After fleeing a patricidal prince, legendary merchant Loulie al-Nazari and banished prince Mazen bin Malik find themselves in the realm of jinn. But instead of sanctuary, they find a world on the cusp of collapse. The jinn cities, long sheltered beneath the Sandsea by the magic of its kings, are sinking. Amid the turmoil, political alliances are forming, and rebellion is on the rise. When Loulie assists a dissenter - one of her bodyguard's old comrades - she puts herself in the center of a centuries-old war.

With her family missing and her friends lost, Penny turns to the Sorcerer chained on the mysterious ninth floor of the library for aid. He offers a deal: a legion to fight the Warden in exchange for her blood. Just one drop into the eternal fires will end the Warden's reign and set the Sorcerer free. But as Alice's visions fail and Malin fights the lifeline bond Penny forged to save him, one drop of blood might destroy them all.

Five sword & sorcery stories from a local Vancouver author. A mighty warrior returns to his home to find it taken over by sinister cults. Two enemies team up and are sent on a perilous quest. An warrior woman breaks her chains and raises hell. And more.

Queer cozy fantasy. Find an angry spirit. Send it on its way before it causes trouble. Leave before anyone learns his name. But Peter Shaughnessy is cursed to wander eternally far from home, with the ability to see ghosts and talk to plants. Immortality means Peter has lost everyone he's ever loved. And so he centers his life on the dead - until his wandering brings him to Harrington, Ohio.

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But then her mistress discovers her talent and begins to exploit it. Before long, though, Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Perez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king, and is plunged into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters.

Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge housing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth's most wealthy citizens. The ship and its cryo program are long defunct, but Halley starts to think she sees figures crawling in the hallways, and there's a constant scraping, slithering, and rattling echoing in the vents.

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.

In the distant canton of Yarrowdale, a Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air - vanishing from a room within a heavily guarded tower, its door and windows locked from the inside. To solve the case, the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial detective, the great Ana Dolabra. At her side, as always, is her bemused assistant Dinios Kol. Ana soon discovers that they are investigating not a disappearance but a murder - and one of surpassing cunning, carried out by an opponent who can pass through warded doors like a ghost.

The moment Voyager 1 is launched carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of earthlings. At a precarious moment, a beloved friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world.

Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for her elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It's the loneliest she's ever felt in her life. When a mysterious stranger named Hassan appears at her door, he reveals a shocking truth: Stanley isn't losing his memories. Someone is actively removing them to hide a long-buried secret from coming to light.

Thayer Wren, the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology, is dead. Any one of his three telepathically and electrokinetically gifted children would be a plausible inheritor to the Wrenfare throne. Or at least, so they like to think. On the pipeline of gifted kid to clinically depressed adult, nobody wins - but which Wren will come out on top?

Since the late 1980's, The Square had been one of the most important clubs in New York for the alt-comedy scene. But before that it was something much darker and is now a place where evil lingers, waiting for a chance to spill blood. After a night of killing on stage, four comics find themselves in a desperate situation as the spirits of the past come out to play, and a fight for laughs becomes a fight for survival in the most unlikely of places.

The Spear of Ala - the fortress that stands at the gates of the demon's hive - is the last bastion against the horde, and reports say it may already have fallen. Olive Paper is expected to take the vanguard in the fight. Only an heir of Kaji can wield the artifact that opens the gates of the Spear of Ala, and as Ahmann Jardir's child, Olive seems destined for a role as leader and savior. But Olive does not wish to follow in her father's footsteps any more than she did her mother's.

Sylina has sacrificed everything for her goddess - her soul, her freedom, her eyes. Life in service to the Arachessen, a cult of the Goddess of Fate, has turned Sylina from orphaned street-rat to disciplined killer, determined to overthrow Glaea's tyrannical king. But when a brutal vampire conqueror arrives on their shores, Sylina faces an even deadlier adversary. She's tasked with a crucial mission: infiltrate his army, earn his trust... and kill him.

The sequel to DATING & DISMEMBERMENT.

Vlad Taltos is on the run. Again. This time from one of the most powerful forces in his world, the Left Hand, who are intent on ending his very lucrative career. Permanently.He finds a hidey-hole in a theatre where the players are putting on a show that was banned centuries ago...and is trying to be shut down by the House that once literally killed to keep it from being played.

A scribe, a warlord, a dancer, a mute insect and a child should have no chance against the might of the bickering gods and their cruel games. But the gods themselves are old, addicted to their own games of power, and now their fates may lie in the hands of mere mortals...

One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives.As they attempt to evade the boy's increasingly desperate father, horrifying incidents of butchery follow them.

Mira, a siren and activist, must uncover a deadly conspiracy while persuading her divided people to band together to rebuild their city after a tsunami. And dragon princess Nami must undertake a daring sea voyage to do the impossible - to find a way to convince a Titan not to destroy their city for its crimes.

Nebula nominee. Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey throughout the ages. No world can hold them, no life can bind them, and they'll never leave each other behind.

Queer, bloody Gothic epic fantasy. Remy Pendergast, vampire hunter, and his unexpected companions, royal vampires Lord Zidan Malekh and Lady Xiaodan Song, are on the road through the kingdom of Aluria. Enroute to the Third Court, Remy crosses paths with his father, the arrogant, cruel Lord of Valenbonne. He also begins to suffer strange dreams of the Night Empress, whom he has long suspected to be Ligaya Pendergast, his own mother.

A collection of short stories, non-fiction essays and interviews.

Miscellaneous "Lanie" Stones is the necromancer that the God of Death has been praying for. True, she's always been more interested in books and pastries than in creating abominations and raising armies of the undead. But now her own great-grandfather, the powerful necromancer Irradiant Stones has escaped his prison, and sucking people dry of their magic and discarding their bodies when there's nothing left to take, growing stronger and stronger all the time.

The sixth floor. The Hunting Grounds. As the remaining crawlers battle for their lives, a new, terrible threat looms. Outside tourists are finally allowed to enter the game, and they are here and ready to hunt. Among them is Vrah, a famed and veteran hunter, intent on collecting the biggest trophy of her career. But their prey is far from harmless, and this season they are fighting back.

Ellen, a deeply closeted lesbian, works restoring films at a failing archive in 1980s New York City. When a group of German academics present her with a print of an infamous exploitation film believed to have been destroyed during the Holocaust, Ellen finds herself forced to confront her own repressed sexuality. And the more she works on the restoration, the more obsessed she becomes with its depictions of occult practices and queer debauchery.

Griffon Keming's second parents saved him from his abusive family. They taught him how to be trans, paid for his transition, and tried to love him as best they could. But Griffon's new parents had troubles of their own - both were deeply scarred by the lives they lived before Griffon, the struggles they faced to become themselves, and the failed revolution that drove them from their homeland.

Aelis de Lenti, Lone Pine's newly assigned Warden, has just opened the crypts of Mahlgren, releasing an army of the undead into the unprotected backwoods of Ystain. To protect her village, she must unearth a source of immense Necromantic power at the heart of Mahlgren. The journey will wind through waves of undead, untamed wilderness, and curses far older than anything Aelis has ever encountered.

Recalled from Lone Pine to investigate claims of murder by magic against her mentor - legendary Warden Bardun Jacques - Aelis takes to the streets of the grand city of Lascenise, and plumbs the deepest secrets of the Lyceum to clear his name. Certain of her success, she doesn't count on thieves, subterranean labyrinths, or the assassins that dog her steps from the moment she leaves her tower.Behind all of it lurks a ring of unknown wizards who can seemingly reach anyone with their magic.

Though the beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is half-depopulated, its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild - selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. But from the moment they move in, they both feel a shadow has fallen on them.

Best friends JP and Dulin join Canterbury Trail Tours and an assortment of 21st century pilgrims for a week-long bus tour of North America's Impossibles, the physics-defying glitches and geographic miracles that started cropping up seven years earlier - right after the Announcement that revealed our world to be merely a digital simulacrum.

High atop a dormant volcano, a team of scientists preserve the last remnants of higher technology. Off the coast of Kauai, a flotilla of survivors must decide whether to return to their island, or make their way to another location, risking pirates and nature on the gamble of safer shores. On the central plateau of the Big Island, a group of ranchers want to rebuild civilization... but to do that, they'll need to reunite a people scattered across an ocean of stars.

Eddie Boka's first combat mission is a success... until he's overwhelmed by a raging compulsion and eats an enemy soldier! This glitch means Blayvine Industries can't introduce its dino-humans to the world and begin selling armies of them. Unorthodox therapist Adelaide "Addi" LaTour is hired to treat Eddie's cannibalism. She is known as the Electrobitch for using shock collars and severe behavioral conditioning to overcome compulsions.

In the dizzying heat of mid-summer, seven contenders compete to replace Bersun the Brusque. They are exceptional warriors, thinkers, strategists - the best of the best. Then one of them is murdered. It falls to Neema Kraa, the emperor's brilliant, idiosyncratic High Scholar, to find the killer before the trials end. To do so,she must untangle a web of deadly secrets that stretches back generations, all while competing against six warriors with their own dark histories and fierce ambitions.

Generations ago, the founders of the idyllic town of Lake Argen made a deal with a dark force. In exchange for their service, the town will stay prosperous and successful, and keep outsiders out. But now a visitor has gone missing and his wealthy family sends a private investigator to find him, and everything abruptly goes sideways. Now, Cassidy Prewitt, town baker and part-time servant of the dark force (it's a family business) has to contend with a rising army of darkness, a very frustrated town, and a very cute PI who she might just be falling for...and who might just be falling for her.

The only individual who holds himself above the politics of Harendell's is not Ahna's future husband but his infuriating half brother, James. And as she begins to question whether Harendell is the ally it claims to be, Ahnna finds herself drawn into a forbidden attraction to the wrong prince. As deadly plots tighten around her, Ahnna must decide whether saving her people will be achieved as a bride - or as a blade.

PI Jessica Jones, retired super hero, now works on surviving day-to-day in Hell's Kitchen, New York. But Amber Randall comes to her claiming that something happened to her teenage twins while they were visiting their father in the UK. The twins don't act like themselves, and they now have flawless skin, have lost their distinctive tics and habits, and keep talking about a girl named Belle.

Sometimes called Wind Walkers for their ability to command the wind, unlike their human rulers, the Feng people have bark faces, carved limbs, arms of braided branches, and hair of needle threads. Bound by duty and tradition, Liu Lufeng, the eldest princess of the Feng royalty, is the next bride to the human king. She plans to kill the king to finally stop the marriages. But when she starts to uncover the truth about her peoples' origins she realizes she must risk the unknown in order to free her family and shape her own fate.

Romantasy. Fear of magic plagues war-torn Anwyvn. Halflings like Rhya Fleetwood are killed on sight. But Rhya's execution is interrupted by an unexpected saviour - one far more terrifying than her would-be killers. The mysterious and mercenary Commander Scythe. In the clutches of this new enemy, Rhya finds herself fighting for her life in the barren reaches of the Northlands. Yet the farther she gets from home, the more she learns that nothing is as it seems - not her fearsome captor, not the blight that ravages her dying realm, not even herself.

War has come. The fire god Hseth is leading an unstoppable army south, consuming everything in her path. Middren's only hope of survival is to unify allies and old foes against a common enemy. Elo navigates an uneasy alliance with Arren - his friend, his enemy, and his king. Now they each must decide how much they're willing to sacrifice to turn the tides of war.

Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.

Raul's destiny is to claim his birthright as the last surviving heir of King Balbainus and lead his conquered people to freedom. The signs are all there--his birthmark, in the shape of Balbainus' halfmoon and dagger sigil, the gemstone-hilted sword he found in his parents' inn, and the sudden influx of illegal books featuring the late king's lineage. Never mind that his ma is a hidden scribe writing a play about Balbainus' return, or that his da, a hardened warrior, has been training him to fight since he could stand. Or the fact that his sword doesn't seem very old at all, and his birthmark is looking more and more like a burn scar...

Crawford Award winner. Rin, a war orphan, aced an Empire-wide test and found herself in an elite military academy. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. With the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive - and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.

The giant data ship Alexandria is not only bringing a mystery fan convention and Mallory Viridian's literary agent to Eternity -- it also contains the entire Internet from Earth. It is offering access to the world wide web to anyone on the station who's interested. Which is exactly when another killer decides to strike. When amateur sleuth Mallory Viridian finds her book agent dead, she knows she has to work fast to find the murderer. What with alien influencers, a lonely living, comprehensive Internet, and a deadly crime to solve, Mallory has her work cut out for her.

A new collection of four stories.

The fate of an infinite library hangs on one book. The people most vital to Livira are scattered across time and space, lost, divided into factions, in mortal peril. Somehow, she must bring them together and resolve the unresolvable argument that fuels the library's war.

The Oracle has seen the end of civilization, and the end of the Haosa, too. Reactions to this are - mixed. On the one hand, foresight is a notoriously erratic gift. On the other, can civilization - or the Haosa - afford to assume that the prophecy is an error? In the meantime, the Tree-and-Dragon trade Team has concluded its whole port inventory, and is about to propose Colemeno as a trade-hub and anchor to a brand new route.

A gender-flipped Beauty & the Beast. Former con artist Jean-Marc Charming Arundel - Prince Charming, to his friends - flees a sudden storm into a beautiful mansion. There, he finds himself an unwilling guest of a fearsome beast: a noblewoman transformed by a fairy curse, as much a prisoner in the house as he. Charming and his two fellow "guests," Johannes and Wilhelm, must attend on the Beast in strangely romantic settings.

Sequel to SEABORN. The Windborn threaten war against the Fair Isles - and three women of the sea hatch daring plans to change their fates.Bela, the reluctant hero, journeys into the inhospitable Sea of Ice in search of the ancient portal that broke the world. Shae, the ship-less Bone Pirate, stands with a Windborn exile before an army of remorseless metal beings. And Alira, the huntress, faces the revelation of what the Bloodborn are, and the truth of their horrible magicks.

To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There's Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: "Can I go inside your heart?" When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the same question, over and over... Bela understands that unless she says yes, soon her family must pay.

Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged and the perfect location to host reunions for the Rochford Institute. Aboard for a 25th year reunion, finance magnate Ava pursues the truth about her brother's murder during their senior year. Laz, ambassador and political scion, hopes to finally win Ava's heart. Sloane, collecting secrets to conceal his family's decline, angles for a key client. And Henry, heir to a healthcare empire, creates an unorthodox opportunity to get to Mars in a last-ditch effort to outrun a childhood secret.

After discovering she's a witch and being whisked away to the magical land of Crenshaw, Ellie wants nothing more than to spend time with her new wife, Prospero, who has magically altered Ellie's memories to convince her of exactly that, because Crenshaw is dying, poisoned by Prospero's enemies who want their community to return to the human world, and she will do anything to save it.

Edira Brillwyn's rare, lifesaving power that can cure disease and heal injuries comes with a cost - each healing will sacrifice a sliver of her own life. Then the powerful Fernglove family discovers her secret. The Ferngloves are charming and beautiful, possess powerful magic, and don't take no for an answer - especially Orin, the head of these ruling elites. When Edira's brothers unexpectedly contract blight - an incurable virus killing people throughout the town, and an illness too strong for her to heal them both - Orin offers to help.

Jai and his dragon, Winter, are both still growing in power. When Jai reunites with the Kidara, he finds that his uncle rules and is loath to cede power. And even if Jai was sure he could take the reins of the leadership, he isn't sure he could actually hold them. But the legionaries and Gryphon Guard of the Sabine Empire are wreaking havoc against the other tribes of the Great Steppe, and Jai is forced to learn a lifetime's worth of knowledge in a matter of months.

Sadare wakes in a labyrinth, remembering nothing except that she is a powerful sorceress. Her only companion is a hostile immortal named Daesra - beautiful, dangerous, and demonic - who bound his divine soul for power and revenge. Despite their animosity, the two have no choice but to work together to reach the center and defeat the monster who prevents their escape. But the longer they wander, the more deadly and alive the maze becomes - and the more Sadare finds herself drawn to Daesra in ways she can't explain.

When Armand Pierce first became a courier ten years ago, he had an attache case connected to a titanium cuff grafted into the bones of his wrist, and took an oath: the delivery is everything. He can run, fight - kill, if he needs to - but the package gets where it's going. So Pierce knows he's in deep trouble when he arrives at his latest destination to find his payload missing, his case mysteriously empty.

In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile, on the fringes of a Western Europe that has renounced human governance in favor of ostensibly more efficient, objective, and peaceful AI Prime Ministers, an experimental artificial mind is malfunctioning, threatening to set off a chain of events that may spell the end of the Western world.

Novella. How can a 13-year-old girl have the Call? Only men and boys experience the annual call to the Salt Roads. What's just happened to Najeeba has never happened in the history of her village. But it's not a terrible thing, just strange. So when she leaves with her father and brothers to mine salt at the Dead Lake, there's neither fanfare nor protest. Small, intimate, up close, and deceptively quiet, this is the beginning of the Kponyungo Sorceress.

On a foggy winter morning Luca Wolf and Emma Reich discover an 18th century sailing ship stranded on a barren flower field, its name written on its side: Oracle. Emma, unable to resist, enters the hatch on the tilted deck. The ship's bell begins to toll and no one sees her again. Before long eleven more have disappeared, and Luca and his mother have been abducted by a clandestine government agency that forces Robert Grim, a retired specialist of the occult with a strange history and a healthy dislike of authority, to unravel the mystery.

In the heart of Adenashire, where elvish enchantments and dwarven delights rule, human baker Arleta Starstone works twice as hard at perfecting her unique blend of baking with apothecary herbs. So, when her orc neighbour (and biggest fan) secretly enters her creations into the prestigious Langheim Baking Battle, Arleta faces a dilemma. Being magicless, her participation in the competition could draw more scowls than smiles.

A steamy, why-choose romantasy where one woman's quest to save her sister - and the realm - brings her to not one, but four power-hungry princes of chaos.

Erebus Resort in the Colorado Rockies offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners with county sheriff James Colcord to track down the perpetrators.

Stories set in the aftermath of a Zombie apocalypse, from John Birmingham, Jody Lynn Nye, Sarah A. Hoyt, Dave Freer, Mike Massa and many more.

While humans, the augmented, and aliens of all shapes and sizes enjoy exotic cuisine on the Kilgore Station's dining deck, or gamble away their credits on the entertainment deck, Johnny Gomez is elbow-deep in oily, black, alien excrement. Then his meaningless, uneventful existence is immediately turned upside down when he happens upon a tiny glass data-chit, hidden amongst the alien poop he must clean up. Unbeknownst to him, every nefarious creature in the solar system will soon be after him to claim it for their own.

For over a hundred years, the Evans women have kept the undead in their strange southeast Texas town from rising. But sometimes the dead rise too quick - and that's what left Lenore Evans, and her granddaughter Luna, burying Luna's mother, Grace, and Lenore's mother, Ducey. But when the full moon finds another victim, it's clear their trouble is far from over.

Signed copies. One day soon, suddenly and without explanation, the moon as we know it is replaced with an orb of cheese with the exact same mass. Through the length of an entire lunar cycle, from new moon to a spectacular and possibly final solar eclipse, we follow multiple characters - schoolkids and scientists, billionaires and workers, preachers and politicians - as they confront the strange new world they live in, and the absurd, impossible moon that now hangs above all their lives.

A newly collected standalone edition of Clark Ashton Smith's "Averoigne" stories: corrupt sellswords, vengeful sorceresses, and time-warping dissident priests all play a part in these tales set in the louche groves of Smith's decadent imagination.

Anna has two rules for the annual Pace family destination vacations: tread lightly and survive. The gorgeous, remote villa in tiny Monteperso seems like a perfect place to endure so much family togetherness, until things start going off the rails - the strange noises at night, the unsettling warnings from the local villagers, and the dark, violent past of the villa itself.

Struggling writer Riccardo learns that his grandmother Perihan has died and left him her villa in Milan along with her famed butterfly collection. The struggling writer is out of options. But Perihan's house isn't as opulent as he remembers. The butterflies pinned in their glass cases seem more ominous than artful. Perihan's group of mysterious old friends is constantly lurking. And there's something wrong in the greenhouse.

Standalone companion novella to THE CHOSEN AND THE BEAUTIFUL. Nick Carraway--paper soldier and novelist--has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the late thirties. He's good at watching, and he's even better at pretending: pretending to be straight, pretending to be human, pretending he's forgotten the events of that summer in 1922. On the eve of the second World War, however, Nick learns that someone's been watching him pretend and that memory goes both ways. When he sees a familiar face at a club one night, it quickly becomes clear that dead or not, damned or not, Jay Gatsby isn't done with him. In all paper there is memory, and Nick's ghost has come home.

The kingdom of Khalad is ruled by a new and brutal despot and its rebels scattered across its vast lands. With folk hero Vallant missing, Kat is now the leader of the rebellion. When an assassination attempt rattles the kingdom, Kat turns to a powerful new ally for help. The cost of victory will be high, but time is running out to save Khalad.

New Honorverse tales by Timothy Zahn & Thomas Pope, Jane Lindskold, Jan Kotouc, and Joelle Presby. Plus "First Victory," an all-new novella by David Weber!

The shapeshifting monster Shesheshen has been badly hurt by monsters and is being nursed back to health by Homily, who has mistaken Shesheshen for human. They grow close until, just as Shesheshen is about to reveal her true nature, Homily confides that she's hunting a shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Has Shesheshen seen it anywhere?

2106. A cosmic event known as the "Bloom" has awakened psionic abilities in a small percentage of the population. One such individual is Maida Sun, who possesses the ability to know the history of objects she touches. In the course of her new job with a cultural recovery project in San Francisco, she comes across an object that plunges her into the lives of Li Nuan, a sex-trafficked girl in a Chinatown brothel in 1906 longing for freedom, and Nathan, a tech-designer and hedonist in 2006 seeking greater purpose.

For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene have been fugitives, sought by the Commonwealth, the rival Patth, and the remnant of the ancient Ammei who once controlled the portals and who hunger for a return to those days of glory. In the shadow of an Ammei stronghold they stumble across an unfamiliar and badly confused alien named Bubloo who has the same ultrasensitive sense of smell as Selene and her fellow Kadolians.

Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters. The mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends. Elves lurk at our borders and hunger for our flesh, while greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions and comfort. With a hellish journey before him, it's a good thing Brother Diaz has the devils on his side.

Lyra Bien intended to live a quiet life to avoid the attention of the magic-obsessed king in the fortress of Stonegate. Until Roark Ashwood - the prince's silent guard and rumoured killer for the crown - invades her village and uncovers the truth behind the silver scars in her eyes. To save her best friend from death, she's forced to reveal her abilities, and is immediately claimed by the crown as the next melder, a slow death sentence.

After slipping 150 years into the past, modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson has embraced her new life in Victorian Scotland as housemaid Catriona Mitchel. Mallory, Duncan, and McCreadie are on their way to the Scottish Highlands for McCreadie's younger sister's wedding. Some strange irregularities, combined with the secretive and erratic behavior of the groom, put Mallory and Duncan on edge. And then when one of the guests is murdered, they must work fast to uncover the murderer before another life is lost.

Sunder City is still recovering from the sudden and violent end of magic, and if one man can't solve all its problems, he can at least stop some people going hungry. But when a kid on the run shelters in Fetch's cafe, and a chain of gruesome murders begins among Sunder's high and mighty, trouble is brought to Fetch's door. There's a word whispered on the wind, and that word is revolution...

Embued with a new, ancient power, Temujin Khan holds all the cards. His father, the once great Hulagu, has now been reduced to a prisoner in a war he hoped to be the victor of. His youngest wife, the Blue Princess Kokochin has stepped into her own power, and seeks to find order and peace in a world she has never known...Rippling in the heart of a bloody war, the Mongol Invasion comes to a standstill. But who will emerge triumphant in a world of conquerors?

Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. But none of that seems so terrible when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister, Delilah, being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer shouted two words: bat eater. Still, she can't ignore the dread in her stomach as she keeps finding bat carcasses at crime scenes, or the scary fact that all her recent cleanups have been the bodies of East Asian women.

A woman and her young son move to a small town looking for a fresh start, only to be haunted by disturbing events and strange visions when they find a mysterious train set in a storage shed.

Dragons are common in the backwater kingdom of Bellemontagne, coming in sizes from mouse-like vermin all the way up to castle-smashing monsters. Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax has recently inherited his deceased dad's job as a dragon catcher/exterminator, a career he detests with all his heart in part because he likes dragons, but mainly because his dream has always been the impossible one of transcending his humble origin to someday become a prince's valet. Needless to say, fate has something rather different in mind...

Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she lives feral in the woods. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana, chases her through the night streets and she is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.

You've heard the legends: three sisters born out of Nyx's darkness, destined to weave the lives, and deaths, of humankind for eternity. But immortality is a heavy burden, and Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos are captivated by the gloriously human lives of the mortals below, especially those of the great warrior Atalanta and her ill-fated lover, Meleager. However, being a Goddess of Fate doesn't make you a master of it. Will these three sisters find a way to free the couple, and themselves, from their destinies? Or will they be bound by Fate forever?

Galva - Galvicha to her three brothers, two of whom the goblins will kill - has defied her family's wishes and joined the army's untested new unit, the Raven Knights. They march toward a once-beautiful city overrun by the goblin horde, accompanied by scores of giant war corvids. Made with the darkest magics, these fearsome black birds may hold the key to stopping the goblins in their war to make cattle of mankind.

Prince Elician is a Giver, able to heal any wound and bring the dead back to life, and cannot die. But his enemies send a nameless Reaper to assassinate him, and when the attempt fails, Elician offers the Reaper a chance at a new life, and a new name. Bonded by their secrets, the Reaper is surprised he could still find something - or someone - worth living for. But Elician is unaware this kindness plays into enemy plans...

E. and Henerey have come to accept - and, more surprisingly still, embrace - the fact that they may never return home. A year and a half later, Sophy and Vyerin finally discover one of the elusive Entries that will help them seek their siblings. As the group's efforts bring them closer to E. and Henerey, an ancient, cosmic threat also draws near...

The two award-winning, bestselling MONK AND ROBOT novellas, in a single paperbound volume.

On this floor, the crawlers must capture six monsters. The captured monsters will be turned into cards. The stronger, the deadlier, the better. At the end of the floor, the bad guys will also have decks, and they will have some of the most powerful cards available. But Shi Maria is easily the most powerful monster in their area. If they want to survive, they must capture her. They call her the Bedlam Bride.

A vigilante known only as the Truthsayer is raising an army against the wardens. Sylah and Hassa must navigate the politics of this new world, all the while searching for Anoor. Across the sea, the Blood Forged prepare for war, requesting aid from other governments. And the Zalaam celebrate the arrival of the Child of Fire, heralding the start of the final battle.

All her life, Aelys of Brionne had been weak. When her weakness robs her of her dreams, her best friend, and the man she loves, she takes her fate into her own hands and she runs, leaving her safe, protected world behind. Now she must find a way to work with three dangerous strangers - a warrior, a forester, and a thief - to escape the bandits stalking her, fight through the dangers of the untamed forest, and make her way back home, where her family and her destiny await.

Elizabeth's spymaster, Francis Walsingham blackmails the Rhymer into joining his intelligence network. Allied with Walsingham's minions and a mysterious shape-changing stage actress, the Rhymer desperately defeats one conspiracy after another in defense of the throne. This leads to an inevitable final confrontation with the Elf Queen. In order to survive, the Rhymer must destroy the source of her power... and to do that, he must enter the mouth of Hel itself.

Sybil Delling is a foundling girl who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, receiving prophetic visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them.

Charlie Book and Ruby Cahill's love ended in heartbreak years ago. Charlie now lives aboard the Christabel, an old freighter half-sunken off the shore of Galveston, with a grove of mangrove trees growing up through its deck. Then Ruby shows up with her murdered sister's girlfriend Bella, and Bella's infant child, hoping to hide aboard the Christabel from a coven of witches. As they leave shore they see the night birds flying, scouring the coastline for their prey.

Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she's an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. Since she was three years old, no one has believed her. Now, with an alien signal from the stars being broadcast around the world, humanity is finally starting to realize that it's already been warned, and it may be too late.

Paris, early 1900s. Forger/con woman Celeste Artois encounters Rafe, a mysterious and beautiful stranger who leads her to an enchanted salon where artists can bring wondrous imaginations to life. Rafe offers Celeste an irresistible deal: the gift of time in exchange for lending him and his benefactor her forging talents.

After Athena transforms Medusa into the snake-haired monster of legend, word of her monstrosity travels fast, igniting a king's fear so greatly that he commands the boy-hero Perseus to bring him her head. Meanwhile, searching for a haven free from mortals, anger buoying her every step, Medusa journeys across ancient Greece.

Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation. They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family's future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads, "It's time you came home, Diana".

1919 May Day. At Kit Arton-Price's engagement party his fiancee, Adelaide, is dancing with one of their guests, the enigmatic Mr Wilde. In the morning, Adelaide cannot be woken and the village doctor declares it's the mystifying 'Sleeping Sickness' - an unexplainable epidemic affecting society. But there is more to this sickness than first appears and it's not long before Kit is lured into a strange new realm. One of magic and danger. The realm of the fae...

Vernestra Rwoh has spent over a decade exploring the Outer Rim as a Wayseeker, answering to no other authority but the Force itself. When a request from the Jedi Council orders her back to Coruscant, Vernestra initially refuses, feeling that her first priority should be to the beings she's already serving. But after Jedi Master Indara arrives to ask for Vernestra's aid in person, Vernestra finds herself pulled back into Coruscant's complicated world of Republic politics and underworld crime.

Kate Mayer has always been troubled by visions of the future that always come true, no matter what she does. Oliver returned from the Great War disabled, disillusioned, and able to see the dead. And Nora Jo's mother and grandmother were witches, but she has never nurtured her own power. Always an outsider, she has made a place for herself in the town as Chatuga's schoolteacher. Rumours of a dark force stalking the town only push Kate, Oliver, and Nora Jo onwards in their quest to determine their own destinies.

While Freya still seethes with rage over Bjorn's betrayal, the blood oaths that bind her demand that she keep him close as she hunts for a way to avert the looming war. Her magic draws her to the front lines of an old enmity, embroiling her with Nordeland's Unfated - children of the gods who serve the king she was raised to fear. The same king who, unlike Bjorn, is now willing to fight at her back.

A New York fairytale of queer identity and found family. Benigno "Benny" Caldera knows an orphaned Boricua blacksmith in 1910s New York City can't call himself an artist. But the ironwork tank he creates for a famed Coney Island playground allows him to meet the newest exhibit - a living, breathing, in-the-flesh merman stolen from the banks of the East River under a gleaming full moon. Illustrated with artwork throughout by Venessa Vida Kelley, known for her stunning romance and fantasy art.

Two cousins are trapped in mirrored worlds - the resplendent and verdant summer city and the ice-carved wastes of the winter city. But both Fairharbours were once a single, united city. And in certain places, at certain times, one side can catch a glimpse of the other.

Having arrived at recently Dust-bound Colemeno, Trader Padi yos'Galan is essential to Master Trader Shan yos'Galan's plan to recoup Korval's clan fortunes by establishing new routes for the clan's tradeship. Shan's inner Healer insists Padi come to terms with her as-yet unplumbed psychic abilities, which might place her in the top tier of dramliz, if she can learn control. Padi yearns to concentrate on trade, but Colemeno's fey ambient and deadly long-term politics combine to bring her face-to-face with the Haosa.

Anji works as a castle servant, cleaning laundry for a king she hates. So when a rare opportunity presents itself, she seizes the chance to cut his throat. Then she runs for her life, a bounty on her head bigger than anyone could imagine. On her heels are the fabled mercenaries of the Menagerie, whose animal-shaped masks are magical relics rumoured to give them superhuman powers.

Trailblazing Chinese actress Vivian Yin is dead. Now her daughters have come to take possession of Vivian's grand, sprawling, Southern California garden estate. But a last-minute change to the will gives it to another family instead. Both families move into the mansion -- and disturbing visions and bizarre behaviors start to take hold of everyone in the house...

In the world Above, the Scorpicae struggle to find a path forward in defeat, the embattled regent of Paxim gets more than she bargained for, and a young woman who barely survived the Sun Rites finds herself the indispensable right hand of a priest-queen whose sanity appears to be slipping away.

Michael's life has turned out nothing like the intergalactic pulp heroes of his youth. But these are pedestrian concerns - he has a greater calling, and that is to preserve for all posterity the greatest series in the history of the written word: The Star Rot Chronicles, written collectively by Michael's best (and perhaps only) friend Taras K. Castle and his misfit sci-fi writing group, the Orb 4. These are not just the stories of Captain Baldwin and his fearless crew, but also of the members of Orb 4.

Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire, the darling of Viennese society, spots a woman's nude body in the Danube canal. He knows he should summon a policeman, but he can't resist stopping to make a sketch first. And as he draws, the woman coughs. She's alive! Last she remembers, she was stranded in the arctic one hundred years ago, locked in a crate by a man named Victor Frankenstein, and visiting the Underworld.

1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times. So when the film's mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican ingenue, in the lead role, she quickly becomes the talk of the town. Vera also becomes an object of envy for Nancy Hartley, a bit player whose career has stalled and who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves.

Ruth has the power to transfer life from one person to another. She wonders, is it really so wrong to take a little life from a bad person - say, a very annoying boss - and gift it to someone who's truly good? But as she embarks on her mission to punish the wicked and give the deserving more time, she finds good and bad aren't as simple as she first thought.

Morgane grew up at sea, daughter of the fierce pirate captain of the Vengeance, raised to follow in her footsteps as scourge of the Four Chains Trading Company. But when Anna-Marie is mortally wounded in battle, she confesses to Morgane that she is not her mother. The captain of the enemy ship reveals he was paid to kill Anna-Marie and bring Morgane home to France and her real family, beginning a quest that reveals a world of decadence and darkness, in which monsters vie for control of royal courts and destinies of nations.

Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how little they understand their own research. Every chance they get, they escape to see Britt, a queer sculptor who fascinates them for reasons they also can't - or won't - understand. As Raffi's carefully constructed life begins to collapse, they become increasingly fixated on the multiverse and the idea that somewhere, there may be a universe where they mean as much to Britt as Britt does to them.

Now in her forties and years beyond the death of her second husband, Najeeba has just lost her beloved daughter. Onyesonwu saved the world. Najeeba knows this well, but the world does not. This is how the juju her daughter evoked works. One other person who remembers is Onyesonwu's teacher Aro, a harsh and hard-headed sorcerer. Najeeba has decided to ask him to teach her the Mystic Points, the powerful heart of sorcery. There is something awful Najeeba needs to kill and the Mystic Points are the only way.

Abidemi Eniola has arrived in Bristol, England. She claims to be Nigerian, but her accent is wrong and she can do remarkable things with technology, things that Abi's new friend, Hollie Rogers, has never seen before. Abi is in possession of a number of heirlooms that need to be returned to their rightful owners and Hollie is more than happy to go along for the ride.But neither Abidemi Eniola nor her heirlooms are quite what they seem.

Fergus is the ransom for a kidnapped friend, taken by Bas Belos, one of the galaxy's most dangerous space pirates, as bait to force Fergus' assistance in finding Belos' missing sister. Reluctantly joining forces, Fergus discovers that Belos is himself being tracked by the Alliance. And seeking to stay one step ahead of the Alliance, Fergus and Belos find themselves on the other side of the Gap between spiral arms of our galaxy, near to alien territory, and with an Alliance ship in hot pursuit.

Being a princess had never been more than a performance--23 years of empty titles and hollow traditions. Until the day an infamous monster hunter sailed to her shores, the day a prince walked into her father's throne room and ruined her life, the day she married a stranger, signed a magical treaty in blood, and set off across the continent to the most treacherous kingdom in all the realm.

The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute, who does not leave his warrior ways behind when he comes to the marriage bed. The Lady knows his hostile, suspicious court will be a game of strategy, requiring all of her wiles and hidden witchcraft to survive. But the Lady does not know her husband has occult secrets of his own, and that prophecy girds him like armour.

The execution of a Vatican archivist within the shadow of the Kremlin exposes a conspiracy going back three centuries - to the bloody era of the Russian Tsars. Before his murder, he manages to dispatch a coded message, a warning of a terrifying threat, one tied to a secret buried within the Golden Library of Tsars, a vast and treasured archive that had vanished into history.

When word arrives that her Aunt Cleo, long estranged from the family of free Black business owners in New Charleston, has passed away, Phee St. Margaret risks her mother's wrath to step up and accept the role of pomp - the highly honored duty of planning the funeral service. Traveling alone to the town of Horizon and her aunt's unsettling home, Phee soon discovers that visions and shadows beckon from every reflective surface, and that some secrets transcend the borders of life and death.

From Sophia Bannion's first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE (hee-bee), a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York's trendy SoHo neighborhood and named after the Greek goddess of youth, it's clear something is deeply amiss. But soon, Sophia is addicted to her HEBE lifestyle - especially youthjuice, the fatty, soothing moisturizer Tree has asked Sophia to test. But when cracks in HEBE's infrastructure start to worsen - and Sophia learns the gruesome secret ingredient at the heart of youthjuice - she has to decide how far she's willing to go to stay beautiful forever.

Teamed with Avar Kriss and Keeve Trennis, the same Jedi who once hunted her, former Tempest Runner Lourna Dee leads the search for the Nihil's chief scientist, Baron Boolan, the only being who may have answers to the mystery of the blight, as well as Marchion Ro's true plans. And if the opportunity arises to face off against Marchion Ro himself, even Lourna Dee may be willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill a quest for revenge.

Series conclusion. Since demons and angels are, quite literally, allergic to each other, the powers that be decide to see if the allergy persists on Earth by sending an angel and demon on a research trip. First stop New York City. And what better chaperone than Dr. Greta Helsing, who happens to owe Hell a few favours of her own? But there's unrest in New York's monster underworld and Greta and her team are about to land in the middle of it.

Relics of a mysterious god, the Spice Gates connect the eight far-flung kingdoms, each separated by a distinct spice and only accessible by those born with a special mark. This is not a caste of distinction, though, but one of subjugation. Spice Carriers suffer the lashes of their masters, the weight of the spices they bear on their backs, and the jolting pain of the Gates themselves. Amir is one such Spice Carrier, and he dreams of escaping his fate.

After six months of siege, food in Aymar Castle is running low. Then the divine Constant Lady and her saints arrive and castle stores are replenished and the sick healed. Soon, all are under the sway of their saviours, partaking in intoxicating feasts of terrible origin. Only Phosyne, a disorganized, paranoid nun-turned-sorceress, races to unravel the mystery of these new visitors and exonerate her experiments as their source.

In the great pyramid at the Singing City's heart, Shadow Tayan faces the awful consequences of his actions, and their seductive possibilities. In the city streets, Xessa and Lilla lead their warriors in increasingly desperate battles, their unity riven by betrayal and deception, while far to the north, Whisper Ilandeh discovers the freedom - and obligation - in making her own choices.

A scientist in Austria, seeing the nuclear holocaust approaching, created a time machine, and filled a warehouse with low-tech survival gear. Too bad he didn't get to use it himself. Instead, a team of American grad students, led by their professor, is sent back to the late Roman Empire. Even though they are experts in this time and place, they are about to realize that books and actual experience are very different things.

While patrolling the borders of the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise record a series of subspace echoes from a planet orbiting a volatile flare star - and when Lieutenant Spock and Commander Una Chin-Riley lead a landing party to learn more, they discover the ruins of a dead civilization and evidence of starship-grade metals...quite possibly a crash site.

New planets are fair game to asset strippers and interplanetary opportunists. A commercial mission to a distant star system discovers a moon that is pitch black, but alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is anathema to human life, but ripe for exploitation. Under no circumstances should a human end up on the inhospitable surface. Except a catastrophic accident sees Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne doing just that.

When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before. They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.

Sapphic dark academia fantasy. Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings, and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions. Walden is good at her job--no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. And it's possible the entity Walden most needs to keep her school safe from--is herself.

The Metagalactic Grand Prix - part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past returns and the fate of the Earth is once again threatened. The civilizations opposed to humanity have been plotting and want to take down the upstarts. Can humanity rise again?

Lieutenant Brandy Bolgeo has come home from the Battle of Hancock station wounded in both body and spirit. She's come home to find that her wounds, her ship's brutal damage, the deaths of so many friends, were the fault of an arrogant, aristocratic coward who broke and ran in the face of the enemy. Now Lord Pavel Young, having escaped the consequences of this cowardice, is free to seek vengeance on the people he feels have "wronged" him.

When a ship from an uncharted universe explodes, it soon becomes apparent that someone is building a massive weapon away from the watchful eyes of the Gordian Division. Agent Cho and Detective Cantrell are deployed to get to the bottom of the mystery. If they don't, it means destruction on a universal scale.

Two novel-length YA steampunk adventures, EMILIE AND THE HOLLOW WORLD & EMILIE AND THE SKY WORLD, together in one volume. In the first, Emilie stows away on a ship whose crew hopes to use an experimental engine to journey to the interior of the planet, but when the ship becomes damaged on arrival and evidence points to sabotage, they encounter the treacherous Lord Ivers, along with a strange new race. In the second, a strange and potentially deadly disruption in an upper air aether current turns out to be a ship from another aetheric plane.

Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what. Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere. One friend walks up - and never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears. Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared. Now the group returns to find the lost boy - and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods...

Together, Wynter and Cain have prevailed over many powerful enemies, but now they face their final - and most terrifying - battle. As the last Aeon left standing, the all-powerful Adam is out for revenge. His terms: Cain and Wynter in exchange for peace. If Devil's Cradle won't deliver them, the full force of Adam's devastating rage will fall upon them all. As the stakes are raised, Cain and Wynter will do whatever it takes to defeat Adam and keep each other safe, even if it means unleashing the monsters that live within them...

Queer novella. Yeva, a legendary dragon hunter has never truly felt at home - nor removed her armor in public. Yeva must now go to Quanbao, a fiercely independent and reclusive kingdom. It is rumoured that there, dragons are not feared as is right and proper, but instead loved and worshipped. It is rumoured that there, they harbor a dragon behind their borders. While Yeva searches for the dreaded beast, she is shocked to find herself slowly opening up to the beautiful, mysterious queen, Lady Sookhee.

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College - Violet included. But now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just the brutal and gruelling training -- it's the new vice commandant, who has made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is - unless she betrays the man she loves.

Freed from his prison cell, the former slave known as Tatters is finally ready to face his past. Now his true nature is known to all, he can use his Lightborn powers freely. But they come at a price, and his loyalties remain conflicted. The renegades about to attack the city used to be his companions, and both sides have treated him badly. He will have to decide which side to choose.

Duncan Rackley, former fey Hunter turned lover, has become the host of the demon god Duwar, and the gentle peace that has been brokered is steps away from being shaken up. Bolstered with the sudden help of his ex-love Erix,Robin embarks on a mission to save Duncan, seeking out the aid of the Nephilim once more. However, Robin finds that the game of the gods is not over, and those he can trust may have other motives.

Vasalie Moran was once a dancer in King Illian's court - until he framed her for murder. Barely surviving her two years in the dungeons, she's suddenly called to face her king. He offers her a deal. Become his spy at the six-week royal Gathering and he'll grant her freedom. As Illian's orders grow bloody and dangerous, forcing her to harm and betray those around her, Vasalie discovers that the monster she serves may be aligned with a bigger monster - one far closer to home.

Captain Blite knows that someone, or something, is trying to kill him. But a device he possesses, known only as the dark diamond, won't let that happen. After surviving a series of accidents and assassination attempts, Blite comes to realize that whenever he dies the dark diamond reverses time to a moment before his death. He must then go through the traumatic experience again and again until he escapes. This attracts the attention of Polity agents and the crab-like p-Prador, determined to manipulate the device for their own purposes.

After thousands of years of warfare, attacks by the greybloods are rebuffed by the invoker clans, warriors of noble blood who summon their ancestors to fight with them in battle. But the war has gone on too long. As a general draft is called to take the battle to the Feverlands, Temi, a commoner, accidentally invokes a powerful spirit she believes could be the key to ending the centuries-long war.

In Navola, a bustling city-state dominated by a handful of influential families, business is power, and power is everything. Soon Davico di Regulai is expected to take over the family business from his father. But in Navola, strange and ancient undercurrents lurk behind the gilt and grandeur - like the fossilized dragon eye in the family's possession, a potent symbol of their raw power and a talisman that seems to be summoning Davico to act.

Cahan Du Nahare is lost, taken by a dark god whose tendrils reach throughout the world, intent on its destruction. The Reborn warriors are toys for the enemy. The warrior Dassit, forestal Ania and monk Ont are drawn to the dangerous north but do not know why. Udinny is forced into the company of a woman who desires nothing more than her death and the Rai, Sorha, leads a dwindling band on a mission even she believes is doomed to failure.

When the high priestess Vyvian du Lac dies, Morgen le Fay - acolyte to the priestess, midwife to queens, apprentice to Merlin - is left mysteriously bereft of magic. She finds herself transported to the wild, ancient forest of Broceliande, which she must cross - and survive - to save Carelon from disaster. And death itself, it seems, is close on her heels.

A crumbling stone mansion nestled in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona is a little-known attraction featuring nine escape rooms to explore, nine puzzles to solve, and a large cash prize for anyone who makes it to the end. But no one makes it to the end of The No-End House. When Joe Hadfield hears about the house from a pair of backpackers, he's intrigued but not interested. Then he meets a beautiful stranger named Helen who convinces him to try The No-End House challenge together.

Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to vanish without a trace. Sunya Song's job is to stop that from happening. Her job usually involves sitting at a console at her university job near the Galactic Core, sorting ancient documents and restoring corrupted files. But now, the research opportunity of a lifetime has sent her - along with her teenage children and alien wife - halfway across the galaxy to preserve the data and aid in the retrieval of an ancient alien artificial intelligence called Baomind.

Kavi's people were once warriors who acted as the vanguard to an imperial invasion. Now, they drive steam rickshaws. But when the most dangerous gang in the city takes control of the Imperial Rickshaw Company, Kavi's people are cast out again, and Kavi is forced to work for the gang as a low-level enforcer. Her only hope lies in the annual Blade and Warlock tournament at the Vagola - the prize money from which will buy back the company and her people's future.

Stories set in Jack L. Chalker's legendary series, from authors such as Neal Asher, Catherine Asaro, S.P. Somtow, and many more, each adding their unique flair to the Well World legacy.

Finale to the series begun in DATING AND DISMEMBERMENT and WEDDINGS AND WITCHCRAFT.

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.

With her mother still missing, the secrets she left behind can no longer be ignored - and neither can the Guardians and their demands. Caught between an old flame and a sizzling new spark, Diem must confront the truth about who she is and what she wants before time runs out.

England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope agrees to marry Elias Blakersby. The new bride is quickly whisked away to Korringhill Manor, the Blakersby family estate, and far from everything she knows. Expecting splendour, Orabella is shocked to find decay, skittish servants, and curt elders. Rooms are locked or hidden away, and the walls seem to thrum with secrets. Orabella can never venture outside unattended. Soon darkness begins to engulf her, too.

Classic SF stories featuring the Roman Empire.

Five strangers armed with steel and magic awaken in a mist-shrouded land, with no memory of how they arrived: Rotrog, a prideful orcish wizard; Chivarion, a sardonic drow barbarian; Alishai, an embittered tiefling paladin; Kah, a skittish kenku cleric; and Fielle, a sunny human artificer. After they barely survive a nightmarish welcome to the realm of Barovia, a carriage arrives bearing an invitation -- to the Castle Ravenloft.

Romantasy (subgenre: cozy). Kiela, a librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, and her assistant, Caz - a magically sentient spider plant - rescue precious spellbooks when a revolution breaks out and sets the library aflame. She and Caz flee to the remote island Kiela calls home. There she opens a spellshop and introduces the concept of jam to the locals.

The Institute of Special Technologies teaches students just one thing. Magic will transform them into parts of speech, and in doing so transforms them into a specific piece of grammar (a verb, or an adjective, or an article) so they will be able to shape the world around them. As the new provost, though, Sasha is facing an enormous problem. The students in the world she just created, her "world without fear," are unable to master the curriculum.

When an arrogant prince (and his equally arrogant entourage) gets stuck in Orledder Halt as part of brutal political intrigue, competent and sunny deputy courier Elen--once a child slave meant to shield noblemen from the poisonous Pall--is assigned to guide him through the hills to reach his destination. When she warns him not to enter the haunted Spires, the prince doesn't heed her advice, and the man who emerges from the towers isn't the same man who entered.

An epic new series that will join the Firemane Saga with the Riftwar Cycle. Hatushaly, last scion of the Firemane dynasty, his beloved Hava, and their dubious friend Donte have been transported across space and time from their war-torn world of Garn to the relative peace of Midkemia. There, on Sorcerer's Isle, under the guidance of the great magician Magnus and his reincarnated father Pug, Hatu will explore and expand his unique magical abilities. For if Garn is to be saved, they will be needed.

What astronmer Stephanie Bronson thought might have been a distant supernova was instead a huge alien vessel. Then, unexpectedly, the vessel flared and its drive died, leaving the huge ship careening out of control to a fiery death inside the orbit of Venus. There was - just possibly - a chance for humanity to act - to rescue the now-shipwrecked "Fens." But should we?

Sanctan Egelrath still holds Torwyn's capital in his iron grip. Each day the Guild army marches closer, ready to unleash its fury. But the Archlegate has no intention of losing, and even if the Guilds take the Anvil, Sanctan intends to call upon greater powers to secure his final victory. Beset on all sides, Rosomon Hawkspur is presented with a dark bargain to secure victory - one that carries a heavy price.

The Dutch Republic, 1650. One fine spring day in Friesland, 20-year-old Clara van Wieren is faced with an ill omen: a whale, beached and rotting in the noonday sun. But this portent is quickly dismissed when a proposal from a wealthy merchant arrives. Then her attempts at overseeing the household at the family's estate lead to her chance encounter with a young man with russet hair and sparkling eyes the color of the sea, and she finds herself strangely drawn to him.

Iriset is a prodigy and an outlaw. The daughter of a powerful criminal, she dons her alter ego Silk to create magical disguises for those in her father's organization. But when her father is captured and sentenced to death, Iriset must infiltrate the palace and the empire's fanatical ruling family. There, she realizes she has a chance--and an obligation--to bring down the entire corrupt system.

Whatever happened to all the old monsters? The vampires, the werewolves, the ghouls - Daniel & Tina Hyde wiped them out, to make the world a safer place. But nature abhors a vacuum, supernature even more - Something's got to fill the gap left by all those monster clans. The question now is, what happened to all the old aliens? The Martians, the Bug-Eyed Monsters, the Reptiloids and the Greys? They're coming out of the shadows with a vengeance, and Daniel and Tina Hyde are about to discover there are much worse things than monsters. Fortunately, the Hydes love a good fight.

For Brynla Aihr, crime and survival have always gone hand in hand. Ever since she escaped the fanatical dragon-worshipping cult that controls her homeland, she's had to carve out a life doing the unthinkable: stealing dragon eggs. Egg theft is illegal and, in most cases, fatal. Now she finds herself kidnapped and blackmailed by Lord Andor, a formidable lieutenant of House Kolbeck, and thrust into the dangerous political games of rivaling dynasties.

Set in the world of the SF RPG EXODUS. After 40 millenia one fleet of arkships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with a vast array of potentially habitable planets. Now thousands of years later, the original settlers, now known as Celestials, have both evolved and established a repressive rule. Finn, born into this system, dreams of escape. When another arkship from Earth, previously thought lost, unexpectedly arrives, Finn sees a chance.

When a figure from Aelfric's past brings a cryptic message from one of the Nine, it seems the Lammergier is needed again. Does the old hero have one last quest left in him? Can his broken sword be reforged - and at what cost?

New York publicist Gwendolyn Montgomery's success is due to the fact she's a mystical practitioner who can tap into the interdimensional, metaphysical realm of the dead known as El Intermedio. Gwendolyn has hidden her powers, buried her old life, and started anew. But after a grisly, bizarre incident at the Brooklyn Museum, Gwendolyn begins to realize that something nefarious is happening tied directly to her past.

Combines Hocking's classic CONAN AND THE EMERALD LOTUS in the same volume as the all-new, original CONAN AND THE LIVING PLAUGE. A Shemite wizard seeks to create a serum to use as a lethal weapon. Instead he unleashes a hideous monster on the city of Dulcine. Hired to loot the city of its treasures, Conan and his fellows in the mercenary troop find themselves trapped in the depths of the city's keep. To escape, they must defeat the creature, its plague-wracked undead followers, then face Lovecraftian horrors beyond mortal comprehension.

In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor - but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex and intrigue. In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare medicine, only to unleash an otherworldly terror instead. And in present-day Los Angeles, a college student meets a beautiful stranger and cannot shake the feeling they've met before.

1978. Teenager Rina Pine is abandoned by her hippie mother in the isolated village of Sorrow Spring and forced to live with her elderly aunt. When a child goes missing and a young mother is killed, Rina is drawn into the dark and sinister truth flowing through the sacred waters that give the village its name. She is about to learn what it truly means to be a daughter of Sorrow Spring...

The Catenan Republic - the Hierarchy - may rule the world now, but they do not know everything. He tells them his name is Vis Telimus and that he was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to his acceptance into their most prestigious school. But the truth is that he has been sent to the Academy to solve a murder, to search for an ancient weapon, and to uncover secrets that may tear the Republic apart.

Thierry Villar is a well-known - even notorious - tavern poet, intimately familiar with the rogues and shadows of that world, but not at all with courts and power. He is an unlikely person, despite his quickness, to be swept into the deadly contests of ambitious royals, assassins, and invading armies.But he is indeed drawn into all these things on a savagely cold night in his beloved city of Orane.

The red thread of fate on his finger signals Seokga that his lost love Hani has been reincarnated and leads him to a luxury cruise down the river of the dead. But the woman waiting, is not Hani, but Yoo Kisa, working out a karmic debt labouring thanklessly aboard the SRC Flatliner. When the heavenly emperor is murdered aboard the ship, Seokga and Kisa must solve the crime before the cruise ends.

When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to "kill thirteen innocents and one guilty" in "an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man," Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes that the letter writer is deadly serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help.

Renza di Maineri is the youngest elected leader her city has ever seen. Devoted to the citizens of Halice, she is determined to prove herself and finally step beyond her father's shadow. But her world falls apart when she meets her worst nightmare, Idris Patricelli, her main political rival - and also her Soulhate, the person she is fated to destroy - and every moment in his presence she fights an urge to rip his throat out.

Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations - until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of anthropology, but she's haunted by persistent and disturbing visions of the future. Then an old friend comes to her with a job she can't refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction. Except no one has seen it in living memory, and they aren't the only ones hunting for it.

Ageing mercenary Beran has no love of bards' songs. Nor of people. Unless they are paying him to steal or kill. Now he has been ordered to murder a boy. But this is no ordinary child. The son of King Constantine and the grandson of High King Ambrosius, this boy could be the saviour of Britain - if he lives. Betraying his companions and returning to a world he believed he'd forsaken, Beran vows to take the boy to the one place that still holds out against the invader: Camelot.

Vieliessar Farcarinon has been anointed by the stars above and the dragon at her side. But the overwhelming attacks of the Endarkened have forced Elvenkind to retreat. Runacarendalur Caerthalien is a thorn in the Queen's side and should be her greatest enemy, but the two are forced into tentative co-existence due to the common threat of the Endarkened. How will they react when they finally realize they are soulmates?

On the border between Valdemar and the deadly Pelagirs Forest, the gryphon hero Kelvren returns from a near fatal self-sacrifice that won him the approval of Valdemar's ground troops but caused a diplomatic crisis.

T'Rayles returns to the colonized city of Seventhblade, ready to tear the streets asunder in search of her son's killer. T'Rayles must lean into the dangerous power of her inherited sword and ally herself with questionable forces, including the Broken Fangs, an alliance her mother founded, now fallen into greed and corruption, and the immortal Elraiche, a powerful and manipulative deity exiled from a faraway land.

Shunned by the soldiers he commands, haunted by past tragedies, Sargent Holt Hawley is a broken man. But the child of a powerful ally has gone missing, and war between once peaceful nations is on the horizon. So, he and his squad have been sent to find a myth: a Vigilant. They are a rumored last survivor of an ancient and powerful order capable of performing acts of magic and finding the lost. But the Vigilants disappeared decades ago. No one truly expects Hawley to succeed.

When refugees from a fallen city flood into Kerina Sol, the delicate balance between Talented and Talentless shatters. With tensions rising and civil war looming, Yi-Nereen, Kadrin, and Jin must join forces again to save their own people and the refugees. Now their salvation lies beyond the wastes, in the mythical home of the gods: the First City.

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true. Lima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where they'll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead.

Sequel to THE WREN IN THE HOLLY LIBRARY.

Anahrod lives only for survival, forging her own way through the harsh jungles of the Deep with her titan drake by her side. When an adventuring party saves her from capture by a local warlord, it turns out to be her past catching up with her. These cunning misfits - and their frustratingly appealing dragonrider ringleader - intend to take her back to the dragon-ruled sky cities, where they need her help to steal from a dragon's hoard.

Andrew Larimer receives a late-night phone call that makes him drop everything and head back to his hometown to reunite with his friends: Eric, now the town's deputy sheriff; Dale, a real-estate mogul living in the shadow of a failed career; his childhood sweetheart Tig who never could escape town; and poor Meach, whose ravings about a curse upon the group have driven him to drugs and alcohol. Together, the five friends will have to confront the memories--and the horror--of a night, years ago, that changed everything for them.

Revolutionary and visionary, these twenty-two speculative stories edited by Lambda, Nebula and Hugo finalist Lee Mandelo explore the vast potentialities of our queer and trans futures.

Irenda will grow up in a wartorn country where survival means obedience. When a devastating attack robs her of her mother, she travels to Hrana City. There, her grandmother agrees to teach her the ultimate secret: how to tame death. But it won't be easy...In the circus that offers her first taste of power, Irenda will have to tame another tiger if she is to survive.

Over time, some moon gods are incarnated into the human world alongside the other manifest natural concepts. Their job is to cross the sky above the Impossible City - the heart of all creation - to keep it connected to reality. But someone is killing them. There are so many of them that it's easy for a few disappearances to slip through the cracks. But they aren't limitless. In the name of the moon, the lunar divinities must uncover the roots of the plot and thwart the true goal of those behind these attacks - control of the Impossible City itself.

In the run up to the 1900s World's Fair in Paris, talented and pragmatic clockworker Clara Ironwood spend her days working on the Palace of Illusions, an intricate hall of mirrors that is one of the centerpieces of the world's fair. When her godfather sends Clara a hideous nutcracker for Christmas, she is puzzled until she finds a hidden compartment that unlocks a mirror-world Paris where the Seine is musical, fountains spout lemonade, and mechanical ballerinas move with human grace. The magic at work, she will learn, has a darker side.

On a cold December night, single mother Rebecca Carter drives her van into a snowbank to avoid hitting an elk on a desolate mountain highway. Though out of money and food, she refuses help from a passing stranger. Her adolescent daughter, Moonflower, is on the run from a grisly secret, and the last thing they can afford is to be remembered. Meanwhile, Special Agent Donner of the FBI has been hunting down a gruesome serial killer who drains their victims of blood before severing their spinal cords.

Thirteen short stories that span her worlds - from the dragon-filled Temeraire series and the gothic magical halls of the Scholomance trilogy, through the realms next door to Spinning Silver and Uprooted, including a sneak peek at the land where her next novel will be set.

New in the award-nominated sapphic, cozy space-opera mystery series. A former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin - who is up for a prestigious academic position at a rival Jovian university but has been accused of plagiarism. But what appears to be a case of an attempted reputational smearing devolves into something decidedly more dangerous - and possibly deadly.

All Harper Tavros ever wanted was to be a dragon rider. But after a prank goes wrong, she ends up soul bonded to a griffin. Now, she'll have to learn an entirely new skillset before she ends up on the front lines of a war her country is slowly losing. If she's going to make a difference, she'll need to rise up from the ruin of her dreams and embrace a new path. One that includes her accidental bondmate, an utterly ridiculous, insanely brave griffin.

Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn't need much - least of all trouble - but trouble always seems to find him. Work has dried up, and he'd rather be left alone to deal with his bills as the Harmattan rolls in to coat the city in dust, but Bouba is down on his luck deux fois, suspended between two cultures and two worlds. When a bleeding woman stumbles onto his doorway, only to vanish just as quickly, Bouba reluctantly finds himself enmeshed in the secrets of a city boiling on the brink of violence.

The faeries stole Sydney Carton as a child, and made him a mortal servant of the Faery Realm. Now, he has a rare opportunity for revenge against the fae and Charles Darnay, the changeling left in his stead. It will take magic and cunning - cold iron and Realm silver - to hide his intentions from humans and fae and bring his plans to fruition. Shuttling between London and Paris during the Reign of Terror, generations of violence-begetting-violence lead him to a heartbreaking choice in the shadow of the guillotine.

BC author. The Linde siblings - Kellen, Davina, and Morel - are anxious to return to the kingdom of Halgyr before their father dies, leaving Kellen to assume the throne as king. They book tickets on a luxury express train, expecting a swift journey home - but disaster strikes when the train engine explodes, stranding the siblings atop a caldera bubbling with volcanic magic.The crash triggers Davina's latent witch powers, but her magic disrupts her ability to remember what she was doing when the explosion took place.

Doli Butterbuckle, a people-pleasing sunshine dwarf, is content with her simple tea magic and circle of friends. It's true she's never quite lived up to family expectations, but life is just fine - until her parents arrive with an inherited dragon egg and a charming gargoyle.

Eshtem University has long stood as a pillar of equal opportunity, a place that any youth of Ellyrian can apply to to become part of the Edrei, an elite order of dragon-riding, magic-wielding peacekeepers. But as evidence of corruption surfaces within the order, the students will have to re-examine their future and the roles they wish to play as an Edrei... if they aren't expelled first.

In a near-future world addled by climate change and inhabited by intelligent robots called "hums," May loses her job to artificial intelligence. Desperate to resolve her family's debt and secure their future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by surveillance. Seeking reprieve from her recent hardships and her family's addiction to their devices, May splurges on passes for her family to spend three nights respite in the Botanical Garden: a rare green refuge where forests, streams, and animals still thrive. But when her children come under threat, May is forced to put her trust in a hum of uncertain motives to save her family.

Luzia is forced into a deal that traps her in the most abstruse verbal contract imaginable. As she struggles under this weight, she begins to uncover the secrets of the Astrosi people - the internal battles for power between the two kingdoms, the never-ending conflict between them, the trickster Carrion who somehow bridges that gap, and the very nature of the Bastion itself.

As tradition has it, the king of Elben must marry six queens and magically bind each of them to one of the island's palaces or the kingdom will fall. Clever, ambitious Boleyn relishes the games at court and the political rivalries with the other wives. But Seymour is the opposite - originally sent to Boleyn's court as a reluctant spy and assassin. But when the two queens become the unlikeliest of things - friends and allies - the balance of power begins to shift.

For a generation, individuals have arisen with super powers, able to change the course of history, or at least save a few lives. But these people have free will - and not all choose to work for the forces of good. We need someone with an unblotted escutcheon, a Galahad for the 21st Century, someone pure of ethics and morality. But what we get is Michael. The product of a broken childhood, raised in the foster system of one of America's most dangerous inner cities, his wisdom comes from drug addicts and whores. Maybe he's not the hero we asked for, but he's the hero we need. And he's about to hit puberty.

One second Jason Graham is sitting in a restaurant in Mobile, Alabama, chatting with a server, the next he finds himself in a strange room, rescued by mysterious alien benefactors. Seems the world did end, though how and why are something of a mystery. Now, Jason (and five hundred million other humans) are in orbit around an Earthlike world that is abundant in natural resources and totally untamed. It is a new start. But who are the alien benefactors that have contrived this second act for some of Earth's denizens? And what do they really want?

Serapio, avatar of the Crow God Reborn and the newly crowned Carrion King, rules Tova. But deep in the alleys of the Maw, a new prophecy is whispered, this one from the Coyote God. It promises Serapio certain doom if its terrible dictates are not fulfilled. Meanwhile, Xiala is thrust back amongst her people as war comes first to the island of Teek. With their way of life and their magic under threat, she is their last best hope. But the sea won't talk to her the way it used to, and doubts riddle her mind.

Avra Helvaci, former field agent of the Arasti Ministry of Intelligence, has gone to his on-again off-again ex, the pirate Captain Teveri az-Haaffar, to find a buyer for a secret he's stolen. They plan to take it to the isolated pirate republic of the Isles of Lost Souls. But first they must deal with a calculating new Arasti ambassador to the Isles of Lost Souls who has his eyes on Avra's every move and Brother Julian, a beautiful, mysterious new member of the crew with secrets of his own and a frankly inconvenient vow of celibacy, and finally the fact that they're sailing straight into sea serpent breeding season and almost certain doom.

Two parents and their recently-bitten-werewolf daughter try to fit into a privileged New England society of magic aristocracy. But deadly terrors await them - ancient prophecies, remorseless magical trials, hidden conspiracies and the PTA bake sale.

As heir to the Gardianno seat, a highly coveted position within the human caste court, Robin stands to inherit great power when he assumes his birthright - but at what cost? Under the guidance of a formidable Barrani lord named Teela, Robin wrestles with his newfound duties and the societal complexities that come with the privilege. Soon, however, it's apparent that others feel entitled to the seat...and they're willing to do the unthinkable in order to get it.

Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1827. Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild.And all of them grow teeth.

It is all but certain that conscripted legionnaire Katrien will die with the rest of the army in a hopeless battle against the Demon Lord. So there's no reason not to hook up with her handsome, dedicated battle partner, Emory. Only the world doesn't end the next day. Instead, an insufferable prince raised in hiding comes out of nowhere with a plucky band of heroes, defeats the Demon Lord, and seals the rift to the hellish plane. This leaves Katrien and Emory with an awkward situation.

Eleven millenia into the future. Ariel is a boy in a small town under a wizard's rule. He is called to explore a world full of unimaginable glories and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to save the world, a girl. Here, as they say, be dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel comes across an artifact from an earlier civilization, a sentient, record-keeping artificial intelligence that carries with it the perspective of the whole of human history - and becomes both Ariel's greatest ally and the narrator of our story.

The Jedi have yet to solve the mystery of the Nameless creatures who feed on the Force. Ro has loosed them upon the galaxy, striking fear into the heart of even the most stalwart Jedi. And yet with every life saved and world freed from Nihil control, the all-consuming blight, which devours everything wherever it appears, threatens to wipe it all away. Everything now depends on nine brave Jedi who embark on a treacherous journey to the Nameless homeworld.

EVEN GREATER LONDON, 1887: a vast, uninterrupted urban plane encompassing the entire lower half of England and, for complex reasons, only the upper third of the Isle of Wight... Its immense Tower casts electricity across the sky itself, powering the mind-boggling mechanisms of the city below. And here a series of impossible bank robberies has consumed the attentions of the police. Which means that when a woman witnesses a kidnapping, Fleet-Entwhistle Private Investigations is the only place she can turn for help.

Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the powerful Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin's magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind. Alone, untrained, and afraid, she makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, a land of wonder and secrets.

A ghost train, lost in Time, hurtles through the night with two members of Team 236 trapped on board while the third struggles to track their progress through the Time Map and effect a rescue. With Lt Grint and Team 235 in hot pursuit, what is the future for Team 236? And do they even have one?

Where Earth fell apart, Mars pulled together. Engineered men and beasts,aided by Bees - an outlawed distributed intelligence - survived through co-operation, because there was simply no alternative. Now a call for help reaches Mars. A consortium of Martian work crews gather the resources for a mission: a triumphal return to the blue-green world of their ancestors. And now here they are - three hundred million kilometres from home. And it has all already gone horribly wrong.

After years of trying to make it in Hollywood, Misha's big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale. Misha refuses, but he soon realizes that he's just put a target on his back. And what's worse, monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him and his friends through the hills above Los Angeles.

2091. After a mission goes sideways, genetically modified soldier Ander Rade is captured, imprisoned, and forced into brutally violent fighting pits for the better part of the next decade... until agents from the Genetic Compliance Department of the United American Provinces appear in the visiting room. The agents have come with an offer: freedom in exchange for his help tracking down one of his former teammates from that ill-fated mission all those years ago.

Emiko Soong, newly minted Sentinel of San Francisco, just can't catch a break. After she becomes the guardian for a sentient city, a murder strikes close to home. Called by the city and one of the most powerful clans to investigate, she traces the killer whose scent signature bears a haunting similarity to her mother's talent.

Legends tell of a witch who became a queen - the heartless villain in the story of Snow White. Her own story begins when she is just Ayleth, a young witch who lives in the forest with her coven. Not yet gifted with magical talent, she sets out on a perilous quest that sends her to the White Palace where she will reencounter Jacquetta, a witch who once held Ayleth's heart - and betrayed her.

To avert a deadly curse, Princess Sarai of Ammara is betrothed to Prince Balior, a handsome young noble from a neighbouring kingdom. But then the South Wind, Notus - the immortal who once had her heart - returns into her life. Sarai is determined to ignore Notus and follow her father's plan. But Prince Balior has dark secrets, and as Sarai learns more about her betrothed, she realizes he may be her kingdom's downfall.

After countless failures (let's not dwell on it), Davi has finally saved the kingdom from evil - by becoming the Dark Lord herself. But now, the hordes of wilders are at her command, and they still want blood. Human blood. And Davi's not sure she can commit to the total extermination of humanity. With restless armies at her doorstep, a treasonous duke scheming for power, and the legend of an ancient magician looming over her shoulder, Davi must find a way towards peace

For a thousand years, Concordia has maintained peace between its provinces. To mark this incredible feat, the emperor's ship embarks upon a twelve-day voyage to the sacred Goddess's Mountain. Aboard are the twelve heirs of the provinces of Concordia, each graced with a unique and secret magical ability known as a Blessing. All except one: Ganymedes Piscero - class clown, slacker, and all-round disappointment. When a beloved heir is murdered, everyone is a suspect.

Lucy Westenra was one of Dracula's first victims. But her death was only the beginning. Lucy rose from the grave a vampire and has spent her immortal life trying to escape from Dracula's clutches - and trying to discover who she really is and what she truly wants. Her undead life takes an unexpected turn in twenty-first-century London, when she meets another woman, Iris, who is also yearning to break free from her past.

Penniless and desperate for protection, Marisha is forced to accept a job as apprentice to the notorious koldunya, the sorceress Baba Zima. But Baba Zima is renowned for being both clever and cruel. And most difficult of all is her current apprentice, Olena, who wants nothing to do with Marisha. Accompanying Olena on an increasingly dangerous, seemingly impossible search for a cure to a sleeping plague, she finds hidden connections between the plague, her own family's history, and her bizarre, recurring dreams.

It's not a good time to be a reluctant bride about to be married off to seal an alliance between ancient rivals. Princess Syzenne's attitude is famed across the kingdom, but she's hiding a secret. She's a Scourge - a powerful being armed with terrifying abilities at her fingertips. And as political tensions come to a head, it turns out she may not be the only one with the potential to change the world...

Hera loathes every minute of Heracles' devotion. She finally snaps and sends the Furies to make Heracles kill himself. But the moment Heracles goes mad, his children playfully ambush him, and he slays them instead. When the madness fades, Heracles's wife, Megara, convinces him to seek revenge. Together they'll hunt the Furies and learn which god did this. To mislead Heracles, Hera sends him on monster-slaying quests, but he is too traumatized to enact more violence and instead bonds with the monsters.

After decades in the making, THE WARS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW finally draws to a close. Elaira and Daliana's steadfast loyalties must rise against the odds or fall as Lysaer's reckoning collides with the Mistwraith's secretive machinations. But not before Elder Powers arise to claim their debt for a grievance spanning millennia...

Gregory Roarke - former bounty hunter, former Trailblazer, current agent for the ultra-secret Icarus Group - has received a new assignment: locate a suspected but as-yet undiscovered teleportation portal on the backwater colony world of Alainn. The rival Patth are also searching for the device, and have considerably more resources at their disposal. Fortunately, Roarke has Selene and her incredibly sensitive Kadolian sense of smell.