LTUE Benefit Anthologies, Volume 2.Everyone knows dragon tales make for the best adventure stories. Throw in women who actively seek what they want—a little intrigue, exciting battles, and hard decisions—to get these twenty excellent adventures by some of today's best fantasy writers!This collection celebrates Linda Hunter Adams, a truly amazing mentor and role model for many in our Life, the Universe, & Everything writing community. Proceeds from this volume suppo...

When the witches and wizards are away, the familiars will play!Gifted adventurers across time and space often travel with an animal familiar—usually a cat, but possibly other fuzzy, scaly, or prickly creatures. These magical companions lead their humans into mischief, help them out of sticky situations, or offer opinionated commentary along the way.We're familiar with familiars ... or are we?Compiled by New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. And...

NEW ENTRY IN THE SERRATED EDGE SERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR MERCEDES LACKEY AND CODY MARTIN.When Staci was first shunted off to the backwater town of Silence, Maine to live with her alcoholic mother, she thought her life was over. Silence had none of the amenities a typical teen in the twenty-first century considered essential: no cell service and barely any internet connectivity. But Staci soon learned that Silence was more than a town l...

Seventeen year-old shape-changer Zora lives at the isolated estate Eagle's Rest, where she has spent her entire life being trained to be the next priestess of the Earth Mother. But when the old priestess dies, the Goddess chooses her cousin Kassie instead, leaving Zora hurt, bewildered, and wondering what to do with the rest of her life. She takes Kassie's place on the annual search for more shape-changers for the school Lord Ranulf runs, and an additional errand at the end of the trip sen...

The seventeenth novel in the magical alternate history Elemental Masters series heads to Regency England to navigate property acquisition, marriage proposals, and other ancient horrors.The year is 1815, and an American, Miss Amelia Stonehold, has arrived in the Devon town of Axminster, accompanied by her "cousin" Serena Meleva. She's brought with her a list to tick off: find a property, investigate the neighbors, bargain for and purchase the property, staff the pro...

A cozy, cottage-core Regency fantasy perfect for fans of BridgertonElena Whitstone and her seven brothers, abandoned by her mother, find themselves with a new stepmother. At first she seems more neglectful than evil, until just after Christmas she proves herself to be worse than evil; she is an actual magician, a Master of Water, who attempts to muder Elena's seven brothers when they are skating. When they survive that attempt by transforming into swans, s...

2026 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist for Nonfiction | Winner of the 2026 Lawrence W. Levine Award | 2026 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Longlist | 2026 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award Longlist | Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2025A crucial telling of U.S. history centering the Black women whose magic gave rise to the rich tapestry of American culture, wellness, and spirituality that we see today—from Vicks VapoRub and Aunt Jemima’...

She’s got treasure in the safe, a body in the dumpster, and four amateur sleuths who think they’re starring in an episode of Murder, She Wrote.Growing up, Pippi never believed she’d be running a boarding house one day—but she didn’t think she’d be tripping over dead bodies either. Now she’s juggling shiny secrets, shady suspects, and seniors with more sass than filter. Fortunately, she loves her boarders almost as much as she lurves her next door neighbor,...

Life sucks, and then you die. Usually.Last week, Frankie had a great job and an amazing fiancée. Now she’s sleeping in a storage closet and taking advice from a talking cat.A timely warning sends her rushing into a burning building. Choosing to save the woman she loves and condemning an innocent man to death wakes the Valkyrie power she never knew she had.Frankie can choose who lives and who dies, and that draws the attention of exiled gods looking ...

Dark academia meets cosmic horror in this murderous tale of betrayal and broken hearts at an elite academy for the gods and monsters of the world, perfect for fans of The Atlas Six, If We Were Villains and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil.The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously powerful: the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.Hellebore promises redemptio...

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell meets A Tale of Two Cities in H. G. Parry’s A Far Better Thing, a heart-rending fantasy of faery revenge set during the French Revolution.Most Anticipated SSF Books 2025—The Nerd Daily, BookPageI feared this was the best of times; I hoped it could not get any worse.The faeries stole Sydney Carton as a child, and made him a mortal servant of the Faery...

Where saving the world is just another day’s work…Claire Hansen goes where the trouble is. That’s the job of a Keeper: cleaning up metaphysical disasters, closing holes in the fabric of the universe. Constant travel is hard, even with a talking cat alongside. But it beats the assignments older Keepers get. She’d hate to be stuck in one place for decades, minding a breach too big to mend.Then Claire finds herself in Kingston, Ontario, at a bed-and-breakfast with a liter...