GODS SHALL FALL. FATE WILL RULE.In the world of Aetherion, everyone has heard whispers of the Godbutcher. To Mortals, he is a legend. To the powerful Exalteds, he is a myth. But to the immortal Celestials, he is something far their finality.His name is Mavros Ravenglass.Hidden for years on an island ignored by the gods, Mavros has spent his life in the shadows after his mother fled there with him as a child, desperate to protect their secrets. But when a visiting dignitary is murdered inside Irton Manor, suspicion falls on Mavros and his family, forcing him to flee the only home he has ever known to protect them.His escape sends him across the ocean and directly into enemy a glittering city ruled by the Exalted, the powerful children of the gods. Disguised as a mortal, Mavros is forced into The Ascension Crucible, a brutal competition of deadly trials, political game play, and divine meddling, where only the strongest survive.For Mavros, winning means vengeance against the Celestials who destroyed his life.But survival becomes far more complicated when he is bound to two dangerous Zyran Ouranous, his enigmatic and infuriatingly handsome Exalted sponsor, and Odith, the cursed Celestial of Death. As betrayal, forbidden magic, and ancient prophecies tighten around them, Mavros discovers that Fate may be the one enemy even the Godbutcher cannot kill.This dark epic, Greek mythology-inspired fantasy, enemies-to-lovers romance, and slow-burn MM romantasy, GODBUTCHER is the first book in an action-packed fantasy romance saga filled with deadly tournaments, gods, false-heroes and monsters, political intrigue, fated mates, and morally grey heroes.Ideal for readers of The Serpent and the Wings of Night and Blood of Hercules.

A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, this irresistible, relatable satire of both virtual work and contemporary life is The Office for a new world. Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York–based public relations firm has been uploaded into the company’s internal Slack channels—at least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it’s an elaborate gag to exploit the new work-from home policy, but now that Gerald’s productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from . . . wherever he says he is. Faced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists his co-worker Pradeep to help him escape, and to find out what happened to his body. But the longer Gerald stays in the void, the more alluring and absurd his reality becomes. Meanwhile, Gerald’s colleagues have PR catastrophes of their own to handle in the real world. Their biggest client, a high-end dog food company, is in the midst of recalling a bad batch of food that’s allegedly poisoning Pomeranians nationwide. And their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture. And if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why can’t everyone? Is true love possible between two people, when one is just a line of text in an app? And what in the hell does the :dusty-stick: emoji mean? In a time when office paranoia and politics have followed us home, Calvin Kasulke is here to capture the surprising, absurd, and fully-relatable factors attacking our collective sanity…and give us hope that we can still find a human connection.

A locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translating his thoughts into English makes her somewhat wobbly on her feet. She's not the agency's best translator, but what else is she going to do? She has no qualifications, and no discernible talent in any other field. So when tragedy strikes, and Lydia finds herself at the center of an intergalactic incident, her future employment prospects look dire--that is, if she can keep herself out of jail! But Lydia soon discovers that help can appear from the most unexpected source...

A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in Bridge, a wildly entertaining, reality-bending new thriller from Lauren Beukes, author of the AppleTV+ smash hit The Shining Girls.It was a game they played; the other worlds, the other lives. It was part of her mom’s grand delusions. It wasn’t real. Unless it was…  Bridget Kittinger has always been paralyzed by choices. It has a lot to do with growing up in the long shadow of her mother, Jo, a troubled neuroscientist. Jo’s obsession with one mythical object, the “dreamworm”—which she believed enabled travel to other worlds—led to their estrangement. Now, suddenly, Jo is dead. And in packing up her home, Bridge finds a strange device buried deep in Jo’s freezer: the dreamworm. Against all odds, it actually can open the door—to all other realities, and to all other versions of herself, too. Could Bridge find who she should be in this world, by visiting the others? And could her Jo still be alive somewhere? But there’s a sinister cost to trading places, and others hunting the dreamworm who would kill to get their hands on it . . . Across a thousand possible lives, from Portland to Haiti, from Argentina to the alligator-infested riverways of North Carolina, Bridge takes readers on a highly original thrill ride, pushing the boundaries of what we know about mothers and daughters, hunters and seekers, and who we each choose to be.

THE QUEEN OF DEATH DOESN’T MISS.Meet The Reaper—a cold-blooded assassin with a sniper’s eye and a South Side soul. When a wronged actress hires her to take down a sleazy movie producer, The Reaper delivers vengeance with a bullet and a blade, carving her way through blood and betrayal.But the game doesn’t stop in Hollywood. In Vegas, she targets Derrick “The King” Rollins, a mixed martial arts mogul dripping with power and sin.Ruthless, relentless, and unapologetic, The Reaper is urban justice at its deadliest. Perfect for fans of raw, high-octane thrillers where the shadows bite back.

After years of adventures, professional thief and amateur noodle critic Yael is invited to join The Order of the Banshee, a collection of the greatest female thieves in the universe, despite being decades younger than any of them. Yael's childhood best friend, Molina, has lived the opposite a stern and serious member of The Sunrisers, the universe's premiere peacekeeping organization, she's just been promoted to Captain, serving under her father. Her first assignment of her new Bring down The Order of the Banshee. Yael and Molina now find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict neither of them will escape unscathed. The love they have for each other is the same as when they were young, but either their personal values or their love will break. In this game of cat and mouse, both women must use all their wits and tricks to stay ahead of their new enemy. Will order triumph, or will chaos? No matter what, Yael and Molina will both lose.

Once Second Prince of the mightiest kingdom in the known world, Othrun now leads the last survivors of his exiled people into an uncertain future far across the Shimmering Sea from their ancestral home, now lost beneath the waves. With his Single God binding his knights to chivalric oaths, intent on wiping out idolatry and pagan worship, they will have to carve out a new kingdom on this mysterious continent―a continent that has for centuries been ravaged by warlords competing for supremacy and mages channeling the mystic powers of the elements―and unite the continent under godly rule. With a troubled past, a cursed sword, and a mysterious spirit guiding him, Othrun means to be that ruler, and conquer all. But with kingdoms fated on the edge of spears, alliances and pagan magic, betrayal, doubt, and dangers await him at every turn. Othrun will be forced to confront the truths of all he believes in on his journey to become a king, and a legend. When one kingdom drowns, a new one must rise in its place. So begins the saga of that kingdom, and the man who would rule it all. ​

It’s not the life you lead; it’s the blood you bleed. By 2060, society has been divided into two classes by a groundbreaking discovery: An afterlife exists, but only for the genetic few. Ascendants are genetically destined to experience what comes after. Biomasses are condemned to oblivion. This new era of Ascension is controlled by The Jacobs Institute, a powerful research organization challenging the limits of consciousness and morality. Ascendants follows three characters caught up in The Institute’s web of secrets—the visionary scientist who started it all, a grieving husband beholden to his belief, and a fierce young woman grappling with what society has become. What will it cost them to unravel the science that fuels The Institute’s power? A gripping techno-thriller, Ascendants is both a warning against the weaponization of science and belief, and a vision for the survival of humanity.

When tyranny reigns, only rebellion can bloom. In the desert kingdom of Famsastu, witches and shifters struggle under the iron rule of Pharaoh Seti, whose twisted laws suffocate freedom and whose secrets are steeped in blood. Tiye Asudem-a sharp-tongued witch-wants nothing more than to live on her own terms. But when rebellion simmers in the shadows and healers begin vanishing, Tiye finds herself pulled into a dangerous game of loyalty, deception, and survival. With her best friend Senusret at her side and the enigmatic Nebetah stirring something Tiye can't ignore, she must decide how far she's willing to go to defy a tyrant-and whether she can face the truths buried within herself. Deathly Flowers is a sweeping fantasy of rebellion, forbidden love, and the resilience it takes to bloom in the darkest soil.

Memory makes reality. That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent. As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds, but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it. But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them? At once a relentless pageturner and an intricate science-fiction puzzlebox about time, identity, and memory, Recursion is a thriller as only Blake Crouch could imagine it—and his most ambitious, mind-boggling, irresistible work to date.

Long ago, before history broke in half, elder gods exiled the vengeful deity Erynis to a far corner of Earth. When Ryn is found weakened after saving the life of an innocent villager, the U.S. military mistakes the battered immortal for a feral teenager and places her in New Petersburg, a decaying city full of monsters. In her clash with the city’s demons, Ryn is confused by her intense emotional connection with Naomi Bradford, a senator’s daughter she has sworn to protect. But while her claws can kill anything that dies (and a few things that cannot), she must also contend with the human race. They lie, they speak in riddles, and to protect her friend, the immortal must navigate the senseless rules of their flawed civilization. Worse, they are fragile—and giving her heart to one makes Ryn afraid for the first time in her eternal life.