A Double Dose of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Releases

This book is the sequel to The Dawnhounds, which I cannot possibly recommend enough.

The crew of the Kopek is stranded in the harbor of Radovan, watching as the city is consumed by fire. The crew itself, having survived a bioterror attack, is not intact either. Their captain is missing. If the crew wants a chance at survival, they must escape the harbor. But to do that, they must go into the burning city and search its ruins for the technology that’s holding them captive, dodging hostile militia along the way.

Humans no longer remember how they got to the planet Anjiin and settled on it, but perhaps it no longer matters. The hive-empire called the Carryx descends on this isolated world to kill and enslave its people. Among those captured is a scientist named Dafyd Alkhor, along with his team, and it will fall upon his shoulders to see to humanity’s salvation—or its damnation.

Cordelia has had an unusual childhood by anyone’s standards. She’s not allowed to have friends, and her mother forces her to sit silent and motionless for hours at a time. The truth is that Cordelia’s mother is an evil sorcerer, and she’s about to move the two of them into the home of her next victim, an older Squire and his kind sister. Cordelia can feel what’s coming next, but now she’s old enough and knowledgeable enough to choose between the woman she knows to be her mother and these kind people who have somehow become her family.

Growing up in the slums of Puerto Rico, childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo have long been accustomed to violence and death and used to a life surrounded by ghosts. But when someone working for a drug kingpin shoots Bimbo’s mom, he swears vengeance and draws his friends into the fray. As they plan their move, a hurricane begins to gather offshore. It’s one that promises to bring evil spirits from the sea to the shore.