lt. Selene Genji watched it happen. Thrown forty years into the past she can only guess what to do to change the events that led to the death of all humanity. But she is an experimental fusing of human and alien DNA and is viewed as a monster who can't be trusted, a tool of the aliens who have just made first contact. Fortunately, she has an unshakable ally in Lt. Kayl Owen, who has risked everything to help her mission.
This is the tale of Once Was Willem, who - eleven hundred and some years after the death of Christ, in the kingdom that had recently begun to call itself England - rose from the dead to defeat a great evil facing the humble village of Cosham.
In a near future where the surveillance state legislates the genetic code of its citizens, babies are tailor-made. As an Adjudicator, Zedi Loew fixes mistakes and investigates cases brought against the powerful gene-tailoring corporation she works for. One day, she discovers a mysterious cold case file based on an absurd premise. The case implies that gene-coding can manipulate consciousness. Fearing exposure, Zedi's boss makes the case top priority, and she has only a few days to solve it.
The woman known as Malinalli, Malintzin, La Malinche, Dona Marina, and Malinalxochitl was the Nahua interpreter who helped Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes communicate with the native people of Mexico. Blessed with magical powers, and supported by a close-knit circle of priestesses, Mali vows to help defend her people's legacy.
Kel Saren, body double to Conor, crown prince of the dazzling city of Castellane, must find the culprits responsible for a massacre at the royal palace - and the only clues are held by the Ragpicker King, the notorious criminal who rules Castellane's underworld. The trail Kel follows leads back to the Hill, where among decadent nobles and glittering parties a dark conspiracy to destroy the royal family has taken hold - a conspiracy headed up by the monstrous Artal Gremont, the man engaged to marry the woman Kel adores.
Japan has pulled back from a policy of isolation and staked out its own claims on the west coast of North America. In settling the fate of this part of the New World, a few remarkable individuals have an outsize role to play: Oyamada Isamu, a samurai on his first independent command; Yells-at-Bears, a young native woman of Vancouver Island; Father Blanco, a Jesuit priest and former missionary; and Iroha Data-hime, the daughter of the Grand Governor of New Nippon.
The only hope for the casteless is the fallen Protector Ashok Vadal. But Vadal is being held prisoner on the island of Fortress. In order to save those who need him most, he must escape and find his way across the demon-infested sea and return to Thera, the prophet of an illegal and forgotten god. Ashok Vadal, Thera, and the Sons of the Black Sword face foes both human and supernatural, Byzantine political intrigue and bloody hand-to-hand combat, gods and demons alike. But Vadal is a warrior with a warrior's heart, and woe to those who would stand in his way - man, god, demon, or otherwise!
All year round the Grand Abeona Hotel moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the milky way. The last word in sub-orbital luxury is also an absolute magnet for intrigue. Each guest has a secret, every member of staff a universe unto themselves. At the center of these interweaving lives and interlocking mysteries stands Carl, one time stowaway, longtime manager, devoted caretaker to the hotel.
On one side of the world, Aleya Ana-Ulai is desperate for a chance. Her family have written her off as a mistake, but she's determined to prove every last one of them wrong. On the other, Kirby of Wall's End is searching for redemption. An ancient curse tore her life apart, but to fix it, she'll have to leave everything behind. Fate sets them both on the path to Nivela, a city once poised to conquer the world with the power of a thousand stolen gods. Now the gates are closed and the old magic slumbers.
In a near future where the surveillance state legislates the genetic code of its citizens, babies are tailor-made. As an Adjudicator, Zedi Loew fixes mistakes and investigates cases brought against the powerful gene-tailoring corporation she works for. One day, she discovers a mysterious cold case file based on an absurd premise: the case implies that gene-coding can manipulate consciousness. Fearing exposure, Zedi's boss makes the case top priority, and she has only a few days to solve it.
The immortal Eder anoints himself Voice of Father, and spreads a new, cruel faith across the land. His brother Faron, returning from a self-imposed exile, swears to crush Eder's kingdom, and will do so with their cold and calculating brother Sariel. They pledge themselves to the fanatical Bastard Princess, a woman with incredible powers she insists were given to her by the goddess Leliel. But Eder's conquest is not what it seems, and it will take more than a holy war to stop an immortal who has heard the desperate plea of a god.
This floor has a floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. Carl and his team can't go it alone. Not this time. They must rely on the help of the low-level crawlers trapped in the bubble with them. But can they be trusted?
Everyone in Foss Butcher's village knows what happens when the magic-workers come. They harvest human hearts to use in their spells. But Foss, plain, clumsy, and practical as a boot, never expected anyone would want hers. When a sorcerer snags a piece of Foss's heart without meaning to, she is furious. So, Foss finds herself stomping toward the grand City to his enchanted House and demands that he fixes her before she keels over and dies, or whatever happens when hearts are Snagged.
From the Canadian co-author of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME-WAR. In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, the Hawthorn family tend and harvest the enchanted willows and honour an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. Sisters Esther and Ysabel cherish each other as much as they cherish the ancient trees. But when Esther rejects a forceful suitor in favour of a lover from the land of Faerie, not only the sisters' bond but also their lives will be at risk...
As long as Alamaxa continues to allow for the elemental magic of the weavers - and insists on allowing an academy to teach such things - the fundamentalist Zirani will stop at nothing to end what they perceive is a threat to not only their way of life, but the entire world. Two such weavers, Nehal and Giorgina, had come together despite their differences to grow both their political and weaving power. But after the attack, Nehal wakes up in a Zirani prison, and Giorgina is on the run in her besieged city. If they can reunite again, they can rally Alamaxa to fight off the encroaching Zirani threat.
Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage with the powerful DeMauve family, purples who hope to redden up their progeny's colour-viewing potential with Eddie's gene stock. Their obnoxious daughter Violet is confident the marriage won't hamper her style for too long because Eddie is about to go on trial for a murder he didn't commit, and he's pretty sure to be sent on a one-way trip to the Green Room for execution by soporific colour exposure.
Tensions build in France following the ascension of Gaston to the throne of his murdered brother, but there are factions supporting the claim of King Louis' surviving infant son. As France moves toward civil war, other parties, both visible and invisible, maneuver to take advantage of the increased tension. Who will survive to reign over France - King Gaston, the exiled child and his regents, or the King of Spain?
After several years attempting to lead a quiet life, John Matherson receives the news that the President is dying from a possible assassination attempt, and is asked to step in to negotiate with what appears to be a new military power hidden in the wreckage of the world, known as the New Order. Facing threats on multiple fronts, he races against time to stop another EMP attack on the former United States and China, putting years of progress at risk.
Scientist Beth Darlow has built a machine that allows human consciousness to travel through time - to any point in the traveler's lifetime - and relive moments of their life. An impossible breakthrough, but it's not perfect. The traveler has no way to interact with the past. They can only observe. Then Beth's husband, Colson, the co-creator of the machine, dies in a tragic car accident. Simply viewing personal history should not alter the present, but with each new observation that Beth makes, her own timeline begins to warp.
With one speech and thunderous applause, Chancellor Palpatine brought the era of the Republic crashing down. During the terrifying first year of his tyranny, Mon Mothma, Saw Gerrera, and Bail Organa face the encroaching darkness. One day, they will be three architects of the Rebel Alliance. But first, each must find purpose and direction in a changing galaxy.
As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodigy, operating under the shadow of his oppressive occultist father. Now, years after his father's death and rapidly approaching his thirtieth birthday, he is content with the high-powered life he's curated as a Boston attorney, moonlighting as a powerful medium for his secret society. But now the Devil has come to collect on an ancestral deal. As death looms at his door, he reluctantly reaches out to the only person he's ever trusted, his ex-boyfriend and secret society rival Rhys, for help.
To rally the Jedi Order and the Republic, Jedi Masters Avar and Elzar lead a daring mission into Nihil space to liberate the planet of Naboo and show those trapped behind the Stormwall that the Jedi will never abandon them. Now back within close orbit of each other, the two Jedi Masters can no longer deny the bond that has always drawn them back together and made them stronger.
Not all is as it seems in the small village of Ascension, Massachusetts. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still speak, broken neck and all. The dead are not dying. When Rabbit and Sadie Grace accompany their friend Rose to Ascension to help take care of her ailing cousin, they immediately realize there is a problem here.
Romara Challys and her Falcons are Vestal Knights, who have shed blood to uphold the Triple Empire against the destructive Vyr Rebellion. But now, the Falcons have become the empire's enemy. Having learned that elobyne, the magical crystal that empowers the knights, is catastrophically destructive, the Falcons vow to save their world. But speaking truth to power is perilous, and Romara is the empire's prisoner, facing a torture and death at the hands of her former masters.
The Water Wars have scrambled the world. Flood refugees are on the run. Disrupters and the Nostalgia Militia roam the roads wreaking havoc. Invisible Darknet Lords troll the internet, solidifying their power, while Cinnamon, her three Circus-Bots, and two dogs work with a community of farmers, Motor Fairies, and Wheel-Wizards to provide housing, health care and education for flood refugees. As Cinnamon confronts threats from the Darknet Lords and the Nostalgia Militia, she must determine how best to honor her elders and her history while building a future for herself and her charges. It's not going to be easy.
Containing the award-winning novellas A POCKETFUL OF CROWS, THE BLUE SALT ROAD, and ORFEIA. . Fully illustrated by Bonnie Helen Hawkins, with a brand new introduction by the author and three original short stories.
At a passing glance, County Road 951 is an entirely unremarkable 15 mile stretch of blacktop, a two-lane scar across the Cascade foothills of Central Oregon. But the road is known by another name, coined by those who have had to clean up after all those scenic detours went horribly wrong: The Devil's Driveway. When Livia and her long-time friends take the Driveway as a shortcut to a much-needed weekend getaway, what begins as a morning joyride quickly becomes anything but.
1613. The death of Prince Henry has plunged the nation into mourning, as rumours swirl that the prince was poisoned. Andrew Logan, one of the King's Messengers, has been dispatched to Scotland to capture Sir David Moray, once Henry's trusted advisor and now chief suspect in his death. In these perilous times, when the merest suggestion of witchcraft can lead to torture and hanging, men like Andrew must hide well the fact they were born with the Sight - a gift that allows him to see things others cannot.
As the only member of the royal family without a magical ability, Revna is seen as an embarrassing mistake by her kingdom and a blight on her bloodline. The Bloodshed Trials - a competition where the last sibling in the royal family standing takes the throne - might just be the ultimate price. Revna turns down her arranged marriage and commits to competing for the throne only to be kidnapped by the mysterious and terrifyingly powerful Hellbringer, the general of her country's greatest enemy.
It's been nine months since the catastrophe in Tucson sent Mia fleeing from her home. But she's not running away from the darkness--she's running toward it, obsessively pursuing the man who gave her mother a thirst for blood and destroyed their lives. But when Mia finds the monsters she's been hunting and infiltrates a secret network of fugitives, she discovers she might have been their prey all along.
The Velkwood Vicinity was the topic of occult theorists, tabloid one-hour documentaries, and even some pseudo-scientific investigations as the block of homes disappeared behind a near-impenetrable veil that only three survivors could enter - and only one has in the past twenty years. Talitha Velkwood has avoided anything to do with the tragedy that took her mother and eight-year-old sister -- until now that a new researcher has tracked her down and offered to pay her to come back to enter the vicinity.
Elma York, the Lady Astronaut, lands on the Red Planet, optimistic about preparing for the first true wave of inhabitants. But from the moment she arrives, something is off. Disturbing signs hint at a hidden disaster during the First Mars Expedition that never made it into the official transcript. As Elma and her crew try to investigate, they face a wall of silence and obfuscation. Their attempts to build a thriving Martian community grind to a halt.
One night, using an experimental spell, thief Arcady pulls Everen, the last male dragon, through the Veil separating their worlds, and they end up with a half-formed dragon-rider bond that hasn't existed for ages since the humans betrayed the dragons and banished them. Everen is tasked with killing Arcady and opening the Veil for the rest of the dragons, but Arcady is focused on a heist that could change their life for good.
Evar has been forced to flee the library, driven before an implacable foe. Livira, trapped in a ghost world, has to recover the book she wrote - one which is the only true threat to the library's existence - if she's to return to her life.
Twenty years ago time-travelling Smithsonian archaeologist Rabbit Ward lost both the menorah of the second temple and his hot-headed mentee, Aaron. So, when new evidence reveals the menorah's reappearance in 6th century Constantinople, Rabbit seizes the chance for redemption. But he quickly finds out that an unlicensed and annoyingly appealing "stringer" named Helen, is also in Constantinople hunting the menorah. Worse, the city's leading gang seems to have it out for Rabbit personally...
Whether joker or ace or a bit of both, few turn down an invite to Keun. The island of Keun lies off the coast of Cornwall, connected to the mainland only by an ancient, tidal causeway. It is a magical place, where anything can happen. The mansion crowning the island is owned by Lord Branok, a mysterious billionaire who is also a wild card of some sort - but whether he is an ace, a joker or a knave, no one is quite sure. With stories by Stephen Leigh, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Caroline Spector, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Peter Newman, and Peadar O Guilin.
Jai lives as a royal hostage in the Sabine Court. His father Rohan, leader of the Steppefolk, led a failed rebellion and was executed by the very emperor Jai now serves. When the emperor's son and heir is betrothed to Princess Erica of the neighboring Dansk Kingdom, she brings with her a dowry: dragons. But conspirators lurk in the shadows, and soon the Sabine Court is in chaos. With his life in danger, Jai uses the opportunity to escape with the Dansk handmaiden, Frida, and a stolen hatchling.
Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in the pavement for Manchester Council to fill. The obvious question of how he ended up in the sky in the first place has no obvious answers, which is where The Stranger Times come in.
With her first charge finally back from her decades-long cross-dimensional field trip, with a long-lost husband and adopted daughter in tow, it's time for Mary to oversee the world's most chaotic family reunion. And that's before the Covenant of St. George launches a full scale strike against the cryptids of Manhattan, followed quickly by an attack on the Campbell Family Carnival.
After four generations of caring for the Price family, Mary Dunlavy has more than earned a break from the ongoing war with the Covenant of St. George. Instead, what she's getting is a new employer, in the form of the anima mundi, Earth's living soul made manifest, and a new assignment: to hunt down the Covenant agents on the East Coast and make them stop imprisoning America's ghosts. All in a day's work for a phantom nanny, even one who'd really rather be teaching her youngest charges how to read.
After nearly losing each other in a savage attack on the city, Vor and Faraine return to Mythanar fully committed to their marriage. But the situation in the Under Realm remains dire. With the world poised on the brink of collapse, Vor struggles to protect his kingdom. And though Faraine longs to support him as queen, she fights her body at every turn. When war drags them apart, Vor and Faraine face the consequences of their choices.
Canadian author. Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. The bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur orders Alefret to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population, and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.
While the battle for Mathura rages in the West, the great powers gather in distant Kamrup - the lush and mysterious Tree City of the East - to thrash out the political future of the realm. Their aim is to secure prosperity and a lasting peace. But at this magnificent conclave, deaf swordswomen and exiled snakelings, spoilt heroes and lovesick princes, immortal assassins and their apprentices will find no sun to light their way. For the Son of Darkness rises, boiling over with a wrath that all the oracles in the world cannot hope to forestall.
Korinna has simple priorities: stay on the Navitas, stay out of trouble, and stay alive. She may be a Redseer, a blind priestess with the power to manipulate space-time, but she is the weakest in her Order. As she takes her place as a navigator on an Imperium ship, Korinna's full destiny is revealed to her. Blood brimming with magic, she is meant to become a weapon of the Imperium, and pawn for the Order that raised her. But when the ship is attacked by the notorious pirate Aster Haran, Korinna's world is ripped apart.
In a mostly underwater near-future L. A., aging combat-drone veteran Orr Vue lives a simple life, trading snippets of information. So when the cops show up at his door looking for data on a murder he's not even aware has happened, Orr is happy at first to exchange whatever he knows about the demise of InfoDrip's top exec so he can buy booze and pay rent on his memory storage. But that plan goes to hell when Orr's old boyfriend, Auggie Wolf, shows up as the number one suspect.
Beneath the still surface of a lake lurks a monster with needle sharp teeth. Hungry and ready to pounce. Jenny Greenteeth has never spoken to a human before, but when a witch is thrown into her lake, something makes Jenny decide she's worth saving. Temperance doesn't know why her village has suddenly turned against her, only that it has something to do with the malevolent new pastor. Though they have nothing in common, these two must band together on a magical quest to defeat the evil that threatens Jenny's lake and Temperance's family.
Yael Clauneck is the only scion of an obscenely wealthy banking family with its fingers in every pie in the realm. They're on the precipice of a predetermined life when they flee their own graduation party. Margot Greenwillow - talented plant witch, tea lover, and greenhouse owner - has been desperately trying to keep what remains of her family's magic remedies business afloat. So when her childhood friend and former crush, Yael, rides back into her life, she's shocked.
In a reunified Korea of the near future, the sun beats down on a junkyard filled with abandoned robots, broken down for parts. Eleven-year-old Ruijie sifts through the scraps, searching for a piece that might support her failing body. There among the piles of trash, something catches her eye: a robot boy - so lifelike and strange, unlike anything she's ever seen before..
Ganga, joyful goddess of the river, is cursed by a powerful sage to become mortal, bound to her human form until she fulfills the obligations of the curse. She weds King Shantanu and becomes a queen. But in a cruel turn of fate, just as she is freed of her binding, she is forced to leave her infant son behind. Her son, Prince Devavrata, unwittingly carries the legacy of Ganga's curse. And when he makes an oath that he will never claim his father's throne, he sets in motion a chain of events that will end in a terrible and tragic war.
As a young woman seeks vengeance on the obsessed sorcerer who murdered her because he could not have her, her murderer sends projections of himself out into the world to seek out and seduce women who will return the love she denied--or suffer mortal consequence.
When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardized her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore...Two years later, she's plucked from a refugee camp on a backwater world and tasked with retrieving the artefact that infected her, as it just might hold the key to humanity's survival.
Phaidros has become a training master for young soldiers. His life has become entangled with Thebes's young crown prince, who wishes to escape the marriage his mother, the Queen, has chosen for him. When the prince vanishes, Phaidros is drawn into the search for him-a search that leads him to a blue-eyed witch named Dionysus, whose guidance is as wise as the events that surround him are strange.
January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. He is an Earthstronger, a second class citizen because his body has not adjusted to lower gravity. And now a xenophobic politician named Aubrey Gale wants all Earthstrongers to naturalize, a process that is always disabling and sometimes deadly. But a series of events leads to a five year made-for-the-press marriage between the two. As their romantic relationship develops, the political situation worsens, and January discovers Gale has an enemy, someone willing to destroy all of Tharsis to make them pay - and January may be the only person standing in the way.
[Alberta author]. Chinese and First Nation mythology and LGBTQIA+ representation combine for a gory story with sweet as Canadian maple syrup sapphic romance at its monstrous heart. Calgary: Tam hasn't eaten anyone in years. She is now Mama's soft-spoken, vegan daughter - everything dangerous about her is cut out. But when Tam's estranged Aunt Tigress is found murdered and skinned, Tam inherits an undead fox in a shoebox, and an ensemble of old enemies.
Matheus Ceirran, commander of half the known world, is dead. For the past year, his loyal captain Anita has hunted down his assassins - that is, when she can pull herself from the bed of Altagracia Caviro Patramata, queen and oracle of the client planet of Szayet. But when Anita's quest for revenge takes her across the borders of an enigmatic neighbouring empire, she uncovers a dangerous secret that could upend the fragile balance of the galaxy.
It's 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with...normal business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. Then town gossip Mina Jean Murphy's body is brought in for a regular burial and she rises from the dead instead. It's clear now that the Strigoi - the original vampires - are back. And the Evans women are the ones who need to fight back to protect their town.
Putting distance between himself and the relentless Night Brigade has been Nomad's strategy for years. Staying one or two steps ahead of his pursuers by skipping through the Cosmere from one world to the next.But now, his powers too depleted to escape, Nomad finds himself trapped on Canticle, a planet that will kill anyone who doesn't keep moving. Fleeing the fires of a sunrise that melts the very stones, he is instantly caught up in the struggle between a heartless tyrant and the brave rebels who defy him.
Paige Mahoney's journey back to the revolution soon takes her to Venice, where the Domino Programme has uncovered evidence of a secret Scion plan. Before Paige can return to London, she must help the network unravel the sinister Operation Ventriloquist, which threatens to bring Europe to its knees in weeks.
As legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, they deliver a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh to the field hospital tents just behind the frontline. There may be found a particularity unorthodox medical unit led by 'the Butcher', an ogre of a man who is a dab hand with a bone-saw and an alchemical tincture. The unit's motley crew of conscripts, healers and orderlies work with unapproved magic, necromancy and demonology which could lead to the unit being disbanded, arrested or worse...
As Cohort-Invigilator of Correct Appreciation, Outreach department, Loret comes to Alkhalend to act as aide to the Palleseen Resident, Sage-Invigilator Angilly. As a succession crisis looms, as a long-forgotten feat of necromantic engineering nears fruition, as pirate kings, lizard armies and demons gather, as old gods wane and new gods wax, sooner or later Gil and Loret will have to settle their ledger. Just as well they are both very, very good with a blade...
Kianthe and Reyna are ready to finally walk down the aisle - in just seven days, their wedding of a wifetime will be a reality. There's loads to do - but like all best laid plans, everything seems to be going awry. Between their baby dragons causing mayhem in Tawney, Kianthe's uptight parents inviting themselves to the wedding, and Reyna becoming embroiled in a secret plot to overthrow Queen Tilaine, the world seems against them.
A hard-boiled detective is tasked with a seemingly ordinary case by a woman shrouded in enigma and finds himself delving into a world where nothing is as it seems, a dark urban landscape where the line between the living and the dead blurs.
As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. But until Aiden - one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party - can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot. The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath...
Finally free of Earth and all of his connections to it, David can now focus on his and Kacey's fledgling cargo company, and start considering his future goals as an engineer. There is still the small matter of the agreement he made with his grandfather, one of the richest men in the solar system, but Dave knows his brother won't be solving the FTL issue anytime soon. So he's got time. However, an escalating tit-for-tat is about to begin, over issues that will one day be worth far more money and power than he or anyone else can imagine.
SF cozy mystery novella. Welcome to the HMS Fairweather. Near the topmost deck of an interstellar generation ship, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn't hers - just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship's detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fairweather, but when she finds that someone is not only killing bodies but purposefully deleting minds from the Library, she realizes something even more sinister is afoot.
Are the treecats sentient? If they are, that would have all sorts of repercussions for the families who have settled on Sphinx, the Harringtons not the least. There will be winners, and there will be losers. And Stephanie Harrington is there to make sure the treecats don't lose out. But Stephanie, the treecats, and Sphinx itself may be caught up in an even greater conspiracy than the one to help the fighting 'cats survive, one generations in the making....
Upon returning to the Inn of the Last Home, where their journey began, Destina's party discovered a world completely changed. The forces of evil now hold sway over their land. The River of Time is rising, flowing inexorably toward the present day. Destina and her friends must make one last, desperate attempt to restore time's river to its proper channel.
There are two Earths. Perfectly ordinary and existing in parallel. There are no doorways between them, no way to cross from one world to another. Unless you're a shifter. Canna and Lily are the same person but they refuse to admit it. Their split psyche has forced them to shift randomly between worlds - between lives and between families - for far longer than they should. But one mind can't bear this much life. It'll break under the weight of it all. Soon they'll experience their final shift and settle at last in one world, but how can they prepare both families for the eventuality of them disappearing forever?
Axia is dissatisfied with life on an asteroid so far from anything of interest that even the greediest spacers see fit to pass it by. When Axia survives a sudden assassination attempt, a pair of pirates allows her to flee with them to Wildspace. But she soon learns that she is the spitting image of Blacktongue, the long-disappeared captain of one of the deadliest pirate crews in Shatterspace.
When the sudden and unexpected death of the tyrannical Emperor Adil Maurya leaves the monarchy in disarray, his youngest son Ashoka is sent to govern a tumultuous region that is terrorized by nature spirits - a task many see as doomed to fail. Shakti is a mayakari: a witch bound by a pacifist code. After witnessing the murder of her aunt and village at the hands of the emperor, Shakti poses as a maidservant in the famed palace of the Mauryas and attempts to dismantle the monarchy from within by having the royal progeny ruin themselves and turn their father's legacy into nothing but ash.
Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, portals that can teleport a person hundreds or thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye. But they now have an intriguing offer from criminal boss Robertine Cherno. Cherno will hand over a hitherto unknown portal to the Icarus Group in exchange for Roarke and Selene agreeing to transport an assassin named Nikki across the Spiral.