A Letter to the Luminous Deep
by Sylvie Cathrall
A beautiful discovery outside the window of her underwater home prompts the reclusive E. to begin a correspondence with renowned scholar Henerey Clel. But by no mere coincidence, a seaquake destroys E.’s home, and she and Henerey vanish. A year later, E.’s sister Sophy, and Henerey’s brother Vyerin, are left to solve the mystery, piecing together the letters, sketches and field notes left behind–and learn what their siblings’ disappearance might mean for life as they know it.
A Fate Inked in Blood
by Danielle L. Jensen
Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days dreaming of becoming a warrior. And of putting an axe in her boorish husband’s back. Freya’s dreams abruptly become reality when her husband betrays her to the region’s jarl, landing her in a fight to the death against his son, Bjorn. To survive, Freya is forced to reveal her deepest secret: She possesses a drop of a goddess’s blood, which makes her a shield maiden with magic capable of repelling any attack. Believing he’s destined to rule Skaland as king, the fanatical jarl binds Freya with a blood oath and orders Bjorn to protect her from their enemies.
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
by TJ Klune
In the sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea, Arthur Parnassus, headmaster of a strange orphanage, and the other inhabitants of Marsyas Island must fight to save the dangerous and magical children of the orphanage or risk the entire island falling apart.
The Familiar
by Leigh Bardugo
In the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. When Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king with her abilities to perform miracles, Luzia is plunged into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England’s heretic queen-and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king’s favor.
The Spellshop
by Sarah Beth Durst
A revolution begins and the Great Library of Alyssium, where Kiela works, goes up in flames. She and Caz, her magically sentient house spider plant, flee with all the spellbooks they can carry and head to a remote island Kiela never thought she’d see again: her childhood home. Taking refuge there, Kiela discovers, much to her dismay, a nosy–and very handsome–neighbor who can’t take a hint and keeps showing up day after day to make sure she’s fed and help fix up her new home. Kiela decides to open the island’s first-ever and much-needed secret spellshop.
Absolution: A Southern Reach Novel
by Jeff VanderMeer
A continued exploration of the mysterious Area X by the scientists and voyagers that VanderMeer introduced ten years ago in the original volumes.