The glitter of Venice's lights hides a dark truth: when the floodwaters rise, no one is safe. Koru knows better than to trust anyone but her own. Hidden deep in the winding twists of Venice's narrow alleys, Koru and her found family must disguise themselves to survive. They are Rhunlokni, an ethnic minority gifted with the ability to channel the power of the Earth, their Goddess. They have long been vilified and prosecuted for their strange abilities—and Koru's gift is the strongest of her generation. So when the police arrive in St. Mark's Square to arrest Koru for a crime she didn't commit, she does the only thing she can—she runs. Though Koru manages to escape the police, a larger threat is drawing near. Koru must figure out what the Goddess is trying to tell her, protect those she loves, and uncover the truth of her past before it's too late—because Venice is sinking. Tonight.

Homeless on Auckland's streets, Max Grimes fights to survive when someone starts killing the city's forgotten. Pulled into a dark past, he must stop the killer – or be next. The gripping second instalment in a breathtaking series, from New Zealand's queen of crime.___A killer is hunting Auckland's homeless. No one cares. No one but Max. These are his people.Max Grimes is homeless, living on the streets of Auckland – among the forgotten, the invisible. But now someone is hunting the homeless, killing them one by one. No one cares. Except Max.Trying to put his shattered life back together, Max is pulled into a deadly game when a face from his past reappears, reopening wounds he thought were long buried.As whispers of a Grim Reaper spread terror through the city, Max must race against time – not only to find the killer, but to outrun the ghosts chasing him.Because if he fails, he'll be next.____

What if humanity was never meant to be alone—only unfinished? When geneticist Quinn Serrano uncovers an anomalous strand of DNA hidden deep within the human genome, she believes she’s found a long-dismissed evolutionary artifact. But as similar fragments surface in populations across the world—each one different, each one incomplete—Quinn realizes the truth is far larger and far more dangerous. Together, these fragments form a puzzle. A message. And proof that humanity was deliberately seeded long ago by a vanished extraterrestrial civilization. As Quinn and her allies race to decode the fragments, they draw the attention of a powerful secret faction within the Church—guardians of the final piece, sworn for centuries to keep humanity from learning its true origin. What begins as a scientific breakthrough becomes a global reckoning, blending genetics, ancient theology, and first contact into a single, irreversible revelation. When the last fragment is finally assembled, it does not deliver a command or a weapon—but a farewell. A cosmic invitation. And a challenge that forces humanity to confront what it means to grow beyond its creators. A science-fiction epic grounded in real genetics, global history, and quiet wonder, this novel asks a haunting if our makers trusted us to finish their work… are we ready for the truth they left behind?

"A powerful novel set in a Hong Kong that feels remarkably universal." —Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West"A dazzling, page-turning novel...Gripping, specific, important, and highly satisfying.” —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/OrA powerful, award-winning novel that follows the lives of two women as democracy starts to crumble in Hong KongOn a weekend morning, college roommates Ah Lei and Panda wake up with very different reactions to the night before. They have been chased and tear-gassed in the streets of their city after joining tens of thousands of others to protest a national security law that would effectively spell the end of democracy in Hong Kong. Ah Lei can’t get out of bed, her heart heavy with the lingering images of the police and the violence on the streets, and her worries about the future of her hometown. Panda, whose resistance is no less ardent, puts on a sundress, lines her eyes, and...