The ancient kingdoms of The Wheel are lit not by a sun, but by rollstars, great ovals of light that rotate around the hub in the sky. When they start going out, Sahaar's world will never be the same. The little kingdom ruled by her grandmother is thrown into chaos: the ailing queen is overthrown in a coup and Sahaar is forced to run for her life.With her pet fox as her only companion, Sahaar follows the directions she receives in a mysterious message and travels to a location far o...

Mars is the new frontier: desolate, lawless and wild. Once home to an advanced alien civilisation, now home to every kind of riffraff from Earth hoping to build a new life amongst the ruins — or, better yet, plunder some ancient Martian treasure. The greatest treasure of them all is the City of the Dead, the fabled tomb of the high kings and queens of ancient Mars. It promises riches beyond imagination; people will kill to find it. When Holly's archaeologist father is kidnapped by pirates ...

Mars is the new frontier: desolate, lawless and wild. Once home to an advanced alien civilisation, now home to every kind of riffraff from Earth hoping to build a new life amongst the ruins - or, better yet, plunder some ancient Martian treasure.The greatest treasure of all is the City of the Dead, the fabled tomb of the high kings and queens of ancient Mars. It promises riches beyond imagination; people will kill ...

Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona ...the Ninth?A Finalist for the Hugo and Locus Awards!An Indie Next Pick!The Locked Tomb is a 2023 Hugo Finalist for Best Series!“You will love Nona, and Nona loves you.” —Alix E. Harrow“Unlike anything I've ever read.” —V....

The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.'Banks is a phenomenon' William GibsonLady Sharrow was once the fearless leader of a combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the vicinity of the planet Golter. Now she is hu...

He can’t help but fall for her—big feet and all.Grumpy Zach isn’t interested in settling down. He’s a lion on a mission, with no time for a mate. As if fate cares what he wants.An order from his king has him guarding a peculiar stowaway who might have answers to a mystery—and causes him to question his heart.It will take all his feline skill to keep her safe as they race to locate a dangerous treasure. As they come to rely on each other, things start to heat up....

Rob Dunbar is the world's best history professor. And with good reason: he's been alive for three thousand years, keeping his existence a secret since before the days of Athens.But a stranger named Baxter has a better use for Rob's vast expertise. Baxter's looking to found a mining company in the Asteroid Belt. In exchange for Rob's help, he'll try to unravel the mystery of Rob's origin.As they're getting their outfit off the ground, they come under covert attack by HemiCo,...

The New York Times–bestselling author returns to the Magykal world of her "deliciously spellbinding" fantasy series with this eBook exclusive novella ( Kirkus, starred review of Septimus Heap: Magyk).In this tale that takes place between the stories told in Magyk and Flyte, the witches of the Port Witch Coven want DomDaniel's powerful Darke Toad—and will go to ridiculous lengths to get their hands on it. But first, Simon ...

A few years ago, a military doctor walking the corridors of New Jakarta Station saved Melati's life. She signed up for the International Space Force to pay back her moral debt to him. But her family thinks she has betrayed her people. It was ISF who forcefully removed their grandmothers and grandfathers from the crowded slums of Jakarta to work in interstellar space stations.It is Melati's job to teach six-year old construct soldiers, artificial humans grown in labs and activated w...

Telepath Den Harper did the dirty work for the authoritarian Expansion, reading the minds of criminals, spies and undesirables, for years. Unable to take the strain, he stole a starship and headed into the void, a sector of lawless space known as Satan’s Reach. For five years he worked as a trader among the stars – then discovered that the Expansion had set a bounty hunter on his trail.But what does the Expansion want with a lowly telepath like Harper? Is there something in the rum...

The dream of a stable, democratic human Commonwealth has been dying for years. Politicians, financiers, and spies vie for supremacy, power, and wealth in pursuit of a nightmarish vision that can have only one outcome, the creation of a repressive interstellar empire. All that stands between them and their goal is a small band of determined Fleet operatives working in the shadows. Drawn into the struggle against his will, former Marine Pathfinder Zack Decker soon realizes h...

As long as there’s an Earth to defend, Jenny Casey has a job. But she may outlast the world she was custom-built to save. . . .Give Canada’s Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey an inch and she’ll take a galaxy. That’s just the kind of person a world on the brink of destruction needs. The year is 2063, and Earth has been brutalized. An asteroid flung at Toronto by the PanChinese government has killed tens of millions and left the equivalent of a nuclear explosion in ...