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Welcome back to Rotherweird. The town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for 400 years to protect a deadly secret. Sir Veronal Slickstone is dead, his bid to exploit that secret consigned to dust, leaving Rotherweird to resume its abnormal normality after the travails of the summer...but someone is playing a very long game. Disturbing omens multiply: a funeral delivers a cryptic warning; an ancient portrait speaks; the Herald disappears - and democracy threatens the uneasy covenant between town and countryside.

Love takes flight. I am Princess Tanvi, and the War of the Ancients is upon us. Demons roam free across the realm, and the kingdoms of our world are in peril. Rulers spanning the land are readying their armies for a holy conflict, one that could erase the tapestry of our world. Using my storytelling magic, I must weave intricate tales of myth and mystery to keep my family alive and my people fighting. To defeat the greatest evil I have ever faced, I have no choice but to travel across the land in pursuit of legends, chasing whispers of powerful beings that could bring upon my doom.

A centuries-old rivalry is reignited in debut author A.T. Rainach’s dark romantasy, which follows the ancient God of War as he discovers the reincarnated soul of the woman he once loved. He could never forget her. Not in any lifetime. Not even after a thousand years. Grace is desperate to...

In the summer of 1518, the citizens of Strasbourg are dancing themselves to death. Brilliant medical student Evelina del Valle arrives determined to stop the plague before the quarantined city collapses… while keeping a terrible and fatal secret: she’s a witch. But she’s left her coven...

June Harrington’s Merely a Matter of Time is an irresistible, slow-burn love story between two outrageously gifted arcane scientists who fall back in time only to fall for each other. Lucy Bright and her brilliant research partner Francis de Montmort (a former academic rival turned...

Return to a city of warring gangs, blazing fire, and fading gods in the sequel to Wen-yi Lee’s acclaimed adult fantasy debut—a fierce historical fantasy that reads like Silvia Moreno-Garcia meets Fonda Lee, with the feverish intensity of R. F. Kuang’s Poppy War trilogy. Death cannot stop...

Ocean's 11 meets The Chosen and the Beautiful in a heart-pounding gothic fantasy from KJ Charles! Make a wish. Lose your soul. Eleanor Knox and her fellow guests thought the occult ceremony to make wishes was just a party game. They were dead wrong. Almost seven years later, their accidental...

Der Schatten-Klan stand nun unter meiner Kontrolle und ich gab den Bewohnern des Bezirks etwas, das sie seit Jahren nicht mehr gehabt haben–die Chance, durchzuatmen. Unabhängigkeit, Schutz und die Chance auf ein normales Leben. Doch für den Rest der Gesellschaft war der Schatten-Klan noch immer nichts weiter als ein Sumpf aus Mördern, Kriminellen und Dieben. Sie verachteten uns. Sie weigerten sich, uns in Ruhe zu lassen. Und das Schlimmste von allem? Sie unterschätzten uns.

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the ninth and final volume of the Temeraire series, as the Napoleonic Wars draw to a close and the final battles play out. “An extremely satisfying resolution.” —Booklist (starred review) The deadly campaign in Russia...

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2025 Both sweeping and intimate, a majestic novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval France Thierry Villar is a well-known—even notorious— tavern poet, familiar with the rogues and shadows of that world, but not at...

A vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on her own search for self-discovery and true love in this epic and seductive gothic fantasy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide. “Fiercely empowering and gloriously vengeful.”—Heather Walter, award-winning author of...

A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come from outside the classroom in this stunning dark academia novel from the acclaimed author of The Year of the Witching and House of Hunger. Lennon Carter’s life is falling apart. Then she gets a mysterious phone call inviting her...

This next spellbinding installment of Juno’s “irresistible” fantasy series Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Lana Harper) takes us back to the reign of Henry VIII and the origins of Her Majesty’s Royal Coven under the beautiful, the bewitching, Anne Boleyn. It’s 1536 and the Queen has been...

A nobleman must work with a dashing soldier to save his sister from a mystical bargain gone awry in this swoon-worthy romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material. “The utterly enchanting second installment of Alexis Hall’s Mortal Follies series brings back all the magic, both...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is one of...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! “Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and...

No one knew who Mark Franklin was when he disembarked at Liverpool in 1909 with a copy of Shakespeare's works, an old Mexican charro saddle and two Remingtons in his battered luggage. He was just another American, tall and softly-spoken. Even General Flashman never guessed the whole truth...

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an...

The third and final title in The Wolf Chronicles: Kaala the young wolf fulfills her destiny—to either help humans and wolves to live in peace, or bring war that will destroy them all. Fourteen thousand years ago in southern Europe, a wolf cub named Kaala discovers that she alone can link...

Temeraire * Book 4 Tragedy has struck His Majesty’s Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defend England’s shores against the encroaching armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. An epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the...