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Chuck and Joey meet in a bar. He’s in his mid-thirties; she’s twelve years younger. He long ago abandoned his ambition of being a novelist and works as a copywriter at a big ad agency. “Lead copywriter,” he corrects himself. Joey is living paycheck to paycheck on her barista wages and privately dreams of making it as a poet. They go back to Chuck’s luxury flat—a world away from Joey’s cramped house-share, the crumbs in her bed. Soon, Joey is imagining a future between them and Chuck is moving on from a mistake in his recent past. Amazing, how meeting a new person can make you feel so new.
Funny, excruciating, and true, Jem Calder’s I WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY is a sharp-eyed tale of two people searching for meaning and connection in modern times, missing the mark maybe, but still trying.
Funny, excruciating, and true, Jem Calder’s I WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY is a sharp-eyed tale of two people searching for meaning and connection in modern times, missing the mark maybe, but still trying.
Beatrice is a broodmother: a vampire responsible for nursing newly made fledglings through the first years of their unlife. She nests in an abandoned, isolated warren of office space beneath her patron’s skyscraper, raising two fractious fledglings: Gorgeous—once a heartthrob, now to all appearances a living corpse—who longs for the return of the lover who made him immortal with all the fervor of a rebellious teen, and Fortunata, the scion of Beatrice’s mistress, alien and ambitious in her desires.
But when she decides to take on a third fledgling, the product of an attempted siring gone wrong, teetering between vampiric purity and ghoulish depravity, Beatrice finds herself strained to breaking between the societal and physical demands of her position, her own ravenous hunger, and an obsessive need to discover what’s happening to her—because her body is changing too, transforming her into something even more monstrous. She begins to crave the taste of flesh, something anathema to all vampires, and to swing between desperate hunger and vicious power.
Desperate to master herself once more, Beatrice courts a mortal OBGYN who might be able to unravel the secrets of her unnatural anatomy. But soon their connection threatens the secrecy of her vampiric coven as well as the safety and development of her dependent nurslings . . . and the humans they stand to slaughter if left to their own devices.
But when she decides to take on a third fledgling, the product of an attempted siring gone wrong, teetering between vampiric purity and ghoulish depravity, Beatrice finds herself strained to breaking between the societal and physical demands of her position, her own ravenous hunger, and an obsessive need to discover what’s happening to her—because her body is changing too, transforming her into something even more monstrous. She begins to crave the taste of flesh, something anathema to all vampires, and to swing between desperate hunger and vicious power.
Desperate to master herself once more, Beatrice courts a mortal OBGYN who might be able to unravel the secrets of her unnatural anatomy. But soon their connection threatens the secrecy of her vampiric coven as well as the safety and development of her dependent nurslings . . . and the humans they stand to slaughter if left to their own devices.
Major Pierre “Pete” Ortiz was a Manhattan-born and Paris-educated polymath fluent in five languages. An adventuresome French Foreign Legion veteran specifically recruited by “Wild” Bill Donovan’s Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to both the CIA and U.S. Special Forces) upon his enlistment in the Marines, Ortiz was the officer “Wild Bill” instinctively knew he needed and could rely on to complete a string of clandestine missions.
While recuperating from gunshot wounds received during a behind-the-lines excursion into enemy-held North Africa, Ortiz delivered his After-Action Report directly to Donovan in Washington. After reading it, “Wild Bill” scrawled across the top of the report: “Please re-employ this man as soon as possible.” Ortiz’s handlers heeded Donovan’s request. Within a year Ortiz was surreptitiously parachuted into the Haute Savoie region of Occupied France, where he made contact with the resistance fighters who called themselves Maquisards.
By the time he retired as a United States Marine Corps colonel, he received two Navy Crosses for extraordinary heroism in World War II. He was one of the very few U.S. Marines to serve in combat in Europe during World War II, and one of the most decorated Marine officers of the war.
While recuperating from gunshot wounds received during a behind-the-lines excursion into enemy-held North Africa, Ortiz delivered his After-Action Report directly to Donovan in Washington. After reading it, “Wild Bill” scrawled across the top of the report: “Please re-employ this man as soon as possible.” Ortiz’s handlers heeded Donovan’s request. Within a year Ortiz was surreptitiously parachuted into the Haute Savoie region of Occupied France, where he made contact with the resistance fighters who called themselves Maquisards.
By the time he retired as a United States Marine Corps colonel, he received two Navy Crosses for extraordinary heroism in World War II. He was one of the very few U.S. Marines to serve in combat in Europe during World War II, and one of the most decorated Marine officers of the war.
We live at a time when one of the most basic functions of being human—eating —is incredibly confusing. From clickbait headlines to the inescapability of processed foods—feeding ourselves well has never been harder.
And then there are our kids.
Today’s generation is growing up in a dietary landscape marked by slippery slopes. Diet culture, body image, misinformation—for many parents, feeding their kids is more stressful than feeding themselves. At the heart of every parent’s struggle is the dual agenda of teaching good nutrition and instilling body positivity.
In FEED THEM WELL, dietician Jennifer Anderson offers parents a definitive framework to support their kids’ physical and mental health. Raising body-positive, healthy, nutritionally fluent kids requires parents who maintain a consistent approach to eating at home. The “rules” will look a little bit different in everyone’s household, but Anderson addresses the questions parents navigate every day: How can I increase the variety of what they eat? Is it bad to make them finish a plate? What if they hate vegetables?
FEED THEM WELL will do for kids’ nutrition what THE ANXIOUS GENERATION did for the other daily pain point—and high-stakes issue—of modern parenting, providing both a big idea and perspective shift and an actionable, evidence-based framework parents can turn to time and again. FEED THEM WELL is poised to become a classic of modern parenting literature.
And then there are our kids.
Today’s generation is growing up in a dietary landscape marked by slippery slopes. Diet culture, body image, misinformation—for many parents, feeding their kids is more stressful than feeding themselves. At the heart of every parent’s struggle is the dual agenda of teaching good nutrition and instilling body positivity.
In FEED THEM WELL, dietician Jennifer Anderson offers parents a definitive framework to support their kids’ physical and mental health. Raising body-positive, healthy, nutritionally fluent kids requires parents who maintain a consistent approach to eating at home. The “rules” will look a little bit different in everyone’s household, but Anderson addresses the questions parents navigate every day: How can I increase the variety of what they eat? Is it bad to make them finish a plate? What if they hate vegetables?
FEED THEM WELL will do for kids’ nutrition what THE ANXIOUS GENERATION did for the other daily pain point—and high-stakes issue—of modern parenting, providing both a big idea and perspective shift and an actionable, evidence-based framework parents can turn to time and again. FEED THEM WELL is poised to become a classic of modern parenting literature.
Looking after a defecting scientist should have been Vycol Ferec’s easiest mission. But now he’s on the run from the intelligence agency he works for, dodging a handler who might have gone rogue and relying on a secret patchwork of illicit resources and dodgy contacts. Turns out his defector might be carrying an apocalypse-level magical weapon—and protecting it requires Ferec and his team to go underground, literally. Down here, the rules are very different . . . and the tense peace between every city in the world will shatter unless Ferec can drag their darkest secrets into the light.
October “Toby” Daye is settling into life with a baby, remembering the ins and outs of motherhood, and trying to find ways to balance her work with her desire to keep her baby safe at home and away from all the terrors Faerie has to offer. Her whole household is pitching in, from May all the way down to Raysel, the estranged daughter of Toby’s liege lord who is currently serving out a term of offense in Toby’s home.
Naturally, as everything is beginning to find a balance, it’s time for Raysel’s term of offense to end, and Luna Torquill very much wants her daughter back.
But Toby has been helping Raysel get the help she desperately needs, from giving her a safe place to hide all the way to finding her a licensed therapist who works with the fae, and Raysel isn’t ready to leave. Luna isn’t taking no for an answer, and before anyone can realize what she’s planning, she steals her own child away to Blind Michael’s lands.
Not even Luna knows all the terrible secrets her father and his works hid from the world, and not even she can protect her daughter from the monsters in their lineage. All too quickly, Toby must race the clock to save Raysel—before it’s too late for her to ever come home.
It’s been years, but now the question will be asked again: can she get there and back by the light of a candle?
Naturally, as everything is beginning to find a balance, it’s time for Raysel’s term of offense to end, and Luna Torquill very much wants her daughter back.
But Toby has been helping Raysel get the help she desperately needs, from giving her a safe place to hide all the way to finding her a licensed therapist who works with the fae, and Raysel isn’t ready to leave. Luna isn’t taking no for an answer, and before anyone can realize what she’s planning, she steals her own child away to Blind Michael’s lands.
Not even Luna knows all the terrible secrets her father and his works hid from the world, and not even she can protect her daughter from the monsters in their lineage. All too quickly, Toby must race the clock to save Raysel—before it’s too late for her to ever come home.
It’s been years, but now the question will be asked again: can she get there and back by the light of a candle?
Their souls are damaged, hiding secrets and harboring just as much hate as I am.
Ezra Bishop. Cameron Goode. Lyall Corey. Reyes Scott. And me. Haven Wardwell.
They are the monsters hidden in the shadows, but I am no novice when it comes to monsters. We are all legacies, but there’s one grand difference between us. I am the first female witch born in four hundred years.
Now that I’m here, there’s no telling what the dark gods will ask for in return. Death and ghosts haunt the corridors of Ipswich Academy. If I’m not careful, I might become one of them.
Ezra Bishop. Cameron Goode. Lyall Corey. Reyes Scott. And me. Haven Wardwell.
They are the monsters hidden in the shadows, but I am no novice when it comes to monsters. We are all legacies, but there’s one grand difference between us. I am the first female witch born in four hundred years.
Now that I’m here, there’s no telling what the dark gods will ask for in return. Death and ghosts haunt the corridors of Ipswich Academy. If I’m not careful, I might become one of them.
There’s nothing wrong with Aurora.
A successful art lawyer, she has returned to Mexico to celebrate a recent campaign for the repatriation of stolen artifacts—in particular a mysterious statue of an Aztec god, The Flayed One.
But Mexico City isn’t as she remembered. Nothing is. Elements of her past hint at darkness and power, and reality begins to crack and warp the streets.
There’s nothing wrong with Aurora. As Aurora’s sanity unravels, she must pry apart her family’s secrets and accept the simplest of truths: The Flayed One cannot stay buried.
A successful art lawyer, she has returned to Mexico to celebrate a recent campaign for the repatriation of stolen artifacts—in particular a mysterious statue of an Aztec god, The Flayed One.
But Mexico City isn’t as she remembered. Nothing is. Elements of her past hint at darkness and power, and reality begins to crack and warp the streets.
There’s nothing wrong with Aurora. As Aurora’s sanity unravels, she must pry apart her family’s secrets and accept the simplest of truths: The Flayed One cannot stay buried.
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