An Alien Road Trip, a Supernatural Detective Agency, and Other New Releases

Every time a star dies, a new one is born from a mortal woman… and the birth kills her. Ceris is an outsider in her village, and she volunteers as this sacrifice to secure a place for her family. But she survives the birth, as no other person has, and that’s only the beginning of her strange journey. When she returns to her village, she finds seven centuries have passed rather than the nine months she experienced, and she sets about racking down her descendants.

When Dana drinks the wrong soda on the way to Spokane, a series of events lead her to suddenly be occupying the same body as Jay, and she would very much like for them to go back to having separate bodies so they can both move on with their lives. But on the quest to get Jay into a new body, they’re going to deal with a lot of aliens, a clone of Dana’s dead dad, talking dogs, government agents, and evil executives. It’s going to be a road trip for the ages.

Erasmo Cruz has had a rough start; his mother abandoned him and his father, too, is gone–a junkie who overdosed. The grandmother who has raised him now has cancer. What he’s got is his fascination with the supernatural, and he decides to open a paranormal investigation agency to earn money to pay for his grandmother’s medical treatment. But finding the truth behind his clients’ claims may be scarier than he bargained for.

Sequel to The Wall of Storms. Princess Théra has crossed the Wall of Storms with ten thousand troops and a fleet of advanced warships to make war on the Lyucu. Her strategy is to do the most interesting thing in the face of every challenge, though this may not always be the best idea. Behind her in Dara, the survivors of the Dandelion Court and the leadership from Lyucu engage in their own much more quiet war of political maneuvering, and it remains to be seen if tradition or newer justifications for power will win out.

Julie, at the age of seventeen, has her life planned; she and her boyfriend Sam are going to leave their small town, go to college in the city, go to Japan for the summer, and then… bigger and more nebulous things. But then Sam dies and leaves Julie alone, her imagined future broken. Wanting to hear his voice again, Julie calls Sam’s cell phone, intending to listen to his voicemail… and then Sam picks up. And Julie has a second chance to at least say goodbye.

Sequel to A Song of Wraths and Ruin. After a violent coup, Karina has nothing: no kingdom, no throne. On the run as the most wanted person in Sonande, her only hope of salvation is to search for divine power in a long-lost city. As she searches, disaster after disaster threatens the world that’s left her behind, caused by the resurrection of her sister. Karina may be the key to returning the world to balance… but it’s a lot to ask her to save those who only recently tried to kill her.