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NEARLY A BRIDE
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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Also by Adrian Tchaikovsky:

Engines of Reason, September 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
Green City Wars, July 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Pretenders to the Throne of God, March 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
Dogs of War, March 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Bear Head, March 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Hungry Gods, August 2025
Hardcover
Shroud, June 2025
Paperback / e-Book
Service Model, May 2025
Trade Paperback
Days of Shattered Faith, March 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Alien Clay, September 2024
Paperback / e-Book
Service Model, June 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
House of Open Wounds, March 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
The Hyena and the Hawk, August 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Children of Memory, February 2023
Paperback / e-Book
Shards of Earth, August 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Expert System's Champion, February 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
The Tales of Catt & Fisher (After the War), December 2020
e-Book
Made Things, November 2019
Trade Size / e-Book

BEAR HEAD
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book
March 2026
On Sale: March 3, 2026
400 pages
ISBN: 1035922487
EAN: 9781035922482
Kindle: B08DJBQ1M8
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Science Fiction | Dystopian

Honey the genetically engineered bear starts a revolution on the Red Planet in the new novel from the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time.

WELCOME TO HELL CITY, MARS
Jimmy Martin has a sore head.

He's used to smuggling illegal data in his headspace. But this is the first time it has started talking to him.

The data claims to be a distinguished academic, author and civil rights activist.

It also claims to be a bear.

A bear named Honey.

Jimmy has nothing against bioforms – he's one himself, albeit one engineered out of human stock – and works with them everyday in Hell City, building the future, staking mankind's claim to a new world: Mars.

The problem is that humanity isn't the only entity with designs on the Red Planet. Out in the airless desert there is another presence. A novel intelligence, elusive, unknowable and potentially lethal.

And Honey is here to make contact with it, whether Jimmy likes it or not.