In a world intoxicated by its own illusions, one voice refuses to be silenced. The bard, undaunted and undeterred, quests onwards in a world desperate to preserve its comforting myths. As the delusions of tradition and progress fade, the bard's revelations expose a society built on exploitation, trauma, and inherited debt. There are no easy redemptions here, no softening of consequence. The bard's words demand that the world confront what it has long ignored: the countless voices excluded for the transient reign of power. The bard's truths unsettle a society built on denial, leaving the powerful grasping for their slipping hold. Their reckoning is the long-overdue consequence of generations who chose comfort over conscience. This is an unvarnished reflection of the courage required to face the truth. Heed the bard's sacred challenge: awaken before the illusions consume us all.

The author of the "thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful" (Fredrik Backman) Wolf and the Watchman series presents a new historical series that takes us to medieval Sweden to unravel one of the country's most infamous murder mysteries.1434: The unified kingdoms of northern Europe are cracking at their seams as a peasant rebellion, led by the charismatic figure Engelbrekt Engelbrekts, erupts in the north. Sent by his family to find a foothold in this rising revolutionary movement is young Magnus Bengtsson, who must win Engelbrekt's trust and favor no matter the cost. Back at Magnus's family castle, his mother, father, and sister wait for news of his success. One is lost in longing, another is forging his own plan for the throne and crown, and one is looking for the opportunity to rise from her brother's shadow.

Sam just received a wedding invitation . . . to her own wedding.Samantha Jarlston doesn't talk about her past and she has no interest in a long-term romantic relationship with anyone.As a 28-year-old genetics Ph.D. student living in New York City with three roommates and two part-time jobs, Sam doesn't have much time to do anything other than run sequencing experiments, grade lab reports, and avoid handsy assistant professors.She definitely doesn't have time or means to plot revenge against the evil charlatan who destroyed her family fifteen years ago, let alone think about her former childhood best friend and current chess grandmaster, Andreas Kristiansen.But then she receives an invitation to her own wedding and Andreas is the groom.This absurdity sets off a series of (unfortunate?) events complete with corporate fraud, academic threats, and a very particular kind of contract relationship, one which explicitly forbids any and all physical...

I love being a Storyteller, and going back home to the village of Angeline. What I don't love is Cassius... my supposed soulmate. He's brash, opinionated, and I would rather die alone than be with him. There had to be a way to stay a Storyteller, and not be around Cassius Boik, because I can't imagine a worse fate than being Alison Boik.

Seven guests. Three courses. One evening they'll never forget... Seven strangers meet at Serendipity's for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening reaches its close, small black envelopes are placed in front of the diners... revealing the age at which each will die. Spooked, but not wholly shaken, the group disperses into the rainy night with the hope of forgetting the ghoulish stunt. But two weeks later, one dinner guest dies at the age foretold. Was it a tragic accident? Or something more sinister? As the years go by, the other guests begin to die in line with the predictions given on that first night. And it's up to the remaining few to figure who, if anyone, was behind that dinner party before their numbers catch up with them too. Told from the perspectives of the guests, Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests balances mystery and mortality, asking: how would you live your life if you know your number was up?