Not all happily-ever-afters last forever. The day before Kae and Aqeara's royal wedding, a random attack on Avalon's port leaves the kingdom reeling with loss. The two queens learn of similar attacks in other kingdoms, including Aqeara's underwater home.On a mission to hunt the individuals behind the attacks, Queen Kae and Queen Aqeara replace their crowns for tricorn hats and blades. They rally their crew and set sail on a dangerous adventure where secrets swirl to life and truths threaten to overcome them.Ruff never expected a happily ever after, but just as one was within his reach, it had been ripped away. When Captain Kae approaches him, Ruff sets aside his grief and joins his close friends on another harrowing journey. But the weight of a missing piece of his heart might just drown Ruff out at sea, where he first gave his heart away.

Taking place the year before the events of A Song of Silver and Gold, this prequel novella follows Kae and her crew as they first set sail hunting sirens.

A high-tech thriller about a crew of rebel spies and scientists on a mission to thwart a tyrannical autocrat. The axe is buried in the forest, and only a select few know where to dig . . . The world is dark and cold. Several world powers have tasked complex algorithms to govern their states and “optimize” political decision-making. These newly coded ministers begin their less-than generous assessment of mankind’s utility on earth, allocating or eliminating crucial resources and sending their once hopeful citizens into a panic. The body politic is extremely unwell, infected by its own single-minded pursuit of efficiency and subject to the artificially intelligent wills of their new rulers. From seemingly distinct and far-flung corners of this empire, rebel forces converge to protect humanity from careening into oblivion. Lilia, a programmer and robotics expert; Palmer, a diplomat; and Nikolai, personal doctor to an immortal all race to follow a mysterious sequence of clues embedded in a new mind-bending technology meant to imitate human consciousness in real time. None of them can see the forest through the trees on their own, but together, there may be a chance to understand the complexities that engulf them and to avert the implosion of the human world. Following the success of his debut novel, The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler launches readers into a new and darkly thrilling world of geopolitical espionage. With an eerie prescience, Where the Axe Is Buried depicts a world where the boundaries between human and machine are porous and computer programs determine the value of a life, or of millions. As exciting as it is philosophical, it melds a near impossible revolutionary operation with a blistering indictment of authoritarianism, making a lyrical and potent case for human freedom.

A sapphic Little Mermaid retelling perfect for fans of To Kill a Kingdom and The Shadows Between Us. Out in the open sea, it's kill or be killed. No one knows that better than Kaelyn. For the past year, Princess Kaelyn of Avalon has disguised herself as a man, Captain Kae, and led her crew into tumultuous waters to eradicate sirens on a journey fueled by revenge for the death of her brother. When they return home and experience a fatal siren attack on Avalon's harbor, Kae sets sail again to destroy the sea demons once and for all. Aqeara is a siren warrior of Meyrial, an underwater kingdom hidden from humans. When her negligence during the Avalon harbor attack causes the death of Meyrial's princess, she accepts the help of a sea witch to overturn her banishment. Aqeara is given a human body and has until the next full moon to carve out Captain Kae's heart in exchange for a spell to bring the dead princess back to life. When Kae's and Aqeara's paths cross, they fall into a whirlwind romance, complicating their respective plans. Kae must decide whether her desire for revenge against sirens overrides her feelings for the woman she's falling for, and Aqeara must choose between resurrecting the dead princess or sparing Kae's life.

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital. It's up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good. In a dog-eat-dog world...be a cat.

A genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger from V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. This is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets. This is a story about love. 1827. London. A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow—but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined. This is a story about rage. 2019. Boston. College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge. This is a story about life—how it ends, and how it starts.

A high-tech thriller about a crew of rebel spies and scientists on a mission to thwart a tyrannical autocrat. The axe is buried in the forest, and only a select few know where to dig . . . The world is dark and cold. Several world powers have tasked complex algorithms to govern their states and “optimize” political decision-making. These newly coded ministers begin their less-than generous assessment of mankind’s utility on earth, allocating or eliminating crucial resources and sending their once hopeful citizens into a panic. The body politic is extremely unwell, infected by its own single-minded pursuit of efficiency and subject to the artificially intelligent wills of their new rulers. From seemingly distinct and far-flung corners of this empire, rebel forces converge to protect humanity from careening into oblivion. Lilia, a programmer and robotics expert; Palmer, a diplomat; and Nikolai, personal doctor to an immortal all race to follow a mysterious sequence of clues embedded in a new mind-bending technology meant to imitate human consciousness in real time. None of them can see the forest through the trees on their own, but together, there may be a chance to understand the complexities that engulf them and to avert the implosion of the human world. Following the success of his debut novel, The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler launches readers into a new and darkly thrilling world of geopolitical espionage. With an eerie prescience, Where the Axe Is Buried depicts a world where the boundaries between human and machine are porous and computer programs determine the value of a life, or of millions. As exciting as it is philosophical, it melds a near impossible revolutionary operation with a blistering indictment of authoritarianism, making a lyrical and potent case for human freedom.

The future of storytelling is here. Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she's not sure what comes next. In her hotel room that night, she takes the risk that will define her life - she decides to write a book VERY unlike her others. A science fiction drama about androids and AI after the extinction of humanity. And everything changes. What follows is a tale of love and loss, fame and infamy, of extraordinary events in one world, and another. And as Zelu's life evolves, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur. Because sometimes a story really does have the power to reshape the world.

A sapphic Little Mermaid retelling perfect for fans of To Kill a Kingdom and The Shadows Between Us. Out in the open sea, it's kill or be killed. No one knows that better than Kaelyn. For the past year, Princess Kaelyn of Avalon has disguised herself as a man, Captain Kae, and led her crew into tumultuous waters to eradicate sirens on a journey fueled by revenge for the death of her brother. When they return home and experience a fatal siren attack on Avalon's harbor, Kae sets sail again to destroy the sea demons once and for all. Aqeara is a siren warrior of Meyrial, an underwater kingdom hidden from humans. When her negligence during the Avalon harbor attack causes the death of Meyrial's princess, she accepts the help of a sea witch to overturn her banishment. Aqeara is given a human body and has until the next full moon to carve out Captain Kae's heart in exchange for a spell to bring the dead princess back to life. When Kae's and Aqeara's paths cross, they fall into a whirlwind romance, complicating their respective plans. Kae must decide whether her desire for revenge against sirens overrides her feelings for the woman she's falling for, and Aqeara must choose between resurrecting the dead princess or sparing Kae's life.

One student. One librarian. A murder to solve.When Mrs Landom is killed, librarian Miss Brenston and bookworm Myla are trapped in the school library with a body, a murder weapon, and a twisted murderer to unveil. With the killer still inside the school, they must solve the case to survive. The question is… how will they get out alive? And most importantly…Who killed Mrs Landom?

One student. One librarian. A murder to solve.When Mrs Landom is killed, librarian Miss Brenston and bookworm Myla are trapped in the school library with a body, a murder weapon, and a twisted murderer to unveil. With the killer still inside the school, they must solve the case to survive. The question is… how will they get out alive? And most importantly…Who killed Mrs Landom?

Instant New York Times Bestseller “Unimpeachably terrific.” —The New York Times Book Review For fans of Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena, and Donna Tartt: a twisty, fast-paced, cinematic literary thriller, and an ingenious book within a book, by the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Enigma of Room 622 Marcus Goldman is riding high. The twenty-eight-year-old writer is the new darling of American letters, whose debut novel has sold two million copies. But when it comes time to produce a new book, he is sidelined by a crippling case of writer’s block. He travels to Somerset, New Hamprshire, to see his mentor, Harry Quebert, one of the country’s most respected writers, hoping to jar his creative juices as his publisher’s deadline looms. But Marcus’s plans are upended when Harry is sensationally implicated in a cold-case murder: Fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan went missing in 1975, and Harry admits to having had an affair with her. Following a trail of clues through the backwoods and isolated beaches of New Hampshire, Marcus must answer two questions, which are mysteriously connected: Who killed Nola Kellergan? And how do you write a book to save someone’s life? Translated from the French by Sam Taylor Named a Best Book of the Summer by CBS This Morning, Us Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Parade, Houston Chronicle, New York Post, Tampa Bay Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and The Daily Beast Now a 10-part TV series on EPIX, starring Patrick Dempsey, Ben Schnetzer, Damon Wayans Jr., and Virginia Madsen