Most Popular Books by Seanan Mcguire

Seanan McGuire’s New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated InCryptid series continues with the fifteenth book following the Price family, cryptozoologists who study and protect the creatures living in secret all around us. Sarah Zellaby is a Johrlac, a member of a species of psychic ambush predators colloquially referred to as “cuckoos.” Eight years ago, she survived the difficult, painful process of becoming a cuckoo queen...although not without costs. In the wake of her transformation, the man she loved was entirely erased from his own mind, forcing her to reconstruct him from the memories of the people who knew and loved him. Sarah has been struggling to come to terms with her actions ever since. But there''s no one else on the planet with the power to hold her accountable—until the Johrlac authorities show up. It’s time for her to stand trial for what she''s done, something which can only happen on Johrlar, home world of her species, where the population is controlled by a system of unyielding hiveminds and crime is punishable by erasure. With Sarah’s life on the line, her family will need to find a way to cross dimensional borders and survive a hostile, telepathic world in order to get her back—before the Sarah they know ceases to exist. But no matter what happens, actions have consequences... and Sarah Zellaby is about to learn that lesson the hard way. Chaos, noun: 1. The inherent unpredictability in the behavior of a complex natural system. Chaos theory, noun: 1. A branch of mathematical and physical theory that deals with the nature and consequences of chaos and chaotic systems. 2. The study of unpredictable systems. 3. See also “impossible math.” At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The New York Times bestselling author takes us back to the world of the Alchemical Journeys in this action-packed follow-up to Middlegame, Seasonal Fears, and Tidal Creatures. The gods live and die at our whim. More than a century has passed since Asphodel Baker refined the process allowing her to imbue alchemically created life with power in a way no one else had ever been able to achieve. More than a century since she built the Impossible City on the ruins of Olympus, forging it from nothing more than imagination and spite, and penned it in plain view, enabling it to be read and cherished and believed by children the world over. And now, so long after her exit from the world, the descendants of her dark alchemy—who exist in a reality that inches ever closer to the hellscape of her imagination—step into a place of birth, of discovery, of horror, to make amends for the sins of the past. Can the gods of today defeat the evils of their maker, or will the legacy of the most powerful alchemist the world has ever known prove to be their undoing? At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Includes an InCryptid novella: Follow the lady (pages 367-431).

New York Times-bestselling October Daye faerie series • Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire • "Top of my urban-paranormal series list!" —Felicia Day The world of Faerie never disappeared; it merely went into hiding, continuing to exist parallel to our own. Secrecy is the key to Faerie''s survival—but no secret can be kept forever, and when the fae and mortal worlds collide, changelings are born. Outsiders from birth, these half-human, half-fae children spend their lives fighting for the respect of their immortal relations. Or, in the case of October "Toby" Daye, rejecting it completely. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the fae world, retreating into a “normal” life. Unfortunately for her, Faerie has other ideas... The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose, one of the secret regents of the San Francisco Bay Area, pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening’s dying curse, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant to the Duke of Shadowed Hills and begin renewing old alliances that may prove her only hope of solving the mystery...before the curse catches up with her.

From New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears is the extraordinary companion novel to Middlegame. The king of winter and the queen of summer are dead. The fight for their crowns begins! Melanie has a destiny, though it isn’t the one everyone assumes it to be. She’s delicate; she’s fragile; she’s dying. Now, truly, is the winter of her soul. Harry doesn’t want to believe in destiny, because that means accepting the loss of the one person who gives his life meaning, who brings summer to his world. So, when a new road is laid out in front of them—a road that will lead through untold dangers toward a possible lifetime together—walking down it seems to be the only option. But others are following behind, with violence in their hearts. It looks like Destiny has a plan for them, after all.... "One must maintain a little bit of summer even in the middle of winter." —Thoreau At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Toby''s getting married! Now in paperback, the fifteenth novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times-bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series. It''s hard to be a hero. There''s always something needing October "Toby" Daye''s attention, and her own desires tend to fall by the wayside in favor of solving the Kingdom''s problems. That includes the desire to marry her long-time suitor and current fiancé, Tybalt, San Francisco''s King of Cats. She doesn''t mean to keep delaying the wedding, it just sort of...happens. And that''s why her closest friends have taken the choice out of her hands, ambushing her with a court wedding at the High Court in Toronto. Once the High King gets involved, there''s not much even Toby can do to delay things... ...except for getting involved in stopping a plot to overthrow the High Throne itself, destabilizing the Westlands entirely, and keeping her from getting married through nothing more than the sheer volume of chaos it would cause. Can Toby save the Westlands and make it to her own wedding on time? Or is she going to have to choose one over the other? Includes an all-new bonus novella!

Winner: 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novella Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best Series In Where the Drowned Girls Go, the next addition to Seanan McGuire''s beloved Wayward Children series, students at an anti-magical school rebel against the oppressive faculty "Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you’ve already taken that step by requesting a transfer into our company." There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again. It isn''t as friendly as Eleanor West''s Home for Wayward Children. And it isn''t as safe. When Eleanor West decided to open her school, her sanctuary, her "Home for Wayward Children," she knew from the beginning that there would be children she couldn’t save; when Cora decides she needs a different direction, a different fate, a different prophecy, Miss West reluctantly agrees to transfer her to the other school, where things are run very differently by Whitethorn, the Headmaster. She will soon discover that not all doors are welcoming... At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Follows the affairs of the ATI Management Bureau, an organization charged with protecting the world from fairy tales.

Two-time finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series "Kind of like taking a tour through a very deadly theme park made up of alternating parts awesome and terrifying." —Reactor Seanan McGuire''s New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated urban fantasy InCryptid series continues with the thirteenth book following the Price family, cryptozoologists who study and protect the creatures living in secret all around us Mary Dunlavy didn''t intend to become a professional babysitter. Of course, she didn''t intend to die, either, or to become a crossroads ghost. As a babysitting ghost, she''s been caring for the Price family for four generations, and she''s planning to keep doing the job for the better part of forever. With her first charge finally back from her decades-long cross-dimensional field trip, with a long-lost husband and adopted daughter in tow, it''s time for Mary to oversee the world''s most chaotic family reunion. And that''s before the Covenant of St. George launches a full scale strike against the cryptids of Manhattan, followed quickly by an attack on the Campbell Family Carnival. It''s going to take every advantage and every ally they have for the Prices to survive what''s coming—and for Mary, to avoid finding out the answer to a question she''s never wanted to know: what happens to a babysitting ghost if she loses the people she''s promised to protect?

Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day is a new standalone urban fantasy novella from New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire. When her sister Patty died, Jenna blamed herself. When Jenna died, she blamed herself for that, too. Unfortunately Jenna died too soon. Living or dead, every soul is promised a certain amount of time, and when Jenna passed she found a heavy debt of time in her record. Unwilling to simply steal that time from the living, Jenna earns every day she leeches with volunteer work at a suicide prevention hotline. But something has come for the ghosts of New York, something beyond reason, beyond death, beyond hope; something that can bind ghosts to mirrors and make them do its bidding. Only Jenna stands in its way. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In the original Tor.com story Any Way the Wind Blows, New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire presents a sweet tribute to Manhattan''s iconic Flatiron building--celebrating the longtime home of Tor Books as the publisher bids farewell for new office space. Composed of travelers from nine different parallel dimensions, the Cartography Corps crew aboard the airship Stalwart Trumpet of Glory descends on the New York City in our universe to collect and preserve artifacts from the legendary turn-of-the-twentieth century landmark Flatiron building. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere . . . else. Adventures are always interesting, but they’re not always happy. From the worlds of Wayward Children comes a story of love, of devotion, of bones wrapped in flesh. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A crimefighter with mysterious powers hunts a deadly cult in a brilliant collaboration by Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden, Kelley Armstrong, and more. Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she''s become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become a murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos. Children are being murdered in New York, and Nora is determined to make it stop, even if that means Indigo must eliminate every member. But in the aftermath of a bloody battle, a dying cultist makes claims that cause Indigo to question her own origin and memories . . . Nora''s parents were killed when she was nineteen years old. She took the life insurance money and went off to explore the world, becoming a student of meditation and strange magic in a mountaintop monastery in Nepal . . . a history that many would realize sounds suspiciously like the origins of several comic book characters. As Nora starts to pick apart her memory, it all begins to unravel. Her parents are dead, but the rest is a series of lies. Where did she get the power inside her? In Indigo, an all-star lineup of New York Times bestsellers and award winners—Jonathan Maberry, Kat Richardson, Seanan McGuire, Tim Lebbon, Cherie Priest, James A. Moore, Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden, Kelley Armstrong, and Mark Morris—join forces to bring you a crime-solving novel like you''ve never read before.

Giant turtles, impossible ships, and tidal rivers ridden by a Drowned girl in search of a family in the latest in the bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire. Nadya had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the one who adopted her. Nadya never considered herself less than whole, not until her adoptive parents fitted her with a prosthetic arm against her will, seeking to replace the one she''d been missing from birth. It was cumbersome; it was uncomfortable; it was wrong. It wasn''t her. Frustrated and unable to express why, Nadya began to wander, until the day she fell through a door into Belyrreka, the Land Beneath the Lake--and found herself in a world of water, filled with child-eating amphibians, majestic giant turtles, and impossible ships that sailed as happily beneath the surface as on top. In Belyyreka, she found herself understood for who she was: a Drowned Girl, who had made her way to her real home, accepted by the river and its people. But even in Belyyreka, there are dangers, and trials, and Nadya would soon find herself fighting to keep hold of everything she had come to treasure. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

For the first time experience the first three hardcover volumes of Seanan McGuire''s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series together in a boxset...

Strixhaven University welcomes you. Begin your magical studies on a faraway plane, encountering new friends, mysteries, and dangers, in this fantastical dark academia. Eula Blue was supposed to be a mage. That was before the war came—before the fight for the Multiverse devastated Eula''s home, and with it her hopes for a magical education. But the destruction of the war also brought something new: the ability to travel to other planes. And when Eula receives an invitation to study magic at a distant school called Strixhaven, she leaps to take it. Eula''s journey brings her closer than she ever thought possible to her fellow students, including the mysterious Segante, a boy whose secrets Eula longs to share. But not everyone is thrilled by the arrival of the new class, and Eula and her new friends quickly become targets. To make it through their first semester, they''ll have to fight for their place in this new world—or else they''ll be dead before their final exams.

Seanan McGuire’s New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated October Daye series continues as Toby Daye is thrust once again into danger... and this time she has more than ever to protect. Something is rotten in Faerie. In the aftermath of Titania''s reality-warping enchantment, things are returning to what passes for normal in the Kingdom in the Mists—until it''s discovered that the royal vaults have been looted, and several powerful magical artifacts are missing. None are things that can be safely left unsecured, and some have the potential to do almost as much damage as Titania did, and having them in the wrong hands could prove just as disastrous. At least the theft means that Sir October "Toby" Daye, Knight errant and Hero of the Realm, finally has an excuse to get out of the house. Sure, she''s eight and a half months pregnant, but that doesn''t mean she can’t take care of herself. But with the sea witch offering to stand godmother to Toby''s child, maybe there are greater dangers ahead for Toby and her family than it appears.... Old enemies will resurface, new enemies will disguise themselves as friends, and Queen Windermere must try to keep her Hero on the case without getting herself gutted by the increasingly irritated local King of Cats. Sometimes, what''s been lost can be the most dangerous threat of all. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Please enjoy these excerpts from a dozen of Tor.com''s favorite science fiction, fantasy, and horror novellas and novels from the following innovative writers. Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys The Emperor’s Railroad by Guy Haley Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Infomocracy by Malka Older Nightshades by Melissa F. Olson The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle The Builders by Daniel Polansky Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Even time travel can’t unravel love Time-travel is a way for writers to play with history and imagine different futures – for better, or worse. When romance is thrown into the mix, time-travel becomes a passionate tool, or heart-breaking weapon. A time agent in the 22nd century puts their whole mission at risk when they fall in love with the wrong person. No matter which part of history a man visits, he cannot not escape his ex. A woman is desperately in love with the time-space continuum, but it doesn’t love her back. As time passes and falls apart, a time-traveller must say goodbye to their soulmate. With stories from best-selling and award-winning authors such as Seanan McGuire, Alix E. Harrow and Nina Allan, this anthology gives a taste for the rich treasure trove of stories we can imagine with love, loss and reunion across time and space. Including stories by: Alix E. Harrow, Zen Cho, Seanan McGuire, Sarah Gailey, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Allan, Elizabeth Hand, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Catherynne M. Valente, Sam J. Miller, Rowan Coleman, Margo Lanagan, Sameem Siddiqui, Theodora Goss, Carrie Vaughn, Ellen Klages

Nonsense and candy and the families we choose in the origin story of a beloved character in the latest installment of the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children series. Before there was Sumi, Promised Savior of Confection, there was Onishi Sumiko, a girl with no idea where she belonged. Onishi Sumiko was born to be an invisible girl. The second child of immigrant parents, overshadowed by her brother, she seemed destined for a life of quiet obedience, never breaking free of the path that had been chosen for her. Until a chance encounter with an impossible door sends her tumbling into a world of peppermint dreams and sugary nightmares, leaving her trapped in a candy-coated heart of darkness. Forced to adapt to the world of Confection, where the rules are as unpredictable as they are nonsensical, Sumiko must decide whether she’s going to be a meek, logical victim of her own fate—or whether she’s going to stand up and become the illogical, impossible hero she was always meant to be. Not all sweet dreams are safe ones, as Sumi will quickly discover for herself. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.