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author of Kill the Beast About Kill the Beast The Witcher meets Howl’s Moving Castle in this debut original faerie tale of revenge, redemption, and friendship—for fans of T. Kingfisher, Naomi Novik, and cozy fantasy with a dash of gritty adventure. The night Lyssa Cadogan’s brother was murdered by a faerie-made monster known as the Beast, she made…

author of Higher Magic About Higher Magic In this incisive, irreverent, and whimsical cozy dark academia novel for fans of Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde series and R.F. Kuang’s Babel, a struggling mage student with intense anxiety must prove that classic literature contained magic—and learn to wield her own stories to change her institution for the better. First-generation graduate student…

author of The Feedback Loop, The Cozy Abyss, Doom System, and so many more About A Pub in the Underworld Death is only the beginning for one warrior as he encounters adventure, friendship, and romance in the afterlife in the epic first book of this cozy LitRPG. There are three levels to the afterlife. The…

author of Wild for Austen About Wild for Austen Incisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser. Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly believed Jane Austen to be a quiet spinster, scholar Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest at last…

author of The Savage North Chronicles, The Surviving Earth Chronicles, and several others About The Savage North Chronicles Sometimes the most shattered souls make the fiercest protectors When a virus decimates civilization, those remaining must survive in an unrecognizable world. Elle awakes from her fever forever changed. Her touch is lethal and power courses through…

author of Overgrowth and the October Daye series About Overgrowth Day of the Triffids meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this full-on body horror/alien invasion apocalypse. This is just a story. It can’t hurt you anymore. Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she’s an…

author of I Ran Away to Evil About book 1 A reluctant heroine finds unexpected love when she’s sent to assassinate a lonely dark lord in the first book of this cozy romantasy series. Henrietta Doryn has never enjoyed fighting. She’d rather be in the kitchen baking cookies. But it’s her duty as Warrior Princess…

author of the Chaotic Orbits trilogy and co-author of Night of the Witch About Chaotic Orbits book 1: Full Speed to a Crash Landing A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first in a novella trilogy Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looter’s…

author of Raiders of the Arcana series About Empire of Shadows, book 1 One trifling little arrest shouldn’t have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it’s only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions. When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she’s…