Fantasy and Science Fiction
June 2025

Recent Releases
Eat the Ones You Love
by Sarah Maria Griffin

After losing her job and moving back in with her parents, Shell Pine is eager to get back on her feet, and the new job offer from beautiful florist Neve may be exactly what she needs. But the flower shop has a deadly secret, and this secret is hungry. For fans of: menacing monster lit with dark humor and rich prose such as But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo or Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell. 
The River Has Roots
by Amal El-Mohtar

In the small town of Thistleford, the two youngest Hawthorn sisters tend to the magic on the edge of the Faerie with more devotion than anyone else. However, when Esther abandons an arranged marriage for her lover from the Faerie, her bond with Ysabel is not the only thing in danger. Heart-wrenching and spellbinding, this enrapturing family fairy tale is the solo debut from one of the co-authors of the viral sensation This Is How You Lose the Time War.  
Harmattan season : a novel
by Tochi Onyebuchi

Veteran and private eye Boubacar must pull his attention away from his unpaid bills to investigate the disappearance of a bleeding woman who appeared at his door.
Anima rising : a novel
by Christopher Moore

From New York Times bestselling author comes a humorously deranged tale of a mad scientist, a famous painter and an undead woman's electrifying journey of self-discovery.
A fate forged in fire : a novel
by Hazel McBride

Aemyra must navigate a treacherous court, forge an uneasy alliance with her arrogant rival and uncover a deep-seated conspiracy to reclaim her rightful throne and save her kingdom from the grip of a corrupt and oppressive regime.
The knight and the moth
by Rachel Gillig

Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams. Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.
Silver elite
by Dani Francis

On the Continent, being Modified like Wren means certain death; forced to join the Continent's elite training program, she's handed the perfect opportunity to strike a blow from inside their ranks, but her commanding officer is the ruthless and irresistible Cross—how far will she go to protect herself?
The incandescent : a school story
by Emily Tesh

Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England, but soon she must work to protect her students from a grave threat.
Awake in the floating city : a novel
by Susanna Kwan

In a flooded city, grieving artist Bo is drawn back to life by a prickly elderly neighbor, Mia, whose stories and memories inspire her to find purpose in documenting their disappearing world and reclaiming her art before it's lost forever.
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