by M. L. Rio (2017)
On the day Oliver Marks is released from prison after ten years, he is met by the detective who put him there. Oliver was one of seven young actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory who studied Shakespeare and lived like kings. But when the casting changes and the rivalries turn lethal, one of the seven is found dead and Oliver takes the fall.
R. F. Kuang
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires is the world's center of translation and, more importantly, magic through silver-working. Robin Swift, an orphaned Chinese boy raised in London, enters Oxford's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation only to realize that serving Babel means betraying his motherland.
Libba Bray
It has been a year since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Having bound the wild, dark magic of the realms to her, Gemma has forged unlikely friendships with Ann and Felicity and Kartik, the exotic young man whose companionship is forbidden. She has also come to an uneasy, tenuous truce with the fearsome creatures of the realms.