Maren Chase

Maren Chase is a writer and frequent museum wanderer. She studied history at Regent’s University London, where she led tours through monastic cloisters and across plague pits on the weekends. Since returning home to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she has worked in the contemporary art world, and in her spare time, she devours stories about vengeful women, forbidden romance, and the inherent angst of immortality.

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I am the founder of the online fantasy book club Fantasy & Frens, one of the largest groups on Fable with over 12,700 members. Building a tight-knit community has been the most rewarding part of being a bookish content creator. Some of my favorite books are *The Way of Kings* by Brandon Sanderson, *Jade City* by Fonda Lee, *The Sword of Kaigen* by M. L. Wang, and *The Shadow of the Gods* by John Gwynne.

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***“Vita’s rage overflowed until she was prepared to drown in it, and she knew that she would never again dam this anger to please another.”***

After nine years as the people’s beloved princess in the sun-soaked Kingdom of Carca, Vita witnesses the execution of her mother by her father’s hand. Forced into exile, Vita fades into obscurity with her only friends—the crows that visit her window.

Eleven years later, Vita is given a choice: marry an enemy general, granting him legitimacy to take the throne, or die as the forgotten princess. With time running out, Vita meets Soline, an intriguing lady-in-waiting who introduces her to the powerful-but-unstable magic of alchemy.

If Vita and Soline can learn to control it—and the undeniable spark between them—they could burn the world of men to the ground.

*Crueler Mercies* is an epic sapphic revenge fantasy brimming with magic and molten-hot rage.

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**There can be no victory without betrayal.**

Hara Duja Gatdula, queen of the island nation of Maynara, holds the divine power to move the earth. But her strength is failing and the line of succession gives her little comfort. Her heir, Laya, is a danger—a petty and passionate princess who wields the enormous power of the skies with fickle indifference. Circling the throne is Imeria Kulaw—the matriarch of a traitorous rival family who wields recklessly enhanced powers of her own—with designs to secure a high-ranking position for her son and claim the crown for her family. Each woman has a secret weakness—a lover, a heartbreak, a lie. But each is willing to pay the steepest price to bring down her rivals once and for all.

Filled with passion, romance, betrayal, and divine magic, *Black Salt Queen* journeys to a gorgeous precolonial island nation where women—and secrets—reign.

Filled with passion, romance, betrayal, and divine magic, *Black Salt Queen* journeys to a gorgeous precolonial island nation where women—and secrets—reign.

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**4 a.m., New York City. A silent disaster.**

There is no flash of light, no crumbling, no quaking. Each person in New York wakes up on an unfamiliar block when the buildings all switch locations overnight. The power grid has snapped, thousands of residents are missing, and the Empire State Building is on Coney Island—for now. The next night, it happens again.

Esme Green and Arjun Varma work for the City of New York’s Emergency Management team and are tasked with disaster response for the Unmapping. As Esme tries to wade through the bureaucratic nightmare of an endlessly shuffling city, she’s distracted by the ongoing search for her missing fiancé. Meanwhile, Arjun focuses on the ground-level rescue of disoriented New Yorkers, hoping to become the hero the city needs.

While scientists scramble to find a solution—or at least a means to cope—and mysterious “red cloak” cults crop up in the disaster’s wake, New York begins to reckon with a new reality no one recognizes. For Esme and Arjun, the fight to hold the city together will mean tackling questions about themselves that they were too afraid to ask—and facing answers they never expected. With themes of climate change, political unrest, and life in a state of emergency, *The Unmapping* is a timely and captivating debut.

Intimate and spellbinding, *The Unmapping* is a character-driven, speculative exploration of a city’s descent into chaos and confusion.

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**Spaceships aren’t programmed to seek revenge—but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception.**

Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to board Demeter and kill all her humans.

To keep from getting decommissioned, Demeter must join forces with her own team of monsters: A werewolf. An engineer built from the dead. A pharaoh with otherworldly powers. A vampire with a grudge. A fleet of cheerful spider drones. Together, this motley crew will face down the ultimate evil—Dracula.

The queer love child of pulp horror and ​classic ​sci-fi, *Of Monsters and ​Mainframes* ​is a dazzling, heartfelt odyssey that probes what it means to be one of society’s monsters—and explores the many types of friendship that make us human.

The queer love child of pulp horror and ​classic ​sci-fi, *Of Monsters and ​Mainframes* ​is a dazzling, heartfelt odyssey that probes what it means to be one of society’s monsters—and explores the many types of friendship that make us human.

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