In 1900, Violette Beaumont leaves London with her sisters to settle in an old family residence on the edge of New Forest.She expected to find memories, dust-filled rooms, and the last echoes of a grandmother long gone.But among the woods, forgotten letters, and an ancient stone bridge connecting two enemy estates, Violette gradually uncovers a story that time never truly buried.Arden De Gé, heir to a family as noble as it is unsettling, should have stayed away from h...

He touches no one.Since childhood, contact has been an intrusion: other people's emotions invade his body and erase his own presence. To survive, Nathanaël has withdrawn. From skin. From the world.Mira, on the other hand, feels nothing.No joy, no fear, no desire. A stable emptiness, painless and flat. Until the day something appears near Nathanaël. Faint. Unstable. Alive.They should never meet.For him, touch is a danger. For her, it becomes a necessi...

What if madness were the price of happiness?A man is slowly slipping out of the world. His job, his routines, his sense of self, all unraveling. Only one thing remains: an obsession with a woman who might be real… or merely dreamt. She returns, night after night, ever-shifting, ever-elusive. She knows him better than he knows himself.As the boundaries between reality and reverie begin to blur, strange figures emerge , forgotten archetypes, as if escaped from an ancient deck...

Beneath the ashes, something is still burning.Torn from her homeland and rejected by the world that takes her in, Asherah learns early that survival is not enough.In the shadows, another path reveals itself.Older. More dangerous.Between desire, power, and inheritance, she moves forward, slowly, inevitably, toward what others fear to name.Because some embers never die.

HUGO AND LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • Thrust into the dark mystery at the heart of the city of miracles, a vengeful bodyguard discovers that the gods might not be as dead as he thinks—in the stunning conclusion to the Divine Cities trilogy from the nationally bestselling author of The Tainted Cup.“The thing I have always loved about Bennett’s Divine Cities books is the worldbuilding. His universe is one of brilliant juxtaposition.”—NPRSi...

Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is back, and this time he's out for vengeance.The awesome climax to the fantasy thrillers City of Stairs and City of Blades: perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Brent Weeks and China Miéville.Shara Komayd, once Prime Minister of Saypur, has been assassinated. News travels fast and far, even to a remote logging town somewhere northwest of Bulikov, where the silent, shaven-headed Dreyling...

Set on a distant planet, Bloodchild is award-winning author Octavia E. Butler's shattering meditation on symbiosis, love, power and tough choices. It won the Hugo, Locus, Nebula and Science Fiction Chronicle awards and is widely regarded as one of her greatest works. Perfect for fans of the thrilling Arrival and the works of Ursula Le Guin.**'Butler graces new mansions of thought with her eloquent, distinguished and poignant prose. Althou...

From the author of House of Salt and Sorrows comes the deliciously dark, enemies to lovers fairy tale retelling readers have been waiting for!‘A candle-lit journey of love, sacrifice and becoming.’ Kiyash Monsef, bestselling author of Once There WasWhen death calls, she must answer.Hazel has always known she was different from her siblings. A thirteenth child, she was promised at birth to Merrick, ...

From the shadows of the greater stories, away from the bright light of Sky and wending 'round the sagas of the Arameri, come three quieter tales. A newborn god with an old, old soul struggles to find a reason to live. A powerful demon searches for her father, and answers. And in a prequel to the Inheritance Trilogy, a newly-enslaved Nahadoth forges a dark alliance with a mortal, for survival... and revenge.Return to the world of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms in the...

"Once upon a Time" Is TimelessWhen Rose's mother dies, her only comfort is the exquisite rose garden her mother left behind. The purple blossoms serve as an assurance of her mother's love. But Rose is dealt a second blow when her father dies and his greedy widow, Ombrine, and her daughter, Desirée, move in and take over the manor in true Cinderella fashion.Fate has been cruel to Ombrine and Desirée, too. So despite their harsh ways, Rose has compassion. But...

Recommended by The Observer . . .'One doesn't so much read it, as one is bewitched by it. Epic, gorgeous, haunting' HANYA YANAGIHARA, author of A Little LifeWhen it begins, it begins as an opera should begin: in a palace, at a ball, in an encounter with a stranger, who you discover has your fate in his hands . . .She is Lilliet Berne. And she is the soprano.

A Fan-Fiction novel based on the video game series. Endless questions loom over the mysterious and cursed land of Ikana when Link visits its ancient ruins. Travel back in time to see what became of the this once proud kingdom through the eyes of a carefree boy, unknowingly doomed to watch his civilization unravel before him.