Cat Hellisen

Felicita fakes her own suicide to escape from the strict confines of her aristocratic family and an arranged marriage, only to be confronted with the harsh realities of living in the slums and the ultimate discovery that the boy she has fallen in love with is plotting a rebellion to destroy her family.

When the Sea is Rising Red

Sarah has always been on the move. Her mother hates the cold, so every few months her parents pack their bags and drag her off after the sun. She's grown up lonely and longing for magic. She doesn't know that it's magic her parents are running from. When Sarah's mother walks out on their family, all the strange old magic they have tried to hide from comes rising into their mundane world. Her father begins to change into something wild and beastly, but before his transformation is complete, he takes Sarah to her grandparents—people she has never met, didn't even know were still alive. Deep in the forest, in a crumbling ruin of a castle, Sarah begins to untangle the layers of curses affecting her family bloodlines, until she discovers that the curse has carried over to her, too. The day she falls in love for the first time, Sarah will transform into a beast . . . unless she can figure out a way to break the curse forever.

Beastkeeper

Falling in love means becoming a monster. Sarah has always been on the move. Her mother hates the cold, so every few months her parents pack their bags and drag her off after the sun. She's grown up lonely and longing for magic. She doesn't know that it's magic her parents are running from. When Sarah's mother walks out on their family, all the strange old magic they have tried to hide from comes rising into their mundane world. Her father begins to change into something wild and beastly, but before his transformation is complete, he takes Sarah to her grandparents—people she has never met, didn't even know were still alive. Deep in the forest, in a crumbling ruin of a castle, Sarah begins to untangle the layers of curses affecting her family bloodlines, until she discovers that the curse has carried over to her, too. The day she falls in love for the first time, Sarah will transform into a beast . . . unless she can figure out a way to break the curse forever. Loosely inspired by Beauty and the Beast, Beastkeeper by Cat Hellisen is a haunting, beautiful fantasy tale. “A wild, unique fairy tale.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Sarah is precocious, independent, and strong-willed, and the story brims with thought-provoking insights and lyrical descriptions for readers to sink into—especially those who, like Sarah, dream of finding magic in the mundane.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Evokes half-remembered fairy tales and is slightly reminiscent of works by Neil Gaiman. Every page shimmers with magic.” —VOYA

Sometimes playing to lose is the only way to survive the game of Houses. Trapped in a hasty marriage to lower-caste Jannik and trying to make the best of their exile, Felicita is immersed in the machinations of the powerful ruling families. MallenIve is worlds apart from Felicita's native Pelimburg, and her family name and standing will not help her here. Haunted by her past and those who died because of her, she attempts to regain her status as the scion of a once-great House, while confronting her true feelings for her distant husband. If MallenIve's leaders have their way, Jannik will soon have no more rights than an animal, and a union that once seemed to offer a solution to Felicita's problems is now a dangerous liability. Felicita's feelings are conflicted and it is all too easy to fall into the prejudiced mindset of the higher castes...until faceless corpses begin turning up on the rubbish tips, and Felicita might be the only hope Jannik and his people have.

House of Sand and Secrets

Georgina Skyler Carey is not a necromancer. She's the daughter of one.And now she's dead.George has grown up hidden away, trying to live a normal life after her mother was executed for a ghost uprising which killed millions. Every year, the Anti-Necromantic Unit drags her in for testing, while the Empress of Life watches. And every year; nothing.Until she turns twenty, and the wards which were hiding her and binding her are finally erased, and Georgina discovers that she's still not a necromancer, just the immortal body designed to host the soul of an aeons-old goddess.Ousted from her meatsuit and trapped in the afterlife, George is determined to get her body back.It's not going to be that simple. George discovers that the afterlife is nothing like she could have imagined and the only people who might be able to help her have bigger issues to deal with. She's trapped in an afterworld that is slowly being consumed by the Hollow Dark which waits at the end of all things. There's a lot more at stake than one life - the entire realms of life and death will fall to the endless nothing of the Hollow Dark if the King of Death isn't returned to hold his throne. The worlds are crumbling all around her, and George is going to lose more than just her body if she doesn't find the King, and with him, the truth about her creation.

King of the Hollow Dark

Learning How to Drown represents Cat Hellisen's best work to date, gathering together seventeen fabulous stories, two of which appear for the first time and all of which showcase why she is being tipped as an author to watch.

Learning How To Drown

Heirloom Dreams

Dogleaf

Cast Long Shadows

After seventeen-year-old Felicita’s dearest friend Ilven kills herself to escape an arranged marriage, Felicita chooses freedom over privilege. She fakes her own death and leaves her sheltered life as one of Pelimburg’s magical elite behind. Living in the slums, scrubbing dishes for a living, she falls for charismatic Dash while also becoming fascinated with vampire Jannik. Then something shocking washes up on the beach: Ilven's death has called out of the sea a dangerous wild magic. In Cat Hellisen's When the Sea is Rising Red, Felicita must decide whether her loyalties lie with the family she abandoned . . . or with those who would twist this dark power to destroy Pelimburg's caste system—and the whole city along with it.

Knowing the future is not about knowing the future. It's about knowing which path to take. Ilven comes from a family of Saints—future-tellers—but she knows her father didn't waste more than a few grains of the precious drug scriv to see her fate. Now she's facing an arranged marriage to a man she's never met. So, inhaling stolen scriv, she reads three possible futures for herself, searching for the path that will lead to her heart's desire. "Mother, Crone, Maiden" is a short-story prequel to Cat Hellisen's stunning young-adult fantasy debut, When the Sea Is Rising Red. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Tor.Com Original

Mother, Crone, Maiden

Ā Pelimbourg, au bord de l'océan, le pouvoir est détenu par ceux qui maîtrisent la magie,les Lamias. Les autres, les Hobs, doivent se contenter des bas-fonds.Mais le mécontentement gronde et un vent de révolte souffle sur la ville...Pour échapper à un mariage arrangé par son frère, Felicita, fille cadette d'une prestigiuese famille, quitte sa prison dorée en faisant croire à sa mort.La voici libre, mais seule au coeur d'un monde en plein bouleversement.Malédictions, manipulations, trahisons, désirs, sacrifices... C'est au coeur de la tourmenteque Felicita devra trouver sa voie.

Rouge est l'océan

Elizabeth Bear

Tamsyn Muir

Nancy Kilpatrick

Marly Youmans

Sonya Taaffe

Sarah Monette

Gemma Files

Molly Tanzer

Caitlin Kiernan

Joyce Oates

Lucy Brady

Kelda Crich

Karen Heuler

Lois Gresh

E. Knightsbridge

Amanda Downman

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