She's an Outcast Who's Vowed Never to MarryCatherine Fullbright has sworn off marriage. Her abusive father has made her wary of men and long for independence, and she has a plan to escape her family home. Catie's younger sister is the apple of their father's eye and betrothed to a wealthy lord. But when a more advantageous suitor shows interest in Catie's sister, Catie finds herself standing at the altar with her sister's betrothed and no memory of how she came to ...

The true story of the Scarlet Pimpernel…Angelette, the recently widowed Comtesse d'Avignon, only invited Viscount Daventry to her country house party as a favor to her sister. When the handsome British lord arrives—two days late—he's full of unnerving tales of unrest and violence in Paris. Angelette assumes it's all exaggeration…until her chateau is attacked and her life threatened. Daventry rescues her, and the two are forced to run for their lives. But w...

The September/October 2026 issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction by Ken Liu, Natalia Theodoridou, Luna Hou, Seanan McGuire, Emily Y. Teng, and P. H. Low; essays by Wil Wheaton, Mari Ness, Luke Elliott and James Bailey, and Kristiana Willsey; poetry by Kailee Pedersen, Rebecca Uhlman, Angela Liu, and Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe; interviews with Ken Liu and Emily Y. Teng by Caroline M. Yoachim; Galen Dara’s Fluid as the cover; and an editor...

A sharpshooter who's lost his sight…When a stray pistol ball from the battlefield took Nash's sight, it also took his entire identity. He's retreated to his father's county home to lick his wounds, but his drinking and isolation have only made things worse. When Nash's father, a powerful earl, threatens to send Nash to an asylum, his former brothers-in-arms call in one of their own to set Nash back on the right course. Nash fears he's fallen too far and perhaps end...

This masked lord...Lord Jasper, younger son of a marquess, suffered horrible burns fighting in the Napoleonic Wars. He wears a mask to hide his face from the stares and screams and finds comfort in the shadows. Jasper is an exceptional bounty hunter, so when a woman summons him to her deathbed and asks him to find her runaway daughter before she passes away, he doesn't refuse. Jasper is close to his quarry when he's knifed by an assailant. Imagine his surprise when ...

The weather outside is frightful….Holly Farthing is not in the Christmas spirit. As a young widow, the holidays of the past three years have been lonely. When her good friend invites her to a house party, Holly almost declines. Until she learns Viscount Ivy will be in attendance. Ivy was a close friend of Holly's brother at school, and she's pined after the new viscount for years. But the Lord Ivy has always treated her like a little sister. Predictably, at the hou...

A spinster is sold into a marriage to London’s most dangerous crime lord in this thrilling Regency romance by Shana Galen.At twenty-eight, Lady Charity Claremont has long resigned herself to life as a poor, lonely spinster. But her mother’s desperation leads to an unthinkable bargain: She sells Charity’s hand in marriage to London’s most feared crime lord, the Baron of Blackfriars, in exchange for financial security.In the blink of an eye, Charity is wed to...

**I never thought I’d have a bounty on my head the size of the Milky Way.Of course, I never thought I’d be able to bend time, either.**But hey, life is full of surprises.Don’t get me wrong, feeling like a goddess has its perks, but those perks come with a hefty price. My brain is tapioca. I’m stranded in the middle of dead space. Ratters are using me for target practice, and a giant, cybernetic monster named Oscar is trying to make me his chew toy.All this b...

Rachel was a devoted sister and friend who knew how to make people feel seen and valued. But at twenty-six, she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and everything changed.Still Rachel: Beyond a Diagnosis is an intimate portrait of a brilliant woman whose reality began to fracture, and of the sister who refused to let the illness define her story. Through decades of hallucinations, hospitalizations, and the grinding challenges of severe menta...

The bored and snobbish Marquess of Kingston—King to his friends—doesn't believe in witches. Granted, he was cursed by a witch when he was thirteen, but King doesn't believe in curses either. So surely it must be an aftereffect of too much drink and debauchery when, on the eve of his thirtieth birthday, the witch from his youth reappears to watch her curse on him take effect. And, whether King believes it or not, the next morning he's gone from nobleman to nobody, a man without a title or f...

A warrior princess fighting to protect her kingdom from hordes of undead.A prince who emerges from a land long-thought destroyed.And a secret that could change the world.Once the world was composed of five kingdoms, but that was before the red vein virus turned those it infected into monstrous Hollows. Twenty-two-year-old Mara has never known a world where the Hollows weren't a threat. The princess has been trained since childhood to prote...

A warrior princess making her way in a new land.A prince struggling to protect his people.And a legendary cure that means life or death.Mara arrives in Taio's homeland—a place she once thought destroyed. On the outside, all looks peaceful and perfect, but Mara is immediately thrust into danger as the monsters who menaced her land are closer than ever to overtaking Taio's city. And that's not the only threat. Taio's old lover is a rival for h...