Fantasy/Scince Fiction
The black bird oracle : a novel
Harkness, Deborah, 1965-, author
2024
Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clairmont, receive a formal demand from the Congregation: they must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins. Diana decides to forge a different path for her family's future and answers a message from a great-aunt, Gwyneth Proctor. On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family's dark past, and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power.
Cast in atonement
Sagara, Michelle, 1963- author.
2024
Bellusdeo is the last of her kind, the sole surviving female Dragon in the City of Elantra. When she appears one evening on the doorstep of her former roommate, Corporal Kaylin Neya, her demeanor is dreadful. Kaylin's new roommate, Mrs. Erickson, is quick to see the reason for Bellusdeo's despair - the eight ghosts of the Dragon's dead sisters, chained to her and unseen. Pleading for release, revenge and, above all, peace. Now Kaylin and Mrs. Erickson must embark on a perilous journey, from the hallowed halls of the Academia to the depths of forbidden magic, to confront the very essence of mortality itself.
The familiar
Bardugo, Leigh, author
2024
In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain. As her notoriety grows, she will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive - even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santángel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.
