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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter's. I cannot...

In an alternate early 1900s, a scientist hunts down her former research partner after he steals her life’s work before his greed reshapes the world in this darkly wondrous cosmic horror. One morning in 1904, scientist Ada Franklin wakes up in her own grave. Clawing her way out, she discovers...

Every cowboy story needs a horse no man can ride. No man—but Miss Karen Memory is all woman. When she and her beloved Priya sign on to do stunts for a motion picture about a rogue Mechanical named Cowboy and a Wild West show, she finds the horse of her dreams: Angel Maker.

In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia, except for a few things: Angels can Fall, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent. Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London too. But this London has an Angel. The Angel of the Crows.

Deep in the shadows under the Paris Opera House resides Erik the Phantom, mysteriously enduring through the decades as the mastermind behind a strange and secret agency. A revolving door of female agents are charged by wealthy Parisians and the French government to investigate crimes and misdemeanours they would prefer to keep out of the public eye.

Tyen is teaching mechanical magic at a school respected throughout the worlds. News arrives that the formidable ruler of all worlds is back and enforcing his old laws - including the one forbidding schools of magic. As teachers and students flee, Tyen is left with no home and no purpose...except the promise he made to Vella. Tyen must decide what he is willing to do to free her. After five years among the tapestry weavers of Schpeta, Rielle's peaceful new life has been shattered by a local war.

The final adventure in the atmospheric Hecate Cavendish series from New York Times bestselling Paula Brackston - a magical series about an eccentric young Victorian woman who can see ghosts. In her role as Assistant Librarian at Hereford Cathedral, Hecate continues to be guardian of the magical...

When the Opera de Paris is purchased and renovated, years after a mysterious fire nearly destroyed it, the Phantom finds himself unexpectedly resurrected - in the form of a young boy hired by the manager's daughter to play pranks on the cast, crew, and audience. After all, the return of the infamous 'Opera Ghost' can only be good for ticket sales, and Mireille Dubienne is determined to see her father's investment become profitable.

A freak accident, a mysterious portrait and an imaginary friendship take Magda O’Toole on a journey of self-discovery. Her search for answers leads her to Toluca, Mexico, where she meets a handsome Professor, Miguel Villatoro, and encounters the ghostly apparition of a woman long dead. Her desire to reconnect with a childhood friend pulls Magda into the past—it’s 1836 and the Texas Revolution gathers momentum. Trapped and unable to return home, she travels with the Mexican Army deep into enemy territory, witnessing the events of the war.

Things get very twisted in the aftermath of the battle with Pyriel and the group find themselves scattered. Eleyana searches desperately for Samayael while Lilitu tries to figure out an ill omen in the stars. The Archangel Michael makes a decision that creates deep fissures among his brothers. But worry not, we are far from the end of the tale.

Rebel werewolves threaten to change Civil War history unless two angels save the day. Journey back to 1862 Virginia where Eldara angel Ashley Moore and her Valkyrie sister take on a rogue pack of werewolves that threatens to expose the creatures of myth and legend living in human communities across a nation at war.

Whistler has always been a tough old farmer from Nebraska, ready to take on anything. Life in the 19th century, however, is anything but easy, and in his later years, he finds himself isolated, lonesome, separated from his wife, and wondering if things will ever get better. But when he accidentally summons an angel to his side, things only get worse. For with the light comes the dark, and when demons drive him from his land, Whistler finds himself on a quest to find new purpose and meaning in his life.

Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the ruling class of this mining town, in an “intricate…engrossing” (The Washington Post) new world of dark fantasy from the New...

Against a backdrop of activism and anarchy amongst those living in the squalor of Victorian London’s East End, Johnny’s cooperative is thriving. His main concern is for his 15-year-old son, Noah, who is showing signs of having inherited the family affliction. Noah is seeing beyond the surface world, and Johnny is anxious to prevent him from setting his eyes on evil. Meanwhile, William attempts to adapt to his new life in England and understand the deep mysteries of his family history. Mary is also hunting, but not for knowledge.

Someone is harvesting souls from the battlefields of the Crimea, turning dying soldiers into a vampire army. The leaders of nearby Constantinople are calling in the hunter clans to cleanse their city, even if it means killing all the law-abiding creatures living among their human neighbors. British nurse Florence Nightingale summons her old friend, an angel and fellow nurse, to find the source of the vampires in her hospital. Ashley Moore, together with her valkyrie sister, Ingrid, begins the hunt for clues.