ACE

Wraith (July, $14) by Phaedra Weldon introduces Zoe Martinique, a smart dame who enters the ghost realm at will.

BL PUBLISHING

Set the Seas on Fire (Aug., $9.99) by Chris Roberson finds the shipwrecked crew of the HMS Fortitude on a mysterious island with a secret in 1808. Ad/promo.

Splinter (Aug., $9.99) by Adam Roberts follows a doomsday cult that turns out to be in a Jules Verne—inspired tale. Ad/promo.

DAW

The Sleeping God: A Novel of Dhulyn and Parno (Aug., $15) by Violette Malan kicks off a series featuring a martial arts and weapons master duo, two outcasts bound until death parts them.

DEL REY

Ink: The Book of All Hours (Mar., $14.95) by Hal Duncan. The sequel to the author's debut novel, Vellum, pits angels against demons. Ad/promo.

The Poisoned Crown (Mar., $12.95) by Amanda Hemingway. In the final installment of the Sangreal Trilogy, a boy must collect three Grail relics before his world is destroyed by evil.

EDGE (dist. by Hades Publications)

Hydrogen Steel (Mar., $19.95) by K.A. Bedford. Retired detective Zette McGee helps an android accused of killing its family.

EOS

The New Space Opera (June, $15.95), edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan. Stories by top contemporary SF authors are set in the vastness of outer space.

Odalisque: Book One of the Percheron Saga (Mar., $14.95) by Fiona McIntosh launches a fantasy trilogy in which the eponymous city-state possesses many attributes of Constantinople under the Ottoman Turks.

MIRAMAX

Dusk Watch (June, $14.95) by Sergei Lukyanenko is the final entry in this Russian trilogy.

ONE WORLD

Forever a Hustler's Wife (Apr., $13.95) by Nikki Turner. The sequel to A Hustler's Wifefinds Yarni watching her man transform into a hustling preacher. Ad/promo. 11-city author tour.

PYR

Keeping It Real: Quantum Gravity Book One (Mar., $15) by Justina Robson. Half-human, half-machine special agent Lila Black confronts the supernatural while protecting an elfin rock star.

ROC

Flesh and Spirit (May, $15) by Carol Berg. In the first of a two-part series, Valen tries to escape preordained doom.

Poltergeist (Aug., $14) by Kat Richardson. A detective communes with ghosts and the paranormal.

SMALL BEER PRESS

Water Logic (June, $16) by Laurie J. Marks. Lives are turned upside down as the patterns of history are unmade.

SYRACUSE UNIV. PRESS

Stigma and The Cave (Mar., $19.95) by D.H. Melhem. Two titles—a political satire and a postnuclear fantasy, respectively—conclude the Patrimoniestrilogy.

TOR

Unity (Apr., $14.95) by Steven Harper. An escaped singer wreaks havoc on the Galactica crew. Based on the Sc-Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica. Ad/promo.

Midnight Tides (Apr.; $14.95) by Steven Erikson. A primal confrontation impacts the Tiste Edur tribes and the Warlock King of the Hiroth in book five of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Ad/ promo.

The Book of Joby (Aug., $15.95) by Mark Ferrari. Lucifer and the Creator face off through Joby Peterson's 21st-century life. Ad/promo. Author Tour.

WIZARDS OF THE COAST

To Sleep with Evil (Mar., $12.95) by Andria Cardarelle re-releases the original novel in a new format with new cover art.