When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, it doesn't take her long to recognize Kair Toren, a city she knows intimately from the pages of the famously unfinished dark fantasy series she's been obsessively reading and re-reading while waiting years for the final novel. But while she quickly discovers she cannot be killed (though many will try!), the same cannot be said for the living, breathing characters she's coming to love - a motley band that includes a former lady's maid, a deadly assassin, various outrageous magical creatures, and a dangerously appealing soldier.

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.

We're a little more than halfway through Balle's hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th. Book IV introduces still more characters to roam uncertainly through the same November day. The big house in Bremen turns into the headquarters for this growing group of time-trapped individuals. But who are they and what has happened to them? Are they loopers, repeaters, or returners?

After losing her job and apartment, Maddie's world is falling apart - until a chance encounter with a magnetic stranger changes everything. Caspian is tall, captivating, and seems to understand Maddie in a way that no one else does.When he reveals he's from Atlantis - and that Maddie is a siren - she doesn't know what's more shocking: how much she believes him or how deeply she wants to follow him back.

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?

Though humanity won a hard-fought victory in its war against demonkind, the Demon King has escaped in search of a new queen to restart his dark hive, and has found signs of one on a distant shore.But pursuing him are humanity's best hopes: Olive Paper and Darin Bales, whose legendary parents brought demonkind low once before.

Lily's trip to England with her best friend was meant to be a reset after a stressful year of grad school and disastrous dates. But when a visit to Hampton Court Palace ends with the full Tudor experience, Lily needs a plan to make it back to the 21st century stat. Everyone is calling her Catherine, and to her dismay, Lily learns that she's caught the eye of the King - none other than Henry VIII. Lily's PhD is in psychology, not history, but even she knows that being married to Henry does not bode well for her life expectancy.

In this short story collection, our heroes get what's due to them - with a supernatural flair. But the injustices that have been holding them back might cost them more than they realized... Contributions from Jim Butcher, Holly Black, Faith Hunter, Kim Harrison, Jennifer Blackstream, Maurice Broaddus, Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne, Tanya Huff, Kerrie L. Hughes, R. L. King and R.R. Virdi.

When a marriage treaty is offered in exchange for peace, Zara agrees, sacrificing herself to protect her people. But the emperor's palace is more treacherous than any battlefield. Hidden behind its gilded walls is a monstrous being long buried - and her power-hungry betrothed is determined to set it free.Sworn to protect the future empress, Commander Talon soon realizes Zara is more than a political pawn - she's the key to stopping the emperor's dark ambitions.

Novella. At 66 years old, Winston Kemper has always been a nonentity. No one notices him. His simple existence barely registers for those who come into contact with him. Some call him feeble-minded. He is a janitor at the local church, a groundskeeper by default, and that's it. But Winston is creating a fantasia which exists in words, images and blood. As part of his 'art' he has been murdering forgotten women. And though he might not believe in ghosts, but he is about to learn they are very real. And they are very, very angry.

After ten years away, the starship Horizon's crew is finally home. But the Cluster, once a peaceful coalition of planets, has fractured in the wake of civil war. After years of instability and terror Captain Demora Kim wants nothing more than to protect her surviving crew. But after an attack on a mining station leaves thousands dead, every ship is needed on the frontline. Thrust deeper into a conflict she barely understands, Demi considers a bold choice - one that might keep her promises but tip the galaxy further into chaos.

Ellie's universe, and this one, is falling apart. Her ailing mother is in a coma; her sister, Chris, accuses her of being insufficiently Chinese between assassination attempts; and a shadowy cabal of engineers is trying to hijack the skunkworks, the machinery that keeps the physics of each universe working the way it's supposed to.

After her best friend dies in a coal mine, Benethea "Bennie" Mattox sacrifices her job, her relationship, and her reputation to uncover what's killing miners on Kire Mountain. When instead she finds a half-drowned white woman in a dirty mine slough, Bennie takes her in. The woman called Motheater can't remember her true name, or how she ended up inside the mountain. She knows only that she's a witch of Appalachia, bound to tor and holler, possum and snake, with power in her hands and Scripture on her tongue.

Dafyd Alkhor, highest among the human captives of the monstrous Carryx, is feared and despised by the very people he champions. Ruthless in carving out his niche in the eternal war machine of the empire, he will reshape human nature itself as a tool for their alien masters' use. But Dafyd's loyalty is not what it seems. As the human captives spread through the battlefronts of empire, the awesome power of the Carryx becomes clear. And with it, a desperate plan for their destruction. But empires hide secrets, and even the deathless enemy may not be what it appears...

When Mouse receives news that her uncle has left her the Faerie-blessed Thistlemarsh Hall, a dilapidated manor in the English countryside, she must leave her shell-shocked brother's side and return to her childhood home to claim her birthright. But there is a catch in her uncle's offer. If Mouse does not rehabilitate the crumbling house in one month's time, she will forfeit her inheritance. It quickly becomes clear it's impossible to repair the manor in the allotted time, until a mysterious Faerie appears with a proposition. He offers to restore Thistlemarsh...for a price.

An isolated newlywed - covered in mushroom growths like all the other wives in her community - strikes a precarious balance between following her husband's strict rules and pursuing an intense connection with a woman who makes her question everything.

In a tiny farm on the edge of the miserable village of East Grasby, Isabella Nagg is trying to get on with her tiny, miserable existence. Dividing her time between tolerating her feckless husband, caring for the farm's strange animals, cooking up "scrunge," and crooning over her treasured pot of basil, Isabella can't help but think that there might be something more to life. When Mr. Nagg returns home with a spell book purloined from the local wizard, she thinks what harm could a little magic do?

Canadian authors. The story of the vengeful barber Sweeney Todd has gripped fans across literary, stage, and screen renditions - but little has been revealed about Mrs. Lovett, Todd's notorious partner in crime. Until now. Enclosed herewith is a bloodcurdling correspondence of profound horror and intrigue, based on the original Victorian penny dreadful that started it all.

In a self-running, smart house, a young and sentient robotic vacuum listens as her owner, Harold, reads aloud to his dying wife, Edie. Mesmerized by To Kill a Mockingbird and craving the human connection she hears in Harold's stories, the little vacuum renames herself Scout and embarks on a journey of self-discovery. But when Edie passes away, Scout and her fellow sentient appliances discover that the omnipresent Grid that monitors every household in the City seeks to remove Harold from his home of fifty years.

Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has tried every diet under the sun, but remains stuck - in his dead-end job, in love, and in his 300 pound body. But with a new weight loss drug called Obexity Emmett sheds pounds at superhuman speed and every part of his life improves overnight. But there are some killer side effects, including lost stretches of time and overwhelming cravings. Worse, people who were cruel to him have started disappearing and police are warning of a cannibalistic killer on the loose...

Three years ago, Reece McCarthen solved her problems the best way she could think of: running as far as possible. Abandoned by her childhood sweetheart, she left her gossiping small town, heartbreak, and emotionally distant father in the past. But now she receives notice that she's inherited her father's sanctuary for magical creatures and heads back to her cozy, magical town of Honey Brooke that unfortunately still hasn't gotten over that one teeny, tiny fire incident when she was a teenager.

Bellatrix Aelys agrees to do a simple task for her old teacher: escort some old "friends" to Zandrine, one of the fabled cities located in the south of the empire. Only, not everything is as it seems. Aelys and her protectors will have to face the demons of the past and the dark schemes of the present, all while trying to figure out who they are to one another and how the four of them - warrior, sorceress, forester, and thief - can meld their strengths to keep each other alive.

Tensions build in France following the ascension of Gaston to the throne of his murdered brother, but there are factions supporting the claim of King Louis' surviving infant son. As France moves toward civil war, other parties, both visible and invisible, maneuver to take advantage of the increased tension. Who will survive to reign over France - King Gaston, the exiled child and his regents, or the King of Spain?

Roy Dawnseve is given a choice: he can either brave the front lines and fight the Old Ones, the mysterious, black-armored soldiers invading Northgard - or he can investigate their identity in the Orphic Basilica, an ancient, abandoned library. When Roy chooses to unravel the mystery, it soon becomes clear that the Orphic Basilica isn't without its own horrors.

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.

As the daughter of an ambitious merchant, Guinevere's path has been predetermined: marry into a noble house of the Dwendalian Empire, raise her family's station, and live quietly as a lordling's obedient wife. But after her caravan is beset by bandits, leaving her guards slain and Guinevere stranded alone on the dangerous Amber Road, her only chance of survival is to travel alongside Oskar, the aloof half-orc who saved her during the attack.

Lizbeth Rose's sister Felicia attends the Grand Wizards' Ball, and as one of the most powerful - and beautiful - death wizards in a generation, she is highly sought after as one of the belles of the ball. However, war and violence are on the rise in Europe as German and Japanese wizards are also courting Felicia...and some are refusing to take no for an answer.

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.

In his training as a spy, Ro was warned: you will always be living a lie. Jumping into a Star Eater's mind in the first place requires a moment of perfect psychic connection, and he has studied all his life to comprehend their species. Admires them, respects them, is reverent at the idea of being one of them - the only species physiologically capable of mining the element needed for lightyear-spanning space travel. To understand is to become. It never occurs to him that the mere act of understanding can destroy.

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.

A fugitive on the run, Ahnna has one goal: return to Ithicana with warning of the greatest threat her homeland has ever faced. But as she escapes into the wilderness, it is with the man who broke her heart hunting at her heels - and James wants more than justice. He wants revenge. But the longer he follows Ahnna's trail, the more his certainty of her guilt is tested - and the more the passion they once shared reignites.

[Canadian author]. Novella. 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.

Novella. Fleeing from the bone palace and crashing into the waters below its steep walls, Lufeng and her siblings reach Gear, with its huge deadly water wheels, where their sister Sangshu is waiting for them. In the chaos of the enormous waves, within moments they're snatched away and taken into rebel territory, where they learn more of the deadly experiments Zinc has wreaked upon the people.

Formerly a Unity skymage trained to make aerial supply runs in the great war between the Unity and the Ranneas Empire, Ella Pickering must now use a rickety old wheelchair after a devastating skyship crash. To pay off crushing medical debt, Ella works gruelling shifts making magical weapons for the research and design workshop, thinking of better days. Then, on a late night double shift means Ella witnesses an arcane experiment by engineer Jackan Grissom go awry. The device morphs into a crude rocket blasting straight for the moon, ultimately falling into the spell-ravaged No Man's Land between the feuding nations.

At just twenty-five years old, Kea Petrova is the youngest of five Hawaiian clan leaders living on the Homestead in outer Los Angeles after a catastrophic flood submerged the Hawaiian islands and unleashed magic into the world. Kea struggles to keep her small clan afloat, scraping together rent each month through odd jobs and selling her own crafted Hawaiian language spells. Then Angelo Reyes - LA's most prominent Filipino activist - is murdered by an Hawaiian death spell and Kea quickly becomes the prime suspect.

Novella. When Lou accepts a property appraisal assignment in the rural hills of Ohio, she knows it's her last chance to save her job and keep making rent. But she quickly finds herself stranded in the middle of nowhere with a sabotaged truck, her dog, and someone - or something - stalking her through the ancient Appalachian woods.If she can't escape the woods in time, she'll see firsthand that her job isn't the only thing that wants to eat her alive.

News of scandal in the Royal Court, draws Morgan once again inside Camelot's golden walls. When an encounter with Arthur's trusted knight, Sir Lancelot, sparks suspicions of Queen Guinevere's adultery, Morgan falls deeper into obsession, the need to punish those who betrayed her driving her further away from her loved ones - and the woman she once wished to be.

[Vancouver author]. Caretaker urgently needed. Three days of work. Competitive pay. Serious applicants ONLY. After an endless string of failed job interviews, Macy's not exactly in the position to be picky. She has rent to pay, groceries to buy, and a younger sister to provide for. Three days, cooped up in a stranger's house, surrounded by Oregon Coast wilderness. But what starts as a peculiar side gig soon becomes a waking nightmare. An incomprehensible evil may dwell on this property--and Macy Mullins might just be the only thing standing between it, and the rest of humanity.

Luella lives in a quiet village that borders the realm of magic, where the townsfolk keep a heavy secret. Once every generation, the Elf King enters Luella's village to take a bride to be his Human Queen, fulfilling a centuries-old treaty that prevents the destruction of humanity itself. Now, Luella finds herself in the Elf King's domain, Midscape: a land filled with wild magic and unexpected beauty. But Midscape is dying, and only Luella can save it.

Eddy Lancaster never asked for purpose. He's content to be a gentleman of leisure, with good friends and a dedicated valet to keep him out of trouble. When a report of a vanished expedition is discovered, with the enticing possibility of a hitherto unknown alien race and the possibility of advanced technology, his eccentric adventurer uncle spirits him and his brilliant twin sister away on a quest beyond the Frontier and away from the comforts of their homeworld.

Hoping to upgrade their capabilities on a shoestring budget, Brainship Tia and her Brawn Alex accept a contract to test a prototype singularity drive from the military. There's a catch, of course. The drive "might" occasionally commit a starship to "random" jumps. The drive works flawlessly, at first. Then, just as they start to relax, the drive places them in orbit around a partially abandoned research site. Partially, because the corporation that set it up abandoned the researchers there.

The classic, Regency-era romance is given a new twist, set among the stars in a futuristic universe where spaceships and interplanetary travel are the daily norm. Featuring numerous illustrations of the Londinium Lunar System, drawings of gowns by Lydia Bennet, and spaceship designs by Elizabeth Bennet, this is a futuristic take by a dedicated Jane Austen fan, for Austen newbies and super-fans alike.

The Romans were abandoning Britain, leaving the remaining servants of the empire to try to stem the tide of chaos. Aurelia was one such, the child of a Magistrate, and wife of a Legate. Everywhere, it seemed, the old, well-ordered realm she had been born into was passing away to be replaced by...what? It was that question her sons, Aurelius and Uther - with the help of Merlin - were born to answer.

Yemi, granddaughter of the fairy tale mermaid Arielle, has lost her kingdom and family and is forced into exile. Now, only one being, Ursula, has the power to help her. Like her grandmother before her, Yemi is tempted by a deal with the sea-witch. With powerful and ancient magic behind her, Yemi could avenge her family, take back her throne, and protect the love of her life. But she should know more than anyone that there is always a price.

A young woman looking for a transformative college experience is bitten by a vampire and must team up with his other living victims to hunt him down..

Mary Anning wants to be a geomagician--a paleontologist who uses fossils to wield magic--but since the Geomagical Society of London refuses to admit women, she's stuck selling her discoveries to tourists instead. Then an ancient egg hatches in her hands, revealing a loveable baby pterodactyl Mary names Ajax. But when Mary contacts the Society about her discovery, they demand to take possession of Ajax, sending none other than the scholar Henry Stanton, the man who once broke Mary's heart.

When Poppy Hill was a child she was stolen from her family's Montana homestead and taken 'Otherside' to the land of the fae, where she spent more than a century as a cook in the Wild King's castle. Now back in the human world, she works for a company that brokers fairy bargains, looking for loopholes in their contracts. Then a bargain that Poppy is negotiating goes disastrously wrong and she has to return to the world she grew up in to try to rectify her mistake.

A cottagecore fantasy about a man with a monster in his head who reunites with his first love to find mythical honey in the woods of Appalachia.

Two of Greek mythology's most complex and powerful women - Medea and Atalanta - join forces on Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece in this suspenseful, sapphic reimagining from the acclaimed author of Psyche and Eros.

As an adult in an appropriately sexless marriage - sex between married couples is now considered as taboo as incest - Amane and her husband Saku decide to go and live in a mysterious new town called Experiment City or Paradise-Eden, where all children are raised communally, and every person is considered a Mother to all children. Men are beginning to become pregnant using artificial wombs that sit outside of their bodies like balloons, and children are nameless, called only "Kodomo-chan."

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. Lilia, a brilliant scientist on the run from the authorities, may have invented a way to bring down the President and escape a near-impenetrable web of Federation surveillance. Meanwhile, an experimental artificial mind is malfunctioning, threatening to set off a chain of events that may spell the end of the Western world.

When advertising executive Carole Veilleux loses it at Booker's donut shop and bites Booker on the arm, it's about the most interesting thing to happen in the small city of Marquette, Michigan, in years. But that's only the beginning of the story. Carole and Booker find their minds merging, in a collective that extends to include Carole's husband Shivansh and local doctor Evelyn Schlapp. The four of them become the beginning of something larger and stranger than they could ever have imagined.

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.

The illusion of peace shatters when Meneka is abruptly summoned back to the City ofImmortals by Lord Indra, who demands her help in facing a threat from the demonic realm. Meneka wants nothing to do with Indra's schemes, but she can't return to Kaushika unless she complies. If she fails, her immortal home will fall, Kaushika will be lost to her, and her very identity as an apsara will become forfeit.

On the planet Scythia, plants give birth to insects, trees can drag you to your death, and armies of animals graft native plants into human crops. John Maraintha has been abandoned here, light-years from the peaceful forests that he loves. The desert is harsh and the people in thrall to a barbaric custom called marriage. He must find some way to make a life here.But on Scythia, survival means transformation - and not everyone is willing to accept change.

Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare--and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium's place has thrown everything into disarray. Desperate fighting continues simultaneously worldwide--Adolin in Azir, Sigzil and Venli at the Shattered Plains, and Jasnah in Thaylenah.

In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back from the grave.

It isn't long before Dorothy encounters the dark side of Oz, stumbling on a man beaten and bloody, tied to a pole in a cornfield. Not unlike the scarecrows on the Kansas farm. With no memories, the mysterious stranger joins Dorothy. Rook is ridiculously handsome, endlessly charming, and somehow understands Dorothy in a way no one ever has. But when they cross paths with the infamous Tinman and his axe, Rook proves he may be hiding his own secrets.Nothing and no one is what they seem in the cursed land of Oz...maybe even Dorothy herself.

For New Orleans witchkin, there is no greater honor than to become the Prime - chosen to rule. But the title is meant to pass between two rival Houses of magic. Not to the prodigal daughter of the former Prime who died under mysterious circumstances. As a girl, Seraphine Barreau was dubbed the Tick Witch for her ability to feed on magic and make it her own. Even among those who alter fate and manipulate reality, she was a powerful outcast feared and misunderstood by her people.

When a simple money drop for his boss, Big Mickey, goes wrong, petty criminal Oyster McLellen's attempts to redeem himself suddenly lands him washed up on a beach, surrounded by broken phones and shattered office furniture. His new world: Greater London. A city built on the detritus of our own, where leviathans crafted from broken skyscrapers roam the seas, where ink beetles nestle beneath the skin of its residents and where Oyster's father, Lucas, may well have escaped to all those years ago.

A task force of engineers, soldiers, and arcane experts will try and unpick the final secrets of the Great Silence - on both sides of the mortal plane. But time is running out. Count Lamprecht von Oldenburg has returned to the capital, armed with a terrible vision and enough madness to see it through. Those who stand in his way face a simple choice: join the revolution, or die. As the world tips towards chaos, all paths converge on the Eye of the Sea, where the fabric of reality wears thin - and where the Empire of the Wolf must confront the most terrible enemy it has ever known.

As the lone remaining practitioner of bio-prosthetics, Enita is determined to preserve her legacy and decides to create a physical being, called Nix, filled with her knowledge and experience. In the midst of her project, a fellow member of the elite is brutally murdered and the city AI inexplicably erases the event from its data. Soon, Enita and Nix are drawn into the growing war that could change everything between the city's hidden underclass and the programs that impose and maintain order.

A ship with a crew of maverick humans, spiders and a spectacularly punchy mantis shrimp captain named Cato rediscover a terraformed world, and its ark. On their ship, the human Alis wakes up from a nightmare of conflicted realities to discover that she, Cato and the ship's version of Kern are the only ones left on board. Everyone else went to explore the ark and the planet, and now all contact has been lost.

No one remembers the calamity that killed the gods and stole the names of their people. Now Shipwright and Shroudweaver are known only by their professions. She's a master of magical shipbuilding. He's a maker of the gilded gods that fuel their sails, stitched from the souls of dead sailors. When a chance to save their world calls the veterans back to shore, they embark on a deadly race against time to beat the grief-wracked sorceress known as Crowkisser to a notorious mountain kingdom in the legend-infested north.

SF cozy mystery novella. Welcome to the HMS Fairweather. Near the topmost deck of an interstellar generation ship, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn't hers - just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship's detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fairweather, but when she finds that someone is not only killing bodies but purposefully deleting minds from the Library, she realizes something even more sinister is afoot.

Banished to the Burnt Isles, Lore must use every skill she earned on the streets of Dellaire to survive the prison colony and figure out a way to defeat the power that's captured everything and everyone she holds dear. When a surprise ally joins her on the Burnt Isles she realizes the way forward may lie on the island itself. Somehow, her friends must help her collect the far-scattered pieces of the broken Fount - the source of all the god's powers - and bring them back together on the Burnt Isles, returning all magic to its source and destroying, once and for all, the gods corrupting the land.

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 the borders and hunger for 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.

Arianell Nocthare has been waiting her whole life to enter the prestigious Valmora Academy, where students prepare for war by honing their elemental magic in one of three units. But there are two problems facing Aria on the night of her initiation ceremony. Firstly, her family has been cast into disgrace after her brother was executed for allegedly killing four students in an attempt at dark magic. Secondly, so far Aria has been unable to summon any magic - and being magic-less in an academy where everyone wants to spill your blood is a dangerous game.

Cayce has brought his army of displaced Americans and their indigenous allies into the heart of the loathsome, blood-drenched Dominion's stronghold. But no matter how good of a soldier he is, Cayce is ruled by reason, and the madness and seemingly suicidal treachery of his adversaries, not to mention the sheer titanic scope of the force arrayed against him, might finally be more than he can cope with.

For years, Erik, the scarred king of the Ever Kingdom, has thought of nothing but vengeance against the man who killed his father and trapped him beneath the waves, making him a prisoner in his own realm.Until his enemy's daughter unintentionally breaks the chains on the Ever, and Erik makes her the unwitting pawn in his vicious game of revenge. She's innocent. He's vicious. But he will take back what he lost, no matter the price.Unless she steals his heart first.

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.

Irody Hasp is a Mortedant, a cleric tasked with reading the last thoughts of the dead - though no one thanks him for it. After he reads the corpse of a low-level records keeper, his own apprentice is murdered, and all fingers point to him as a suspect. The only way to save his own skin is to find the real culprit himself, an investigation that quickly attracts powerful enemies with few scruples, and draws him into a plot that threatens the entire corrupt yet wondrous city he calls home.

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.

Joe always had potential, but he doesn't expect much, and he hopes that his new job as an admin assistant won't expect much of him. But when he enters the offices of Ponos - a company he's never heard of and knows nothing about - he discovers that potential is exactly what they want from him. A feverish dive into the inhumanity of both late-stage capitalism and the crippling anxieties of modern life, Abyss adds a new level of meaning to 'wage slave'.

Temmi, a young trash collector stuck in a dead-end job on a garbage planet, gains the opportunity to compete with 24 other women in an intergalactic dating show starring the brother and sister heirs to the galactic empire. Temmi may have been hand-picked to date the quiet, bookish prince, who is immediately taken by her brash personality and their shared passion for the sciences. But she can't seem to keep away from the princess - and even though it couldn't be a worse idea, their chemistry is undeniable. Then contestants start turning up dead, and conspiracies begin to swirl around anti-imperial motivations of several contestants.

Rae's friends are on the run: the Cobra shelters in an eerie manor haunted by dark secrets, while Emer and Lia stoke a revolution in the gutters. Undead armies roam the kingdom, raiders camp at the city gates, and the all-powerful Emperor - Rae's favorite character ever, now possibly the greatest monster in the land - wants her to be his evil queen.

Composed of the short novel The Assassins of Thasalon -- an unholy attack upon his brother-in-law, General Arisaydia, pitches sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona headlong into the snake-pit of Cedonian imperial politics. And the novella Knot of Shadows -- When a corpse is found floating face-down in Vilnoc harbor that is not quite as dead as it seems, Temple sorcerer Penric and his chaos demon Desdemona are drawn into the uncanny investigation.

Cat is a Reaper, able to kill with a touch, and is therefore feared by his own people. His claim to the throne is a gamble at best, until his tyrannical brother, Gillage, seizes power before Cat can lay his claim to it - and now the conflict Elician had hoped to avoid seems inevitable. Just as the war between nations begins anew, the goddess of death releases a devastating plague across the continent. To stop it, Elician and Cat must confront Death herself.

The final instalment in the Chivalry series that follows young William Gold, who runs away from London to follow the Black Prince, from the killing fields of France, through life as a routier and criminal, and to redemption with the Knights of Saint John, further disillusion and an eventual career as a professional soldier and knight.

Osiris "Oz" Aquino is an underprepared Navy officer put in command of seven castoff Marines on a research starship dispatched to an alien planet. His sergeant is hostile, his Marines have records full of infractions - not to mention that they're plagued by old weapons and missing supplies due to budget cuts - and the crew and scientists would rather have nothing to do with him. On the planet the only things living in the ruins there are adorable aliens which the researchers dub squonks. Sudddenly, the squonks get loose in engineering and go ballistic, the crew sent to investigate aren't coming back, and Oz and his team have a fight on their hands.

In this final novel in the Alvin Maker series, Alvin's journey leads him across the river - visiting his old friend the Red Prophet, across the country, and even across the Atlantic, where Irish folk with knacks are being persecuted. Through trials and tribulations, Alvin must learn when to use his extraordinary powers, and when to not, as he strives to safehold his people from a darkness that threatens everything they've built in the Crystal City, and in their very hearts.

As Captain Rue Nath guides the Redemption into port, the people cheer him and his crew as heroes. But a court martial awaits that could leave him ashore for years. But Magister Enid d'Tancreville will do anything in her power to keep that from happening. After escaping the Theocratic Revolution and discarding her dream of fighting against the 'Rats in the army, she's not too keen to give up her new position as Captain Nath's right hand and sorcerer.

The plague on Kya's Nation has taken everything: her family, her home - and now it's threatening to obliterate her entire realm. Since the Gods marked her skin at birth, she always knew she'd be forced to participate in the Trial of the Gods when the time came. There, she could be deemed Worthy and be gifted incredible powers with a Nation to protect, fail and potentially lose her life...or experience a fate worse than death.

When Raksh, the spirit of discord with whom Amina al-Sirafi is reluctantly wed, provokes the wrath of the council of immortal peris, Amina is charged with a seemingly impossible quest, to steal a spindle capable of rewriting fate from a mysterious sorceress on an island no one can escape.

As the top student in the magical familiars stream, veterinary student Gwendolynne Chan is on track to be awarded Dux of the entire school - as long as the pretentious prat Harrisford Briggs, son of the CFO of Magecorp, a major global distributor of magic, doesn't beat her to it. Harrisford, though, can't help but notice that his father has been acting odd.

High Priestess Kerasea Vestal has spent her life hiding the truth--that she's the last surviving heir of the magical bloodline the republic slaughtered. One wrong step could be fatal. But when a senator is brutally killed and a temple blade is found at the scene, all eyes turn to her. Praetorian Torren Morvane has made a career of dragging liars into the light, and Kerasea is the one person he's vowed to ruin. But locked on a mountain with a murderer, scheming senators, and a prophecy of death, he's forced to work at her side.

In this progression fantasy epic Oz Canarvon, a magicless man-on-the-run stops at nothing to earn a place in a magic academy - hell, demons, and monsters be damned!

Ellsbeth Storer, pursuing a graduate degree in arcane mechanicals, convinces Thaddeus Rawlins, one of the field's most celebrated professors, to take her on as a student. Against his better judgment, Rawlins allows her to pursue a thesis on writ magic, the long-forbidden power to control and compel others. While student and teacher both profess academic interest in the topic, each wants it for their own secret purpose.

[Canadian author] On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their biological clocks or even reverse them, restoring their lost youth. The chance to put death on pause - forever, perhaps.

When a missing nun from a wealthy seaside town is found dead in the woods, Hero Viridian - a half-demon, disgraced ex-nun-turned-investigator - is ordered to unravel the case. Who better to deal with it than a woman with something to prove, eyes of literal flame and a direct connection to hell? But a vulnerable Hero must rely on an unlikely partner, Oleander Keen - a Demonhunter who has already tried to kill her.

In the storm-drenched city of Verdigris, home to indolent sorcerers and undead hotels, something is dreadfully wrong. Buildings are starting to crumble due to the kidnapping of their hobs, the many-legged house spirits that keep each home in order. In such times, one would ordinarily blame the Devil, but he has been enchanted by a new and enticing evil. The jackbooted villainy of Gwendolyn Gooch has taken the hobs for her latest diabolical scheme - apartments for rent.

Vancouver author. Rijou's notorious Court of Blades is as corrupt as it is cutthroat, destroying lives with impunity. Now the city's all-powerful Ascendant Houses have started buying and selling verdicts to enslave and even execute those who oppose them. Into this depraved world of licensed death comes a mysterious duellist who dares to foil the intrigues of the city's elite. They call her Lady Consequence, but years ago she had a different name, until her family was slaughtered and she was consigned to the hellish prison known as the House of Tears.

When Mercy Chan washes up on the shores of Hong Kong with no family, no money, and no memories, the only refuge she finds is the infamous, ghost-infested slum of Kowloon Walled City. Since then, she has rebuilt her life, working for the local triad as a ghost talker and dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt the district. But an unusually powerful ghost that claims to know Mercy has infested Kowloon's waterways, drowning innocents.

As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they're forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon. Races. Get from point A to point B, and don't come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple.

After three years of deep-space combat with the formidable Galactic Authority, Earth has been devastated by the toll of war. A crushing attack by the Galactics has triggered a new ice age, killing billions and driving survivors to the brink, and now the world's nations are breaking into factions. So, Admiral Alexandra Morrigan leads a daring expeditionary fleet into the galactic frontier, searching for unlikely allies in the stars.

The Safina is a city ship halfway through its four century voyage from the ruins of Earth to a new colony world when blackouts start. The ship can only continue running smoothly with the cooperation of the crew. And the crew has had enough. As coordinated acts of resistance coincide with a much more complex conspiracy, a chain of events is set into motion that will change life on the Safina forever.

A land filled with magic and dragons and wizards and warriors. Thousands of people live and work within its borders, fearful of their enemies and loyal to their king. The classic fantasy world of The Malicarn has been brought to life on the big screen in a series of phenomenally successful blockbuster movies, almost entirely populated by characters in total belief that their sham fantasy lives are real. A fan-favourite actor finds himself doubting the studio's work, but this franchise has an almost unstoppable momentum, and bringing freedom to a population that already believes itself to be free won't be as easy as he thinks.

Grim Wolds, England. Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess - she'll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But, compounded with her disdain for the entitled Pounds children, Winifred finds herself struggling at every turn to stifle the violent compulsions of her past.

The Tapestry is in turmoil - invading armies threaten, the other raider clans are at war, and inside his fortress city of Karkorum, the Khan broods and plots. What's more, the Rakada's giant lizards are getting sick, and they have no idea how to cure them. If they die, there's no telling what might happen to the Tapestry. But then the Rakada receive a vision - apparently from the gods. A deep emerald pool surrounded by bone-white sands - one that may be able to heal their lizards.

Celia is so tired of being alone. All she wants is to have a family--to belong to someone. That's why she's going to Kindred Cove for the annual Salt Festival held by the secluded community that lives there. They promise that healing is possible, that transformation is inevitable. Celia knows, at that mysterious island surrounded by that impossible, ever-growing reef, she will find herself. She's ready to be healed. She's ready to be transformed. She's ready to believe.

When a strange ritual rocks Boston's occult community and opens his Society up to sabotage, Rhys McGowan delves even deeper into the dark world of demon-summoning. As heaven and hell play tug of war for Rhys' soul, he'll have to face the greatest demon of all: his own insatiable ambition.

Hunter, Tech, Wrecker, and Omega have found a sanctuary: Pabu. But their potential new island home is in desperate need of resources if there is any hope for the fledgling community to recover from a devastating sea wave. That's where Phee Goena, self-proclaimed liberator of treasures, comes in, with a couple of jobs she swears will get them the funds they need.

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.

A queer retelling of the legend of Sir Lancelot, following the famous knight as he grows up orphaned, falls in love, and attempts to fulfill his destiny at the Round Table - from the bestselling author of Out East.

During a grocery run to her local shopping center, Shell Pine sees a 'HELP NEEDED' sign in a flower shop window. Shell realizes right away that flowers are just the good thing she's been looking for, as is Neve, the beautiful florist who wrote the sign asking for help. But an orchid growing out of sight in the heart of the mall is watching them closely. His name is Baby, and the beautiful florist belongs to him.

The world has been divided by the Barrier. For 115 years this extraterrestrial, epidimensional entity has divided the earth into warring zones. Power-hungry politicians, gangsters, and spiritual fundamentalists are determined to thwart a potential treaty to end the internal wars. When the treaty's architect is assassinated, her protegee, Elleni, a talented renegade and one of the few able to negotiate the Barrier, is forced to take up her mantle. Now Elleni and a motley crew of allies risk their lives to make the treaty work.

Myrrh has a goblin inside her, a voice in her head that tells her all the things she's done wrong, that berates her and drags her down. Desperately searching for her birth-parents across dilapidated seaside towns in the South coast of England, she finds herself silenced and cut off at every step. As her frustrations grow, the goblin in her grows louder and louder, threatening to tear apart the few relationships she holds dear.

The world is unraveling from an epidemic of human vanishing. Two novice investigators are dispatched to small-town Kansas to interview a woman who claims to have returned from Absence, offering answers to everything.

The Fallbacks might not be Faerun's first choice for saving the day, but if the money's right they'll get the job done. In this ragtag band of adventurers, each member plays a vital role. Squint a little and they're the heroes Faerun needs. Fresh off a harrowing journey into the infinite dungeon of Undermountain and the defeat of a powerful undead lich (with the help of a giant hungry worm or two), the adventurers are now ready for a new adventure.

Canadian author. 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.

Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. But now a rogue black hole is coming for Earth and in a month everything and everyone they've ever known will be gone. Suddenly they're in a race against the clock to make it from Maine to Washington State to take care of some unfinished business before it's all over. On the road they meet those who refuse to believe death is coming and those who rush to meet it and those living their final days as best they know how.

Clara Graysword has survived the underworld of Eclipse City through thievery, luck, and a whole lot of illegal magic. After a job gone awry, Clara is sentenced to a lifetime in prison for inking tarot cards - a rare power reserved for practitioners at the elite Arcana Academy. Just when it seems her luck has run dry, the academy's enigmatic headmaster, Prince Kaelis, offers her an escape - for a price. Kaelis believes that Clara is the perfect tool to help him steal a tarot card from the king and use it to re-create an all-powerful card long lost to time.

Peace in Mexico City is fragile. Rebellion brews in the North, and when the people's safety is at risk, Pantera must once again become the demure vice regent Leonora to stop a war before it begins. But her friends are scattered, Tezca is gone, and one wrong move could seal her fate. Caution is her ally, for the real Prince of Asturias - her former betrothed - has arrived at court, reigniting rumors that Leonora and Pantera are one.

Though the Temporal Location of the Radiant Star has always been a source of both conflict and hope for the people of Ooioiaa, the imperial Radch see it only as an antiquated religious site soon to be absorbed into their own, superior culture. The Radch have made one final concession. One last man will be allowed to join the mummified bodies in the temporal location to become a "living saint".

When swordswoman Isako's long-time client unexpectedly retires, she plans to follow--to walk out into the frozen wasteland of their planet with her head held high and her family enriched by her death. But then she's offered a final mission she can't refuse. As she's thrust into a world of corporate espionage and shadowy secrets, what she uncovers could forever change humanity's existence among the stars.

The sixth Constellation collects eleven stories set in Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's vast, versatile, and beloved Liaden Universe. Also included in this volume is the text of Sharon Lee's speech accepting the Robert A. Heinlein Award for outstanding published works in science fiction literature.

Lyta is trying her best. She's determined to stay out of trouble, steer clear of her beloved Sylvian and the queen he is bound to serve, and-most importantly-not embarrass her brother Kit. So when Kit asks her to help the temple recover their stolen relics, Lyta can't say no. After all, who better to track down thieves than someone blessed by trickster god Ennin himself?

Horror novelist Nick Steen is abducted and imprisoned at Nulltec, a shadowy technological research facility with excellent conference parking, concealed deep on the Stalkford Downs. There he is observed, tested and 'interfered with' (physically) by a team of scientific experts led by Dr Barbara Nullman, determined to probe and 'nullify' his escaping imagination.

In the UK, the breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families, let alone raise them. But now, for a monthly subscription fee, clients can create a virtual child from scratch whom they can access via the metaverse and a VR headset. To launch this new initiative is a reality TV show. It will follow ten couples as they raise a virtual child from birth to the age of eighteen but in a condensed nine-month time period. The prize is the right to keep their virtual child, or risk it all for the chance of a real baby...

When Poppy Hill was a child she was stolen from her family's Montana homestead and taken 'Otherside' to the land of the fae, where she spent more than a century as a cook in the Wild King's castle. Now back in the human world, she works for a company that brokers fairy bargains, looking for loopholes in their contracts. But when a bargain that Poppy is negotiating goes disastrously wrong she has to return to the world she grew up in to try to rectify her mistake.

Nina Harrow and Patrick Colson are twelve years old when they are whisked away from the shadows of their disenfranchised mining towns to dazzling Belavere City to discover their magical potential. In the years that follow, a Craftsman revolution ignites, thrusting Nina and Patrick into opposing factions of a brewing war. Now an elite Artisan with the very rare talent for charming earth, Nina has turned her back on the fight, haunted by the loss of her found family. But fate intervenes when she is captured by Patrick's rebel group.

Irfan Mirza is the ultimate killing machine. Kidnapped as a child and forced to train to become an elite gun for hire at an orphanage, he is now a ruthless freelance mercenary. In a wealthy Middle Eastern kingdom, despotic King Nimir has disappeared Renata Bardales, a trained fighter raised alongside Mirza - his sister, of sorts. Assembling a ragtag team of specialists, Mirza sets off on a wild rescue mission, determined to save his sister from a medieval fortress that has now been transformed into a heavily fortified blacksite.

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.

Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a biologist, has befriended a local flock of crows in her shtetl. Czeslaw is an underage Polish soldier who deserts the Red Army and runs into the freezing Lithuanian woods. Kezia is a Roma horse trader whose family is on the run from Soviet collectivization. As the German blitzkrieg crashes across the border in June 1941, all three are caught up in the onslaught.

When Chrissie Chambers (model actress whatever) discovers her soap opera character is about to be killed off, she finally stops dieting and discovers hitherto untapped supernatural abilities. Meanwhile, Chrissie's aunt - former national heroine Lady Shade - goes missing. Chrissie and her ghost-possessed best friend Loulee break into the asylum where Jasmine works as a therapist with the most dangerous supervillains in Britain... only to find the inmates have taken over...

1968, Lancashire: It is Joe Sutter's last summer before going to secondary school. His world is like ours but beyond and beside what we know is Greot -- a vast swirling rainbow of many-coloured dust. It settles on the dead, it swathes cities and fields. Joe is one of the few who have the gift of always being able to see it. Then one day,as the moon rises over Brendle hill, he meets an old writer of pulp SF books who is determined to pass on the power and joy of telling stories. And everything changes. Decades later Joe is a successful SF novelist, and the time has come to tell his story and about how Greot coloured everything.

On a morning much like any other, 30-something queer Brooklynite Wilder makes a miraculous discovery. Suddenly, as if by magic, they can understand every language in the world. Dazed and disconnected, Wilder is found and taken in by a small coven of trans witches who have all become Awakened with mystical powers of their own.

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.

Thirty years ago, the world nearly ended. The old robot Be was there, but now has settled into a life of isolation in the abandoned ruins of an old mill in the former New York Botanical Gardens, disinterested in what has happened in the outside world since they stepped away from the war. Someone out there, though, has not forgotten about them, and when they are attacked, their person vandalized, and one of their legs stolen, Be sets out to find the thief accompanied by a cyborg dog and a human mechanic.

Continues the epic fantasy begun in SISTER SVANGERD AND THE NOT QUITE DEAD.

Following explosive revelations, Raeve embarks on a journey to find herself - one that includes embracing her forgotten identity as the presumed deceased royal, Elluin Nevan, and as the long-lost love of Kaan, the Burn's warrior king.

As a reproductive health care worker in Chicago, Nisha is barely staying afloat in the ocean of abortion bans, screaming protestors, and her own all-consuming depression. When she escapes to the Indian art exhibit at her favorite museum for a brief respite, Nisha suddenly finds herself bleeding, disoriented, and collapsed on the ground. The last thing she remembers is the statue that beckoned her to touch it. In the days that follow, Nisha feels a strange power coursing within her, one that attracts a host of dangerous and enigmatic characters who covet it for themselves.

Iris Weyward wants to be bad. Truly bad. Terrifyingly, gloriously villainous. So, she sets off for the quiet town of Fraywell to build her wicked legacy. Things start promisingly: a crooked little cottage, a reputation for curses and potions, and a healthy dose of fear from the locals. But when a fearsome orc just topples over in her yard and she reanimates him, Talon isn't the brooding warrior she was hoping for. He's gentle. He bakes. Worst of all, he's nice.

One thousand million infants are dead, and Nathan Treeves is back. He's become the Master of Waterblack, the City of the Dead. And Sharli, once a sacrifice, then an assassin, is now a trained God-Killer. She has killed many - but failed in killing Nathan Treeves years ago. Soon she, and the Women's Vanguard, will have another chance, even as the Master, the Mistress and the Atheistic Crusade hurtle toward their final confrontation.

The International Space Station suddenly loses contact with Earth. When a NASA tech devises a way to restore the feed, the images that come through are unfathomable: a scene of terrible violence, the crew unresponsive, droplets of blood hovering in zero gravity. But which of the astronauts on board would have done such a thing? And why? Off the coast of Mozambique, former special ops pilot and current treasure hunter Ethan Cain sees something he can't believe: an object shot out of the heavens plunging deep into the Indian Ocean.

The campground is in the throes of a bad year, and monsters that were previously lying dormant are starting to stir and they're waking up hungry. On top of all this, the man with the skull cap has started taking an unusual interest in Kate. But with the harvesters on the prowl, the Lady in Chains hunting her down, and a sinister spider infestation, Kate is going to need all the allies she can get, even if those allies aren't actually...human.

Orok Monroe: Half-giant. Rawball defensive tank on the Philadelphia Hellhounds. Follower of Urzoth...only Orok's tired of following the god of aggression. Alexo Warden: Cheerleader. Human? A dancer with a stadium's worth of secrets. When Orok saves Alexo at a bar, fans go feral for the star athlete protecting the pint-size dude-in-distress. The Hellhounds propose that Orok and Alexo start a PR relationship to put a positive spin on Orok's god.

A brilliant female scientist desperately searches for a cure after a devastating Zombie epidemic while also hiding a monumental secret - her undead husband. How far would you go to save your marriage?

An unlikely lord finally meets a problem he can't flirt his way out of in this adventurous and light-hearted queer cozy fantasy featuring pirates, dragons, kidnapping, tea, and other high-fantasy delights.

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.

Elegy Ahn is happy with her life as a soldier, defending her small country from the Talusar, a powerful nation who worships a deadly Fever. A fever that blesses half of its victims with mysterious gifts. But then she's summoned to hear a prophecy - her, and the most ruthless of Talusar generals, Rava Vidar. Brought face to face, they learn that one of them will lead their people to victory over the other...but they don't know which.

Morgan's a junior salesperson at a tech startup that can't even decide what its product is. Leaving work late one night, she discovers her boss dead from the effort of summoning a demon to trade his soul in order to make his quarterly target. The disturbingly-attractive demon, Lucareoth (Luke for short), is trapped here until he finds someone to sell their soul. While trying to sneak Luke out of the building, Morgan gets sucked into the Infernal Plane and only gets back home with a promise to deliver a human soul of her own. While her coworkers are really annoying, she's not willing to sacrifice their souls. The company's tech bro CEO, though, is another story.

The first warning sign is the Consort's invitation for Kaylin to visit the High Halls - a Barrani invitation, which means an immediate visit. The second sign is less subtle: Kaylin finds Nightshade's unresponsive body. He hovers on the edge of death, beyond saving through Kaylin's healing power. No one can explain his state, nor why she's powerless to save him. And if she and her Barrani friends can't figure out a way to bring him back, he'll be lost forever.

A novella expanding upon the characterization, events, and worldbuilding of the original MISTBORN trilogy, now in trade paperback for $12 more than the original hardcover price. Kelsier, sentenced to die mining the Pits of Hathsin after attempting to rob the Lord Ruler's palace, arose as a powerful Mistborn and inspired the revolution that shook the foundations of the Final Empire. His name and deeds passed into legend. But was that truly the end of his tale?

Robotics student Kim Wooram, runner-up at the World Gigantic Mechanics Olympiad, is a world-class pilot and engineer. She chooses to return to Korea after learning of an exciting new secret government robotic project known as V. To her disappointment, only male pilots are allowed to apply. So, posing as her twin brother Boram, she auditions for Project V, the reality competition show whose winner will pilot the robot V - and quickly becomes one of the top contestants in both skill and popularity.

From its perch on top of a pile of junk inside a shed, Coli, a robot with powerful observational qualities, waits patiently for someone to find it. Luckily for Coli, a young girl is about to pass by. She is obsessed with robots. Together, they will save a life.But first, they must become friends, play with danger, and pull off the mother of all deceptions.

When Claudia Jolicoeur is rejected from Cygnus University, a devilish stranger named Dorian appears in her nightmares and offers her a bargain. He will get her into Cygnus if she learns how to free him from a prison of stars. He takes a bite of her soul to seal the deal, and Claudia wakes to a letter from the High Sage of Cygnus stating she will take the place of Odette Dufort, a Rhetoric student who passed away. Her arrival raises suspicions, rumours that she had a hand in Odette's death spread like wildfire,and Cassius MacLeod, the High Sage's apprentice and Claudia's fellow Rhetoric student, seems hellbent on humiliating her.

Sisters Effie and Bonnie might both be witches, but they're worlds apart. Reserved and bookish, Effie finds solace in library corners, while Bonnie knows all about being popular. They strive to stay away from one another - a challenging task in the confines of their small hometown, Yellowbrick Grove. After their estranged Uncle Oswald draws Bonnie into a magical scheme under the guise of helping the locals, it turns out Oswald's real motives are truly wicked and within a day, Bonnie's spells start misfiring and Effie notices something sinister taking root.

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.

Elly is running. Pregnant and still in her wedding dress, she flees the cottage that her new husband has rented for their wedding night. Because he's not what people think he is. Freezing and lost in the dead of night, Elly begins to lose hope. So, when a beautiful house appears out of nowhere and a woman beckons her inside, it almost feels too good to be true. Welcome to Hex House: a refuge, a home, a sanctuary.

Years after their groundbreaking journey into the past, Artorius and his team stumble upon a devastating revelation. The Chinese government has dispatched five time-travelers and a trove of advanced technology back to 165 CE, during the waning days of the Han dynasty. While believing they were guiding Rome toward a new era of modernization and unity, the emergence of Chinese influence threatens to unravel everything they have fought for.

For three hundred years, humanity's greatest works of art have been on loan at the Greenwood Museum. It was finally time for them to come home...but the alien curators were disinclined to return them. Force was out of the question. Earth's government was clear. They were not going to press the issue. So, all that a group of undergqualified misfits had was guile and hubris to fuel their little intergalactic art heist.

[Local author]. More than a century ago, Bender embarked on a daring mission to the stars and vanished without a trace. Now, Bob is rallying his allies to uncover the truth of what happened to Bender, no matter the risks. Generations of replication have fractured the once-unified Bobs into a dizzying array of personalities, with some so far removed they might as well be strangers. While a few support Bob's quest, others see an opportunity to push their own agendas.

Collecting Tchaikovsky's critically acclaimed novellas Walking to Aldebaran (2019), One Day All This Will Be Yours (2021) and And Put Away Childish Things (2023) for the first time, Terrible Worlds: Destinations gives you three glimpses of the limits of reality.

Nebula nominee. 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.

In 991 AD, Vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting along the banks of the river Blackwater, near Maldon in Essex. A poem on the battle, written shortly after, now survives only as a 325-line fragment. But it inspired Tolkien to compose, during the 1930s, his own dramatic verse-dialogue. The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, imagines the aftermath of the great battle when two of Beorhtnoth's retainers come to retrieve their duke's body.

An algorithm has predicted that within thirty days, 10 year old Kate will either be killed, or become a killer. When two police officers arrive at her home in Maine intending to implant her with a tracking device, Kate is urged by her trusted AI Interactive Toy (a talking stuffed seal named Zeno) to make an immediate escape. Confused and looking for answers, the girl sets a course for New York City and begins an Orwellian journey into the unknown.

Novella. Luntien's celebration of the start of the rainy season is marred by the arrival of refugees from the sea. Cleric Chih, very recently still Novice Chih, is also a stranger in Luntien. A moment of carelessness and bad luck leaves them waiting tables as they struggle to establish themself as a real cleric. A cleric's job is to listen and record, but the stories emerging in Luntien are ugly and violent. With their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant by their side, Chih must help the refugees while also unraveling a mystery that may have roots in the faraway abbey of Singing Hills.

Mt. Hood National Forest has always been a sanctuary for evil - human and alien.The shadows of looming trees and long-abandoned mines shelter poachers and serial killers alike. Then there's the ruined hotel on the outskirts of picturesque small town Faraday, Oregon, nestled in the foothills of Mt. Hood. The one drowning in mushrooms and fungus not even the local expert can identify. Freelance writer Erin Harper arrives here to find out what happened to her brother, whose disappearance in the forest has haunted her for years.

The hench once called Anna, now known to her colleagues and enemies as the Auditor, has carved out a wicked name for herself. Her greatest enemy, the former hero Supercollider, has been utterly defeated - literally ground to a still-living pulp. But the Auditor still has her sights set on a greater work: destroying the Draft, the organization that makes, trains, and manages the world's most powerful superheroes.

While touring the U.S.S. Titan-A, which is just beginning an extensive repair-and-refit process that will take nearly a year to complete, newly promoted Captain Seven of Nine and her first officer, Commander Raffi Musiker, experience a bizarre temporal event which renders them both unconscious and sends Seven into a deep coma.

Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for... eye contact! (Emotion check: Oh, for f--)

When Hop awakens in an ancient labyrinth, he has no memory of his life, or how he got here. He does not recognise the mysterious girl trapped with him. The only way out of the labyrinth is through the Bone Door. But it lies behind a series of locked doors hidden across an array of strange realms. To open the way, Hop must complete impossible tasks before his time runs out.

Naturalist Courtney Bradford is given leave to organize the Corps of Discovery, a motley company formed of veterans of the Great War from all over the Alliance. On board the rebuilt Walker, now a school ship, they set out to investigate some strange reports of a region in the Pacific. And there they find a great battered fleet made up of strange ships, perhaps transported there in the same way that Walker came to this world.

Nobody is more surprised than Cyrus to learn that he's no longer considered the greatest villain in the land of Athaca. Sure, he's lying about the fact that his magical power is making flowers grow. And maybe lately he's spent more time embroidering pillowcases than tormenting the locals. Enter the hero Maximillian: the realm's golden boy, complete with a blinding smile, chiseled abs, and an infuriating habit of spreading hope and joy.

Anne of Brittany was a child when France invaded. Now she is a young woman, sovereign duchess of an occupied realm, and France means to crown their conquest by marrying her to their king. Her only hope of resisting conquest is another alliance sealed with marriage, so Anne arranges a daring last gambit: a secret betrothal to Charles of France's greatest rival. While pretending compliance with France, Anne plans a unicorn hunt in the forest Broceliande. A bit of pointless pageantry. A diversion so she can wed in secret. Or so she thinks.

After witnessing the massacre of everyone he's ever known and loved, M'Kuru Mukundi, the sole surviving member of the High Noble House Mukundi of Madada, vows revenge. M'kuru flees to a small village where he hides under the guise of farm boy Khalil Rausi... unaware that the real Khalil's father is the bloodthirsty General of Zenzele's army, and under the direction of the King's scheming son, Prince Effiom, was responsible for the murder of M'kuru's people.

Josephine Pinova doesn't believe in fate. Yet, it must be fate when she walks into one of the last magical apothecaries in the city and they offer her a job after she's just been fired. Struggling against a tide of anti-magic sentiment amidst the city's rapid industrialization, the shop is slated to close in six short months unless Josie can save it.

In the canton of Sapirdad, two of the Empire's most powerful families are moments away from going to war with each other, their hundreds of retainers gathered with swords drawn. To de-escalate matters, someone must do the impossible: prove that one family's eldest son is innocent of a gruesome and unforgivable murder, despite the incontrovertible evidence against him. A task for Ana Dolabra and her assistant Din.

The barbarian traveled far to consult the wizards of the empire. Instead of lending their aid, they ensorcelled him, exploited his strength, and stole his sword. They should not have done that. Now the barbarian plans to kill every wizard who wronged him, even if that means blending in with their vile society: dressing in finery, taking tea in exclusive clubs, and reserving the best box at the theater.Oh, he hates it all with the fiery passion of his savage heart - but not as much as he hates these wizards.

Wren has spent her life hiding - hiding the truth about herself. She's half-fae. The local villagers are afraid of her and only her adoptive father, Bryn, and her teacher, a witch named Mila, care whether she lives or dies. When their village is attacked, and Bryn is killed, Mila urges Wren to flee into the woods.There she encounters the mysterious but frightening Thain who offers to take her to the Wyldes, the land of the fae creatures.

Helspira must play escort to Sikras - a frustratingly handsome necromancer with the power to raise the dead - as he attempts a mission that he's failed twice before; stopping an undead army at the edges of the kingdom. No one thinks he will succeed. Not even Sikras. But the more time the two spend together, the more they find they can imagine a brighter future.

Short novel. Six roses. Six vials of blood. Six visits to a vampire who could be her salvation... or her damnation. Lilith has been dying since the day she was born. But while she long ago came to terms with her own imminent death, the deaths of everyone she loves is an entirely different matter. As her town slowly withers in the clutches of a mysterious god-cursed illness, she takes matters into her own hands.

The year is 1975. Silas drives a red Pontiac GTO. Trapped in the back of his muscle car are the ghost of his sister Betty and half of the demon that killed her. He doesn't know how she died, and he hasn't figured out how to save her yet, but he knows that if he spends three days in any one place, the other half of the demon will catch up, kill him, and drag Betty down to hell. Silas works as a scout, messenger, courier, herald, and sometimes spy across the weird, fragmented, magical world of Other America.

A novella taking place 400 years before the events of Of Blood and Fire. A red moon rose over the continent of Epheria and the world changed forever. In the city of Ilnaen, brothers and sisters turn upon each other, dragons war in fire and fury, and gods reach their hands into the world.This is a night that will echo through all time. This is the fall of the Order.

At the end of the Tenth Millennium, Sabbath Okada, agent of a nameless branch of Deimos' labyrinthine government, comes to the vast city of Ishtar on Venus to investigate the suspicious death of an undercover agent. His companion, Daslakh, is an old and cunning AI with its own self-imposed mission: to act as Okada's conscience. Searching for the truth takes Sabbath and Daslakh to the glittering towers of Ishtar's elite, a brutal combat sport arena, and the unforgiving, wind-lashed face of the highest peak on Venus.

Wounded in his county's endless wars, former soldier Mag Tresti finds work in the home of a reclusive widow, Jannae Mirchella. But Jannae is more than she seems. A witch of great skill and might, she hides her powers and her deep-laid plans behind a mask of harmless respectability. When a dead demon falls out of the sky, the fates of the soldier and the witch are irrevocably intertwined. On the demon's body Mag finds a tinderbox - an artefact of terrifying magical power that can not only grant his every wish, but also change the fate of nations.

On a clear October day, the American skies empty after hundreds of pilots refuse to fly, triggering a complete ground stop. The pilots all received disturbing, middle-of-the-night calls from their mothers, and each mother had a simple and urgent request: do not fly today. There are a few concerning elements to the calls. None of the mothers remember making them - and some of the mothers are dead. While the nation's military chiefs and artificial intelligence experts mobilize in search of answers, a 16 year old girl named Charlie on the coast of Maine watches a strange, silvery balloon drift across the water and toward her home - a place she loathes.

A collection of 25 of his stories.

With war on the horizon--and rumors of the Khan's return brewing--a band of unlikely allies are also on their own missions. There's Sali, a gruff warrior who is also forging a path different from the one her culture created for her, and Qisami, an assassin whose cold heart might actually be made of gold. And Taishi has gathered a band of other elderly grandmasters to help Jian live up to his destiny. Because some heroes aren't simply born legends--they choose to become legendary. And great heroes do not stand alone, but are stronger together.

A bloody lesbian revenge tale and political fantasy set in a glittering world transformed by industrial change - and simmering class warfare. He who controls ichorite controls the world. A malleable metal more durable than steel, ichorite is a toxic natural resource fueling national growth, and ambitious industrialist Yann Chauncey helms production of this miraculous ore. Working his foundry is an underclass of destitute workers...

THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN LYCHFORD, LAST STAND IN LYCHFORD, and GNOMES OF LYCHFORD collected in the second LYCHFORD omnibus edition.

In the last vampire city of First Light, the rebels know the truth about the Grays. But nothing has changed. Sam has a plan to bring the whole rotten city down: a plan of peace, not violence. But in this city, the best laid plans have a way of falling apart, and she'll need the help of the city's ex ruler and former enemy if she's to avoid a bloodbath.

For as long as they can remember, Briar Jones dreamed of attending the Temple School of Thaumaturgy, an elite boarding school. When, at age eleven, Briar's best friend, Sebastian Wolfe, gets an acceptance letter and Briar doesn't, their childhood friendship is shattered. Seven years later, a summer job advert appears: a temp position sorting through the junk in Temple's attics. And when Briar takes it, they discover that quiet, sensitive Seb, the boy they once loved more than anything else in the world, has become Bastian, a beautiful, arrogant villain feared by the entire school.

Two thousand years after the events of IDOLFIRE, the world is on the brink of war, and the discovery of the enchanted city of Nivela threatens to push it over the brink. Archeologist Cod's old teacher has made the discovery of a lifetime. But her home is Palgaro, and the discovery - the ruins of the enchanted city of Nivela - is set to change the world. And not for the better...

For a hundred years, Altarra has burned. Corvynne, the goddess of war, has conquered kingdom after kingdom, leaving only ruin in her wake. Every prophecy says the same thing - nobody can defeat her. And after a century of failure, someone finally takes that literally. When the goddess Artemisen chooses Soli Graymind - a nobody who suffers from chronic depression - to lead one last desperate quest, the world laughs.

[Canadian author]. Summer 1992 at Camp Summer Fun. Responding to reports of a blood-curdling howl near the camp, sheriff's deputy Tom arrives too late to save anyone except a single brutalized teen. The killer nowhere to be found. Mary, a survivor of an attack at the camp in 1983, is convinced that the killer is not human but instead a rural legend known as the Hungry Hare. The sheriff wants the case closed, but refuses to believe in folklore.

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.

When Oaklin Nettlewood accidentally joined an evil world-ending cult, mind control magic forced them to do unspeakable things. Later, liberated, with a spell-damaged memory and whole bushel of trauma, Oaklin escapes to a small farm on the edge of Mossley's Rest and swears an oath. After all the things they were forced to do with their magic, they will never use it again. Ever.

On land Eppie will never be anything more than the outcast girl who kissed the grocer's daughter. But stolen from the shore, she is transformed. Eppie is stronger, swifter - and hungrier. Human flesh smells like heaven on earth, and Eppie is ravenous. She has become a monster of the deep - a mermaid. And when Eppie meets Marie, a stunningly beautiful mermaid with a past as shadowed as her raven-black scales, she finds she no longer needs to resist the desires that were denied to her on land.

In the small, sleepy town of Gattan, population 7448, it happened at eleven o'clock on a Saturday morning. At the local soccer field, only one boy, aged ten years and one week, remained standing as the brothers, sisters and parents of his teammates realised the horror they were witnessing. Their screams split the sky. One hundred and thirty million died that first day. Every day since, on the morning of a child's ninth birthday, it happens again. No one knows why.

Raine Stone is living a nightmare. Ever since she survived the attack that killed her family, she's been hiding a terrible secret - and a Beast inside her. It feeds on violence and chaos, but she restrains its urges by playing vigilante on the city streets. Until one night, Raine uses the Beast's energy to heal an elderly gentleman from a seemingly random attack and discovers a new world of danger - literally.

The magic reviving the decayed realm of Noctaris is unstable. Unpredictable. As the survivors of her ravaged world look to her for salvation, Lorien offers Nova a dangerous bargain. Undo a curse that ruined him centuries ago, restore the scattered pieces of his true self, and she can have Aleks back.

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.

Iriset - prodigy, outlaw, now sunderer - has broken the Moon-Eater god's prison at the heart of the empire. But the consequences of her actions land her in a city of monsters where the heretical magic of human architecture is freely practiced, and the only person she knows - and can trust - is Lyric, the emperor she's lied to and loved in equal measure.

Seven years ago, Quinn finally dared to transform from a seal into a human and took her first steps on land. As a selkie, she is both a daughter of land and sea. But when a human stole her pelt, he stole her freedom as well, forcing Quinn to become his wife and bear his children. Then one day, her eldest daughter hands Quinn her pelt and without a second thought, Quinn snatches it and escapes to the sea. But she's no longer used to swimming and doesn't know where her herd has gone. She finds herself taking shelter on a nearby island with a lighthouse and three lighthouse keepers.

For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice. Before he gave it all away. He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything... A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library. When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?

Every Sunday, Oona the St. Berdoodle and her current owner, Zsuzsu, make their way through the winding paths of the State Park to the enigmatic Redemption Center. When a local celebrity is found murdered, the unexpected brings Oona together with a rag-tag group of local misfits. Together they venture into the depths of the Center's mystery to untangle the threads of murder and deception. But Oona holds two secrets: she's a citizen of the multiverse, able to travel between dimensions at will, and more importantly, she knows the killer's identity.

With the help of a command AI, the hole in the Daedalus has been fixed by Hazel and her friends. But in the process, they have antagonized the Yi, the aliens who are actually controlling the Daedalus. After a daring escape from the Yi, Hazel and her friends now must convince the people of the Daedalus villages and the village leaders that the Yi exist - and that they must fight back in order to survive.

The Crown Dominion is facing a crisis of epic proportions - one that could change the balance of power in the Centauri Cluster forever - as an exiled faction that has been waiting for seven thousand years beyond the Helium Sea has returned to claim their vengeance. For Finn and his human allies, this is an unprecedented opportunity. But first they must locate and master ancient artifacts of immense power that could give them a needed edge in the conflict ahead.

Jacob Grimm returns as CO of USS Interceptor just a few weeks after he graduated from command school. He's immediately sent on a rescue mission to the far side of Zuckabar, with no backup and dwindling supplies. When an unknown enemy cripples his ship on the outskirts of the system, the crew must come together and track their mysterious foe out into the unknown.

Evelyn Kendricks is having a day. An overworked manager, she's been dumped by her toxic boyfriend while struggling to cope with the recent ghost invasion that's shocked the world. Devastated, she is mysteriously summoned to an eerie townhouse where she meets Linda Villaneuva, a PI who runs a secret mystical detective agency.

Life is hard for the inhabitants of Rainshadow City, a place where poverty and corruption are rife and where they are terrorized by an underground criminal organization known as the Lucky Crows. Toshiko, Jun and Mei Kawakami are a family, bonded through loyalty if not blood, who live outside the increasingly corrupt law and who are seeking revenge for the murder of their beloved "aunt" Reiko by the Lucky Crows.

Bradford Pierson, AKA Fatty Bratty, wakes up to some random dog that acts like it belongs in his apartment. Except Bratty doesn't own a dog, despite always wanting one. Taking it as a sign, Bratty adopts the dog, rejects his parents' expectations, and heads to LA to make beats for his best friend Tommy's raps. Over a manic week they write and record their first album. They call themselves Mr. Yay. Like the old children's TV program, Mr. Yay. The one that everyone remembers but that the internet says never existed.

It's been a year since Tamsyn transformed. From royal whipping girl in the palace of Penterra to the bride of Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands. From the enemy in the Beast's bed to the wife he sacrificed himself to save. Now, a dragon, a powerful fire-breather, Tamsyn trains in the arena until her muscles burn and her blood spills. Slowly, Tamsyn forges herself into a warrior in the shadow of Fell's enigmatic brother, Vetr.

The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously powerful: the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers. Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that's what Alessa Li is told after she's kidnapped and forcibly enrolled. But the Institute is more than just a haven for monsters. On graduation day, the faculty embark on a ravenous rampage, feasting on their students. Trapped in the school's cavernous library, Alessa and her surviving classmates must do something they were never taught: work together.If not, this school will eat them alive...

Healer Anja regularly drinks poison. Not to die, but to save - seeking cures for those everyone else has given up on. But a summons from the King interrupts her quiet, herb-obsessed life. His daughter, Snow, is dying, and he hopes Anja's unorthodox methods can save her. Aided by a taciturn guard, a narcissistic cat, and a passion for the scientific method, Anja rushes to treat Snow, but nothing seems to work. That is, until she finds a secret world, hidden inside a magic mirror.

When a king calls a hunt for a phoenix in a deadly, magical forest, wizard Sy jumps at the chance. The prize is just enough to pay off his debts -- he can't split it. Neither can he survive the forest alone. He seeks Anya, a skilled huntress who lives on the forest's edge, and lies about splitting the money. But Anya is lying, too. Cursed by a vengeful witch after killing her familiar, Anya must find the phoenix and bind it to her before the summer solstice.

When Osric Mordaunt, member of the Fyren Order of assassins, falls ill, he realizes he needs the expertise of a very specific healer. And Aurienne Fairhrim and her fellow Haelan are inundated by sick children suffering from an outbreak of a long-forgotten Pox. The Haelan Order is desperate for money - and so Aurienne is forced to accept Osric's offer. But as the two work together to solve not only Osric's illness but the mysterious reoccurrence of the Pox, they find themselves ardently denying their attraction which only fuels the tension between them.

Unnur was living a normal, if lonely, life until a black cat showed up at her door. When she tracks down the cat's wayward owner, she finds a young woman just as lost and in need of help. Like a gust of cold air in a Reykjavik night, Asta and her pet slip into Unnur's life. But like a black cat, trouble has been tailing her new friend, and Unnur is the only one there for Asta when things take a violent turn. The two women quickly learn: nothing tests a friendship like blood on your hands.

Private Cyril Bagger has managed to survive the unspeakable horrors of the Great War through his wits and deception, swindling fellow soldiers at every opportunity. But his survival instincts are put to the ultimate test when he and four other grunts are given a deadly mission: venture into the perilous No Man's Land to euthanize a wounded comrade. What they find amid the ruined battlefield, however, is not a man in need of mercy but a fallen angel, seemingly struck down by artillery fire. This celestial being may hold the key to ending the brutal conflict, but only if the soldiers can suppress their individual desires and work together.

Deep into space, far past the triworld outposts, beyond range of the lethal trollbot internet, soars the Sickness: a ship woven from biomatter and capable of reacting to every need of its human crew. Sisilla, a nine-year-old cultist with a brain enhanced by arcane tech known as "niks," has boarded to investigate the enigma of Fem--a plague-riddled planet that has abruptly gone rogue.

Doctor Liz, just acquitted for performing the last abortion in North Dakota, is kidnapped by a fundamentalist cult, deep in the rural west, without respect for law or decency, but in desperate need of an OB/GYN. Guarded, isolated, without access to the outside world, Liz is very aware of what happened to the last obstetrician they kidnapped.

Nebula nominee. Alice Law has sacrificed everything to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she's going in after him. Even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams.... nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion. With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don't even like.

Cy wants nothing more than to be useful, raise his utility score, and receive the next update for his operating system. But that's easier said than done when he's tasked with helping his owner's 35-year-old son "get out of his funk."

In a remote castle perched atop a windswept island, a long-awaited royal heir is born. In accordance with ancient custom, a blessing ceremony takes place to bestow the princess with magical gifts - along with a terrible curse. Except this is not the love story you may think you know. There is no enchanted sleep for the princess, and no handsome prince to save the day. Just three women, who together concoct a desperate plan of misdirect that changes the course of all their lives. But dark magic cannot be tricked...

Ever since she was a child, Salome has been plagued by visions of spirits and dangerous powers she can't control. After watching her foster mother burn as a witch, she and her beloved sister Rochelle are raised together in a convent until one day, Rochelle vanishes. Determined to find a way to save her, Salome runs first to a brothel, and then, after a terrible accident, away from the village and into the woods. Deep amongst the trees of the wild Black Forest, she comes face-to-face with Lord Death, who promises to make her his apprentice and teach her how to harness her mind and magic.

Saul Keng Hsiu and his wife, Mei Lee, move from China to the United States and take possession of a 160-acre homestead bequeathed to them by a distant relative. Then, when representatives from the US Army Corps of Engineers buy an acre of the Hsiu's farmland and begin building a missile silo, the inexplicable starts to occur. Mara can commune with the animals on the farm, Mei develops a hidden talent for augury, and the family's chrysanthemums become impervious to everything.

For 20 years, after the Soundfield arrived, people have been forced to live at night due to the deadly heat of the day. Food and water are scarce, and everyday life is punctuated by the constant and disconcerting hum from the Field. A brilliant scientist, Hannah spent her early career working on the enigma of the Soundfield, looking for answers. Now resigned, she has focused all her energies on keeping not just alive, but keeping her son Isaac living.

More than a century has passed since Asphodel Baker refined the process allowing her to imbue alchemically created life with power in a way no one else had ever been able to achieve. And now, so long after her exit from the world, the descendants of her dark alchemy - who exist in a reality that inches ever closer to the hellscape of her imagination - step into a place of birth, of discovery, of horror, to make amends for the sins of the past.

Alyiakal, a sub-majer in the Mirror Lancers of Cyador, the Empire of Light, is serving the last year of his tour as commanding officer of a remote border post. Rumours hint that the Cerlynese Duke, in retaliation for Alyiakal's success in a border skirmish, is readying an even larger attack. Against terrible odds, Alyiakal gains victory and a promotion. He takes leave only to discover his courtship of Saelora is opposed by her mother. Disappointed and reposted to the remote Pemedra Post - again - Alyiakal must navigate a rapidly developing war.

It's 1958 and Dennis Knuckleyard has decided to leave his adventures in the Great When in the past where they belong. For nine years, he's avoided so much as thinking about the magical version of London, until he rediscovers an unpleasant reminder of his last adventure - a key that he'd secretly brought into his own world from the other for safekeeping.But while Dennis may believe he's done with the Great When, it's far from done with him.

Novella. Celia discovered her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother, Argent, left home. Furious at him for abandoning her in a war-torn land, she lashed out, not realizing her childish, angry words would become imbued with the power of prophecy, dooming him to a life without love. While Argent wanders the world, forced to seek only fame and glory instead of the love and belonging he truly desires, Celia attempts to undo the curse she placed on him.

Into 16th century Spain comes Telamon: soldier, mercenary, outcast. He has lived a hundred lives across centuries, forever condemned to take up arms. Now, drawn into the brutal conflict between Portuguese invaders and Andalusian defenders, he must face both the battlefield before him and the eternal war within himself. But Telamon is not alone. Across time, through lifetimes, the same figures return: comrades and rivals, lovers and betrayers, all reborn in new forms, bound together by a cycle neither mercy nor death can break.

The kingdom of Elben is in turmoil. One of its magical palaces lies in ruins at the bottom of the ocean and the king is on the hunt for the traitor Queen Seymour. He will not stop until he brings her to her knees. No one would ever suspect Queen Howard of treachery or spy craft, but she is no longer content to be the king's songbird. She will see to Henry's downfall. But there is a new gentleman at court, one who seems to know more about her true motives than he should - is he friend or foe?

This is volume 1 of the complete collection of short stories set in the Revelation Space universe, in chronological order. Included here are Dilation Sleep, A Spy in Europa, Galactic North, Great Wall of Mars, Glacial and Diamond Dogs.

This is volume 2 of the complete collection of short stories set in the Revelation Space universe. Included are Turquoise Days, Weather, Grafenwalder's Bestiary, Nightingale, Monkey Suit, The Last Log of the Lachrimosa, Night Passage, Open and Shut and Plague Music.

After dying and being reborn into a world that's built like a video game, Jim has found himself stuck in an antiquated new player zone for low level adventurers - stuck with a demon shrunk to the size of a plush animal, who will only help keep Jim alive so that it can kill him later and get back to its demon realm. But in order to survive, Jim must level up. Except the zone he's in fell out of use centuries ago and so this isn't the typical "grind through the forest" part of the game anymore.

Leina has spent a lifetime submitting, starving amid wheat fields reserved for the king, standing by while his men crush her loved ones. When soldiers come for her brother, her divine fury erupts in a bloody massacre. But instead of being executed for her crimes, the gods-blessed warrior Ryot delivers her to a military fortress renowned for its brutality. There, a gift from a goddess drags Leina into a realm of war, where her survival depends on her ability to ride a winged horse.

More new queer dark academia horror. Michael Stein arrives at the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies battered and broken, blaming himself for the tragic accident that took his boyfriend's life. He is haunted by his guilt and grief, but is determined to repent by completing his boyfriend's research into demonic entities. But Michael's grief warps into something far darker - an intoxicating, yet increasingly toxic obsession with the archivist Jacob, whose own secrets threaten to destroy them both.

When Jack Solomon, a struggling musician who works in London's West End, is killed, he awakens to a new reality in which light and music are used to create magic and where living eras of the past sprawl beneath modern London, layer upon layer, all the way back to recorded history. Jack also soon discovers that many of those who reside in the stratums of London's past have grown angry with the present world, and that their anger is being channeled by a powerful society of light-and-music-based magic wielders.

Lore Alemeyu wakes up to discover she's on a ship in the middle of the ocean. Held prisoner and with no way to escape, she's faced with a dire set of circumstances...a crew that's distrustful of Lore's magic capabilities...her betrayal by a Fae she thought she could trust...a dangerous quest for the sun book, which, if placed in the wrong hands, will make the Alytherian Fae even more powerful.

The Kenta and Strou forces ally against the Roison and Alaha, with Maile perched dangerously on the edge of their battles. Jovie is determined to keep the innocent Maile people from a conflict she helped start - even if it means suppressing the Matching Bond and sacrificing any hope of repairing her relationship with Acker.

When Phos, the god of light, stages an attack on their home in a bid for cosmic control, the heirs decide to take the fight to Phos's own realm of Solara. Yet Solara hasn't gone unscathed. Those in Phos's bloodline are being targeted by the Sunslayer, an assassin whose methods are troublingly familiar.

A compendium of fantastic tales from the dark gothic heart of the Sourdough universe.

Hakara risked her life to find her long-lost sister Rasha, only to lose her all over again. Now she and her Unanointed rebels hunt for the shapeshifter Lithuas, knowing that defeating her would strike a blow to the plans of the tyrant god Kluehnn. Rasha once longed to be reunited with Hakara. No longer. Now she is a Godkiller and proud to serve Kluehnn's divine will. Yet she also harbours doubts about Kluehnn's teachings. When she is sent to destroy Hakara and her allies, Rasha will have to decide where her loyalty truly lies.

In 1977 - a world in which America launched its space program shortly after WWII - Mitch Ward followed Flynn, the lost love of his youth, into the US Spaceguard. Now, he's stuck on a backwater moon base with his only friend, Gloria, watching every shuttle in the hope Flynn will be on it. After an inexplicable encounter with a strange, euphoric being, Mitch and Gloria find themselves dishonourably discharged, and stuck in a USA rapidly sliding into fascism with no plans and no future.

In the solar cities of the future, the humans relax in the sun and the animals work in the shadows. Genetically engineered Little Helpers, serving humanity - unseen, unheard. Meet Skotch. Raccoon, PI - yours for a few buttons as long as the job isn't too illegal, whatever that means. A mouse has gone missing. Normally this wouldn't raise any hackles, nor any alarms, but this mouse has something that everyone seems to want, though nobody appears particularly eager to say what that something is.

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.

Vera is a survivor of a global catastrophe known as the Low Probability Event, but she definitely isn't thriving. Once a passionate professor of statistics, she no longer finds meaning in anything at all. But when problematic government agent Layne knocks on her door, she's the only one who can help him uncover the connection between deadly spates of absurdity and an improbably lucky casino. What's happening in Vegas isn't staying there, and the world is at risk of another disaster.

Ander Rade is doing his best to stay under the radar after the mess in Atlanta when he's contacted by the Special Activities division for the Genetic Compliance Department. The mission: infiltrate a secret organization of rogue mods known as the Ghost Cell in order to find out what they're doing and who they are doing it for. The catch: Rade's old team leader, Sevrina Fox, is a member.

[Canadian author].Isobel "Izzy" Ker, the last working artist of the Old Holy Order, lives a life of poverty in the Dumps outside of Mahl City, covertly selling her illegal paintings to the Old Order's few remaining devotees. But when her studio is ransacked by the city's enforcers, her only choice is to seek refuge with the Half-Light Rebels, a gang of anti-art radicals and glorified thieves.

Sapphic folk-horror. 1635. Sister Ursula, a young nun fleeing the ruins of her convent, and Elsebeth, a sharp-witted peasant, escape a band of marauding soldiers and disappear into the Bavarian forest. Amid the devastation, they find the gilded skull of a saint. But a necromancer is drawn to the relic's power.

[Canadian author]. Taara, the pious newly crowned Queen of Abhaya, a resource-rich city-state, must marry whether she wishes to or not. Her betrothed is Garjan, Prince of Nandapore, a neighbouring city-state full of secrets and spellcasters. His forbidden love is Bhediya, a courtesan with magic in her blood. And then there is Roland, a thief by trade, attached to nothing and no one, who stumbles into a power-hungry king's plot to unearth a weapon that has only lived in myth...until now.

San Francisco, once Emiko Soong's sanctuary from Jiaren intrigues, turns into her living nightmare. Clan wars erupt and her life becomes a treacherous quicksand of friend and foe. Unsure of who to trust, Emiko finds herself more alone than ever. When an ancient power rips through the Realm to land in her city, the General will stop at nothing to take it for his own. Emiko must face her past, present, and future, as she races to stop the General.

2050: The nations of the world decide to elect a global leader to steer humanity through the climate apocalypse. The final two candidates: a former U.S. president - and Solomon, the first Artificial Intellect to hold political office. But as election day races closer, Solomon's creator is murdered, and it's up to investigative journalist Marcus Tully to find the culprit. Soon Tully is unraveling a conspiracy that goes to the highest levels.

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.

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.

When the fledgling coastal town of Yamu is rocked by a mass-poisoning attack at the Seaview Parc, a luxury high-rise meant to revitalize the city, Hwayoung is one of many who lost family members. Across town, Doha wakes up in a teddy bear and realizes something sinister has taken his body. When fate brings Hwayoung and Doha together, the two team up for a revenge quest that will shake the city's shiny facade to its rotten core.