fantasy fiction

When the pirate king dies, the Bone Crown Trials, a competition to determine the next ruler of the seas, begins. Three strangers named Csilla Abado, Kane Blackwater, and Lorelei Penny soon find themselves caught up in a deadly battle for the throne. Csilla dreams of becoming the first pirate queen, Kane is looking for a chance to save his father's ship, the "Iron Jewel," and Lorelei has stowed away on the "Iron Jewel" looking for her mother's killer. But these three realize they stand a stronger chance together and form a tentative alliance.

"In a far distant future, Tucker Feye and the inscrutable Lia find themselves atop a crumbling pyramid in an abandoned city. In present-day Hopewell, Tucker's uncle Kosh faces armed resistance and painful memories as he attempts to help a terrorized woman named Emma, who is being held captive by a violent man. And on a train platform in 1997, a seventeen-year-old Kosh is given an instruction that will change his life, and the lives of others, forever"--Amazon.com.

Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant, a criminal who hunts and sells illegal magic. But when she saves the life of a prince, she is blackmailed by the sultan to find an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land. Accompanied by the sultan's oldest son, her jinn bodyguard, and Aisha, one of the eldest prince's Forty Thieves, Loulie sets out to find the relic. The group soon faces attacks by ghouls, a fearsome ancient jinn queen, and the assassin that killed Loulie's family.

Princesses Mare and Denna are finally together, but with Denna's gift of forbidden and dangerous fire magic, Mare knows settling down together will be difficult. Now, Denna must travel to the secret kingdom of Zumorda, where she can train with her fire without fear of persecution. Mare goes along with her in secret, disguised as an ambassador. When they arrive in Zumorda, though, the two princesses learn there has been an attack on a border town in Mynaria. Mare must make an alliance with the Zumordan queen to save her homeland, but the queen is only interested in Denna's powerful magic. Denna may have to choose between her fire and Mare.

In a dystopian Argentine Antarctica, the only female private investigator is Eliana Gomez, who's boyfriend Diego happens to be a runner for organized crime lord Ignacio Cabrera. When Elaina accepts an assignment with a local aristocrat with a dark secret, she'll face deadly conflict with her own boyfriend as the local drones threaten an uprising for independence.

When seventeen-year-old orphan Twain finds a strand of starlight on the cliffs outside of his town of Severon, it puts him in contact with another orphaned teen, Quinta, who is searching for a mysterious curiosity shop called the Vermilion Emporium to find her destiny. The two find the magical shop that appears in town and inside they find a book that teaches them how to weave the newly found starlight into magical lace. They are commissioned to make a starlight dress for the town's ruler, but the dress puts them into danger from others who want the starlight lace's power.

Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami, Ren Scarborough lives a complicated life, and her Shinigami abilities lead the Reapers to shun her. Forced to flee London, she travels to Japan to embrace her powers and serve the Goddess of Death. Ren soon finds herself in another battle to prove her worth and earn the respect of the Shinigami. She embarks on a dangerous mission to eliminate three dangerous Yokai demons with the help of her half-brother Neven and an exiled Shinigami named Hiro.

Now that Csilla Abado is the first Queen of Bones, she is tasked with mending the crack between Limbo and the mortal realm before more otherworldly creatures pass through it. But when Lorelei and Nara go missing, Csilla sets sail once more to locate her friends. Kane Blackwater tracks the traitorous Dominic Rove to Death's Cove, but things take a dark turn when a magic-laced injury spreads an unknown evil through his veins. Lorelei Storm hasn't been the same since her return from the realm of Limbo, and when she runs away from Csilla and the others, she is captured by an Incendian Scout. Soon, the war between gods and mortals reaches a breaking point, and no one will ever be the same.

Wiley and unapologetic socialite Emanuela Ragno is all set to marry the heir of the wealthiest house in the city of Occhia, who also happens to be her childhood best friend Alessandro Morandi--even though she is lesbian and he is gay. She doesn't care, though--it is a marriage not for love but for power, and she is about to have it all. However, she keeps a dark secret--the only source of water in Occhia is the mysterious, magical being known as the watercrea, and she only way she can make water is from sacrificed human blood--and Emanuela has been hiding the bruise on her leg that signifies she should be sacrificed next.

Tess Dombegh joins Countess Mardou's sailing expedition as an undercover spy for the Queen to prevent war, but she is more concerned with finding the last World Serpent, the Polar Serpent, to use its magical healing abilities on her best friend Pathka. When someone from Tess's painful past returns, old wounds threaten to jeopardize the mission. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the people on the ship, another expedition led by Spira, a dragon Tess wronged in the past, tries to be the first ones to the Polar Serpent to execute its own plan.