The Prophecy was wrong. There is no Chosen One. Coming of age under the weight of an epic destiny wasn't easy. All Aewyn ever wanted for herself was a home and a family. But to the farmers of Widowvale, she was always destined for greatness. As a fae-blooded foundling of mysterious birth, her story was the stuff of fairy-tales. And the villagers, all refugees from a looming civil war, were in desperate need of something to believe in. But prophecies can be misread, and the men who call themselves wise are often mistaken. When a primordial darkness stirs in the deep wood, and Aewyn's dubious old mentor is sentenced to hang for treason, the supposed Chosen One must live or die by a choice of her own: Will she forsake her home and her new family for the dubious destiny she's been promised—or sacrifice it all for one chance to save them? Discover a captivating new world of adventure with rich worldbuilding and a diverse ensemble cast. Read it today!

The women of the Mages' Uprising were never known to take civil war lying down. But Catrine and her fellow war-widows are determined to do just that, avenging their lost husbands, lives, and innocence by engaging in a sustained campaign of seduction and espionage against the Travalaithi Empire that could change the course of the war. When Catrine falls in love with her hapless mark, and both of them are thrown into a deadly conflict involving Aewyn and her roguish band of Havenari outriders, the lovestruck spy must choose once and for all where her true allegiance lies—and decide whether her heart belongs to the living or the dead. The Travalaith Saga continues, grows, and takes a darker turn in this moving chronicle of high adventure, civil war, and deadly intrigue. Read it today!

Revisit the bygone days of the classic "dos-a-dos" pulp stories with the new Cynehelm Classic Doubles series! This pairing of two spine-tingling tales matches the dark gnostic journey of a Yemeni emigrée seeking ancient occult wisdom with the fable of a man who gives his body to science--only to lose more than he ever bargained for. In Everything Wants To Live, a jaded, hostile programmer at the end of his rope makes a fatal deal to test the limits of his boss's latest advancements in bioorganic computing inside his own body. As the slow bleeding of sentience between man and machine, Alan Church must ask himself whether this profound technological awakening will lead to his evolution... or his extermination. In That Most Foreign of Veils, experiences of earthly alienation inform a young woman's journey into a truly alien realm beyond the known world. Racing to her Great Grandfather's side across the frozen Canadian north to learn the secrets revealed to him on his deathbed, Sabiha's journey to a place of promordial cold overturns the forbidden secrets of sleeping forces too terrible to name.

The past few years have seen a renewed critical interest in the vampires and vampirism of English literature, owing both to their growing influence in popular culture and a more inclusive reordering of the literary canon. Much of this recent work has typically approached vampirism through a psychoanalytic lens inherited from Gothic criticism, characterized by a dependence on Freud, Lacan, and Foucault, and often by a model of crisis in which these supernatural figures of terror are supposed to symbolize cultural anxieties with varying degrees of historicity.This dissertation builds upon the narrative of secularization set out in Charles Taylor's recent work, A Secular Age, to answer the need for a new and alternative narrative of what function the vampire serves within English literature, and how it came to prominence there. The literary history of vampirism is reconsidered in light of the new sociological observations made by Taylor, hinging upon two key methodological principles: first, that Taylor's new secularization narrative has the potential to reshape the way we think of literature in general and our literary relationship to the supernatural in particular; and second, that the fiction generated during this period of upheaval has much more to tell us about secularization, broadening our understanding of the ideological shifts and changing relationships to the supernatural that brought forth this uniquely modern monster in literature.