Alecto the Ninth

The Locked Tomb finale is Muir at her most ambitious—a story that began with lesbian necromancers in space and escalated into a meditation on sacrifice, divinity, and what we owe the people we consume. Fair warning: this book has been delayed repeatedly and may still be unreleased. The series demands your full attention and rewards it with prose that makes you laugh and cry in the same paragraph. Not a romance, but the Gideon/Harrow tension will wreck you.