Candlemark & Gleam is having a sale! From June 24 through June 30, four of our books will be on sale for 0.99 USD through Amazon, Nook, and Kobo.

First up, A Blackened Mirror, the powerful start of Jo Graham’s series The Memoirs of the Borgia Sibyl. This is historical fantasy deeply immersed in its setting, Rome at the height of the Renaissance. When Giulia Farnese agrees to an arranged marriage, she dreams of learning and power. But the head of the family, Lord Bracciano, orders her husband not to consummate the marriage. Giulia herself has a secret: she sees visions in mirrors and hears the whispers of spirits. Is this the reason Bracciano has arranged this sham of a marriage? Instead, Giulia finds herself drawn to ruthless, sophisticated Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia. Old enough to be Giulia’s father, he is a humanist, a collector of pagan art and heretical writings, and a loving father to his illegitimate children—and Bracciano’s great rival.Bracciano’s dark rites to summon demons may make Giulia the instrument of Rodrigo’s destruction. Dealing with demons is a mortal sin. Refusing Bracciano would be a fatal mistake. And Giulia’s growing attraction to Rodrigo might be her downfall—or the key to her salvation.

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For something completely different — City of Devils, Justin Robinson’s neo-noir thriller about the last human detective in a wildly transformed Los Angeles.

World War II was only the beginning. When the Night War ravages America, turning it into a country of monsters, humans become a downtrodden minority. Nick Moss is the only human private eye in town, and he’s on the trail of a missing city councilor. With monsters trying to turn him – or, better yet, simply kill him – he’s got to watch his back while trying to find his man. Or mummy, as the case may be. Once, it was the City of Angels. But now, Los Angeles is the City of Devils…and Nick has a devil of a job to do

It’s the first of a 6-book series, so if you like this one, you have lots of great reading ahead of you.

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Next up, Kelly Jennings’s Fault Lines, a taut, timely, and thoroughly engaging science fiction adventure filled with complex tech and high-stakes politics. Velocity Wrachant, owner and captain of the merchant starship Susan Calvin, is broke and stranded on a Drift station, when she is offered what seems like a simple job: to escort young Brontë Ikeda into Republic space and help her retrieve several bonded-labor children. While Velocity is tempted by the fee Brontë offers – which is enough to clear her debts – she also knows that Ikeda House, a powerful Combine, just had a major coup; and both she and her crew suspect the story they’re being told by the Combine child is not the whole story. Velocity takes the gig, but it takes her into the heart of Combine territory, a place she fled almost twenty years earlier. What is the price she and her shipmates may end up paying for this job? This is also the first in a series!

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Finally, Melissa Scott’s The Master of Samar, queer fantasy set in the Venice-like city of Bejanth. Rejected by his aristocratic family, Gil Irichels has been content to make his living as a traveling curse-breaker, working with his lover, the feral mage Envar Cassi, and their bodyguard, swordswoman Arak min’Aroi. After a series of deaths leave him the sole heir to the family’s house and fortune, Irichels’s main concern is to do whatever he must to settle the estate and return to his previous life. But these is something very wrong in seaborne Bejanth, starting with the deaths of his kin and spreading into the complex web of politics and magic that holds the city together. As he struggles to discover the truth behind his family’s losses, he realizes that there is more at stake than the fall of one house. Someone is unraveling the web of curses on which the city depends, and Irichels is the only person who can stop them—if it’s not already too late.

Sale on Amazon, Nook, and Kobo.

This sale only lasts through June 30, so don’t miss a rare chance to get our books for 0.99 USD!