Dark Ages Literature

A fiercely original debut from Leigh N. Gallagher, Who You Might Be takes readers from 1990s Southern California to a UFOlogist holdout in Nevada, the graffiti playground of Detroit, and a self-important New York art scene in an unflinching examination of how life’s most unexpected turns—and...

A young girl discovers that deep within herself, an ancient power dwells in her soul. Esther Green is known as a "Clockwork", powerful individuals who are sworn to protect the Earth. Along with the Clockworks, there are Exols and Creators who live conspicuously among the humans. But somewhere lies a novel of infinite truth, a living vessel titled Brilliance that writes itself and all that partakes in history and the universe.

15-year-old Ruta finds herself trapped in the Sleepverse’s Citadel where her many Selves gather at night; a place that no Dreamer has visited before. For her Selves, the Citadel is paradise. For Ruta, it’s a nightmare she can’t escape from. Someone is holding her hostage in a perpetual sleep state, and she needs to find out why before their nefarious plan comes to fruition.

A fast-paced literary thriller that peels back the layers of small-town police corruption, drugs, and teen disillusionment to expose unlikely heroes and unexpected villains When two teens, Dallan and Hannah, attend the opening night of the infamous Sunsetter rodeo, they find themselves entangled...

Meet Gabriela, a young and naive woman whose life takes a wild turn on her first visit to the city. She accidentally sends Viscount Brynmor Highgate, the Marquess of Melodis, tumbling down a flight of stairs to his untimely demise. But Gabriela is no ordinary girl; she's well-versed in the necromantic arts, and she promises Brynmor that she can fix this - or at least maybe her mother can - as she binds his ghost to her side. Joined by her loyal and hilariously eccentric knight protectorate, Lord Sebastian, they embark on a madcap journey across the bottomless Crack.

From the author of Canada Reads winner Nikolski comes a sweet, smart and occasionally surreal romantic comedy, featuring two young friends who could become lovers—if only one of them hadn't convinced herself that the end of the world is nigh. The Randall family was always a little strange. For...

Approaching the end of her life, Alice Mayes, notorious caretaker of the anomaly known as The Garden of Sunray, is eager to tie up one last loose end before moving on. The last loose end. For decades, she’s been dreaming of finding someone to share her secret with, someone worthy of her truth, and in 20-year-old Emily Newell, she thinks she finally has. On a momentous stroll through her massive garden with her young friend, Alice delves back into the past, back to those five horrific, mind-bending days in the summer of 1944, when she was 16.

Searching for the Eminent: March of the Meek tells the story of Rekco Curse, a 13-year-old boy living a sheltered life in the rural plains just outside of the last inhabited city on the planet—Last Thesi. After the passing of his mother and the mysterious disappearance of his father, Rekco was left in the care of a mercenary named Maven. Could the disappearance of Rekston Curse have some correlation with the decline of civilization? Rekco has dedicated himself to becoming a hero like his father, in hopes that he will find out what happened to him.

Jordon is a Dungeon Master, and he liked to think that he was a decent one, after a whole year of writing and running his own home-brewed campaign. He just didn’t think he was so good at it that he could actually write a Fallen God into existence - a God that was hellbent on destroying the multiverse. Now, Jordon descends through the Cadinari Stream, and into a world of his own creation, finding that the life of an Adventurer is much more than improv and dice rolls. And Taldora, that world he had only seen in his dreams, is full of more wonders and mystery.

Ilianna Drakara almost had everything — the ardent Prince Castiel of Anolyn, and a country willing to accept her as their own — until both were ripped from her. In a labyrinthine castle as twisted as the very bloodline she hails from, Ilianna confronts the reappearance of her father and the truth of her lineage, all within a kingdom she despises. Her own. Centuries of tyranny have left Eira tattered. Ilianna must harness her own strength that hides within or fall victim to a dark magic unaccustomed to failure.

A propulsive, darkly gripping novel about the power and paradoxes of human longing, faith, trauma and taboo, from the acclaimed author of The Amateurs, shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award. A fractured portrait of a darkly riveting sibling relationship from the inside out, Strange Loops...

Julie now knows Marcus’s secret. Her personal life is a disaster and Marcus is missing. He needs to confront his past with the fear it might change him for the worst. Can Julie forgive Marcus in time to save him from himself?

Normal People meets Fifty Shades of Grey in this sharp and provocative coming-of-age debut chronicling the turbulent romance between a brilliant economics grad student and a magnetic Wall Street CEO two decades her senior. When Lili Marwan—seeking to escape the unrelenting pressures of her...

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Jack Blank confronts his destiny in this action-packed conclusion to the trilogy Publishers Weekly calls a “no-holds-barred adventure.” Ever since Jack Blank learned that he came from the amazing country of the Imagine Nation, he’s known that his fate could go down two very different...

Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her "professional coach."...

Beloved story writer Ron Carlson's first novel in thirty years, Five Skies is the story of three men gathered high in the Rocky Mountains for a construction project that is to last the summer. Having participated in a spectacular betrayal in Los Angeles, the giant, silent Arthur Key drifts into...

Isabel Rosen hat noch ein Semester am Wilder College vor sich, als ein neuer Professor ihren Kurs für Kreatives Schreiben übernimmt. R. H. Connelly ist ein charismatischer Lehrer und ein Mann mit Geheimnissen. Er gibt Isabel das Gefühl, gesehen zu werden, schön und talentiert zu sein: die Frau, die sie sein möchte. Die beiden beginnen eine Affäre, die die Grundlagen dessen, wer Isabel zu sein glaubt, immer mehr erschüttert. Während ein weiteres Drama um ein verheiratetes Paar am College alle um sie herum in Atem hält, ahnt Isabel, dass die Grenze zwischen Jugend und Erwachsensein weniger klar ist, als sie dachte.

In a gripping story of survival set against the stark backdrop of the Antarctic Ocean, a couple shipwrecked on an island must trust each other with their lives A young couple from Paris sets out on the adventure of a lifetime: a journey by sailboat around the tip of Cape Horn. But when they stop...

I’m a witch. My mom, and my aunt, and their mom were also witches. Maybe my dad? There’s just a whole lotta witches in my family. And in this town too. Stormy Josie, off-limits Beck, even cocky-boy Spade all have enchanted abilities. We were supposed to get invites to the High Council Witch Academy… maybe. But, the death of a classmate interrupted our fate. Now, no one’s sure. (You’d think fate would know, after all, it’s fate. But, I digress.) The High Council will only accept the strongest, most magical bonds. So now, we’ve got to do it all again.