January 2020 list by Bonnie Bradford
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Breach
by Eliot Peper
When you’ve betrayed your revolutionary cadre, an off-grid fight club on a remote tropical island is a good place to hide—or die. Analog series.
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Dreams of the Dark Sky
by Tina LeCount Myers
Dárja has a chance to bring Irjan's son back to him. But both Marnej and Dárja, a human and an immortal, must find a way to trust each other if they want to live long enough to learn the truth about themselves. Legacy of the Heavens series.
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The Golden Vial
by Thomas Locke
Queen Shona travels to Hyam's distant birthplace in search of a cure for his mysterious illness and to recruit support against an evil that threatens the realm. And there she finds Dally, an orphan with strange and useful abilities. Legends of the Realm series.
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The Gossamer Mage
by Julie Czerneda
Only in Tananen do people worship a single deity: the Deathless Goddess. Only in this small, forbidden realm are there those haunted by words of no language known to woman or man. The words are Her Gift, and they summon magic.
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Grave Destiny
by Kalayna Price
When a fae prince asks her to look into two murders, Alex Craft soon discovers that the killings are the precursor to a paranormal war with the potential to spill over into the human world. Alex Craft series.
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The Immortal City
by Amy Kuivalainen
Dr. Penelope Bryne has been ridiculed by the academic community for her quest to find the remnants of Atlantis. But when an ancient and mysterious script is found at a murder site, she flies to Venice determined to help the police before the killer strikes again. Magicians of Venice series.
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Kingdoms of the Cursed
by Greg Keyes
Errol Greyson is awake and back in his own body, thanks to his friends Aster the witch and Veronica the half-dead girl. Unfortunately, he's also in a mental hospital. But when the last person Errol expects breaks him out and forces him back to the magical Kingdoms, he has no other option but to attempt to undo a deadly curse threatening reality itself. High and Faraway series.
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Limited Wish
by Mark Lawrence
One choice. Two possible timelines. And a world hanging in the balance. Game on. Impossible Times series.
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The Municipalists
by Seth Fried
When the United States Municipal Survey comes under attack, employee Henry Thompson, along with his know-it-all partner, journeys to Metropolis looking for answers and soon finds himself fighting for his own life as well as for the lives of the city’s millions of inhabitants.
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Pivot
by L. C. Barlow
From the age of seven, Jack Harper has been raised by Cyrus, the leader of a mystical cult. Jack has been educated in all the usual subjects, as well as one unique skill useful to Cyrus: assassination. Then Jack discovers that Cyrus's mansion is also inhabited by a mysterious creature with supposed immortal magic. Jack Harper Trilogy.
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The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man
by Dave Hutchinson
When Alex Dolan is hired by multibillionaire Stanislaw Clayton to write a book about the Sioux Crossing Supercollider, it seems like a dream job. Then something goes wrong at the site. Very wrong. After the incident, Dolan finds himself changed, and the only one who can stop the disaster from destroying us all.
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Silver in the Wood
by Emily Tesh
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but lives a perfectly unremarkable existence. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner, everything changes. Old secrets better left buried are dug up, and Tobias is forced to reckon with his troubled past. Greenhollow Duology.
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The Spider
by Leo Carew
Roper, the Black Lord of the north, may have vanquished the Suthern army at the Battle of Harstathur. But the greatest threat to his people lies in the hands of more shadowy forces. And at a time when Roper needs his friends more than ever, treachery from within puts the lives of those he loves in mortal danger. Under the Northern Sky series.
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Strangely Beautiful
by Leanna Renee Hieber
Albino beauty Percy enters Athens Academy, where she develops her psychic powers, and when the ghosts she alone can converse with warn her of a spectral threat to Victorian London, she prepares to fight the oncoming threat.
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