January Scaller is the ward of a wealthy collector who employs her father to bring artifacts from around the world, she finds a book with tales of secret doors.
The Binding by Bridget Collins is a novel taking place sometime in the past, where people can bind their memories in a book, freeing them of remembering.
Bursts of Fire by Susan Forest is a fantasy novel following the three Falkyn sisters who find themselves out of their castle when their kingdom has been invaded
This is How You Lose the Time War – Rivaling time traveling spies, Red & Blue correspondence through space and time, taunting each other until they fall in love
A novel taking place in present day New York City involving a search for a missing manuscript by Edgar Allan Poe in a hidden world of magic & magical creatures
Geist is a sorceress in the Ethereal Squadron which employs the best sorceress from the US and the UK. Unbeknownst to her teammates Geist is a woman in disguise
Breach by W.L. Goodwater is a novel taking place in the aftermath of World War II, where the remaining powers fight with magic as well as conventional means.
Ahab’s Return: or, The Last Voyage by Jeffery Lord is a novel, imagining the famous Captain Ahab coming back from, what thought to have been, his last sail
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett a smart novel in a complex world where humans can tap the consciousness of objects convincing them that they are different
The characters, they are complex and three dimensional, as I mentioned none are “good” and none are “evil”, but complex human beings trying to stay alive and working for their own best interest.