Samantha couldn’t be more of an outsider in her highly selective MFA program. She is utterly repelled by the rest of her cohort—a clique of unbearable rich girls who call each other Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled Smut Salon. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur.

A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity at her and she senses a mounting threat. As she feels the hostility growing, she fears that, should the rumblings in the town gather themselves into a more defined shape, who knows what might happen, what one might be capable of doing.

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina’s relationship with her obsessive best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention.

On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick’s wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy’s friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn’t true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren’t made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what did happen to Nick’s beautiful wife?

Unaware that she’s gone home with the theater critic who’s just written a career-ending review of her, Hayley wakes up at Alex Lyons’ apartment to see his scathing one-star critique in print on the kitchen table. So she revamps her show into a viral sensation critiquing Alex Lyons himself—entitled son of a famous actress, serial philanderer, and by all accounts a terrible man. Yet Alex remains unapologetic. As his reputation goes up in flames, he insists on telling his own unvarnished version of events.

During the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales, and talons and took to the skies, Alex Green’s aunt Marla transformed but her mother did not. Alex doesn’t know why. It’s taboo to speak of. Alex still must face the consequences of this astonishing event: a mother more protective than ever; the upsetting insistence that her aunt never even existed; and watching her cousin Bea become dangerously obsessed with the forbidden.

At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind. Instead, quite suddenly, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. Sharper canines. Strange new patches of hair. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice.

Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruel acts of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child—that has haunted her every waking moment—while forging the power to finally strike back.

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—she possesses power: the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft and tames wild beasts. But there is danger, too, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians.

Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to renounce eating meat altogether. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling.

Deep underground, forty women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others’ escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.

When Korede’s dinner is interrupted by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third boyfriend and mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede’s long been in love with him, and isn’t prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other.

In The Power the world is a recognizable place: There’s a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; and a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power: They can cause agonizing pain and even death. With this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle aliens. It doesn’t matter that the girls die from the mental strain. Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot to assassinate the pilot responsible for her sister’s death. She kills him and emerges from the cockpit labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead. She will fight to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.

When Rin aced the Keju—an Empire-wide test—it was a shock to everyone. Then she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan. But being a dark-skinned peasant girl is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal power—the mythical art of shamanism. A Third Poppy War is just a spark away, and Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity.