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Aden Onnery is the eldest son of a family of midwives who use their power to eradicate magic. As a boy, he was never meant to take on the Onnery mantle, but an accident of birth has left him marked and strange. His whole life he has believed that the Onnerys destroy the monsters that will bring the end of his people, until he is forced to enter into a bargain with a magical survivor.

In order to save his sister from the harsh law of the colonial powers, Aden chooses to enter the world outside his experience and go against everything he has been taught to believe. He must help save the very thing his family are meant to exterminate--a magical lineage in his people. In doing so, Aden will confront the truth that the monsters are his own family.

EMPTY MONSTERS weaves magic, family, and love into a bitter tonic about growing up and accepting that even the best intentions can exact a terrible price, and love is never simple.

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.

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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. 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.

MallenIve is a city of monstrous extremes, where the magical Great Houses live in luxury and play a treacherous game of politics, while the Hobs and vampire clans struggle to survive. It's here that Felicita Pelim has run, leaving behind House Pelim, her family and her birthplace. By breaking propriety and arranging a marriage of convenience to Jannik, a free House vampire, she has been made a pariah.

Felicita's only allies in MallenIve are two social outcasts who hate her for reasons she cannot fully understand, and Jannik, the one person she can trust, is withdrawing more with every passing day.

It's not long before the city's prejudices start seeping into her life and Felicita finds herself slipping back into old patterns.. When a slave vampire is killed, she is shocked out of her complacency. Felicita tries to bring his murderers to justice only to expose a festering secret at the heart of the MallenIve Great Houses. And going up against the House Lords and their magic will cost her everything she has left.