The Revenant of Surolifia — Florence Chien (Rising Action)

Secrets are often liabilities, but sometimes they are power.

Lucas Rhine has seen enough violence. When the Empire of Colours slaughters 17,000 of his silver-eyed kin, Lucas buries his hatred, hides his eyes behind coloured lenses, and vows to become the imperial gendarmerie’s commander. He will liberate his annexed island home through a diplomatic secession.

Usurped prince Faye Phlorik wants his throne back. When violent revolutionaries help him escape from prison, he joins them. They need a silver-eyed champion to rally the people, and he needs their resources to defeat the gendarmerie.

When Faye’s escape costs Lucas his promotion, Lucas adds revenge to his list of reasons to stop the bloody revolution. While the two hunt each other across the country, the Empire’s warships are landing in two weeks to exterminate everyone with silver eyes. If Lucas and Faye can’t unite their forces against the imperial fleet, there will soon be nothing left of the people they’re both trying to liberate.

July 7, 2026 • Novel • Political Fantasy

The Language of Knives — Haralambi Markov (Mythic Delirium Books)

A murderous nine-headed monster from legend permits a podcast interview. The mall has opened its doors, and nothing, not even certain death, will keep the shoppers away. A dead man’s curse drives his descendants to drown themselves, no matter how far from home they flee. An eerie haunted house attraction receives an even more unnerving guest. A grieving widower, knife in hand, undertakes a painstaking, gruesome ritual to appease the gods. If seeking a boon from Baba Yaga sounds nerve-shattering, imagine having to live under her roof.

These thirteen tales from Bulgarian author Haralambi Markov meld Slavic mythology, pitch-black humor, and moving explorations of queer identity with vistas rooted in body horror and nightmares, yielding results that are sometimes deeply disquieting, sometimes surprisingly hopeful, and always strikingly novel. As Hugo and World Fantasy award-winning editor Ann VanderMeer states in her introduction, Markov “writes with such power and intensity that you can’t imagine where they get the courage to put such words on paper. Their work challenges us to face our fears, our insecurities, and not look away.”

July 7, 2026 • Short Story Collection • Fantasy

Lucianus — C.J. Beshara (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)

Lucianus is one of the most destructive wizards of all time. For his crimes, he was executed.

To his shock he awakens, in a body not his own, summoned by powerful magic with no clue as to why. He’s soon discovered by Auran, a knife-wielding traveler suspicious of his strange and sudden presence. Displaced from his own era and at a loss for what to do, Lucianus begs Auran’s help in finding his feet. Auran reluctantly agrees, and so together they strike out across the changed lands Lucianus once called home, looking for an explanation.

The purpose of Lucianus’ summoning soon becomes he’s been tasked with murder, as befits his violent reputation as a battlewizard. Yet what should be a straightforward objective turns complicated, for the spell that binds him to life will end once the task is complete. His body is borrowed. His time is short. He must reach the appointed place and complete his task…but that means a return to death, and there’s nothing he wants less. He’d rather enjoy this borrowed life for himself. And Auran, though he proves a competent guide, seems to have his own purposes, purposes that may go against what Lucianus’ summoner wants.

The scars of his past rise against him, a decades-old drama closes in, and still his fate is sealed. Lucianus will die a second time. What happens until then is up to him.

July 14, 2026 • Novel • Fantasy Adventure

The and That Was — Mia Tijam (Rosarium Publishing)

The and That Was is an archipelago of words: lush and mountainous in parts, civilized veneer in others, almost all of it seemingly born from instances when the forces within could no longer be restrained. The thing about archipelagos is to not view them as chains of islands, but as the space that envelops them.

That is what this collection contains.

The land. The culture. The rustic and the urban, religious and heretical. The fractures. The spaces. The cities without dragons…

The Fairy Tale Reality of the Philippines …

Where the end began and begins again … The wishes that point to what we should have wished. These stories contain–and release. And so do you.

July 14, 2026 • Short Story Collection • Myths & Legends

The Parliament of Mice — Robert Epstein (Regal House Publishing)

On this farm, every creature wants something and is willing to plot and scheme to get it. The house mice enjoy plenty, while the barn mice struggle to survive, terrorized by a fierce cat. One idealistic mouse appeals to the Parliament of Mice, but his quest to bell the cat leads him into grave danger, and exposes the corruption of his miniature society. The cock rules the barn with his proud song, perched high and unwilling to descend. A clever vixen plots to catch him by weaving a web of sympathy through his long-suffering wife, the hen. Meanwhile, a boy escaping the troubles of his own world listens to a mysterious goose he calls Maman, whose stories twist Mother Goose rhymes into dark, cautionary fables.

All of these characters, humans and beasts, are rich with desires and aspirations, vanities and foibles. Their intertwined tales, told with vivid imagery, humor, and insight, weave a fable about power, justice, cruelty, and love— culminating in a wild and unforgettable climax that is tragicomic but ultimately hopeful.

July 14, 2026 • Novel • Speculative Fiction, Contemporary Fable

Rattler’s Moon — Kras Nebula (The Whumpy Printing Press)

Alida Perez had been living on her own for so long she was convinced that nothing could shake her anymore. She’d spent the last few decades building her farm out of the dead of the Wastes, and she’d seen it all: bandits, dust storms, rich folks from the next town over trying to buy out her farm to gain access to the mysterious flowers growing there.

It’s a hard battle to fight, though, when gumption goes up against a monstrous snake appearing out of nowhere, size fit to eat the moon. Alida, her farmhands, and the mysterious gunslinger who fell into her raptor pen have a long and winding fight on their hands— will they hold out? Or will this finally be the thing to drive Alida from her land?

The Starslinger Tales are a series of novellas by Kras Nebula. While all the books take place in the same world, they can be read as standalones.

July 21, 2026 • Novella • Post-Apocalyptic Weird West

The Wetworks Miracle — Caleb Sierra (Stelliform Press)

Under eternally gray skies the Wetworks harvests nutritious waste from the “Root”, the only plant humanity found after we fled through a gate to escape our home world’s ecological collapse. When a bloody accident at the sawmill births a new kind of person, this strange realm finally has someone who transcends the sins of the last one.

Every petal and stalk of the Root is listening and whispering. Through this transfigured being, Jon Heap, we can hear what the all-plant says. We already depend on the Root, but it wants to give us something new: fresh fruit our priests will bless, our farmers will reap, and our mothers will bear. The Root will alter our bodies as it desires and despite the pain we will call it a miracle.

July 30, 2026 • Novella • Dark Fantasy Biopunk

Blood Ruin — Tej Turner (Elsewhen Press)

Two years have passed since the Battle of Fort Valen, and its repercussions still echo across Sharma. Many of the people who fought are still missing, but it is unknown how many have perished and how many have fled. Towns and villages lie deserted, and bandits roam the hills and roadways.

Selena still maintains her position in the Synod, but only in name. In reality, she is now a puppet, biding her time and doing her utmost to resist the strings that pull her when she can blunt the cruel regime. Most of her allies are among those who have escaped. Bryna vanished mysteriously without leaving a trace, whilst Rivan seems to want to do nothing more than wander aimlessly. Baird has assembled a small band of insurgents but they are no match against an empire, and Kyra has ventured to the Mountains of Valleshia on a quest to find the Temple of Briggan.

To the south, the Babuan Jungle remains the final part of the world free from the tyranny of Gavendara, but Elita knows the threat their armies of Zakaras pose and believes that they, too, will succumb to the tide if she doesn’t convince them to fight.

July 31, 2026 • Novel • Epic Fantasy

Tales From Rugosa Coven — Sarah Avery (Candlemark & Gleam)

Catch a glimpse of a New Jersey even weirder than the one you think you know in this Mythopoeic Award winner, newly revised by the author.

A covenful of very modern Wiccans wrestle challenges both supernatural and mundane—and, occasionally, each other.

The personal injury attorney who chose kitchen-witchery over his family’s five-generation lineage of old school ceremonial magic would like to miss his dead parents, only now that they’re dead they won’t leave him alone.

The professional fortuneteller stands out at forty paces, with her profusion of silver amulets glittering over her Goth wardrobe, but nobody has guessed her secret sorrow, especially not the covenmates who see her as their wacky comic relief.

And the resident skeptic, a reluctant Pagan if ever there was one, will have to eat her words if her coven sister’s new boyfriend really does turn out to be from Atlantis.

The Jersey Shore’s half-hidden community of Witches, Druids, and latter-day Vikings must circle together against all challenges. It’s a good thing they’re as resilient as the wild rugosa roses that hold together the dunes.

August 1, 2026 • Novella Collection • Contemporary Witchy Fantasy (Reedition, first pub. 2013)

(Mostly) Human Resources — Grace Viall (Alcove Press)

Amongst mountains as old as time, the jackalopes and ghouls are the least of your worries.

Working in Human Resources was not what Alexys had in mind when she joined Entity, the company who categorise and manage the monsters and cryptids of the world. But after her dad was killed as a Warden in the Appalachian Mountains, she was filled with noble ideas of carrying on his legacy… from behind the safety of a desk.

But when one of her new Wardens, Elliot, goes missing, her chances of promotion go missing too. Determined to find him safe and sound, she marches off into the mountains to find him herself.

Because Elliot had been talking about sightings of a highly dangerous and never-recorded monster, The Hollow Walker, and she’s promised herself that no Warden will ever die on her watch.

Meanwhile Nic, Director of Research and Cataloguing, is not one to ignore the words ‘never-recorded’. With Alexys, his work nemesis, leading the charge into the mountains, he’s not going to let her have all the fun. If he can be the youngest Entity employee to discover a new monster, his name will go down in the annals of cryptozoology… and if it means spending some extra time with Alexys then he’s not one to argue.

But Alexys and Nic are about to discover why the Appalachian Mountains are the last place you want to find yourself after dark.

August 4, 2026 • Novel • Contemporary Fantasy Romance

For the Love of the Quest — Alexandra Ammon Parthun (Alcove Press)

The search for King Arthur’s Excalibur invites danger—and potentially love—in this sapphic historical romance, perfect for fans of Cat Sebastian and Freya Marske.

Lady Edith Darling is supposed to live a quiet life in her family’s manor. She is not supposed to go unchaperoned on a quest to find Excalibur. But Edith won’t let that stand in her way, especially not when she’s on this mission to honor her beloved grandmother’s dying wish. Determined to prove her grandmother right, Edith packs her satchel with Arthurian legends, pastries, and her grandmother’s ashes and runs off to hire a mercenary. 

Thomasin Shaw leads the most feared gang in London. For years, she had the constabulary safely in her pocket, until a scandal involving the chief inspector’s wife was brought to light. Now he’s demanding an enormous sum of money—without which Thomasin will lose the protection of the police along with her criminal empire. But when the rich Lady Edith waltzes into her life seeking an escort for a treasure hunt, Thomasin sees a willing kidnapping victim and a massive ransom.

As Edith’s clues lead them to underground chambers booby-trapped with arrows, doors locked with arcane puzzles, and even Arthur’s fabled round table, Thomasin finds herself swept up in the quest—and in Edith herself. Edith is also drawn to Thomasin, despite the ruthless mask she wears. But the chief inspector won’t let Thomasin forget her crimes, and Edith’s father is intent on bringing her home. Every legendary quest has an ending, but finding Excalibur might not be enough to make this a happy one.

August 11, 2026 • Novel • Sapphic Historical Fantasy Romance

Any More Questions for the Corpse? — J.J. Unthank (Crooked Lane Books)

When a young necromancer investigates a string of deaths in the hidden magical capital of England, the dead come back to haunt him—in more ways than one.

Twenty-one-year-old Malowin Gladstone was raised by the dead—two skeletons to be precise. While his parents keep a close eye-socket on him, he just wants to get through the rest of university without using any more of his much-loathed necromancy. A hope that gets all the more difficult when he’s recruited by a secret Order to hunt a serial killer.

Dunwich, the hidden magical capital of England, has its fair share of oddities, its most recent being a series of murders that have the police at a dead end. But Detective Walters has an unorthodox suggestion. Who better to find a killer than someone who can talk to the dead? He proposes Mal use his necromancy for good, and solve the case before it goes stone-cold.

As more bodies begin to drop, Mal befriends several misfits who help him unearth the culprit. Among them, Des, a fledgling vampire; Hala, a magical empath; and Yu, a shapeshifting genius.

The team put their unique set of skills to the task, but as they get closer to digging up the truth, the group’s ghosts come back to haunt them and the killer won’t rest until they’re all dead and buried.

August 25, 2026 • Novel • Humorous Contemporary Fantasy

The Book of the Jaguar — Victor Ladis Schultz (Fairwood Press)

The legions of New Serraña have a sacred custom: when a legionnaire falls in battle, a member of their company must bear the body home to the dead soldier’s family. Álbaro Ceynos is the only surviving member of his company. He’d been garrisoned at Presidio Los Primos, known as the realm’s safest assignment, until a fabled monster emerged from legend, crept down from the mountains, and laid waste to the old fortress.

Now, with one horse, one wagon, one sword, and all his slain brethren, Álbaro the bonebearer roams a decaying empire, bringing home his comrades’ remains. As he meets an array of mourners who move him to question past choices and future commitments, he’ll reveal how the tragedy unfolded, death by death, and how it is that he yet lives.

August 25, 2026 • Novel • Contemporary Science Fantasy

Hellbound — Stephanie Binx (Alcove Press)

Disgraced journalist Marian Meyer dies for a living. Riddled with debt she’ll never be able to pay off and guilt over her mother’s death, Marian fell into the deadly world of demons and diving into Hell and didn’t look back. Never mind that being a Hell-diver means she must voluntarily drown in order to retrieve artifacts for demons, who are desperate to recover memories of their old home, or that she’s well past the normal amount of deaths a diver should endure. But the pay’s decent. Most of the time.

Unfortunately, the last time Marian went to Hell, she came back wrong. Memories of that night are missing, and she’s desperate to do anything she can to find them–including teaming up with one of her mysterious and alluring demonic patrons, Mr. Vale.

Thrust even deeper into a world of betrayal, humans with strange powers, and demonic politics, Marian discovers a disturbing truth that challenges every thing she’s ever known about her world and what lies beyond. And she’ll have to decide if aligning herself with Mr. Vale in this perilous reality is her ticket to freedom, or damnation.

August 25, 2026 • Novel • Dark Contemporary Fantasy Romance

Selene Shade, Loving the Dead — Victoria Dalpe (CLASH Books)

In the second novel of the Resurrectionist Series from Victoria Dalpe, Loving the Dead, a city tears itself apart, a new serial killer arrives in town, and Selene Shade desperately needs a vacation.

A few months after the tumultuous and reality-shredding arrival of the Pale Ones, the world has been changed, and not necessarily for the better. Half-lifes now regard Selene and her ilk with fear, knowing their free will isn’t as free as it once was. With the growing backlash against the undead in society, religious hate groups have swelled. Add to that a vampire serial killer, a contentious election, and a heap of personal problems, you have the makings of a perfect storm that might just wipe the city of Goat Hill right off the map.

Revenge conspiracies, resurrection, and romance–what’s a girl to do? Join Selene and friends as they reluctantly race the clock to stop those that would destroy the world… again.

August 25, 2026 • Novel • Dark Fantasy

The Patron Saint of White Menageries — Lauren T. Davila (Creature Publishing)

In her debut magical-realism collection The Patron Saint of White Menageries, Pushcart-nominated author Lauren T. Davila cracks Los Angeles open to reveal a kaleidoscope of unlikely heroines, talents, and dreams.

In a sticky diner, a waitress fits wisps of cloud into coffee mugs, trying to solve her patrons’ problems. A motherless girl defies her father’s rules, rubbing fish scales from her eyes and learning her mother’s half-remembered Spanish. Spectral ballerinas haunt alleys and dance studios, and red bumps rise on the arms of an assistant whose employer has been alive too long. The prophet Cassandra, exhausted from reincarnating and never being believed, tries one last time to escape her fate.

For lovers of White Cat, Black Dog and whoever haunts the Pacific Coast Highway, The Patron Saint of White Menageries is a guide to magical LA by one of its native daughters.

September 1, 2026 • Short Story Collection • Magical Realism

The Sea Glass Shore — Julie Salmon Kelleher (Forest Avenue Press)

When Jack, librarian and curator of legends, meets Rona, she puts aside her sealskin to live as his human wife. Jack knows all selkie stories end the same: the seal-woman always finds her stolen skin and leaves. But he hasn’t stolen Rona’s skin, and they both believe their relationship is different. He doesn’t need to be that guy. She doesn’t need to run. But as their children grow into troubled teens, Jack and Rona begin falling into roles they’ve sworn to put aside.

Most selkie stories are about the beginning or the end, but this one is about the middle. How do you live with a family past of people disappearing into the sea? How do you avoid the same wrong act everyone has committed before you? And what is love—for a child, a spouse, a mortal world—in the face of history?

Set in a mythic, contemporary Pacific Northwest shaped by Native and European storytelling, artist communes, and corporate fakelore, The Sea-Glass Shore is a domestic fable about the power of the past and the making of a daily present.

September 1, 2026 • Novel • Literary Fantasy

Lipsnitch Snilly — Steven T. Gibbon (Dark Matter INK)

After banishment for crimes against decency and for being an ornery little son of a gun, a young goat man embarks on a quest to learn dark magic in Ohio.

Lipsnitch Snilly chronicles the misadventures of an exiled, troublemaking goat-person and his well-meaning partner in crime, Gary the crow, as they journey to a fictional place called Ohio.

Once there, our hero upsets local law enforcement immediately, makes a bunch of powerful enemies mostly by accident, starts a fire in a cornfield, gets stuck in a bathtub, confronts a deadly monster and invariably finds himself on the gallows.

September 1, 2026 • Novel • Humorous Contemporary Fantasy

Twig’s Traveling Tomes — Gryffin Murphy (Bindery Books)

A plot is brewing between the adventure and romance aisles.

When visiting Twig’s Traveling Tomes, customers will get the exact book they need, even if it isn’t the one they want. As for the proprietor and renowned Book Witch, Louella Twig lives her life sequestered with her stories, just as she likes it.

When devilishly handsome rogue Everett Sharp stumbles in looking to remove some handcuffs—closely followed by Louella’s former tutor, whose prized grimoire has been stolen—her literary sanctuary is fully upended. Only Louella’s magic can locate the grimoire, and teaming up with Everett is her best chance at retrieving it… but how can she trust that the man behind the wolfish grin isn’t interested in stealing the book for himself?

With a host of friends old and new, Louella sets off on an adventure she never thought she’d take—and starts to realize that, just like her books, what matters most has always been what’s under the surface.

September 8, 2026 • Novel • Cozy Romantasy

Rubble — Seraj Assi (PM Press)

In a world scarred by indiscriminate bombing, forced starvation, and mass displacement, a nameless survivor lies crushed beneath the rubble of a bombing—alive, but barely.

Entombed in darkness with no hope of rescue, he must navigate the thin edge between life and death using only his hearing, sense of smell, and the volatile power of his imagination. Above him a genocide unfolds. Below, in his fragile pocket of air, he begins to witness it in ways no unburied survivor ever could.

As hours blur into days, hallucination and reality weave together. Memories seep through the cracks. Fantastical visions rise from the dust. In this liminal state, he gains a strange, heightened clarity, an almost supernatural insight known only to those suspended between worlds, the mortally wounded who hover in the space where time fractures and the mind sharpens to a blade.

What begins as desperate escapism becomes a haunting chronicle of a people forced underground by violence, a nation living beneath the weight of another’s cruelty. In the darkness, he discovers a grim sanctuary: the rubble is a tomb but also a refuge from the firestorm above.

September 8, 2026 • Novel • Magical Realism

A Dubious Clamor — Marissa Lingen (Horned Lark Press)

Enjoy a world of sorcerous aunts, musical magic, and moody swords in this delightful tale of finding one’s balance in an unbalanced world.

Ever since she broke the curse that made her live as a harpy for two years, Jules has worked as a cursebreaker, taking on magical odd jobs for minimal pay and the occasional spot of cake. In a society obsessed with propriety and status, she must tread carefully to maintain her ties to both her aristocratic mother and the wild clamor of harpies with whom she once flew.

The delicate balance she has struck is disrupted when her childood friend, Anthony, begs for help with a disgruntled sword. At first, she assumes it will be a job like any other, but the sword soon reveals itself to be an ancient, powerful weapon: the dubious sword forged by the magician Wayland Smith that can literally cut through human certainty. Now, it has awakened to challenge a new law in Parliament that would strip millions of their rights—magical and mundane people alike. The man behind the law, Lord Ventstock, was the very person who once cursed Jules, and she’s determined not to let him hurt anyone else. 

As her connection to the sword grows, Jules begins to appreciate the double-sided power of doubt: how it can create healthy skepticism or fuel deep anxiety. Certainties can be safe but also dangerous traps. After walking a razor’s edge for so long between two worlds, Jules must call upon all her connections and finally merge the two halves of herself if she is going to defeat Lord Ventstock, embracing doubt and having the courage to be undefinable. 

September 15, 2026 • Novella • Alt Historical Fantasy

The Third Wish — T.E. Forest (Hamley Books)

What would you do if you could win a wish? And what would you give up to win?

The Third Wish is an adventure story filled with unexpected friendships as the lonely Silas and apathetic Kayleigh find themselves amidst a hundred contestants, all determined to win the yearly Radforth competition and its grand prize: a wish.

It’s all fun and games until one of the contestants gets murdered, and the hotel’s mysterious guardian Vana pairs the two of them with broody, angry Day, whose sole aim in life seems to be to get on Silas’s nerves.

As the challenges keep increasing in difficulty and lethality, it is up to Kayleigh to get her ragtag team aligned. To win, they must overcome their differences, and work together to outsmart the fierce and deadly competition, but the real questions soon become: what will they have to sacrifice to win their wish, and will it be worth the cost?

September 16, 2026 • Novel • Urban Fantasy

Light & Earth & Marrow — Jeannie Marschall (Shiraki Press)

Hedge witch Tilly Reinicke resides in a bucolic village where magic and all manner of paranormal creatures are real—everyone knows it, but not everyone is necessarily kenning.

Tilly passes the quiet seasons alongside her dead but far-from-gone wife Ralda, cultivating their garden, respecting the Others, and teaching the children the ways and the Paths… until their peace is shattered by the rumble of construction next door.

Her new neighbors, Yola and Karsten Bell, are determined to control every last detail of their new home build… and are decidedly not kenning. As the nights grow longer and the most hallowed day of the year approaches, Tilly tries her very, grumpy best to guide, cajole, and reason with the Bells, before their unbelief in—and contempt for—the paranormal world endangers everyone.

For the Others do not suffer disrespect lightly, and soon they will walk the Paths again.

September 22, 2026 • Novella • Cozy Folklore Fantasy

Dweller in Darkness — Sam Flynn (Timber Ghost Press)

“God-killing seemed a lofty ambition. Then again, is that not what we’re here to do in our hunt for the Dweller in Darkness?”

All of Cassius Marius’ life has been spent in service to the Pale King. Ever since his birth sixteen years ago on the night the Hero of Hathur died, his mother prepared him to join the Lightbringers: seven young men selected every equinox by the Church of the Pale King to descend underground to hunt and destroy the Dweller in Darkness, a chthonic entity the Church names as source of an unnatural blight ravaging Hathur and beyond, year after year.

Cassius has known since he could speak that he was destined to destroy the great evil poisoning his home. His inevitable confrontation with the Dweller on his holy descent changes him inside and out and puts him on a collision course with the Pale King he once worshipped. With his world and body crumbling around him, Cassius must choose between loyalty and honor, family and humanity, not to save his home. But to destroy it.

The sequel to The Mystery of the Pale King and conclusion of the Deadlights Duology, Dweller in Darkness traverses a doomed empire polluted by corruption to ask if the world was ending, what would you save? And what would you leave behind?

September 22, 2026 • Novella • Horror Fantasy • Request an ARC!

Witches of the Wheel — Lindsay Merbaum (Creature Publishing)

In her metaphysical mystery Witches of the Wheel, Lindsay Merbaum weaves a spellbinding tale of mythology, bartending, and queer belonging.

Gold grows up knowing only a few things about herself: something lets her see ghosts and read her neighbors’ secrets, and her mother seems to hate her. But when she strikes out on her own, she stumbles into a job at The Wheel, a literally-underground lesbian bar where a coven gathers every Thursday and each entrance requires a painful sacrifice. It feels like the first place she’s belonged.

But the bar, its patrons, and its history are more complicated, and more dangerous, than Gold ever realized. As she entangles herself in her new community, she learns more about herself than she wanted to know—and attracts an ancient goddess’s deadly attention.

September 22, 2026 • Novel • Dark Fantasy

A Complement of Scoundrels — S.V. Lockwood (Bindery Books)

There are many ways to bring down the man who betrayed you—and Myria Cadessa has thought of them all.

Cracking the Elysius Vault should’ve made Myria the richest thief in all Carintheum. Instead, it shattered her crew and left her rotting in jail while her double-crossing master walked away with everything that should’ve been hers.

But now she’s out, and it’s time to settle the score. Reunite her crew? A pleasure. Steal back everything her erstwhile leader took? And then some. She’ll just need to trick the king of all tricksters, with the law on her heels, and a troublesome new ally whose loyalties seem as conflicted as his feelings for Myria. It’s the most audacious heist she’s ever attempted, but she failed her crew once. This time, she’ll make it right—at any cost.

A Complement of Scoundrels is a bold, raucous journey through the underbelly of an empire where the devil’s rules reign, and morality, loyalty, and friendship are values few can afford. But where there’s a wit, there’s a way—and Myria has plenty of that.

September 22, 2026 • Novel • Heist Fantasy