Set around a near-future global election system in which small, competitive micro-democracies (centers of political power) and powerful information platforms shape outcomes, the book follows intersecting characters whose loyalties, jobs, and survival link to campaigns, corporate interests, and the flow of data.

A contemporary publishing editor wrestles with a missing final chapter and a real-life death tied to a recently published mystery novel.

An investigation into nonhuman minds using cephalopods—especially octopuses—as a case study.

Set in 1920s New York, the novella reworks an earlier Lovecraft tale by shifting perspective to a Black protagonist who becomes entangled with an occult text and a mysterious client.

A federal police agent comes back to his drought-hit hometown for a friend's funeral and must investigate a family death that the community assumes was a murder-suicide.

Set in Regency-era society, the novel follows Minerva Lane, a woman who has assumed a low profile after a past scandal, and Robert Blaisdell, the Duke of Clermont, who is intent on exposing her.

Set in 1893 Victorian England, the novel follows Cora Seaborne, newly widowed and pivoting toward amateur natural history, who leaves London for an Essex village where reports of a mythic sea-serpent unsettle the community.

Two grieving men find solace in fishing and become drawn to a local, haunted fishing spot whose history links to deeper, primordial forces. Their attempt to escape loss becomes entangled with an older, supernatural presence that tests what they will risk to reclaim what is gone.

This nonfiction work surveys evidence for complex learning, problem-solving, and memory in birds by following field observations and laboratory studies across species.