The Drought of Girls has ended, but the rift it broke open between the Queendoms is not so easily healed. Queen Heliane of Paxim vows to make her son Paulus the nation’s first ruling King. Scorpican troops amass on the border of Arca. And Arca's young, unready queen finds her court a nest of vipers. As iron and magic clash on the battlefield and powerful women scheme behind the scenes, can anyone stop the chaos from ripping the Queendoms apart?

Yes, it's Human-Were hybrid soft porn. Yes, Serena Paris is stuck in the "he's dangerous, he's Alpha, but I love him so it's okay" trope. Still, I ate it up.

Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. A cascade of political and personal consequences expands across all five queendoms. A warrior queen must rise from childbirth bed to fight for her life. A healer in hiding is desperate to protect the secret of her daughter’s explosive power. A queen's desperation to retain control leads her to risk using the darkest magic. And the generation of lastborn girls must bear the hopes and traditions of their nations if the queendoms are to survive.

The Drought of Girls has ended and a fragile peace has begun to settle across the Five Queendoms. But trouble brews beneath the smooth façade. The first gate between the Underlands, where Eresh rules over the shades of the dead, has already been opened. And the scheming shade of a dead sorcerer has evil plans.

As living women across the Queendoms take desperate action to stay alive, and dead women plot to regain what they’ve lost, five queens gather in the Holy City of Sestia for the most important ritual of their lives.

The moon has turned into cheese. Now humanity has to deal with it. For some it’s an opportunity. For others, it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in cheese, in everything.

The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists are shadowed by their Company-supplied SecUnit who has hacked its own governor module. As it tries to sort out living authentically, it refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.”

Scornful of humans, all it wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

The first of a Hugo Award winner for Best Series. Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—discovering the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe.