Author: Alex Acks

Joey is a Reality Controller in near-future Delhi, where she manages the multimedia and multi-reality livestreams of an online celebrity who just so happens to be her ex from college. When she impulsively offers Rudra, a rich boy estranged from his family, a job, she gives him a chance to escape his family for good. But multiple conspiracies are waiting to pull them in, and their place in the middle of a surveillance capitalism complex makes figuring out how to do the right thing–or what the right thing is to begin with–very difficult.

In this queer reimagining of The Iliad, Achilles is a trans woman who flees her clan of Myrmidons to join with the priestesses of Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit her, still seeking a “prince”, it is Aphrodite who intervenes and transforms her body, promising her glory, fame, and victory–if she sets off in a war of vengeance.

With the Doyenne dead and the thrown ready for the taking, two women will decide its fate. Iraya has had the first measure of her revenge, but her magic is now unfettered and she must free Aiyca and become the empress her people need. Jazmyne should be the next Doyenne, but with her mother overthrown, her people aren’t ready to just give the crown to her without a fight. And then a new enemy who has been waiting in the shadows for a decade will strike them both down and take what is rightfully theirs. Sequel to Witches Steeped in Gold.

In a world held in balance between Necromancers and Reapers, the Laheys are a family that has since time immemorial been tasked with keeping the balance between the two. Nyx was born to be a Necromancer but raised as a Reaper, and now she must find her own identity even as she hunts down murderous creatures. During one hunt, she runs into the mysterious Erebus, a dead man who can turn into a raven, who wants the memories of his past back–and the key to his past has ended up in Nyx’s hands.

Asalin is still in turmoil, two weeks after the gates to Faery have once more been closed. Wyatt and Emyr are hunting down the betrayers that caused such strife while trying to reshape the politics of every kingdom. And then when it’s discovered what the true place of witches in fae society is, they realize the problems, already vast, are so much deeper than they initially thought.

Zarela is the daughter of the most famous Dragonador in all of Hispalia; adoring fans line up to watch him fight and slay dragons. But during one show, everything goes terribly wrong–and a girl who was once dreaming to be a flamenco dancers whose bright star could match her father’s must instead follow in his footsteps–and hunt dragons to protect his legacy.

Long ago, the AI ruler of the Voluntary State of Tennessee invaded the American Southeast by infecting it with corrupting nanotech, turning the animals and plants themselves into bio weapons. A former captain from Kentucky named Marcia witnessed this horror firsthand and has been trying to forget it since… until federal troops show up in her town and she finds out that one of these nanotech weapons may still be hidden nearby.

Four friends–Miliani, Inez, Natalie, and Jasmine–call Providence, Rhode Island their home, a place where they stop at late-night food trucks before casting spells and doing séances the way Miliani’s Filipino grandfather taught her. Then Jasmine is killed by a drunk driver, and nothing is the same for the friends. As Jasmine’s spirit linger, the three decide they will bring her back, no matter what dark magics they must tap into.

After stopping a murderer, the deity of luck’s Hollow Star, Arlo, would really just like a vacation. But instead, the new crisis swiftly rears its head: someone’s trying to summon the literal embodiments of the Seven Deadly Sins, and it smells of immortal meddling pointing straight toward the mortal realm.

The divine beings that rule the world known as the Seven have declared war on Harley; they’ve taken her baby sister and have made her boyfriend their stooge. She’ll have to stop them any way they can, and in this case, it means gathering the Seven Scrolls to destroy their power. And nothing’s going to stop her.

A man who believes he once lived in a place called California wakes in the desert, injured and alone, a bottle of pills in his pocket. He cannot remember important facts of his life, like the name of his daughter or what his own face looks like. He must journey through a strange landscape in which nothing is as it seems, trying to answer the most important of questions: who am I?

Arlee is a daughter struggling in the shadow of a successful mom who expects an unattainable level of perfection. She gets enrolled in Camp Rockaway to get her “back on track” for college prep after some less than satisfactory years in school. Arlee doesn’t like the North Carolina wilderness… or the numerous bugs that occupy it and the camp. But when the one friend she makes, Winnie, proves to something of a freak, it outs Arlee, too, for all her strange “glitches”—and draws her into a secret sisterhood that swear to protect each other, no matter what.

Every drop of Molly Southbourne’s blood once created a new copy of herself, one that wanted to murder the original. But the original is gone, and the clones have come together to build a home and try to escape their murderous purpose. But there are still more deadly secrets waiting, ones born in a Soviet lab during the Cold War, and they care nothing for peace that Molly desperately seeks.

After the events of The Sentient, Amira Valdez’s danger is not past. She still has a strange neurological connection with the new leader of a religious fundamentalist cult, and he’s well aware of that–and experimenting with it. Amira must form an uneasy alliance with the scientist Tony Barlow after he sees to the birth of the first human clone–which may hold the secret to immortality.

The Midnight Merchant is a criminal who hunts and sells illegal magics— she’s also a woman named Loulie al-Nazari. She operates under the watchful eye of her jinn bodyguard and lives well… until she saves the life of a cowardly prince, which gains her the attention of the sultan, his father, and he blackmails her into an all important mission: find a magical lamp that will restore all magic to their barren land, though the cost will be the sacrifice of all jinn.

Two people are sent ashore from a small ship on a mission of assassination, an action that could tilt the power balance of the world irrevocably. One is a woman bent on revenge, who is trying to regain control of her life and self after having been sold into servitude for years. The other is a merchant child of exiles, haunted by the moment of loss of family, faith, and home. Together, they will affect the destinies of empires.

In 1944 Italy, a partisan named Veleno’s only goal is to kill as many Nazis as he can before he dies. But Veleno is beloved by the ancient goddess Angitia, and that gives him the strength to try to recover a Nazi weapon, one that will put him into a confrontation with his own mortality that he does not expect.

With the Clone Wars begun, the peace protected by the Jedi is being destroyed, bit by bit, with each world that joins the Separatists. When an explosion devastates a supposedly neutral planet, the Republic is immediately blamed, and the Jedi dispatch Obi-Wan Kenobi to investigate. And amidst all this strife, Anakin Skywalker has at last become a Jedi Knight.

The freighter Jonah is on the run from the last terrible days of a generations-long war with an alien race when it encounters the Gallion, a ship that claims to be from 152 years in the future. And the Gallion recognizes the Jonah as the ship of the Fortunate Five–the people who ended the war that’s now in their past. But nothing about the crew matches, and if history is to repeat, the crew of the Gallion needs to figure out what’s going on.