World-weary soldier Alex Easton returns to their family home in Gallacia, where they find the caretaker dead from lung disease and rumors swirling in the village about an entity that steals people's breath. This 2nd creepy entry in T. Kingfisher's bestselling Sworn Soldier series (following What Moves the Dead) will appeal to fans of evocative gothic novels like Marielle Thompson's Where Ivy Dares to Grow.
While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of space-borne madness.
In a near-future Botswana where consciousness transfers are routine and implanted microchips keep people under constant surveillance, architect Nelah Bogosi-Ntsu occupies a body that used to belong to someone else. When she rebels against her controlling husband, she threatens both her own future and that of her unborn child. Tlotlo Tsamaase's "mind-bending and potent blend of Afrofuturist science fiction and horror" (Publishers Weekly) will appeal to fans of The Perishing by Natashia Deón and Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels.
In 1948, pregnant Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages, stays with a husband-and-wife team of doctors who are pioneering a cure for her condition, where she discovers a long-forgotten garden?—. place imbued with its own powers and pulls, making a desperate bid to harness the garden's power despite the consequences.
In 1995, newlyweds April and Eddie, making a wrong turn, pick up an injured hitchhiker who later dies and, now suspects in a series of unexplained murders, must dig into the town's history to clear their names and discover there's something supernatural at work on that horrible stretch of road.
When he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée and his favorite chair, Benny Catspaw gets a strange inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of– a seven-foot-tall self-described“bad weather friend” named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world.