The debut collection of raucous, dark, strange, satirical stories from the former Late Show with Stephen Colbert writer and New Yorker contributor, featuring a foreword by Stephen Colbert

When the citizens of Black Keep see ships on the horizon, terror takes them because they know who is coming: for generations, the keep has been raided by the fearsome clanspeople of Tjakorsha. Saddling their war dragons, Black Keep's warriors rush to defend their home only to discover that the clanspeople have not come to pillage at all. Driven from their own land by a daemonic despot who prophesises the end of the world, the raiders come in search of a new home . . . Meanwhile the wider continent of Narida is lurching toward war. Black Keep is about to be caught in the crossfire - if only its new mismatched society can survive.

In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother's passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother, Rafa, careening toward a place of no return, Rufina devises a bet: if they can make enough money performing for privileged tourists in the plaza over the course of the weekend to afford a plane ticket out, Rafa must commit to living. If not, Rufina will make her peace with Rafa's own plan for the future, however terrifying it may be.

In this charming mystery series, no case is too cold to crack! Bronwyn Crewse is delighted that Crewse Creamery, the ice cream shop her family has owned for decades, is restored to its former glory and serves sweet frozen treats to happy customers. But when a big city developer comes to town intent on building a mall, a killer with a frozen heart takes him out. After literally stumbling across the body, one of Win's closest friends becomes the prime suspect, and to make things worse, Win's aunt has come to town with the intention of taking command of Crewse Creamery. Win has a rocky road ahead to help her friend and keep her ice cream shop, but it'll take more than a sprinkle of murder to stop her from solving the crime and saving the day.

Grave witch Alex Craft is getting pulled back into deadly fae politics. In charge of the most far-reaching investigation she has ever tackled after an explosion at Eternal Bloom, Alex is cut off from her allies, and, with threats mounting, must make sure the fae's conflicts stay contained within their borders.

Fans of Jane Austen have fallen in love with Darcie Wilde's mystery series featuring Rosalind Thorne, a young woman adept at helping ladies of the ton navigate the darker corners of Regency England--while revealing Society's most shocking secrets...

An original and fast-paced thriller set in contemporary Nigeria. A prominent banker, whose son was one of three undergraduates killed by an angry mob in the university town of Okriki, asks “investigative psychologist” Philip Taiwo to find out what really happened. Footage of the crime is widely shared on social media, and a number of people are arrested and tried, but no reasonable motive emerges. Delve into Nigerian culture and politics, subtly escalating action, and a study of social inequities and the ease with which anger can be stoked and weaponized on social media.

The fourth in a projected 7-volume series, there is a lot to catch up on in this gripping urban fantasy! Dreamwalker Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she finds herself caught between those factions that seek Scion's downfall and those who would kill to protect the Rephaim's puppet empire. There are plans for Paige, but she has ambitions of her own in this new citadel, embarking on adventures from the catacombs of Paris to the glittering hallways of Versailles.

Ever since her journalist mother died on an assignment, Marin has played it safe, refusing to set foot outside Tennessee. Her younger sister, Sadie, has trotted the globe as a photographer, taking on all kinds of dangerous jobs. When Sadie returns looking a little worse for wear, Marin reluctantly agrees to a sisters' spa weekend on a tropical island. But her lifelong fear of travel is affirmed when Sadie misses the flight, and Marin nearly throws up on Lucas, the handsome stranger in her sister's seat. What Marin doesn't know is that Sadie never planned on coming on the trip at all. Instead she has a life-changing plan for Marin - and Lucas.

It's the mid-1960s and Garrett Adams is burnt out on his work and mourning the death of his father. Then one day he meets Daphne, a young woman who draws him out of himself and into the beautiful, angry world around him: a world of the Beatles and Bob Dylan and protests against the Vietnam War. Sounds good, no? But then Daphne evolves into 4 different versions of herself, and Garrett has to suddenly face life-changing questions about the nature of reality.

On the far outreaches of a crumbling desert empire, two women--a princess and a soldier--will haggle over the price of a nation in this richly imagined, breath-taking sapphic epic fantasy filled with rebellion, espionage, and assassinations.

A bestselling author's wife has been found dead in a gorgeous black evening gown, sitting at the head of a formally set dinner table. Her most chilling feature - her face is frozen in a ghastly smile. At first it seems as though a deranged psychopath is reenacting the gruesome murders from the victim's husband's bestseller, The Witch Hunter. But investigator Jessica Niemi soon realizes there are dozens of killers in a sinister form of witchcraft. They know her every move and are always one step ahead. As the bodies start piling up, Jessica knows they won't stop until they get what they want.