
At Versailles in 1693, Marie-Josèphe de la Croix, sister of the king's natural philosopher, is put in charge of a captured sea monster, and discovers it is an intelligent woman.
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In 1490 Anne, the young duchess of Brittany, is under pressure to make a marriage that will hand her duchy to its enemies, and to buy time she lures the French envoy into a hunt for a unicorn in the enchanted forest of Brocéliande.

Shesheshen, a shapeshifting monster hibernating under a manor, is hunted by a family of monster-hunters, and falls for Homily, one of them.

Ista, the dowager royina of Chalion, long thought mad, slips away from her keepers on a pilgrimage and is drawn into a border war with demons and into the gods' own business.

In 1893, three estranged sisters arrive separately in the city of New Salem and get swept up in the suffrage movement, which they intend to win with witchcraft people thought had been burned out of the world.

In Golden Age Madrid, a scullery maid hiding her Jewish ancestry is pushed to perform her small miracles for ambitious nobles, under the eye of the Inquisition and an immortal familiar.

Marra, the quiet, overlooked third princess, decides to kill the prince who has married her sisters, and sets out with a dust-wife, a disgraced knight and a dog made of bones.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy captain Will Laurence captures a French ship carrying a dragon egg, and when it hatches and the dragon chooses him, he must leave the sea for Britain's aerial corps.

In 1952 a meteorite destroys Washington DC and sets off a climate catastrophe, and Elma York, a mathematician and former wartime pilot, joins the rush to space and wants to be an astronaut.

In a fifteenth century where Byzantium rules much of Europe and the old gods were never quite driven out, a Welsh wizard, a Florentine physician, a German mercenary and a Byzantine prince come together around the young Duke of Gloucester.

In Albion, an empire much like Elizabethan England, Queen Gloriana keeps her golden age of peace by leaving its darker work to her old chancellor, who hires a brilliant, amoral rogue named Quire.

Melusine, a fairy cursed to take a serpent's tail every Saturday, has haunted the castle of Lusignan for centuries, until she slips into a unicorn's horn set on the helmet of a young knight bound for the Crusades.

In the kingdom of Goredd, where humans and dragons in human form keep an uneasy forty-year peace, Seraphina, assistant to the court composer, hides the truth about her mother, and a prince is murdered in a way that looks like a dragon's work.