A young girl is left to die in a wizard's dungeon but finds a new home with the monsters around her in this humorous and heartfelt standalone epic fantasy from acclaimed author Gareth Hanrahan. "Full of wit and adventure, twists and turns, wonderful monsters, and astonishing revelations. An absolute joy." – M. R. Carey, author of Infinity Gate Enter a world of dungeons and dragons, magic and manticores, and goblins and gargoyles . . . 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. And as the outside world starts to intrude, Bait will learn what it means to be monstrous and she will have to decide where she truly belongs.

Every Banshee has a fated wail. It's an important rite of passage for every young banshee to hear the name of the person they will ferry into the afterlife. Any who don't will face The Curse, i.e. continuing on as a specter trapped in this world. No Pressure. Unfortunately for Jessica Hardgraves, when her future is within her clawed hands, she's told she wails for no one. Panicked and alone, she makes up the perfect hero to be her fated wail so her parents never have to worry that she'll end up a ghost. Forever.Left eye yellow and the right is blue, Ironjaw, they call him. Fast forward 15 years and Ivan 'Ironjaw' Skullcrusher is done with revenge. Hanging up his hammer and shield, he's ready for the good life. A restaurant in his dead parent's honor sounds perfect for him and his crew of justice slinging adventurers. Only hitch is they don't know anything about running a business. Whipping up a good meal? Sure! But business permits? You wish. Thankfully for him, a night off at the city fairgrounds runs him into a certain birthday girl banshee. With her nosy, opinionated family breathing down her neck and her secret on the verge of exposure, the two strike a deal. Her business major knowledge and Ivan's magical cooking skills combined, they might just succeed. And so long as he keeps up appearances, her family will go on thinking they are star crossed lovers. But danger threatens to rip the restaurant and Jessica's family apart. Is this just a fake-fated-mate story gone wrong? Or can Jessica finally find her happily ever after before the final banshee sings? amazon music All the music + top

From the dark and twisted mind behind the podcast sensation The Magnus Archives comes a suffocating, socially charged nightmare that reveals how fear festers in the cracks of everyday life… Beneath the streets of London, it hungers… 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.   On their own, they each begin to experience strange dissociative events. Time gets lost. Friends disappear. Something stalks them in the shadows. They make an unlikely team, but to remember what they encountered that day on the train, they will have to work together. Because now it's up to them to understand what horror they saw – and stop it in its tracks before it drags everyone else down below. 

Every Banshee has a fated wail. It's an important rite of passage for every young banshee to hear the name of the person they will ferry into the afterlife. Any who don't will face The Curse, i.e. continuing on as a specter trapped in this world. No Pressure. Unfortunately for Jessica Hardgraves, when her future is within her clawed hands, she's told she wails for no one. Panicked and alone, she makes up the perfect hero to be her fated wail so her parents never have to worry that she'll end up a ghost. Forever.Left eye yellow and the right is blue, Ironjaw, they call him. Fast forward 15 years and Ivan 'Ironjaw' Skullcrusher is done with revenge. Hanging up his hammer and shield, he's ready for the good life. A restaurant in his dead parent's honor sounds perfect for him and his crew of justice slinging adventurers. Only hitch is they don't know anything about running a business. Whipping up a good meal? Sure! But business permits? You wish. Thankfully for him, a night off at the city fairgrounds runs him into a certain birthday girl banshee. With her nosy, opinionated family breathing down her neck and her secret on the verge of exposure, the two strike a deal. Her business major knowledge and Ivan's magical cooking skills combined, they might just succeed. And so long as he keeps up appearances, her family will go on thinking they are star crossed lovers. But danger threatens to rip the restaurant and Jessica's family apart. Is this just a fake-fated-mate story gone wrong? Or can Jessica finally find her happily ever after before the final banshee sings? amazon music All the music + top

An Ana and Din Mystery Brilliant detective Ana Dolabra must prove a man's innocence to stop a civil war in the third book of the series that began with The Tainted Cup, named an Edgar, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award Finalist and one of the best books of the year (New York Times Book Review, NPR, Elle)—from the bestselling author of The Founders Trilogy. 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. If blood is spilt, the whole of the empire may be plunged into starvation and chaos. 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. It is with this undertaking that the great detective Ana Dolabra is tasked, her assistant Din at her side—and the two find themselves racing with great speed and little dignity to the scene. As ever, the impossible proves little obstacle for the deadly combination of Ana’s intellect and Din’s keen eye, and mere hours after riding into the dusty town, Ana glimpses the greater pattern behind the crime. A deeper, subtler web of death is being woven in plain sight, by a mastermind with an ancient magical technology at his disposal. But even Ana's uncanny insight is of little use when each new suspect she uncovers ends up dead--with each new killing calculated to bring tensions between the two rival clans past the boiling point. And as Din pursues their adversary through the canton's wild ranges, sprawling ranches, and reeking slaughterhouses, he finds his loyalties divided in unexpected ways.