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2019 looks to be another incredible year for new releases. This list was curated by our contributors, and features diverse authors, self-published titles, long-anticipated sequels from established names, and debuts from unknowns. We're super excited to get our hands on this lot, and you surely will be, too!
Let's begin, shall we?
(Note: the list is ordered alphabetically by author surname. All blurbs and publication information have been taken from the Goodreads website and Amazon.)
(Untitled New First Law Trilogy #1)
The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.
On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the crown. But King Jezal's son, the feckless Prince Orso, is a man who specialises in disappointments.
Savine dan Glokta – socialite, investor, and daughter of the most feared man in the Union – plans to claw her way to the top of the slag-heap of society by any means necessary. But the slums boil over with a rage that all the money in the world cannot control.
The age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die. With the help of the mad hillwoman Isern-i-Phail, Rikke struggles to control the blessing, or the curse, of the Long Eye. Glimpsing the future is one thing, but with the guiding hand of the First of the Magi still pulling the strings, changing it will be quite another…
Expected release: September 2019 (Gollancz)
The Dollmaker
Nina Allan
Stitch by perfect stitch, Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style. Like him, they are diminutive but graceful, unique, and with surprising depths. Perhaps that's why he answers the enigmatic personal ad in his collector's magazine.
Letter by letter, Bramber Winters reveals more of her strange, sheltered life in an institution on Bodmin Moor, and the terrible events that put her there as a child. Andrew knows what it is to be trapped, and as they knit closer together, he weaves a curious plan to rescue her.
On his journey through the old towns of England, he reads the fairy tales of Ewa Chaplin–potent, eldritch stories which, like her lifelike dolls, pluck at the edges of reality and thread their way into his mind. When Andrew and Bramber meet at last, they will have a choice–to break free and, unlike their dolls, come to life.
A love story of two very real, unusual people, The Dollmaker is also a novel rich with wonders: Andrew's quest and Bramber's letters unspool around the dark fables that give our familiar world an uncanny edge. It is this touch of magic that, like the blink of a doll's eyes, tricks our own.
Expected release: 7th March 2019
"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams… And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives."
Set on a planet that has fully definitive, never-changing zones of day and night, with ensuing extreme climates of endless, frigid darkness and blinding, relentless light, humankind has somehow continued apace — though the perils outside the built cities are rife with danger as much as the streets below.
But in a world where time means only what the ruling government proclaims, and the levels of light available are artificially imposed to great consequence, lost souls and disappeared bodies are shadow-bound and savage, and as common as grains of sand. And one such pariah, sacrificed to the night, but borne up by time and a mysterious bond with an enigmatic beast, will rise to take on the entire planet–before it can crumble beneath the weight of human existence.
Expected release: 12th February 2019 (Tor Books)
Paternus: War of Gods
(Paternus #3)
Dyrk Ashton
The thrilling finale of the Paternus trilogy, an epic tale of monsters and mythology in modern-day society.
Expected release: Winter 2019
(The Books of Babel #3)
Thomas Senlin and his crew have been separated following the orders of the mysterious Sphinx. Meanwhile, the enslaved hods climb the Black Trail and whisper secrets in the dark.
As Senlin and his crew become further dragged in to the conspiracies of the Tower, everything falls to one question: Who is The Hod King?'
Expected release: 22nd January 2019 (Orbit)
The Bone Ships
(The Bone Ships #1)
RJ Barker
The author of the acclaimed Wounded Kingdom trilogy (beginning with Age of Assassins) returns with a brand new trilogy.
Enter the Hundred Isles, where ships made from the bones of extinct dragons battle for supremacy on the high seas.
Our hero Meas Giryn must unite a crew of condemned criminals for a suicide mission when the first live dragon in centuries is spotted in far off waters…
Expected release: 26th September 2019 (Orbit)
This is America, but not like you know it. Years after the decimation of the male population by a super-virus, the country has refashioned itself with new laws, new customs, and new methods of shame and punishment. Now, hiding a living and healthy male is one of the gravest offenses, rivaled only by the murder of a man. Cole is a mother on the run, guilty of both crimes, and desperate to find a safe life for her adolescent boy Miles.
As the two drift throughout the transformed states of the West, they hide Miles' identity while evading a mysterious, powerful man bent on justice. From a commune in the Rockies to a high security laboratory in the redwoods of northern California, the two tensely negotiate an existence on the fringes of a new America.
Cole's goal for her son and herself is escape, a family in South Africa, a slim chance at a better life. Mother and child see their chance, at last, in the wanderings and secret goals of a cult–if only Cole can keep Miles' true self hidden, and as long as they can stay one step ahead of an ex-boyfriend from hell.
A brilliant blend of psychological suspense, American noir, and trenchant science fiction, MOTHERLAND is the story that Lauren Beukes' myriad fans have been waiting for.
Expected release: 1st April 2019 (Mulholland)
(Red Rising Saga #5)
For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place?
Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind at the edge of his sword, he must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury.
But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance.
On Luna, Mustang, Sovereign of the Republic, campaigns to unite the Republic behind her husband. Beset by political and criminal enemies, can she outwit her opponents in time to save him?
Once a Red refugee, young Lyria now stands accused of treason, and her only hope is a desperate escape with unlikely new allies.
Abducted by a new threat to the Republic, Pax and Electra, the children of Darrow and Sevro, must trust in Ephraim, a thief, for their salvation—and Ephraim must look to them for his chance at redemption.
As alliances shift, break, and re-form—and power is seized, lost, and reclaimed—every player is at risk in a game of conquest that could turn the Rising into a new Dark Age.
Expected release: 9th July 2019 (Del Rey)
The Kingdom of Copper
(Daevabad #2)
S.A. Chakraborty
Return to Daevabad in the spellbinding sequel to THE CITY OF BRASS.
Nahri's life changed forever the moment she accidentally summoned Dara, a formidable, mysterious djinn, during one of her schemes. Whisked from her home in Cairo, she was thrust into the dazzling royal court of Daevabad and quickly discovered she would need all her grifter instincts to survive there.
Now, with Daevabad entrenched in the dark aftermath of the battle that saw Dara slain at Prince Ali's hand, Nahri must forge a new path for herself, without the protection of the guardian who stole her heart or the counsel of the prince she considered a friend. But even as she embraces her heritage and the power it holds, she knows she's been trapped in a gilded cage, watched by a king who rules from the throne that once belonged to her family and one misstep will doom her tribe.
Meanwhile, Ali has been exiled for daring to defy his father. Hunted by assassins, adrift on the unforgiving copper sands of his ancestral land, he is forced to rely on the frightening abilities the marid-the unpredictable water spirits-have gifted him. But in doing so, he threatens to unearth a terrible secret his family has long kept buried.
And as a new century approaches and the djinn gather within Daevabad's towering brass walls for celebrations, a threat brews unseen in the desolate north. It's a force that would bring a storm of fire straight to the city's gates . . . and one that seeks the aid of a warrior trapped between worlds, torn between a violent duty he can never escape and a peace he fears he will never deserve.
Expected release: 8th January 2019 (Harper Voyager)
The True Queen
(Sorcerer Royal #2)
Zen Cho
Fairyland's future lies in doubt.
The enchanted island of Janda Baik, in the Malay Archipelago, has long been home to witches. And Muna and her sister Sakti wake on its shores under a curse, which has quite stolen away their memories. Their only hope of salvation lies in distant Britain, where the Sorceress Royal runs a controversial academy for female magicians. But the pair travel via the formidable Fairy Queen's realm, where Sakti simply disappears.
To save her sister, Muna must learn to navigate Regency London's high society and trick the English into believing she's a magical prodigy. But when the Sorceress Royal's friends become accidentally embroiled in a plot – involving the Fairy Queen's contentious succession – Muna is drawn right in. She must also find Sakti, break their curse and somehow stay out of trouble. But if fairyland's true queen does finally return, trouble may find her first . . .
Expected release: 12th March 2019 (Macmillan/Ace)
Broken Shadow
Jaine Fenn
The sky is falling, and only one dilettante scientist can save the world, in the startling finale of the Shadowlands duology
Rhia Harlyn, noble and rebellious scientist, watches the skies. The stars are changing shape: something is happening to the mysterious artifact which shields her people from the sun's lethal light. To find answers, Rhia must risk life and limb by venturing into the bright and dangerous skylands where, her brother – transformed by exposure to the harsh rays – lives with the alien skykin provoking questions Rhia never thought to ask. Meanwhile, an occult scientist who believes he can defeat death at the cost of others' lives spies a new subject for his experiments… What they uncover will change their world forever.
Expected release: 2nd April 2019 (Angry Robot)
Where Oblivion Lives
(Los Nefilim #4)
T. Frohock
A lyrical historical fantasy adventure, set in 1932 Spain and Germany, that brings to life the world of the novellas collected in Los Nefilim: Spanish Nephilim battling daimons in a supernatural war to save humankind.
Born of daimon and angel, Diago Alvarez is a being unlike all others. The embodiment of dark and light, he has witnessed the good and the horror of this world and those beyond. In the supernatural war between angels and daimons that will determine humankind's future, Diago has chosen Los Nefilim, the sons and daughters of angels who possess the power to harness music and light.
As the forces of evil gather, Diago must locate the Key, the special chord that will unite the nefilim's voices, giving them the power to avert the coming civil war between the Republicans and Franco's Nationalists. Finding the Key will save Spain from plunging into darkness.
And for Diago, it will resurrect the anguish caused by a tragedy he experienced in a past life.
But someone—or something—is determined to stop Diago in his quest and will use his history to destroy him and the nefilim. Hearing his stolen Stradivarius played through the night, Diago is tormented by nightmares about his past life. Each incarnation strengthens the ties shared by the nefilim, whether those bonds are of love or hate . . . or even betrayal.
To retrieve the violin, Diago must journey into enemy territory . . . and face an old nemesis and a fallen angel bent on revenge.
Expected release: 19th February 2019 (Harper Voyager)
Grim Solace
(Chasing Graves #2)
Ben Galley
Welcome to Araxes – a city where you work until you die, and then you work a little more. Grim Solace is the second book in Ben Galley's Chasing Graves trilogy.
Expected release: January 2019
International bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition.
In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra's intelligence won him entry to a renowned school even though he was only the son of a tailor. He took service at the court of a ruling count–and soon learned why that man was known as the Beast.
Danio's fate changed the moment he saw and recognized Adria Ripoli as she entered the count's chambers one autumn night–intending to kill. Born to power, Adria had chosen, instead of a life of comfort, one of danger–and freedom. Which is how she encounters Danio in a perilous time and place.
Vivid figures share the unfolding story. Among them: a healer determined to defy her expected lot; a charming, frivolous son of immense wealth; a powerful religious leader more decadent than devout; and, affecting all these lives and many more, two larger-than-life mercenary commanders, lifelong adversaries, whose rivalry puts a world in the balance.
A Brightness Long Ago offers both compelling drama and deeply moving reflections on the nature of memory, the choices we make in life, and the role played by the turning of Fortune's wheel.
Expected release: 14th May 2019 (Berkley)
Lady Hotspur
Tessa Gratton
Inspired by Shakespeare's Henry IV, Lady Hotspur continues the saga of Innis Lear, centuries later, as revolution, love, and a betrayal corrupt the descendants of two warring kingdoms.
Hal was once a knight, carefree and joyous, sworn to protect her future queen Banna Mora. But after a rebellion led by her own mother, Caleda, Hal is now the prince of Lionis, heir to the throne. The pressure of her crown and bloody memories of war plague her, as well as a need to shape her own destiny, no matter the cost.
Lady Hotspur, known as the Wolf of Aremoria for her temper and warcraft, never expected to be more than a weapon. She certainly never expected to fall in love with the fiery Hal or be blindsided by an angry Queen's promise to remake the whole world in her own image—a plan Hotspur knows will lead to tragedy.
Banna Mora kept her life, but not her throne. Fleeing to Innis Lear to heal her heart and plot revenge, the stars and roots of Innis Lear will teach her that the only way to survive a burning world is to learn to breathe fire.
These three women, together or apart, are the ones who have the power to bring the once-powerful Aremoria back to life—or destroy it forever.
Expected release: 30th April 2019 (Tor Books)
The Firenzia Company Chronicles #1
T L Greylock
Mischief, mayhem, and archaeology – an exciting new trilogy from the author of The Song of the Ash Tree.
A Time of Blood
(Of Blood and Bone #2)
'Defy the darkness. Defend the light.
Drem and his friends flee the battle at Starstone Lake to warn the Order of the Bright Star. They've witnessed horrors they'll never forget, such as magic warping men into beasts. But worst of all, they've seen a demon rise from the dead – making it even more powerful. Now Fritha, the demons' high priestess, is hunting Drem's party.
Concealed in Forn Forest, Riv struggles to understand her half-breed heritage. She represents the warrior angels' biggest secret, one which could break their society. And when she's found by the Ben-Elim's high captain, he swoops in for the kill.
As demonic forces multiply, they send a mighty war-host to overthrow the angel's stronghold. This could decimate the fractured Ben-Elim. And their allies in the Order may be too overwhelmed to send aid – with Fritha and her monstrous beasts closing in. Like heroes of old, Drem and the Bright Star's warriors must battle to save their land. But can the light triumph when the dark is rising?'
Expected release: 18th April 2019 (Pan Macmillan)
The Gutter Prayer
(The Black Iron Legacy #1)
Gareth Hanrahan
A group of three young thieves are pulled into a centuries old magical war between ancient beings, mages, and humanity in this wildly original debut epic fantasy.
The city has always been. The city must finally end.
When three thieves – an orphan, a ghoul, and a cursed man – are betrayed by the master of the thieves guild, their quest for revenge uncovers dark truths about their city and exposes a dangerous conspiracy, the seeds of which were sown long before they were born. Cari is a drifter whose past and future are darker than she can know. Rat is a Ghoul, whose people haunt the city's underworld. Spar is a Stone Man, subject to a terrible disease that is slowly petrifying his flesh.
Chance has brought them together, but their friendship could be all that stands in the way of total armageddon
Expected release: 17th January 2019 (Orbit)
Rob J. Hayes
Ein is on a mission from God. A God of Death.
Time is up for the Emperor of Ten Kings and it falls to a murdered eight year old boy to render the judgement of a God. Ein knows he can't do it alone, but the empire is rife with heroes. The only problem; in order to serve, they must first die.
Ein has four legendary heroes in mind, names from story books read to him by his father. Now he must find them and kill them, so he can bring them back to fight the Reaper's war.
Expected release: 29th January 2019
M.T. Hill
From Philip K. Dick Award-nominated author M.T. Hill, The Zero Bomb is a startling science fiction mystery that asks: what do we do when technology replaces our need to work?
The near future. Following the death of his daughter Martha, Remi flees the north of England for London. Here he tries to rebuild his life as a cycle courier, delivering subversive documents under the nose of an all-seeing state.
But when a driverless car attempts to run him over, Remi soon discovers that his old life will not let him move on so easily. Someone is leaving coded messages for Remi across the city, and they seem to suggest that Martha is not dead at all.
Unsure what to believe, and increasingly unable to trust his memory, Remi is slowly drawn into the web of a dangerous radical whose '70s sci-fi novel is now a manifesto for direct action against automation, technology, and England itself.
The deal? Remi can see Martha again – if he joins the cause.
Expected release: 19th March 2019 (Titan Books)
The Light Brigade
The Light Brigade: it's what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…different. Grunts in the corporate corps get busted down into light to travel to and from interplanetary battlefronts. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do in order to break them down into light. Those who survive learn to stick to the mission brief—no matter what actually happens during combat.
Dietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops that don't sync up with the platoon's. And Dietz's bad drops tell a story of the war that's not at all what the corporate brass want the soldiers to think is going on.
Is Dietz really experiencing the war differently, or is it combat madness? Trying to untangle memory from mission brief and survive with sanity intact, Dietz is ready to become a hero—or maybe a villain; in war it's hard to tell the difference.
Expected release: 19th March 2019 (Saga Press)
(The Dark Star trilogy #1)
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard.
As Tracker follows the boy's scent–from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers–he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying?
Expected release: 5th February 2019
The City We Became
Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N.K. Jemisin.
Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five.
Expected release: 5th September 2019 (Orbit)
The Last Road
(Gods of the Caravan Road #5)
K.V. Johansen
When even the gods are dying, the hope of the world may lie in its most feared enemies.
A new god proclaimed as the All-Holy has arisen in the west and leads an army eastward, devouring the gods and goddesses of the lands between, forcibly converting their folk and binding their souls to himself. The very fabric of the world appears threatened by forces beyond the understanding of scholars and wizards alike. Even the great city of Marakand, where the roads of east and west converge, seems powerless to resist the All-Holy, though the devils Moth and Yeh-Lin and the assassin Ahjvar, undead consort of the god of distant Nabban, have come to stand with it. That may avail Marakand little, for the shapeshifting Blackdog, once a champion of the gods, follows obediently at the All-Holy's heel and Lakkariss, the sword of the cold hells, is in his master's hand.
Expected release: 7th May 2019 (Prometheus)
God of Broken Things
(Age of Tyranny #2)
An outcast magician must risk his body and mind to save the world from horrifying demons, in the heart-pounding epic fantasy sequel to The Traitor God.
Tyrant magus Edrin Walker destroyed the monster sent by the Skallgrim, but not before it laid waste to Setharis, and infested their magical elite with mind-controlling parasites. Edrin's own Gift to seize the minds of others was cracked by the strain of battle, and he barely survives the interrogation of a captured magus. There's no time for recovery though: a Skallgrim army is marching on the mountain passes of the Clanhold. Edrin and a coterie of villains race to stop them, but the mountains are filled with gods, daemons, magic, and his hideous past. Walker must stop at nothing to win, even if that means losing his mind. Or worse…
Expected release: 4th June 2019 (Angry Robot Books)
The Dragon Republic
(The Poppy War #2)
R.F. Kuang
'In the aftermath of the Third Poppy War, shaman and warrior Rin is on the run: haunted by the atrocity she committed to end the war, addicted to opium, and hiding from the murderous commands of her vengeful god, the fiery Phoenix. Her only reason for living is to get revenge on the traitorous Empress who sold out Nikan to their enemies.
With no other options, Rin joins forces with the powerful Dragon Warlord, who has a plan to conquer Nikan, unseat the Empress, and create a new Republic. Rin throws herself into his war. After all, making war is all she knows how to do.
But the Empress is a more powerful foe than she appears, and the Dragon Warlord's motivations are not as democratic as they seem. The more Rin learns, the more she fears her love for Nikan will drive her away from every ally and lead her to rely more and more on the Phoenix's deadly power. Because there is nothing she won't sacrifice for her country and her vengeance.
The sequel to R.F. Kuang's acclaimed debut THE POPPY WAR, THE DRAGON REPUBLIC combines the history of 20th-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating effect.'
Expected release: 2nd May 2019 (Harper Voyager)
(Impossible Times #1)
In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he's dying. And it isn't even the strangest thing to happen to him that week.
Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange—yet curiously familiar—man is following Nick, with abilities that just shouldn't exist. And this man bears a cryptic message: Mia's in grave danger, though she doesn't know it yet. She needs Nick's help—now.
He finds himself in a race against time to unravel an impossible mystery and save the girl. And all that stands in his way is a probably terminal disease, a knife-wielding maniac and the laws of physics.
Expected release: 1st May 2019 (47North)
(Book of the Ancestor #3)
They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman.
The ice is advancing, the Corridor narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns in the west. Everywhere, the emperor's armies are in retreat.
Nona faces the final challenges that must be overcome if she is to become a full sister in the order of her choice. But it seems unlikely that Nona and her friends will have time to earn a nun's habit before war is on their doorstep.
Even a warrior like Nona cannot hope to turn the tide of war.
The shiphearts offer strength that she might use to protect those she loves, but it's a power that corrupts. A final battle is coming in which she will be torn between friends, unable to save them all. A battle in which her own demons will try to unmake her.
A battle in which hearts will be broken, lovers lost, thrones burned.
Expected release: 4th April 2019 (Harper Voyager); 9th April 2019 (Ace)
Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this breathtaking first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.
For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained via the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes.
But the power of the Raven is weakening. A usurper has claimed the throne. The kingdom borders are tested by invaders who long for the prosperity that Vastai boasts. And they have made their own alliances with other gods.
It is into this unrest that the warrior Eolo–aide to Mawat, the true Lease–arrives. And in seeking to help Mawat reclaim his city, Eolo discovers that the Raven's Tower holds a secret. Its foundations conceal a dark history that has been waiting to reveal itself…and to set in motion a chain of events that could destroy Iraden forever.
Expected release: 26th February 2019 (Orbit)
The Sun's Domain
(The Hollow Gods #3)
Rebecca Levene
Seven years have passed since the shattering of Mirror Town, and Krish has taken has rightful place as heir to the kingdom of Ashanesland, with his friends and allies ruling by his side. He's turned his back on his divine birthright and set out to bring unity to the warring tribes and nations as no more than a man.
The mysterious land once known as the Eternal Empire has opened its borders at last, and invited Krish to take his place as part of its ruling Triumvirate. But there are plots within plots in the country that once worshipped his sister, the sun, and now hates all gods.
Because the sun goddess been made flesh once again and is determined to end the ancient conflict with her brother's final defeat. And there are strange and new gods stirring in the lands – while some search for a weapon that could destroy them all.
Expected release: 21st February 2019 (Hodder & Stoughton)
Gates of Stone
(Lord of the Islands #1)
Angus Macallan
In a world of blood and magic, a powerful epic fantasy begins…
AN EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER WHO WILL NOT BE DENIED
Just before her sixteenth birthday, Princess Katerina is refused her rightful place as heir to the Empire of the Ice-Bear–solely because of her sex. Determined to regain her inheritance, she murders the foreign lord she's been ordered to marry and embarks on a perilous voyage to the lush, tropical islands of the Laut Besar in search of the vast wealth and power she needs to claim the Empire for herself.
A PRINCE FORCED TO TAKE A STAND
On a small island kingdom, Prince Arjun's idyllic life is shattered when a malignant sorcerer invades, slaughters his people and steals the sacred sword of Jun's ancestors. With his royal father dead and his palace in ruins, Jun reluctantly tracks the sorcerer and the magical blade far across the pirate-infested waters of the Laut Besar.
A SORCERER SEEKING TO DESTROY THE WORLD
Long ago the powerful relics known as the Seven Keys were used to safely lock away the terrifying evils of the Seven Hells. With Jun's ancient sword in his grasp, the sorcerer Mangku has claimed the first Key, and begun his mission to unleash catastrophe upon the land.
As the destinies of these three entwine in the lawless islands of the Laut Besar, the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. For if the sorcerer cannot be stopped, the world itself will be unmade…
Expected release: 19th February 2019 (Ace)
Infinite Detail
A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet
BEFORE: In Bristol's center lies the Croft, a digital no-man's-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, it's become a center of creative counterculture. But it's fraying at the edges, radicalizing from inside. How will it fare when its chief architect, Rushdi Mannan, takes off to meet his boyfriend in New York City–now the apotheosis of the new techno-utopian global metropolis?
AFTER: An act of anonymous cyberterrorism has permanently switched off the Internet. Global trade, travel, and communication have collapsed. The luxuries that characterized modern life are scarce. In the Croft, Mary–who has visions of people presumed dead–is sought out by grieving families seeking connections to lost ones. But does Mary have a gift or is she just hustling to stay alive? Like Grids, who runs the Croft's black market like personal turf. Or like Tyrone, who hoards music (culled from cassettes, the only medium to survive the crash) and tattered sneakers like treasure.
The world of Infinite Detail is a small step shy of our own: utterly dependent on technology, constantly brokering autonomy and privacy for comfort and convenience. With Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan makes the hitherto-unimaginable come true: the End of the Internet, the End of the World as We Know It.
Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.
Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.
Roger and Dodger aren't exactly human, though they don't realise it. They aren't exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.
Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He's not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own.
Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn't attained.
Expected release: 7th May 2019
Priest of Lies
(War for the Rose Throne #2)
Peter McLean
Tomas Piety has been many things: soldier, priest, gangster…and spy. As Tomas's power grows, the nobility better watch their backs, in this dark and gritty epic fantasy series.
People are weak, and the poorer and more oppressed they are, the weaker they become–until they can't take it anymore. And when they rise up…may the gods help their oppressors.
When Tomas Piety returned from the war, he just wanted to rebuild his empire of crime with his gang of Pious Men. But his past as a spy for the Queen's Men drew him back in and brought him more power than he ever imagined.
Now, with half of his city in ashes and the Queen's Men at his back, the webs of political intrigue stretch out from the capital to pull Tomas in. Dannsburg is calling.
In Dannsburg the nobility fight with words, not blades, but the results are every bit as bloody. In this pit of beasts, Tomas must decide once and for all whether he is truly the people's champion…or just a priest of lies.
Expected release: 2nd July 2019 (Ace/Jo Fletcher Books)
Atlas Alone
(Planetfall #4)
Emma Newman
Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about vengeance, and a woman deciding if she can become a murderer to save the future of humanity.
Six months after she left Earth, Dee is struggling to manage her rage toward the people who ordered the nuclear strike that destroyed the world. She's trying to find those responsible, and to understand why the ship is keeping everyone divided into small groups, but she's not getting very far alone.
A dedicated gamer, she throws herself into mersives to escape and is approached by a designer who asks her to play test his new game. It isn't like any game she's played before. Then a character she kills in the climax of the game turns out to bear a striking resemblance to a man who dies suddenly in the real world at exactly the same time. A man she discovers was one of those responsible for the death of millions on Earth.
Disturbed, but thinking it must be a coincidence, Dee pulls back from gaming and continues the hunt for information. But when she finds out the true plans for the future colony, she realizes that to save what is left of humanity, she may have to do something that risks losing her own.
Expected release: 16th April 2019 (Ace Books)
The Wolf's Call
(Raven's Blade #1)
PEACE NEVER LASTS
Vaelin Al Sorna is a living legend, his name known across the Realm. It was his leadership that overthrew empires, his blade that won hard-fought battles – and his sacrifice that defeated an evil more terrifying than anything the world had ever seen. Yet he cast aside his earned glory for a quiet life in the Realm's northern reaches.
Now whispers have come from across the sea of an army called the Steel Horde, led by a man who believes himself a god. Vaelin has no wish to fight another war, but when he learns that Sherin, the woman he lost long ago, has fallen into the Horde's grasp, he resolves to confront this powerful new threat.
To this end, Vaelin travels to the realms of the Merchant Kings, a land ruled by honour and intrigue. There, as the drums of war thunder across kingdoms riven by conflict, Vaelin learns a terrible truth: that there are some battles that even he cannot hope to win.
Expected release: 23rd July 2019 (Ace)
(Iconoclasts #2)
Mike Shel
The sequel to Shel's much acclaimed debut Aching God.
Ghosts of Gotham
Irresistibly drawn to mysteries, if only to debunk them, reporter Lionel Page exposes supernatural frauds, swindlers, and charlatans. His latest case is an obsession—at least for an ancient and wealthy heiress: verify the authenticity of a lost Edgar Allan Poe manuscript circulating through New York City's literary underworld. But the shrewd Regina Dunkle offers more than money. It's a pact. Fulfill her request, and Lionel's own notorious buried past, one he's been running from since he was a child, will remain hidden.
As Lionel's quest begins, so do the warnings. And where rare books go, murder follows. It's only when Lionel meets enigmatic stranger Madison Hannah, his personal usher into the city's secret history, that he realizes he's being guided by a force more powerful than logic…and that he isn't just following a story. He is the story.
Now that the true purpose of his mission is revealing itself in the most terrifying ways, it may finally be time for Lionel to believe in the unbelievable.
Expected release: 9th April 2019 (47North)
The House of Sacrifice
(Empires of Dust #3)
Anna Smith Spark
A powerhouse grimdark fantasy of bloodshed, ambition, and fate, The House of Sacrifice is the thunderous conclusion to Anna Smith Spark's Empires of Dust trilogy, which began with The Court of Broken Knives.
Marith's power is growing. His empire stretches across half the world, and allies are flocking to his banner to share the spoils of war. With Thalia ruling at his side they are unstoppable.
But Marith is become increasingly mentally unstable and their victories cannot continue forever.
Expected release: 25th July 2019 (Harper Voyager, UK); 13th August 2019 (Orbit, US)
Bloodchild
(Godblind #3)
Anna Stephens
In this epic grimdark conclusion to the Godblind Trilogy, heroes, armies, and gods both good and evil will battle one last time, with the fate of the world itself at stake. . . .
The great city of Rilpor has fallen. Its walls have crumbled under the siege by the savage Mireces; its defenders have scattered, fleeing for their lives; its new rulers plot to revive the evil Red Gods using the city's captured, soon-to-be-sacrificed citizens. Now, with the Fox God leading the shattered remnants of the Rilporian defence and the Mireces consolidating their claim on the rest of the country, it's up to Crys, Tara, Mace, Dom and the rest to end the Red Gods' scourge once and for all.
While the Rilporians plan and prepare for one final, cataclysmic battle to defeat their enemies, the Blessed One and the king of the Mireces have plans of their own: dark plans that will see gods resurrected and the annihilation of the Dancer for all time. Key to their plan is Rillirin, King Corvus's sister, and the baby–the Bloodchild–she carries. As both sides face their destinies and their gods, only one thing is clear: death waits for them all.
Expected release: 9th August 2019 (Talos/Harper Voyager)
Realm of Ash
(The Books of Ambha #2)
Tasha Suri
Some believe the Ambhan Empire is cursed. But Arwa doesn't simply believe it – she knows it's true.
Widowed by the infamous, unnatural massacre at Darez Fort, Arwa was saved only by the strangeness of her blood – a strangeness she had been taught all her life to suppress. She offers up her blood and service to the imperial family and makes common cause with a disgraced, illegitimate prince who has turned to forbidden occult arts to find a cure to the darkness hanging over the Empire.
Using the power in Arwa's blood, they seek answers in the realm of ash: a land where mortals can seek the ghostly echoes of their ancestors' dreams. But the Emperor's health is failing, and a terrible war of succession hovers on the horizon, not just for the imperial throne, but for the magic underpinning Empire itself.
To save the Empire, Arwa and the prince must walk the bloody path of their shared past, through the realm of ash and into the desert, where the cause of the Empire's suffering-and its only chance of salvation – lie in wait. But what they find there calls into question everything they've ever valued . . . and whether they want to save the Empire at all.
Expected release: 14th November 2019 (Orbit)
The Rosewater Insurrection
(Wormwood #2)
Tade Thompson
The Rosewater Insurrection continues the award-winning, cutting edge Wormwood trilogy, set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices.
All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. Those who know the truth of the invasion keep the secret.
The government agent Aminat, the lover of the retired sensitive Kaaro, is at the forefront of the cold, silent conflict. She must capture a woman who is the key to the survival of the human race. But Aminat is stymied by the machinations of the Mayor of Rosewater and the emergence of an old enemy of Wormwood…
Tade Thompson's innovative, genre-bending, Afrofuturist series, the Wormwood Trilogy, is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. K. Jemisin, William Gibson, and Ann Leckie.
Expected release: 12th March 2019 (Orbit)
Children of Ruin
(Children of Time #2)
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Long ago, Earth's terraforming program sent ships out to build new homes for humanity among the stars and made an unexpected discovery: a planet with life. But the scientists were unaware that the alien ecosystem was more developed than the primitive life forms originally discovered.
Now, thousands of years later, the Portiids and their humans have sent an exploration vessel following fragmentary radio signals. They discover a system in crisis, warring factions trying to recover from an apocalyptic catastrophe arising from what the early terraformers awoke all those years before.
Expected release: 14th May 2019 (Orbit/Pan Macmillan)
Young Girolamo's life is a series of miracles.
It's a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will. It's a miracle that he's friends with Pico della Mirandola, the Count of Concordia. It's a miracle that when Girolamo visits the deathbed of Lorenzo "the Magnificent," the dying Medici is wreathed in celestial light, a surprise to everyone, Lorenzo included. It's a miracle that when Charles VIII of France invades northern Italy, Girolamo meets him in the field, and convinces him to not only spare Florence but also protect it. It's a miracle than whenever Girolamo preaches, crowds swoon. It's a miracle that, despite the Pope's determination to bring young Girolamo to heel, he's still on the loose…and, now, running Florence in all but name.
That's only the beginning. Because Girolamo Savanarola is not who—or what—he thinks he is. He will discover the truth about himself at the most startling possible time. And this will be only the beginning of his many lives.
Expected release: 28th May 2019 (Tor)
Legacy of Ghosts
(The Coraidic Sagas #2)
Alicia Wanstall-Burke
Four years have passed since Lidan Tolak's half-mother gave birth to her father's long-awaited son and Ranoth Olseta discovered the Hidden Keep and the truth of Lackmah and his ghost girl.
Ran has harnessed his magic and developed a skill for tracking the light trails left by magical energy disrupting the atmosphere, concealing his identity and reluctantly finding a home within the walls of the Keep. But when life in the Keep is turned upside down, he is thrown back into the outside world, his feet placed on a southward path toward unknown lands and untold danger.
As an apprentice ranger, Lidan spends her days hunting ngaru and defending her clan from incursions by raiders. But only one year remains before the bargain with her mother expires, and time is running out to change her father's mind about the succession. Unexpected power and forces beyond her understanding press their will against Lidan, and she is faced with an impossible choice; will her brother live, or will he die?
With Ran set on seeking justice and revenge, and Lidan fighting to find her feet and follow her heart, journeys will converge, and the ghosts of a past thought long dead will rise.
Expected release: April 2019
The Burning White
(Lightbringer #5)
Brent Weeks
Stripped of both magical and political power, the people he once ruled told he's dead, and now imprisoned in his own magical dungeon, former Emperor Gavin Guile has no prospect of escape. But the world faces a calamity greater than the Seven Satrapies has ever seen… and only he can save it.
As the armies of the White King defeat the Chromeria and old gods are born anew, the fate of worlds will come down to one question: Who is the Lightbringer?
Expected release: September 2019 (Orbit)
Mother of Slag
(The Living Blade #3)
She's under a sword's control. He's crushed by the past. Together, they'll fight for a new kind of freedom…
Driven to the brink of madness, Noraya "Nora" Smith is chained to the Living Blade, body and soul. Unable to restrain its fury, Nora watches the enchanted sword use her to wreak havoc across the land. Before the blade devours her whole, Nora must discover its shocking secrets…
The once-proud warrior Master Telen Diaz reels from the loss of his sword arm and his past of painful abuse. After taking refuge on a magical island, the half-wight uncovers the truth of his heritage. But will the help of the bloodwitches and mermaids allow him to understand his feelings for Nora?
Alone, Nora and Diaz are powerless against the dark Prophetess. Together, they may just have a chance to save the world…
Mother of Slag is the powerful third and final book in The Living Blade dark fantasy series. If you like magical mysteries, fiery romance, and fantastical details, then you'll love Timandra Whitecastle's gritty fairytale.
The Poison Song
(The Winnowing Flame #3)
Jen Williams
All is chaos. All is confusion. The Jure'lia are weak, but the war is far from over.
Ebora was once a glorious city, defended by legendary warriors and celebrated in song. Now refugees from every corner of Sarn seek shelter within its crumbling walls, and the enemy that has poisoned their land won't lie dormant for long.
The deep-rooted connection that Tormalin, Noon and the scholar Vintage share with their Eboran war-beasts has kept them alive so far. But with Tor distracted, and his sister Hestillion hell-bent on bringing ruthless order to the next Jure'lia attack, the people of Sarn need all the help they can get.
Noon is no stranger to playing with fire and knows just where to recruit a new – and powerful – army. But even she underestimates the epic quest that is to come. It is a journey wrought with pain and sacrifice – a reckoning that will change the face of Sarn forever.
Join forces with the heroes of the WINNOWING FLAME TRILOGY as they strive to silence the Jure'lia's poison song once and for all.
Expected release: 16th May 2019 (Headline)
The Ascent to Godhood
(Tensorate #4)
J.Y. Yang
The Protector is dead.
For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image and driving her enemies to the corners of the map. For half a century the world turned around her as she built her armies, trained her Tensors, and grasped at the reins of fate itself. Now she is dead. Her followers will quiver, her enemies rejoice.
But in one tavern, deep in rebel territory, her greatest enemy drowns her sorrows. Lady Han raised a movement that sought the Protector's head, yet now she can only mourn her loss. She remembers how it all began, when the Protector was young, not yet crowned, and a desperate dancing girl dared to fall in love with her.
Expected release: 30th July 2019 (Tor.com)
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Sylvester Stallone's faith has been tested many times over the course of his life, but he managed to overcome all the hardships and is still standing strong.
He met his first hurdle the moment he was born on July 6, 1946. Due to complications that arose during his mother's labor, the obstetricians had to use forceps to retrieve him, but in the process they accidentally severed a nerve. This resulted in the paralysis of the lower left side of his face, including his lip, tongue, and chin.
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As he got older, he decided to pursue a career in acting, but that was no easy feat. Stallone's first starring role was in a softcore pornographic film, which he claimed he did out of desperation. He was evicted from his apartment at the time, and had been sleeping at a bus station prior to taking on the controversial role.
"It was either do that movie or rob someone, because I was at the end "" the very end "" of my rope," Stallone said in an interview a few years ago.
He eventually worked his way up the fame ladder with box office hits like Rocky, Rambo, and Demolition Man. He amassed plenty of awards throughout his decades-long career, including a Golden Globe.
However, Stallone struggled to find happiness in his personal life. He has been married three times: The first time was in 1974 to Sasha Czack. They welcomed two sons, Sage Moonblood in May 1976 and Seargeoh in 1979, before getting a divorce in 1985. That same year, he married model and actress Brigitte Nielsen, but their relationship ended in a highly publicized divorce two years later.
He finally settled down with his third wife, former model Jennifer Flavin, in 1997, and they now have three daughters, Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet.
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Still, Stallone had even more difficult times ahead, having to deal with losing one of his sons and raising a daughter with a serious medical condition.
In 2012, Sage Moonblood was found dead in his home. Although there was a lot of speculation surrounding the 36-year-old's sudden death, a toxicology report came back "negative except for a sub-therapeutic level of hydrocodone." Turns out, his death was brought on by a hidden heart condition.
"This agonizing loss will be felt for the rest of our lives," Stallone said in a statement. "Sage is our first child and the center of our universe and I am humbly begging for all to have my son's memory and soul left in peace."
Just a few weeks after Sage was laid to rest, Stallone's 48-year-old half-sister, Tori Ann Filiti, died of lung cancer.
In addition to all the tragedy, the Stallones were subjected to another troubling situation: Sophia was to undergo heart surgery at the end of that year.
"This is a terrible year, a horrible year for him. Sylvester is devastated...," Flavin said at the time.
The oldest of the Stallone sisters was born in 1996 with a form of Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) called an atrioventricular septum. The condition occurs when a baby is born with a hole in the wall between the left and right sides of the heart, allowing blood to flow between the chambers. Although rare, the condition is curable with surgery.
Sophia was just two-and-a-half months old when she was forced to undergo her first open-heart surgery at a Los Angeles hospital. UCLA pediatric cardiologist Dr. Stacey Drant reassured the Stallones that they had nothing to worry about.
"Every child I've seen operated on has survived...In terms of surgery, it's a slam dunk," Drant told E! News.
Stallone and Flavin confirmed the news a week before the procedure, and thankfully, the surgery was a success, and Sophia was cleared to go home after a few days of observation.
"I've been staying at the hospital with Jennifer every night," Stallone said in a statement after the surgery. "I have been blessed with two miracles within the past nine weeks--that of my daughter being born and that of my daughter being reborn."
Unfortunately, around the age of 16, Sophia's cardiac malformation triggered a problem with a heart valve, and she required another surgery.
Considering everything the family had already gone through that year, the timing couldn't be any more worse, but both Sophia and her parents have been trying to make the best of the hand they were dealt with.
"Every day I think of my heart," Sophia told Paris Match magazine in 2012. "I eat really healthy, and as I get more tired than normal, I have to be very careful when doing sports. Now I have to have surgery again because the tissue they put in 16 years ago has widened and I have problems with the valves. If all goes well, I will spend five days in the hospital."
Sophia's mother then explained that the her illness has taken a toll on the entire family, but Stallone has taken it especially hard because he and Sophia have a special bond.
"She is the one that most resembles her father," Flavin said. "Like him she has read nearly all of Shakespeare's books. They have a very special bond, they think alike and even have the same gestures, Sophia is the love of his life."
Flavin also revealed that they had plans to make the remaining months leading up to the surgery as special as possible for their ill daughter. "This is Sophia's year. A very special year," said Flavin. "Sly and I have thought about everything she wants and what can make her happy."
They decided that she would attend the Bal des Débutantes in Paris, which was scheduled to take place a month before the surgery.
"Bruce Willis' wife Emma told us about it after Tallulah participated last year. We put the idea to Sophia and she loved it," said her mother.
Sophia had the chance to dance with Stallone at the black tie affair, she later admitted that was her first dance ever with her father and it was "the best moment for me."
She successfully underwent surgery eight days before Christmas, and life has only gotten better since.
In a 2016 interview with The Telegraph, a 20-year-old Sophia candidly spoke about how much her heart condition impacted her and her family.
"I can do everything now," she said. "I just have these scars. And, actually, I feel like a better person today because of what happened "" more of an old soul, I guess."
She continued, "It forced me to grow up, seeing my mum and dad freaking out the way they did. Watching them crying and looking so terrified meant that I had to hold it together, and when I was getting a little woozy just before, I remember looking at mum and dad crying and saying to them, 'I love you and I will come out of this.'"
Despite Sophia's honest admission, her mother still felt sad that her daughter was robbed of her teenage years because of her condition. "Sophia had never had a boyfriend at that time and she should have been thinking about school and going on dates, not going through something so heavy."
For now, CHD is on the back burner, and Sophia has other priorities that are keeping her busy.
Sophia, who turns 22 in August, is currently a communications major (with a minor in entrepreneurship and film) at the University of Southern California, where she's also a member of a sorority.
"I want to be an entrepreneur and run my own fashion and makeup line," she told The Hollywood Reporter.
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Sophia previously talked about her love for theater and the desire to become an actress, but she gave up on that dream when she realized how harsh the industry can be. However, she's still open to appearing in front of the camera if the opportunity arises.
She recently appeared as a guest judge on the Lifetime television show Project Runway, and last year, she and her sister's were chosen to hand out trophies at the 2017 Golden Globes Awards.
Miss Golden Globes is a Hollywood Foreign Press tradition that dates back to 1960s which selects a celebrity offspring to give away the coveted statuettes. It was sort of like a debut for the Stallone sisters.
Sophia also appeared alongside her younger sisters on the cover of Harper's Bazaar's April 2017 issue. From the looks of her Instagram, she also occasionally models alongside her sister, Sistine.
As for Stallone, he hasn't recently publicly spoken about the nerve-racking time and his family went through all those years ago, but during one of his past interviews, he expressed gratitude to those who helped save Sophia's life.
"My daughter had heart surgery and I saw this doctor and thought, "˜He has the power of life and death.' That is my new hero," Stallone said.
Sylvester Stallone isn't the only celeb who's kid has turned their health struggles into their motivation for success.
David and Victoria Beckham's Son Refuses To Let Devastating Diagnosis Keep Him From Success
Raising children is never easy, especially if one suffers from a chronic condition. Parenting doesn't come with a rule book, but that doesn't mean they don't do the best they can.
Even if you're a celebrity, parenting isn't any easier, as they still hold the expectation to raise their kids to become kind, respectable, and responsible adults. Sometimes there are struggles when their offspring get unruly, but other times the circumstances are out of their control, which in turn can make them feel helpless in caring for their child.
David and Victoria Beckham are no different, especially when they were faced with their son's devastating medical diagnosis.
But let's rewind on their story. Before the pair met, David saw Victoria in the music video for the Spice Girls's 1996 hit song "Say You'll Be There." He was instantly smitten.
"That's the girl for me and I'm going to get her! She's my idea of perfection," David reportedly said to his former teammate Gary Neville.
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David's future bride had been aware of his existence too, as Victoria had been secretly following his career through various magazines.
"My wife picked me out of a soccer sticker book. And I chose her off the telly. It felt straight away like we'd always been meant to be together," David wrote in his 2003 autobiography.
The Beckhams finally met in 1997 after being introduced at a celebrity soccer match, and the rest is history.
Dubbed "Posh and Becks" by the media, the lovebirds tied the knot on July 3, 1999 and have since welcomed four beautiful children: Brooklyn, 18, Romeo, 15, Cruz, 12, and Harper, 6.
Living the picture perfect life, it would come as a devastating shock when their son, Romeo, was diagnosed with epilepsy.
Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder in the world, and affects people of all ages by causing seizures. There are several types of seizures one can suffer from, varying from being brief and nearly undetectable to long periods of vigorous shaking.
According to CURE Epilepsy, an estimated 65 million people suffer from epilepsy, with 3.4 million being American.
The neurological disorder can result in physical injuries, including broken bones. Sufferers often have to take medication for the rest of their lives, but even then on rare occasions, it can prove to be fatal. Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) is an unexplained complication, where no other cause of death is found. It can occur at any time.
Following the revelation of Romeo's epilepsy diagnosis, the Beckhams have taken extra precautions to ensure their son's safety.
In 2006, it was revealed to the public the young Beckham suffered from the neurological disease, when Victoria lashed out at paparazzi for taking flash photography of Romeo - which has the ability to trigger a seizure.
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Prior to the announcement, the Beckhams had been seen frequenting hospital, but no one knew why, until one fateful day when the family arrived at Heathrow Airport in Longford, England.
As they were being bombarded with flash photography, Romeo, then four, began having a violent reaction. While Victoria initially tried to shield his eyes from the bright lights as they made their way to their waiting car, the paparazzi only continued to persist.
The situation took an ugly turn when one ruthless photographer pressed his camera to the car's window and began to take snaps. The flashing lights made Romeo scream out in terror, which forced Victoria to reveal her son's condition.
Shielding him once more, she yelled: "Leave him alone. He's got epilepsy. All that flashing will start an epileptic fit. You can't do that!"
The photographers were from media outlet Splash News, and once the media outlet's owner, Kevin Smith, found out about Romeo's epilepsy diagnosis, he vowed to refrain from taking flash pictures of him.
"No picture is worth putting a child's life in danger. Now that we know Romeo has epilepsy I will not be authorising any of my photographers to take flash pictures of him. I think this is absolutely the right thing to do and I hope other agencies follow suit," Smith said.
Fortunately, Romeo hasn't let his condition rule his life.
Since Victoria's 2006 announcement, the paparazzi acknowledged Romeo's condition, and have done the right thing by ceasing to take his picture with flash photography.
Romeo hasn't let his epilepsy be the focal point as his life as he's already accomplished several feats before the end of puberty.
In 2014, he was the star of a Burberry's first Christmas campaign, and was credited for helping the high-end fashion company boost their sales in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. He even helped make up for failing sales in Hong Kong following the city's pro-democracy demonstrations.
The following summer, Romeo made headlines when he participated in the children's race at the London Marathon.
Accompanied by his entire family decked out in "Team Romeo" t-shirts, Romeo completed the three mile race for children aged 11 to 17 in a speedy 18 minutes and 54 seconds.
He was congratulated on social media by Victoria and Brooklyn, who proudly declared his younger brother had raised for raising £6,000 (about $8,500) for UNAIDS and 7 Fund.
He also briefly followed the footsteps of his soccer star father, as he was once a prospect at Arsenal's youth academy. However, he decided to devote his attention to other endeavors, and give up the sport. Luckily, David took the news relatively well.
"The other day Romeo turned around to me and said he didn't want to play football anymore," David told Radio Times. "Part of me was devastated but part of me was relieved too.
He's since been seen taking a shining to tennis, with champion tennis player Grigor Dimitrov even saying he has "a lot of potential."
"Romeo, he's a very talented kid. I think he hasn't played tennis for that long, but he sure showed I think a lot of potential," Dimitrov said.
It's amazing what children can accomplish when they don't let their conditions define them!
When this next popstar received his son's devastating diagnosis, he learned just how important the role of the parent is in advocating for their child.
Backstreet Boy Opens Up About His Son's Rare Illness And The Hardest Part Of Parenting A Sick Kid
Brian Littrell is known as one of the members of one of the most successful boy band of all time. The Backstreet Boys have been around since the 90s, and haven't seemed to let up at all. They perform in countless concerts every year, and continue to make every 90s kid smile with their classic songs.
Even though they have been busy over the last 20 years, many of the band members have found time to have a family. Brian Littrell met model and actress Leighanne Wallace during the video shoot for "As Long As You Love Me" and they quickly fell in love. By 1999, they were engaged, and then in September 2000, they were married.
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The two welcomed their son Baylee Thomas Wylee Littrell on November 26th, 2002. However, when his son turned six they found something that would connect the young boy to his dad in a surprising and unexpected way, a way no parent would want.
Brian Littrell was diagnosed with a heart murmur when he was born. It lead to several complications over his life, including an open heart surgery in 1998.
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His heart murmur was incredibly dangerous. "I was born with what they call a VSD, which is a ventricular septal defect," Littrell explained. "It is known as a heart murmur. Fast forward in my life when I was five years old. I was in the hospital for two months, where I was clinically supposed to die. I had a zero percent chance of living. I had a bacterial infection called bacterial endocarditis. Again like I said a zero percent chance of living."
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He managed to survive, but it wasn't the end of his troubles. "It is only by the grace of God that I am here today. We fast forward to when I was 18. I was a Backstreet Boy. I left home to pursue the entertainment world," Littrell said. "At 23 I had open heart surgery to repair my VSD. So as we talk about faith and as we talk about our journey in life being a heart patient, and being a man of faith and the church; it has always been my stronghold in life. It has always been my compass. God has walked with me every step of the way as a I am heart patient even today."
After managing to survive this traumatic event, Littrell was able to use his fame for good. He was able to found his own charity to help others suffering from similar issues called the Brian Littrell's "Healthy Heart Club" For Kids. It is a non-profit organization that assists families who have children with heart conditions with their medical, financial, and practical help.
However, never in a million years did Littrell think that he would need to worry about his own child's heart, but unfortunately, that was the unique connection that he and his son shared.
Baylee's Mysterious Condition
They had been concerned about the potential of Littrell's condition being passed down genetically, but they didn't see anything at the start. "That was our first concern when my wife and I did sonograms and checking on our son, who now is 13 years old," Brian explained. "Life happens quickly. That was a major concern of ours. His pediatrician and doctors knew of my preexisting condition as well as being a heart patient my whole life."
However, even though it didn't present right away, Littrell knew that he had to stand up for his son. "Being a father is kind of a helpless situation. You are truly in God's hands because you can't do anything about it. You can only be an advocate for your child."
Baylee was rushed to the hospital when he was six years old, but his symptoms were confusing even the doctors. The young boy came in with a high fever, a full-body rash, swollen lymph nodes and blisters covering his entire throat.
The doctors tested for so many things including strep throat, hand, foot and mouth disease, allergies, and many others. "You feel helpless as a parent because you're relying on people who are educated about these things," Littrell said of the situation.
Leighanne, Baylee's mom, couldn't just sit by and wait. She had been watching these symptoms slowly crop up over the span of a couple months. Leighanne explained that the rash first appeared in October and her young son would occasionally complain about a sore throat, but it was never serious. "I think his body was fighting off this disease," she said.
When it escalated, it did so quickly. A high-grade fever appeared and the swelling in his throat felt like pecans under the skin. He was first diagnosed with strep throat but the tests proved that wasn't the case.
The symptoms he was presenting were not pointing to anything that made sense, but Leighanne requested a test that the doctors hadn't initially wanted to do. "I said, 'before we go, I would love an echocardiogram.'"
It was this instinct that helped save her son's life.
A Mother's Instincts
Leighanne had to demand the test because the doctors didn't suspect that his heart was the problem. She was so glad that she trusted her gut. "Listen to your instincts and hopefully you're wrong, but maybe you're right," she said.
With her husband's heart condition in mind, she requested the echocardiogram. She had looked up her son's symptoms, and while they weren't the typical presentation of the heart condition known as Kawasaki Disease, it was the only thing that fit.
Kawasaki Disease is hard to diagnose as it often presents in different ways. However, it primarily affects children under five, and usually those from Japanese or Korean parents.
But the echocardiogram revealed what Leighanne had suspected. Baylee's heart was inflamed. "We didn't know what we were dealing with until we found his coronary artery three times the size it should be," Brian Littrell said.
"Baylee was finally diagnosed with [atypical] Kawasaki Disease," said Littrell. "We would like to stress [atypical] because Baylee did not have textbook symptoms of any of the viruses they thought he had."
The heart condition was scary, but they were lucky to have found it when they did. They were able to treat the swelling, and after just a few weeks he was starting to see improvements. "He received an IVIG, which is a treatment to bring down the inflammation in his coronary arteries," Litrell said. "Baylee will be closely monitored for the next 6-8 weeks by a Pediatric Cardiologist to see if the treatment was effective."
"Baylee's cardiologist thinks he's going to make a full recovery and be able to do whatever he wants," a family friend said after they were out of the hospital.
Years later, Baylee has moved on from the scary incident. He has actually become incredibly successful in his own right, taking after his father and heading to the stage.
Baylee's Future
Baylee may have had a rough start, but he has moved on from his hospital stays and has discovered a love of music, just like his dad.
When Baylee was only seven, he performed at his parent's vow renewal ceremony. When his dad went on tour with the Backstreet Boys and New Kids On The Block, a then nine-year-old Baylee stepped on stage and opened for his dad's popular band to a huge audience.
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When he was 13, Baylee landed a role in a Broadway musical called Disaster! and he actually credits his autoimmune disease for teaching him how to be strong and brave.
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"It gave me a lot more strength and courage," Baylee said. "I remember I walked out of the hospital in a Batman costume. I was like, "˜I walked out of here and I survived this and everything is going to be amazing.'"
Baylee plays twin siblings in the show, and has to switch in and out of a wig to play the sister, even singing as two characters. "It was really hard at first," he admitted. "It's just so fun and so fast-paced, going back and forth. It's the best number of the show, I love it."
He's grown up a lot since his time in the hospital, and is excited to see where his life will take him. He's even contemplating following his dad into the music business, although he'd rather do it without a band by his side. "I'd like to follow in his footsteps -- solo," Baylee joked.
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His dad is proud of all the things he is doing and calls him an "old soul." But he does have some words of advice to pass down. "It comes down to hard work. It comes down to work ethic and spending time on things that you want to be valuable in life," Littrell said. "I spend a lot with my family. I spend a lot time with my career. Those are the things that I want to continue to be successful at. Those are the things that I am teaching Baylee. He tells me that it is hard work. I say that you have to spend time. You got to put that time and effort in. He is doing well. He is like a little pro."
Obviously, his son is on the path to bigger and better things, but it's all because his parents advocated for their son's health, and realized that his condition could not be ignored. Parents know their kids better than anyone and in this case, the fact that they wouldn't give up save their son's life.
When one of the biggest names in music received heartbreaking news about his son, he didn't hesitate to put his entire career on hold indefinitely.
Grammy-Winner Got A Call Every Parent Fears: His Son Had Cancer
Michael Buble and his wife, Luisana Lopilato, have gone through some tough times together.
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Buble and his family had a traumatic few months after his young son, Noah, was diagnosed with liver cancer.
While Lopilato was filming a movie in Buenos Aires, Argentina, their four-year-old son fell ill. She was told by doctors that her son had contracted mumps and had swollen glands. Noah's pediatrician disagreed with the diagnosis and thought that it may be an infection. After prescribing the child antibiotics, they decided to do a full examination to be on the safe side.
"They ran lots of tests, blood analysis, everything," Lopitalo emotionally recalled. "When they did an ultrasound, they said they found something in his stomach. [Doctors] told us they weren't sure what it was, but it was a tumor."
At the time Buble was in England, which left the 30-year-old mother to make an emergency decision.
"I couldn't speak to him by phone. So I got on a flight," she explained. The family has a rule that if anything were to happen to them, they would travel to Los Angeles, which is the halfway point.
"Without speaking to Mike I took the flight," she continued, adding the Buble had a friend in LA who was an oncologist.
Fortunately the family was able to reunite that same day.
Once he received the devastating diagnosis, the 42-year-old "Haven't Met You Yet" singer immediately cancelled all of his upcoming gigs, including a performance at the BBC music awards in December 2016.
The four-year-old was then thought to be going through chemotherapy in a attempt to battle the disease.
"We know he will. The time to start a long and very difficult treatment has come but it's got to be done. They say children are normally strong to put up with chemotherapy and my nephew is a warrior," Lopitalo's sister said.
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During the whole ordeal, the family tried to remain positive.
"There are things that happen in life that make you realize that the most important things that you think are important, really aren't," the actress shared. "The most important thing is to have faith and to be strong. There are nights that I still don't sleep and I pray to God because it's still a long process and the worst is over. Thank God."
Hepablastoma is a rare form of liver cancer that affects children under the age of five. It causes a tumor to form in the cells of the liver and if it's not caught early enough than it can spread to the lungs.
Thankfully things seemed to look up for Noah and his family.
While Noah's recovery process is slow and will be filled with regular check-ups, the family remains optimistic.
"But we are very happy. We are looking forward to thinking about the future, to seeing our children grow," Lopilato said.
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In February the iconic musician gave an update about his son's condition.
"We are so grateful to report that our son Noah has been progressing well during his treatment and the doctors are very optimistic about the future for our little boy," Buble told Us at the time. "He has been brave throughout and we continue to be inspired by his courage."
Buble and his wife are also parents to their two-year-old son, Elias.
"Being a parent is a massive blessing, and I don't want to get all new age-y about it but it's given me perspective. It's allowed me to understand deeply that what I do for a living "" creating music and art and getting to be part of a fragrance or a movie "" is my job, it's not what defines me. What defines me is I'm Noah and Elias' dad," Buble said.
A source close to the family says that Noah is now "doing very well," and that "he's an energetic little boy!"
The source also reveals that the whole ordeal has brought the family closer together.
"Events like this put everything in perspective," they said.
After taking nearly a year off work, Buble is also said to be back to his old self.
"[He's] in a really good head space right now," the source said.
With Noah's positive prognosis the source said, "Luisana has been back on set. And Michael is ready to think about going back to work."
But still family is top of his priority list.
"Michael is keeping his workload light so he can spend as much time as possible [with his family]," the source said.
Buble shared a cute moment about how he and his wife keep things light and funny in their marriage.
"When your wife visits you on the set of your new music video and leaves love notes for you in your trailer," he wrote on his Instagram post.
Buble is set to be hosting the 2018 Juno awards in his hometown of Vancouver, Canada.
"This is really important to him. It's not only a chance to celebrate Canadian artists, but it's also right in his backyard, since he lives in Vancouver," the source explains, sharing that he'll be very hands on with the show.
The singer also announced that he will be performing in two shows, one in Ireland and one in London this coming summer.
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His family, however, will still be coming first in his life.
"[Buble] doesn't want to be on the road for a large chunk of time, but he's eager to get back on the stage," the source said.
In an interview shortly before diagnosis, Buble shared how his family and career affect his life.
"I will fight for balance, and if one suffers, we know which one will go "" it won't be my kids. I just love them way too much," he said.
For this next actor, his role as a doctor and his real life collided when it became clear something was terribly wrong with his newborn daughter.
He Is A Famous TV-Doctor, But His Daughter's Real-Life Case Would Hit Him Close To Home
Does art imitate life or does life imitate art?
Dr. Henry "Hank" Lawson, a young emergency room doctor, is no stranger to solving medical mysteries, but the actor who plays him, Mark Feuerstein is.
The Royal Pains actor just seems to always be making the right decisions, saving and changing lives from left-to-right in the medical drama, but it's when his real life seems to be turning into a episode on the hit television show that his whole world turns upside down.
The 46-year-old actor tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend and television writer Dana Klein in 2005, and soon after welcomed their first daughter, Lisa, and a year later, Frisco, their son.
It wasn't until September 2009 that they welcomed their third child, a baby girl named Adelaide, endearing called "Addie".
Things seemed to be going well, until their newborn daughter started behaving very strangely...
At only six weeks old, Addie was a handful. She could barely gain weight because she refused to eat, constantly crying to express her agitation. Mark desperately tried to chalk up a reason for why his baby girl was acting this way, wondering if she may have colic, a pain in the abdomen caused by gas or undigested food.
The new parents noticed that Addie's condition was not improving, and a few months later, they took her to the doctor, who diagnosed the baby with reflux.
Mark and Dana were relieved to hear that their infant was suffering from a common condition that affects more than half of all infants.
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It seemed to make sense, Addie was irritated because the food in her stomach was making its way up into the esophagus; however, her condition continued to take a turn for the worst.
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"I lived in the naive hope that our doctor was right when she diagnosed Addie with reflux," Mark told Heart Insight. "When Addie didn't immediately start to improve, I remember telling my wife that the [medicine they gave Addie to treat reflux] just needed time to take effect."
Along with her difficulty to eat, Dana recalled that Addie was sweating heavily and would scream and cry after feedings.
Now that Mark and Dana had a hunch that Addie's condition was far more serious, they didn't give up their search to find answers.
"I've never been more aware of how little I know playing a doctor than I did learning about this," Mark confessed to People.
Addie continued getting check ups until finally one doctor detected something wrong, a diagnosis that would change her life forever.
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The doctor hooked Addie up to an electrocardiogram machine, which detected irregularities with her heart.
"To see your child sweating, yet lying still, because her heart is working overtime, you can imagine the feeling of helplessness," Mark told People.
This wasn't something to be taken lightly, so Mark and Dana rushed their baby girl to Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, and after many tests, it was discovered that Addie suffered from anomalous left coronary from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA). In layman terms, her heart couldn't pump enough blood to the rest of her body.
The condition occurs when the left coronary artery, which is supposed to connect to the aorta, connects to the pulmonary artery instead. This heart anomaly can be mistaken for colic, food intolerance, reflux, and bronchiolitis. Other symptoms include restlessness, above-normal sweating, panting, a heart murmur, and poor growth.
"The condition was so rare it wasn't on our radar at all," Mark said.
The fatal heart congenital heart defect affects less than 1 out of every 10,000 births in the United States. It causes low-oxygenated blood to go directly to the heart muscle, rather than going to the lungs first.
"In hindsight, I wish we had done a pulse oximetry screening for newborns, but it's not a standard procedure, and wasn't even suggested when Addie was born," Mark said, referring to a bedside test that determines the amount of oxygen in a baby's blood.
While Dana visited her daughter every day, Mark was busy shooting episodes for Royal Pains in New York, and had to fly home on the weekends.
Dana told People that all the medications Addie was on was making her delirious: "She cried for 12 hours straight. I remember climbing onto the gurney and saying to her, "˜You're so strong. You can do this.'"
During this time, both parents had to make a difficult decision.
Searching for the light at the end of the tunnel
In March 2010, Addie had a risky open-heart surgery.
"I was very scared," Dana admitted to Heart Insight, and Mark was equally as worried.
"Being in New York, shooting Royal Pains, while Addie was in Children's Hospital was the hardest time of my life," Mark confessed. "It's already a helpless feeling when your child is sick, but add to that being three thousand miles away and it's torture."
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Luckily, the couple had a great support team, which included Dana's mother and aunt who flew out from the east coast to care for their other two children.
"I had many friends who dropped off dinners for us when Addie was in the hospital, and it was so nice because it made cooking dinner one less thing to worry about," Dana said.
While everyone tried to stay positive after the surgery, Addie wasn't showing signs of improvement. Her heart muscles seemed like they needed more time to recover, and the thought of having their baby girl go through additional surgeries worried them sick.
"When you don't get good news for days and weeks on end it's dispiriting," Mark said. "It was one step forward and two steps back, and that was hard to take."
The family was praying for a miracle, hoping that their infant daughter could finally get better and go home.
In May 2010, Addie underwent a second surgery to fix her mitral valve, which was the reason why her heart muscles weren't able to contract normally.
"We were told the odds of her surviving the second surgery were 80/20 and the odds of him having to use something other than her own tissue, like an artificial valve, were 50/50," Mark said.
Fortunately, the second surgery was successful, and Addie was able to spend her first birthday recovering at home.
"We are so blessed that he was able to fix the valve with her own tissue and that within a week to two weeks after surgery, Addie started going off her meds," Mark said. "Our gratitude for the life of our little miracle, Addie, knows no bounds""we are forever indebted to the staff at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles."
Now, you'd never guess that Addie had life-changing surgeries, but she still needs her regular check ups.
"She's doing great," Dana said. "She still goes in to see the cardiologist every six months, and we've explained that she had surgery when she was a baby, but that she's all better now. We tell her the scar on her chest is her line of courage."
"She fought the whole way. What obstacle in life will be hard for her? "˜I failed a pop quiz? Too bad! I had a heart defect!' Nothing can touch her now," Dana told People.
All these famous parents show just how important the love of family can be when things seem to be at their darkest.
Devin has been writing for Shared for 2 years and is a nostalgia enthusiast and bonafide meme expert who probably spends too much time on the internet. Can be reached at devin@shared.com
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