An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors is Curtis Craddock's delightful and engrossing fantasy debut featuring a genius heroine and her guardian, a royal musketeer, which Brandon Sanderson calls, "A great read!"Born with a physical disability, no magical talent, and a precocious intellect, Princess Isabelle des Zephyrs has lived her life being underestimated by her family and her kingdom. The only person who appreciates her true self is Jean-Claude, the fatherly...

A delightful and engrossing fantasy debut featuring an intelligent heroine and her guardian, a royal musketeer.Caelum is an uninhabitable gas giant like Jupiter. High above it are the Risen Kingdoms, occupying flying continents called cratons. Remnants of a shattered world, these vast disks of soaring stone may be a thousand miles across. Suspended by magic, they float in the upper layers of Caelum's clouds.Born with a deformed hand and utter lack of the fa...

The high fantasy series continues as an ambassador and her guardian grapple with political intrigue and a disturbing serial killer." A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery [is] just as good as its predecessor—if not better. . . . A blisteringly tense read. . . . The worldbuilding, too, continues to satisfy. . . . I enjoyed it tremendously. If you enjoy fantasy with plenty of intrigue, then this series is definitely wor...

“A gripping tale of a woman who refuses to be defined by her physical and magical limitations, thwarting both assassins and all who see her as a pawn. A great read!” — Brandon Sanderson, on Curtis Craddock's An Alchemy of Masques and MirrorsA Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery is the masterful second audiobook in Curtis Craddock's critically-acclaimed high fantasy Risen Kingdoms series, continuing the engrossing tale of courtly intrigue and breathtak...

An airship captain battles spies, disturbing visions, and more as she races to find treasure in this swashbuckling high fantasy series conclusion.When a legendary craton is discovered, newly appointed airship captain Isabelle desZephyrs and her trusted musketeer Jean-Claude travel on a perilous mission to recover its fabled treasure for l'Empire Céleste.Bust Isabelle's leadership quickly becomes jeopardized. The dark, magical abilities she inherited give her ...

The Three Musketeers meets Jules Verne in Curtis Craddock's The Last Uncharted Sky, the concluding novel in the critically acclaimed high fantasy Risen Kingdoms series, an engrossing tale of courtly intrigue and breathtaking magic.Isabelle and Jean-Claude undertake an airship expedition to recover a fabled treasure and claim a hitherto undiscovered craton for l'Empire Celeste. But Isabelle, as a result from a previous attack that tried to subsume ...

Only one woman can stop the world from descending into endless war, in the thrilling new series in the world of the Gas-Lit EmpireThe year is 2012. The nations of the world are bound together in an alliance of collective security, overseen by the International Patent Office, and its ruthless stranglehold on technology.When airships start disappearing in the middle of the Atlantic, the Patent Office is desperate to discover what has happened. Forbidden to op...

**“This entrancing mix of feminism, queerness, magic and power-hungry villains makes for an intoxicating reading experience.” —Nerd DailyIn the second installment of Juno Dawson's "irresistible" fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of childhood friends and witches must choose between what is right and what is easy if they have any hope of keeping their coven--and their world--from tearing apart forever.**Niamh Kelly is dead. Her troubled twin, Ciara, now masquera...

Moving from poison and treachery to war and witchcraft, Sam Hawke’s Poison Wars continueIt started with poison and rebellion. It continues with war and witchcraft.The deadly siege of Silasta woke the ancient spirits, and the citystate must find its place in this new world of magic.But people and politics are always treacherous, and it will take all Jovan’s and Kalina’s skills to save the city-state when witches and assassins turn their sights to domination.

Fate of the Fallen is the start of a brand new adventure from New York Timesbestselling author Kel KadeNot all stories have happy endings.Everyone loves Mathias. Naturally, when he discovers it’s his destiny to save the world, he dives in head first, pulling his best friend Aaslo along for the ride.However, saving the world isn’t as easy, or exciting, as it sounds in the stories. The going gets rou...

Award-winning author Michael Swanwick returns to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable Book The Iron Dragon’s Daughter with the standalone adventure fantasy The Iron Dragon’s Mother.Caitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid, she discovers an unwanted hitchhiker.When Caitlin is framed for the murder of her b...

It's The Hunt for Red October in space with this brand new military science fiction novel from Patrick S. Tomlinson, In the BlackIn a demilitarized zone on the border of human space, long-range spy satellites are mysteriously going quiet, and no one knows why. Captain Susan Kamala and her crew are dispatched to figure outwhat's going on and solve the problem.That problem, however, is a mysterious bleeding edge alien ship that no human vessel could hope to match in op...