The Crescent City series is an adult fantasy-romance (romantasy) set on the world of Midgard. It blends modern urban fantasy elements with murder mysteries, high-stakes politics, and deep interconnected lore.Book 1: House of Earth and Blood (2020) – Follows half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan as she teams up with fallen angel Hunt Athalar to investigate a series of brutal murders in Lunathion (Crescent City).Book 2: House of Sky and Breath (2022) – Continues Bryce and Hunt's story as they get entangled with rebel factions challenging the ruling Asteri.Book 3: House of Flame and Shadow (2024) – The explosive third installment that expands the scope of the world and deepens crossover connections to Maas's other universes.
Empire of the Vampire SeriesIn internationally bestselling author Jay Kristoff's new dark fantasy series, daylight has failed, and vampire armies wage war against humanity in the endless night. All hope lies with the last remaining silversaint, Gabriel de León, awaiting execution for the murder of the vampire emperor. In Empire of the Vampire, the first installment of this fully illustrated series, we hear Gabriel's story of the quest for humanity's last hope to restore daylight: The Holy Grail.
County Clare, 1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight first cast its foul shadow over Ireland, Maggie O’Shaughnessy has lost everything—her entire family and the man she trusted with her heart. Toiling in the Ennis Workhouse for paltry rations, she can see no future either within or outside its walls—until the mysterious Lady Catherine arrives to whisk her away to an old mansion in the stark limestone landscape of the Burren.Lady Catherine wants Maggie to impersonate her late daughter, Wilhelmina, and hoodwink solicitors into releasing Wilhelmina’s widow pension so that Lady Catherine can continue to provide for the villagers in her care. In exchange, Maggie will receive freedom from the workhouse, land of her own, and the one thing she wants more than a chance to fulfill the promise she made to her brother on his deathbed—to live to spite them all.Launching herself into the daunting task, Maggie plays the role of Wilhelmina as best she can while ignoring the villagers’ tales of ghostly figures and curses. But more worrying are the whispers that come from within. Something in Lady Catherine’s house is reawakening long-buried memories in Maggie—of a foe more terrifying than hunger or greed, of a power that calls for blood and vengeance, and of her own role in a nightmare that demands the darkest sacrifice . . .
This chilling historical novel is set in the nascent days of the state of Montana, following a Blackfeet Indian named Good Stab as he haunts the fields of the Blackfeet Nation looking for justice.It begins when a diary written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall in 2012. What is unveiled is a slow massacre, a nearly forgotten chain of events that goes back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow, told in the transcribed interviews with Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar and unnaturally long life over a series of confessional visits.This is an American Indian revenge story, captured in the vivid voices of the time, by one of the new masters of literary horror, Stephen Graham Jones.
When Charlotte Hoffman's picture-perfect career implodes overnight, she retreats to the one place she swore she'd never Big Island, Minnesota. Home to her childhood best friend, Olivia Parker, and the place where her life first fell apart.Eighteen years ago, tragedy struck, and Charlotte's blamed herself for that bloody night ever since. Now she's back, staying with the Parkers in their isolated lakeside home, surrounded by dark woods shrouded in mist and the decaying remains of a long-abandoned amusement park.But something isn't right. The Parkers' young twin girls whisper about ghosts in the trees. Threatening notes appear on doors. An old carousel screams in the wind. And every night the island claims another victim.As Charlotte wades ever-deeper into danger, she can't shake the feeling that someone brought her back to the isolated island for a reason.Someone who wants to finish what was started all those years ago.