Panitus Maiden

Ione Canosh stands on the gallows. A mob stretches at her feet. Tatus have won the uprising against their Panitus oppressors, and Ione is about to be executed by Kye Min, a Tatus rebel. Instead, Ione is secretly taken captive by Kye Min and when she wakens, she’s bound and at his mercy. As a Panitus Maiden, Ione was engaged to marry Beshiel Dvorak, the Captain of the Panitus Legion. Beshiel Dvorak brutalized Kye Min’s wife before he murdered her, and Kye wants revenge. Still believing everything that she’s been told about Tatus, Ione meets Romy, Kye Min’s son and learns the true nature of Panitus oppression. Reluctantly, Kye Min yields to the growing friendship between Ione and Romy. When Ione begins to teach Romy to read, Kye Min sets up a school for her, gives her a place at his estate, and in his bed. However, the new Tatus government is hunting her down with the intent to hang her, even as Beshiel Dvorak is waiting for an opportunity to take her back.

For three hundred years, the men of The Fifty have sworn to sacrifice themselves to defend the border of Calthus from their enemies. Hawthe, the high-ranking military officer of The Fifty, is patrolling when he finds a strange, small animal in a smuggler’s wagon. It is injured, with cruel clamps piercing its shoulders so it can’t fly. He helps the animal and brings it back to Anwen Citadel, where his men adopt the creature. The animal lives with them for a year, becoming a part of the lives of the soldiers who live in the Citadel. One day, an eagle attacks the animal. When Hawthe catches up with the eagle and the creature, he finds a beautiful woman unconscious on the ground. He brings her back to the citadel, where he interrogates her, and soon gives in to his desires. She says her name is Argen. But there is a spy in The Fifty who wants them all dead, and Hawthe isn’t sure what Argen wants at Anwen Citadel—or with him.

A SciFi Fantasy Tale. Attacking the Usur’s forces, Shep-Alij, the ruthless Maeser of the Resistance, captures Maeva. She is the Usur’s daughter and the last vanata, a hybrid species. She’s “the only vanata left in the world. Those gold rings in her eyes prove it. And the usur’s daughter had golded, which meant she’d found a mate. But she wasn’t fully golded. She hadn’t screwed him yet. Shep looked at her again. They’d gotten to her just in time. If she’d mated with some usur officer, the war would have been over for the resistance right there. They couldn’t sustain their fight through the reign of a new usur. They would lose.” Maeve’s death will be the key to winning the war and freeing Shep’s people from a decade of oppression. But when Shep delays executing her and takes her to a secure location to find out for whom she has golded, he finds it more and more difficult to carry out his plans. He’ll face a choice between loyalty to his cause and his growing feelings for Maeve.

Winter and Isidor are two sexy Siblin brothers have been sailing the world in search of searching for their father, Maren. They take their ship, The Singsong, through the dangerous Brecca Strait where sirens have been singing to sailors and wrecking ships for over two hundred years. They In the mouth of the Strit is Nanine Island, where they find their father’s ship, The Wandering Eye. There, the brothers meet Soule, a beautiful red-haired siren their father adopted when she was a child. There, the brothers also learn that Soule is their anthata, a lifelong bond between a woman and two Siblin brothers. Isidor and Winter take Soule to try to persuade the Siblin Council to recognize her as their anthata. But they are opposed by two Siblin brothers whose parents were killed by a siren. Winter and Isidor resolve to go back to the Brecca Strait to learn how to stop the sirens who are still wrecking ships. Sailing in The Singsong, Winter and Isidor take Soule to Halit Island near the Brecca Strait, pursued by Havish and Leet. On the island, a flash flood comes. Winter is swept away. Isidor lies unconscious at the bottom of a deep fissure. Soule is alone with the brothers who have sworn to kill her, and the water is rising fast.

Maledom Vampire. Dmitri has wandered the world for forty years, seducing women to feed his secrat’s need for blood. His venom gives women pleasure in exchange for what he requires. Like all thesals, Dmitri is plagued by his secrat’s tortured dreams of tall black gates and beautiful women with dark hair and eyes so light they are almost white. Dmitri’s secrat urges him into the vast, uncharted forest of the north. Risking starvation on animal blood, Dmitri travels for weeks, finally arriving through an underground passage to a mysterious island surrounded by a lake. There, he meets and seduces Aria – beautiful, nocturnal, and very like the women from his secrat’s dreams. Her people are the Mank, who were driven out of their city generations ago by the Cotsul, who still keep them prisoners. Dmitri resolves to help them, but he can’t defend the village during daylight hours. It’s forty-three days before the Veshtan Guard can arrive, and Aria is locked inside the village gates. Those gates must hold, but unknown to Dmitri, the Cotsul have a secret way in.

This suspenseful novel portrays a community--and a family--under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who calls Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare. Having elected its first black mayor in 1980, Atlanta projected an image of political progressiveness and prosperity. But between September 1979 and June 1981, more than forty black children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered throughout "The City Too Busy to Hate." Zala Spencer, a mother of three, is barely surviving on the margins of a flourishing economy when she awakens on July 20, 1980 to find her teenage son Sonny missing. As hours turn into days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children just beginning to attract national attention. Growing increasingly disillusioned with the authorities, who respond to Sonny's disappearance with cold indifference, Zala and her estranged husband embark on a desperate search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions.