"From Nommo Award finalist Kerstin Hall comes "a layered and incisive examination of power."-Rory Power, New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls. "Stunning, bloody, and everything I adore in fantasy."-Emily Duncan, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Saints. All martyrdoms are difficult. Elfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way or another, it will kill her. Though she's able to stomach her gruesome day-to-day...

Eleven-year-old Zac follows his grandmother into the magical world of dreams called Nocturne, where Dream Pirates led by Shadow are spreading dark magic that creates nightmares, and it is up to Zac and new friends to foil the evil plan.

"Two outcasts find themselves caught in a web of forbidden love, dangerous magic, and dark secrets that could change the world forever in the start of an epic fantasy series from the author of The Shadowhunter Chronicles"--

Lyra Belacqua and her daemon familiar set out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

The Conclave of Shadows battles the villainous sorcerer Belasco and his demon servants.

The first clash with the rebels resulted in a victory for Kitsunichi Shimitzu and Yamanouchi Karamatsuki. However, the friends' momentary triumph will not staunch the flow of blood. The violence will continue, demanding the ultimate sacrifice from loyal warriors. Meanwhile, as the political situation in the district becomes increasingly dangerous, Kitsunichi risks death-at the hands of his own son!

After a century of service to goblin lord Soren, Janneke, seventeen, the only mortal in the Permafrost, clings to her humanity as she faces difficult choices.

"A thrilling and darkly erotic tale of betrayal, passion, and redemption, 'Shadowfae' is a rich novel that will ensnare the senses with lush prose and a deadly vision of the Fae that conjures fairy tales of old."--Caitlin Kittredge, author of "Second Skin."

A good thief barters in goods. A great one deals in shadows. A Shadow all of Light is a stylish, elegant, episodic fantasy novel by World Fantasy Award—winning author and former poet laureate Fred Chappell. This stylish, episodic fantasy novel is for fans of epic fantasies and heists. The tale follows the exploits of Falco, a young man from the country, who arrives in the port city of Tardocco with the ambition of becoming an apprentice to a master...

Thorne Blackburn claimed to have magickal powers, to be able to tap into ancient wisdom. Others claimed he was a fake, cheating his many followers out of their money and destroying their free well. The truth may never be known ... one dark, climactic night thirty years ago, Blackburn's most powerful ritual went horribly awry, leaving his flock shattered and one woman dead. Blackburn himself vanished. Now the scattered remains of Blackburn's followers...