The Magic Of Unkindness

“A remarkable writer.” —Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of American Gods An Alex Award Winner There is a dark secret that is hiding at the heart of New York City and diminishing the city’s magicians’ power in this fantasy thriller by acclaimed author Kat Howard. In New York City, magic controls everything. But the power of magic is fading. No one knows what is happening, except for Sydney—a new, rare magician with incredible power that has been unmatched in decades, and she may be the only person who is able to stop the darkness that is weakening the magic. But Sydney doesn’t want to help the system, she wants to destroy it. Sydney comes from the House of Shadows, which controls the magic with the help of sacrifices from magicians.

Writer Dan Panosian (Slots) and artist Marianna Ignazzi present a supernatural mystery, where not all the witches burned during the Salem Witch Trials—and the ones that survived did so together, protecting the ancient secrets entrusted to them for generations. They call themselves the Ravens. Wilma is the new girl in school, and she plans to go completely unnoticed—except that she bears an eerie resemblance to the Raven member Waverly, who just went missing. The truth behind Waverly’s disappearance will put the entire coven in danger—and Wilma will have to rely on power she never knew she had to save her new friends.

Your favorite new fantasy heroine’s finest hour awaits her in this breathtaking trilogy. For the first time, all three novels in The Books of Conjury are together in one ebook collection. Follow along as Kate Finch plunges into a harrowing race to unlock the secrets of the dead in an atmospheric, sorcery-riddled 18th Century Boston. The twists and turns never let up. The bundle collects the complete trilogy in one place: THE MAGIC OF UNKINDNESS THE GRAVE RAVEN THE HALLS OF MIDNIGHT In addition, you’ll get a detailed 88-page Appendix unavailable anywhere else: THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF CONJURY Who comes out on top when magic, witchcraft, and sorcery collide in the brooding Massachusetts countryside of 1736? How far can loyalty go? And is it all too much to ask of a sixteen-year-old one-eyed orphan confronted with the infernal?

Everyone she knows is dead. If she can’t master her powers, she’ll be next. Boston, Eighteenth Century. Kate Finch is desperate for a fresh start. Recently arrived from London after a harrowing year of every person she loved dying at the hands of demons, her new beginning starts badly when thugs attempt to murder her. And after they deliver her to Salem in a cart full of corpses, the terrified sixteen-year-old refuses to believe her rescuer declaring she’s a witch. Uncertain when the older man claims he can help her, Kate reluctantly accepts his offer to become his apprentice. But when her mentor vanishes into a sinister parallel realm, the strong young woman vows to use her growing witchcraft to retrieve the strange magician she’s come to respect. Will her bold entry into an unknown world of darkness take her last breath? The Magic of Unkindness is the gripping first volume in The Books of Conjury historical fantasy series. If you like determined heroines, daring sorcerers, and intriguing magical worlds, then you’ll love Kevan Dale’s high-stakes tale. Buy The Magic of Unkindness to step into mayhem today!

Imogen and her sister Marin escape their cruel mother to attend a prestigious artists’ retreat, but soon learn that living in a fairy tale requires sacrifices, whether it be art or love in this critically acclaimed debut novel from “a remarkable young writer” (Neil Gaiman, American Gods). What would you sacrifice for everything you ever dreamed of? Imogen has grown up reading fairy tales about mothers who die and make way for cruel stepmothers. As a child, she used to lie in bed wishing that her life would become one of these tragic fairy tales because she couldn’t imagine how a stepmother could be worse than her mother now. As adults, Imogen and her sister Marin are accepted to an elite post-grad arts program—Imogen as a writer and Marin as a dancer. Soon enough, though, they realize that there’s more to the school than meets the eye. Imogen might be living in the fairy tale she’s dreamed about as a child, but it’s one that will pit her against Marin if she decides to escape her past to find her heart’s desire.

One of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the past decade, selected by NPR One of the 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time, selected by Esquire One of the 100 Most Influential Queer Books of All Time, selected by Booklist A Best Book of 2017: NPR, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Bustle, Bookish, Barnes & Noble, Chicago Public Library, Book Scrolling. CLMP Firecracker Award Winner A Stonewall Book Award Honor Book Finalist for the 2018 Locus Award, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and the Lambda Literary Award. Nominated for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Novel "What Solomon achieves with this debut--the sharpness, the depth, the precision--puts me in mind of a syringe full of stars. I want to say about this book, its only imperfection is that it ended. But that might give the wrong impression: that it is a happy book, a book that makes a body feel good. It is not a happy book. I love it like I love food, I love it for what it did to me, I love it for having made me feel stronger and more sure in a nightmare world, but it is not a happy book. It is an antidote to poison. It is inoculation against pervasive, enduring disease. Like a vaccine, it is briefly painful, leaves a lingering soreness, but armors you from the inside out." --NPR "In Rivers Solomon's highly imaginative sci-fi novel An Unkindness of Ghosts, eccentric Aster was born into slavery on--and is trying to escape from--a brutally segregated spaceship that for generations has been trying to escort the last humans from a dying planet to a Promised Land. When she discovers clues about the circumstances of her mother's death, she also comes closer to disturbing truths about the ship and its journey." --BuzzFeed "What Solomon does brilliantly in this novel is in the creation of a society in which dichotomies loom over certain aspects of the narrative, and are eschewed by others...Hearkening back to the past in visions of the future can hold a number of narrative purposes...The past offers us countless nightmares and cautionary tales; so too, I'm afraid, can the array of possible futures lurking up ahead." --Tor.com "This book is a clear descendent of Octavia Butler's Black science fiction legacy, but grounded in more explicit queerness and neuroatypicality." --AutoStraddle "Ghosts are 'the past refusing to be forgot,' says a character in this assured science-fiction debut. That's certainly the case aboard the HSS Matilda, a massive spacecraft arranged along the cruel racial divides of pre-Civil War America." --Toronto Star Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot--if she's willing to sow the seeds of civil war.

To fulfill her oath, she must enter a world of evil. To serve her mentor, she must help him release its power. Massachusetts, 1737. Kate Finch is determined to keep her word. But between secretly teaching magic to the governor’s daughter, juggling her mentor’s increasingly urgent demands, and the bold pledge she gave to the rebels, the young witch isn’t certain how many vows she can honor. And with the missing girl she seeks speaking to her through a dead body, Kate worries she’s in over her head when the corpse coughs up a murdered man’s ring. As she races to access the dark realm to attempt a rescue, she discovers the truth about her sorcerous heritage. And with her master’s grand plans to control the demonic forces polluting Salem about to come to fruition, Kate fears he may unleash a catastrophe that could destroy the entire world. Can she balance saving an innocent trapped in a hellish domain and protecting the colony from disaster? The Grave Raven is the riveting second volume in The Books of Conjury historical fantasy series. If you like earth-shattering magic, breathtaking twists and turns, and heroines battling impossible odds, then you’ll love Kevan Dale’s nail-biting adventure. Buy The Grave Raven to put loyalty to the test today!

Murder and Blood Magic in 1919 London, England. Captain Dante White returns from the war a broken man. London was meant to be a refuge, not a continuation of the war. Mages from his original unit in bootcamp are turning up dead, drained of magic. Will he be next or will he be forced into being a scapegoat for the Army yet again? Death hunts him, bringing long buried secrets of his family to light. Can he find the real killer before he becomes the next victim, or is he just another pawn broken by the game?