between two fires christopher buehlman barnes and noble

Yet a woman who stands alone will never be left in peace for long – and among her island's guests is an unexpected visitor: the mortal Odysseus, for whom Circe will risk everything. When her gift threatens the gods, she is banished to the island of Aiaia where she hones her occult craft, casting spells, gathering strange herbs and taming wild beasts. But Circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft. Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home in neither the world of gods or mortals.

Circe is a strange child – not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother.

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Gets larger scale but follows a single character If you can stomach the juvenile sexualization elements (mostly seen in the first few books, and I mean you've read the Name of the Wind so I'm going to put that down as a yes) The Dresden Files is a blast. His latest, Tress of the Emerald Sea (formerly known as Secret Project 1) is pretty solid as a standaloneĮdit: Oh right, Nicholas' Eames Kings of the Wyld and Bloody Rose are two parts of of loosely connected but mostly standalone planned trilogy. Brandon Sanderson's standalones also tend to be smaller scale, with the caveat that they're also often part of his extended universe and thus often have some fairly large scale stuff going on in the background. Naomi Novik was mentioned which means I have to mention the Scholomance Trilogy, which is excellent. Lies of Locke Lamora would probably be my first pick, it's just an excellent series (though the author also has 'GRRM syndrome', the books can be read standalone pretty easily) Seconding Lies of Locke Lamora and the Goblin Emperor.

Tricky since my preference tends to be for larger scale series, but let's see

Between two fires christopher buehlman barnes and noble