Love, like archaeology, is a lot of trowel and error.Still reeling from being ghosted by her girlfriend, bioarchaeologist Kate Roth agrees to join an estranged colleague to teach at his field school at a Viking-age archaeology site in the wilds of Newfoundland. While welcoming the escape from Colorado where she’s been medicating resurfaced anxieties with wine and angry rock music, she’s wary of three important facts: 1) she’s had a crush on Viking Cowboy B...

Worlds and hearts will be set aflame…Within moments of his escape pod crash-landing in a night-clad frozen forest, musician Asher Hollin is frostbitten, bleeding, a thief, and a killer. If not for technology looted from a dead prison guard, he’d be long dead, either from hypothermia or from being attacked by battleaxe-wielding not-quite-human marauders.Without hope of rescue from those he’d fled, there’s only one choice: keep going. Fight. Survive ...

A different kind of superhero story...After emerging unscathed from the house fire that killed his father, Ed Stoneman had recurring dreams about rescuing himself as a boy, sitting amongst the flames, unburnt. The dream stopped once he became a firefighter, later earning the nickname of "Dodge" by surviving a lethal flashover fire. Dodge embraced his supernatural imperviousness to the heat of fire by going in when no one should, breaking the rules of rescu...

Father Winter is a malevolent ancient spirit. The veil between worlds really is thinnest on Halloween. Dragons exist, but they’re just demons. And demigods walk the earth, protecting humanity from it all.THE HUNTER & HER GIRLFRIEND: 2020. When Margot invited her new girlfriend Emili to meet her parents over Christmas, she should have realized that Father Winter might show up… and try to kill her.THE MAIDEN & TH...

Kelle and Arjun are best friends.Kelle and Arjun have never met.They live in different pods: underground settlements separated by long stretches of strictly regulated tunnels, each pod sealed off to avoid viruses and other plagues devastating what remains of humanity and its food sources. Even romances, to an extent, are regulated. But people can still communicate via landline telephones, and people can still fall in love, even from afar. S...

"The impressive debut of author Weald ... Throughout, one finds the efforts of a serious literary novelist lavished on material that otherwise would fuel scores of sci-fi potboiler paperbacks and Japanese anime ... Lengthy, immersive cyber-SF that puts fresh life into a familiar operating system." - Kirkus ReviewsMuch has changed between now and the year 2195, but along lines we might find familiar.Humanity has spread its tendrils to every corner o...

On a remote livery yard in rural England, Jim arrives ‘home’ after eight years away, in need of work. It didn’t end so well last time, but he's sure that this time it’ll be different... Sam, as old as the fixtures and fittings themselves, reluctantly agrees - there’s work to be done after all. As the men attempt to pick up from where they left off, fresh cracks appear beside old wounds. Things have changed. But the world can only be held at bay for so long before the two men will have to a...

In a scar through the majestic twin woods belting Mar’s inner Shell, a wicked puppet has discovered shadows not his to claim. They wriggle and writhe in a manner too terrible, too familiar and he sets his sister’s rabid curiosity to the task of finding their source.Source she finds and, fears confirmed, the wicked puppet plans for death.But his sister’s resolve burns brighter than his brooding and she sets out in search of aid as ancient as the threat...

Rapunzel escaped the witch and went on to marry her prince – everyone knows that story. But that's not the end of it.100 years have passed since the days of long hair and secret trysts. During that time, Rapunzel has become a queen and a sorceress, learning magic words from the witch who held her captive.Now the girl once called Rapunzel is known as Lady Zel: Witch of the Weald, and mistress of the doorless tower. But her power is fading, and an evil presence threatens the ...

A world on fire. A gryphon army. A mysterious sickness.For years, Satra rotted in the dungeon depths while her kin were forced to wage wars to keep her safe. Now the eyrie is ash and she controls the largest army the continent has ever seen. As her opinicus enemies plot and scheme, she sets her sights on the Crackling Sea, where the last of her kin are held hostage.The snowy taiga gryphon Younce is one step away from being banished. Sent to investigate the ...

A world on fire. A gryphon army. A mysterious sickness.For years, Satra rotted in the dungeon depths while her kin were forced to wage wars to keep her safe. Now the eyrie is ash and she controls the largest army the continent has ever seen. As her opinicus enemies plot and scheme, she sets her sights on the Crackling Sea, where the last of her kin are held hostage.The snowy taiga gryphon Younce is one step away from being banished. Sent to investigate the ...

A bloody massacre. A looming civil war. Can two opposed gryphons work together to save their kind?Zeph thrills at the wind in his wings and the hunt for wild parrot. As a simple forest gryphon, he never thought much about his sophisticated city-dwelling cousins living in the lofty eyrie at the edge of the woods. But his carefree life turns upside down when he comes across a young city gryphon stunned by her discovery of a field littered with slaughtered animals.Kia always...