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The Manor Has an Ordinary Problem cover

The Manor Has an Ordinary Problem

A 1908 manor advertises a haunting to conceal embarrassing plumbing, then finds that its invented ghost has started answering letters. The housekeeper and a sanitation engineer must identify the correspondent before a harmless fiction becomes a profitable reason to keep the household dependent on a lie.

Mystery
The Planet We Rescued Is Following Us Home cover

The Planet We Rescued Is Following Us Home

A salvage crew frees a sentient planet from an abandoned control network. Its delighted attempt to follow them turns rescue into a negotiation about what freedom requires when one grateful guest can alter an entire system.

Space opera
The Union of Unemployed Scarecrows cover

The Union of Unemployed Scarecrows

When new machines replace a valley's scarecrows, the discarded figures assemble outside the grain office demanding useful work. A warehouse clerk and a practical seamstress must discover what the valley is afraid of before its newest workers begin protecting entirely the wrong things.

Magical realism