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		<title>The silverblood promise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and - thanks to a duel that ended badly - the disgraced heir to an ancient noble house. His life consists of cheap wine, rigged card games and wondering how he might win back the life he threw away. When Lukan discovers that his estranged father has been murdered in strange circumstances, he finds fresh purpose. Deprived of his chance to make amends for his mistakes, he vows to unravel the mystery behind his father's death. His search for answers leads him to Saphrona, fabled city of merchant princes, where anything can be bought if one has the coin. Lukan only seeks the truth, but instead he finds danger and secrets in every shadow.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>&#8216;Relentlessly entertaining, defiantly idealistic&#8217;</b> Sebastien de Castell, author of TRAITOR&#8217;S BLADE</p>
<p><b>The first in an  extraordinary new fantasy epic, perfect for fans of Nicholas Eames and James Islington!</b></p>
<p>Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and &#8211; thanks to a duel that ended badly &#8211; the disgraced heir to an ancient noble house. His life consists of cheap wine, rigged card games and wondering how he might win back the life he threw away.</p>
<p>When Lukan discovers that his estranged father has been murdered in strange circumstances, he finds fresh purpose. Deprived of his chance to make amends for his mistakes, he vows to unravel the mystery behind his father&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>His search for answers leads him to Saphrona, fabled city of merchant princes, where anything can be bought if one has the coin. Lukan only seeks the truth, but instead he finds danger and secrets in every shadow.</p>
<p><b>For in Saphrona, everything has a price &#8211; and the price of truth is the deadliest of all.</b></p>
<p><u><b>Readers love </b><i><b>The Silverblood Promise</b></i></u><br /><b>&#8216;The characters are beyond great&#8217; </b>5-star reader review<br /><b>&#8216;Logan is a writer to watch&#8217; </b>5-star reader review<br /><b>&#8216;Fantastic start to what is promising to be a spectacular series&#8217; </b>5-star reader review</p>
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		<title>A dawn of Onyx</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The slow-burn, villain-gets-the-girl, dark fantasy breakout TIkTok sensation, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Jennifer Armentrout!]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Captured by the king of darkness, she was forced to find the light within.</b></p>
<p>Arwen Valondale never expected to be the brave one, offering her life to save her brother&#8217;s. Now she&#8217;s been taken prisoner by the most dangerous kingdom on the continent, and made to use her rare magical abilities to heal the soldiers of the vicious Onyx King.</p>
<p>Arwen knows better than to face the ancient, wicked woods that surround the castle on her own, which means working with a fellow prisoner might be her only path to freedom. Unfortunately, he&#8217;s as infuriating as he is cunning-and seems to take twisted pleasure in playing on Arwen&#8217;s deepest fears.</p>
<p>But here in Onyx Kingdom, trust is a luxury she can&#8217;t afford.</p>
<p>To make it out of enemy territory, she&#8217;ll have to navigate back-stabbing royals, dark magic, and deadly beasts. But untold power lies inside Arwen, dormant and waiting for a spark. If she can harness it, she just might be able to escape with her life-and hopefully, her heart.</p>
<p><b><u>Readers love </u></b><b><i><u>A Dawn of Onyx</u></i></b><br /><b>&#8216;I finally get the hype!&#8217; </b>5-star reader review<br /><b>&#8216;Romantasy lovers this one is for you&#8217; </b>5-star reader review<br /><b>I couldn&#8217;t put it down and finished it within one day! </b>5-stars reader review<br /><b>&#8216;The end broke my heart and I&#8217;m devastated&#8217;</b> 5-star reader review</p>
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		<title>The malevolent seven</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My name is Cade Ombra, and though I currently make my living as a mercenary wonderist, I used to have a far more noble-sounding job title - until I discovered the people I worked for weren't quite as noble as I'd believed. Now I'm on the run and my only friend, a homicidal thunder mage, has invited me to join him on a suicide mission against the seven deadliest mages on the continent. Time to recruit some very bad people to help us on this job.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>From the bestselling author of THE GREATCOATS: seven war mages with dark pasts must come together to fight an unknown enemy &#8211; but the stakes are higher than anyone can imagine . . . and someone&#8217;s setting the seven up for a fall.</p>
<p> </b>Picture a wizard. Go ahead, close your eyes. There he is, see? Skinny old guy with a long straggly beard. The hat&#8217;s a must, too, right? Big, floppy thing. Wouldn&#8217;t want a simple steel helmet or something that might, you know, protect the part of him most needed for conjuring magical forces from being bashed in with a mace (or pretty much any household object).</p>
<p> Yep. Behold the mighty wizard.</p>
<p> Now open your eyes and let me show you what a <i>real</i> war mage looks like . . . but be warned: you&#8217;re probably not going to like it, because we&#8217;re violent, angry, dangerously broken people who sell our skills to the highest bidder and be damned to any moral or ethical considerations.</p>
<p> My name is Cade Ombra, and though I currently make my living as a mercenary wonderist, I used to have a far more noble-sounding job title &#8211; until I discovered the people I worked for weren&#8217;t quite as noble as I&#8217;d believed. Now I&#8217;m on the run and my only friend, a homicidal thunder mage, has invited me to join him on a suicide mission against the seven deadliest mages on the continent.</p>
<p> <b>Time to recruit some very bad people to help us on this job . . .</b></p>
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		<title>The wishing game</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it's like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy found her solace in books, namely the Clock Island series by Jack Masterson. Now a 26-year-old teacher's aide, she is able to share her love of reading with bright, young students, especially seven-year-old Christopher Lamb, who was left orphaned after the tragic death of his parents. Lucy would give anything to adopt Christopher, but even the idea of becoming a family seems like an impossible dream without proper funds and stability. Just when Lucy is about to give up, Jack Masterson announces he's finally written a new book. Even better, he's holding a contest at his home on the real Clock Island, and Lucy is one of the four lucky contestants chosen to compete to win the one and only copy.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>One of the<i> Washington Post&#8217;s</i> top ten feel-good novels of the year: a perfect gift for book lovers everywhere!</b></p>
<p>During a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy Hart found solace in books, especially Jack Masterson&#8217;s Clock Island series. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher&#8217;s aide, she has shared her love of reading with bright, orphaned seven-year-old Christopher Lamb. Lucy would give anything to adopt Christopher, but even the idea of becoming a family seems like an impossible dream without proper funds and stability.</p>
<p>Just when Lucy is about to give up, Jack Masterson announces he&#8217;s finally written a new book. Even better, he&#8217;s holding a contest at his home on the real Clock Island, and Lucy is one of the four lucky contestants chosen to compete to win the one and only copy.</p>
<p>For Lucy, the chance of winning the most sought-after book in the world means everything to her and Christopher. But first she must contend with ruthless book collectors, wily opponents, and the distractingly handsome (and grumpy) Hugo Reese, the illustrator of the Clock Island books. Meanwhile, Jack &#8220;the Mastermind&#8221; Masterson is plotting the ultimate twist ending that could change all their lives forever.</p>
<p><b>&#8216;Clever, dark, and hopeful&#8217; -V. E. Schwab, #1<i> New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue</i></b></p>
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		<title>Shark heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He's turning into a great white shark, and has less than a year left to live as a human. At first, Wren resists her husband's fate. But as Lewis changes, day by day, Wren begins to make peace with the inevitable. After all, this isn't the first time she's lost a loved one. 'Shark Heart' is an extraordinary novel of love, loss, hope and happiness. It explores the shapes that love takes, in all its many forms, and asks us to ask ourselves: what makes us human?]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>&#8216;Every page bursts with heart&#8217; <i>Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See</i></b></p>
<p><i>For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. </i></p>
<p>A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He&#8217;s turning into a great white shark, and has less than a year left to live as a human.  At first, Wren resists her husband&#8217;s fate. Is there a way for them to be together after Lewis fully transforms?</p>
<p>But as Lewis changes, day by day, Wren begins to make peace with the inevitable. After all, this isn&#8217;t the first time she&#8217;s lost a loved one.</p>
<p><b>An extraordinary novel of love, loss, hope and happiness, <i>Shark Heart </i>explores the shapes that love takes, in all its many forms, and asks us to ask ourselves: what makes us human?</b></p>
<p><b>&#8216;Compelling, moving, lyrical&#8217; &#8211; Claire North, author of <i>Ithaca </i>and <i>The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August</i></b></p>
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		<title>The daughter of Doctor Moreau</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Carlota Moreau: A young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the YucatÃ¡n peninsula, the only daughter of a genius - or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol, an outcast who assists Dr Moreau with his scientific experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas with plentiful coffers. The hybrids: The fruits of the Doctor's labour, destined to blindly obey their creator while they remain in the shadows, are a motley group of part-human, part-animal monstrosities. All of them are living in a perfectly balanced and static world which is jolted by the abrupt arrival of Eduardo Lizalde, the charming and careless son of Doctor Moreau's patron - who will, unwittingly, begin a dangerous chain-reaction.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font size="+2"><b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Mexican Gothic</i> and <i>Velvet Was the Night</i> comes a dreamy reimagining of <i>The Island of Doctor Moreau </i>set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.</b></font></p>
<p> <font size="+1"><b>&#8216;The deeply atmospheric novel blends horror, science fiction, and historical events&#8217; <i>Time, 100 &#8216;Must Read Books of 2022&#8217;</i></b></font></p>
<p>Carlota Moreau: growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatan peninsula, she is the only daughter of an eccentric, and dangerous, genius. His experiments, a motley group of hybrid monstrosities, are blindly loyal to their creator.</p>
<p>Into Carlota&#8217;s strange but perfectly balanced world comes Eduardo Lizalde, the charming, careless son of Doctor Moreau&#8217;s patrons. In the sweltering heat of the jungle, amidst her father&#8217;s secrets and her own awakening feelings, Carlota will begin asking questions that could ignite a conflagration.<br />______________________</p>
<p>&#8216;<b>Genius </b>. . . combine[s] <b>contemporary political awareness</b> with the <b>appeal of a creepy gothic romance</b>&#8216; &#8211; <i>Guardian</i></p>
<p>&#8216;An <b>evocative slow-burn SF drama</b> about <b>colonialism</b>, <b>heredity and scientific hubris</b>, couched in<b> lush prose</b>&#8216; &#8211; <i>Financial Times</i></p>
<p>&#8216;<b>The imagination of Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a thing of wonder</b>, restless and <b>romantic</b>, <b>fearless in the face of genre</b>, <b>embracing the polarities of storytelling</b>&#8216; &#8211; <i>New York Times</i></p>
<p>&#8216;Paints a <b>vivid picture</b> that is as <b>alluring </b>as it is <b>unsettling</b>, filled with <b>action</b>, <b>romance</b>, and <b>monsters</b>&#8216; <i>Booklist</i></p>
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		<title>Silver nitrate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all-but-invisible to her best friend TristÃ¡n, a charming if faded soap opera star, even though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then TristÃ¡n discovers his new neighbour is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he has a way to change their lives - even if his tales of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>A breathtaking blend of Mexican horror movies and dark occultism from the bestselling author of <i>Mexican Gothic.</i></b></p>
<p>Montserrat has always been overlooked. She&#8217;s a talented sound editor, but she&#8217;s left out of the boys&#8217; club running the film industry in &#8217;90s Mexico City. And she&#8217;s all but invisible to her best friend Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, even though she&#8217;s been in love with him since childhood.</p>
<p><b>&#8216;Gripping and unusual&#8217; <i>&#8211; Guardian</i></b></p>
<p>Then Tristán discovers his new neighbour is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary <i>auteur </i>claims he has a way to change their lives &#8211; even if his tales of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.</p>
<p>Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her.</p>
<p>As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristán might just find out that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies . . .</p>
<p><b>&#8220;Perfection&#8221; &#8211; Kiersten White, bestselling author of <i>Hide</i></b></p>
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		<title>Braking day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interstellar Vehicle Archimedes has been hurtling through space for more than five generations. But now the aging starship is preparing to brake, for it is arriving at Destination Star: Tau Ceti. For trainee engineer Ravinder MacLeod, the world he knows is coming to an end. Once Archimedes succumbs to the pull of the Destination Star and its (hopefully) habitable planet, there will be no going back. As Braking Day approaches, Ravi finds himself caught between the requirements of the officer class to which he aspires and his blue-collar, ne'er-do-well family. Unfortunately for Ravi, Boz, his ex-con cousin, seems determined to make his life difficult - not least by her experiments with forbidden technology. Then Ravi is assigned to routine maintenance deep in the massive engines of the Archimedes, where, alone and out of contact, he comes face to face with something impossible - mind-breakingly impossible.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interstellar Vehicle <i>Archimedes</i> has been hurtling through space for more than five generations, an oasis of heat and light in the middle of absolutely nowhere. But now the ageing starship is preparing to brake, for it is arriving at Destination Star: Tau Ceti, the new home for the space-born descendants of the First Crew.</p>
<p>For trainee engineer Ravinder MacLeod, the world he knows is coming to an end. Once <i>Archimedes</i> succumbs to the gravitational pull of the Destination Star and its (hopefully) habitable planet, there will be no going back &#8211; or anywhere else. As Braking Day approaches, Ravi finds himself caught between the rigid requirements of the officer class to which he aspires and his blue-collar, ne&#8217;er-do-well family. Unfortunately for Ravi, Boz, his brilliant ex-con cousin, seems determined to make his life difficult &#8211; not least by her experiments with forbidden technology.</p>
<p>Then Ravi is assigned to routine maintenance deep in the massive engines of the <i>Archimedes</i>, where, alone and out of contact, he comes face to face with something impossible &#8211; <i>mind-breakingly</i> impossible.</p>
<p>Plagued by nightmares and visions and worried that his grip on reality is slipping, Ravi turns to Boz for help. Their search for answers takes them to the jagged place where the ship&#8217;s future intersects with its long past. For not everyone is excited to be reaching journey&#8217;s end, and the ghosts of the First Crew may not have been fully laid to rest.</p>
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		<title>Untamed shore</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Baja California, 1979. Viridiana spends her days watching the dead sharks piled beside the seashore, as the fishermen pull their nets. There is nothing else to do, nothing else to watch, under the harsh sun. She's bored. Terribly bored. Yet her head is filled with dreams of Hollywood films, of romance, of a future beyond the drab town where her only option is to marry and have children. Three wealthy American tourists arrive for the summer, and Viridiana is magnetised. She immediately becomes entwined in the glamorous foreigners' lives. They offer excitement, and perhaps an escape from the promise of a humdrum future. When one of them dies, Viridiana lies to protect her friends. Soon enough, someone's asking questions, and Viridiana has some of her own about the identity of her new acquaintances.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of MEXICAN GOTHIC (July 2020) and VELVET WAS THE NIGHT (August 2021), comes UNTAMED SHORE, a dark cocktail mixing a nuanced coming-of-age story with a classical noir. </b></p>
<p><b>&#8216;Brutality takes on an almost divine quality&#8217;<i> LA Review of Books</i></b></p>
<p>Baja California, 1979: Viridiana spends her days under the harsh sun, watching the fishermen pulling in their nets and the dead sharks piled beside the seashore. Her head is filled with dreams of romance, travel and of a future beyond this drab town where her only option is to marry and have children.</p>
<p>When a wealthy American writer arrives with his wife and brother-in-law, Viridiana jumps at the offer of a job as his assistant, and she&#8217;s soon entangled in the glamorous foreigners&#8217; lives. They offer excitement, and perhaps an escape from her humdrum life. When one of them dies, eager to protect her new friends, Viridiana lies &#8211; but soon enough, someone&#8217;s asking questions. It&#8217;s not long before Viridiana has some of her own questions about the identities of her new acquaintances.</p>
<p><b>Sharks may be dangerous, but there are worse predators nearby, ready to devour a naÃ¯ve young woman unwittingly entangled in a web of deceit. </b></p>
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