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Thanatos
Nerine Dorman

Forced into hiding after his first encounter with the immortal magicians of the dreaded House Montu, Ash and his young family haven’t had long to enjoy their refuge.Now his enemies have caught up to him, and Ash must choose between keeping a deadly secret or charging headfirst into danger to rescue his loved ones.With the tenuous peace between the rival Houses of Inkarna in the balance, Ash is the only one who can stop House Montu from a power grab that could forever alter human history.

We Broke the Moon
Masha du Toit

“We Broke the Moon” is Hope Punk Science Fiction, a genre that focuses on friendship, love, and a hopeful, can-do approach to the challenges the characters face. It features a virtual reality game on a spaceship in deep space, teenage hackers, talking cats, and a rogue artificial intelligence.

A Trial of Sparks & Kindling
Yolandie Horak

Who can be trusted in a kingdom built on lies?

Against all odds, Cara has been reunited with her brother, Frank. But at what cost to her companions? At what cost to herself? Collinefort is a place of intrigue and lies, where menace lurks in the shadows.

In greater Mordoux, the Salamander’s forces attack the resistance without end. Under the Mantle is civil war. Noble against slummer against commoner, and the rot plague against all.

Death stalks beyond the trenches. Who will rise to stop it?

Bones Like Bridges
Cat Hellisen

War is coming to Oreyn.

Magic is vanishing.

Neither problem matters much to Jek until he is pulled out of the slums and forced into the world of the Great Houses. A bastard heir to a dying magical family, Jek is caught up in the scheming of his half-sisters, who see him as the proof of their father’s betrayal. He's powerless, out of place, and has no-one he can trust.

Jek’s scramble to make a home for himself in a world that will never accept him takes a strange turn when he finds himself drawn to one of the forbidden low-caste vampires, and the illegal magic they carry in their blood.

War is coming to Oreyn

Magic is vanishing.

Jek Grinningtommy is not a hero.

Until he finds someone worth dying for.

Inkarna
Nerine Dorman

The first time Lizzie dies is a learning experience. Then again, anyone new to an ancient Egyptian reincarnation cult would have no idea what to expect once they’ve made it past the Hall of Judgment.

Now that she’s been sent back to find out why her husband from her past life is missing, the last thing Lizzie expects is to wake up in the wrong body, stuck with the mess its previous tenant left behind. 

Keyflame
Tallulah Lucy

Nestled in the heart of South Africa's Eastern Cape, Grahamstown is a place built on secrets and some of those secrets are deeper and older than Lilah can imagine. 

When she starts her first year of study in the small town far from home, she doesn't expect to get drawn into an ancient magical conspiracy or to fall in love with the man at its centre.

Charon's Song
Skolion

An anthology of short stories about life, death and small triumphs in the face of hopelessness. A sample of some of the writing Skolion has to offer. Sign up for our newsletter to get your free copy!

A Study of Ash & Smoke
Yolandie Horak

Cara Lenoir knows all about secrets. Her existence is one. To keep her sister, the queen, safe from their monstrous father, Cara hides as Carl Fletcher, physician’s apprentice. It’s either that or die.
But when Nathan Cutter shows up to be her mentor, danger lurks closer. What hope does a physician have against a ruthless killer?
A deadly plague reaps in the slums. A network of spies is closing in on her. Under the Mantle, Cara has nowhere left to hide.

The Strange
Masha du Toit

Constable Elke Veraart and her cyber-dog Meisje are peace keepers, patrolling the Babylon Eye. It’s a good job, but there must be more to life than chasing smugglers and settling domestic disputes.
Then three children ask Elke to find their mother, who’s been missing for more than a year. The search attracts the wrong kind of attention. Elke and her young friends are in desperate danger.
Unable to resist the powers that have been unleashed against her, Elke is swept out of the Babylon Eye and into another world. While she struggles to regain her freedom, the children are unprotected. They must face, all alone, a new danger that stalks the corridors of the Babylon Eye.

"The Strange" is the third and final book in the Linked Worlds series.

The Necromancer's Rogue
Icy Sedgwick

Can a young mage mend a broken heart that's made of stone?

Apprentice mage Jyximus Faire has seen what lies beyond death. Now he's back among the living, he just wants a quiet life. But his home will be razed to make way for a rich prince's playground. And a Lord of Death wants to tear open the Veil between the worlds and destroy the living. 

The Stolen Ghosts
Icy Sedgwick

Uprooted from all she knows in London, lonely teen Sarah must start a new life in Northumberland. But her family's new home is haunted by the best ghost in the business, Fowlis Westerby. And Fowlis takes pride in a job well done.

If only starting college and a haunted house were all Sarah had to deal with.

Instead of enjoying the summer holidays, she's plunged into an afterlife in chaos by a shadowy figure from the other side. She's alive for now...but the clock is ticking.

After they discover the nefarious plot for the dead to take over the world, Sarah and Fowlis must team up to stop the impending apocalypse.

Can Fowlis avoid the abyss and return Sarah to the land of the living? Or will she be forced to remain in the realm of the dead?

Empty Monsters
Cat Hellisen

Aden Onnery is the eldest son of a family of midwives who use their power to eradicate magic. As a boy, he was never meant to take on the Onnery mantle, but an accident of birth has left him marked and strange. His whole life he has believed that the Onnerys destroy the monsters that will bring the end of his people, until he is forced to enter into a bargain with a magical survivor.

The Necromancer's Apprentice
Icy Sedgwick

What if the Sorcerer's Apprentice raised bloodthirsty mummies instead of brooms?

Scholarship student Jyximus Faire wants to be a mage. But the pace at the Academy isn't fast enough for Jyx. He wants to learn everything – and he wants to learn it now.

Dreaded necromancer general Eufame Delsenza needs a new apprentice, and Jyx fits the bill. She tasks

The Firebird
Nerine Dorman

What is true evil? How do you fight it?

Since she was little, Lada wanted to be part of the Order of Fennarin, one of the warrior-monks who are the last bastion in a war against the demons and insurgents that threaten her island home. Yet to achieve her dream, Lada turned blood traitor, her decision leading to the death and exile of her family.

Of Magic and Memory
Cristy Zinn

Of Magic & Memory is the story of Ava, a girl struggling to understand her magical abilities after her mother's sudden death.
When she discovers that her mother lead a double life, quietly caring for the winged Russet and his twin sister who live in the nearby mountains, she has to question everything she remembers about her past.

The Real
Masha du Toit

The Muara. A ruined sea-side resort, shattered by the weather, buried in sand. Three children scavenge a living on the abandoned beaches and in the sand-swamped houses. This is their home and its desolation is their security...but their safety is an illusion.
Under the sands of the Muara, in an underground room, is a secret that could destroy them and everything they know.

I Heart Robot
Suzanne "Xan" van Rooyen

Sixteen-year-old Tyri wants to be a musician and wants to be with someone who gets her musical aspirations.

Q-I-99, aka 'Quinn,' lives in a scrap metal sanctuary with other rogue droids. While some use violence to make their voices heard, demanding equal rights for AI enhanced robots, Quinn just wants a moment on stage with his violin to show the humans that androids like him have more to offer than their processing power.

Tyri and Quinn's worlds collide when they're accepted by the Baldur Junior Philharmonic Orchestra. As the rift between robots and humans deepens, Tyri and Quinn's love of music draws them closer together, forcing Tyri to question where her loyalties lie and Quinn to question his place in the world. With the city on the brink of civil war, will Tyri's and Quinn's passion for music be enough to hold them together while everything else crumbles down around them, or will the truth of who they are tear them apart?

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The Babylon Eye
Masha du Toit

Elke Veraart is in prison. She used to be an eco-terrorist, hunting down poachers to protect endangered species. Now she’s facing the grim reality of life behind bars. Just as Elke is about to give up hope she is offered a chance to win back her freedom. All she has to do is find a missing dog.

Meisje is no ordinary dog. She's cybernetically enhanced, a valuable living weapon. She's also lost, hungry, and alone. As Elke closes in on Meisje she finds her admiration for the resourceful cyber-dog growing. And Meisje begins to wonder if she could trust the woman on her trail.

Then Elke discovers that she’s not the only one hunting the cyber-dog, and that her orders have changed. She must do more than find Meisje. She has to kill her.
Elke has to make an impossible choice: her freedom, or Meisje’s life. Or is there another way? It’s risky, but Elke could use the secrets she’s uncovered to save them both.

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