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The Raven Queen
Editors' choice
Other writers have tackled Ireland’s Iron Age legends and their compelling magic, a magic thoroughly mixed with the earthy business…
Wolf’s Cross
In the second book set in the medieval world of werewolves created in his first novel, Wolfbreed, S.A. Swann tells the…
The Native Star
Emily Edwards, the town witch in a small Sierra Nevada settlement in 1876, accidentally makes a magical mistake and winds…
Blackout
To the staff of the Oxford time travel lab in 2060, visiting the past is as routine as taking the…
All Clear
Editors' choice
The delights of Blackout and All Clear – which are, despite appearances, one novel – are hard to describe in…
Wolfbreed
In 13th-century Eastern Europe, a place of dark forests and darker mysteries, a young man named Udolf finds a strange…
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