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The Forger of Faces​ by Catherine Butzen

Just when she thought she was done with ancient Egyptian magic . . .
 
Theodora Speer and her art team are sent to New York City to help with a new exhibit. There, she meets Dr. Alan Armstrong, who shows her his collection of forgeries. The moment she’s left alone with them, however, mist fills the room and ghostly hands reach out to her, whispers pleading for her help.
 
Unwilling to let the haunted forgeries suffer any longer, Theo and her boyfriend, Seth, begin to investigate. They soon find evidence of murder . . . and a murderer who’ll do anything to avoid capture.

Coming August 1, 2025!
Please read book 1, Painter of the Dead, first.

David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd

The classic children's adventure in a freshly edited, introduced, and annotated edition.

“How do you tell a true Unicorn from a false one?”
“I—I don’t know.”
“I thought not. Where do you find the Philosopher’s Stone?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well, then, I shall ask a simple one. What is the first rule of defense when attacked by a Chimera?”
David squirmed uncomfortably. “I’m afraid I don’t know that, either,” he said in a small voice.
“There you are!” cried the Phoenix. “You do not have a true, practical education—you are not ready for Life. I, my boy, am going to take your education in hand.”

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Edition also available in Latin text as David et Phoenix.

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The Taskmaster by Katherine Vick

​The Perfect Storybook Ending?

Just as Pleasance gets a grip . . .
Just as Dullard realises the truth . . .
Just as Flirt and Shoulders get ahead . . .
Just as Fodder exploits literary convention . . . 
Just as Ordinary people actually start to listen . . . 
Just as readers begin to feel tantalised by the blurb . . .
Wait.
​You didn’t think we were about to spoil the ending for you, did you? This is the fourth and final book of the Plot Bandits “trilogy”! We’re saying nothing.

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​The Plot Bandits series needs to be read in order.

Skate the Seeker by ​Jeff Ayers

On The Run

Her mentor is dead, but he doesn’t have to stay that way. He’s left Skate a clue to bringing him back, and she and her friends are determined to follow it.

No sooner do they set out for unknown lands, however, than things get dangerous. Hot on their tail is the wizard Ossertine, furious over Skate’s part in her friend’s death and thirsty for revenge. Worse still are the attacks that come at night: dark, mysterious, and palpably evil. 
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In this race against time, magic, and implacable foes, Skate must rely on her wits and her friends to save not just her mentor’s life, but also her own.

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First, we recommend reading book 1: Skate the Thief

The Star-Crossed Pelican by Laura Ruth Loomis

Technology Hexes, Peace-Mongering, and Aggressive Negotiations

​The galaxy is a mess: wars, robot uprisings, Jupiterans making bad holofilms, Plutonians insisting they have a real planet, and Earthlings kissing (which is unhygienic and resembles cannibalism). In the Pelican Nebula, the Cygnoids call a peace conference to announce a non-optional solution: obey them or be subjected to the unthinkable agony of their new weapon, the Civilizer.

Janet is long overdue for shore leave, but her peace organization bosses think saving the galaxy is more important for some reason. To solve this crisis, Janet will have to bring together her crew of misfits and their surly computer, her amnesiafied ex-boyfriend, a chocolate-obsessed smuggler, and some guy she found on an alien dating site. Because no one wants to get Civilized.

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The Narrative by Katherine Vick​

​The bigger the army, the harder it falls.

Everyone in the Taskmaster’s Realm knows that narrative convention is as real as the laws of physics (and often much realer). The ferryman is crotchety and greedy and must be tricked. The mystic ghost has essential wisdom to impart. Barbarians are stupid, hairy drunkards led by a berserker. Convention is just the way the world operates.

And it’s oh, so predictable.

So when Fodder and his friends are forced their separate ways, held captive against impossible odds, and threatened by a fate worse than death, they begin to wonder: If we know exactly how the world works, can’t we make it work for us?
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It’s time to play.

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​Check out books 1 and 2 in this series, which needs to be read in order.
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The Blessed by Remy Apepp

One is blessed, the other cursed. Neither is entirely sure which is which.

Lux was a warrior, a brilliant fighter who seemed stronger than humanly possible. Now, he’s locked away from the sunlight, his memories gnawing themselves to the bone, the scent of blood ever in his nostrils.

Illiaz is his jailor, a breathtakingly beautiful creature who seems too delicate to live. His hold on Lux is fragile as gossamer and stronger than the scent of blood ever on his breath.

It might almost be friendship.

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Sand to Glass by Remy Apepp

Somewhere at the edge of the Great Being’s dream lies a desert kingdom ruled by four young siblings. One burns with rage like fire. One battles monsters to make his siblings smile. One laughs with ruthless charm. One itches with desperation. All teeter on the edge of madness.

In Remy Apepp’s harrowingly beautiful Sand to Glass, the Kingdom of Ordyuk finds itself faced with destruction. Endlessly attacked by accursed beings, the kingdom relies ever more heavily on the four siblings. Under such a weight, their only choice is to grow into monsters themselves . . .

Or to shatter like glass.

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The Merry Band by ​Katherine Vick

Fodder successfully rebelled against The Narrative once, but now everything’s going completely and horribly wrong.

It soon becomes apparent that his own companions are even more unstable than he realized, between Flirt’s suicidal rashness, Shoulders’ increasing desperation to keep his head attached to his body, Princess Pleasance’s unwillingness to speak, and Prince Dullard’s inability to shut up. 

Unfortunately, Fodder has bigger problems, because the Taskmaster is finally getting serious. That means it’s not just the Heroes hunting Fodder anymore; there’s an entire pantheon of gods after him.

It’s too late to turn back, and Fodder wouldn’t even if he could. He’s determined to unveil the secret of the Quickening.

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Painter of the Dead by Catherine Butzen

​When museum painter Theodora Speer reluctantly attends a fundraiser gala, she hardly expects to meet a famous and dashing patron—let alone be kidnapped by him and forced to help steal Egyptian artifacts. Then the police arrive, and the patron kills himself to avoid capture . . . leaving nothing but dust behind.

Naturally, the police don’t believe Theo’s story, and Theo herself isn’t sure what really happened—especially when the patron shows up again, looking younger and healthier than ever. Determined to solve this mystery, Theo dives headfirst into a world of ancient Egyptian magic, desperate heists, and, just possibly, true love.
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Exciting and romantic, exotic and clever, Catherine Butzen’s exhilarating fantasy will take readers on an adventure 4000 years in the making.
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The Cosmic Turkey by Laura Ruth Loomis

After she accidentally smashes a floatcar through City Hall, the bureautopia sentences Janet to captaining the starship S.S. Turkey and its misfit crew. Her mission: to boldly rescue a prisoner from the one corner of the universe colder than her ex-boyfriend’s heart—Pluto. Which, aside from not even being a real planet, is the one place in the universe where chocolate is illegal.
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          In between studying The Space-Faring Moron’s Guide to Common Science Fiction Plot Devices, falling for a rival captain’s boyfriend, and avoiding unnecessary time travel, Janet has a chance to save two worlds . . . or doom them to permanent chocolatelessness.

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Skate the Thief by Jeff Ayers

Skate is a thief, trained and owned by the local crime syndicate, the Ink. When she tries to burgle a shut-in’s home, she gets caught by the owner—a powerful undead wizard. He makes a deal with her: “borrow” books from other wizards in return for a place to stay.

Caught between her growing fondness for the wizard and her past with the crime syndicate, Skate doesn’t know where her loyalties lie. But she’d better figure it out, because there’s a new player in town, one whose magical hypnotism puts them all at risk.

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The Land of the Purple Ring by Deborah J. Natelson

The clockwork man is crafted, to begin with—commissioned by that terrible tyrant Time to serve as her slave for all eternity. His brain boasts balance wheels and torsion springs; he can wind himself up with a key in his side; and, most importantly, his gyroscopic tourbillon heart glimmers with pure diamond.

He is a living being and he is art, and he refuses to remain a slave forever. He therefore slips through Time’s fingers as the Sands of Time slip through the cracks of reality (at least, when the time cats aren’t using them as a litter box).

Among astounding adventures, despite harrowing hardships, and in between escaping interfering enchanters, the clockwork man seeks his imagination, his purpose, and his name.

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The Disposable by Katherine Vick

Fodder of Humble Village is sick and tired of getting speared, decapitated, and disembowelled . . . every day. In fact, he’s not going to take it anymore. No matter what The Narrative, which must be obeyed, tries to make him do.

Everyone in the Taskmaster’s Realm knows how the story goes: the boy of destiny goes on a quest, defeats the dark lord, and gets the swooning princess. It’s a great story, if you happen to be a knight or a wizard or a hero. Tired of being a member of the Ordinary soldier trope, Fodder convinces his fellow soldiers and Ordinaries to mount a coup to defy the Taskmaster and overturn the plot, and become the hero he’s always dreamed of being. 

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Hunter's Moon by Sarah M. Awa

After a wild animal attack, Melanie Caldwell ends up sick and disoriented. She and her friends think she’s suffering from infection and just needs to go to the doctor. Then she’s kidnapped on the day of the next full moon, and discovers in the worst way that monsters are real . . . and that she has become one of them. ​

​All Melanie wanted was to get a boyfriend and graduate college. Now she has to somehow deal with agonizing monthly transformations, a secret organization stalking her, friends and enemies trying to discover her secret, and hunters looming on the horizon.

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Bargaining Power by Deborah J. Natelson

Best-laid plans seldom survive contact with the enemy, a truth violently thrown at Mercedes Cartier when a seemingly ordinary trip turns into a battle for survival. Within hours, Mercedes finds herself being hunted by the nine prefects who rule the nation. They have noticed her, and now they’re giving her a choice: join them in their sinister plot or disappear forever.

Mercedes plays along at first, and then makes plans with her cryptanalyst boss to catch the prefects in their own trap. But before they can even begin, things go horribly, bizarrely wrong.

The clock is ticking, and her enemies are powerful, both politically and magically. All that’s left is cleverness, determination, and a really, really good bluff.

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