Fantasy
Dust Girl
On April 14, 1935, the worst dust storm ever recorded blows across Kansas. That is the day that Calliope LeRoux’s…
Shadow of Night
Vampires, witches, and daemons once again unite and wage war in this second of Deborah Harkness’ All Souls trilogy. Beginning…
Hide Me Among the Graves
In the winter of 1862, Adelaide McKee, a reformed prostitute, knocks on the door of John Crawford, a widowed veterinarian…
Thieftaker
America is not a popular setting for historical fiction these days— a shame, especially as our history is rife with…
Maiden from the Sea
Seventeenth-century historical, time-slip, paranormal, castaway narrative – Maiden from the Sea is a novel that defies easy categorization. The main…
The Black Isle
Cassandra, Li, and her father live in Shanghai in the 1920s. Li is favored by her father and Cassandra (or…
Changeling: Order of Darkness, Book 1
First in a series for young adults, Changeling follows Luca, an Italian orphan adopted by the Church, and his investigations…
Advent
James Treadwell tells two linked stories in Advent, his first (and stunningly ambitious) novel. Fifteen-year-old Gavin’s family long ago lost…
Fallen in Love
This collection of four stories explores love’s many manifestations: unexpected, unrequited, forbidden and eternal. Each tale possesses its own twist…
The Reckoning
The second book of The Taker Trilogy, this novel promises to be a supernatural thriller, the kind of story in…
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