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Witch King

“I didn’t know you have been a… demon.”
“You fool. I’m the demon.”
Kai’s having a protracted day in Martha Wells’ WITCH KING….

After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time whereas confined in an elaborate water entice, Kai wakes to discover a lesser mage making an attempt to harness Kai’s magic to his personal benefit. That was by no means going to go effectively.

However why was Kai imprisoned within the first place? What has modified on this planet since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition seem like rising in affect?

Kai might want to pull his allies shut and draw on all his ache magic if he’s to reply even the least of those questions.

He’s not going to love the solutions.

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To Form a Dragon’s Breath

A younger Indigenous lady enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and rapidly finds herself at odds with the “authorized” means of doing issues—within the first e-book of this good new fantasy sequence.

The distant island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in lots of generations—till fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her persons are delighted, for all keep in mind the tales of the times when dragons lived amongst them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the individuals to thrive. To them, Anequs is revered as Nampeshiweisit—an individual in a novel relationship with a dragon.

Sadly for Anequs, the Anglish conquerors of her land have completely different opinions. They’ve a really particular thought of how a dragon must be raised, and who must be doing the elevating—and Anequs doesn’t meet any of their necessities. Solely with nice reluctance do they permit Anequs to enroll in a correct Anglish dragon faculty on the mainland. If she can not succeed there, her dragon shall be killed.

For a lady with no formal education, a non-Anglish upbringing, and a really completely different understanding of the historical past of her land, challenges abound—each socially and academically. However Anequs is wise, decided, and resolved to study what she wants to assist her dragon, even when it means educating herself. The one factor she refuses to do, nonetheless, is turn out to be the meek Anglish miss that everybody expects.

Anequs and her dragon could also be coming of age, however they’re additionally coming to energy, and that brings an essential realization: the world wants altering—they usually would possibly simply be those to do it.

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A Thousand Recipes for Revenge

A world on the point of battle and a mom and daughter on the run, in an exciting novel of swashbuckling journey, culinary magic, and simply desserts.

Adamantine “Ada” Garland has an empathic connection to meals and wine, a magical notion of aromas, flavors, and elements. Invaluable property of the royal courtroom, Ada was in service to the 5 Gods and to the Gods-ordained rulers of Verdania—till she had sufficient of injustice and bloodshed and abandoned, looking for to chart her personal future. When mysterious assassins ferret her out after sixteen years in hiding, Ada, now a rogue Chef, and her beloved Grand-mère run for his or her lives, solely to seek out themselves on a path towards an sudden ally.

A overseas princess in a wierd courtroom, Solenn unknowingly shares extra with Ada than an epicurean reward. They share blood. Together with her newfound magical notion, she turns into conscious of a plot to kill her fiancé, the prince. It’s a part of a ploy by adversarial forces within the rival nation of Albion to sow battle, and Solenn is ready as much as take the blame.

As Ada’s and Solenn’s paths converge, a mom and her long-lost daughter reunite towards a typical purpose, and in opposition to a shadowy enemy from Ada’s previous who’s out for revenge. However what sacrifices have to be made? What hope is there when highly effective Gods decide sides in a battle simmering to eruption?

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Ghost Station

A crew should attempt to survive on an historic, deserted planet within the newest house horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed writer of Lifeless Silence.

House exploration might be lonely and isolating.

Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has devoted her life to the examine and prevention of ERS—a space-based situation most well-known for a case that resulted within the brutal murders of twenty-nine individuals. When she’s assigned to a small exploration crew, she’s wanting to make a distinction. However as they start to determine residency on an deserted planet, it turns into clear that crew is hiding one thing.

Whereas Ophelia focuses on her new position, her crewmates are way more occupied with investigating the eerie, historic planet and unraveling the thriller behind the earlier colonizer’s hasty departure than opening as much as her.

That’s, till their pilot is found gruesomely murdered. Is that this Ophelia’s worst nightmare beginning—a wave of violence and psychological deterioration from ERS? Or is it one thing extra sinister?

Terrified that historical past will repeat itself, Ophelia and the crew should work collectively to determine what’s taking place. However belief is tough to come back by… and the crew isn’t the one one retaining secrets and techniques.

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