Coming Soon
Plan your reading schedule around these upcoming Candlemark & Gleam releases!
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Pilgrim of the Sky
Natania Barron
December 2011
Just when Maddie Angler thinks she’s over the death of her longtime boyfriend, Alvin, she discovers that he’s not only alive, but he may just be part god. And a killer. Now it’s up to her to unite Eight Worlds she didn’t even know existed in the first place, before chaos reigns.
A world-hopping, reality-bending, art-historical, socio-religious steampunk odyssey you won’t want to miss!
Read the first two chapters now:
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Fly Into Fire
Susan Jane Bigelow
January 2012
The last Sky Ranger of the now-vanished Extrahuman Union, defeated by his former allies and detested by everyone else, fled Earth and the repressive Confederation in a desperate attempt to put the past to rest. But when his refugee ship crashes on a desert planet, his life is thrown back into chaos, and his future becomes less certain than ever. In that hostile environment, he meets abrasive, impulsive Renna, and Dee, a flighty, secretive orphan girl, who are the only two refugees who can stand him.
When Dee wanders into the wilderness, Sky Ranger chases after her, touching off a series of events that lead them and their companions from the deserts of Seera Terron through alien Räton space and into the very heart of the Confederation itself. Sky Ranger must confront his past and a intrusive, ruthless government if he wants to be able to save both Dee and what remains of his people, the Extrahumans, from utter destruction.
Fly Into Fire, the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Broken, is a story of hope, adventure, friendship, and sacrifice, in a world where the only freedom to be found is within.
Read the first two chapters now!
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Matchbox Girls
Chrysoula Tzavelas
February 2012
Marley Claviger, grad school drop-out, is just trying to get her life together enough to pay her rent. Stumbling into an ancient conflict between celestial forces is going to make that a whole lot harder.
When Marley wakes up to a phone call from a pair of terrified children, she doesn’t expect to be pulled into a secret war. She does her best to help them out. She rescues them from an empty house and promises to find their missing uncle. She even manages to feed them dinner. But she barely feels competent to manage her own life, knows next to nothing about caring for small children, and there’s that pesky rent issue yet to solve.
When a lawyer shows up claiming to be their new guardian, she wants to be pleased at his generous offers. Instead she has a vision of the children screaming in terror. Her instinctive rejection leads to a violent conflict, and the revelation of the children’s frightening powers. She has no idea what she’s gotten herself into, but she knows one thing: magical or not, the kids need her.
Read the first two chapters!
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I, Crimsonstreak
Matt Adams
May 2012
Framed by his father, “reformed” supervillain Colonel Chaos, super-speedster Chris Fairborne, AKA Crimsonstreak, is sent to the Clermont Institute for the Criminally Insane. A hero surrounded by dastardly inmates and heartless guards, Chris struggles to keep his wits about him, until the arrival of some unexpected new “guests” at the facility provides him with a means for escape. Once out, though, he discovers that the world he knew is gone, replaced by a fascist, supposedly utopian state run by none other than Colonel Chaos himself.
With the heroes of the world locked away or fighting in a disorganized resistance, Crimsonstreak teams up with a snarky British butler and a teenage superhero-to-be. Together, the unlikely (and bickering) allies must take down Crimsonstreak’s dad and set the world right. Not easy when your only powers are super-speed and looking good in spandex. But hey, someone’s got to save the world.
I, Crimsonstreak is a first-person superhero novel brimming with parallel universes, stuffy British butlers, crafty supervillains, cloning, gadgets, a fascist police state disguised as a utopian society, and enough geeky pop culture references to stun a Wookie.
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Green Light Delivery
Anne E. Johnson
June 2012
Webrid is a carter, like his mother and grandfather before him. It’s not glamorous work, but it mostly pays the bills, and it gives him time to ogle the sexy women on the streets of Bexilla’s capital. Mostly, he buys and sells small goods and does the occasional transport run for a client.
Then he gets mugged by a robot.
Now, with a strange green laser implanted in his skull and a small fortune deposited in his bank account, Webrid has to make the most difficult delivery of his life. He doesn’t know who his client is, or what he’s carrying, but he knows that a whole lot of very dangerous people are extremely interested in what’s in his head. Literally. And they’ll do whatever it takes to get it.
With the help of some truly alien friends, a simple carter will journey across worlds to deliver his cargo. And hopefully keep his head in the process.
Green Light Delivery is a fascinating, fresh take on sci-fi that pairs the nonstop action and intrigue of Raymond Chandler’s noir novels with a completely alien setting, spanning worlds and introducing us to creatures with a hundred ears, poisonous bones, or radial symmetry instead of bilateral. It’s full of adventure and humour, and will satisfy anyone looking for a space opera that’s a little out there.
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Substitution Cipher anthology
July 2012
A collection of tales of deceit, betrayal, and espionage, in worlds that could have been our own.
