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Queen of the Dark Things: A Novel

C. Robert Cargill · Harper Voyager; Reprint edition
Format: Book

Screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill continues the story begun in his acclaimed debut Dreams and Shadows in this bold and brilliantly crafted tale involving fairies and humans, magic and monsters—a vivid phantasmagoria that combines the imaginative wonders of Neil...
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The Burning Dark

Adam Christopher · Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
Pages: 333
Format: Hardcover

Adam Christopher's dazzling first novel, Empire State, was named the Best Book of 2012 by SciFi Now magazine. Now he explores new dimensions of time and space in The Burning Dark.Back in the day, Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland had led the Fleet into battle against an implacable machine...
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The Bone Season: A Novel

Samantha Shannon · Bloomsbury
Pages: 466
Format: Print book

A TODAY BOOK CLUB PICK! It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does is unusual: scouting for information...
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Elysian Fields

Suzanne Johnson · Tor Books
Format: Book

Elysian Fields by Suzanne Johnson is the fun, fast-paced third book in the Sentinels of New Orleans, a series of urban fantasy novels filled with wizards, mermen, and pirates. These novels are perfect for readers of paranormal fiction and “fans of Charlaine Harris and Cat Adams”...
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The Big Fix: A Novel

Linda Grimes · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Linda Grimes's sexy and hilarious urban fantasy series that began with In a Fix and Quick Fix continues in The Big Fix.
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The Uninvited

Heather Graham · Harlequin MIRA; Original edition
Format: Paperback

1777 In the throes of the Revolutionary War, Landon Mansion is commandeered by British Lord Butcher Bedford. He stabs Lucy Tarletonwho spurned his king and his loveleaving her to die in her fathers arms. NOW After the days final tour, docent Allison Leigh makes her rounds while locking...
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Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds · Subterranean Press
Pages: 784
Format: Print book

The Guardian called Alastair Reynolds' work "a turbulent, wildly entertaining ride" and The Times acclaimed him as "the mastersinger of space opera". With a career stretching back more than 25 years and across fourteen novels, including the classic 'Revelation...
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A Mighty Fortress

David Weber · Tor Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Young Cayleb Ahrmahk has accomplished things few people could even dream of. Not yet even thirty years old, he's won the most crushing naval victories in human history. He's smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen...
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Arms-Commander

L. E. Modesitt · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Arms-Commander takes place ten years after the end of The Chaos Balance and tells the story of the legendary Saryn. The keep of Westwind, in the cold mountainous heights called the Roof of the World, is facing attack by the adjoining land of Gallos. Arthanos, son and heir to the ailing...
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The Shadow Throne: Book Two of the Shadow Campaigns

Django Wexler · Roc; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Anyone can plot a coup or fire an assassins bullet. But in a world of muskets and magic, it takes considerably more to seize the throne.The ailing King of the Vordan lies on his deathbed. When he dies, his daughter, Raesinia Orboan, will become the first Queen Regnant in centuries—and...
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Vision in Silver: A Novel of the Others

Anne Bishop · Roc
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Black Jewels Trilogy transports readers to a world of magic and political unrest - where the only chance at peace requires a deadly price ... The Others freed the cassandra sangue to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizing...
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Blood Red

Mercedes Lackey · DAW; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Rosamund is an Earth Master in the Schwarzwald the ancient Black Forest of Germany Since the age of ten she has lived with her teacher the Hunt Master and Earth Magician of the Schwarzwald Foresters a man she calls Papa Her adoptive Papa rescued her after her original Earth Master teacher...
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Undermajordomo Minor: A Novel

Patrick deWitt · Ecco
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

From the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers, comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale.A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long-awaited...
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