Zayla was just an infant noxling when her bitterroot offshoot was destroyed by a terrible suncreature. No one from her home survived. And from what she knows of her Nemora history, she shouldn’t be alive either.

But she is. There’s a constant hum inside her, a shaking that grows more violent and painful each time she harnesses her crafting to do her bidding. Nature is clearly trying to finish the job the suncreature started.

Her only hope is to finish walking the path. When she completes this sacred rite of passage, she'll never need to use her crafting again. She has to get to Ratnaa Grove, her final stop, and the quickest way there is through the deadly Cinder Forest. With the help of her sibling Oryn and an alluring musician named Shadre who they met along the way, Zayla fends off bloodthirsty suncreatures and discovers an invasion of evil sun goddess worshippers bent on razing the Groves.

As she struggles to survive, betrayal lurks on every side, and her crafting demands a higher price than even she expected. But the fate of the Nemora Groves, and the world as she knows it, might just lie within her.

Freelance pilot and treasure hunter Helen Highwater finds herself in too deep when she agrees to retrieve an ancient mask from a long-forgotten temple. Suddenly her employers are trying to kill her and silence her forever. She enlists the aid of Abigail Dawson, a prim English historian and archaeologist whose dreams of fieldwork have run aground in the backrooms of an old museum. Together they must race against time and Helen’s pursuers to decode the mystery of the mask and discover a terrifying secret that has lain dormant for centuries.

A String of Days by Barbara Lynn Murphy (2023 Lesfic Bard Award winner in Fiction for When It's True). When her research-seeking niece asks Debra Jordan to help her with insight into the romantic life of a lesbian, Debra shares her journey, from the passion of first love to the heartbreak of loss, sparing no details as she recounts the highs and lows of a life well-lived. Debra weaves through the stories of the women she’s loved and sometimes lost. Along the way, she learns that giving up on love is not an option because happily ever after isn’t just reserved for fairy tales.

From the author of How Sweet the Sound, Not Sorry, Not Too Old, and Not Again. Photographer Karla Berne finds herself in the middle of a a ritualistic serial murder inquiry when her drone captures the image of one of the victims. Love interest Aspen Ambrose knows more about the murders than she lets on, walking a fine line of deception to protect Karla from becoming the next victim. Will Karla forgive Aspen in this novel of betrayal, magic, murder and romance?