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When Cass returns to her mother’s house in the shadow of the Welsh hills, she finds more than grief waiting in the silence. A keepsake box whispers of secrets buried across generations, of women bound to the moon and hunted by something older than fear itself. Visions blur dream and waking. Bloodlines tangle with witches, hags, and the hollow things that stalk the night. To embrace her inheritance is to risk losing herself. To deny it may cost her everything she loves. As the past coils tighter around the present, Cass must decide: will she flee the darkness, or stand in it, luminous?

Celehar's life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger. He has been given an apprentice to teach, and he has stumbled over a scandal of the city—the foundling girls. Orphans with no family to claim them and no funds to buy an apprenticeship. Foundling boys go to the Prelacies; foundling girls are sold into service, or worse. At once touching and shattering, Celehar's witnessing for one of these girls will lead him into the depths of his own losses. The love of his friends will lead him out again.

"The audiobook narrated by Liam Gerrard perfectly captures Celehar’s voice." —Buzzfeed on The Grief of Stones In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel to The Witness For The Dead... Celehar’s life as the Witness for the Dead...

Everyone has a death. Hers has a name: Moira. When Amber Graves buries her father, she thinks the worst is over. The next night, she discovers she’s wrong. Her inheritance isn’t wealth—it’s his magic. And it comes bound to her own death: a porcelain-masked woman named Moira, who watches her from mirrors and shadows, waiting for the moment Amber’s heartbeat stops. As Amber struggles to balance work, love, and the dark art of necromancy, she learns the truth behind her father’s legacy—and the terrible cost of keeping it. What do you do when your guardian angel is the angel of death?

Gianna Russell watched her father die when she was six years old—his murder bound to white fire, royal magic, and a war the world insists is over. Taken into Shadow World, she was trained alongside six other children to become something more than human… and far more lethal. Now grown, Gianna leads a daring abduction that captures the heirs of two kingdoms—including a crown prince who was never meant to be part of the plan. Lachlan Asimar is honorable, unbreakable, and far too human to be just another pawn.

When forensic genealogist Sloane Vance returns to her childhood home after her father’s death, she expects dust, paperwork, and old silence. What she finds instead is a military field-phone her brother built in 1994—the year he died. When she turns the crank, the line connects. Not to memory. Not to a ghost. To herself. Twelve years old. Six days before the accident. Desperate to save her brother, Sloane begins altering the past—only to discover that fate resists correction.

These stories wrestle with the experience of loss—of loved ones, of relationships, of a sense of self, of health—and forge a path to hope as characters fight their way forward. From bestsellers and SPFBO finalists to rising voices, 13 exceptionally talented authors explore the many facets of grief and healing through the lens of fantasy and sci-fi.

Charles Shilling is about to begin his day with a funeral… and it will only get worse from there. What seems like a harmless little investigation turns dark fast, and Shilling is in no state to hold back the tide of cruelty coming his way. Worse, with the rate he’s falling for Florin, he’s never been so vulnerable to revenge…

Ivy tends wounds others hide—until bodies begin to refuse her remedies and infants appear at hedgerows with sigils pressed into their skin. As lesion-blooms and missing memories spread, Ivy’s healing becomes entangled with bargains struck by midwives and town elders generations ago. To save the children and stop the slow unmaking of family lines, she must risk the memory of who she is and what she has loved. Thorn & Grief is a sensory, slow-burn supernatural thriller about what mothers pay, what healers carry, and how sorrow can take root.

“Oates is a fearless writer.” —Los Angeles Times “Oates is a master of the dark tale—stories of the hunted and the hunter, of violence, trauma, and deep psychic wounds.” —Booklist (starred review) Sourland is a gripping, haunting, and intensely moving collection of short stories by...

Have you ever felt as if you couldn't go on? That you were nearly lost under the weight of your own burdens? Were you told - or did you decide - that the only way out was to soldier on, to blindly grind out the days until you felt like you could breathe again, if not as well as before? What if there was another way?That's the option that Jerry is presented with by his best friend, Robert, along with an incredible tale of the man who came to Robert in his own time of need; the man who calls himself Mister Grief; the man who has a tale of his own to tell.

When Everett stops his car along the road to pay his respects to a dearly departed loved one, he encounters a gentleman that seems otherworldly. A conversation ensues that makes Everett question everything he thinks he knows is real - the roadside man seems to know and see all. Is this strange man really death incarnate, or is he something else? Tune in to find out.