Books like Deadline by Seanan McGuire

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Gideon the Ninth follows a sword‑wielding necromancer who must team up with a bone‑witch to survive a deadly trial of wits and combat under an emperor’s watch in a sprawling sci‑fantasy universe.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

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Two teenage twins, Jack and Jill, find themselves at Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, where magic, mystery, and schoolyard drama await.

On the starship Dormire, clones of a murdered crew awaken in vats, each fearing the next bloodshed—but a new clone with no memory of her death must uncover the killer before another murder takes place.

Caseworker Linus travels to a remote orphanage to investigate ragged kids and their enigmatic caretaker Arthur, only to discover that the island’s magical children—and his own heart—are part of something larger than he imagined.

Toby Daye, a half‑fae private detective in San Francisco, must unravel a murder that forces her to confront buried secrets of the hidden Fae.

Georgia Mason is held hostage by CDC researchers in 2041, struggling to escape post-zombie America.

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In Tristopolis, a city powered by necroflux generators, a cop must prevent the murder of the diva Maria daLivnova and stop a death cult that distills a deadly nectar from the dead, all while battling corruption, zombies, and conspiracies.

"FEEDBACK is a full-length Newsflesh novel which overlaps the events of Feed and covers the Presidential campaign from the perspective of reporters covering the Democrats side of the story. There are two sides to every story ... The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we unleashed something horrifying and unstoppable. The infection spread leaving those afflicted with a single uncontrollable impulse: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, a team of scrappy underdog reporters relentlessly pursue the truth while competing against the superstar Masons, surrounded by the infected, and facing more insidious forces working in the shadows."-- In 2014 we cured cancer, beat the common cold-- and unleashed an infection that unleashed an uncontrollable impulse to feed. Now, twenty years after the Rising, a team of scrappy underdog reporters relentlessly pursue the truth while competing against the superstar Masons. Surrounded by the infected, and facing more insidious forces working in the shadows, they hit the presidential campaign trail to uncover dangerous truths... or die trying.

Sarah Zellaby, a telepathic ambush predator from the InCryptid series, faces a new level of power after a transformational ‘instar’. Stranded in an unfamiliar dimension with allies who have forgotten her, she must confront hostile cuckoos and redefine her identity.