At the edge of the City of the Void, a massive chasm extends miles into the earth, its treacherous terrain overrun with vicious monsters and carnivorous plants. For orphaned best friends Petra and Jade, guiding treasure-seeking tourists down into the Void is the only way to earn enough to pull themselves up out of the slums for good. Petra prefers to play it safe and take jobs only in the Void’s upper levels, where the dangers are better understood, while Jade wants to risk a descent to the deepest and most mysterious Sixth Layer. Because the deeper they go, the better the payout, and the sooner their dreams can become reality. Their friendship is Petra’s whole world, and Jade’s approval means everything—so Petra agrees to do it Jade’s way. When their job goes wrong and Jade is lost in the Void, Petra must plunge deeper than she’s ever dared to save her friend. But she doesn’t know the truth of the Void . . . or what really waits for her in its depths.

IN THIS QUEER POLITICAL NECROMANTASY, A SECRET MARRIAGE PACT FOR SURVIVAL COULD UNDO A KINGDOM . . . As the daughter of a foreign ambassador, Rissa hoped living abroad would protect her from home’s puritanical customs where women are forbidden to walk at night or use magic except to support a necromancer’s dual identity. Alek, the youngest prince of the Memric Isle, hasn’t yet taken his Second body. Fearing he’ll be accused of sin and his body claimed as a Second himself, Alek lives piously while studying abroad, even though he’s distracted by magic—and his handsome roommate, Gable. When Alek meets Rissa by chance, his quiet life is thrown into chaos. One of Rissa’s fathers has been abducted, and Alek and Gable are witnesses. Alek and Rissa form a secret alliance to find her father and uncover the truth behind the conspiracy, risking life and freedom as they follow clues straight to the heart of the Memric Isle’s government.

She has always known the rules – never resurrect anything larger than the palm of her hand, but that was before her sister died. A chilling, compulsive exploration of sisterhood, loss, and revenge. When her older sister is found mysteriously drowned in the river that cuts through their small coastal town, Soojin Han disregards every rule and uses her ancestral magic to bring Mirae back from the dead. At first, the sisters are overjoyed, reveling in late-night escapades and the miracle of being together again, but Mirae grows tired of hiding from the world. She becomes restless and hungry . . . Driven by an insatiable desire to finish what she started in life, to unravel the truth that crushed her family so many years ago, Mirae is out for revenge. When their town is engulfed by increasingly destructive rain and a series of harrowing, unusual deaths, Soojin is forced to reckon with the fact that perhaps the sister she brought back isn’t the one she knew.

Celine Brennan should be riding the high of her recent promotion to detective, but instead she’s been saddled with a case no one can seem to solve with murders so gruesome others before her have quit. Not to mention, there’s something suspicious with a new club in town and her focus keeps being pulled from the case she should be devoting her attention to. Zavier Lockwood is old. Three-hundred-years old to be precise and he’s bored because of it. Killing the scum of Chicago and cleaning up the streets since the cops can’t seem to do it is his favorite pastime. Until he lays eyes on Celine. Soon, he finds his obsession with her far more tempting than murder. After all, no vampire can resist the allure of their mate. As their paths cross thanks to Zavier’s uncanny ability to be wherever Celine is they both come to realize there’s something far more nefarious going on in the city they both love. They’ll have to work together to get to the bottom of it, but what happens when Celine realizes the man she’s falling for isn’t only not human, but he’s the same one committing the crimes she’s supposed to solve?

A reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most famous villainess, giving her a voice, a past, and a power that transforms the story men have written for her. The Lady knows the stories: how her eyes induce madness in men. The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute, who does not leave his warrior ways behind when he comes to the marriage bed. The Lady knows his hostile, suspicious court will be a game of strategy, requiring all of her wiles and hidden witchcraft to survive. But the Lady does not know her husband has occult secrets of his own. She does not know that prophecy girds him like armor. She does not know that her magic is greater and more dangerous, and that it will threaten the order of the world. She does not know this yet. But she will.

Gegen Ende der Achtzigerjahre stürzt in einem italienischen Küstenort ein Friedhof ins Meer. Eine Urne, die an den Strand gespült wird, gibt ein Geheimnis preis: Der fünfundzwanzigjährige Pinò erfährt, dass sein Vater vor ihm schon einen anderen Sohn hatte. Als Pinò bewusst wird, dass er immer nur als Ersatz gedacht war, beginnt er die verschwiegene Vergangenheit seines Vaters zu erforschen. Doch dabei riskiert er, dass auch sein eigenes Geheimnis aufgedeckt wird. Die rätselhaften Merkmale seines Körpers drohen ihn zu verraten: Sein Bauchnabel fehlt, seine Stimme erzeugt keinen Widerhall, sein Atem hinterlässt in der Kälte keine Spur. Denn Pinò war nicht immer ein Mensch. In „Aus anderem Holz“ interpretiert Giuliano Musio den Pinocchio-Stoff neu. Ein Roman über die Last der Herkunft und die Sehnsucht nach Selbstbestimmung.

Gegen Ende der Achtzigerjahre stürzt in einem italienischen Küstenort ein Friedhof ins Meer. Eine Urne, die an den Strand gespült wird, gibt ein Geheimnis preis: Der fünfundzwanzigjährige Pinò erfährt, dass sein Vater vor ihm schon einen anderen Sohn hatte. Als Pinò bewusst wird, dass er immer nur als Ersatz gedacht war, beginnt er die verschwiegene Vergangenheit seines Vaters zu erforschen. Doch dabei riskiert er, dass auch sein eigenes Geheimnis aufgedeckt wird. Die rätselhaften Merkmale seines Körpers drohen ihn zu verraten: Sein Bauchnabel fehlt, seine Stimme erzeugt keinen Widerhall, sein Atem hinterlässt in der Kälte keine Spur. Denn Pinò war nicht immer ein Mensch. In „Aus anderem Holz“ interpretiert Giuliano Musio den Pinocchio-Stoff neu. Ein Roman über die Last der Herkunft und die Sehnsucht nach Selbstbestimmung.