Luke Taylor doesn’t like killing, but the seven angels in his head tell him he’s on a divine mission. During the summer of lockdown in Northern Virginia, no one seems to notice as the good-looking landscaper kidnaps and kills twelve people. He always tries to tell them he’s saving them from the coming Apocalypse, but they just call him a sick, psychopath, son of a bitch—which really hurts his feelings.

Eventually the angels guide him to a pair of best friends who seem worth saving: Emma Meyer, a clever but anxiety-ridden MIT dropout, and Hani Abdullahi, a TikTok influencer who makes boujee meals out of Dollar Store ingredients. As Luke gets closer to the bubbly Hani, who is all too happy to have an excuse to get out of the house during lockdown, Emma must overcome her paralyzing anxiety if she wants to prove that Luke is a serial killer before she and her best friend become Luke’s next victims.

EUROPA’S PROPHET

Deborah Eli is heir to the most rapidly growing religious legacy beyond the asteroid belt. But she chafes against a restrictive life in her ocean moon, Europa, and dreams of escape, so she can live her life on her own terms, like a person rather than a holy relic.

Everything changes when she’s captured by an alien warrior race known as the Or’kupin. Their Imperator wants to use Deborah as a pawn to bring her family’s numerous followers to heel. But Deborah is not one to bend to anyone’s authority—even a conqueror of five star systems. Deciding her own freedom won’t be worth much if the rest of humanity is enslaved, she feigns loyalty at the Imperator’s side and uncovers secrets that could be the Or’kupins’ undoing. Yet as she is drawn ever deeper into a war that spans the solar system, she finds the situation is more nuanced than she thinks. Soon Deborah will be forced to make an impossible choice. Fight for humanity’s freedom, or humanity’s survival.