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Plague, deception, and spies in a steampunk setting. Cara Lenoir knows all about secrets. Her existence is one. To keep her sister, the queen, safe from their monstrous father, Cara hides as Carl Fletcher, physician’s apprentice. It’s either that or die. But when Nathan Cutter shows up to be her mentor, danger lurks closer. What hope does a physician have against a ruthless killer? A deadly plague reaps in the slums. A network of spies is closing in on her. Under the Mantle, Cara has nowhere left to hide.
"MY DEAR, NO RESPECTABLE YOUNG LADY ROAMS WITH FILTHY, MURDEROUS PIRATES." Can murder ever be justified? A desperate barmaid at The Wanderer's Inn, Prudence dreams of escaping her miserable life, by any means necessary. When a pirate crew arrives on the island and a tavern brawl gets out of hand, Prudence is thrust into a world of piracy, changing her life forever. Protecting her closest friend and finding her freedom are now her only goals. Stuck in a world of monsters, bloodthirsty soldiers and a Captain on the run, it becomes harder and harder to tell right from wrong. Prudence is forced to make tough choices. How far will she go to change her life? Swords will be raised and blood will be spilt... but will she make it out alive?
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Georgina Skyler Carey is not a necromancer. She's the daughter of one. And now she's dead. George has grown up hidden away, trying to live a normal life after her mother was executed for a ghost uprising which killed millions. Every year, the Anti-Necromantic Unit drags her in for testing, while the Empress of Life watches. And every year; nothing. Until she turns twenty, and the wards which were hiding her and binding her are finally erased, and Georgina discovers that she's still not a necromancer, just the immortal body designed to host the soul of an aeons-old goddess. Ousted from her meatsuit and trapped in the afterlife, George is determined to get her body back. It's not going to be t...
Who can be trusted in a kingdom built of lies? Against all odds, Cara has been reunited with her brother, Frank. But at what cost to her companions? At what cost to herself? Collinefort is a place of intrigue and lies, where menace lurks in the shadows. In greater Mordoux, the Salamander’s forces attack the resistance without end. Under the Mantle is civil war. Noble against slummer against commoner, and the rot plague against all. Death stalks beyond the trenches. Who will rise to stop it?
Guy Fawkes’s son must join his father’s plot to kill the king in this magical retelling of the Gunpowder Plot that will sweep you back in time to a divided England where plagues turn victims to stone. In 17th-century London two forces rule the people: the color powers and the Stone Plague. Brown masks can manipulate wood. Black masks control the night. And red masks . . . Well, red is the color of blood. Thomas Fawkes’s Color Test is upon him, and he is sure his father, the infamous Guy Fawkes, will present him with a mask and Thomas will finally bond with a color. He desperately hopes for a gray mask so he can remove the stone that has invaded his body and will ultimately take his lif...
"Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings--cruel, ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their elite company of Blade Maidens and their holy defenders, the terrifying asirim, the Kings uphold their positions as undisputed, invincible lords of the desert. There is no hope of freedom for any under their rule--or so it seems, until ðCeda, a brave young woman from the west end slums, defies the Kings' laws by going outside on the holy night of Beht Zha'ir"--Back cover.
Meisje is no ordinary dog. She's a gardag, a cybernetically enhanced, living weapon. She's also lost, hungry, and lonely. Elke Veraart is on Meisje's trail. If she can find the dog she'll win back her own freedom. If she fails she'll be sent back to prison. As she closes in on the gardag, Elke finds her admiration for Meisje growing. And Meisje, weak with hunger, begins to wonder if she could trust the woman who is hunting her. Then Elke discovers that there are other hunters searching for the gardag and that her orders have changed. She no longer has to find Meisje. She has to kill her.
The first time Lizzie dies is a learning experience. Then again, anyone new to an ancient Egyptian reincarnation cult would have no idea what to expect once they've made it past the Hall of Judgment.Now that she's been sent back to find out why her husband from her past life is missing, the last thing Lizzie expects is to wake up in the wrong body, stuck with the mess its previous tenant left behind. In fact, she's in agreement that whoever ran Ashton Kennedy over with a big shiny SUV did the world a massive favour.Some secrets, she soon discovers, are better left buried, especially in a world where enemies are eternal, and death does not offer a final solution.
Lilah’s father taught her to be afraid of the world, but now he's sending her off to university in a strange town far from home. Nestled in the heart of South Africa's Eastern Cape, Grahamstown is a place built on secrets and some of those secrets are deeper and older than Lilah can imagine. While she tries to adjust to her new freedom and navigate her first year of study, her father's own secrets land him in legal trouble and she's abruptly left stranded and alone. Of all people to step in and help, it's her arrogant classmate, Kalin. He's argumentative, brooding and annoyingly mysterious. But he's also surprisingly kind and when they’re ensconced in his study, surrounded by old books and strange talismans, it's easy to forget how she's been warned he's bad news. The longer she stays in Grahamstown, and with Kalin, the more her reality seems to unravel. Is the town haunted? Are leylines real? Why is she suddenly having vivid dreams of a fantasy world she thought she’d made up? What was her father hiding about her childhood? Who is Kalin really, and what will loving him cost her?