Out This Week! 15th December 2025
15th December 2025 – Skull X Bones – Anthology
Avast, intrepid reader! Behold yon inky treasure!
A beautiful airship corsair determined to reveal a government conspiracy. An interstellar outlaw bent on avenging the murders of her fellow crewmates. A pirate captain whose hatred of mer-people endangers his ship and crew. A ghost trapped in the wreckage of a privateering ship.
From the early voyages of a young, ambitious Gaius Julius Caesar, to a sorceress hunting buccaneers along the post-Civil War Mississippi, to the bombastic pronouncements of a cat-hating ship’s AI, pirates have long captured the imagination, whether bound to the sea or preying on vessels in the great void of space.
In Skull X Bones, speculative fiction authors Steven Harper, Alex Bledsoe, Alan Smale, E.J. Delaney, Violette Malan, Adam Stemple, Nemo Herndon, Alena Van Arendonk, Gloria Wickman, R.S. Belcher, Jennifer Brozek, R.M. Olson, Misty Massey, and C.C. Finlay immerse us in the worlds of privateers, buccaneers, corsairs, marauders, and pirates. So strap on a blade or flintlock or laser and keep a keen eye on the horizon. Because dead men DO tell tales, and here there be monsters of the deep.
16th December 2025 – Halo: Edge of Dawn – Kelly Gay
An original novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times best-selling video game series!
2560. After eliminating War Chief Escharum and sending the Banished leadership into chaos, the Master Chief continues the fight on Zeta Halo, accompanied by his new AI companion and their loyal pilot Fernando Esparza.
As Spartan-117 searches for scattered allied forces, a young combat medic—tortured and imprisoned for months by the Banished and the enigmatic Harbinger—may hold the key to unlocking deeper mysteries within this ancient ringworld. But every step toward answers is haunted by the sinister and elusive blademaster Jega ‘Rdomnai, who is hellbent on vengeance…
21st December 2025 – Strange Days – Violet Fenn
“There’s a stranger on the roof, an otter in my office, and the vampires have moved into the entertainment business. If this is what passes for a quiet life in Liverpool, I’m moving to Manchester.”
Lilith O’Reilly’s afterlife was supposed to be settling down. Instead, the city’s undead politics are getting nastier by the minute. A rival is threatening a takeover, the tunnels are stirring with old magic, and now the vampires have opened a nightclub. What could possibly go wrong?
If Lilith doesn’t get a grip on the chaos, the city that brought her back from the dead might just drag her under—for good.
Book seven in the bestselling Netherweird Chronicles series, STRANGE DAYS is a fast and furious urban fantasy about friendship, found family, and holding onto humanity—dead or alive.
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