She memorized the mark that killed her father. She never expected to find it on the boy the ancient magic chose for her.Three years ago, seventeen-year-old Eveline Ashford lost her father to a shadowy assassin known only as the Hunter — a killer bound to a centuries-old blood oath and controlled by someone powerful enough to bury the truth. Before he died, Commander Aldric Ashford pressed a single drawing into his daughter's hands: a compass-rose mark, four points, ...

Ama Calloway knows the rules. Don't stand out. Don't react. Don't let them see the fire. As a scholarship ward student at Ashveil Academy. one of five common-born students admitted each year to an institution built for the magical elite. Ama has survived by staying invisible. She's brilliant, she's careful, and she has absolutely no intention of letting anyone discover the forbidden Fireborn magic burning beneath her skin.Then a fire-sigil appears scorched into the academy wall ove...

She wasn't supposed to get through the gate.Veilmoor Academy has kept humans out for three hundred years. Ancient wards, pack magic, a school hidden somewhere in the Scottish Highlands that the ordinary world simply cannot find. Seventeen-year-old Cora Ellis wasn't supposed to walk straight through those wards, uninvited, on a grey October morning with one bag and a letter she never applied for.But she did. And now she can't leave.Stuck inside a supernatural boarding s...

SHORTLISTED AS A 2025 BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG NON-FICTIONContributions by Katrin Althans, Jayson Althofer, Naomi Simone Borwein, Persephone Braham, Krista Collier-Jarvis, Shane Hawk, Jade Jenkinson, June Scudeler, and Sabrina ZachariasGlobal Indigenous Horror is a collection of essays that positions Indigenous Horror as more than just a genre, but as a narrative space where the spectral and social converge, where ...

SHORTLISTED AS A 2025 BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG NON-FICTIONContributions by Katrin Althans, Jayson Althofer, Naomi Simone Borwein, Persephone Braham, Krista Collier-Jarvis, Shane Hawk, Jade Jenkinson, June Scudeler, and Sabrina ZachariasGlobal Indigenous Horror is a collection of essays that positions Indigenous Horror as more than just a genre, but as a narrative space where the spectral and social converge, where ...

Students and researchers from all fields of mathematics are invited to read and treasure this special Proceedings. A conference was held 25 –29 September 2017 at Noah’s On the Beach, Newcastle, Australia, to commemorate the life and work of Jonathan M. Borwein, a mathematician extraordinaire whose untimely passing in August 2016 was a sorry loss to mathematics and to so many members of its community, a loss that continues to be keenly felt. A polymath, Jonathan Borwein ranks among the most...