“If you wanted me to be a bauble, you never should have given me a blade.” Abbakka Chowta never expected to be queen. The youngest of Ullal’s two rajkumaris, Abbakka has spent years in rigorous combat training to become her sister’s blade. But when the monstrous Porcugi attempt to lay claim to Ullal, Abbakka’s world―and…
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Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio
“Man is a wolf to man and a dragon to the inhuman.” It was not his war.On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from…
Bitter Medicine by Mia Tsai
“After hundreds of years I have found the only other terrible prospect who understands me. She’s brave and funny, but she thinks she’s only valued for what she can do instead of who she is. After a dramatic life event she’s convinced I don’t want her. I have no useful skills to benefit her, and…
A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin
“Grief has a taste, bitter and lingering, but so soft it sometimes disguises itself as sweetness.” For Ning, the only thing worse than losing her mother is knowing that it is her fault. She unknowingly brewed the poison tea that took her mother and now threatens to take her sister, Shu. When a letter is…
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
“Some scars are carved into our bones – a part of who we are, shaping what we become.” Xingyin is used to solitude, growing up on the moon with only her mother and an attendant for company. She’s unaware that she is being hidden from the Celestial Emperor and his court until one day her…
Beasts of a Little Land by Junhea Kim
“Everyone dreams, but only some people are dreamers. The non-dreamers, by far more numerous, are those who see the world as it is. Then there are the few dreamers, who see the world as they are.” In the winter of 1917, an impoverished hunter saves the life of a young Japanese military officer during a…
Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
“This isn’t as right as it feels. There’s a clear power imbalance.”“I agree,” he said, leaning closer. “But I shall do my best to submit to your dominance with the grace of a gentleman.” Andromeda is a debtera, an exorcist for hire to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. When a handsome young heir named…
The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon
“I guess it depends a lot on your definition of being in love with someone versus loving them. Maybe the difference it too minute to really be able to explain it.” In Asalin, fae rule and witches like Wyatt Croft…don’t. He’s been betrothed to his best friend, fae prince Emry North, since he was a…
We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
“Together, we will raise dunes from the earth and rain death from the sky. Together, we are capable of anything.” Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish to defy his father,…
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
“Nobody could want more than who you are.” The Iskat Empire has long dominated their system through treaties and political alliances, primarily through marriage. Thea, one of several planets, has begun to chafe under Iskat’s rule, so when tragedy befalls Imperial Prince Taam, the Empire rushes Jainan, his Thean widower, into another marriage. Prince Kiem…
The Great Book Wyrm 