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  • Cover for Black Widow, White Shroud, showing an illustration of three shadowy figures in the middle. The title is in faded olive green and burgundy letters.

    Black Widow, White Shroud

  • Cover for The Found Object Society, showing a tangled, green vine image with various objects hidden throughout: a QR code, a hand, a ring, a perfume bottle, a cigarette lighter, glasses, a bank vault door, along with the title and author name in a yellow font.

    The Found Object Society

  • Cover for Hungered, showing a car driving downhill, away from a house, with a multi-colored blue, purple, orange, and pink background.

    Hungered

  • Burnout Summer

    Burnout Summer

  • Cover of A Vow in Vengeance centering on title, with a background showing the minor arcana of tarot: a cup, sword, wand, and ring.

    A Vow in Vengeance

  • The cover is pink with garlands, tipping to the Indian cultural background. Various characters are reaching for or celebrating, indicating an ensemble cast. The font is in black and bold, reading "Leave and Come Back".

    Leave and Come Back

  • Cover for New Skin, showing a spiral with a woman's face on it in bright pink with a blue background. The title of the novel and author's name are also bright pink.

    New Skin

  • Cover for Appetite, showing a brown hand adding oil to a pan which contains two women wrestling each other. The book title is in vertical font.

    Appetite

  • Cover for Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance, a purple backdrop with green and yellow vines crawling about in a stern and graffiti font.

    Forever for the Culture

  • Illustrated cover for Wench by Erynne Rivers depicting a brown-skinned young woman with long, dark curly hair standing in front of an art nouveau style frame of twisting branches and leaves. She’s wearing a flowing cream dress with a green bodice while holding a bow, with a quiver of arrows slung over her shoulder. A fox sits close at her feet, gazing up at her. Behind her is a circular backdrop of sky blue and green, evoking woodland and magic. At the top, the words “LOVE. FAE. TREASON.” arc above her head. The title WENCH appears large at the bottom, with the author’s name, Erynne Rivers, beneath it.

    Wench

  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    Muñeca

  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    The Fast Track

  • Cover for SUBLIMATION showing two identical copies of a woman emerging from the center of the cover, which is a black void that radiates sunset colors. It looks very thriller science fictiony.

    Sublimation

  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    Bad Things Happened Here

  • A little girl is dressed in a kimono and a flower in her hair. Her arms are outstretched in a dance and there is a sun in the background. The book title, author's and illustrator's names are in all-caps.

    I Am a Bon Dancer

  • Cover for PRINCEWEAVER, showing the title of the book vertically down the centre of the page. Two brunette hair braids cascade down, one on either side of the title. Surrounding it and interwoven with the hair is the image of a red fox, a grey-brown moth, and numerous plants including wood anemones, red berries, oak leaves and acorns, and falling golden leaves. At the top, the text 'MAGIC. MARRIAGE. WAR.' is written off to the left. The author's name, Elian J Morgan, is printed at the bottom.

    Princeweaver

  • Cover for Deathly Fates, showing an illustrated Chinese priestess standing on a bridge, reaching out to a ghostly soldier/prince. There are shadowy mountains and a moon in the background. The book title and author's name, Tesia Tsai, are written in an elegant font.

    Deathly Fates

  • Cover for Wrong Order, featuring a mint green/almost Tiffany Blue background. An abstract painting in the same shade hangs on the wall in the background.Two illustrated figured stand in the corner beneath the title. The man is wearing a suit and the woman is wearing a suit and dark green blouse. Her arms are crossed while one of his hands is in his pocket, with the other by his side. They are looking at each other. The title and author name are written in modern font.

    Wrong Order

  • A book cover in varying shades of orange, with a smaller square overlay of pink streaked paint reminiscent of a framed painting that provides the backdrop for the cover art. The title, Don't Tell Me How It Ends, lies within that pink square, and is written in capitalized white block font, which is also made to look like paint strokes. Below the title, an illustrated Black man and woman of varying skin tones embrace, wearing dark colored casual clothing. To their left, the author's name, Adrienne Thurman, is in a white handwriting font, as are the words, "A Novel" just to the couple's right. Along the top border of the cover, in block letters of the deepest shade of orange, the tagline reads, "No spoilers. Just sparks."

    Don’t Tell Me How It Ends

  • Cover for Rabbit, Fox, Tar, showing a linocut of a tall house and a woman in a large hat walking by on a beige background. There are smudges of purple across the cover. The book title and author's name, P.C. Verrone, and the phrase “A Novel” are written in a bold, serif font.

    Rabbit, Fox, Tar

  • Four people with their backs to the viewer stride towards a huge gothic castle with the wind swirling arounds its peaks. The nearest person casually tosses a glowing bone in the air. The sky is purple and dotted with falling teeth. The title These Shattered Spires is bright pink across the middle in gothic serif font.

    These Shattered Spires

  • Cover for Cursed Ever After showing an illustrated vine with green leaves across the entire cover on a black background. There are several motifs scattered across including a compass, a bird, a rose, a dagger, a black cat, and a watch tower. The title and the author’s name, Andy C. Naranjo, is written in an old fashioned font.

    Cursed Ever After

  • Cover for Love, Gods & Sinners, showing an illustration of two girls with their backs facing each other. One has short hair and is holding a dagger, one is in an armor-like suit with a long ponytail and holding a sword. The background of the cover is very colourful, with green, turquoise, purple and pink drawings. The title, Love, Gods & Sinners is in cursive at the bottom of the page, as well as the author's name Camille Chong.

    Love, Gods & Sinners

  • Cover for She Waits Where Shadows Gather, by Michelle Tang, showing a red cover with mangoes dripping bloody instead of juice, and an insect on the mango. The tagline: "He came back from the dead, but he didn't come alone" is written in creepy font.

    She Waits Where Shadows Gather

  • Cover for The Shrouded Queen, showing the silhouette of a girl in a blue cloak bordered by gold symbols. On the left border are Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, on the right are Viking runes. The book title appears in a golden circle at the center with the author's name just below.

    The Shrouded Queen

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