| To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke FastTo protect her younger brother, bounty hunter Raven Thorne let herself get arrested to join him in Endlock, Dividium's brutal prison where the rich can pay to hunt inmates for sport. With danger around every corner, Raven will have to decide if destroying the system is worth risking their lives -- and if she should trust the prison guard with nebulous motivations. This steamy dystopian romance teeming with intrigue will be a hit with fans of Ariel Sullivan's "Conform." |
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| Six Savage Thrones by Holly RaceIn this sequel to "Six Wild Crowns," Henry VIII's six magically bound queens are determined to strike back. As Henry and his advisers consolidate more power, the queens learn they'll have to work together to stop him from summoning something great and terrible into the world. This second book in the Queens of Elben trilogy will be perfect for fans of feminist fantasy retellings rife with political intrigue. Read next: "The Hurricane Wars" by Thea Guanzon. |
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| The Door in Penrose Forest by Sean David RobinsonIn 1997, Nico accompanied his mother on a butterfly research trip; he watched as she walked through the forest to a mysterious mansion, stepped through a magical door, and never came back. Twenty years later Nico has returned home, seeking answers as he deals with his father's ailing health. All the tangled strings trail back to the same starting point: the Gilded Age family whose mansion burned down under mysterious circumstances in those very same woods where his mother vanished. |
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| The Book Witch by Meg ShafferRainy March knows the rules of being a book witch: real people belong in the real world, and characters belong in their books. Knowing this hasn't stopped her from falling in love with fictional detective the Duke of Chicago, though she's forbidden from seeing him. But when a priceless book is stolen and her grandfather goes missing, Rainy knows there's only one detective who can crack the case. With a feel-good plot and likeable characters, this fluffy bookish fantasy is a treat "for anyone who ever wished they could walk around in their favorite book" ('Kirkus'). |
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And Side by Side They Wander
by Molly Tanzer
An intergalactic art heist by a ragtag group of underqualified misfits. What could go wrong? For three hundred years, humanity's greatest works of art have been on loan at the Greenwood Museum. It was finally time for them to come home...but the alien curators were disinclined to return them. Force was out of the question. Earth's government was clear: They were not going to press the issue. So, all we had was guile and hubris to fuel our little intergalactic art heist. A meditation on the nature of love, life, and the culture of the copy, "And Side by Side They Wander" asks the question: In a future where there are clones, androids, and a sentient mycelium that creates fungal simulacra, who is real and what is fake?
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Cash and Gravity
by Perrin Pring
A high-stakes chase across the American West. A device that could change the world. Three unlikely allies thrown together by fate. In the not so distant future, six mega corporations and their privatized armies have supplanted the American government. They compete for resources, market position, and the ultimate long game prize of colonizing the stars. After the catastrophic failed siege of a Nevada mine leaves most of her comrades dead, Chevy encounters a dying Ace in possession of a mysterious package and a surprise: this Ace is a man. Joined by Dolon, an aging mercenary "phantom" sent by Launch Tech to transport the package to an Idaho safehouse, the three form an uneasy alliance. As they try to outrun a rival corporation's ruthless agents across the desert in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, Chevy realizes that their survival may also determine who controls the future. But when greed is the only rule of law, who can she trust?
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The Final System
by Anthony Tardiff
A vigilante hacker and a young politician must risk everything to destroy a chilling new advancement in artificial intelligence in this action-packed science fiction thriller about the blurry boundary between human and machine.Decades ago, the Cybercrash destroyed the internet, and almost destroyed the nation. From the ashes rose OverNet, a new realm of cybersecurity created by tech genius Dr. Andrew Norman.But gamer Jason Cromartie witnesses a brutal side to Norman's system when his twin sister becomes a casualty of its algorithmic choices. Now Jason will do anything to bring down the man he holds responsible, even become a phreaker working for a dangerous hacker ring via Sprite, his secretive handler.
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Muñeca
by Cynthia Gómez
It is 1968 Oakland, and Natalia Fuentes has been hearing rumors about the beautiful Violeta Miramontes. The young heiress to Spanish colonial wealth has been left paralyzed by a mysterious illness. But Nati knows a thing or two about witchcraft, and she is certain that this is the work of dark magic. Armed with a plan to break the spell and earn a handsome reward, Nati works her way into the house as Violeta's caretaker, and immediately discovers her suspicions are true. But who cursed Violeta? And why? As feelings between the two women bloom into romance, Nati grows more and more reckless, and is forced to face her own ghosts ones she hoped would stay gone forever. Riveting and richly layered, Muneca explores how far one will go to save the person they love even if that means damning themselves.
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All Hail Chaos
by Sarah Rees Brennan
Rae is a fantasy reader who's been transported to her favorite fictional world of swords and sorcery, castles and monsters. Playing the villainess, she thought she could change the narrative, but this version of the plot is far more deadly than the one she knew. Her friends are on the run: the Cobra shelters in an eerie manor haunted by dark secrets, while Emer and Lia stoke a revolution in the gutters. Undead armies roam the kingdom, raiders camp at the city gates, and the all-powerful Emperor--Rae's favorite character ever, now possibly the greatest monster in the land--wants her to be his evil queen. Romantic in fiction, complicated in reality. What's a villainess to do? Time for wicked bargains and fake engagements, in a fantasy where the most dangerous thing you can do is believe in someone.
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The Castle & the Cloister
by Laura E. Weymouth
Two centuries ago, the Inver clan conquered the nation of Honoria, ushering in an era of blood. Now, after a period of fragile peace, a king's whims may reignite the engines of war. At the last stronghold of Honoria's sun goddess, Fia, a young postulant, seeks safety for her child, but the price of the cloister's protection will tear her from what she loves most and thrust her into a deadly game of deception. Amid a landscape of enemies, allies, and intrigue, three lives intertwine. Each will have to risk the wrath of gods and kings to alter the course of nations. At once achingly sweet and lavishly dark, Weymouth deftly weaves a tale of war, love, sacrifice and devotion.
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