A forbidden magic, a murder in the Zodiac ranks, a marriage of obligation, and a heroine who might be the most dangerous secret in the Celestial Realm.Elara Hawthorne thought she was ordinary—until the Celestial Institute summons her to compete for the role of Guardian of the Sagittarius Stone, a position left vacant after a shocking murder.There's just one problem:Elara isn't supposed to have magic.And the magic she does have—the forbidden kind written out of history—could get her killed.Now every Guardian in the Zodiac wants answers, including the dangerously magnetic Leo Guardian sent to fetch her. And the one person standing in her way?Her infuriating husband, Hideo Toru—Serendal's deadliest Sentinel, the man sworn to protect her... and the man hiding the truth about who she really is.As secrets unravel and constellations stir, Elara must decide:Run from the destiny...

A man with a deadly past marries into the perfect, most respectable family in this riveting thriller from New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh. . . .A woman buried.A woman broken.A woman crashed.A woman burned.And the man who knew them all.Love at first sight, a whirlwind Vegas wedding, a fairy-tale romance.For forty-three days, Tavish Advani has been the happiest man in the world—until his new life turns to ash, his wealthy in-laws’ house going up in a fiery explosion. His badly injured wife lies in a coma, her family all but annihilated.Tavish thought he'd left the sins of his Los Angeles life behind, but it’s not so easy to leave behind an investigation into the deaths of several high-profile women—all of whom he'd professed to love. Tragedy and death follow him no matter where he goes . . . but this time, he knows he’s truly...

From the author of the cult classic Lives of the Saints, a diaristic novel of middle-aged reckoning that roves from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, from court records to Don Giovanni, all of it riotously narrated by one of American fiction’s most singular voices.Delery Anhalt—middle-aged and prone, like Don Quixote, to “embroidering everything into vast ideals” but incapable (like Desdemona?) of identifying the Shakespearean villains in her life—finds herself at a crossroads. Her father and his peers, the old guard of New Orleans, are entering their twilight years. Her daughters are stepping decisively into adulthood. Delery, caught between the demands of the generations, takes stock of herself in a series of diaries that move freely between present and past: from the waning days of Covid and her employment as a virtual court monitor of criminal cases in New Orleans to the travails of daily life in Washington, DC. Throughout,...

A friendship is a filiation we choose. It holds love and laughter; it can extend our sense of the possible. Moved to honour a form of relation often subordinated to romantic and familial ties, and to explore a part of her own history, Hélène Giannecchini pieces together an alternative genealogy of queer ancestors. In searching and sensitive prose, she sifts the past to bring existences deemed 'marginal' into communion with each other, traces of which may remain only in memory and archival fragments. Roving from Casa Susanna, a space of freedom from persecution in McCarthyite North America, to the diary of a man living with HIV in France, and to the life and work of pioneering lesbian photographer Donna Gottschalk, each narrative counters oblivion through loving acts of witness. A slantwise gathering of queer life and activism in the twentieth century, interspersed with images encountered by chance, An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail establishes friendship as a vital political force and...

He's been sinking them for years, but now the coffins of his victims are rising from the bayou...A rotted coffin was pulled from the river, then a second, and a third. Search teams now work around the clock pulling pinewood tombs from the murky waters of the Louisiana delta. And missing women from the last year are at the center of a state-wide manhunt for the man who buried them alive.In the same waterways where she and her sister were taken, former stage magician and hypnotist Sophie Quinn joins forces with the FBI to uncover who is taking these women and if any can still be saved. But in these dark waterways, the ghosts of Sophie's past are restless—and the man who took everything from her may yet take more.

When honor and duty collide, one man must choose his fate. Elite enforcer Rafian is on a deadly mission to the Cesare Mining Station in pursuit of a perilous fugitive.  Uncovering a brutal underworld of smugglers, slavers, and corrupt leaders, Rafian is drawn into a war among rival factions. Torn between his duty and his compassion, he's forced to choose a side in order to complete his task.  But as danger escalates, it's unclear who he can trust and where his loyalties ultimately lie.Violence ensues.Lives hang in the balance.And Rafian's humanity is on the line.Can he complete his mission without losing himself along the way?

Bess Choi is proud of what she's accomplished. Owner of Strange Brew, a popular coffee shop in Silence, she's worked hard and has overcome many obstacles to build the life she has. It's a good life, one that includes work she loves, an apartment to call her own, and plenty of good friends.But an unexpected phone call comes as a brutal reminder of a time she thought she'd left far behind. Suddenly, she's faced with the choice to turn her back on the beautiful life she created, or break her guilty silence.Chief Deputy Hugo Alexander isn't sure when exactly he started seeing the quiet coffee shop owner as more than simply a good friend. It's hard to pinpoint the moment when she went from a supportive friend to him and his teenage son, to the woman who features in his dreams and fantasies.Unfortunately, Bess Choi seems to have him firmly locked in the friend zone, and it's not until worrisome things start happening around her, she cautiously starts lowering the...