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Iyari follows a map that shouldn't exist; the only person who can read it is the deserter sworn to bring her back.
Uneasy alliance, sharpening into something else.
Iyari, the last cartographer
by BlackVeil House
Two princes inherit a sky with the constellations going out one by one. Only one of them saw the thief.
Brothers, divided by what they saw.
Prince Halen, the dutiful heir
Hana folds a city out of paper. The city begins folding her in return.
Hana, the origami architect
Kasumi has to remember a murder she never witnessed — and the woman paying her did it.
Client and confessor. Neither is sure who's hunting whom.
Kasumi Vex, memory-broker, retired
Humanity's final colony drifts toward a dying red star. Commander Eden Voss has one archive, one engine, and three years of fuel.
Commander and archivist. One steers. One remembers.
Commander Eden Voss, captain of the last ark
Two rival pianists snowed into one cabin for a week. Neither will leave first. Neither will play first either.
Rivals → reluctant duet.
Elias, composer in exile
King Halian inherits a throne built atop the bones of sleeping gods — and learns the things beneath the floor have begun to dream.
King and priestess. One keeps the crown. One keeps the truth.
King Halian, the king who learned the truth
Reva's future self is sending warnings on Channel 4. She isn't listening yet — and the version sending them knows it.
Two Revas, three weeks apart, one rig.
Reva Quinn, deep-space radio engineer
Lady Isolde mourns a husband who refuses to stay buried. Lord Calen returns each midnight, a little less alive, a little more in love.
A widow. A revenant. A vow neither will break.
Lady Isolde, the widow in red
In rain-drowned New London, the dead are walking back into their old lives. Detective Mara Ko is hunting the man who keeps signing them out of the morgue.
Detective and ghost. Neither is sure who's tailing whom.
Detective Mara Ko, homicide, night shift
At the edge of charted space, the Vance crew finds a derelict that predates the human calendar — and a star map that names every planet they've ever lost.
Captain and navigator. He chases the horizon. She maps what it costs.
Captain Thero Vance, the captain who keeps going
Six strangers wake in a house that doesn't appear on any map. Only one of them has a key. He says it isn't his.
Suspect each other. Suspect him first.
Della, the architect
Every missing person in Halloway County left the same handwritten note. Detective Renna Holm has begun receiving them in her own handwriting.
Hunter and voice. She has never met him. He knows where she sleeps.
Detective Renna Holm, sheriff's office, Halloway
Vesper infiltrates an auction of the impossible. Lot 47 walks onstage wearing her sister's face.
A sister hunting a sister. An auctioneer who already knows the price.
Vesper, occult recovery specialist
A sword-saint walks unarmed through a war-torn coast. Every village owes her something. The next debt cannot be repaid.
Master Ren, the unarmed saint
She wrote to the hurricane. The hurricane wrote back.
Anya, lighthouse keeper
A boarding school for things that change at midnight. Tonight one of them isn't changing back.
Wren, prefect, dorm seven
Mira catalogues people not yet born. One of them is reading her file back to her.
Mira, archivist, seventh floor
A cartographer-pilot races across a sky of floating islands to find the one her father said never existed.
Captain Yara, the cartographer-pilot
She refuses to read his cards. He needs to know what she saw the first time he asked.
Det. August Carey, burned-out detective
The trees on the family estate are keeping inventory of the bloodline, and Dr. Sela Marsh is the next entry.
Dr. Sela Marsh, returning botanist
Her late husband's gravestone bears a date in next year's spring. The villagers won't say who carved it.
Elara, the widow returning
Lady Eira traded her name for a single bargain. He kept a piece of it — and won't say which.
Lady Eira, the bride
She tends a greenhouse of corrupted code. The newest bloom is shaped like her old assistant.
Ami, the cybernetic gardener