Piranesi meets Swordspoint in an elegant relay race through fantasy Venice from Hugo award-winning author Jo WaltonThe Serenissima is built from mist and belief, a mythical shadow sister to Venice and crossroads of the nine worlds.When a laborer called Tiry has a dream that Serenissima will have a doge, and that they will marry the sea, he tells it to a fortune teller named Khadsha. She tells her apprentice, a gondolier called Taddeo, who ...

Fresh start? Check. Quirky neighbors? Check. Finding a dead body? Absolutely NOT in the plan.Forty-something divorcee Anne Freemont traded her high-pressure city life for the charming mountain town of Carolan Springs, Colorado. Her plan: renovate a Victorian fixer-upper, breathe some fresh mountain air, and enjoy zero drama.Then a runaway chicken changes everything.When Anne's goofy and sweet neighbor, Kandi, is accused of murdering the neighborhood...

A cozy mystery where Texas grit, homemade pie, and quiet faith meet small-town secrets.Hospice nurse Christie Taylor trades hospital hallways for hay bales and returns home to Texas, thinking she’s there to rest, help Pop, and finally have time to try out some pie recipes. What she finds instead is a community with long memories, a mystery that keeps pulling her in, and people who became family before she’d quite noticed it happening. Set against the warm, wide...

Octavia Donovan should feel agony when her Alpha heir mate rejects her before Hollowmere Pack. Instead, she feels nothing.No torn bond. No mate-scar. No pain. Only a terrifying emptiness where love, loyalty, and wolf recognition should be.Branded unstable and dragged toward the forbidden woods, Octavia survives what no rejected she-wolf is meant to survive: the hollow between full moons, the place where forgotten mates vanish and pack law stops naming them. When feared Blac...

A Relaxing Pet-sitting Gig in Mexico... Until Danger Strikes at DawnViviane Masters is celebrating her sixties with a new lease on life as a globetrotting pet-sitter. But her inaugural assignment in a sleepy ex-pat town in Mexico turns sinister when threatening notes appear at the casa.Against her daughter’s wishes, the spunky senior has embarked on this adventure seeking excitement and freedom. But Viviane quickly senses a dark undercurrent in the seemingl...

Chicken Culprit Small-town cozy mystery: Runaway chicken + grumpy sheriff + nosy new neighbor = the fresh start nobody planned for!Cordial Killing Victorian Inn cozy mystery: College reunion + blizzard + murder = page-turner!Honey Homicide Colorado arson mystery: Suspicious fires + wrongly accused sheriff + amateur sleuth with zero authority = combustible chemistry and a killer on the loose!Perfect for reade...

A stage-driven hip-hop retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Blood on the Crown is a newly authored literary adaptation in rhyme and contemporary performance language. It moves like a tragedy with a pulse: quick turns, hard stakes, and language that hits like it matters.Some tragedies are driven by misunderstanding, betrayal, or the collapse of trust.This one is driven by ambition.Not the ordinary ambition that builds a career, earns...

Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &c, volume 2 is a biographical collection which illuminates the virtues, intellects, and spiritual legacies of key literary and religious figures through intimate anecdotes and admiring portraits drawn from contemporaries’ recollections. Volume 2 opens by profiling a theologian’s early life, nurtured in humble faith and Oxford scholarship, revealing his gentle wisdom and scholarly friendships that shaped profound church gove...

A World Fantasy Award Winner: A tale of contention over love and money—among dragons.Tooth and Claw is a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband.Exce...

The Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–winning author presents a fantasy novel about the relationship between a writer and her creation.He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god. But "he" is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison, seventy-three, award-winning author of thi...

MISCHIEF, MAYHEM, OR MURDER? MYSTERY FOLLOWS HER through dangerous city streets, quaint villages, and locales across the globe. Uncover the clues with feisty female sleuths of various ages in this multi-author cozy mystery collection of short stories. Catch a mugger in THANKSGIVING AND THEFT by Dianne Ascroft. Dig up hidden treasure in BURIED BY THE BEACH by Ellen Jacobson Op...

The series' penultimate book belongs to Roy Okafor. Not his operational function — his life. The twenty-two years of building the archive while maintaining a professional career, the relationships with the colleagues he trusted with seventeen pieces of a distributed archive they never examined, the specific interior life of a person who has been carrying something enormous across an entire professional lifetime. The book is structured as a retrospective across the twenty-two years, with ea...