In a rigidly hierarchical Elizabethan world where magic has been ruthlessly stamped out, a spy treads a dangerous path.The Corhonase citadel is a place of virtue and debauchery—and deadly secrets. For the Laurentine spies embedded there, every day brings danger. Nothing is as it seems, whether in the salons of the nobles’ court or the catacombs beneath the citadel.Saliel has many secrets. Her spying is one, her past as a pickpocket in Laurent’s slums is ano...

Her magic may be the only thing that can save a prince—and the Seven Kingdoms.In a distant corner of the Seven Kingdoms, an ancient curse festers and grows, consuming everything in its path. Only one man can break it: Harkeld of Osgaard, a prince with mage’s blood in his veins. But Prince Harkeld has a bounty on his head and assassins at his heels.Innis is young, untested, gifted, the strongest shapeshifter in a century. Now she must do the forbidden: becom...

Some treasures were never meant to be stolen.In a world where the ordinary and the extraordinary co-exist, a young woman must right a wrong—or die trying.Melke is a wraith, able to walk unseen. Feared by all, hunted and hated, she has lost everything—except her younger brother. Now she is forced to do the unthinkable: in exchange for her brother’s life, she must steal a priceless necklace.But the theft unleashes devastating consequences and...

Those who drink the water shall thirst for blood. They shall be as wild beasts.A blood curse is consuming the Seven Kingdoms. Only one man can stop it—fugitive Osgaardan prince, Harkeld. But Harkeld has a bounty on his head and assassins at his heels. Guarded by Sentinel mages, pursued by Fithian assassins, Prince Harkeld begins the most perilous stage of his journey: entering the cursed kingdom of Sault.But the mages aren’t the only travelers heading east....

The Seven Kingdoms are in the grip of an ancient blood curse. Thousands have died. Thousands more will die.Only one man can destroy the curse. Fugitive Osgaardan prince, Harkeld, is that man—whether he likes it or not.But the bounty on Harkeld’s head is high. He has outrun his father’s soldiers, but he can’t outrun the assassins who seek him—Fithians, trained in the art of killing. Even the Sentinel mages who guard him are no match for Fithian steel. Faced ...

Her magic may be the only thing that can save a prince—and the Seven Kingdoms.In a distant corner of the Seven Kingdoms, an ancient curse festers and grows, consuming everything in its path. Only one man can break it: Harkeld of Osgaard, a prince with mage's blood in his veins. But Prince Harkeld has a bounty on his head and assassins at his heels.Innis is young and untested, the strongest shapeshifter in a century. Now she must do the forbidden: become a m...

The Seven Kingdoms are in the grip of an ancient blood curse. Thousands have died. Thousands more will die.Only one man can destroy the curse. Fugitive Osgaardan prince, Harkeld, is that man—whether he likes it or not.But the bounty on Harkeld's head is high. He has outrun his father's soldiers, but he can't outrun the assassins who seek him—Fithians, trained in the art of killing. Even the Sentinel mages who guard him are no match for Fithian steel. Faced ...

Those who drink the water shall thirst for blood. They shall be as wild beasts.A blood curse is consuming the Seven Kingdoms. Only one man can stop it—fugitive Osgaardan prince, Harkeld. But Harkeld has a bounty on his head and assassins at his heels. Guarded by Sentinel mages, pursued by Fithian assassins, Prince Harkeld begins the most perilous stage of his journey: entering the cursed kingdom of Sault.But the mages aren't the only travelers heading east....

When Liz Drake's best friend vanishes, nothing can stop her nightmares. Driven by the certainty he needs her help, she crosses a continent to search for him. She finds Blake comatose in a Vancouver hospital, victim of a mysterious accident that claimed his lover's life - in her dreams he drowns. Blake's new circle of artists and mystics draws her in, but all of them are lying or keeping dangerous secrets. Soon nightmare creatures stalk the waking city, and Liz can't fight a dream from the ...

Deborah A. Wolf presents an epic fantasy in the tradition of Guy Gavriel Kay and Jacqueline Carey.In the heart of the singing desert, the people are fading from the world. Mothers bear few live children, the warriors and wardens are hard-pressed to protect those who remain, and the vash’ai—the great cats who have called the people kithren for as long as there have been stories—bond with fewer humans each year. High above, the Sun Dragon sings a song of life and love while ...

Rudi is a cook in a Krakow restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the country he's trapped in, a new career - part spy, part people-smuggler - begins. Following multiple economic crises and a devastating flu pandemic, Europe has fractured into countless tiny nations, duchies, polities and republics. Recruited by the shadowy organisation Les Coureurs des Bois, Rudi is schooled in espionage, but when a training mission to The Line, a sovereign nation consisting ...

An outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realm—in this “utterly engrossing” Newbery Medal–winning fantasy (The New York Times).Aerin is an outcast in her own father’s court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her.She makes friends with her father’s lame, retired warhorse, Talat, and discovers an old, overlooked, and dangerously imprecise recipe for dragon-fire-proof ointment in a dusty corner ...