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Seven hours into her shift as Mental Patient 17, Mara Jacobs climbs onto the back of a prop cabinet in a fake cafeteria to loom over the evening’s visitors. The group is led by a girl in a violet dress whom Mara recognises from every feed she has ever scrolled. The scare works for about […]

In the courtyard of the château, the orange trees have bronze trunks and fruit of blown glass. Beneath one of them lies a golden oriole, its belly split, as if it bit into an ornament and cut itself open from the inside. The man beside Genevieve de Vienne tells her, in English, to leave it. […]

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The prince is a prisoner in a walled courtyard, and he will only guide the party south if he is trusted. Yining does not trust him. She takes a small red pepper from her pouch, webbed with fine lines, and tells him it is a slow poison to which only she holds the cure. To […]

A defensive lineman the size of a refrigerator bursts into a teammate’s bedroom on the morning after the big parties, two black words stencilled across his forehead, and starts slamming chemistry textbooks onto the carpet. In the bed, wrapped in a sheet, an art student named Pammy quietly lifts her phone and films him. By […]

Stripped of his magic, a pyromancer hunts for the sword that can save his daughter in this expansive, intriguing fantasy world. After the events of book one, Ashe is trying to save his comatose daughter. Still searching for the stolen klavensol Nixer (a black, curved sword whose Harm Hex prevents wounds from healing), he and […]

The therapy room at the memory-care clinic is done in pastels, with a recliner that tilts at the touch of a button. A doctor who trained in neuroscience has downloaded the easy-listening hits of 1965, and a nurse has just warmed a supermarket frozen dinner of hamburger steak and gravy, because that was what the […]

The house is quiet except for a piano somewhere down the hall, and the nanny is curled up in the den watching a documentary she has seen more than a dozen times. Noah Wilson, who has spent weeks avoiding being alone in a room with her, sits down at the far end of the sofa […]