Some loves are chosen. Others are fought for so fiercely they leave scars long before the ending.Ethan Roy never wanted to fall in love with Serena Thompson. She was the daughter of a dynasty, old money, old name, old power with roots running beneath half the skyline of Alderia's capital. He was a scholarship boy from Kembe, a village that did not appear on any map worth printing. At Whitmore University, they came from different worlds, and Ethan understood clearly what happened to...

When heritage conservationist Rebecca Voss arrives in Lisbon with thirty days and a condemned building to save, she carries the specific loneliness of a woman who has learned to fight for everything except herself. The building at Rua do Ferro 14, a nineteenth-century azulejo-tiled townhouse in the oldest quarter of the city, has been scheduled for demolition to make way for a hotel development. Becky intends to stop it.What she does not intend is what the building gives back....

When Naomi Birungi's phone rings at 3:11 in the morning in London, she already knows. Her brother Daniel, twenty-nine, an engineer who measured everything, is dead in Kampala after fourteen months of illness the family refused to name correctly. At the burial, a prophet accuses a seventy-one-year-old widow of witchcraft. Naomi finds the real answer in Daniel's graph-paper notebook: he had a treatable neurological condition, he knew it, and he had been secretly attending a Saturday teaching...

In a world scarred by conflict and trauma, a young girl named Lia emerges as an unlikely beacon of hope. Orphaned and traumatized by a brutal civil war, Lia finds solace and a voice through a simple red bucket, a gift from her beloved grandmother. This seemingly ordinary object becomes her sanctuary, a vessel for her unspoken fears and a canvas for her burgeoning artistic talent.As Lia navigates the treacherous landscape of a refugee camp, her art evolves from a personal coping mec...

In the hidden highland kingdom of Ellenmere, 1583, Isolde Brannock-last witch of her line is arrested for the murder of the Crown Prince and brought to Greymere keep to burn. Her interrogator is Cathán Wycliffe, the Court Sorcerer: the boy who kissed her on a frozen lake at fourteen and vanished into a monastery for nine years, leaving her to grow wild and alone in the Witchwood. He believes she is dead. She believes he abandoned her. Neither is entirely wrong. They have twenty-nine days t...

What remains of a person when every version of her has been built for someone else?This is the question at the heart of I Was Not Me in Every Life a luminous, psychologically precise novel that traces one woman's decades-long excavation of self through the layered ruins of expectation, grief, inherited silence, and the seductive comfort of performed identity. Adhiambo is, by every external measure, a success. She is educated, articulate, professionally accomplishe...

On the night of her funeral, Daniel receives a text from his girlfriend. Three words: I didn't die.But he buried her. He saw her body. He watched the earth fall on her casket and said yes in a broken voice when they asked him to confirm who she was.What follows is a race through sixteen days of impossible revelation — dead women who text, frightened doctors with shaking hands, a best friend who kept a secret, a sister who warned too late, and a corporate intelligence networ...

In the shadow of Rome's great arena, a nameless orphan has survived seventeen years of darkness, known only as Corvus, raven-boy, nobody. Raised in the subterranean pens of the Colosseum, he carries nothing of value except a single worn wooden whistle the only object left with him when he was abandoned as an infant at the arena's eastern gate.When a corrupt nobleman frames him for theft and throws him to the most feared beast in the arena, an ancient black panther name...

On a small Greek island that has become a frontline of Europe's migration crisis, Lena Marisi records what is vanishing. A sound archivist who returned home from London to preserve her island's dying dialect, she spends her mornings with the last old fishermen who know the names of things no longer fished, and her evenings broadcasting three hours of silence and song on a radio station that almost no one listens to. She is also, though she will not say this, a woman who has been standing o...

This novel began with a single image: a woman washing a stranger who is not a stranger, and seeing on his shoulder a mark she has carried in her memory for twenty years without knowing she carried it.Every family has a sealed room. Every sealed room has a door. What lives behind the door is, almost always, more human than the sealing suggested — more complicated, more costly, more capable of redemption and of damage in equal measure.The records in this story — the notarial ...

In Sedgewick Bay, a fishing village on the False Bay coast of South Africa, ten-year-old Riley Hart grows up in a household held together by two trades: her father Daniel's fishing boat, the Grace Note, and her mother Grace's Singer sewing machine. When Grace falls ill and leaves an unfinished blue dress as her last lesson to her daughter, Riley begins to understand that what the needle knows cannot be taught in words.After losing both parents before she is thirteen, Riley is passe...

Aldenmere is a kingdom in the tradition of medieval England, though it is not England. Its capital, Thornwall, sits at the junction of two rivers in a plain that has been inhabited since before any record exists to say otherwise. Its northern reaches press against the Greywood, an ancient forest that does not behave entirely the way forests are expected to behave, and which the kingdom's oldest maps mark simply as: here. The Weaving is the magic of Aldenmere. It flows through ley lines ben...