From the void, you awaken. Not to life, but to the Factory.Here, darkness breathes. Iron chains bite cold. The air is thick with the ghosts of industry—oil, sweat, and the metallic tang of despair. Towering over all, a gleaming monument to suffering scrapes against a sky that has never known light. You are a number, a shadow, fuel for the machine. Memory is a luxury; survival, a curse.But even in the deepest hell, a spark can catch.A soldier's glanc...

There are places between places. Endless echoes of tile and chlorine. Welcome to the Poolrooms.Vuk Petrović, ruthless tycoon, crashes not onto pavement, but into a liminal hell of gleaming white tile and sickly cyan water. This is no spa day. It's an impossible architecture of the mind, a realm where physics fray, time loops, and the only constants are a relentless dripping sound and the suffocating sense of wrongness.Strip...

The ashes of the Factory settled long ago. In a hidden valley, life persists—fragile, hard, haunted.Generations breathe air free from the metallic tang of despair, their history softening into myth. Teenagers like Janis, Ava, and Hazel chase summer along riverbanks, their worries no larger than whispered crushes and the changing seasons. The horrors of the Tower are mere legends spun by elders like Old Mossbeard, whose memories hold more shadows than they reveal.

One woman becomes two men's obsession in the second Sisters of the Heart novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan.On the shores of Sea Haven, six women touched by great loss have come together in a sisterhood strengthened by the elements—a bond each will need as new love and danger enter their lives...Undercover agent Stefan Prakenskii knows a thousand ways to kills a man—and twice as many ways to pleasure a woman. ...

Lethal undercover agent Stefan Prakenskii knows a thousand ways to kills a man - and twice as many ways to pleasure a woman. That's why he's looking forward to his new mission. He must go to the coastal town of Sea Haven and insinuate himself into the life of an elusive beauty who has mysterious ties to his past and a link to a dangerously seductive and equally elusive master criminal who wants only one thing: to possess her.Judith Henderson is an artist on the rise: an ethereal an...

Longlisted, 2025 Toronto Book AwardsFinalist, Foreword INDIES 2025 Book of the YearA CBC Best Book of 2025A sweeping generational story of heartbreak, resilience, and yearning, revealing an insider’s view of the fractured lives of Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind.Lemei, once a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai and a journalist at a state newspaper, was involved in a brut...

Mo Yan, China’s most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country’s contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, and The Republic of Wine. In this collection of eight astonishing stories—the title story of which has been adapted to film by the award-winning director of Red Sorghum Zhang Yimou—Mo Yan shows why he is also China’s leading writer of short fiction.His passion for writing shaped by his own experience...

**Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 2022 First Novel Prize!“Belinda Huijuan Tang’s debut novel is a beautifully drawn, sensitively rendered portrait of a man desperately searching for his father—and for reconnection to the past and people he once knew and loved. Both rich in historical detail and timeless in scope, A Map for the Missing explores the costs of choosing your own path, whether what’s left behind can ever be retrieved, and whether it is possible to forgiv...

The first in a “sharp, weird, and wildly innovative” urban fantasy series about a desperate father who embraces a forbidden magic in order to save his daughter (Cherie Priest, Locus Award winner and Hugo Award nominee)Flex: Distilled magic in crystal form. The most dangerous drug in the world. Snort it, and you can create incredible coincidences to live the life of your dreams.Flux: The backlash from snorting Flex. The univ...

A lyrical and suspenseful debut novel about a mysteriously gifted Korean family confronting the brutality of the Japanese empire, Honey in the Wound is an epic tale of survival and the reclamation of power.A sister disappears and returns as a tiger. A mother’s voice compels the truth from any tongue. A granddaughter divines secrets in others’ dreams. These women are all of one lineage—a Korean family split across decades and borders by Japanese imperialism...

Every city contains secret places. Moscow in the tumultuous 1990s is no different, its citizens seeking safety in a world below the streets—a dark, cavernous world of magic, weeping trees, and albino jackdaws, where exiled pagan deities and faery-tale creatures whisper strange tales to those who would listen. Galina is a young woman caught, like her contemporaries, in the seeming lawlessness of the new Russia.In the midst of this chaos, her sister Maria turns into a jackdaw and fli...

A love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat.In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years later, her son, Bekim, grows up a social outcast in present-day Finland, not jus...