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A series about a painter who can’t paint or it will kill him. Or maybe it will end the world. Or it could be he’s crazy. It’s confusing. That’s why he drinks.
The writing is “effortless” and so is the snark, as Asher - forgery investigator, semi-recovering addict - reluctantly tracks a rare canvas through the supernatural art galleries of Skysill Beach, where strange, forged paintings are killing people. Or maybe ghosts are. Or, again, maybe he’s crazy.
“… a transcendent hybrid series.”
★ Book One: KIRKUS (starred review)
★ Book Two: KIRKUS (starred review)
★ Book Three: KIRKUS
★ Book Four: KIRKUS (starred review)
★ Book Five: KIRKUS (starred review)
A DEBT TO THE STARS
Kirkus Reviews awarded “BEST BOOKS OF 2023”
Diana Roark didn’t begin life as the richest person in human history.
All she ever wanted was to solve impossible problems—like her father had. She's on a dangerous bio-prospecting mission in Earth’s deepest ocean when aliens orbit to make First Contact. She surfaces after a near fatal accident to find the aliens gone, and every human alive Augmented—except for her.
Thirty years pass, and the Earth is unrecognizable; following Augmentation humanity completely stopped aging, and all basic needs were dispensed free from alien Obelisks, creating a cascade of financial failure that swept the planet. Diana risked her company to rescue global markets, and in the process became immeasurably wealthy, but she remains the only human alive who sickens or ages, unable to use the Obelisks. And then after thirty years the aliens return. And this time they’re not feeling generous. They’ve come to take the planet, and Diana is the only person standing in their way.
“…unique, frantic, fun, and thought-provoking SF.” - Kirkus (starred, Best of 2023)
“…uproarious sci-fi that gets readers thinking.” - Publishers Weekly (Editor’s Pick)
TW: The alien broccoli CPA who helps Diana save her planet uses profanity constantly. He’s an alien vegetable, so it’s charming, but he’s an adults only vegetable.
The Little Queen
They created her, then stole her reason to live: her family.
But when the Little Queen, a mother without a hive, adopts Anthony, a grieving boy, she will sacrifice anything to save what she finds: a new family, frightening and wonderful.
From his birth mother Anthony inherits a bee hive—and the power to speak with bees. When she dies, her hive slips into ruin. Then he discovers the Little Queen, a remarkable bee fleeing a mysterious past, who takes charge of Anthony's hive and resurrects it, profoundly changed. But the future they are building is threatened by pursuers who want ownership of the Little Queen, and of everything she represents.
“Readers will fall in love with Anthony and his Little Queen.” KIRKUS
"...resonates with imagination, tenderness, and creativity." Booklife Prize
The Einstein Object
Some enemies we make, and some we inherit.
When Preston discovers the programming language that powers Einstein's theory of relativity, he inherits a terrible enemy from his long dead grandfather, an enemy who will stop at nothing to regain what she has lost.
On his twelfth birthday an ad for a mysterious course in computer
programming injures Preston's hands so he misses several months of school. When he returns he finds the world somehow altered. His old friends avoid him. The only people who like him now are strange kids from the programming club. And though his new, inexplicable skills in Algebra are useful, he’s also having nightmares that don’t add up: dark matter is missing from the universe, and his neighborhood is overrun by Dark Folk.