All Detective Sergeant Peter Grant wanted was a nice holiday up in Scotland. He'll need one once this is over...Sea: check. Sand: some. Sun: sort of - but that's not the only thing in the sky...

Sarai believed the worst was behind her. However, months after exposing the government's corruption in what has now been deemed "the Great Unravelling," she faces scorn from citizens who preferred her and Kadra as the underdogs. Worse, eerie omens rock the country: from a deadly plague outbreak to a sweeping madness that leave the afflicted ranting of an approaching reckoning. Accused of angering the gods, Sarai returns to the only place that can clear her name: Ur Dinye's frozen north.

23-year-old witch Aurelia Schwartz has always had to carefully balance her human life with her secret magical one. With a place at an elite Cambridge University college, she almost has everything she could possibly want within her grasp. Except Aurelia's gift of green magic has begun to fade. Worse still, someone is hunting witches and stealing their powers. Reluctantly, Aurelia seeks the help of fellow witch - and dreadfully arrogant classmate - Theodore Ingram.

Clockmaker Arthur Throckmorton lives a quiet life with his sister and her children, only dreaming of adventure. So when a wealthy client offers him a job that involves traversing Shiftleaf - an enchanted forest that claimed his father decades ago - he reluctantly accepts. The journey quickly turns perilous. Fleeing from monstrous birds, Arthur stumbles upon a hidden vale where he meets the Lord of the Wood - a figure from his father's many stories.

Captain Blite and Agent Cormac thought they had defeated the malevolent AI Straeger. But Straeger's mission to plunge the galaxy into a devastating war is far from over. With a twisted p-prador army bred from the Spatterjay virus, Straeger sets his plans in motion. Meanwhile, on the war-struck world of Yossander's Hold, Blite and Cormac are trapped in a maelstrom of betrayal and violence.

Katherine Barnes is an enforcer, charged with upholding the rules of the notorious Los Angeles-based Aestas coven. It's her job to maintain order and bring unsettled witches - people who aren't aware they have magic until it explodes out of them in a catastrophic burst - into the coven's fold. When Silas Khatri, heir to Noctis, the most powerful coven in the world, arrives to take Aestas to task for some of their more unconventional practices, Katherine's dislike for him reaches blistering levels

Trapped in an underwater cave, a group of academics must face a series of deadly, supernatural trials - each one demanding they confront their darkest sins.

When a goddess offers them a final path to redemption - and back to each other - Asar and Mische embark on an extraordinary mission. Together, they must seize the power of the god of death so Asar may do the impossible: ascend to true divinity. But as the underworld teeters on the brink of collapse and the gods prepare for a war, Asar and Mische must decide what they are willing to sacrifice for the power to defy death.

The Interstellar Alliance are coming. A new empire approaches and the Muungano, already facing foes much closer to home, will have to contend with what it means for their future. Across the solar system, from Earth to Mars and Titan, beyond the Orun Gate, and across time and space itself a battle will rage. Their soldiers, scientists, diplomats and leaders will all have a role to play if their empire is to live on.

Kitt Carver is one of the best diviners in the business at finding destinies for the rich and powerful. When she's nearly killed, and her regular broker is murdered, it becomes clear someone has an issue with the last destiny she found. Determined not to let anyone else die, Kitt gathers a mismatched group - including Two Tongue Derna, her childhood friend and now a renowned street duellist, and Sulian the Swallowmage, powerful but plagued with intrusive visions of futures - and sets off across the Timeless Lands to warn the destiny's recipient.

Mount Vengeance is legendary. For most, it's an adventure or a quest to prove themselves worthy of fame and glory. For Ainsworth Gladsly, it's the perfect thesis material. When his supervisor learns of the rumored Misnich Inn at the foot of Mount Vengeance, she sends Ainsworth to be the first to document the exploits of the bold adventurers who seek to face the perils of the mountain and the dragon said to inhabit it.

Three decades after being supposedly vanquished, the Corvad House emerges from hiding with an overwhelming force led by a new ruthless princeps. His mission is to eradicate every living Nexus. After a Corvad-commanded fleet obliterates Domus Praesidium's energy shields and Corvad forces assault the mountain stronghold's defenses, Jon McCarthy, Elena Kapadia, and Lara Anderson - the mysterious Nexus with no timeline - race to reclaim the sixth and final fragment of the Krystalis, hoping to reforge the powerful gem shattered at the dawn of the House War three millennia ago.

In an alternate Spanish Golden Age, the Council of the Sea Beyond has risen to unrivaled power, exploiting the Otherworld's most precious resources for their own gain. Estevan seeks to uncover their secrets, but he risks the exposure of his own: that he is a faerie, masquerading as a mortal. The Hungry Girl is the human whose place he took. Lost among the fae and desperate to find some purpose for her existence, she leaps at the chance to help a group of Spanish explorers in the Sea Beyond...only to be horrified at the atrocities they commit.

On the volcanic world of Mustafar, Darth Vader undertakes a dark ritual, bleeding a kyber crystal to forge his lightsaber. This act unleashes a power far greater than he anticipated, giving him a glimpse into the limitless potential of the Force. Vader is determined to follow this vision, even if it means defying his master's orders. Yet he finds the Emperor is suspiciously supportive of his mission, even sending Vader to the Diso system to investigate rumors of a Force-wielding shaman able to raise the dead.

1968. When Joe Mitchell launches into space, the country waits with anticipation and excitement for another successful mission. Then, his wife Vivian's worst fear: Joe's spacecraft has lost contact. As the investigation surrounding Joe's lost spacecraft intensifies and the mishap is written off as an operator error, someone starts sending Vivian messages - messages she believes only Joe could send.

On the mist-shrouded Isle of Eireann, buying magic comes with a price. But when her beloved older sister is gravely injured, Maeve risks everything to buy the forbidden magic that might save her. In exchange, Maeve trades her life to a ruthless and dangerously alluring rebel leader. Bound to do his bidding, Maeve finds herself thrown into a deadly competition to become the next queen and stand beside a prince rumoured to be more brutal than his tyrannical father.

The founders of the town of Mistaken made a deal with the mysterious Benevolence. The Warding Stones that surround the town will keep the monstrous Bright-Eyeds out - and the town's citizens in. Greer, a mapmaker and eccentric dreamer, has always ached to explore the world outside, even though she knows she and her longtime love, Ellis Beaufort, will never see it. Then she watches in horror as her beloved disappears beyond the Warding Stones, pursued by a monstrous creature. She must find a way to defy Mistaken's curse and enter the pitiless wilderness in pursuit.

1884. When Mafalda journeys to Budapest to care for her grieving aunt, her secret love, Lucy, hurries from London to comfort her, with chaperone and lady's maid in tow. But lady's maid Alice, blessed and cursed with the Sight, is tormented by terrifying visions. When chaperone Eliza falls prey to a disturbing wasting illness, the women hope to seek the healing waters of Transylvania. At a nobleman's invitation, they set out for Castle Dracula.

At the edge of Chicago, nestled on the shores of Lake Michigan, there is a waystation for the dead. Every night, the newly-departed travel through the city to the Station, guided by its lighthouse. There, they reckon with their lives, before stepping aboard a boat to go beyond. Nera has spent decades watching her father, the ferryman of the dead, sail across the lake, each night just like the last. But tonight, something is wrong. The Station's lighthouse has started to flicker out.

Just beyond the waking edges of Luceria, an 18th-century town in the kingdom of Naples, lies the Night: an enigmatic fiefdom governed by seven immortals and fueled by Moira, the power to reshape one's destiny. On this porous border separating Day from Night, Oriana spends her time fantasizing about becoming a smith in her father's forge and eavesdropping on whispered tales of beasts and men who roam the nocturnal realm. But in the Night, these stories come alive, as Oriana saw for herself after she inadvertently trespassed into the Secret Market of the Dead, where vendors hawk Moira to those desperate enough to accept its immeasurably steep price.

Diana has claimed her birthright as Princess of Hell, Lady of Daemons and Chosen of Darkness Incarnate. But she can't forget the wrongs she suffered. The cruelties inflicted on her, as well as her family, friends, and subjects in the wars past. Cruelty from the gods, and the reigning Divine King who wrote the very myths that vilified her people. The line between justice and revenge is faint, blurred, and slippery. In attempting to punish the wicked, will she keep true to herself, or become the very creature her enemies fear her to be?

As a punishment for casting a spell and creating a magically sentiet spider plant, Terlu Perna was turned into a wooden statue. Then, one day, Terlu wakes in the cold of winter on a nearly-deserted island full of hundreds of magical greenhouses. She's starving and freezing, and the only other human on the island is a grumpy gardener. When she learns that the magic that sustains the greenhouses is failing - causing the death of everything within them - Terlu knows she must help. Even if that means breaking the law again.

In the newly formed kingdom of Flambriar, Arla Reinhart is growing restless. Her body craves to train, like the assassin she once was. Thara, the dragon Arla is bonded with, fulfilling an ancient prophecy and making her a Dragonhart, urges her to follow her desires. But Arla has made a promise to Hark Stappen, her priority is to protect the people of Flambriar and keep them safe from the King of Kastonia. When Arla accepts an invitation to visit another kingdom, she sets in motion the prophecy she knows so little about.

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

Iris loves being a mermaid. So, when her Mom, Queen of the Ocean, declares that she's to be wed to a human, she's furious. Finn wants to be the first human mayor of magical New York. He needs a magical wife as part of his PR strategy to win over his constituents, and he's fine with a loveless marriage. But after his reluctant fiance Iris douses him with seawater at their first meeting, Finn finds himself wanting this romance to be more than a business arrangement.

Honey Frost is Foxe Holler's dependable Farewitch. With a dash of flour and a pinch of charm, Honey carries on her family's legacy for healing any ailment with the right recipe. When the Holler's reclusive Warlock suddenly requests a Farewitch to cure his mysterious illness, Honey's ordered life turns upside down. Honey is reluctant to help - witches and warlocks do not get along. Then he tempts her with the one thing she can't resist: access to his infamous library of spellbooks and kitchen grimoires.

On her deathbed, an old woman elicits a promise from Malcolm, her youngest child. When she dies, he and his sister-in-law Violet must return her body to her birthplace in Shediak, Maine. From the moment she takes her last breath, before her remains are even loaded aboard the baggage car of the Imperial Limited, there are forces trying to stop Malcolm from fulfilling that promise. Violence erupts on the train, evil preys on its passengers, and once the sun goes down, long-buried things are coming to make the corpse pay for her past.

Aviva is an "upload," a digital entity composed of the sense memories of a human tether. But she's "emancipated," having left her human behind. Set free from her source and harboring a troubling secret, she finds temporary solace in the body of Cathy, a self-destructive ex-addict turned AI professor and upload-rights activist.

After a violent incident at work, Tamsin goes looking for a fresh start in a remote cottage far away from her old life. But the solitary cottage is actually a semi-detached, with only a thin wall separating her from a total stranger. Her neighbour is an enigma. Dowdy one moment, vivacious the next, but always wearing an unnerving smile. Tamsin can't shake the feeling that there's something wrong with her, especially when she starts experiencing disturbances in her own home.

A sapphic SF action adventure novella. With nothing but a limping ship and an outdated mask to her name, Wylla needs a big pay day. When the call goes out that a lucrative piece of tech is waiting on a nearby planet, she relies on all the swiftness of her prey-animal instincts to beat other hunters to it. The woman inside the MARK I HAWK, the tech, is real, and she sees Wylla in a way no one ever has. Sees her, and doesn't find her wanting or unwhole. Armed with military-grade tech and a lifetime of staying one step ahead of the hunters, Wylla and HAWK set off to get answers from the man who discarded HAWK once before: her ex-husband.

With her identity erased from the Corporate Federation, Wylla is a ghost in the machine: untraceable, unpredictable, and fueled by vengeance. She fights alongside Sable, the digital consciousness she loves in ways no system could ever define. Together, they've built a reputation for tearing through VisorForge's carefully constructed lies. But notoriety has a cost. When one of their attacks draws the attention of the Edenic Order - a clandestine eco-resistance whose insurgents bloom with Old Earth flora - Wylla and Sable are offered something more than revenge: a chance to dismantle VisorForge from the roots up.

Paris, 1869. Arnault and his clan of vampires have survived for as long as they have by observing a rigid set of rules. At night, they perform on stage at the Theatre Saint-Simeon, picking off just enough people in the audience to survive. But they understand the city, and how to live in it without being noticed. Their peace is shattered first with a visit from Beatrice, a witch who forms a strange connection to Arnault; then with the arrival of Victor de Rouvray and his sister Francoise, vampires from a very different world.

Angelina Everhart-Trueblood and her brother Evan run Everhart Investigations Inc., a PI firm in Chattanooga that solves paranormal crimes committed by supernatural beings. When their new client wants help finding her friend who supposedly disappeared during a reception at Angie's aunt Jane's winter residence, things get . . . complicated.The client is not who she appears to be, and demons strike the city for the first time since the Demon War.

Sharon and her daughter V's points of origin hold common threads - both Korean American teenagers, raised by single mothers and searching for identity in the California suburbs. But during a Finals week celebration, high schooler V, compelled by strange impulses, crawls into a hollow tree trunk. That night in a fever haze, she sees gleaming strands of illegible text hovering over her body - flowing between her and her mother, leading to a long-forgotten diary. With the aid of a luminous quill, a fountainhead of Sharon's memories spill onto the faded pages.

On the autumnal equinox of 1987, the countries of the world closed the gates on vast fenced-in nature preserves called Harbors, created to combat the escalating effects of climate change. 132,329 people died that day, but instead of going cold, they endured, becoming odd and fae before disappearing beyond the fences, never to be seen again. The same thing happens every year. And now Evangeline and Calidore are working as fencers: government-employed protectors of the Harbors with magical powers. Returning home after an equinox spent patrolling, they find their daughter Winnifred, not yet six, has died and grown fae, killing her babysitters and leaving strange symbols etched into the walls.

Every year the Winter Folk gather at a secret lodge in the Appalachians, a place known as Deerhaven. At 21, Moth was a college dropout, indebted, impoverished. Deerhaven's beautiful antlered host, the mild-mannered Mr. Oslin, offers her a housekeeper's contract - one wish granted for a winter of service. Decades later, Moth returns to Appalachia with her husband and teenage daughter. She can't shake the feeling that she needs to return to Deerhaven, which banished her twenty years ago.

Grief-stricken over the death of his wife Abigail, the elderly widower and recent retiree Jerry Campbell is desperate for a change of scenery. When his realtor suggests a new home in Fairview Acres, a retirement community in the Poconos, Jerry figures it will be a nice place to spend the rest of his days in solitude. Until he moves in. Weird neighbors. Nightly block parties. Strange noises across his rooftop at all hours. Then Katherine Dunnally appears on his doorstep with an ominous warning: "You need to leave. The worms...they dance at nightfall..."

King Maddox Kyronan's fire magic has earned him a ruthless reputation on the battlefield, but now his land is slowly burning. Ky's only chance to save his people is to enter a marriage alliance with the neighboring nation of Astranza, and hope that their royal family's power to manipulate the weather will help his kingdom flourish once more. He just needs to ensure no one finds out how this blaze began.

Someone is possibly coordinating attacks both physical and magical across the border between Valdemar and with Rethwellan, but the attacks are seemingly at random. Discovering what is truly going on will take as much spycraft as magic, and will need someone who will be welcome without question outside of Valdemar. So Herald-Mage Vanyel asks Healer Vixen for help: even prickly-tempered Healers are welcome everywhere. But can their friendship handle that much close contact?

Ellis Karsten spends nights working triage in the ER and days having the same conversation with her mom. The early onset dementia is exhausting, but the real challenge is their curse - Ellis's family must feed daily on blood, or risk becoming mindless, skinless killing machines. When Ellis's uncle, who supplies their blood, vanishes, she takes it upon herself to find a new source, aided by a prickly paramedic who's equal parts unpredictable and intoxicating. But something ancient and hungry is hunting them, and it has come for her mom.

The iconic characters of Westeros in artist Tyler Jacobson's twelve stunning calendar illustrations, plus an exclusive thirteenth bonus fold-out poster..

Edira Brillwyn is not enjoying retirement. She's traumatized and heartbroken by Orin and the battle at Fernglove Manor. Although her brothers are safe and financially secure at home in Willowfell, she fears wasting away her dwindling lifethreads. It's a welcome surprise when Seville comes knocking at her door - at least until she reveals that the blight has returned to the Ferngloves.

Trillionaire oligarchs jockey for control of space resources, while rogue AIs prowl the Internet. Meanwhile, a dangerous alien technology - the Fracture - has fallen into the hands of pirates. The balance of power, already precarious, has tumbled Cislunar space into an undeclared war. Now, in a race against time, the crew of the CV Defender must track the pirates to their lair before the Fracture destroys the entire Solar system.

Patrick, the last Alchemist, and Nina, the world's only known earth Charmer, have been captured by the Artisans. After finally reuniting with his father, a prisoner of the Artisans, the group lands a narrow escape only with the help of Nina's first love, Theo. Decoding an ancient prophecy, they set off in search of an infinite supply of idium that will determine the course of the war, should it prove more than a myth. Fleeing across Craftsman towns on the brink, they will encounter old friends - and enemies - in search of answers.

Concludes the four book arc begun in FROM THE FOREST. The Mirror Lancer Alyiakal has been ordered to Mirror Lancer Headquarters and promoted to Subcommander, ostensibly to advise the high command on tactics - except that Alyiakal's successful military campaigns have removed most external threats to the Empire of Light. The external threats to Cyador are nothing next to the internal threats of a weak emperor controlled by his manipulative empress, a ruthless Merchanter clan embezzling the Empire's finances, an indecisive high commander of the Mirror Lancers, and a power struggle among the Magi'i.

As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia Butler was a trailblazer. With her deft pen, she created stories speculating the devolution of the American empire, using it as an apt metaphor for the best and worst of humanity - our innovation and ingenuity, our naked greed and ambition, our propensity for violence and hierarchy.

When the heir to the British throne suddenly dies under mysterious circumstances, Checquy operative and reluctant aristocrat Alix is assigned to be lady-in-waiting/personal bodyguard to the new Crown Princess, and must navigate the halls of power and privilege while investigating the supernatural murder of the Prince of Wales.

After losing his job, Marcus begins stockpiling cans, running evacuation drills and digging a doomsday bunker in the back garden. His daughter Chantale is being haunted by dreams of disaster, and her sister Briar's obsession with a missing classmate draws her deeper into the seductive world of a UFO cult. Meanwhile, no one is aware of the diagnosis their mother has been trying to keep hidden. Then an extinction-level event tears the world apart, the Mintons must fight their way through a devastated city - back to safety, survival, and each other.

When a dying Savinian griffin shows up at a Tennessan fort, Harper and Felix are dispatched to retrieve the message she carries - a plea for help from Savinia's last griffin riders. A plea Tennessan can't afford to ignore. Harper and Felix are assigned to the team tasked with unraveling the mystery of Savinia's griffins. Their mission will take them deep behind enemy lines and into the dreaded Southern Smoke Mountains.

Wales, 1941. People all over the world begin to dream of King Arthur, and whispers arise of wonders and unexplained sights - dragons in the London Underground, and strange lights over Stonehenge. But Elaine Ambrose has never dreamed of Arthur. A librarian at the British Museum, she wants only to protect the museum's collection from the London Blitz, and is frustrated to be sent instead to catalogue a reclusive professor's private library on the coast of North Wales. But all is not as it seems.

[BC author]. 30 years after the end of the world, Kayla Hollins is a survivor. Living in the fragmented wasteland of the Canadian Pacific Northwest, she's outlived a colony, a cult, a paramilitary group, and most of her family. So when her younger sister April falls seriously ill, Kayla brings her to Salt Spring Island, rumoured to still have a functioning hospital. But Salt Spring's utopia comes at a price. Kayla must enter an arranged marriage with a local politician to gain access to medical care for April.

After an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. The house is gorgeous, striking - and to Emily, something about it feels deeply wrong. Old boards creak at night, fires go out, and books fall from the shelves, and all of it stems from the terrible presence she feels in the third-floor room.

Canadian author. Saeldian has gained powerful abilities by swearing never to fall in love. It is a deal that Saeldian is perfectly content with, preferring their no-strings-attached life as a con artist, pulling off heists and leaving a trail of broken hearts behind them. But now they must steal the gem called "The Kiss of Enduring Love" and return it to the Feywild. Simple enough, until Saeldian discovers their ex-partner, Kell - a charming bard - is part of the team.

The discovery of a manuscript from the renowned explorer Marco Polo leads billionaire Shan Zhang to an ancient city buried under the ice of Antarctica. Within that city lies the key to a forgotten technology that will transform modern society, but that transformation may cause the deaths of millions. Professional treasure hunter and adventurer Ethan Cain is working on the Mekong River in Vietnam when the massive waterway suddenly goes dry. It's a stunning ecological disaster. Ethan's quest for answers will lead him to Zhang.

Ismay Gebhardt accepts a last-chance job as a private tutor in sleepy Glenmaidens village. The town is brimming with natural beauty, uncanny traditions, and earnest locals, none more unusual than her three young pupils - the Underhill sisters - and their puzzling father. Ismay writes to the transport bureau suggesting an extension to the train line, hoping to bring Glenmaidens into modernity. Her good intentions lead to chaos with the arrival of the bureau's frustratingly thorough officer, Hamish Breck, whose railway plans threaten not only the glen's tranquility, but also the ancient oak tree at its heart.

Anna is used to hunger and hardship. Ever since the pale shadows on her skin were mistaken for leprosy, she has lived alone in exile, each day focused only on survival. Then a single act of kindness towards a beautiful stranger changes her life forever. Suddenly, neither time nor harm can touch her, and Anna strives to embrace a life with boundless potential, one that isn't only about survival. But as decades and centuries pass, she is continually forced to abandon each new life before it has the chance to feel like home.

Arlo and Drienne are 'mades' - clones of company executives, deemed important enough to be saved should their health fail. Mades work around the clock to pay off the debt incurred by their creation. But when the impossible happens and the too-big-to-fail company that owns them collapses, Arlo and Drienne find themselves purchased by a scientist who has a job for them. The reward is debt paid off, freedom from servitude, and enough cash to last a lifetime. The job is infiltrate a highly secure corporate reclamation facility in the heart of dead London and steal a data drive.

Two years after Ji-ji's miraculous flight on her own impossible wings, the Dream of Freedom has stalled. The Rising promised by Prophet Dreg has not occurred. Ji-ji's fellow seeds, living in bondage on plantings, had started to believe the legend of Flying Africans was more than just a myth enslaved people told themselves. Ji-ji, Afarra, and the men they love cross the Atlantic to learn if the Wingchildren were engineered by those who experimented on imported humans.

With Hitler's army rampaging across Europe, the witches of Britain have joined the war effort, and Lydia Polk is key to the cause. She must use her magic to track down magical relics before Hitler and his sycophants can. In the heart of occupied France she finds allies in Rebecca Gagne - a fierce French resistance fighter chockful of secrets - and Henry Boudreaux - a handsome Haitian-American art historian with a little magic of his own.

Breezy Do'Urden, daughter to Drizzt Do'Urden and Catti-brie, has dedicated herself to the study of combat, magic, and more recently, to the elusive Way of Shadow. But since her parents struggle to see her as more than just their little girl, Breezy takes on the most intense challenge she can - to fight her way to becoming a Master of Dragons at the renowned Monastery of the Yellow Rose.

Years after the climate wars on Earth, the Mulai have settled into their new home on an unnamed planet. Supplies stopped arriving from Earth many years ago, and the Mulai have found a way to live. But now the people of Earth want to know what happened to the settlers, so they send the Archaeologist. He finds that they have become a different people, uncannily similar to us but with something radically Other about them. Their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead, and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable.

Every decade, 13 mortals are chosen to compete in the Mortal Trials for the ultimate prize: immortality. But those who fail, die. For Lirah, survival is vital (to put it redundantly). When she is ripped from her bed in the middle of the night, she finds herself in the land, forced to participate in a series of challenges, with brooding instructor Kilian Valhan guiding her through the challenges.

Vakov Fukasawa is a Reaper. An elite soldier injected with a dangerous drug called stormtech: the DNA of a genocidal alien race, the Shenoi. It makes him stronger, faster, more aggressive. At a price. A price that, if the House of Suns cult and the dangerous Shenoi alien race behind it, isn't stopped, all of humanity will have to pay...

A loyal Seraphon is sent to the ruins of a derelict temple-ship to recover an ancient prophecy, but other forces are set on finding the same ruins for very different reasons. Will Irixi Starseer find what they're looking for, or will there be conflict with other armies of Order?

Fashion influencer by day and grave robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaels--a flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer icon--unexpectedly dies. All Poppy has to do is retrieve Eddie's body from the medical examiner's office, but what starts as a routine delivery quickly goes off course when Eddie wakes up. Now, Poppy must fight for her life in a blood-soaked night of carnage and fabulous entertainment all across Palm Springs.

Julia Flang accepts the job of chaperoning a man in a vegetative state - one with proprietary AI implanted in his head - from California to the East Coast. The middle-aged man wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which he's trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn't remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He can't remember. Using a cell phone modeled after a video game controller, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls "Bernie" from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America.

The Serenissima is built from mist and belief, a mythical shadow sister to Venice and crossroads of the nine worlds. When a laborer called Tiry has a dream that Serenissima will have a doge, and that they will marry the sea, he tells it to a fortune teller named Khadsha. She tells her apprentice, a gondolier called Taddeo, who tells a cop named Gom, who's heard it from five people this morning already. And by that point, it's already settled into the bones of the Serenissima, more than half-fated.

The insignificant Star Kingdom of Manticore has no Army, only a tiny Navy, and no merchant marine at all. Despite which, it has somehow acquired a very significant enemy. One which has engineered major attacks upon its territory. One which has worked long and hard to destabilize any alliances that might aid the Star Kingdom in its defense. And one which has struck from the shadows, weaving webs of secrecy and deception to conceal its identity, its resources, or even the reason behind its attacks.

Erebus - a timeless entity of pure darkness - has been released from its prison. Now it's headed for Earth. Petrova must rally her crew for one final mission. Somehow, they must find a way to unite the disparate factions of the solar system - the United Earth Government, the Lunar colonies, and the outer planets - and find a way to stop Erebus. The fate of humanity - and the galaxy - is in their hands.

Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and fresh corpses, these hives offer a few struggling humans salvation. Among his hive's followers, Crane has found a chance to transition, to never speak again, to live a life that won't destroy him. He even met Levi: a handsome ex-Marine and brutal killer who treats him like a real man, mostly. But then Levi gets Crane pregnant - and the hive demands the child's birth, no matter the cost.

Garrodigh was once a four-headed dragon, among the most powerful in Kardosa. Now, though, he has three heads, one stump, and a daily whirlwind of internal bickering. When a nearby battle goes awry, Garrodigh sneaks into an elite dragon rider academy, pretending to be tame to get free food and a warm bed. Lucky for him, rider Rania Albright is desperate enough for a dragon of her own that she overlooks his eccentricities. As Garrodigh recovers under Rania's care, all three heads start to turn, for the first time, in the same direction.

[Canadian author]. Long Wu Ying's studies at the Verdant Green Waters Sect, an exclusive school of cultivation, are at a turning point. It's time for him to choose what secondary occupation to pursue - alchemist or blacksmith, physician or martial specialist. Wu Ying struggles with the decision - what happens if he chooses wrong? But beyond the walls of Verdant Green Waters, the drums of war beat as the sect is pulled deeper into the battle for supremacy between states.

Isla Hansen, a mother reeling from a devastating loss, is beside herself when a mysterious orphan appears on the outskirts of the Hansens' secluded Colorado property. Although strange and unexplainable, the child's presence breathes new life into Isla. But as they settle in, Isla's husband, Luke, and their five children notice peculiarities that hint at something far beyond the ordinary - anomalies that challenge the very fabric of reality itself.

Jamie is basically your average New England academic-in-training. She has a strong queer relationship, an esoteric dissertation proposal, and inherited generational trauma. But she's also a powerful witch. Her mother Serena has been hiding from the world in an old one-room schoolhouse for several years, grieving the death of her wife and the simultaneous explosion in her professional life. So Jamie's busy digging into a 300 year old magical book, but she still finds time to teach Serena to cast spells and help her come out of her shell.

Yoruba-inspired fantasy. In the Kingdom of Oru, power lies in agbara: the ability to harness the sun. Only young L'ore has no agbara. A fact she must conceal from everyone - including best friend Alawani - on pain of death. When the gods declare Alawani a High Priest - the Gods' servant - he faces a terrible trial likely to kill him. Unwilling to lose her friend, L'ore vows to save him. But as she does, a forbidden shadow magic pours from her hands.

When Ysira's estranged son is chosen to become the vessel of a god-killing demon, she is faced with a choice. Allow him to harness cosmic power at an unspeakable cost, or doom millions to save him. She finds an unlikely ally in Brother Jacen Kheris, once a gifted exorcist, now a guilt-ridden addict, desperate for purpose.From a demon-haunted canyon to a starbound satellite, they must battle their way through cultists, aliens, and the gods themselves.

A meteor is on a collision course with Earth. The entire human race has 3 months to live. Uncontrollable panic has set in across the globe, but 23-year-old Haru is still determined to finally get her driver's license. When Haru and her ex-cop driving instructor Isagawa open their car trunk one day to find the corpse of a murder victim inside, they feel duty-bound to investigate. Together, they set off on a road trip through the crumbling landcape around them to hunt for the killer.

Once a dancer, now a disgraced princess on the run, Vasalie Moran is caught in the middle of a war between Miridran and Brisendale, her father on one throne and a cursed King Anton on the other.A witness to her father's horrific crimes, Vasalie is the only one who can undermine his rule, but finding allies powerful enough to stop his invasion of Miridran is proving difficult - and worse, King Anton is no longer himself.

In the capital, the people of Lordsgrave seethe with resentment after the horrors of the greyblood attack. Clan Adatali is in open rebellion against the king, and as war in the Feverlands rages on, a humble tree feller - who looks a lot like missing invoker Jinao Mizito - has not forgotten the promise he made to avenge his brother. Meanwhile, in the shadows, the king's daughter Lyela continues to move her pieces across the board. Can the people of the Nine Lands reclaim their stolen history and unlock the secrets that have been kept from them for centuries?

Jahanara Begum is on pilgrimage, a journey and rite every Muslim must complete if able. The uptimers of the USE Mission are escorting the Mughal princess in her travels to Jeddah before returning home, their mission accomplished and allies made of the court of Dara Shikoh, having helped to place him on the Peacock Throne. But the pilgrimage is only the public-facing reason for her departure from Agra. In reality, the begum sahib is also carrying her love child off to Jeddah in hopes of giving birth in secrecy.

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.

It's in LA's suffocating late summer heat that Anya receives an invitation to work for the de Witt family, one of LA's most influential film dynasties. Soon, she's spending her days and nights at their strange villa high in the Hollywood hills, where she meets Jude, a recluse who is both the family's heir apparent and its most closely guarded secret. But the villa holds generations of bloodstained history, and an occult family curse may even live within its walls - or within Jude himself.

Despite news of a massive earthquake, Mu-young boards the train to Haewon with her niece. But three years later, the village is home to horrors. The earthquake unleashed an ancient plague that transforms its victims into fishy monsters, and the government's lockdown has cut off any hope for help. Mu-young's niece is dead, and all that's left for her is to hunt villagers who break isolation. When an officious bureaucrat from Seoul arrives in the village, he stirs up even deeper trouble.

Under an eternal night, the world has been ravaged by ten years of war between humans and vampires. Kyrene scrapes by as a bounty hunter, bearing a blessed sword from the goddess of justice. But in the wake of a devastating loss, Kyrene commits a crime that makes her a target for mortals and gods alike - and she is still desperate for vengeance.Her only chance at survival - and revenge - is making a deal with her enemy, the silver-tongued vampire prince, Septimus, who offers her one final job: to slay the gods themselves.

Finn Erramun hides a perilous secret. One of the last witches in the kingdom, she was cast out from her village, leaving whispers of an unleashed otherworldly terror in her wake. Now a maid in the opulent court of the vampire King Mordric, Finn conceals her arcane powers. But when Mordric uncovers Finn's talents, he assigns his captivatingly arrogant younger brother to train her for a place in his council.

Arianwen has a private hunger: to stand on the shore and listen to the music of water she has only ever imagined. When a bone harp falls into her hands, its song draws her out of the forest she calls home and straight into danger. Dragons bleed in the sky. Lightning hunts the living. Wraiths wait in the wind to steal the language and life of anyone brave or foolish enough to speak in their hearing. Hers is a land riven by ancient plagues and now Ari must face them head on.

Canadian author. As Marca Nbaro begins scaling the DHC's political ladder, terrorism, espionage, and the distant Aliens War all threaten the Human Sphere. When Nbaro is almost killed, treason is revealed, and a single merchant ship stands between Humanity and extinction.

Amara is a human warrior working for the Angel Intelligence Agency. When her boyfriend Jeremy goes missing, she decides to venture into the shadows to bring him back. Even if it means death. Nathaniel is an archangel tasked with leading the destruction of humanity, for which he cares little. He doesn't have time to protect little humans running around in the dark, especially those who stab him in the stomach. But Nathaniel and Amara will soon realize they share a foe, one that lurks in the shadows and stalks them from the skies.

The Isle of Skye, 200 BCE. Daughter of the Underworld goddess Befionn, golden-haired Scathach is gifted with the Sight, able to glimpse all the possibilities of the future and pass between the world of men and the world of gods. Scathach dedicates her life to training the fiercest warriors from across the land in her fortress at Lethra. But then a newcomer arrives in Lethra and upends everything about Scathach's existence. He is Cuchulainn, the hero of Ulster, son of the Irish God Lugh.

The Au family serve the people of Hong Kong as demon hunters and exorcists: blessing shrines, honoring the dead and dealing with dangerous yiaoguai incursions. The expectations on eldest daughter Kiamling are high, which is not something her strict grandmother and mentor will let her forget. However, when British colonists interrupt a hungry ghost ritual, and her grandmother disappears, Kiamling must step up and lead the search.

After a top-secret government project matter-transports something something alive back, mankind's reign comes to an abrupt halt when a truck hauling a very special shipping container overturns and rolls off the highway. Several years later, an unidentified man emerges to seek other survivors. He travels by night up the rural East Coast, discovering Americana ruins and encountering monsters the likes of which no one has survived.

Six women created in a lab, designed to serve the billionaires of the future in a luxury fallout shelter, rebel against their programming after the end times arrive.

Now on the third floor, Carl and Donut have already proven that a Coast Guard vet and once-and-forever feline royalty are an almost unstoppable team. But the dungeon gets more dangerous each day, and now there's the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered women rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose.

All her life, Netta has only known the Tower - its musty shelves of books she cannot read, ink-splattered quills, and endless scrolls of paper. Her mother, ambitious and analytical, has spent decades perfecting her greatest masterpiece: a spellbook of unspeakable power. Netta's only companions are her long red Hair, which moves of its own accord, and a telepathic raven named Baldbeak. Her only amusement lies in crafting intricate embroidery from scraps of silk and thread. Then attackers storm the Tower and her mother and the spellbook vanish.

Along with the human Alder, the last of his kind, Lettle sets off on an arduous journey of discovery. But after a painful separation from King Rayan, she is struggling to find her way. Alder is determined to learn more about his origins. With no memories of his childhood, he retraces his steps to the cave where it all began. But what he finds there may shake him to the core.

In the overgrown ruins of a world almost empty of people, the only person Mouse has ever known is Cat, the brave girl who carried him inland, away from the sickness that came from the sea. When strangers arrive with a choice to be made, nothing will ever be the same. Almost two hundred years earlier, a couple are falling in love as the world is dying out. When they discover they are two of the few people still able to have a child, so do the authorities.

Kinsey has the perfect job as the team leader in a remote research outpost. But when her crew discovers a mysterious specimen buried deep in the sand, Kinsey breaks quarantine and brings it into the hab. But the longer it's inside, the more her carefully controlled life begins to unravel. One by one, Kinsey's team realizes the thing they're studying is in search of a new host - and one of them is the perfect candidate....

War beckons in the kingdom of Talin. On one side sits Calla Tuoleimi and Anton Makusa, and on the other, the recently dethroned August Shenzhi and Calla's own predecessor Sinoa Tuoleimi. Neither will rest until the opposition is buried. Calla assumed victory would be easy. She wears the divine crown after a violent coup, wielding the most powerful weapon in the kingdom. Then the provinces start to whisper of the old gods returning to earth, and suddenly the game board is flipped upside-down.

After the car accident that killed his girl Ellery, Sammy scrambles for distraction from his guilt and sorrow. He finds it in shock-value videos of gore and violence that terrified him as a child. When someone messages him a dark web link to footage of Ellery dying, he watches - first the car crash that killed her, then hundreds of other deaths, even for people still alive. Accidents. Diseases. Suicides. Murders.The host site, chinsky, is sadistic, vicious, impossible.

Colonel Shepard - Earth's first fully bionic augmentee - finally reaches Mars. His new command sits under the Eumenides Dorsum ridge on Amazonis Planitia, a city hewn into caverns where life is math and margin. Then a rival coalition's colony ship goes off course and slams into the canyons of Noctis Labyrinthus, far across the Tharsis highlands. To pull survivors out of the crash before Mars itself finishes them, Shepard must design a rescue that physics barely permits and politics would rather avoid.

Bait doesn't remember a time before the dungeon. Before the dragon stole her from her cot. She doesn't know what her name was before she was handed over to the monstrous denizens of the dungeon beneath the sorcerer's tower. Luckily for Bait, they decided not to eat her. And so she grew up in the dark - the goblins her adopted family, a vengeful minotaur her protector, a sentient skull her tutor, and a blob of corridor slime her main source of nutrition. But the labyrinthine dungeon, with its haunted halls, buried temples and forgotten magics, draws treasure hunters like moths to flame.

Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate has defeated armies and survived all manner of horrors, but traveling back to Zilvaren with Carrion Swift might just be the death of him. The male just will not shut up. Hidden dangers await them down the narrow alleyways of the Silver City. Unfolding secrets pose impossible threats. Fisher must wrangle the smuggler and accomplish his goals quickly if he wants to see his mate again.

On the battlefield, as warring factions deal out death, young Mercutio chances upon the charismatic poet Dante Alighieri. In their desperate stand against the enemy, they inadvertently open a crack between our world and Faerie, literally changing the stars over Mercutio's head. As outcasts and exiles, Mercutio and Dante find family in a band of fighters called the Montecchi, near Verona. With his friends at his side, Mercutio will battle to change his stars, and to free the changeling upon whose fate hangs the future of the human world.

25-year-old Raven Wynn knows that the ancient plant magic running through her veins brings nothing but destruction. Desperate to tame powers she never wanted, Raven makes a pact with her aunt Delilah: In exchange for learning to control her magic, Raven will capture one of the spirits that roam Delilah's hometown on May's Eve so that it may grant Delilah's secret wish.

Struggling painter Lewis Dixon is shocked when the British Museum shows an unusual interest in his art. But, as Lewis soon learns, he has not been invited to participate in a curated show, but it is rather a test to see if the fugue-like exhilaration he experiences when painting is actually magic, a power that allows him to enter nine very special paintings - paintings made by his great-grandfather. Spread across the globe, these paintings have unbelievable eldritch abilities...and not necessarily beneficial ones.

The Berisha family runs one of the largest import-export companies in the world, and they've always been lucky. Their rivals suffer strokes. Inconvenient buildings catch on fire. Earthquakes swallow up manufacturing plants, destroying harmful evidence. But when things stop going as planned, and the family blessing starts looking more like a curse, the Berishas begin to splinter, each hatching their own secret scheme. They didn't get to be one of the richest families in the world without spilling a little blood, but this time, it might be their own.

Halla has unexpectedly inherited the estate of a wealthy uncle, saddling her with money-hungry relatives full of devious plans for how to wrest away the inheritance. When she unsheathes an ancient sword that's been collecting dust on the wall, suddenly there appears Sarkis, an immortal warrior trapped in a prison of enchanted steel, sworn to protect whoever wields the sword. Soon Sarkis finds himself fending off not grand armies and deadly assassins but instead everything from kindly-seeming bandits to roving inquisitors to Halla's own in-laws.

Reya Connery became the Crimson Dagger, the most notorious thief in Rhiterra, by following a strict set of rules. One: There is no honor among thieves. Two: A good blade is key to any negotiation. Three: Only the dead keep secrets. And Reya has a secret that must be kept at all costs. But when a heist goes wrong on the eve of paying off her debt to a ruthless crime lord, Reya may need a new set of rules. And lots of coin. Fast. Enter Caelan Halcyon,an immortal warrior whose magic makes him a valuable target - if the curse inching closer to his heart doesn't kill him first.

Ester's family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing but her father's painful silence and a single, overwhelming need to kill the monsters that took her family. Ester's path leads her to the King's Royal Mews, where the giant rocs of legend are flown to hunt manticores by their brave and dedicated ruhkers. Paired with a fledgling roc named Zahra, Ester finds purpose and acclaim by devoting herself to a calling that demands absolute sacrifice and a creature that will never return her love.

Arden Icaros was never supposed to matter. From the poorest of five noble bloodlines, she prefers life on the family farm with dirt under her nails over the fine dresses at court. She just needs to get through one boring ceremony, inherit her earth magic, and return home. Instead, she's handed a dagger and with it, an impossible choice. Now Arden is branded an omen of war, half the nobility wants her dead, and assassins are tracking her every move. Her only chance of survival lies with the most feared man in Antares.

It's not in Blair's nature to just give up. Not when she's beamed up to a spaceship and then dropped on an alien planet. But absolutely nothing could have prepared her for finding out that she's to be arrogant King Osid's mate. Despite recent hiccups, the alien researchers are determined to get their breeding program back on track. With that in mind, Blair and Osid are bundled off to the research center for what they're told is couples counseling. As they face a series of increasingly dangerous challenges, it soon becomes clear the research aliens may have confused an episode of The Bachelor with Survivor.

1940s Hong Kong. When Japanese soldiers invade her hometown, Ha Yut Ying makes an unlikely escape - by turning invisible. But her miraculous survival is only the beginning. After the war is over, she's sent to Hong Kong to live with her distant father and glamorous stepmother, who end her dreams of becoming a singer and turn her into the family's servant.

Tech entrepreneur Inigo Frank has perfected commercial time travel, though it is tightly regulated and so expensive that it's open only to the very wealthiest. There's only one route so far, to Blitz London, 1941. Frank enlists filmmaker Phoebe Hunt to create a fly-on-the-wall documentary. On her first day shadowing Inigo, she is set to witness the return of a billionaire property developer and his family from their trip to the past. But instead of their awe-filled return, she captures the group arriving bloodied and traumatized, with one of their number missing.

When murder and sabotage imperil the time-sensitive and top-secret mission of a team of civilian scientists, Starfleet deploys Captain Christopher Pike and the Enterprise crew to Kathara Station, a classified research facility located above the accretion disk of a black hole.

Antal faces his first homecoming in five decades, dreading two truths. His father, from his seat on the governing council, could undo everything Antal has built. And their last argument ended with Antal's lover dead on the floor. But a greater danger lurks: the appearance of a creature that even the daeyari fear, burning its way through the Planes. With Antal's father leading the hunt, he and Fi must ally with a team of immortals who could turn fangs on them at any moment.

Evie has always tried to be helpful, loyal, and only mildly involved in treason. But with a dangerous prophecy threatening the very magic of Rennedawn--not to mention the race to claim its necessary artifacts before King Benedict does--things are starting to feel...less like a career path and more like a serious problem. The prophecy won't stop pointing in Evie's direction. The Villain's magic keeps choosing her. And honestly, if you're going to be accused of evil anyway, you might as well commit.

A collection of Wild Cards stories previously published on Reactor (formerly called Tor.com), together in one volume, including works from: Cherie Priest, Carrie Vaughn, Emma Newman, Bradley Denton and more.

A clergyman is murdered in his bed in the dead of night, triggering a chilling chain of events - brutal killings, corpses vanishing, decomposed bodies digging their way out of graves. These shocking events seem unconnected but, at each scene, people report witnessing swarms of flies - hundreds, thousands, even millions of them. DI Patel and DS Pardoe's hunt for the mastermind behind these atrocious crimes is troubled by the possiblity it isn't human.

When Lady Viviane leaves the lakes of the far North for the splendour of Camelot, she knows the destiny her father has planned for her. To capture the heart and hand of the young prince, Arthur. To bring her family richness and glory. But it is Arthur's sister Morgan who captures Viviane's eye.

In the near future the Neanderthal race has been recreated from fragments of DNA and reintroduced on a nature reserve where they are observed and studied, ultimately becoming the subjects of a hit documentary series. A cast of characters is followed across time, including Neanderthals, scientists, a teenager in a secluded mountain town, an actor on the series, and finally, the man behind the project.

On a bustling road in Sydney, Australia, lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. When single mother Anna is offered a job at the agency, she glimpses the possibility of happiness. Meanwhile, Teddy's a customer hoping to untangle his recently imploded marriage. And Jade, who has a deeply buried secret, despises the agency for offering false hope.

Sequel to BLOOD LIKE MINE. Rebecca Carter awoke on an El Paso morgue table with only two desires: to find her daughter, Moonflower; and to sate her gnawing hunger. She sets out on a desperate quest, fighting her murderous craving for blood, and pursued by a vengeful FBI agent. Meanwhile, Moonflower is lured through mountain scrub with the scent of human blood, promised by two brothers that they will feed her and keep her safe. She needs them - but can she trust them?

Novella. When a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know: making food - the tastiest hand-pulled noodles around - for the humans of San Francisco, who are recovering from a devastating war. But when their robot-run business starts causing a stir, a targeted wave of one-star reviews threatens to boil over into a crisis.

A collection of 12 more dark academia short stories from masters of the genre, including Olivie Blake, Genevieve Cogman, MK Lobb and more!

Oon's heroes and villains must rise from their ashes and meet a Third Great War. Peace won't come easy. Long-lost family will fight to reach Danso before war erases him forever. Lilong has survived the island catastrophe but lost her power, and will do anything to get it back. And fate will find Esheme where it left her--will the dead queen rise again?

Bataar Rhah, the gryphon king, has conquered the kingdom of Dumakra. Victorious, he turns his attention on Aglea in the north, where pagan berserkers rule over inhospitable, monster-infested marshes. Prince Nassar and his entourage have also fled to Aglea to rally his supporters against Bataar - spreading the terrible ghoulish plague they unearthed from the abandoned city of Anhabar wherever they go.

Two short novels in one book from Christoph Paul, singer and songwriter of rock band The Dionysus Effect and of goth band Doriana Gray. THE LAST HOUSE ON EARTH: an abducted couple find themselves under the thumb of nearly-omnipotent omniscient aliens, who use these humans to navigate a celestial haunted house said to hold the secrets of creation. Oh, and the house is trying to kill them. DEATH WALKS SOUTH BOSTON: A crew of outcasts, including a drug dealer and a struggling YouTube streamer, face an ancient ancestral evil, come back from the dead to take over the world of the living.

In April 1994, Zahara watched her twin sister, Annica, get hustled into a stranger's car and disappear--only to return to a world where no one remembers Annica ever existed. Now, in 1999, Zahara is determined to uncover the truth. She hires a private investigator and begins digging into her family's shadowed past. When the investigation leads to two charismatic men who once served with her father in Vietnam, Zahara realizes she and her sister may be pawns in a dangerous power struggle.

It's a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to another world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn't belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn. She's an [Innkeeper].

Glenn is a normal graduate student (aside from his kinks and genderfluidity), living a normal life with his normal girlfriend, Vivy (a spy for an interdimensional agency with her own kinks). When Vivy is called away on a scouting trip to stop a rogue comet, Glenn finds himself navigating the multiverse with only a snarky starship as his guide. Glenn and Vivy are far apart, Glenn battling an evil cult leader, and Vivy trying to recover a stolen jewel with a serious attitude, a jewel that can devastate entire universes.

After spending eight centuries witnessing the world's cruelty, Anna has finally found peace in the simple life she's made for herself with Khiran, the shapeshifting god who gifted her with immortality. It is, she knows, too good to last. When her existence - and her stolen immortality - is discovered, Anna and Khiran must abandon the home they have built together if they hope to escape the wrath of the all-powerful god they call The First.

All three novellas in one volume. If government official Rian White can't tell truth from lie when it comes to her excuses, well, that's his problem. And Ada has absolutely no issue whatsoever being his problem - in fact, when Rian's in the picture, she's determined to do the wrong thing. Whether looting an "off limits" shipwreck, stealing something from a high-security museum at an intergalactic gala, or pulling off the heist of the millennia at a trillionaire's home base, Ada always has a plan.Even when Rian corners her.

When Lynn Raven set out to win the championship for groundbreaking augmented reality game TransDimensional Hunter, the worst she thought she'd face was sunburn, mosquito bites, and annoying spectators. The more she plays, though, the higher the stakes become - and the stranger the obstacles she has to face. From dodging fans-turned-stalkers to managing inter-team sabotage to surviving the increasingly bizarre antics of a game algorithm that seems to have it in for her, Lynn isn't sure how much more she can take.

Set between Episodes VIII and IX, Rey and Leia embark on a quest to repair Rey's lightsaber and rekindle the legacy of the Jedi. A long-forgotten Jedi temple on Tython might hold the key to repairing Rey's saber, but turns out to be filled with obscure clues to be deciphered and arcane trials to be completed.

The Consu, the most advanced intelligent species humans have ever met, are on the cusp of a species-defining civil war. This war is between Consu factions... but nothing the Consu ever do is just about them. Gretchen Trujillo is a mid-level diplomat, working in an unimportant part of the Colonial Union bureaucracy. But when she is called to take part in a secret mission involving representatives from every powerful faction in space, what she finds there has the chance to redefine the destinies of humans and aliens alike... or destroy them forever.

A magical witness protection program, a town in need of saving, and a sorceress-in-training...oh, and the human woman she's not supposed to fall for. The Blue Moon Cafe has a little bit of everything (except, you know, decent coffee).

Sick of living in a Jenga-esque megacity, Cyprin dreams of a job in the Divine Gardens, tending to the plants overseen by God. When Cyprin plays dirty (criminally dirty) and wins an annual flower pageant, she jumps headfirst into life in the gardens and her rivalry with the woman who is head gardener. Pranks, backstabbing, and a lot of heated glaring unite them, until they're both drawn into a plot to take down God - who's really just some guy with a great garden.

In spite of securing victory for the kingdom of Anlai, Meilin is imprisoned upon her return. But beyond the imperial walls, the legend of the woman warrior has taken on a life of its own. Both a new rebel leader and a former enemy prince want her help. And Liu Sky, Meilin's commander and first love, requires Meilin by his side in his bid for the throne.

[Canadian author] LitRPG. Reid, a seemingly average high school senior, is bored of his meaningless life. That is, until he and his friends learn about a new mobile game, Hollow Twilight, and decide to give it a shot. But what starts as a strangely immersive dark fantasy RPG turns out to be far more as the teens realize they've literally crossed over into the game world and must now fight the shadowy monsters hunting them with no clear understanding of how to survive. But in Hollow Twilight, to die doesn't just mean an inconvenient respawn...

They call themselves my found family, but they slaughtered my kin. Now, I will pay back the murderers in blood tenfold. Their ruin is a mirror they polished themselves. They took me as a child and hammered me into a weapon. They taught me the art of disappearing: how to slip through a room like a shadow at noon, how to dress a face in lies until no one recognizes the man beneath.

Mara has no memory of life before her assassin training behind the fortress-like walls of Tchu-Morrokhai, which has been her world since she was five. In the faraway city of Velingard, Livya is the privileged daughter of the revered scientist whose invention of an indestructible new metal was the catalyst for a great revolution. When an invite to a secret salon leads to a kidnapping attempt, Livya is suddenly on the run - with the unlikely aid of charming con man Kaian, a once dear childhood friend inexplicably turned frosty stranger.

Katherine Fuller's husband is dead. As an esteemed member of Pater Aeternus--governing party of the fascist, galaxy-spanning Decurion Empire--he has left behind an estate of immeasurable wealth. And Katherine is going to inherit it. She is presented with the rare and dangerous opportunity to purchase a virgin world, and create a better, fairer society. But the Empire cannot allow its wayward daughter to succeed.

What connects a dead dinosaur with Romulus the founder of Rome, a shocking cover-up at TPHQ and a plot to murder the Princes in the Tower? The Time Police are determined to find out, helped - and occasionally hindered - by a wayward member of St Mary's and a recently reunited Team 236. Each in their own unique way, obviously. As if all that wasn't enough - something somewhere in the Timeline is wrong.

A family gathering in an English mansion devolves into horror in a chilling novella.

13 illustrations for THE HOBBIT, from Alan Lee, Ted Nasmith, Pauline Baynes and a sketch by Maurice Sendak.

Eira Eckhart has spent years building a quiet life in a small town at the edge of a recently overthrown kingdom. Her memory is fractured, her past a blur - but with her shop, her loyal rabbit familiar, and practicing only the potions magic still legal under the watchful eye of the Iron Empire, she's managed to remain unnoticed by the empire's witch hunters. Until Hugo Venton walks through her door.

The boy with a rare gift for magic was born in Solamnia, a nation that despised and distrusted mages. His father tried to beat the magic out of him. Yet he persisted with his magic, for the sake of the magic. One friend stood by him when others persecuted him, a young man who was studying for the knighthood. The knight was Huma. The boy took the name, Magius. The two would one day become famous in Solamnic history, fighting together to defeat the Queen of Darkness.

The Maynes are no ordinary family: they are one of the oldest and most influential fiendish families, half-human, half-demon, and possessed of a dark magic born from buying human souls. But when Mourning Mayne's estranged father, the formidable and terrifying Hadrian Mayne, demands that Mourning return to the fold, he has to decide whether to accept his legacy and embrace his role in the family or to forge his own destiny, and with it, change the course of the world.

200 years ago, the warmongering Inver clan conquered the nation of Honoria, suppressing its pacifist goddesses, and ushering in an era of blood and battles. Amid a treacherous landscape of enemies, allies, and intrigue, three lives will intertwine. Each will have to risk the wrath of gods and kings alike to alter the course of nations.

When Claire's fiance Elias mysteriously dies of an unknown neurological illness, his incredibly wealthy family, from whom he was estranged - invites Claire to a three-day wake at Harrow Point, their family home on a private island. Claire is given the chance to find family again, but as she dives deeper into the world of Harrow Point, she will uncover the nature of her own traumatic connection to the ocean. There is something swimming in the bowels of Harrow Point, and it is hungry...

Eager to find the answers she can't locate in the shelves of the library, Andy visits Jae in the underworld. Only, it is empty of the Gods that once ruled it and inexplicable clues - sent by the mysterious Order - start to appear warning them of dark days ahead. Together they must travel to the eerie streets of Edinburgh and enrol in Eidolon University where they will investigate the Order and unlock its secrets.

When her mother becomes gravely ill, Alma agrees to sacrifice her left arm and bind herself to the dread deity known as the Beast. But her mother dies anyway. Now vengeance is the only thing that keeps Alma going. That, and the strange connection she has with her god - a monster who is constantly by her side, an eldritch being taking the form of a beautiful prince with starlit hair that only she can see. He tells Alma that she has been chosen to bring change upon their world...

Westfield University, an elite academic institution hidden in Virginia's swampland, was supposed to be Sianna Adu's dream school. But in one day, Sianna loses her family and gains an extraordinary power - the ability to see lifelines and witness other people's pasts and futures. She puts college dreams on pause and spends her days navigating dead-end jobs and a not-so-secret crush on her coworker. But when Kasem Saint James, the undeniably handsome heir to Westfield, approaches her with a strange request, the future Sianna has long deferred becomes a dangerous new reality.

Burned out, heartbroken and recovering from an abusive relationship, Josie lives a haunted existence after returning to her isolated hometown on the edge of the Forest of Dean. After she stumbles across a dead woman's decaying, ant-infested body in the woods, she is forced to face uncomfortable truths about the victim and her own past - all whilst battling the swarming black ants that seem to have burrowed into her mind - and her flesh.

Cordelia and Bishop must seek alliances with other packs and confront their Alphas in order to restore their beloved Trevelyan, no matter the cost.

Scout is an Archivist who scours the dead worlds of the cosmos for their last gifts of interesting technology, cultural rituals - anything left behind that might be useful to the Home Worlds and their survival. During an excavation on a lifeless planet, Scout unearths something unbelievable, a surviving message from an alien who witnessed the world-ending entity thousands of years ago. Now Scout, their brother and their sometimes fearless, space-faring cat, Pumpkin, must race to save what matters most.

The Meridian Empire is bent on reclaiming the wealthy colonies and crushing the pirate republic. Ship after ship is captured, except for the one captained by the legendary Valerian Kane. He is the only man Cat Rose has ever loved. Desperate for victory, the Empire gives Cat the choice: bring them Valerian or hang. But Cat Rose is nothing if not a survivor. A storm is rising on the Lyrian Sea. What will it leave in its wake?

A newly published work from the deceased author of THE COMPANY novels.

Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living, terrifying the dead. Alex and her allies can hunt them, but it's only a matter of time before the gates to the underworld open and they face a war they cannot win. To stop it, they'll have to reach deep into the secrets of Yale and its societies, and discover the truth hidden in Alex's own blood.

The 5-timeline story of Scratch Moss Hall, and what lies below it. There is coal, but something else lurks below, something dark and evil. And the town is complicit.

The Silverscale Grand Prix is the national championship of dragon racing. Asta and her dragon Carmine are unlikely competitors - no sponsors, no high-tech gear, no fans out in the stands. Not to mention that a female rider hasn't won the Prix for nearly 60 years. But Asta is determined to prove everyone wrong: the training school that kicked her out for fighting a classmate, her family who wished she'd never left the farm, and, most of all, her infuriatingly arrogant childhood-best-friend-turned-rival Felix, the poster-boy heir to the Seraphin racing dynasty and reigning tournament champion.

[Canadian author]. Rumours of witchcraft follow Princess Tahmineh like a storm cloud, making it impossible for her to secure herself a marriage or any kind of future. Tahmineh seeks out a prophecy, from which she learns she will fall in love with a warrior of great renown named Rostam and bear him a son. Though she is warned this match is a dangerous one for her, she acts so that fate unfolds as foretold. At the peak of her joy, Tahmineh gives birth to Sohrab, Rostam's son. Then Tahmineh learns the tragic second part of the prophecy. Father and son will meet as enemies in battle and one will die at the hand of the other.

There had always been something wrong with Charlie Hall. Crooked from the day she was born. Never met a bad decision she wasn't willing to double down on. She may be good enough to steal a shadow from a tower, but will she be good enough to steal back a heart?

When Max's mum dies suddenly, she leaves her daughter Lamplight Books and makes one last wish that Max would spend a year working in the bookshop before she sells it. Max has no desire to uproot her busy life in the city to return to a place that always made her feel inadequate, but she can't ignore her mum's last request. So she decides on a trial run of two weeks - if she can't even last that long, then a year would be impossible...

Singapore, 1906. Letty Ingram is a wealthy, half-Malay recluse who emerges from her home only for walks with her great beast of a hound. She is a woman trying to lift a curse that causes her to lose consciousness and wake up in strange places - sometimes, with blood on her hands - and no memory of what occurred. Miss Cassidy begins to realize that if she's going to free Letty from her curse, she's going to have to take on an ancient foe, the terrifying jungle spirit known as the Bungadarah.

When a man's body is discovered in a park, Detective Noh Jin-seon is called to the scene, but she soon discovers this case is unlike anything she's seen before. The man, who had been accused of stalking and harassing his ex-girlfriend, was killed with startling force, set on fire, and drained of blood. There are no footprints, no murder weapon, and no leads. Weeks later, another man is discovered murdered in the same way.

Medra Pendragon is a half-fae in a school of highblood vampires. She is the last of the dragon riders. Unfortunately, there are no dragons left, none. But the vampires have captured her anyway and now she's stuck at Bloodwing Academy, where the highbloods run everything and blightborns are just blood in their veins, pawns in their games. Worst of all is the cold, arrogant, and way too gorgeous Blake Drakharrow.

The fates of eight characters in the nineteenth-century Balkans intertwine in this metafictional book of strange quests and nested narratives for fans of Calvino and Borges. A woman who reads the future in the faces of her lovers, a dice-player whose unfailing luck becomes a curse, a manuscript illuminator who leaves his monastery to become a most fearsome bandit.

Linked short stories, two new and three previously published, wherein the deadly werewolf Asil is gifted five blind dates by some anonymous "friends". Asil has been connected with five people from online dating sites. The whole pack has been informed and a betting pool instigated.

Abronja, eldest son of Galaphile Joss and Nirianne is sixteen and longs for a way to prove himself. But when the excitement he has been longing for materializes, it is in the form of an old evil: a dark sorcerer whom his father had defeated but not destroyed. And who is now back, stronger and deadlier than ever. Abronja was conceived while the dark sorcerer had control of Nirianne, and Galaphile has always feared that a spark of malevolence lives on in his beloved child.

4 iconic Hammer Horror films eerily novelized by a legendary author. Includes The Curse of Frankenstein, The Gorgon, The Revenge of Frankenstein and The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb.

Desperate to repair his fraying friendships, novice Auditor Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby doesn't ask too many questions when a mysterious patron offers him the chance to join a heist of an otherworldly vault - and in the process find answers that could make things right. Complications arise when Grimsby learns that his partner, Mayflower, is keeping secrets about his past.

Alanna is a colonist fleeing a plague-scarred Earth. But the planet she lands on is inhabited by the alien Kohn, whose battling tribes soon trap Alanna in their war. She must make alliances--while plotting betrayals. She must protect her heart--while putting it at risk. And she must decide if the best way to retain her humanity ... is to leave it behind. Also contains "A Necessary Being," the only short fiction set in the Patternist universe, to finally, fully bring together and complete the Patternist series for readers everywhere.

Sir Bram Duncan was once a knight of legend in Harvest Hollow - until the whim of a jealous prince and the trickery of an autumn sprite turned him into the hulking orc Jask Bone-Cracker, and tethered him to Grimroot Farm. Now, his true love, Princess Marigold, appears at his pumpkin farm, fleeing an arranged marriage to the vain and intolerable Prince Crispin. Here, she begins to feel a familiar longing she believed dead when her Bram disappeared.

On her first day working in the prince's galleries, art conservator Florrie Hyverfell discovers that the most famous portrait in the collection is not only a fake - it's also inhabited by Vern, a fairy trapped in the forged painting. Tracking down the stolen original is the only way for Florrie to save her job and for Vern to escape his canvas. Yet as they journey to a famed fairy museum to find the missing artwork, Florrie finds herself taking more than an art historical interest in the changeling painting's charming inhabitant.

Ryker, a Worthy fae sworn to protect his Nation, has been driven to the edge of madness since Kya left this world. He won't let his mate escape her shadow, but enemies are determined to keep Ryker and Kya apart as war brews, and Ryker may be forced to choose between his mate and the realm he has vowed to defend.

1989. Robby Asaro is making FunCave Arcade's pizzas when his sleeve is caught on the pizza oven conveyor belt and he dies a brutal death - and becomes a ghost watching over the gamers of the arcade. 2014. The retro video arcade is still attracting teens - to both the new games on the main floor and the old classics on the second. Robby cares about the regulars, especially Tiffany Park. When Robby tries to protect Tiffany from a bully, his first kill has unintended consequences as he absorbs his victim's hate and rage. He can't help what he does next as more bodies pile up and the patrons of the arcade are trapped inside.

Van Tudor dismissed the stories his grandfather told him, until the day he inherited the family farm and discovered the real truth. The old man really was a legendary starship pilot and every adventure really did happen. Now Van finds the starship hidden beneath the old barn. With the help of an android bird named Perry, who doubles as combat AI, Van takes his first steps into the wider galaxy and sets out for the stars.

Months after entering a portal, becoming a powerful mage, and saving a distant realm, disgruntled Asian American high schooler Andy Lao returns home to find that absolutely no one believes what happened to him. One day, at the portal's location, Andy sees a glowing bit of mana on the ground. And with that, magic is possible again. But when a mysterious, surly teen girl comes through the portal, she claims to be the Chosen One - and that Andy's the one who doomed the realm.

19 original horror stories exploring ancient sites, uncovering forgotten histories and prising open the tombs of the past. Featuring stories from: Due, Golden, Malerman, Lebbon, LaRocca, Shine, Maberry, Knutsdottir, Jiang, Slatter, Chadbourn, Sharma, Percy, Castro, and Amor.

A chilling horror anthology of 19 original short stories from a world-class line-up of the masters of horror, delving into the histories and traditions of the spookiest season of the year. Presented by Hugo Award winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow, and featuring stories by Josh Malerman, Stephen Graham Jones, Garth Nix, Christopher Golden, Michael Marshall Smith and many more.

When Roman soldiers attack her home in Gaul and slaughter her mother, Druid Locusta is captured and enslaved, taken to the heart of the empire where political plots abound and death commands a high price. Guided by Arawn, the god of death, she must learn to survive within the brutal, glittering world of ancient Rome. Her strange talents soon catch the attention of the Roman elite, and she becomes ensnared in a double life - poisoner by night for the cunning Antonia Augusta, and lady-in-waiting by day to Livia, the Emperor's ambitious cousin.

Non-fiction. Enshittification: It's not just you - the internet sucks now. It's been enshittified. That was no accident, and it's not gonna fix itself. Here's how we'll disenshittify it so we can have a new, good internet.

It's a day like any other when Scott Treder first jumps forward through time. One moment, he's on his way to work, fingers drumming the steering wheel. The next, he's tumbling headlong down the road, his car gone, a dozen panicked voicemails from his wife waiting on his cell. From this point on, at precisely 7:52am every morning, Scott inexplicably travels forward in time in ever-doubling intervals. Meanwhile, his wife is left alone to pick up the pieces of the life they once shared together, and, before long, Lyle, Scott's genius seven-year-old son, will surpass him in age.

When the royal party finds themselves in a land they never believed they could access, it will take all of Prince Gevulin's (admittedly impressive) diplomatic skills to forge a coalition with an unlikely group of would-be allies. Meanwhile, as Erin mourns her lost love, an unwelcome visit to the land of her birth brings back the traumatic memories of the childhood she shared with her sister. And a surprise visit from an unwelcome family member threatens to derail the plans of multiple opposing factions.

Old foes and new are plotting a terrible revenge: to disrupt the narrative and make the last Thursday Next novel, Dark Reading Matter, not just unreadable but unpublishable. The Martians have broken out of their H. G. Wells novel and threaten both the real world and the BookWorld. Agents from a higher reality want unfettered access to the Dark Reading Matter, the realm where deleted books and unrealized literary ideas end up. A Gateway to Hell has opened up at Wantage's Shakesmania, the nation's second-worst Shakespeare theme park, and the cozy world of Enid Blyton has been hijacked by ultra-right-wing nationalists.

When two nobles are found murdered in a manner most grotesque, suspicions arise about a traitor within the Order of Draken itself. Absolon Creed is tasked with investigating, and for his sins he is saddled with a partner: Guenivar Blackmere, a daughter of nobility and the Order's newest, and most untested, initiate. Together, they are plunged into the crumbling city's fetid underbelly, where warlocks rub elbows with corrupt nobles and necromancers cavort with the dead. Guenivar must learn fast or perish under Creed's cold tutelage.

Galornus Prime was the Scourge of Nations, Ender of Hope, and Master of the Cardinal Sins. He had done everything worth doing. Some of it more than once. His retirement plan was simple: get a goat, farm quietly, and avoid accidentally conquering anything. The plan didn't include soul-crushing town halls, after-school combat lessons with children, and a war with perhaps his most worthy nemesis yet: the rose-growing, 73 year old widow next door.

Sequel to THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH. Aisling Cathedral is in ruins. Rodrick Myndacious, Bartholomew, and Maude Bauer are rumoured to be dead - and the king has taken Sybil Delling as his bride.To show off their union and solidify his power over Traum, Benji proposes a series of tournaments throughout the hamlets. Captive and drugged, Sybil remains determined to vanquish him as she once did the Omens, even if she destroys the kingdom's faith - and herself - in the process.

Aurelie Chantelune was raised as a knight in a kingdom ravaged by demons and spent her life honing her blade, driven by the memory of the monsters who tore her family apart. If Aurelie can claim her first kill, she'll inherit a legacy passed down through the Chantelune bloodline: a soulbond with Yuriel, an angel whose power is vital to her kingdom's survival. But when those she loves begin turning into the very monsters she's sworn to destroy, Aurelie is forced to seek help from the last place she ever imagined.

Ezra Bright has returned to London after serving in World War I and falls into a dazzling new world of socialites known for their elaborate costume parties and sprawling scavenger hunts. Celia, a disgraced heiress, warns Ezra that these parties are only a glittering facade for a secret society of magicians. The Order has its eye on a magical relic buried in Egypt. And Celia believes that Ezra alone possesses the magic needed to recover it.

Smoothie shop owner and perpetual student Zoey has always had a thing for brains. So when she meets the brilliant yet quirky mushroom farmer Nick at a farmer's market, she's smitten -- especially when his rare local truffles turn her smoothies into a viral sensation. But when customers start showing odd side effects -- like shuffling and green skin -- Zoey brushes it off, until a unfortunate biting incident leaves her craving brains in a whole new way. Can Nick and Zoey team up to find an antidote before everything falls apart...literally?

Now, after twenty years, Daphne, Ronan, Leonie and Finn will finally have to face the consequences of cutting their last adventure short - having accidentally opened a rift into a dangerous alternate dimension while playing a mysterious RPG version of their childhood game. Daphne never took her final turn... And there is a debt that must be paid.

Jessamine's throne has been stolen. And the man who once murdered her has succeeded in doing the unthinkable: binding himself to a god. To reclaim her crown, Jessamine must defy ancient powers and betrayals alike - and face the enemy who once slit her throat. But now, she isn't the innocent bride who fell to her death. She is the Gravesinger.

For 500 years, immortal timekeeper Ryka has run a cozy magical fair on the edges of time, managing the time threads and protecting the spirits that live there. She lives happily among a found family of quirky ghosts, a spectral cat, and even her insufferable boss, the annoying (and sexy) time-god Everest.But when the carousel at the heart of the fair begins to show signs of time rot, a live human falls through time and ends up landing at their feet.

The wolf Blacktail is faithful to his Forest God, but in these times, faith is not enough. But when his mate, a house dog, is killed, Blacktail rebels. He invades the house of her owners, seeking vengeance. Blacktail's fury catches the notice of an ancient and terrible feline witch, who makes an offer. What if Blacktail could end the human race responsible for the death of his family and for the destruction of the natural world, altogether? To do so, Blacktail must find and wake the Forest God.

Francoise de Montesquiou d'Artagnan is a minor nobleman's daughter who travels to Paris and becomes embroiled in a war between shapeshifters and vampires.

There is something haunting Nuhad's childhood home in Haifa. Cats avoid its perimeter, strange noises come from within, and residents have mysteriously vanished without a trace. Nuhad did not return to her home after the 1948 Nakba, but when she passed away, her granddaughter, Marina, is determined to visit her grandmother's home after a lifetime of being kept in the dark about her culture and family history. But the house is no longer a home. It is a painful, festering wound that infects everything it touches.

Arthur Oakes, a student at Maine's Rackham College, is trapped by a local drug dealer into one of the worst crimes he can imagine: stealing rare books from the college library. He turns to his closest friends and together they plan to use the unnerving Crane journal (bound in the skin of its author) to summon a dragon to do their bidding. But their pact to save Arthur becomes a terrifying bargain in which the six must choose a new sacrifice for King Sorrow every year - or become his next meal.

Three former Chosen Ones have joined together to spend their retirement running a bookstore in Salem, MA. But then some of the locals start summoning ancient creatures best left where they were - and the retirees discover that of all the rotten luck the store basement just may be the portal to the underworld. If they want to finish their retirement in peace, they'll have to join together to save the world one last time.

By the 1950s, Cambridge, Massachusetts feels far removed from the legendary witch trials that marked its early days as a colony. Ava, a bright young woman from a small town in Maine, arrives for her first year at Radcliffe College. There, she meets Lauren, her opposite in every way - the wild and brazen daughter of a wealthy and well-established Cambridge family. Both are recruited by the Lilith Society, a secret organization of witches at Radcliffe dating back to colonial times.

An chilling anthology of 10 classic weird and supernatural tales from the dark heart of American literature.

Asmodeus, a millennia-old demon, inhabited Rudy, a once-legendary Dominican rock star, for decades until, in 1992, the demon's powers begin to fade. Now, in one weeklong odyssey, Asmodeus ricochets through the bodies of the inhabitants of Santo Domingo's underworld: from Guinea, a young metalhead plotting a warehouse heist, to Mireya, the daughter of a former torturer, to other souls caught in his chaotic orbit.

Cyberpunk thriller. My job, when you think about it, isn't so different from a lot of people's. The more old-fashioned crowd do still get hung up on the "killing people" part of it, I guess, but that's a them problem. It's been perfectly legal to take out lifers for ages. Besides, once ultrawealthy morons realized they had a way to live forever - limited resources be damned - there was only ever going to be one genuinely practical deterrent.

[Canadian author]. On Piao, the floating empire of lotuses, Xilian discovers the royal advisors' ploy to overthrow her brother, Yun, the emperor, in the same way they had murdered their parents, by creating a deadly flood that will make Yun's death seem as though an accident. She flees to the drowning continent of Opera, a place of high tech and near environmental collapse where companies vie to sell a chance at immortality. There Xilian seeks out her exiled brother Lang to help in her efforts to disrupt the advisors' plans and remove them from court.

[Canadian author]. Dominic was born in Aplin Shade, a remote Canadian town built on the bones of another that vanished without a trace. Bookish and quiet, he never asked to lead his family, but after a carriage crash kills his father and leaves his sister forever changed, he has no choice. The only person who truly sees him is Lex, a logger in the camp near town and the love Dominic must keep secret. But, as winter descends, the Fanteur, shadowy blood-drinkers that dwell in the forst, strike against the logging camp.

Tilde has always heard the whispers of the kithwood, the voices of her ancestors speaking through the mysterious forest of her homeland. But now both the kithwood and her kingdom are in danger, for Tilde is the only surviving heir of a conquered land. To stop the bloodshed, she must marry the aging Swan King, Liran, and bear him a son. But the king's court is dangerous. Liran's older sons will do whatever it takes to remove Tilde.

After failing to make her mark as an influencer, Dorothy takes a job working for a brilliant coder whose company is focused on cutting-edge deepfake technology. And there, in secret, is where she creates her salvation. Isabella. An impossibly gorgeous girl who takes social media by storm. Dorothy's artistry is brilliant, and Isabella seems so real that she garners millions of followers. But when someone gets a little too close to the truth, a violent confrontation sends Dorothy on the run, forcing her to confront what she's willing to sacrifice to keep her secrets.

Learned Edmund, a disillusioned scholar, is transporting yet another precious relic from one stuffy temple to a different stuffy temple when set upon by bandits. In desperation, he breaks the cardinal rule and grabs for the relic, an ancient sword. To his surprise, instead of unsheathing a rusty, ancient weapon, an alarmingly handsome man named Dervish appears, wielding daggers of blue steel and cutting the thieves down.

College freshman Lily Chen is off to spend the summer in Taipei at an intensive language program like so many Chinese American students before her, hoping to connect with the culture she inherited but never fully understood. But a promising start quickly unravels. Then the shocking news of her grandfather's death arrives, forcing her to grapple with now-unanswerable questions about her family history.

In memory of Andre Norton. The elves fled because something stronger was hunting them. On the elves' original homeworld, the last great cities stand behind failing shields while monstrous Predators batter at the walls. Lord Haldeen Gatekeeper knows the truth his rulers refuse to face: the creatures are not mindless beasts. They are learning, adapting, and closing in.

Singapore, 1972. Here, gangsters in Chinese secret societies are the last conduits of their ancestors' migrant gods, and the back alleys where they fight are the last place magic has not been assimilated and legislated away. Loner schoolgirl Adeline Siow has never needed more company than the flame she can summon at her fingertips. But when her mother dies in a house fire with a butterfly seared onto her skin, Adeline hunts down a girl she saw in a back-alley barfight - a girl with a butterfly tattoo.

A new collection of thirteen stories from Ken Liu.

When Ellastaria Strange joins a ragtag crew of con artists and serpent-oil salesmen, she's just trying to escape the slow death of poverty, not sell fake cure-alls in dinky rural villages. Yet Ella harbours a dangerous secret. Unlike her crooked co-workers, she's the real thing; an apothecary with supernatural abilities, hiding from a world fearful of such powers, covertly helping people when she can. Ella's life of deceit takes a terrifying turn when her team swindles the wrong town and Ella accidentally reveals her true nature to fanatics with no tolerance for the supernatural.

In a far-off future ruled by the Qin Empire, every citizen is fitted with an intracranial device capable of recording and transmitting memories between minds. After the death of his mother, an unnamed narrator inherits a collection of banned memories from her Mindbank. Determined to release his mother's memories before they are destroyed forever,the narrator will risk everything - even if the cost is his own life.

A collection of 25 stories of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage. Featuring authors such as Due, Golden, McGuire, Sigler and Alten.

Los Angeles, 2031, the first spring after the collapse of the United States. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift. A bewildered twin, an uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party's host, vanishes into thin air.

At the Academie of the Grand Duchy of Sieuxerr, every mage with the healer's gift has five years to master their power and to prepare for the infamous Grand Exam - a five-day trial whose results will determine their entire future. But, on the first day, an exam group will find a classmate's dead body in the exam hall. And as they will soon discover, this particular group all have something to hide... and all have a connection with the dead girl, a brilliant scholar who would have been first in their class.

Lilith Legare's life is unraveling. Since her mother's death, strange things have been happening - plants turn toward her touch, animals linger in her path, and the birthmark on her arm has started tingling. Worse still is her recurring nightmare of being burned alive at the stake. Her search for answers brings her from Savannah to England, to the decaying Brackenmere Manor where the past blurs with the present.

A sword. A dragon. A lowlife. Ortiz is a man without grand ambition or talent. He survives by being mildly useful and eminently disposable, destined to end up in a shallow grave. But on the day he's digging that grave, he discovers a magic sword. Not just any magic sword, but the magic sword: a weapon that keeps away the apocalypse in the form of an all-devouring dragon.

As the healer's daughter, Malka has seen how the Wood's curse has plagued her village, but the Ozmini Church only comes to collect its tithe, not to protect heretics with false stories of monsters in the trees. So when a clergy girl wanders too close to the forest and Malka's mother is accused of her murder, Malka strikes an impossible bargain with a zealot Ozmini priest. If she brings the monster out, he will spare her mother from execution. When she ventures into the shadowed woods, Malka finds a monster, though not the one she expects: an inscrutable, disgraced golem who agrees to implicate herself, but only if Malka helps her fulfill a promise first and free the imprisoned rabbi who created her.

When Valentina's CEO father suddenly collapses, the race for control of his trillion dollar spell empire begins - and the claws come out. Valentina is pitted against her playboy brother, her brilliant scientist mother, and her father's long-time CFO. Even the guests and staff are choosing sides - and someone intends to eliminate Valentina entirely.Then an unexpected guest arrives: a vampire.

Something is rotten in Faerie. In the aftermath of Titania's reality-warping enchantment, things are returning to what passes for normal in the Kingdom in the Mists - until it's discovered that the royal vaults have been looted, and several powerful magical artifacts are missing. The theft means that Sir October "Toby" Daye, Knight errant and Hero of the Realm, finally has an excuse to get out of the house. Sure, she's eight and a half months pregnant, but that doesn't mean she can't take care of herself.

Father Shane Ryan is summoned to a meeting with His Eminence Cardinal Jacobs. The recently ordained priest at a small Maryland parish was once an FBI analyst. Weeks ago, Constable Miriam Rideout from the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary fielded a frantic call from a priest on a remote Newfoundland island. He begged for help, but then the line went dead, and no one has since been reported missing.

Maur's life has been shaped by loss: an apparently ordinary tragedy. But in its aftermath arise deeper, stranger questions whose answers may lie within the dark heart and darker history of an old soldier who shares Maur's obsessions and who is violently pursued by the same unknown, unquiet forces. So begins a book unlike any other: at once an encyclopaedic and multitudinous saga of a bloody century and the intimate story of two lives, their loves, regrets, and secrets - and a terrifying journey into infinite mystery.

Fifty years after the establishment of the Imperium, and 450 years before the events of ISOLATE, Dominic Mikail Ysella becomes a legalist and is elected to the Imperial Council, quietly working as an isolate, someone unreadable by government telepaths. He tries to build a coalition within the Council and quietly drafts a new constitution to save the Imperium from itself. Uncovering rampant corruption and graft, Ysella discovers any number of ways that a simple legal specialist in water rights could get himself killed.

[Canadian author] Looking after a defecting scientist should have been Vycol Ferec's easiest mission. But now he's on the run from the intelligence agency he works for, dodging a handler who might have gone rogue and relying on a secret patchwork of illicit resources and dodgy contacts. Turns out his defector might be carrying an apocalypse-level magical weapon - and protecting it requires Ferec and his team to go underground, literally.

As lab assistant to the brilliant but demanding Doctor, Igor spends his nights robbing graves, stitching together body parts, and ensuring that his master doesn't electrocute himself (too badly). After driven out of town - again - by a mob of peasants wielding torches and pitchforks, Igor and the Doctor relocate to the isolated Ravenwald Manor. There Igor meets a vampiric Count and his highly dissatisfied bride, Cornelia - and an enigmatic witch and her feline familiar, Grimalkin. Igor, Cornelia, and Grimalkin soon begin to realize that they might have more in common with one another than their respective masters.

Braithe, left as an acolyte on the Isle of Apples, has become handmaid to Morgana, the most powerful priestess in all of Camelud. But when a powerful mage comes to Morgana and Braithe with concerns that the new king of Camelud is being cursed by powerful magic, the two must journey to the White City deep in fae country to investigate. The magical city is nothing like Braithe imagined and the fae are cold and callous toward humans and quick to bewitch.

Cleo is a willfully aloof college student with an impossible secret. When she meets Wes, a brooding musician, at a Halloween party, their connection is instant, electric, and impossible to ignore. Their romance takes a mystical turn when Wes discovers what Cleo's been hiding: sometimes she takes the form of his pet cat. Enter Bailey and Ollie - their magical counterparts - who reveal a deeper tie between Cleo and Wes: he's a witch, and she's his animal familiar.

In 1920s Edinburgh unconventional psychiatrist Dr. Edward Pierce is asked to take as a patient David Bradley, an engineer who was sent to inspect the conditions of a lighthouse on a remote island in southern Argentina. The sojourn was a disaster, and he returned completely mute, his body overwhelmed by a single compulsion: to swim and swim, in any environment, to the point of total exhaustion.

It's business as usual for Ship Leader Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the corvette Sassafras. Ride a Massif to a new system, fight the enemy, repeat. For more than two hundred years humans have been hitching rides on these sentient, starfaring mountain ranges, colonizing planets and exporting an on and off again war between Earth and Mars. But the question always exists: What's in it for the Massifs? Ship crews aren't supposed to ask these questions, and they definitely aren't supposed to go deep and talk to Massif avatars to find the answer.

12 stunning Romantasy stories. Including brand-new stories from beloved and bestselling authors including Hannah Maehrer, Kelley Armstrong, Alexis Hall, L. R. Lam, and more.

13 original stories of dark fantasy inspired by the classic tales of L. Frank Baum and the land of Oz, from the masters of fantasy and science fiction, including M. R. Carey, Christina Henry and Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Kinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week. There's a Kinga for every day: on Mondays, you can catch Kinga A deleting food delivery apps. By Friday, Kinga E is happy to spend the days soaking, wine-drunk, in the bath. But when Kinga A discovers a man tied up in their apartment, the Kingas have to reckon with the possibility that one of them might be planning to destroy them all.

For Alison, Nathan, daughter Dru, and foster child Lailah, it's love at first sight when they see the house in Tumbling Hills. It even has a cozy attic, which is great for Lailah; she needs a quiet place to be alone when her intrusive thoughts creep in.(crack an egg into the coffee machine). The family gets settled. Lailah's adoption will soon be finalized. (push your sister down the stairs). But as the date approaches, her intrusive thoughts get worse, and Lailah fears she's losing control.(burn them alive in their beds).

The summer before his sophomore year, Horatio Bithersea walks into the university library to find Carson Hamlett, resident golden boy and master magician, cradling his father's dead body. Elsinore has given Horatio everything - knowledge of his magical ability, an escape from his abusive family, and freedom to pursue his life as a transgender man - and now he's to be its doom. As the two uncover more of Elsinore's secrets Horatio finds himself becoming more and more ensnared in Hamlett's dark but charismatic web.

Ash is stranded at a rural horror film festival about a giant killer cicada and can't decide what's worse: the movie or her idiot boyfriend. That is, until she realizes she's starring in the bloody film's sequel when people start dying and the locals won't let them leave.

Katherine and Imogene are done with their criminal past - honestly. They've traded in their outlaw lifestyle for seaside views, knitting projects (strictly non-magical), and only the occasional pub brawl (entirely accidental). But now their last heist - the one they botched all those years ago - needs finishing. And fast. The convent of Saint Percival's is sinking into the ground, and the dragons and nuns have been swindled out of their land by a ruthless real estate mogul.

In November 1994, three girls visit their local movie theater to see an obscure film. Only one of them is ever seen again.Thirty years later, Val McQueen has never forgotten the day she lost her little sister and best friend, but she's closed the curtain on it, certain she's moved on despite her parents' resentment and hounding by true crime enthusiasts. That is until a stranger's murder brings it all screaming back - a terror she's tried to tell herself is only a movie.

Even as Erin finds companions in goblins, necromancers, drakes, and gnolls, Ryoka Griffin just wants to run. Luckily, there's a guild that allows her to do just that, and Ryoka soon finds herself delivering messages and packages across the city. Then a dangerous delivery introduces her to the adventuring group the Horns of Hammerad - and other deliveries bring her into the scope of a powerful Lady and a mysterious magic-user - her new world will never be the same.

Paris, 1925. Expatriate American Harry Nolan's life as a magazine illustrator is upended when he is assigned to illustrate an anonymous article about the death of a god. A centuries-old French brotherhood, the sauteurs, are determined to suppress the story the article tells. The sauteurs have burned the magazine's office and killed the editor, and Nolan has the only surviving copy of the article. The author turns out to be a local writer named Ernest Hemingway.

Genevieve's family is dead set against her joining the deadly dragon races. But she won't let them stop her. Without her family's money, nobody will train her. Desperate for help, she agrees to a terrible deal. Qais, an alleged member of a dragon poaching gang, will train her to win the races, if she agrees to give him her prize money. The dragon races aren't just about being the fastest. In these races, sabotage, attacks and all out violence aren't just allowed, they're encouraged.

Stranded on the Isle of Lost Souls, bound by an oath he did not make, Faolan wants nothing more than to raise hell and run away - but with no ship, and no way to untether his wife, Saoirse, from the land she's pledged herself to, he is trapped. But when their sinister rival King Maccus unveils an ancient godly relic - one with the power to unbalance their entire world, there's only one person who can hunt down the missing relics before Maccus can, and the Wolf of the Wild will do anything to protect his wife.

2009: Rachel Galloway is bored in class. Her sketches of a utopia where the horrors of Burnskidde High School disappear somehow convince her classmates that this utopia could be real, and a new religion begins to spread. 2019: Rachel Durwood traces a missing colleague to the town of Burnskidde, which is now preparing for the rapture and, seemingly, their collective demise.

Retired from a decade of brutal war, powerful mage John Sutton wants nothing more than a quiet pastoral life while he does his best to stem the steady increase of his Doom Points before they hit 100, signaling the start of the apocalypse. He's been given a small farm on the outskirts of the empire as a thanks for his service, but no matter how far he travels, it's impossible to escape the war's devastating effects on the world.

Stories set in the context of the Horvath invasion, including an all new novella by John Ringo and stories by Adam Oyebanji, Mike Massa, Marisa Wolf, Michael Mersault, Casey Moores, Michael Gants, Karl K. Gallagher, Chris Kennedy, and Jason Cordova & Melissa Olthoff.

Within the Senate, Mon Mothma and Bail Organa face dwindling influence, for there is no difference between the will of the Emperor and the direction of his Empire. Bail increasingly shifts his focus to support clandestine resistance efforts. Meanwhile, Mon Mothma sees one chance to take a stand when she makes a horrifying discovery about the lengths the regime will go to weaponize truth and loyalty.

1975. Portland, Oregon, is all sleet and neon. Vietnam vet Duane Minor is a bartender just trying to stay sober; save his marriage with his wife, Heidi; and connect with his 13-year-old niece, Julia. Then a vampire walks into his bar and ruins his life. When Minor crosses John Varley, a killer who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon, Varley brutally retaliates by murdering Heidi, leaving Minor broken with guilt and Julia filled with rage. What's left of their splintered family is united by only one desire: vengeance.

For millenia the cycle has seen a Demon King rise and conquer the world, and then a hundred years later, a Hero reborn to defeat him. But now there's a problem. It's only been 23 years since the Demon King's latest rise, and this time, he's already conquered more than half the world. Humanity can't wait for the Hero. And so, Yui Shaw sets out with an ambitious ten-step plan. Find the legenday sword. Attend classes. Gain levels. Increase skills. Travel to the meticulously-crafted dungeons that seem designed for one specific Hero to complete. And, if she's truly (un)fortunate, she might even find a fairy.

When Elan trapped a salmon-stealing raven in his cupboard, he never expected it would hold the key to saving his people from the shapeshifting Koosh invaders plaguing their shores. In exchange for its freedom, the raven offers a secret that can save Elan's home. The Koosh have lost one of their most powerful weapons, and only the raven knows where it is. Elan is tasked with captaining a canoe crewed by an unlikely team including a human bear-cousin, a massive wolf, and the endlessly vulgar raven.

Now returned from his quest, Elan is changed, withdrawn - and will not touch the weapon he is destined to wield. Raven knows that Elan must take up the weapon for his people, or cast it back into the Koosh world through the Door. But Elan will not budge. The invading Koosh loom ever closer, and Elan's people have no hero to fight for them. So raven turns to Kwa, Elan's sour yet tough companion.

When Renata's mother goes missing, Renata begins poring over her mother's journals for answers. Among descriptions of Corinne's work at the McNairy Observatory, Renata unearths a hidden obsession with an early twentieth-century surveyor whose encounters with a mysterious entity bear a startling resemblance to her mother's reports. Compelled beyond reason, Renata journeys to that now-abandoned outpost in the Nevada wilderness to search for the truth.

Ruhlin's many victories have made him a hero to the Morvek, who believe he is the prophesied saviour who will overthrow their Nihlvarian enemies. But now he finds himself a prisoner of the Vortigurn, the King of Nihlvar, who has secrets and schemes of his own. Secrets that could unmake the world.

Princess Tullia's father has arranged a marriage between her and an odious prince. However, one month before the "wedding of the century," Tullia falls in love with a lowly apprentice scribe. The king turns to Anatole, his much-maligned magician. When the king orders Anatole to brew a potion that will ensure Tullia agrees to the wedding, Anatole is faced with an impossible choice. With one chance to save the marriage, the kingdom, and, of most importance to him, his reputation, will he betray the princess - or risk ruin?

Audra is kidnapped from her home and taken to a school to be trained as a soldier by the Fae Priestesses. The Priestesses are searching for the mythical Heir of Prophecy who will save them from an eternal winter. They know the Heir is among the student prisoners at the school and are getting more and more desperate to flush out him or her. What Audra needs to know is what exactly it means to be the Heir... because she's pretty sure it's her.

AD 63. Under the reckless and tumultuous leadership of Emperor Nero, Rome has descended into near-anarchy. And Nero has learned of one man who could save the day - and his own reign. Prefect Cato has been lying low after a heroic campaign to quash the Boudica uprising. Now furlough is over. As the new Prefect of the Urban Cohort of the Praetorian Guard, Cato needs a loyal and proven military hero by his side. Centurion Macro is willing to step up.

Saige Grayson has always believed stories could heal - even when her own body refuses to. As the most promising bookbinder in the capital, she's learned to work through chronic pain and crushing debt, restoring other people's treasures while trying not to fall apart herself. But when the man she owes decides her rare talent is worth more than her payments, Saige is traded to the Azkari - an immortal race forged by the gods for war - and imprisoned in their ancient stronghold.

Yscalin, land of sunshine and lavender, will soon be ablaze. It has been centuries since the Draconic Army took wing, almost extinguishing humankind. Marosa Vetalda is a prisoner in her own home, controlled by her cold father, King Sigoso. Over the mountains, her betrothed, Aubrecht Lievelyn, rules Mentendon in all but name. Together, they intend to usher in a better world.

A contemporary New England coven hides the mysteries that lurk in the marshes north of Boston - and how they are connected to the largest unsolved art heist in modern history.

It's the hottest summer on record and the city is suffering. Prices are high, pay is low. And on one fateful morning five travelers find themselves trapped in a tube car deep in the London Underground. It will change their lives forever. By the time they leave the train they will be bound together as witnesses to a single horrific event. Something terrible, irreversible, and monstrous. Something hungry. But they can't remember what it is.

It's three days until Samhain, and the Undetectables are going to die. No longer taking magical cases (not that anyone would hire them), they've well and truly given up the ghost (namely, Theodore). When a copycat killer emerges and history appears to be repeating itself, the Undetectables (Mallory, Diana and Cornelia) are called up for one last case.

Bones was born with the miraculous power to heal, but all her gift has brought is death. When she was a child, her older brother trained her to survive, and so she did. The blood on her hands will never wash off. After finally escaping the ruthless raiders who imprisoned her for twelve long years, Bones is broken, scarred, and desperate for atonement. But rumours of her abilities catch up with her, and she's soon dragged to the northwest mountain stronghold known as the Vault.

Revenge drove Saffron Killoran to go undercover in the Bloodmoon gang. But now, with any chance of retribution gone, she sees only one path forward: harnessing a long-dormant power to fix her ruinous mistakes. Meanwhile, the new kingpin of the Bloodmoons has discovered Saffron's true identity as a Silvercloak - and her ultimate goal of bringing his empire down.

15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang, and many others.

Novella. 176 pages. Daedalus is the constructor of the Labyrinth that imprisoned the Minotaur - and the grieving father of Icarus, who plunged into the sea as father and son flew from the grasp of the tyrannical King Minos. Now, Daedalus seeks to reunite with Icarus in the Underworld, even as he revisits his own memories of Crete, hoping to understand what went so terribly wrong at the end of his son's life.

Sapphic romantasy. Simran is a witch of the woods. Vina is a knight of the Queen's court. When the two women begin to fall for each other, how can they surrender to their desires, when to give in is to destroy each other? As they seek a way to break the cycle, a mysterious assassin begins targeting tales like theirs. To survive, the two will need to write a story stronger than the one that fate has given to them.

The night Lyssa Cadogan's brother was murdered by a faerie-made monster known as the Beast, she vowed she would find a way to destroy the immortal creature. For thirteen years, she has been hunting faeries and the abominations they created. Now she has met Alderic Casimir de Laurent, a melodramatic dandy with a coin purse bigger than his brain. Somehow, he has found the monster's lair, and - even more surprising - retrieved one of its claws. A claw Lyssa needs in order to forge a sword that can kill the Beast.

A collection of stories.

After the death of her beloved uncle, Yining has survived by becoming a skilled thief and an even better liar. When she acquires an enchanted ring that holds the key to a brighter future, it is stolen by her step-aunt, and Yining must venture into the imperial heart of the kingdom to seize it back. But she's soon trapped in a tangle of power, treachery, and greed - her only ally the cunning advisor from a rival court who keeps dangerous secrets of his own.

[BC author]. Life after the Starfleet War is anything but simple for the Bobs. Gone are the days of endless debates and camaraderie in a unified moot. Now they're spread thin across the cosmos, grappling with interplanetary mistrust, brewing anti-Bob sentiment, and the unpredictable antics of the Skippies, who are tinkering with something dangerously close to an AI apocalypse. Just when some Bobs start longing for a quieter life, Icarus and Daedalus return after a 26,000-year mission to the galactic core with news that rocks the Bobiverse to its core.

On a planet where stories govern identity, where science and magic are merely a point of view, a fallen princess, a reluctant wizard, and a precocious child must unravel the past to shape the future. Betrayal, ancient myths, and a clash of worlds converge in a tale of courage, friendship, and self-discovery.

Dunwich, the hidden magical capital of England, has its fair share of oddities, its most recent being a series of murders that have the police at a dead end. But Detective Walters has an unorthodox suggestion. Who better to find a killer than someone who can talk to the dead? He proposes that Mal use his necromancy for good and solve the case before it goes stone-cold.As more bodies begin to drop, Mal befriends several misfits who help him unearth the culprit.

A strange affliction is haunting the good people of Dublin. It roots beneath the skin - blooming, entangling - before claiming its victims. Trinity College grad student Atta Morrow has spent years pursuing the truth behind the plague. Her covert research has grown into a quiet obsession that could cost her more than her academic future. When Atta's latest risk catches the attention of Sonder Murdoch, Trinity's infamous but brilliant morbid anatomy professor, she gains an unexpected ally - and a dangerous temptation.

A wildly inventive collection of interconnected speculative stories - spanning the multiverse, demonic attachment, and life after death.

The Five Hundred are the elite families who rule the Terran Federation, control its political power and its wealth, and they've grown steadily wealthier and more powerful, thanks to the war against the Terran League. But the Fringe Worlds, who do most of the dying in that war, are increasingly hostile. And the alien Rishi have planned carefully for the Federation's destruction. And the Five Hundred have fatally underestimated the man named Terrence Murphy.

It's 1930 and three decades have passed since Schaalman's defeat. Chava the golem quietly tends to her house and garden in Brooklyn, hoping to create a refuge for other magical beings. Ahmad, who had found employment as an architect in Chicago, has lost his job after the Crash, and is on his way back to New York. But so too is Schaalman, his flask passing from hand to hand as the wizard possesses his victims.

When tragedy strikes her family, Niri finds herself penniless and alone in a city determined to turn their back on 'her kind'. Her only possession is also her only hope - a copper coin that grants her admission to the prestigious Stormfell Academy, renowned for its magical and combative training. But the coin only offers her a place to sleep, and Niri must learn to adapt and fight if she is to survive the Academy - and its occupants.

Dahin believes he has clues to the location of the Hierarchs' Well, and the Witch King Kai, along with his companions Ziede and Tahren, knowing there's something he isn't telling them, travel with him to the rebuilt university of Ancartre, which may be dangerously close to finding the Well itself.Can Kai stop the rise of a new Hierarch? And can he trust his companions to do what's right?

Abandoning his days of beheading to live out an undercover retirement as a goat farmer, Morfran finds himself accidentally leading a rebellion against the kingdom's Dark Lord, who, inconveniently, is him.

When a strange tide threatens Ys, lighthouse keeper Nolwen is asked by the Queen to collect enough rare seasilk to shield the city from the deadly monsters who lurk deep beneath the waves. But when Nolwen is attacked by those monsters, she is rescued by Morvan, a member of the korrigez people, with the torso of a human and the tail of a fish. Against her will, Morvan drags her deeper into the ocean to the coral palace of Below-Ys.

Sage has thrown herself into her work and studies, running the local museum and largely preferring the company of her library and her cat to other humans. Her one goal is to fly under the coven's radar so that she can finally shed her blasted powers forever. But when a strange historical book accidentally sets off a curse, Sage's quiet small-town life is suddenly overrun and magic is running rife.