Elizabeth Knox

The Absolute Book

While attempting to get passage into the Place as a qualified Dreamhunter, Laura uncovers corruption at the heart of the government ruling this magical land and fears that her knowledge of this secret may be the reason why her father has suddenly gone missing. 25,000 first printing.

Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet

Dreamhunter

One summer night in 1808, Sobran Jodeau encounters an angel named Xas, whom he believes to be his guardian angel, but as their relationship develops, Sobran discovers the mystery that surrounds Xas, who is a favorite of both God and Satan. Reprint.

A Novel

The Vintner's Luck

When 16-year-old Canny of the Pacific island, Southland, sets out on a trip with her stepbrother and his girlfriend, she finds herself drawn into the enchanting Zarene Valley, where the mysterious but dark 17-year-old Ghislain helps her figure out her origins.

Mortal Fire

Aided by her family and her creation, Nown, Laura investigates the powerful Regulatory Body's involvement in mysterious disappearances and activities and learns, in the process, the true nature of the Place in which dreams are found. 25,000 first printing.

Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet

Dreamquake

One sunny spring morning the Tasman bay settlement of Kahukura is overwhelmed by a mysterious mass insanity. A handful of survivors find themselves cut off from the world, and surrouned by the dead. As the try to take care of one another, and survive in ever more difficult circumstances, it becomes apparent that they are trapped with something unseen, which is picking at the loose threads of their characters, corrupting, provoking, and haunting them.

Wake

AshleyWith marriage, there are things you can and can't live with. Harry, my abusive husband, made that clear enough when he beat me like a dog, forced a miscarriage on me, and tried posing me as a hostage to my father's notorious biker gang, The Reapers. I was lucky enough to get out of my marriage in one piece but it's only a matter of time before he picks up my trail and hunts me down. Blackjack--swears he'll kill him the second he steps foot in town. I know he means well but there's something about his stare when he tells me I deserve better. A part of me wants to believe I deserve someone like him and yet my bruises are telling me never to trust another man again. But Blackjack isn't like any other man. Is he? BlackjackWhen I enlisted into the army, I didn't think I'd have anything or anyone to lose--except for her. Ashley Monroe, the blonde wild-child of Montana's Reapers MC. It shouldn't have been a surprise when I came back home years later to find out that she left town and ended up married. Life went on of course and I was fortunate enough to have Dex, a son of my own. Three years later, Ashley came back beaten and broken from her marriage. I've never wanted to kill a man so bad in my entire life. Just one look at her and I'm drowning with the urge to hold her in my arms and tell her that she's safe with me, truly. Sometimes I wonder if there's still enough strength in both of us for a second shot in life.

Blackjack

BullWho would've known what I'd find in that fucking basement. More importantly, who knew what I was gonna do.It felt natural, to take off my cut and place it over her shoulders. She'd been exposed for god knows how long, and all I could think is that I didn't want another man's eyes raking over her body.In putting my cut over her, I was claiming her as mine.Alexa may not know it, but she's my lost little lamb and I won't let anyone harm her ever again.

Bull

'an INSTANT CLASSIC, to Rank [with] Masterpieces of Fantasy Such As HIS DARK MATERIALS or JONATHAN STRANGE and MR NORRELL' GUARDIAN

Absolute Book

A bewitching epic fantasy about a revenge killing, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fires, and the book that changed everything. "Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, . . . by turns dark and dreamlike, yet ultimately hopeful." --Deborah Harkness, internationally bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge--is behind her. She has written a successful book about the things that threaten libraries: insects, damp, light, fire, carelessness and uncaring . . . but not all of the attention it brings her is good. A policeman, Jacob Berger, questions her about a cold case. Then there are questions about a fire in the library at her grandparents' house and an ancient scroll box known as the Firestarter, as well as threatening phone calls and a mysterious illness. Finally a shadowy young man named Shift appears, forcing Taryn and Jacob toward a reckoning felt in more than one world. The Absolute Book is epic, action-packed fantasy in which hidden treasures are recovered, wicked things resurface, birds can talk, and dead sisters are a living force. It is a book of journeys and returns, from contemporary England to Auckland, New Zealand; from a magical fairyland to Purgatory. Above all, it is a declaration of love for stories and the ways in which they shape our worlds and create gods out of mortals.

E C Land

I can't run from my past, no matter how hard I try. Charlee I knew the second I'd arrived back in Portland he'd know I was here within days, so it wasn't a shock to me that he came knocking on my door, literally. Kaden was my first love, but he isn't the same man anymore. These days he goes by another name, Kinetic, one he was given when he went overseas. Now he's in a biker club and living a totally different life. Hell, I roll my eyes thinking about it. I came back here to take care of my elderly mother because she just had a full hip replacement, but I didn't come alone. So much has changed over the last decade and as soon as I saw him, everything came rushing back. Will I be able to get out of Portland unscathed, or is Kinetic going to weasel his way into my heart like Kaden did? Kinetic Years ago, I enlisted in the Marines and thought my life was going just the way I planned. Had the girl and the career I always wanted. We were kids, just starting our lives and had so much to look forward to. I had it all figured out, but the kicker is it never happened. I've lived the last twelve years mainly overseas working alongside my brothers. Men who I'd laid down my life for. Coming home we started the Deathstalkers MC and I never looked back. Now I'm standing on the front porch of Charlee's mom's house, glaring down at her as she holds onto the one thing she knew I always wanted. My kid. Decisions have to be made and something's going to give. Either way she'll be mine again.

Kinetic

In a story set in the year 2022, Carme Risk relives the adventures she had with her not-quite-human father as she pursues him through two worlds and three changes of identity.

Black Oxen

While helping local police investigate the death of a young woman, vacationing police officer Brian Phelan follows a series of leads that take him into a shadowy world populated by the last members of an ancient order of vampires.

Daylight

With an Edwardian twist on The Tempest, and all the surprising, earthy and magical qualities of The Vintner's Luck, Knox's irresistible new novel is set on the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Killing, one half of which looks historically and geographically towards Catholic Ireland, the other towards the Protestant north and Scandinavia. In the spring of 1903 a ship explodes as it docks on the island, drowning many of the passengers and crew in the icy waters of Stolnsay harbour. Young, strawberry-blond-haired Billie Paxton is among the only survivors. Clumsy, illiterate and suddenly alone, Billie will not say why, before the explosion, she jumped from ship to shore, and so falls under the immediate suspicion of her fellow passenger, Murdo Hesketh and his cousin and employer, Lord Hallowhulme, who owns the island - and has controversial plans for improving the lives of its inhabitants. Gloriously inventive and vividly atmospheric, Billie's Kiss conjures up a way of life hurtling towards a brave new world, in an enchanting novel that combines a strange, sexy love story with an Edwardian mystery, bringing together murder and eugenics, progress, prejudice and the loss of innocence.

Billie's Kiss

WidowIf I didn't love her, I would kill her. I'd kill her for so much, but mostly for hiding my kid from me. For up and running, and choosing to keep my daughter out of my life. She doesn't just belong to Melody. She's mine too, and Melody doesn't get to keep her to herself.She said she ran because of me, because of what I did.I can't blame her for that.I fucked up and I might have lost the most important woman in my life, but I refuse to lose my daughter. Not when we haven't even had a chance.Will fighting for my daughter lead me to winning back my girl's heart? I loved her for years and I always will. The only thing is, Melody doesn't exist anymore.Only Rebel Rose does, and she's nothing like I expect.

Widow

I'm supposed to marry a woman I've never met, make her my 'ol lady and all that. This deal was struck when I was a kid playing with toy trucks in my front yard. Hell, Octavia wasn't even born yet.Everything changed when the Raiders MC started getting picked off one by one. Her sisters were all murdered, including the woman I was supposed to marry. Now Octavia, is the only one left and she's not exactly keen on uprooting her life and moving to Montana.Either way, we don't have the option to throw in the towel and say fuck it. I'm just gonna have to make the best of it, even if she fights me every step of the way.

Zane

Enter a world similar to ours but for one difference: the Place, a mysterious region filled with dreams of every kind, dreams that heal, dreams that amuse and dreams that can influence or mislead.

The Invisible Road

David Larsen

Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this anthology of Aotearoa-New Zealand science fiction and fantasy ranges from the satirical novels of the 19th-century utopians - one of which includes the first description of atmospheric aerobreaking in world literature - to the bleeding edge of now. Spaceships and worried sheep. Dragons and AI. The shopping mall that swallowed the Earth. The deviant, the fishy and the rum, all bioengineered for your reading pleasure.Featuring stories by some of the country's best known writers as well as work from exciting new talent, Monsters in the Garden invites you for a walk on the wild side. We promise you'll get back safely. Unchanged? Well, that's another question.

An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy

Monsters in the Garden

The angel's cut

AntonWhen I was assigned the job to find out who exactly orchestrated the hit on Mariana Petran, I jumped at the opportunity. To attack the queen of the clans is an attack against us all. I was to find the man who ordered it - and I did. I also found myself a feisty redhead; something I considered a cherry on top of the sundae as I headed to her hometown to destroy the man responsible for it all. So, there I was, delivering a bloody and violent end to the scum that betrayed us when the door opens, and in walks my feisty redhead; Natasha.NatashaI came home from a wild night out with the girls and found my uncle bloodied and bruised, with a gun held to the back of his head. The man holding the gun - my boyfriend, Anton.I never thought that I would be begging for his life - doing anything that I could to save him. But he's my family. He's the only link I have left to my mother. Anton didn't tell me he was in the Romanian Mob - but I never confessed I was the niece of a head clan member, or anything about my father, but we'll get to that later.Anton named his price. I didn't understand why, what he could possibly find valuable with taking the niece of Clan Constantin - especially when he already had me. I accepted the terms, the trade. I'd do anything to save my uncle, even if that meant sacrificing myself. Anton promised me that he wouldn't kill my uncle, like a dumb girl I assumed that meant my uncle would live. Anton may not have pulled the trigger, but make no mistake - he killed my uncle.The loving man I'd learned to care about over the past few weeks turned into something feral - I didn't even know the man I was falling in love with.I waited for my father, and prayed he would come for me.They didn't even know the girl they were taking.They were clueless.

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