The keening began at midnight, as it always did, and Dr. Declan O’Sullivan, who had been listening to it for three weeks from his rented cottage on the Dingle Peninsula, put down his whiskey and went outside to find the source. He was an ethnomusicologist, specialising in the traditional lament traditions of Ireland, and the…
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The concert hall was empty when Ailsa Drummond arrived for the evening rehearsal, which was unusual. The Lyceum Chamber Orchestra did not typically abandon its Tuesday rehearsals, even when the weather turned foul, even when the heating failed, even when the second violins contracted a collective stomach ailment from the sushi restaurant they insisted on…
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A wildlife veterinarian notices a silver wolf watching her house from the treeline every night. When she leaves food, he leaves flowers. As dark creatures encroach from the deep forest, she discovers that the wolf at her window is a shifter whose instincts recognized her as his mate — and whose protection she is going to need.
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Medium Stella can see the Victorian ghost at the end of her street, and touch him three nights a month. Keeping him for good will cost her nineteen years.
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A solitary lighthouse keeper hears singing from the rocks below his tower. When he climbs down, he finds the last siren — a luminescent woman whose voice is failing and whose existence is measured in weeks. The only cure is a true harmonic: another voice singing from the heart. The problem is, Callum cannot sing.
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Academy student Thea makes a chalk error in her summoning circle and accidentally calls forth a Duke of Hell instead of a minor imp. The ancient demon offers a bargain: seven days of mortal experience in exchange for perfect practicum marks. But when an immortal being discovers coffee, rain, and Barber’s Adagio, going back to Hell becomes unthinkable.
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On her thirtieth birthday, Vera’s family curse activates: a blood bond tethering her soul to a stranger’s. She has three blood moons to find them or die. The bond leads her to Prague, to a supernatural researcher who has been studying curses like hers from a safe academic distance — and who is now, to his scholarly horror, living inside one.
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Tamsin Ridley waited seven years for a familiar, and the cat who finally turns up has opinions about everything. Then he drags the town vet to her door. In Kit Sowerby’s isolation kennel lies a phoenix with an iron bolt in its wing, a poacher is asking questions, and her coven has one rule about men who see too much.
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A Reaper who has never kept anyone waiting meets a dying music teacher who can see her, and learns what the one rule she cannot break will cost.
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