Swords and Spaceships for June 8

Malini is a princess exiled by her despotic, woman-hating brother in a land that still hasn’t forgotten the way it was conquered by his empire. Priya is the survivor of a temple massacre, unable to leave the Hirana completely behind–even after it’s reused as the prison for Malini’s exile and she’s assigned to the princess as a servant. But when Malini witnesses the terrifying magic that is Priya’s to call, she sees both a woman she can love and a tool that might be able to help her overthrow her brother.

When Earth passes through a comet’s debris field, the rain of destruction that crashes down also brings a new, alien metal. Soon, there’s a new kind of goldrush going on, with private owners and corporations battling it out for control of this miraculous new metal, sought after for it’s strange properties and ability to make new weapons.

Dani and Eden Rivera were raised to be dragon slayers, though Dani might be a little less dedicated to the cause and more concerned with keeping up her grades in high school. Then Dani meets a dragon, and instead of slaying it, forms a magical bond with him. Eden, unwilling to believe that everything they’ve ever learned about dragons is wrong, goes to powerful sorcerers in an attempt to liberate her sister from the dragons. On opposite sides of a conflict they don’t quite understand, with higher stakes than they know, each sister is determined to save the other, whether she wants it or not.

A golem named Chava, who can hear the thoughts and longings of others, and a jinni named Ahmad imprisoned in the shape of a man have found each other in 1900s Manhattan. Hiding their true natures and cooperating to escape notice, they still can’t help but change the lives of the ordinary humans around them as they try to understand what they mean to each other.

Maeve becomes the most sought-after diviner in her private Catholic school after finding a deck of tarot cards in a closet during an in-school suspension. Then her ex-best friend draws a card that doesn’t actually exist in the normal Major Arcana… and later vanishes without a trace. Maeve must learn what her connection is to these cards and search out clues only she can understand if she’s to find her missing friend.

The New United States Army has taken over America in the midst of a dragon-driven apocalypse, sending the smoke eaters into hiding if they don’t want to be imprisoned–or worse–by soldiers. After one of the NUSA soldiers is accused of being a smoke eater himself, he must escape and search for these underground heroes–and seek their help to stop the next, disturbing step in NUSA’s plan.