In this magical epic fantasy, a young woman must navigate treacherous wartime alliances as she secretly reunites with her childhood crush, all while harnessing her power over death in a daring bid to save her realm—in the thrilling second novel of the Gods Beyond the Skies series.Ruying has learned a bitter that the enemy prince who had promised a better future for both of their worlds, has betrayed her. The Romans will not leave Pangu’s shores until they have depleted her realm as thoroughly as they have destroyed their own. Now only one question Will Pangu’s unmaking be a quick and brutal war, or a prolonged draining of resources?With the arrival of the third Roman prince, Cassius, the answer may come sooner than anyone expected. Tasked with a decision that will either end in fire and bloodshed and the destruction of everything Ruying has ever known, or an eternity of subjugation, he alone holds the fate of Pangu in his hands.But Ruying sees a third option. She and her childhood crush Baihu have now united in secret against the Romans. Both are highly placed inside the Roman hierarchy, and trusted by their respective princes. So who better to curtail Rome’s power by assassinating all three of the Roman princes at Cassius’ welcoming party? With the magic of Death at her fingertips, she will save her world or die trying.But there are forces at play that Ruying knows nothing about—forces that will test her courage and resolve in ways she never thought possible, and make her understand exactly where her heart truly lies.

A librarian tasked with protecting the Archive of magical life books must team up with a man who has no book to find her missing brother in this dark academia fantasy, for fans of Ninth House and The Atlas Six. Every soul that has ever existed has a life book.Astra is an Archivist, tasked with keeping the life books safe in the Arcane Archives. When her twin brother Orion goes missing, Astra is desperate for clues so she does the only thing she can think she breaks her oath as an Archivist and steals his life book from the Archives. Faced with an ominous blacked-out page blocking her brother's recent memories, she catches only fragments of a clue - a vision of a green-eyed man she's never seen before and Orion's last location, the Isle of Skye. When the mysterious man, Castor, appears at her place of work the next day, with no memory of ever meeting Orion, Astra is desperate for answers and delves into the Archives for this stranger's life book. Only there isn't one. Everyone has a life book - why doesn't he?Together with her friends - a banshee, demon cat and a bartender - they set off to find her brother and discover Castor's true identity, but quickly find themselves unravelling deep conspiracies and dark secrets that change everything she thought she knew about the life books and the Archives.

The romance of A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE meets the horror of THE WITCHER in this YA queer fantasy, in which a girl who suffers from migraines falls through one of her auras and into the autumnal, wraith-filled otherworld, where she meets a sharp-edged girl who is being ritualistically used by the ruling secular cult that promised to cure them both, and vows to save the girl she's growing to love, even if it means becoming a pawn in the cult's plans for war. Coming from Peachtree Teen in Fall 2026.

Experience history as you've never seen it before, in the way it was meant to be told. Not with sterile, boring dates, but through the voice of Sherrilyn Kenyon who is a direct, lineal descendant of these brave women who left everything they knew behind to begin forging their lives among strangers in alien cultures and lands where they had to boldly face adversity, starvation and threats that challenged their wills to survive. Meticulously researched from historical records, and family documentation that has been handed down and preserved, these are the unvarnished tales of life and human endurance, for docile women never make history. Yet these swans forever changed the world . . .

Prepublication information ISBN: 9780356518374, 9780356518350, 035651837X, 0356518353 OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1428701534

Secrets Make You Sick is a poetry collection that candidly explores the intricacies of severe mental illness and subsequent trauma. It delves into the sense of self, the highs and lows of Bipolar Disorder, the effects of Complex PTSD, and the many layers of grief. *The topics addressed in this collection are highly sensitive. Please read at your own discretion and take care of your heart.

In a world divided into three rigid roles, everyone has a place. With a stronger build, the Ous are in charge of construction and manufacture. Nits devote their time to running society, from government to commerce. The Travil are caregivers. They bear and raise children. Deviating from your role is punishable by death. This is the story of a Travil, who never quite fit in. They were forced to attend a school that taught caring for children and reproductive anatomy. In secret, they devoured books on accounting and manufacturing. Without a gender in a world where gender defined all they were allowed to be, they lived on the edge of society until they could no longer hide. . . “The Act of Never Fitting In” is a dystopian short story about identity, survival, and the people who will risk everything so that we can be ourself.

Secrets Make You Sick is a poetry collection that candidly explores the intricacies of severe mental illness and subsequent trauma. It delves into the sense of self, the highs and lows of Bipolar Disorder, the effects of Complex PTSD, and the many layers of grief. *The topics addressed in this collection are highly sensitive. Please read at your own discretion and take care of your heart.

Two storm chasers find a love that could blow them away in this electric debut romance.Wedding photographer Sloane Michaels might spend most of her year running after brides, but she lives for the six weeks each spring she chases tornadoes instead. When the prestigious magazine Nature Shots announces a cover contest, Sloane knows that winning could be the chance she needs to break up with taffeta for good and establish herself in landscape photography.The last thing she needs is a distraction in the form of reckless “Wild Wes” Talbot. A legend among storm chasers, he’s been Sloane’s close, personal frenemy for the last decade and is the man to beat for the cover contest.Sloane isn’t surprised when Wes gets in an accident that jeopardizes his season. But with an active weather pattern emerging, she doubles down on her need to beat Wes fair and square, and begrudgingly invites him to join her for the remainder of the season.As they race through hail, high winds, and stormy skies, Sloane realizes that Wes might be more than the rich, flirty, Texas wildcard she thought she knew — and that the feelings blooming between them are more charged and dangerous than the storms they’re chasing.

Women bite back in this queer gothic thriller, perfect for fans of Interview with the Vampire and Plain Bad Heroines.It wasn't easy for Angela Bell growing up on Possession island, the remote Pacific Northwest setting of her late mother's wildly popular vampire novel. When she returns home from college and her estranged best friend, Mo, is murdered, she's forced to reckon with yet another loss—and finds herself in the crosshairs of the bungled police investigation.Sally Raleigh has longed to leave the island for years, but she's trapped by her father's declining health and her devotion to her charismatic twin brother Adrian. The last thing she needs is her high-school nemesis Angela back in town. But Sally is also devastated by Mo's death, and finds herself forging an unlikely alliance with her former enemy to find Mo's killer. As Angie and Sally delve deeper into the island's sinister underbelly, they must confront just how far they're willing to go to protect the people they love. And they'll soon find that the secrets they've been keeping from each other won't stay buried for long...

An action-packed enemies-to-lovers romantasy filled with a romance that will leave you breathless, betrayals that will rip your heart out, and a princess who will stop at nothing for revenge. One year ago, Rowenna Harrack, the crown princess of Tashir, left her homeland in a wedding dress of chains—sent away to the enemy nation of Vanzador as a captive bride. Now, Rowenna is dead. Brought home in a coffin after an alleged fall from a cliff. Second-born princess, Indira, knows her sister's death was no accident. Desperate for truth and vengeance, Indira agrees to wed the prince so she can infiltrate Vanzador, find Rowenna's murderer, and burn their kingdom to the ground. Indira's plan is simple, she will make nice until she can find out how to avenge her sister and free her country from the rival nation's stranglehold. But when Indira arrives, nothing is as terrible as Rowenna described. As Indira grows closer to her new husband, Prince Alaric, and uncovers more about Vanzador, the source of its powers, and what happened during Rowenna's final days, she's no longer sure what—and who—to believe. Because everyone, even her sister, has secrets. Deadly ones.

The Blair Witch Project meets The Ritual, with a generous helping of The Menu, in Morsel, a delicious folk horror novella perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw, and Paul Tremblay.Lou did what the children of parents with back-breaking, poor paying jobs are supposed to pulled up her bootstraps, went to college, and got an office job with coworkers who won’t stop talking about their multi-level marketing scheme disguised as self-betterment.Determined to lift her ill mother out of poverty before it's too late, and in the spirit of climbing the corporate ladder, Lou accepts an assignment in the rural hills of Ohio. She quickly finds herself stranded in the middle of nowhere with a sabotaged truck, a dog she’s determined to keep safe, and something stalking her through the ancient Appalachian woods.If she can’t escape the woods in time, she’ll come face to face with the fact that her job isn’t the only thing that wants to eat her alive.Morsel is a chilling testament to the burden of generational poverty and the all-consuming nature of capitalism, where the monster and the monstrous, in the end, are not the same.

He was a perfectionist, addicted to her imperfections.She was a mess, needing to feel worthy.Both of them were liars. Hayes Mitchell, retired Air Force pilot turned bounty hunter, was second in command at Red Snake Investigations. For the last decade, he’d spent his days chasing other peoples’ problems instead of facing his own. On the outside, he was fine. On the inside, he was numb. His life hadn’t been perfect, but perfection was what he craved. That all changed when Margo stuck her black acrylic nail into his chest, threatening to kill him if he didn’t save her best friend. Two years later, he woke up tangled in her lilac sheets, the taste of hope lingering on his tongue. She’d made him feel alive again. But when she moaned another man’s name in her sleep, he knew she had never been his. It was all pretend, a lie drenched in spiced rum and lust. Margo Bennett, Astoria’s favorite barista turned bartender, was trying to rebuild her life after everything crumbled around her. Now, at nearly thirty years old, she was about to graduate. Things were looking up. Then Hayes stalked up to the bar for a drink and took her breath away. With his dark green eyes, deep voice, and broad shoulders, he was hard to resist. He oozed perfection and she wanted to taste it. He would never be hers, but for now, she could pretend. When she woke up alone, all the progress she’d made in her life disappeared along with the bounty hunter. The sting of him leaving was almost too much, a cross she didn’t have the guts to bear. She ignored the memories of his rough hands and soft praises. To keep her new life intact, she had to go back into her past, entangling herself in a web of dangerous lies that only Hayes could save her from–if she’d let him.

He was a perfectionist, addicted to her imperfections.She was a mess, needing to feel worthy.Both of them were liars. Hayes Mitchell, retired Air Force pilot turned bounty hunter, was second in command at Red Snake Investigations. For the last decade, he’d spent his days chasing other peoples’ problems instead of facing his own. On the outside, he was fine. On the inside, he was numb. His life hadn’t been perfect, but perfection was what he craved. That all changed when Margo stuck her black acrylic nail into his chest, threatening to kill him if he didn’t save her best friend. Two years later, he woke up tangled in her lilac sheets, the taste of hope lingering on his tongue. She’d made him feel alive again. But when she moaned another man’s name in her sleep, he knew she had never been his. It was all pretend, a lie drenched in spiced rum and lust. Margo Bennett, Astoria’s favorite barista turned bartender, was trying to rebuild her life after everything crumbled around her. Now, at nearly thirty years old, she was about to graduate. Things were looking up. Then Hayes stalked up to the bar for a drink and took her breath away. With his dark green eyes, deep voice, and broad shoulders, he was hard to resist. He oozed perfection and she wanted to taste it. He would never be hers, but for now, she could pretend. When she woke up alone, all the progress she’d made in her life disappeared along with the bounty hunter. The sting of him leaving was almost too much, a cross she didn’t have the guts to bear. She ignored the memories of his rough hands and soft praises. To keep her new life intact, she had to go back into her past, entangling herself in a web of dangerous lies that only Hayes could save her from–if she’d let him.