My fiction reading has been rather spotty over the past few months, since I’ve been working on the sequel to Outcasts of Order and also because more than few disruptions in my normal schedule have occurred, but several books do stand out, among them, C. Robert Cargill’s Sea of Rust, Beth Bernobich’s The Time Roads, and an older book, Katherine Neville’s The Eight. For various reasons, I also enjoyed, in a bittersweet way, Louisa Morgan’s A Secret History of Witches, which was not at all what I expected from the title.