June Picks

1. The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
   When Tea accidentally brings her brother back from the dead, she learns that she is different from the others in her family of witches. She is a bone witch, and will be sent away to the capital to hone her talents, where she finds the most difficult thing isn't being so far from home, but trying not to lose herself to the darkness around her.

2. Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
   Soraya is a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch, hidden away from the world behind her walls and her garden. But as her brothers wedding approaches, and she meets a demon trapped in the dungeon, she begins to question who she is and what she is becoming. Because sometimes, you become your worst nightmare.

3. The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
   The year is 1889, and Séverin Montagnet-Alarie, a wealthy hotelier and treasure hunter, is on a mission to gain back the inheritance he was once denied. With a team of experts all with something to prove, they set out on a mission from the elite Order of Babel, and unearths a secret they never expected to find.

4. All The Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
   When Deena's wild and mysterious sister, Mandy, disappears, presumed dead, her family is devastated. But Mandy has always been trouble, considered the black sheep of the family. Deena, however, refuses to accept this fate. When letters from Mandy start arriving, revealing their families blighted past and grim future, plagued by a long ago cast curse, Deena must track her down to the place it all began, and heal the families roots before she is the next girl kicked from the tree.

5. The Mummy of Monte Cristo by J. Trevor Robinson
   When jealousy and ambition drive a group of men to frame young Edmond Dantes for treason, he’s sent to prison indefinitely; there, he finds a friend and tutor who tells him about a terrible power hidden on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond escapes, makes the impossible decision to be mummified alive for the sake of revenge, and pursues his enemies to Paris with an intricate plan to tear down their new lives brick by brick.