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Grief has left Ally looking for quiet, but the Cornish coast offers anything but peace.
The Shell House Detectives
Mystery · Police Procedural
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Grief has left Ally looking for quiet, but the Cornish coast offers anything but peace. In The Shell House Detectives, a troubled young man appears at her door one night and turns up dead the next morning, drawing Ally into an investigation with an ex-cop who senses the case runs deeper than it seems. This is a coastal mystery with emotional weight, a close-knit community, and dark secrets hidden beneath a beautiful setting.
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"A cleverly plotted and thoroughly enjoyable book about dark deeds in beautiful places."—Elly Griffiths
Welcome to the coastal paradise of Porthpella, where murder lurks among the dunes…
Late one night, a distraught young man knocks on the door of retired and recently widowed Ally Bright’s remote home on the Cornish coast. But before she can make sense of his confused words, he’s gone—not to be seen again until he’s found the next morning at the foot of the nearby cliffs.
In an instant, the peace of Ally’s beachcombing life is shattered. Feeling responsible for the young man’s fate, she wants to help find answers—as does ex-cop Jayden Weston, whom Ally meets at the scene. He shares her certainty that there’s more to the story than attempted suicide. When it emerges that the man is newly released ex-offender Lewis Pascoe, and that Helena, the wealthy new owner of his grandmother’s home, has subsequently disappeared, the tight-knit community of Porthpella is thrown into turmoil.
Driven by their need to know more, the duo decide to investigate the mystery together. Is there a connection between the Pascoe family’s tragic history and Helena’s disappearance? And if there is a killer stalking Porthpella, do Ally and Jayden have what it takes to catch them?
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A princess trapped inside a beautiful lie turns captivity into resistance.
The Force of Such Beauty
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A princess trapped inside a beautiful lie turns captivity into resistance. In The Force of Such Beauty, Caroline fights to reclaim her body and will after marriage locks her inside a glittering system built on control. It reads like literary suspense wrapped in a fractured fairy tale, with claustrophobic tension, political menace, and a sharp focus on how power feeds on female beauty.
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“This is not your grandma’s fairy tale… Brilliant.” —The Washington Post
“The Force of Such Beauty grips with the strength of an Olympian and holds it with the endurance of a marathoner … [to] an ending that actually caught my breath, not once, but twice in quick succession.”—The Associated Press
One sunny afternoon in an idyllic kingdom by the sea, a princess named Caroline pretends to sleep. When her keepers strike up a card game, Caroline sneaks into her maid’s car, turns the key, and drives right out of the palace. Alone for the first time in years, she gets on the next flight—only to land in the waiting arms of her guards. As she’s forcibly escorted back to her marble prison, something in Caroline breaks for good. It’s not her first failed attempt, and it won’t be her last. Caroline suspects that she’ll never escape. But she might find a way to be free.
Barbara Bourland’s stunning third novel, a phantasmagorical fable of love and marriage, is her most ambitious and inventive book to date. Inspired by the alleged escape attempts of real-life princesses, The Force of Such Beauty is both the story of an idealistic young woman trapped by a corrupt promise, and a deeply moving reminder that power structures around the world ultimately rest on the subjugation of women’s bodies.
“A fascinating novel about bodies, the way we use them, and the way we break them. It’s one of several works to come out this year concerned with the appropriation of female beauty by powerful men, and examines a harsh choice in the lives of women dubbed desirable by the patriarchal state: do you participate, or do you say no?…Bourland is skilled at finding the noir in the everyday, and illustrating the mechanisms of control that keep us in our place.”—Crime Reads, Best Books of the Year (So Far)
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Order and survival have become the same thing in a future built on limits, rules, and quiet unease.
Bannerless
Dystopian
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Order and survival have become the same thing in a future built on limits, rules, and quiet unease. In Bannerless, Enid investigates a suspicious death in a post-collapse society where parenthood is earned, birth is controlled, and every case threatens to expose something larger beneath the surface. This is post-apocalyptic mystery with strong social worldbuilding, moral tension, and a thoughtful look at what stability costs.
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In this Philip K. Dick Award–winning, post-apocalyptic mystery, murder leads a novice investigator to question her population-controlled society.
Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn't just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the ruins of what came before. A culture of population control has developed in which people, organized into households, must earn the children they bear by proving they can take care of them and are awarded symbolic banners to demonstrate this privilege. In the meantime, birth control is mandatory.
Enid of Haven is an Investigator, called on to mediate disputes and examine transgressions against the community. She's young for the job and hasn't yet handled a serious case. Now, though, a suspicious death requires her attention. The victim was an outcast, but might someone have taken dislike a step further and murdered him?
In a world defined by the disasters that happened a century before, the past is always present. But this investigation may reveal the cracks in Enid's world and make her question what she really stands for.
Praise for Bannerless
"Bannerless is both a fine murder mystery and a multi-layered look at a different kind of society." —Analog Science Fiction & Fact
"Vaughn skillfully portrays a vastly altered future America that's almost unrecognizable decades after its total collapse; the . . . focus on sustainability and responsibility is unusual, thought-provoking, and very welcome." —Publishers Weekly
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A single disappearance rips open a family’s sense of safety and leaves every mile of wilderness charged with dread.
Descent
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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A single disappearance rips open a family’s sense of safety and leaves every mile of wilderness charged with dread. In Descent, a morning run in the Rockies ends with one child missing and a family thrown into a relentless search shaped by fear, grief, and uncertainty. This is a literary thriller with emotional precision, mounting suspense, and a deep focus on how ordinary lives fracture under trauma.
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“Read this astonishing novel . . . The magic of his prose equals the horror of Johnston’s story.” —The Washington Post
Don't miss DISTANT SONS, the new literary thriller from Tim Johnston, available now.
The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, who are taking a family vacation before their daughter leaves for college. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic.
Written with a precision that captures every emotion, every moment of fear, as each member of the family searches for answers, Descent races like an avalanche toward its heart-pounding conclusion.
“A compelling thriller that is both creepy and literary . . . Descent is not just a mystery. It is an emotional story of evil, fear, acceptance and irony.”—The Denver Post
“What makes the novel unforgettable is its sense of character, its deliberate, unadorned prose and Johnston’s unflinching exploration of human endurance, physical and psychological.” —Miami Herald
“A super-charged, addictive read.” —The Missourian
“An original and psychologically deep thriller.” —Outside magazine
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What starts as harmless pretending becomes much harder to contain once real feelings begin to surface.
Not Pretending Anymore
Romance · Contemporary Romance
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What starts as harmless pretending becomes much harder to contain once real feelings begin to surface. In Not Pretending Anymore, a woman takes in a charming roommate, builds an easy friendship with him, and agrees to fake a relationship that quickly starts to blur into something real. This is a contemporary romance with best-friends energy, forced proximity, and the ache of realizing the person who feels safest might also be the one who matters most.
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From New York Times bestselling authors, Penelope Ward and Vi Keeland, comes a new standalone novel.
Finding a good roommate through a classified ad isn’t as easy as it sounds.
I was starting to lose hope.
Until a knock at my door came and God answered my prayers.
Except…uh…wrong prayer, God.
I’d definitely requested the big guy find me a drop-dead gorgeous man on more than one occasion...just not as my roommate.
Declan Tate talked me into interviewing him anyway.
While he was amusing and charismatic, I wouldn’t have been comfortable living with a man, so I regretfully declined.
Then cupcakes showed up at my door—freshly baked by Declan and just as sinfully delicious as he was.
You could say he was persistent.
I eventually folded. It wasn’t like I had another viable candidate anyway.
Plus, I was interested in someone else. And Declan was into another woman. So it wasn’t like anything would happen romantically.
After he moved in, the two of us became the best of friends. We even started to give each other advice on getting our crushes to notice us.
Eventually, Declan concocted an idea: we should pretend to be a couple to make our love interests jealous.
I was hesitant, but went along with it anyway. To my utter shock, his crazy plan worked.
Now I was dating the supposed man of my dreams, and my best friend had the woman of his.
But there was one problem.
I couldn’t stop thinking about Declan.
Those feelings we were trying to fake?
Yeah…I wasn’t pretending anymore.
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Power always demands a cost, and Cecilia has spent her life paying it in pieces of herself.
The Lost God
Romantasy · Fairy Tale
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Power always demands a cost, and Cecilia has spent her life paying it in pieces of herself. In The Lost God, a memory witch sets out across a war-torn landscape with her guardian and a tempting new ally as gods, stolen memories, and impossible choices close in around them. This is fantasy romance with magical sacrifice, political tension, and an emotional triangle shaped by duty, desire, and loss.
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Two kingdoms vying for an ancient power. One witch on the verge of releasing it. But all magic requires an exchange.
Memory Witch, Cecilia, is used to sacrificing for power. She’s exchanged her blood for memories, her pride for respect at court, and her forbidden and unrequited love for her guardian, Rainer, for the sake of her duty. It will all be worth it if she can complete the Gauntlet and release the power of the Lost God.
But when the god of war attacks, sending the two kingdoms from simmering tension to open war, Cecilia and Rainer set out on one final perilous journey. They venture deeper into enemy territory than ever before, aided by a charming hunter who offers Cecilia a glimpse of the adventure and romance she’s always wanted.
As the trio encounters vicious memory-stealing hunters, enchanted illusion forests, and meddling gods who speak in riddles, they draw ever closer to the pinnacle of the Gauntlet, and the sacrifice that Cecilia has been dreading. When faced with the most important magical exchange of her life, Cecilia must choose between her kingdom, and her heart, knowing one will be left irreparably broken.
Perfect for fans of the adventure and romance in Jennifer Armentrout's From Blood and Ash and the political intrigue of Danielle Jensen's The Bridge Kingdom, The Lost God is the beginning of an adult fantasy romance series that examines how memories can tie people together and tear them apart.
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A Bone in His Teeth fits readers who want gothic fantasy with erotic tension, queer romance, and a creeping sense of maritime dread.
A Bone in His Teeth
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Gay Romance
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Freedom curdles into obsession when a stranded sailor finds himself trapped in a harbor full of whispers, secrets, and something ancient in the water. After Alba takes a job as lighthouse keeper and begins searching for his missing mother, he is pulled into a dangerous bond with the last merrow of Moon Harbor. A Bone in His Teeth fits readers who want gothic fantasy with erotic tension, queer romance, and a creeping sense of maritime dread.
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When a fall from the mast leaves Alba Marsh unable to sail, he finally has the chance to run away from his family debts in search of a better life. He hopes to reunite with his mother, Edythe, where they always promised to meet if things went awry, but finding the small, secluded, secretive town of Moon Harbor proves a greater challenge than Alba ever expected. Worse, upon arriving, no one seems to know anyone by the name Edythe Marsh at all.
Taking a job as the local lighthouse keeper while waiting for her to come, Alba attempts to find peace in his stolen freedom--but the sea has other plans. First come the shadows, then the voices, then watery trails left on the floor while he sleeps. He's inundated with erotic dreams of sirens calling out to him, and distant singing haunts his waking hours, all while the townspeople claim to hear nothing.
After a debtor catches up with him and he's forced to dispose of their body in the harbor, Alba is interrupted by Eridanys, the last merrow of Moon Harbor, who curses him from leaving until he can find out what happened to the other merrow that once filled those waters. Eridanys' demands, both mental and physical, are exhausting and endless--but as their relationship deepens, and Moon Harbor’s long-kept secrets are butterflied open to see, it becomes clear they may both be prey to the town in ways neither of them ever anticipated.
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Master Assassins fits readers who want epic fantasy with sibling tension, harsh survival, and a world that feels as dangerous as the people in it.
Master Assassins
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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A mistake turns two feuding brothers into hunted legends in a desert war they never chose. When Kandri and Mektu are mistaken for assassins, they flee across a brutal landscape filled with death squads, monsters, and shifting loyalties, carrying a secret that could save a continent or destroy it. Master Assassins fits readers who want epic fantasy with sibling tension, harsh survival, and a world that feels as dangerous as the people in it.
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“This book has everything I love: Clean, crisp worldbuilding. Characters that live and breathe. A story that teases and surprises me. I like Master Assassins so much I wish I'd written it, but deep down, I know I couldn't have written it this well.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Patrick Rothfuss
Two village boys mistaken for assassins become the decisive figures in the battle for a continent in the thrilling new desert-based epic fantasy by the author of The Red Wolf Conspiracy.
Kandri Hinjuman was never meant to be a soldier. His brother Mektu was never meant for this world. Rivals since childhood, they are drafted into a horrific war led by a madwoman-Prophet, and survive each day only by hiding their disbelief. Kandri is good at blending in, but Mektu is hopeless: impulsive, erratic—and certain that a demon is stalking him. Is this madness or a second sense? Either way, Kandri knows that Mektu’s antics will land them both in early graves.
But all bets are off when the brothers’ simmering feud explodes into violence, and holy blood is spilled. Kandri and Mektu are taken for contract killers and must flee for their lives—to the one place where they can hope to disappear: the sprawling desert known as the Land that Eats Men. In this eerie wilderness, the terrain is as deadly as the monsters, ghouls, and traffickers in human flesh. Here the brothers find strange allies: an aging warlord, a desert nomad searching for her family, a lethal child-soldier still in her teens. They also find themselves in possession of a secret that could bring peace to the continent of Urrath. Or unthinkable carnage.
On their heels are the Prophet’s death squads. Ahead lie warring armies, sandstorms, evil spirits and the deeper evil of human greed. But hope beckons as well—if the “Master Assassins” can expose the lie that has made them the world’s most wanted men.
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Reign & Ruin fits readers who want romantic epic fantasy with political stakes, elemental tension, and a slow-burning central relationship.
Reign & Ruin
Romantasy
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Power, duty, and desire pull in opposite directions as two rival mages become bound to the fate of a dying empire. When a brilliant heir and a dangerous prince are forced into uneasy alliance, they must navigate court politics, forbidden magic, and a growing war that threatens their people. Reign & Ruin fits readers who want romantic epic fantasy with political stakes, elemental tension, and a slow-burning central relationship.
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“All magic is beautiful...and terrible. Do you not see the beauty in yours, or the terror in mine? You can stop a heart, and I can stop your breath.”
She is heir to a Sultanate that once ruled the world. He is an unwanted prince with the power to destroy.
She is order and intellect, a woman fit to rule in a man's place. He is chaos and violence and will stop at nothing to protect his people.
His magic answers hers with shadow for light. They need each other, but the cost of balance may be too high a price. Magic is dying and the only way to save it is to enlist mages who wield the forbidden power of death, mages cast out centuries ago in a brutal and bloody war.
Now, a new war is coming. Science and machines to replace magic and old religion.
They must find a way to save their people from annihilation and balance the sacred Wheel—but first, they will have to balance their own forbidden passion. His peace for her tempest, his restlessness for her calm…
Night and day, dusk and dawn, the end, and the beginning.
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Old enemies meet at the edge of catastrophe when a feared raiding people arrive not to conquer, but to survive.
The Black Coast
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy
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Old enemies meet at the edge of catastrophe when a feared raiding people arrive not to conquer, but to survive. As Black Keep faces uneasy alliance, cultural collision, and the threat of a rising daemonic warlord, The Black Coast delivers epic fantasy rooted in war dragons, political tension, and the fragile work of building trust before a larger world collapses.
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War Dragons. Fearsome Raiders. A Daemonic Warlord on the Rise.
When the citizens of Black Keep see ships on the horizon, terror takes them because they know who is coming: for generations, the keep has been raided by the fearsome clanspeople of Tjakorsha. Saddling their war dragons, Black Keep's warriors rush to defend their home only to discover that the clanspeople have not come to pillage at all. Driven from their own land by a daemonic despot who prophesises the end of the world, the raiders come in search of a new home . . .
Meanwhile the wider continent of Narida is lurching toward war. Black Keep is about to be caught in the crossfire – if only its new mismatched society can survive.
The start of an unmissable fantasy series.
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It fits readers who want martial arts fantasy with magic, shifting loyalties, and a strong ensemble cast.
The Art of Prophecy
Fantasy · Asian Fiction · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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When prophecy fails, faith, training, and destiny all collapse at once in this wuxia-inflected epic fantasy. Jian was raised to defeat an immortal tyrant, but once that future slips from his grasp, the kingdom’s fate falls to a volatile group of warriors, assassins, and masters who must redefine what a hero is. It fits readers who want martial arts fantasy with magic, shifting loyalties, and a strong ensemble cast.
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A “superb fantasy saga” (Helene Wecker) of martial arts and magic, about what happens when a prophesied hero is not the chosen one after all—but has to work with a band of unlikely allies to save the kingdom anyway, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lives of Tao
“An ambitious and touching exploration of disillusionment in faith, tradition, and family—a glorious reinvention of fantasy and wuxia tropes.”—Naomi Novik, New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Gizmodo, Kirkus Reviews, The Quill to Live
So many stories begin the same way: With a prophecy. A chosen one. And the inevitable quest to slay a villain, save the kingdom, and fulfill a grand destiny.
But this is not that kind of story.
It does begin with a prophecy: A child will rise to defeat the Eternal Khan, a cruel immortal god-king, and save the kingdom.
And that prophecy did anoint a hero, Jian, raised since birth in luxury and splendor, and celebrated before he has won a single battle.
But that’s when the story hits its first twist: The prophecy is wrong.
What follows is a story more wondrous than any prophecy could foresee, and with many unexpected heroes: Taishi, an older woman who is the greatest grandmaster of magical martial arts in the kingdom but who thought her adventuring days were all behind her; Sali, a straitlaced warrior who learns the rules may no longer apply when the leader to whom she pledged her life is gone; and Qisami, a chaotic assassin who takes a little too much pleasure in the kill.
And Jian himself, who has to find a way to become what he no longer believes he can be—a hero after all.
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A strong match for readers drawn to classic epic fantasy, reluctant heroes, morally complicated protagonists, and immersive secondary worlds.
Lord Foul’s Bane
Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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“Covenant is [Stephen R.] Donaldson's genius!”—The Village Voice. Thomas Covenant, an outcast who refuses to believe in the strange world where he has arrived, is hailed as a legendary hero and given the mystic power of White Gold, the Land’s only defense against Lord Foul, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 4,200 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to classic epic fantasy, reluctant heroes, morally complicated protagonists, and immersive secondary worlds.
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“Covenant is [Stephen R.] Donaldson's genius!”—The Village Voice
He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, because he dared not believe in this strange alternate world on which he suddenly found himself.
Yet the Land tempted him. He had been sick; now he seemed better than ever before. Through no fault of his own, he had been outcast, unclean, a pariah. Now he was regarded as a reincarnation of the Land's greatest hero—Berek Halfhand—armed with the mystic power of White Gold. That power alone could protect the Lords of the Land from the ancient evil of the Despiser, Lord Foul. Except that Covenant had no idea how to use that power. . . .
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