The only thing more dangerous than falling for a lie is falling for the liar. Don’t look at the desert. Don’t think about the desert. Never step onto the sand. Taera has followed these rules her entire life—until he arrives. Impossibly gorgeous, with a face masked in magic, Nikolai kidnaps Taera and drags her deep into the dunes. He says she’s powerful and needs to be trained…if she ever wants to see her family again. Thrust into a deadly school of illusions and lies, Taera can’t trust anyone. Especially not her breathtaking, ruthless captor. Top student and notorious liar, his secrets run deeper than the sand. He’s her worst nightmare—and everything she craves. The cutthroat Halls of Glass have a mind of their own. Trapped within their looping corridors, Taera is surrounded by hostile students and forced to rely on Nikolai. Taera knows she shouldn’t fall for his illusions. But magic requires a partnership, and he’s the only mage who can handle her wild, untamed power. And the only way he’ll help her is if she pretends to be his. Masquerade of Mirrors is a fast-paced, slow-burn fantasy romance. Taera and Nikolai’s story is for readers who love crackling chemistry, daring escape plans, and as many lies as truths. This book is highly addictive and contains adult content. ~~~

She was taught to stay small.The realm will cease if she does.After years spent under lock and lie, a violent public incident forces Irma Hagtorn to flee the only life she’s ever known. With nothing but hidden memories, dangerous magic, and a pull she can’t explain, she crosses into a kingdom she has only read about. But Irma is not the only one hunting the truth of who she is.A godlike being known as The Shadow twists every guiding hand against her, his influence spreading through courts, kings, and the whispering dark. Danger tightens from every direction. Yet three unlikely companions refuse to let her face it alone—Åsa with her fierce loyalty, Brand with his untamed heart, and Henrik with the steadiness she’s never known. What begins as necessity becomes a fragile, reluctant found family stitched together by danger, stubbornness, bad jokes, and the kind of care Irma has learned not to trust. But even their protection may not be enough.To survive, Irma must embrace the power she has long denied and become what she fears—before The Shadow breaks the veil between realms and unmakes humanity beneath his bare, blackened feet. The Rising Flame blends Nordic folklore-rooted worldbuilding with psychological elemental magic. It will appeal to readers who crave emotional, character-driven fantasy where power and identity are two sides of the same wound. Tropes • Reluctant found family• Childhood friends to lovers• Trauma recovery arc• Slow-burn awakening of power• Godlike villain obsessed with the heroine• Prophecy with a twist• Nordic folklore-inspired worldbuilding• Survival journey that becomes destiny

After the death of the usurper, Lyanndra and Syran bring peace to Alastria once more. But when a familiar foe makes a daring escape from the palace dungeons and a devastating natural disaster strikes in the southernmost reaches of the lands, the whole kingdom is thrown into turmoil. Separated by duty and pulled taut by the threads of fate, Lyanndra is forced to confront her past while Syran struggles with his new responsibilities as King of Alastria. And in the shadows, a terrible plot unfolds. For beneath the kingdom, something has been slumbering for a very long time. Something old. Something forgotten. And now, it’s waking up.

Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own. Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek: The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams…. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion. With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like. But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.

After the death of the usurper, Lyanndra and Syran bring peace to Alastria once more. But when a familiar foe makes a daring escape from the palace dungeons and a devastating natural disaster strikes in the southernmost reaches of the lands, the whole kingdom is thrown into turmoil. Separated by duty and pulled taut by the threads of fate, Lyanndra is forced to confront her past while Syran struggles with his new responsibilities as King of Alastria. And in the shadows, a terrible plot unfolds. For beneath the kingdom, something has been slumbering for a very long time. Something old. Something forgotten. And now, it’s waking up.