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.

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...

After having fulfilled the requirements for his promotion to Rank S, Kelvin, the eccentric Summoner who transmigrated from another world, finds that a series of festivities are being prepared in his honor. To his surprise and delight, he learns that part of it involves a one-on-one practice round with Silvia, a Rank S adventurer nicknamed “Ice Princess.” Eagerly anticipating this match against a truly worthy opponent, he promptly dives into his training like never before. At the same time,...

Three brand new short stories by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin, set in the world of the Inheritance trilogy.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-...

What secrets are hidden in her past . . . ?Jewelry designer Garet James is still coming to terms with the astounding revelation in BLACK SWAN RISING that she is the last in a long line of women sworn to protect the world from evil. Now she has received a sign from Will Hughes, the 400-year-old vampire who once helped her defeat the evil threatening to destroy New York City. Hughes, tortured by his own violent history which is vividly reenacted here, has asked her to join him on a qu...

"You're using me," I said."That might be true, but I also love you."One is the Lady of the Waking Waters, an immortal mermaid. The other is a thief, who steals lives until a wish can be fulfilled, and a life-changing choice must be made, in Margaret Killjoys Tor.com Original Into the Gray.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A cat, smart and cunning, clever and mischievous but very helpful: he is just the sort of friend we’d all like by our sides.The youngest of three orphan brothers is left destitute after his parents’ death. But such an apparently sad situation takes a quite unexpected turn for the better when he inherits what appears at first to be a small, quite ordinary cat.But it turns out to be the greatest inheritance of all! Our cat is not only clever and brave, but he is also a talkin...

In this third re-edited and amended edition, Kim is on the eve of her wedding. She's still trying to get used to the idea of becoming a princess when she goes through the wrong door, and is caught Dobrenica's liminal boundary.It's now 1795, the rise of Napoleon, and Kim finds herself a guardian spirit for a twelve-year-old kid who will either become Kim's ancestor . . . or the timeline will alter and Kim will vanish, along with the small, magical European country of Dobrenica....

Alone among the young girls taught by nuns at a convent school in nineteenth-century France, orphaned Herculine has neither wealth nor social connections. When she's accused of being a witch, the shy student is locked up with no hope of escape ... until her rescue by a real witch, the beautiful, mysterious Sebastiana. Swept away to the witch's manor, Herculine will enter a fantastic, erotic world to discover her true nature -- and her destiny -- in this breathtaking, darkly sensual first n...

**WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAnnie Ernaux’s profound investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, who died at six, two years before Annie was born.**In the summer of 1950, when Annie Ernaux is ten, she inadvertently learns she had a sister who died at six, two years before her own birth. Having believed she was an only child, she learns that she has replaced another daughter—“the little saint,” “the absent one in every conversation,” who live...

Penemuel (Pen) fell from grace over a millennium ago, yet there are still times she questions her decision to follow her twin brother, Azael, to Hell. Now that the archangel Michael has returned, threatening Lucifer’s vie for the throne, she begins questioning everything she has always believed.As Hell prepares for war - spreading a demonic virus and pilfering innocent souls to build an army - the lines separating the worlds blur. Fates erase and the future is left unwritten. Azael...

When a ritual to restore Mana goes wrong and sends him into the distant past, Célestin Edevane seeks the help of a strange man inhabiting an even stranger estate in order to prevent the calamity that destroyed Mana. Faced with a fascinating world unlike his own, filled with vampires, fae, witches and old gods and an unexpected love affair...will he even want to return to his time?