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Friday, December 24, 2021

Fantasy Book Critic's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 (Part II) [by Caitlin G., Lukasz P. & Mihir W.]

 



Continuing on from yesterday's list, here's the second and final part of our most anticipated 2022 titles. We have included both trad-published and indie titles and quite a few indie titles don't have any cover art to reveal (so far). However there are many books that have not been confirmed and so we cannot include them. We have listed a few of our beloved authors whose books are must reads but haven't revealed their 2022 releases.

 So onwards to part II now:


(ARC cover, NOT FINAL COVER ART)

Sins Of The Mother by Rob J. Hayes

Series/Standalone: The War Eternal series #4

Release date: May 4th 2022

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Official Blurb: In her darklight the world will burn.

Eskara Helsene is missing. She left her queendom, her friends, her children, even her own name behind. No one has seen the Corpse Queen for almost a decade.

Someone is murdering Sourcerers, forcing them to reject their magic in order to tear open new scars in reality, places where the boundaries between worlds stretch thin.

When an old acquaintance turns up out of the blue, Eska has no choice but to investigate the scars left in the world. But can she stop the murderer without revealing her true nature?

 


Kagen The Damned by Jonathan Maberry

Series/Standalone: Kagen The Damned #1

Release date: May 10th 2022

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Official Blurb: Sworn by Oath
Kagen Vale is the trusted and feared captain of the place guard, charged with protection the royal children of the Silver Empire. But one night, Kagen is drugged and the entire imperial family is killed, leaving the empire in ruins.

Abandoned by the Gods
Haunted and broken, Kagen is abandoned by his gods and damned forever. He becomes a wanderer, trying to take down as many of this enemies as possible while plotting to assassinate the usurper –the deadly Witch-king of Hakkia. While all around him magic –look banished from the world—returns in strange and terrifying ways.

Fueled by Rage
To find the royal children and exact his vengeance, Kagen must venture into strange lands, battle bizarre and terrifying creatures, and gather allies for a suicide mission into the heart of the Witch-king’s empire.

Kings and gods will fear him.

Kagen the Damned



The Hacienda by Isabel Canas

Series/Standalone: standalone

Release date: May 10th 2022

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Official Blurb: During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife’s sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security that his estate in the countryside provides. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost.

But Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined.

When Rodolfo returns to work in the capital, visions and voices invade Beatriz’s sleep. The weight of invisible eyes follows her every move. Rodolfo’s sister, Juana, scoffs at Beatriz’s fears—but why does she refuse to enter the house at night? Why does the cook burn copal incense at the edge of the kitchen and mark the doorway with strange symbols? What really happened to the first Doña Solórzano?

Beatriz only knows two things for certain: Something is wrong with the hacienda. And no one there will save her.

Desperate for help, she clings to the young priest, Padre Andrés, as an ally. No ordinary priest, Andrés will have to rely on his skills as a witch to battle the malevolent presence haunting the hacienda.

Far from a refuge, San Isidro may be Beatriz’s doom.


Phoenix Rising by J. A. Andrews

Series/Standalone: The Keeper Origins trilogy #3

Release date: May 11th 2022

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Official Blurb: In the epic conclusion of the Keeper Origins, Sable and the companions who’ve become family to her come together again to face certain defeat at the hands of the Kalesh Empire—assuming they can survive the political maneuverings of lords and merchants and prioresses first.

 


The Fallout by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Series/Standalone: Freyja and Huldar series #6

Release date: May 12th 2022

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Official Blurb: On a cold day in Reykjavik, a baby goes missing from her pram. When the child's blanket washes up on the beach, and the mother is found dead, everyone's worst fears seem to have been realised.

Eleven years later, and detective Huldar and child psychologist Freyja are now working in the same police building, on the same team. Freyja believes that personal and professional relationships must remain separate, however hard that may be. But when a woman's dismembered body is found in a deserted car, her head missing, and Freyja and Huldar find themselves working on the same case, the secrecy around their affair threatens to crack. And when Freyja is accused of a serious breach of police protocol, will Huldar be able to help her? Meanwhile, their search to identify the body takes the case back into secrets of the past, and the unspoken crimes that bind three separate families.



The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

Series/Standalone: The Sandsea Trilogy #1

Release date: May 17th 2022

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Official Blurb: Neither here nor there, but long ago…

Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land—at the cost of sacrificing all jinn.

With no choice but to obey or be executed, Loulie journeys with the sultan’s oldest son to find the artifact. Aided by her bodyguard, who has secrets of his own, they must survive ghoul attacks, outwit a vengeful jinn queen, and confront a malicious killer from Loulie’s past. And, in a world where story is reality and illusion is truth, Loulie will discover that everything—her enemy, her magic, even her own past—is not what it seems, and she must decide who she will become in this new reality.



All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay

Series/Standalone: Set in the same, near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky

Release date: May 17th 2022

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Official Blurb: On a dark night along a lonely stretch of coast a small ship sends two people ashore. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired by two of the most dangerous men alive to alter the balance of power in the world. If they succeed, the consequences will affect the destinies of empires, and lives both great and small.  
   
One of those arriving at that beach is a woman abducted by corsairs as a child and sold into years of servitude. Having escaped, she is trying to chart her own course—and is bent upon revenge. Another is a seafaring merchant who still remembers being exiled as a child with his family from their home, for their faith, a moment that never leaves him. In what follows, through a story both intimate and epic, unforgettable characters are immersed in the fierce and deadly struggles that define their time.  
  
All the Seas of the World is a page-turning drama that also offers moving reflections on memory, fate, and the random events that can shape our lives—in the past, and today.

 


 

Hide by Kiersten White

Series/Standalone: Standalone

Release date: May 24th 2022

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Official Blurb: The challenge: Spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don’t get caught.

The prize: enough money to change everything.

Even though everyone is desperate to win—to seize a dream future or escape a haunting past—Mack is sure she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she’s an expert at that.

It’s the reason she’s alive and her family isn’t.

But as the people around her begin disappearing one by one, Mack realizes that this competition is even more sinister than she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive.

Fourteen competitors. Seven days. Everywhere to hide but nowhere to run.

Come out, come out, wherever you are.

 


The Origin Of Storms by Elizabeth Bear

Series/Standalone: The Lotus Kingdoms trilogy #3

Release date:  May 24th 2022

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Official Blurb: The Lotus Kingdoms are at war, with four claimants to the sorcerous throne of the Alchemical Emperor, fielding three armies between them. Alliances are made, and broken, many times over—but in the end, only one can sit on the throne. And that one must have not only the power, but the rightful claim.

 


For the Throne by Hannah Witten

Series/Standalone: The Wilderwood series #2

Release date: June 7th 2022

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Official Blurb: The First Daughter is for the Throne
The Second Daughter is for the Wolf...

Red and the Wolf have finally contained the threat of the Old Kings but at a steep cost. Red's beloved sister Neve, the First Daughter is lost in the Shadowlands, an inverted kingdom where the vicious gods of legend have been trapped for centuries and the Old Kings have slowly been gaining control. But Neve has an ally--though it's one she'd rather never have to speak to again--the rogue king Solmir. 

Solmir wants to bring an end to the Shadowlands and he believes helping Neve may be the key to its destruction. But to do that, they will both have to journey across a dangerous landscape in order to find a mysterious Heart Tree, and finally to claim the gods' dark, twisted powers for themselves.

 


The City Inside by Samit Basu

Series/Standalone: Standalone

Release date: June 7th 2022

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Official Blurb: “They'd known the end times were coming but hadn’t known they’d be multiple choice.”

Joey is a Reality Controller in near future Delhi. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livestreams of Indi, one of South Asia’s fastest rising online celebrities—who also happens to be her college ex. Joey’s job gives her considerable culture-power, but she’s too caught up in day-to-day crisis-handling to see this, or to figure out what she wants from her life.

Rudra is a recluse estranged from his wealthy and powerful family who fled to an impoverished immigrant neighborhood where he loses himself in video games and his neighbors’ lives. When his father’s death pulls him back into his family’s orbit, an impulsive job offer from Joey becomes his only escape from the life he never wanted.

But no good deed goes unpunished. As Joey and Rudra become enmeshed in multiple conspiracies, their lives start to spin out of control, complicated by dysfunctional relationships, corporate loyalty, and the never-ending pressures of surveillance capitalism. When a bigger picture begins to unfold around them, they must each decide how to do the right thing in a shadowy world where simply maintaining the status quo feels like an accomplishment. Ultimately, resistance will not—cannot—take the same shape for these two very different people.

 


Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

Series/Standalone: Her Majesty's Royal Coven #1

Release date: June 14th 2022

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Official Blurb: If you look hard enough at old photographs, we’re there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple.

At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle--took the oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is now the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she's a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right.

Juno Dawson explores gender and the corrupting nature of power in a delightful and provocative story of magic and matriarchy, friendship and feminism. Dealing with all the aspects of contemporary womanhood, as well as being phenomenally powerful witches, Niamh, Helena, Leonie and Elle may have grown apart but they will always be bound by the sisterhood of the coven.



The Path of Thorns by A.G. Slatter

Series/Standalone: Standalone

Release date: June 14th 2022

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Official Blurb: Asher Todd comes to live with the mysterious Morwood family as a governess to their children. Asher knows little about being a governess but she is skilled in botany and herbcraft, and perhaps more than that. And she has secrets of her own, dark and terrible – and Morwood is a house that eats secrets. With a monstrous revenge in mind, Asher plans to make it choke. However, she becomes fond of her charges, of the people of the Tarn, and she begins to wonder if she will be able to execute her plan – and who will suffer most if she does. But as the ghosts of her past become harder to control, Asher realises she has no choice.

Dark magic, retribution and twisted family secrets combine to weave a bewitching and beautifully written gothic fairy tale.



In The Shadow Of Lightning by Brian McClellan

Series/Standalone: The Glass Immortals #1

Release date: June 21st 2022

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Official Blurb: Demir Grappo is an outcast—he fled a life of wealth and power, abandoning his responsibilities as a general, a governor, and a son. Now he will live out his days as a grifter, rootless, and alone. But when his mother is brutally murdered, Demir must return from exile to claim his seat at the head of the family and uncover the truth that got her killed: the very power that keeps civilization turning, godglass, is running out.

Now, Demir must find allies, old friends and rivals alike, confront the powerful guild-families who are only interested in making the most of the scraps left at the table and uncover the invisible hand that threatens the Empire. A war is coming, a war unlike any other. And Demir and his ragtag group of outcasts are the only thing that stands in the way of the end of life as the world knows it.

 


Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett

Series/Standalone: The Founders trilogy #3

Release date: June 21st 2022

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Official Blurb: A god wages war—using all of humanity as its pawns—in the unforgettable conclusion to the Founders trilogy.

Sancia, Clef, and Berenice have gone up against plenty of long odds in the past. But the war they’re fighting now is one even they can’t win.
 
This time, they’re not facing robber-baron elites, or even an immortal hierophant, but an entity whose intelligence is spread over half the globe—a ghost in the machine that uses the magic of scriving to possess and control not just objects, but human minds.
 
To fight it, they’ve used scriving technology to transform themselves and their allies into an army—a society—that’s like nothing humanity has seen before. With its strength at their backs, they’ve freed a handful of their enemy’s hosts from servitude, even brought down some of its fearsome, reality-altering dreadnaughts. Yet despite their efforts, their enemy marches on—implacable. Unstoppable.
 
Now, as their opponent closes in on its true prize—an ancient doorway, long buried, that leads to the chambers at the center of creation itself—Sancia and her friends glimpse a chance at reaching it first, and with it, a last desperate opportunity to stop this unbeatable foe. But to do so, they’ll have to unlock the centuries-old mystery of scriving’s origins, embark on a desperate mission into the heart of their enemy’s power, and pull off the most daring heist they’ve ever attempted.
 
And as if that weren’t enough, their adversary might just have a spy in their ranks—and a last trick up its sleeve.

 


Daughter of Redwinter by Ed McDonald

Series/Standalone: The Redwinter Chronicles #1

Release date: June 28th 2022

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Official Blurb: Those who see the dead soon join them.

Raine can see―and more importantly, speak―to the dead. It’s a wretched gift with a death sentence that has her doing many dubious things to save her skin. Seeking refuge with a deluded cult is her latest bad, survival-related decision. But her rare act of kindness―rescuing an injured woman in the snow―is even worse.

Because the woman has escaped from Redwinter, the fortress-monastery of the Draoihn, warrior magicians who answer to no king and who will stop at nothing to retrieve what she’s stolen. A battle, a betrayal, and a horrific revelation forces Raine to enter Redwinter. It becomes clear that her ability might save an entire nation.

Pity she might have to die for that to happen…



The Martyr by Anthony Ryan

Series/Standalone: The Covenant of Steel #2

Release date: June 28th 2022

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Official Blurb: Times have changed for Alwyn Scribe. Once an outlaw, he’s now a spymaster and sworn protector of Lady Evadine Courlain, whose visions of a demonic apocalypse have earned her the fanatical devotion of the faithful.

Yet Evadine’s growing fame has put her at odds with both Crown and Covenant. As trouble brews in the kingdom, both seek to exploit her position for their own ends.

Sent to the Duchy of Alundia to put down a rebellion, Alwyn must rely on old instincts to fight for his new cause. Deadly feuds and ancient secrets are laid bare as war erupts, a war that will decide the fate of the Kingdom of Albermaine and, perhaps, prevent the coming of the prophesied Second Scourge.


Descending Dragon (working title) by Richard Nell

Series/Standalone: Standalone

Release date: Second quarter of 2022

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Unofficial Blurb: With a talking mace, and a baby dragon, a dying innkeeper's son descends into hell to rescue his friends...

 

(Unofficial cover art, NOT FINAL)

The Sharded Few by Alec Hutson

Series/Standalone: Book 1 of a new series

Release date: Second quarter of 2022

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Official Blurb: A thousand years ago the Heart of the World was shattered, its fragments scattered across the lands. In the chaos that followed, martial orders arose to gather the shards, for it was found that great powers were granted when these pieces were bonded to the flesh of the chosen. They are the Sharded Few, warriors imbued with the divine energies that once coursed through the Heart, driven to absorb enough fragments to claim immortality.


Death's Beating Heart by Rob J. Hayes

Series/Standalone: The War Eternal series #5

Release date: Second quarter of 2022

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Unofficial Tagline: This is the fifth and final book in The War Eternal series, and everything ends when Eska becomes death, the destroyer of worlds!


Lightblade by Zamil Akhtar

Series/Standalone: Sungorgers #1

Release date: Second quarter of 2022

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Unofficial Blurb: One day, Jyosh is going to slice up dragons while skysurfing. But not today. He’s overworked, weak, and hopeless. And he’s done the unthinkable: spent six month’s salary on a magical dreaming stone so he can learn how to wield a lightblade while he sleeps. One day in a dream is equal to one hour in the real world, but does he have enough time to become strong before the real world unravels around him?



The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

Series/Standalone: Standalone

Release date: July 5th 2022

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Official Blurb: What if the coolest girl you’ve ever met decided to be your friend?

Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friend thought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.

Okay, that part was a little weird.

So was her obsessive knowledge of a notorious bit of New England folklore that involved digging up the dead. And there were other strange things – terrifying things – that happened when she was around, usually at night. But she was his friend, so it was okay, right?

Decades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some issues with it. And now she’s making cuts.


The Memory in the Blood by Ryan Van Loan

Series/Standalone: Fall Of The Gods #3

Release date: July 12th 2022

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Official Blurb: When her quest to destroy the Gods began, Buc was a child of the streets. Now she is a woman of steel, shaped by gaining and losing power, tempered by love and betrayal, and honed to a fine edge by grief and her desire for vengeance.

A perilous, clandestine mission to a hidden library uncovers information that is key to destroying both the Dead Gods and their enemy, the Goddess Ciris. Ciris's creation, Sin, who lives inside Buc, gives her superhuman abilities and tempts her with hints of even greater power. With that power, she could achieve almost anything—end the religious war tearing her world apart, remake society at a stroke—but the price would be the betrayal of everything she has fought for . . . and the man she loved would still be dead.

In the middle of this murderous, magical maelstrom, a coded message smuggled out of the heart of the Dead Gods' cathedral reveals that the Dead Gods intend to destroy Ciris—and much of the world with her.

This. Will. Not. Stand.

If Buc has to destroy all Gods, eat the rich, and break the world's economy to save the people, she will do it. Even if it costs her everything.

 


Priest of Crowns by Peter McLean

Series/Standalone: War For The Rose Throne series #4

Release date: July 19th 2022

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Official Blurb: Praise be to Our Lady of Eternal Sorrows, and blessed be the Ascended Martyr.' Those were the words on lips of the faithful: Blessed be the Ascended Martyr, and woe betide you if you thought otherwise. The word Unbeliever had become a death sentence on the streets in those days.

Gangster, soldier, priest. Governor, knight, and above all, Queen's Man!

Once, Tomas Piety looked after his men, body and soul, as best he could. Then those who ran his country decided his dark talents would better serve in the corridors of power.

Crushed by the power of the Queen's Men and with the Skanian menace rising once more on the streets of Ellinburg, Tomas Piety is forced to turn to old friends, old debts and untrustworthy alliances.

Meanwhile in the capital city of Dannsburg, Dieter Vogel is beginning to wonder if the horror he has unleashed in the Martyr's Disciples might be getting out of control.

With revolution brewing and tragedy and terrorism running rife in the cities, Piety and Vogel must each weigh the cost of a crown.

 


Upgrade by Blake Crouch

Series/Standalone: Standalone

Release date: July 19th 2022

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Official Blurb: Logan Ramsay can feel his brain…changing.
 
And his body too.
 
He’s becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human.
 
As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything—his family, his job, even his freedom.
 
Because the truth of what’s happened to him is more disturbing than he could possibly imagine. His DNA has been rewritten with a genetic-engineering breakthrough beyond anything the world has seen—one that could change our very definitions of humanity.
 
And the battle to control this unfathomable power has already begun.
 
But what if humankind’s only hope for survival lies in embracing this change—whatever the cost?
 
Which side will Logan take? And by the time it’s over, will he—and the people he loves—even recognize him?

 


The Jaguar Path by Anna Stephens

Series/Standalone: Songs of The Drowned #2

Release date: August 4th 2022

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Author tagline: “Expect more fights, more magic, more Drowned and, maybe, a very good doggo.”

 


The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Series/Standalone: Standalone

Release date: August 9th 2022

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Official Blurb: Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.

Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon―like all other book eater women―is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories.

But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger―not for books, but for human minds.

 


The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri

Series/Standalone: The Burning Kingdoms #2

Release date: August 16th 2022

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Official Blurb: The prophecy of the nameless god—the words that declared Malini the rightful empress of Parijatdvipa—has proven a blessing and curse. She is determined to claim the throne that fate offered her. But even with the strength of the rage in her heart and the army of loyal men by her side, deposing her brother is going to be a brutal and bloody fight.
 
The power of the deathless waters flows through Priya’s blood. Thrice born priestess, Elder of Ahiranya, Priya’s dream is to see her country rid of the rot that plagues it: both Parijatdvipa's poisonous rule, and the blooming sickness that is slowly spreading through all living things. But she doesn’t yet understand the truth of the magic she carries.
 
Their chosen paths once pulled them apart. But Malini and Priya's souls remain as entwined as their destinies. And they soon realize that coming together is the only way to save their kingdom from those who would rather see it burn—even if it will cost them.

 


Darling by Mercedes M. Yardley

Series/Standalone: Standalone

Release date: August 23rd 2022

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Official Blurb: Darling has its demons.

Cherry LaRouche escaped the claws of Darling, Louisiana at sixteen. When she is forced to return after her mother's death, Cherry and her children move back into her childhood home where the walls whisper and something sinister skitters across the roof at night.

While Cherry tries to settle back into a town where evil spreads like infection, the bodies of several murdered children turn up. When Cherry's own daughter goes missing, she's forced to confront the true monsters of Darling.

 


Bonds of Chaos by Zack Argyle

Series/Standalone: The Threadlight series #3

Release date: August 25th 2022

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Official Blurb: Sacrifices will be made.

When all was lost, the Heralds returned, and the world embraced them as gods and saviors. But there are some who know the truth: the Heralds are not what they seem.

Now, in a desperate attempt to stop them, Chrys and the others travel to Cynosure with hopes of enlisting the only Amber threadweaver with the power to help.

Chrys, Laurel, Alverax, and those they love. Together, they will stop the gods...or they will die trying.



The Dragon's Promise by Elizabeth Lim

Series/Standalone: Six Crimson Cranes #2

Release date: August 30th 2022

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Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang

Series/Standalone: Standalone

Release date: Third quarter of 2022

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Unofficial Blurb: The founders built this city on magic. But magic has a cost- and the collectors have come calling.


 

Exiles (tentative title) by D. P. Woolliscroft

Series/Standalone: Standalone set in the same world of Kingshold

Release date: Third quarter of 2022

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Official Blurb: Life on the streets of Kingshold is tough when you’re on your own. That’s why Sharavin is an extractor for the Twilight Exiles, the largest crime family in town; it helps to have their backing with the type of trouble that she gets into with her partner, Trypp. But when her family members turn up mutilated in back alleys on their turf, it feels like they might be headed to war.

Florian knows a thing or two about war. The things he did as a soldier still haunt his dreams. And as if life wasn’t bad enough, he gets coerced into babysitting the spoiled and neglected teenage ward of an ancient wizard.

Their lives are separate, destined to never meet, until a tug on a single  thread brings their worlds crashing together. A coming of age story of murder, new friendship and broken bonds.



Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Series/Standalone: The Locked Tomb series #3

Release date: September 13th 2022

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Official Blurb: Her city is under siege.

The zombies are coming back.

And all Nona wants is a birthday party.

In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back.

The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever.

And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face...


The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao

Series/Standalone: The Rages Trilogy #1

Release date: Fall 2022

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Official Blurb: High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity—plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. In these living cities, architects are revered above anyone else. If not for their ability to psychically manipulate the architecture, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below.

Charismatic, powerful, mystical, Iravan is one such architect. In his city, his word is nearly law. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his wife, they are a way for survival to be reliant on the privileged few. Like most others, she cannot manipulate the plants. And she desperately seeks change.

Their marriage is already thorny—then Iravan is accused of pushing his abilities to forbidden limits. He needs Ahilya to help clear his name; she needs him to tip the balance of rule in their society. As their paths become increasingly intertwined, deadly truths emerge, challenging everything each of them believes. And as the earthrages become longer, and their floating city begins to plummet, Iravan and Ahilya's discoveries might destroy their marriage, their culture, and their entire civilization. 



Play Of Shadows by Sebastien De Castell

Series/Standalone: The Court of Shadows #2

Release date: November 15th 2022

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Official Blurb: Damelas Shademantaigne picked a poor night to flee a judicial duel.

He has precious little hope of escaping the wrath of the Vixen, the most feared duellist in the entire city, until he stumbles through the stage doors of the magnificent Operato Belleza and tricks his way into the company of actors. An archaic law provides a temporary respite from his troubles - until one night a ghostly voice in his head causes Damelas to fumble his lines, inadvertently blurting out a dreadful truth: the city's most legendary hero may actually be a traitor and a brutal murderer.

With only the help of his boisterous and lusty friend Bereto, a beautiful assassin whose target may well be Damelas himself, and a company of misfit actors who'd just as soon see him dead, this failed son of two Greatcoats must somehow find within himself the courage to dig up long-buried truths before a ruthless band of bravos known as the Iron Orchids come for his head.

Oh, and there's still that matter of the Vixen waiting to duel him . . .


We Dream of Gods by Devin Madson

Series/Standalone: The Reborn Empire saga #4

Release date: December 4th 2022

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Untitled book II of the Beyond Ash And Sand trilogy by Richard Nell

Series/Standalone: Beyond Ash And Sand trilogy #2

Release date: End of 2022

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Unofficial tagline: Ruka, son of Beyla and Yacat of House Mar, fight to save their worlds from a dead god's shadow.


Kraken Rider Z by Dyrk Ashton & Davis Estes

Series/Standalone: Kraken Rider Series #1

Release date: Fourth quarter of 2022

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Official Blurb: If there's one thing dragons fear, it's a kraken.

Luckily for the dragons, and their riders, no one has seen a kraken in a thousand years.

In a nautical society and world, royal Dragon Knights guard the king's ships from pirates and hostile empires. They're trained in an exclusive school only for the rich and well-connected.

Enter a poor teenager named Zee who has no chance to get in - except Zee saved the life of a baby kraken when he was just seven years old, and now may become the first Kraken Rider in history.

 


The Necessity Of Rain by Sarah Chorn

Series/Standalone: Standalone

Release date: Sometime in 2022

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Official Blurb: The god-ruled city of Meadowsweet has been at peace for a millennia.

Divided between deities Aether and Oceana, Meadowsweet thrives in harmony. In a place where prayers are currency and worship is obligation, life is prescribed and comfortable for most. However, when Father Luna, interloper god, arrives with a strange girl in tow, the balance of power shifts. Suddenly, everything is in peril.

Gambled away by a father she hardly knows, Rosemary finds sanctuary in Father Luna. Soon, she is thrust into the center of a divine conflict. When everything she loves hangs by a thread, Rosemary realizes she has the power to change the game, but at the cost of her soul. To survive, she must reveal who she truly is.

When gods go to war, the world trembles.

When the gods move, nothing is sacred. 


Epoch’s End by Zamil Akhtar

Series/Standalone: Gunmetal Gods #3

Release date: Fourth quarter of 2022

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Unofficial Blurb: The god who protected the land is dead. A blood plague infests the soil and sea. Wicked angels vie for dominion over hearts and minds. All while war simmers between four mighty kingdoms. The line between truth and falsehood, good and evil, hope and catastrophe is buried deep in blood-soaked sand.



Untitled book IV of The Great Hearts series by David Oliver

Series/Standalone: The Great Hearts series #4

Release date: Fourth quarter of 2022

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There are also forthcoming titles by Rachel Aaron, Ilona Andrews, R.J. Barker, Gareth Hanrahan, Davis Ashura, Teresa Frohock, Krystle Matar, Angela Boord, Cam Johnston, Ilana C. Myer, Django Wexler & John Connolly that we are eagerly awaiting but have no details about.


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