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The Fifth Ward: First Watch

Dale Lucas · Orbit
Pages: 406
Format: Paperback

A watchman of the Yenara City guard has gone missing. The culprit could be any of the usual suspects: drug-dealing orcs, mind-controlling elves, uncooperative mages, or humans being typical humans.It's up to two reluctant partners -- Rem, a hungover miscreant who joins the Watch to pay off his bail,...
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Rituals: The Cainsville Series

KELLEY ARMSTRONG · Random House Canada
Pages: 471
Format: Hardcover

The fifth book and the exciting conclusion to bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's "impossible-to-put-down" Cainsville series, in which she mixes hard-hitting crime writing with phenomenal world-building to create a brand of fiction all her own.When Olivia Taylor-Jones found...
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Rune of the Apprentice

Jamison Stone · Inkshares
Pages: 500
Format: Print book

In a world where magic, technology, and nature have merged, the few who can control Runes hold dominance over all of creation. All believe that Aleksi, a sixteen-year-old orphan, was blessed to be born with a Rune embedded in his palm, but that's only because they don't know the truth -- Aleksi's...
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Empire of Silence

CHRISTOPHER RUOCCHIO · DAW
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.It was not his war.The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin...
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Dark Legacy

CHRISTINE FEEHAN · Berkley
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In a thrilling Carpathian novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, a woman fights to free herself from the grip of the vampire trying to possess her... In a beautiful compound hidden away from the world, Emeline Sanchez tries to blunt the pain that has wracked...
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Strange Practice

Vivian Shaw · Orbit
Pages: 385
Format: Paperback

Meet Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead.Dr. Greta Helsing has inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. She treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. It's a quiet, supernatural-adjacent...
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The Summon Stone

Ian Irvine · Orbit
Pages: 624
Format: Print book

A new epic fantasy series begins in the world of his MILLION-COPY-SELLING Three Worlds Cycle.
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The Alexander Inheritance

Eric Flint · Baen
Pages: 391
Format: Hardcover

NEW TIME TRAVEL ALT. HISTORY FROM A MASTER: Flint's Ring of Fire and Boundary series have proved him to be a master of time travel alternate history. Here then, a new tale of persons displaced in time, fighting for their lives.Twice before, mysterious cosmic catastrophes have sent portions...
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Jodi Taylor · Accent Press Ltd
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

Max is back! New husband, new job, and a training regime that cannot fail - to go wrong! Take one interim Chief Training Officer, add five recruits, mix with Joan of Arc, a baby mammoth, a duplicitous Father of History, a bombed rat, Stone Age hunters, a couple of passing policemen who should...
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Spirited

Mary Behre · Berkley
Format: Paperback

She's running from who she is ... All Jules Scott wants is to live a normal, quiet life - preferably one that doesn't include ghosts. Jules's talent for communicating with the dead has brought her nothing but trouble. Despite her best efforts, needy spirits always find her and draw her into...
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The Bastard Legion: Book 1

Gavin G Smith · Gollancz
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Four hundred years in the future, the most dangerous criminals are kept in suspended animation aboard prison ships and "rehabilitated" in a shared virtual reality environment. But Miska Corbin, a thief and hacker with a background in black ops, has stolen one of these ships, the Hangman's...
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

JESMYN WARD · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction "The heart of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing is story - the yearning for a narrative to help us understand ourselves, the pain of the gaps we'll never fill, the truths that are failed by words and must be translated through ritual...
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The Shadow Throne: Book Two of the Shadow Campaigns

Django Wexler · Roc, 2015. ©2014
Pages: 609
Format: Print book

"An immensely entertaining novel" (Tor.com) from the author of The Thousand Names...The King of the Vordan is on his deathbed. Soon his daughter, Raesinia will be the first Queen Regnant in centuries - and a target for those who seek to control her. The most dangerous is Duke...
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Midnight Crossroad

Charlaine Harris · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

FIRST IN A NEW TRILOGYFrom Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse and her world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, comes a darker locale - populated by more strangers than friends. But then, that's how the locals prefer it ... Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town...
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