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A worthy continuation of the Drifters Realm series that celebrates the power of standing together With HalLows Realm, AnneMarie Mazotti Gouveia broadens the world of her Drifters Realm series, transporting readers beyond the familiar magic of Obligations into a mysterious realm where ancient curses, living landscapes, and forgotten history reshape the characters’ understanding of themselves […]

From a third-floor window, a nineteen-year-old watches his hall of residence empty out for the summer. Parents arrive in small cars, tearful or embarrassed or both. The rugby captain is folded into a clergyman father’s Saab, wearing the face of a man being arrested. The New Age anarcho-collectivist becomes Nicola again and packs a Mini […]

A twisted (and twisty!) traumantasy about the power of love under a tyrannical king’s violent, sex-centric rule The Foreign Wife is a story about finding unexpectedly sweet, life-saving love that gives you hope and courage to defy a brutal regime. Author June Yang infuses this novel with breathtaking emotional reveals about the horrors in Typress, […]

At four in the morning, in a big cheap house nobody wanted, a frail woman in a sleeveless nightdress stands with her nose almost against the sitting-room window. She presses her veined hands to the glass and taps, the way you tap to get the attention of somebody outside. Her granddaughter finds her there, skin […]

Looking for a towel in a stranger’s bathroom, an assassin opens a closet door and stops breathing. Hanging on the inside is a strip of cream linen with a black crescent moon bisected by a single line — the preaching sash of the cult that took her family, groomed her sister, and burned to the […]