A young woman with a disputed claim to a ruling house is summoned to the capital to contend for a throne and to answer dangerous questions about her lineage.

A teenage temple girl destined for ritual sacrifice is rescued by a traveling wizard and becomes his apprentice and covert operative. Trained as an assassin and charged with locating a lost artifact, she confronts shifting loyalties when she meets a young mage who complicates her attachments and mission.

A literary fantasy that situates several women’s lives inside a shared historical and cultural landscape, using personal narratives and communal memory to trace how past events shape identity and responsibility.

A fantasy set across a floating-archipelago empire where bone shard magic powers constructs and enforces imperial control.

Two narrative strands span deep time: one traces an artificial-intelligence–guided project to terraform a world where Portia labiata spiders evolve into a complex civilization; the other follows humans aboard an interstellar ark leaving an ecologically collapsed Earth in search of a home.

Set in antebellum Virginia, the novel tracks interconnected lives in a county shaped by slavery and unexpected ownership dynamics, including Black Americans who themselves become slaveholders.

A mythic quest grounded in retold folktales: characters pursue a dangerous treasure tied to legends and magical creatures, with the search itself creating the central pressure. The story frames action and danger through folkloric motifs and encounters with dragons and other mythic beings, driving both plot and stakes.

A landscape deity—an old hill-god—narrates events around a contested succession and a prince trying to reclaim his position with the help of a loyal retainer. In this world many gods exist in animal or landmark form and are bound to make their statements come true, even at great cost.

Set around a richly imagined city and its secret histories, the novel follows characters entangled with djinn, political factions, and the social order of an elemental magical society.

A young woman from a rural background enters a prestigious military academy and becomes entangled in larger national conflicts where shamanic magic and worship of powerful deities influence warfare.

A grandchild listens to a collection of long-storied tales about the Old Country while another strand follows two men who accompany a dying goddess across that realm.

A West African–inspired YA fantasy about a sixteen-year-old girl who fails a compulsory purity rite and is declared impure when she bleeds gold.