Alice Law and Peter Murdoch take their academic ambitions beyond the living world. Their supervisor is dead, and finding him means descending into Hell together. The journey places two scholars in an extraordinary landscape while testing how far they will go for the authority that shapes their futures.
Lisavet Levy discovers an archive of the memories left by the dead. Inside it, agents erase records to alter history. A second story follows Amelia Duquesne during the Cold War, connecting the struggle over this extraordinary library with a world where controlling the past can shape the future.
Jet Mason survives a brutal attack, but learns that she has only a week left to live. With time disappearing, she sets out to identify her attacker. The investigation forces her to look again at the people closest to her and the life she thought she understood.
Lily enters a remote desert compound with nineteen other contestants. Under constant observation, they compete in challenges that control access to both luxuries and necessities. As the competition continues, the attraction of winning becomes inseparable from a more troubling question: what keeps them inside?
An experimental center promises a way to sleep through grief. Strangers travel toward it with different losses and different hopes for what they might find on waking. Their shared destination brings together the desire for relief and the difficult prospect of facing life after someone is gone.
María, Charlotte and Alice live in different centuries, yet their stories are bound by immortality, desire and anger. Across changing places and eras, the novel follows the cost of escaping an ordinary human life and the question of what freedom means when its limits have changed.
After losing his job, Blake Porter needs help paying for his home. Taking in Whitney as a tenant seems a practical answer. But her arrival brings unsettling changes, turning the place that should offer security into the center of his growing unease.
Sybil Van Antwerp makes sense of her life through letters to relatives, friends and writers she admires. Some messages are never sent. Told through correspondence, the novel follows the relationships, old wounds and possibilities of forgiveness that emerge as she confronts the past.
Sarah Morgan is ending another marriage when an earlier criminal case draws fresh attention. Her present separation and a past that refuses to stay settled begin to overlap. This sequel to The Perfect Marriage returns to Sarah’s story, where private relationships and public suspicion are difficult to untangle.
Seven candidates compete to succeed the ruler of Orrun after twenty-four years of peace. When one is murdered, High Scholar Neema Kraa must investigate and enter the struggle for the throne herself. This opening fantasy novel combines an imperial succession contest with a murder mystery.
A Treasury officer vanishes from a locked room in a guarded tower. Ana Dolabra and Dinios Kol travel to Yarrowdale to investigate an impossible crime. Their second case confronts them with a calculating enemy and a threat to the titan-derived magic on which the Empire depends.
Lucy and Jess in Australia share a story with Mary and Eliza aboard a convict ship in another era. Sisterhood and the sea connect these lives across time. The novel moves between their worlds, bringing family bonds into contact with history and the possibilities of the fantastic.
An algorithm reads Sara’s dreams as signs that she may become dangerous. Detained on that prediction, she must negotiate an institution whose rules turn imagined possibilities into restrictions on her life. Her struggle centers on reclaiming freedom when the evidence against her comes from her own sleeping mind.
A year after Abby disappears, her husband Grady Green leaves for a Scottish island. There, the writer sees a woman who looks uncannily like his missing wife. What begins as an escape becomes a confrontation with loss, recognition and the possibility that appearances conceal something disturbing.
Zelu, a disabled Nigerian American writer, finds unexpected success with a science-fiction novel about robots. As her work reaches a wider audience, the story she created changes her own life. The novel brings a writer’s present into conversation with the imagined future that has made her famous.
Captured after a devastating war, alchemist Helena Marino cannot remember crucial months of her past. Her captors send her to a powerful necromancer to recover those memories, turning survival into a struggle over the history hidden inside her mind.
Six years after the end of a friendship, a woman addresses the friend whose absence still shapes her life. She revisits the home, attachments and everyday memories they once shared. The resulting letter gives space to a form of loss often left unnamed, examining how intimacy survives after a relationship has broken apart.
Pregnant and preoccupied with cleanliness, Sol hires Diana and Emily to help at home. Depending on domestic workers unsettles the progressive image she has of herself. As money grows tighter and her discomfort increases, everyday encounters expose the distance between her convictions, her family’s expectations and the work that sustains her household.
After graduating and losing her father, Marina meets Jaime, a man twenty years older who offers attention and a comfortable life. Moving into his apartment gradually distances her from her friend Diana and from herself. The novel follows grief, an unequal relationship and the importance of friendship in recovering a sense of identity.
Waking in a sanatorium, Nada pieces together memories of an isolated childhood in the mountains of southern Spain. Her father’s increasingly frightening behaviour and the forest’s unsettling presence blur the boundaries between family trauma, imagination and supernatural menace.