Adult Fiction Coming Soon

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O'Neill, Heather Aimee

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Three adult sisters grapple with a shared tragedy over a Thanksgiving weekend spent in their childhood home, navigating complex relationships and old tensions, in this debut for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan and Mary Beth Keane.
 

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Sussman, Sam

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A son returns home to his dying mother to discover the astonishing truth of his origins and the secrets of a woman whose life and wisdom he is only beginning to understand.

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Rindo, Ron

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A remarkable child transforms a small, rural community—and soon the world.
 

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Shea, Samantha Browning

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A searing take on femininity and power, Marrow transports readers to a small island off the coast of Maine, where a coven has done the seemingly impossible.
 

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Varela, Alejandro

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A whipsmart, blazingly funny novel about heartbreak, unconventional love, and the way society could be, from National Book Award finalist Alejandro Varela
 

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Moss, Sarah

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A story of sisterhood, forbidden desire, lost connection, and what it means to find a home among strangers.

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Kirino, Natsuo

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The highly anticipated new novel. When a young single woman in Tokyo decides she’s ready to sell anything—even her womb—to escape the precarity of her life, an agency pairs her with a wealthy couple desperate to have a child. The match seems made in heaven. She even looks a little like the wife. But is anything ever that simple?
 

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Ryan, Patrick

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One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything.
You won’t want to put it down. You won’t want to let them go.

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Dickerman, Laura

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Younger meets Writers & Lovers in this rollicking, sparkling, and funny novel that spans decades and generations of a family in the publishing industry.
 

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Ramage, Eliana

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One young woman’s relentless quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut will irrevocably alter the fates of the people she loves most in this tour de force of a debut about ambition, belonging, and family.
 

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Alameddine, Rabih

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From National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother

 

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Craig, Erin A

Fantasy

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteenth Child comes an irresistible blend of dark fairytale and romantic fantasy. • The town of Mistaken has a secret…and it’s up to one woman to uncover the truth, confront her past, and save the man she loves.
 

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Jackson, Kosoko

Fantasy

From award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Kosoko Jackson comes his adult speculative debut, a stand-alone novel blending time travel and globe-hopping adventure, art history, and dark fantasy about magical paintings and the lengths people will go to collect them, destroy them…or be destroyed.

 

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Martinez, Maddie

Fantasy

A gorgeous, atmospheric debut fantasy rooted in history, folklore, and sapphic romance—perfect for fans of Katherine Arden, Ava Reid, Hannah Whitten, and Naomi Novik.
 

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Eve, Jaymin

Fantasy

To fight a monster, she'll need a monster. Fourth Wing meets Wednesday in a dark new adult romantasy set in the country’s elite college for witches with an intense enemies to lovers arc from USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jaymin Eve.

 

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Wood, Lucy Jane

Fantasy

A “perfect” witch must learn to embrace imperfection and live for herself in this spellbinding cozy fantasy sprinkled with love, laughter, and magic, from the author of Rewitched.
 

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Jane, Emily

Horror

America’s venture capitalist werewolves meet their match in USA Today bestseller Emily Jane’s third rollicking, genre-defying novel.
 

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Wehunt, Michael

Horror

Horror Movie meets the scope and emotion of Stephen King in this heart-pounding, magnetic tour de force about a woman pulled into a cult horror film that is determined to have a sequel.
 

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Rushby, A

Horror

A gothic feminist body horror in two timelines revolving around three Anatomical Venuses—ultrarealistic wax figures of women—that come to life at night to murder men who have wronged them.
 

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Dent, Susie

Mystery

A team of lexicographers at a world-renowned dictionary receive a series of anonymous letters that force them to unravel a thread of linguistic clues - hinting at secret lives and a connection to one of their very own editors, the letters could lead to the truth behind a decades-old disappearance and an untold chapter in the evolution of English...

 

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Hallett, Janice

Mystery

Janice Hallett, “the new queen of crime” (Electric Literature), returns with a fresh, edge-of-your-seat mystery that takes place at a pub’s weekly trivia night, revealed through quiz categories, phone messages, and email correspondence.
 

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O'Leary, Joan

Mystery

Wildly witty and wickedly fun, A Killer Wedding is a juicy debut whodunit about toxic family dynamics hidden beneath the surface of billionaire-level wealth that reads like The Devil Wears Prada protagonist played a game of Clue at a White Lotus Hotel.

 

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Pegau, Cathy

Mystery

A sharp, captivating historical mystery about two queer women in turn-of-the-century New York, for fans of Lavender House and A Most Agreeable Murder
 

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Adams, Rachel Louise

Mystery

With an expert hand, Rachel Louise Adams’s debut No Rest for the Wicked reads like an edge of your seat, heart-pounding scary movie.

In one Halloween obsessed Midwestern town, everyone’s on red alert after a local politician goes missing. Little do they know it’s only the beginning.

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Kay, Adam

Mystery

In this darkly funny and brilliantly original mystery from Adam Kay, former doctor and BAFTA-winning author of This is Going to Hurt, a chaotic young doctor might be the only one who can catch a killer targeting hospital officials—if his investigation doesn’t cost him his career first.
 

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Schleyer, Chrystal

Mystery

At a turn-of-the-century manor, celebrations for twin brothers’ marital engagements take a turn when one is poisoned, and everyone becomes a suspect. KNIVES OUT meets BRIDGERTON in this cozy, action-packed historical mystery told from multiple POVs.

The people of Asquith manor collect secrets like cobwebs, tucking them beside old wounds that linger in every corner of the house.

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Rose, Elliott

Romance

In this steamy age-gap, forbidden-love cowboy romance for fans of Lyla Sage, Bailey Hannah, and Elsie Silver, a veterinarian is snowed in on a remote mountain ranch in Montana with the one man she definitely should not be fantasizing about…her ex-boyfriend’s sexy, brooding father.
 

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Laroux, Harley

Romance

Gothic sapphic romance meets supernatural suspense on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, as a night of forbidden passion opens a Pandora’s box of dangerous secrets and dark magic in this sinfully spicy, standalone novel by New York Times bestselling TikTok sensation, Harley Laroux.
 

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Wolff, Tracy

Romance

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff comes a fierce, emotional romance about surviving the spotlight, outrunning your past, and choosing love when everything says you shouldn’t.
 

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Cook, Jeannine A

Romance

A bewitching novel within a novel--a blend of romance and magical realism, part The Lost Bookshop, part A Love Song for Ricki Wilde--a magical world in which a bookseller becomes a reluctant matchmaker, bringing soulmates together through books.

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Lee, Mackenzi

Romance

Two women, one refined and one ribald, set their sights on marrying the same duke, but instead of becoming enemies, they find themselves falling in love—though not with him.
 

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Janovsky, Timothy

Romance

The second of Timothy Janovsky's queer Christmas romances with a speculative twist! A Christmas romance for Barbie fans who wished Ken and Allan got their own love story.

He was a mannequin... Now he’s the perfect man.

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Bennett, Amy Rose

Romance

Mary Poppins meets Bridgerton in a feel-good blend of cozy fantasy magic, historical romance, humor, and Victorian era charm, as a recent graduate of the Parasol Academy for Exceptional Nannies and Governesses finds her supernatural abilities are little help when it comes to falling for the shy, mysterious inventor who happens to be her employer…
 

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Bonam-Young, Hannah

Romance

In this sexy and emotional romance from the acclaimed author of Out of the Woods and Out on a Limb, a small-town woman’s journey to spread her wings intertwines with the arrival of an adventurous newcomer who brings out the best in her.
 

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Payne, Nikki

Romance

An amateur online sleuth must enlist the help of a jaded PI to clear her name while taking down a shady tech start-up in this exhilarating romantic suspense novel.
 

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Sage, Lyla

Romance

Home is where the heart is—and this one is haunted.

Bestselling author of the Rebel Blue Ranch series, Lyla Sage, returns with a brand-new story, featuring a small-town upholsterer in need of a fresh start, a photographer whose life has come to a screeching halt…and the supernatural forces that bring them together

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Chidgey, Catherine

Science Fiction

In an alternate world where nobody won WWII, three brothers are the only boys left in an orphanage whose dark secret is the reason for their existence—and the key to their survival—from the acclaimed author of Pet.
 

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Coile, Mason

Science Fiction

A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of William--this time set on a remote outpost on Mars.
 

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Kitasei, Yume

Science Fiction

From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister—and Earth’s environmental salvation.
 

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Gailey, Sarah

Science Fiction

Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly when the team discovers a strange specimen in search of a warm place to stay.

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Dunham, Lacey N

Thriller

In this richly atmospheric, dark academia debut novel, a young woman with a secretive past will risk everything—including her life—to fit in.
 

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Blake, Matthew

Thriller

An expert in memory must uncover the truth about her family’s wartime past in this dazzling psychological thriller from the #1 international bestselling author of Anna O.

 

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Rankin, Zoe

Thriller

A shocking murder in the New Zealand bush—and the witness who looks all too familiar—draws a woman back to the very place she swore she’d never return to in this breakneck debut thriller.
 

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Edwards, Mark

Thriller

A dinner party in a beautiful Notting Hill townhouse turns into a sinister game as six old friends are forced to spill their darkest secrets…or else.
 

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