New Books: 1 March 2022
Akers, Tim: Valhellions 
(Baen 978-1-9821-2595-0, $16.00, 288pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, March 1, 2022)
Urban fantasy novel, book two in the Knight Watch series. John Rast signed up for the Knight Watch expecting heroic missions but instead he’s stuck patrolling game conventions for dangerous anachronisms, until a necromancer shows up with a weapon created by Nazi occultists.
Blake, Olivie: The Atlas Six 
(Tor 978-1-250-85451-3, $25.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
Fantasy novel, first in a trilogy about a magical school run by the elite Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from ancient civilizations. A previous version was self-published in 2020; this has been revised, edited, and has additional content.
Chee, Traci: A Thousand Steps Into the Night 
(HarperCollins/Clarion 978-0-358-46998-8, $18.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel inspired by Japanese mythology. An innkeeper’s daughter is cursed and begins to transform into a demon.
Ciccarelli, Kristen: Edgewood 
(St. Martin’s/Wednesday Books 978-1-250-82152-2, $18.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel about a girl who returns home after her grandfather disappears, hoping to make a deal with the Wood King, but ends up dealing with a curse.
Clines, Peter: The Broken Room 
(Blackstone Publishing 9798200861965, $29.99, 248pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
A woman who was experimented on as a child has the ghost of a dead secret agent stuck in her head, and that ghost wants to collect on a debt.
Correia, Larry, Diamond, Steve: Servants of War 
(Baen 978-1-9821-2594-3, $25.00, 432pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
Military fantasy adventure novel, the first book in the Age of Ravens series. Illarion is drafted and sent to an elite regiment that pilots armor made from dead golems, as part of an ancient war between two goddesses.
Davis, Kathryn: Aurelia, Aurélia 
(Graywolf Press 978-1-64445-078-9, $15.00, 128pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
Non-fiction, a memoir of Davis’s experiences after her husband dies, and her efforts to find meaning and regain inspiration through fairytales, ghost stories, music, and more.
Edwards, Megan: A Coin for the Ferryman 
(Imbrifex 978-1945501159, $29.95, 540pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
Time-travel SF novel. Julius Caesar is kidnapped just before his assassination and taken to 1999 LA for a secret four day experiment, but plans are disrupted by an antiquities dealer who tries to kidnap Caesar.
Fox, Hester: A Lullaby for Witches 
(Harlequin/Graydon House 978-1-525-80469-4, $16.99, 320pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
Gothic/dark fantasy novel set in the present and the past. A museum worker investigates why a 19th-century New England woman was written out of history, while in 1872 Margaret Harlowe’s obsession with spells makes her a pariah.
Harkin, Jo: Tell Me an Ending 
(Simon & Schuster/Scribner 978-1982164324, $27.99, 448pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
SF thriller novel about memory deletion technology. Thousands of people are shocked to get a notification that they once had a memory removed, and now have the opportunity to recover it.
Hazlett, Sean Patrick, ed.: Weird World War IV 
(Baen 978-1-9821-2596-7, $16.00, pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, March 1, 2022)
Original anthology of 21 short stories of the war after WWIII. “What if there was a war after Armageddon?” Authors include Steven Barnes, Maurice Broaddus, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and Erica L. Satifka.
Henry, Veronica G.: The Quarter Storm 
(Amazon/47North 978-1542033916, $14.95, 287pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
Urban fantasy novel. Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond, a healer in New Orleans, works to solve a murder related to one of her clients.
Huerta, Lizz: The Lost Dreamer 
(Macmillan/Farrar, Straus, Giroux 978-1250754851, $18.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
YA fantasy novel inspired by ancient Mesoamerica, the first in the eponymous duology about a “lineage” of seers resisting the patriarchal state trying to destroy them.
Lewis, Erika: Kelcie Murphy and the Academy for the Unbreakable Arts 
(Tor/Starscape 978-1-250-20826-2, $17.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, March 1, 2022)
Middle-grade fantasy novel. Kelcie Murphy, raised as a foster child in the human world, dreams of warrior training at the Academy, with its legendary trainer of Celtic heroes.
McGuire, Seanan: Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor’s Guide to the Underworld 
(DAW 978-0-7564-1183-1, $17.00, 352pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
Fantasy novel, 11th in the InCryptid series, this time focusing on the elusive Alice Price-Healy and her quest to find her long-missing husband.
Powell, Gareth L.: Stars and Bones 
(Titan Books US 978-1789094282, $15.95, 352pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
SF novel, first in the Continuance series. An extraterrestrial being exiles humanity to a fleet of spaceships — only to be imperiled by a mysterious force 75 years later.
Schwab, V.E.: Gallant 
(HarperCollins/Greenwillow 978-0062835772, $18.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
Young-adult dark fantasy novel. Teen artist Olivia Prior, who communicates through sign language, escapes the school where she was raised when she gets a letter from an uncle who wants her to live at his house, Gallant — but he dies before she gets there, her cousin doesn’t want her, and the house is haunted.
Stross, Charles: Escape from Yokai Land 
(Tordotcom 978-1-250-80570-6, $19.99, 96pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
Lovecraftian fantasy novella in the Laundry Files series, following Bob Howard in Tokyo during The Nightmare Stacks.
The novella also explains what supernatural troubleshooter Bob Howard was doing during his absence from the quite-dire events of The Nightmare Stacks and before the squickiness of The Delirium Brief : dealing with an outbreak of extradimensional pests disturbing the official cuteness of Tokyo’s Puroland theme park.
Tolmie, Sarah: All the Horses of Iceland 
(Tordotcom 978-1-250-80793-9, $15.99, 112pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, March 1, 2022)
Fantasy novella based on the mythology of Iceland’s wild horses, following a Norse trader on the Silk Road who gets followed home by ghostly magic.
The protagonist of Sarah Tolmie’s historical fantasy All the Horses of Iceland, Eyvind of Eyri, is not particularly heroic. The Icelander is hardheaded and practical, but since he’s impotent and deaf in one ear, he’s considered to be an old man at 25 years of age. His adventure is geographically wide ranging, but Eyvind does not participate in any derring-do along the way. It turns out he has a bit of magic, but nothing wildly wizardly. His fictional contribution to history – the introduction of small, sturdy horses to Iceland by way of a mare with no name – is both profound and unrecorded.
[T]he overall style is at once poetic and sparse, and at times extraordinarily graceful. Although relatively little of the story is set in Iceland itself, it manages to evoke the hypnotic rhythms of the Eddas, and it gracefully balances its meticulous historical detail with a strange and sweeping sense of legend.
Ward, Catriona: Sundial 
(Tor Nightfire 978-1-250-81268-1, $26.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 1, 2022)
Gothic/psychological horror novel. Rob goes back to Sundial, the childhood home she fled, to make sure the horrors of her past don’t destroy her daughter.
