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Middle Grade
Not Just a Stage by Kelsey Toney (April 20, 2027)
Sunny Cavendish knows exactly who she is onstage.
Actually… she knows who she is on two stages. By day, Sunny is a musical theater powerhouse, fresh off her final middle school show and chasing a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to an elite summer workshop that could change her future forever. By night, she’s the lead singer of The Pulled Petals, an all-girl rock band on the verge of their biggest break yet.
The problem? Both dreams want everything. When Sunny’s band lands a career-making audition the exact same week she earns a callback for the workshop, Sunny decides to do the impossible: she won’t choose. She’ll juggle it all. Sneak between rehearsals. Say yes to every opportunity. Make everyone happy. What could go wrong?
As exhaustion mounts, lies pile up, friendships strain, and a crush on two very different people complicates everything, Sunny is forced to confront a truth she’s been avoiding: sometimes chasing every dream means risking the ones that matter most.
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Young Adult
The Redwood Bargain by Markelle Grabo
To free her cousin from an indentured contract, Katrien agrees to fulfill their lord’s bargain with the fabled “Redwood Man.” Three maids before her have posed as his stepdaughter, Lady Zaviera, and met this lord of the forest as promised. But Katrien means to be the first to fool him―and live.
Impersonating a Lady is no easy feat, especially one as beautiful and aloof as Zaviera. With one month before she’s sent off, Katrien is put through endless lessons, even as the Redwood Man’s suffocating vines overtake the manor and threaten its staff.
Zaviera takes a special interest in her training, and their shared interests grow into shared affections. But the Redwood Man awaits his prize. Caught between duty and desire, her future and her past, Katrien must navigate a tricky bargain―or risk failing those she holds dearest.
My Own Kind of Person by Tim Manley
In this heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age romance, Sean discovers his bisexuality and his true voice while chasing his dream as a stand-up comedian.
Sean O’Brien copes with anxiety by being the funny guy—at school, in his relationships, and onstage at local open mics. But when his stand-up act starts feeling like a performance of someone he’s not, everything changes. As Sean struggles with awkward girlfriend encounters and rising panic, he meets Elijah, a new guy with quiet confidence and an honesty Sean has never allowed himself. Suddenly, Sean’s life, his comedy, and his self-awareness come into sharper focus.
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Meet Me at the Picket Line by Jasper Sanchez
All’s fair in love and solidarity…
Eli Goldstein might be the only teenager looking forward to earning minimum wage at his objectively terrible summer job. Not only will he be working at the kitschy roadside museum he loves, he’ll finally have the down payment for his top surgery with a first-class surgeon.
But the museum really is a late-stage capitalist hellscape, and Eli’s co-workers—led by his irritatingly self-righteous and annoyingly attractive school rival, Efraín—plan to unionize. With his sanity and safety at risk on the job, Eli knows he has to join their campaign.
If he and Efraín can stop bickering long enough to keep their ragtag union together, they might actually have a shot. But when management begins to grow suspicious, Eli will have to make a choice: Is he willing to stand in solidarity with his friends and the boy he’s starting to fall for, even if it means risking his job and the key to his life-changing surgery?
Winners & Liars by Aleema Onotoni
Derin’s acceptance into Cambridge University is the end of an era—just not the one she expected.
When she and her ultra-competitive Uni prep group, the Kenfield Set, were first invited to Professor Darnley’s summer ball, they planned on celebrating the group’s success, surrounded by the riches of his historical Kenfield estate—not kicking off the festivities with the professor’s will reading.
But when the Darnleys’ aristocratic children are disinherited, the students are offered the opportunity of a lifetime: compete in a Victorian, literary-inspired inheritance competition to be named the new heir—winner takes all!
For Derin, it’s a chance to help her working-class family. But the remaining Darnleys won’t take losing their stately home and its multimillion-pound inheritance lying down. And added to the mix, a mysterious note is slipped under Derin’s door alluding to a dark family secret lying in wait.
Now Derin must balance the cutthroat games; scheming relatives; and a cute Kenfield intern amid her dawning realization that the history of this inheritance might be soaked in lies . . . and blood.
Between Sun and Shadow by Laura Genn
Sixteen-year-old Kori struggles to be a dutiful heiress to the Daylands, a post-cataclysmic society reliant on chip implants to retain memory. With a strict routine and an overly cautious mother, Kori has only one friend, Aspect—an industrial robot she’s repurposed. Determined to awaken sentience in her metal companion, Kori crash-lands in enemy territory while hunting for a memory that might do the trick.
Ravaged by radiation from a meteorite, the citizens of the Shadowlands have evolved into beast-like creatures with supernatural abilities. Adria, a winged mutant, has wrested control of the Shadowlands from her bloodthirsty parents—but not everyone is so willing to embrace her leadership. What better way to instill confidence in her court than by capturing a foreign princess and demanding ransom?
However, what began as a political maneuver transforms into a potent attraction as Kori’s longing for relationship echoes Adria’s own. Granted free rein of Adria’s fortress, Kori stumbles upon a startling revelation that could upend the Daylands entirely. As rebellion grows and Adria’s precarious hold on her throne wavers, Adria and Kori must join forces to avert all-out war. Does a queen of shadows really stand a chance with a princess of sunlight? Or has the chasm between their nations grown too wide?
Wicked Endeavors by Kamilah Cole
Caya lived a charmed life under the protection of Coventry’s royal family … until the three witch Houses seized power and wiped them out.
Now eighteen, she’s ready to take revenge. With the help of a mysterious benefactor, Caya slips into the witches’ glittering world under a new identity: Marisol Vinyet, a disarmingly beautiful aristocrat. As Marisol, she’ll attend the annual Coronet, the witches’ cutthroat social season designed to strengthen their power. Even the prince of neighboring Domingo―Tomás Castellan―will attend, just in time for “Marisol” to kill him.
After all, his family set the witches upon Coventry in the first place.
But Tomás is more charming than Caya anticipated. Worse the prince is protected by her estranged childhood friend, Bas Arroyo, who stirs up frustrating feelings that waver between attraction and hatred.
To destroy the witches from within, Caya will have to keep her identity hidden, her heart in check, and her mission front and center. Because even though she’s made herself a weapon, she might be the one to bleed.
Girls Like Us by Jennifer Dugan
In this sequel to Some Girls Do, two girls struggle when long distance complicates their relationship.
Ruby and Morgan fell for each other during their senior year of high school, and now, almost a year later, they are fighting to keep their spark alive, even while they are apart: Morgan is on a track scholarship at a university several hours away, studying public policy, while Ruby stayed in her hometown, exploring her love of mechanics in the automotive engineering program at the local community college.
Long distance weighs on the girls, with new friendships and flirtatious classmates adding complications, and the two are looking forward to a spring break getaway to Washington, D.C., and the bliss of a whole summer vacation together. But when Morgan discovers she’s a finalist for the perfect internship, and Ruby gets the shot to appear on her favorite automotive TV show, the trip schedule—and their summer plans—are thrown into question. With both girls unwilling to stand in the way of each other’s future, they wonder: has the time come for them to go their separate ways?
Tell the Ghosts I’m Gone by Kalynn Bayron
From New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron comes a new horror novel about a group of teens with unique-and potentially deadly-gifts.
Moll, Redd, Agnes, and Ossie are powerful-and dangerous. But they don’t want people to fear them. They’ve spent their lives trying to understand and control their supernatural gifts, trying to help people instead of hurt them.
That’s why they offer paranormal investigative services to anyone who needs them. But when the case of a missing young woman brings them to an old (and potentially haunted) Victorian mansion, soon it’s the four teens who are in the greatest danger. The secrets they uncover about the paranormal forces inhabiting the house may shed light on the darkness that exists at the edge of their powers and finally help them gain control-if they can make it out alive.
Kill Your Darlings by Yvashri Harish (October 6, 2026)
Thulasi is the perfect daughter: she’s responsible, she never breaks the rules, and she’s always willing to babysit her seven-year-old cousin. Even on Halloween night.
But the night takes a horrifying turn when a simple playdate leads to accidentally summoning a horde of monsters out of a book of horror tales, along with her small town’s most famous author, Addison Greer—Thulasi’s literary hero. Except Addison has a more sinister scheme planned for her miraculous return: revenge on the family that wronged her.
Drawn into a bloodthirsty bargain with Addison, Thulasi will have to team up with Sam, the super cute quarterback in her class, and the only other teen stuck with babysitting duty on Halloween. They only have until midnight to foil Addison’s plans—while keeping their seven-year-old charges safe—or her monsters will destroy their town and everyone they love.
Drop Dead Handsome by Matthew Hubbard (December 22, 2026)
Parker Ryland has always been the master of his own destiny, meticulously planning his escape from his small town. But when he’s told that his college application is “boring”, he is thrown for a loop. Parker may be many things, but boring is not one of them.
So, Parker applies to his school’s Miss Spirit pageant to spice up his application and challenge himself—and the town’s antiquated gender ideals.
Pageant life in southern Tennessee is intense enough without the nerdy—but undeniably charming—student body president, Dean, offering to give Parker a crash-course in pageantry. As the two get closer, Parker’s carefully constructed plans begin to unravel. And then someone starts sabotaging Parker, threatening not only his chance at the crown, but his future.
As paint splatters and sparks fly, Parker learns that sometimes the best way to win is to play—and love—by your own rules.
Feed Me to the Water by Christina Ferko (February 2, 2027)
Sixteen-year-old Madison blames herself after she couldn’t save her best friend Sadie from drowning right in front of her. Wracked with grief and guilt, Madison is sent to spend the summer with her aunt in Georgia and hopefully do some healing.
But the dead won’t leave Madison alone. Sadie’s voice echoes impossibly down the halls of her aunt’s ancient house, terrifying messages suddenly appear scrawled across Madison’s mirror, and she finds threatening recordings on her phone…in her own voice. Madison doesn’t want to believe that Sadie is haunting―even possessing―her, but when she finds herself losing chunks of time, she realizes she can’t trust her own mind.
Terrified, she confides in Wyatt, the boy next door. As they grow closer and explore the nearby swamp together, something ancient and evil calls to Madison from the murky water, luring her into the depths against her will. The more she loses control of her own body, the more it becomes clear that she is not just being haunted; she is being hunted. And if it’s not Sadie, then it’s something much worse. If Madison can’t figure out how to stop it all, she’ll not only be responsible for more deaths, but she’ll lose herself completely.
He’s Just Some Guy by Preeti Chhibber (March 30, 2026)
Simran Chopra has a road map for success, and it requires getting into the prestigious music school of her dreams. She’s been planning for this application for years. She has absolutely no time for socializing, much less her aunt’s matchmaking. So when the pressure to produce a boyfriend becomes relentless, Simran does the only sensible thing . . . she invents one. Borrowing photos from the internet, specifically the social profiles of Kabir Mehra, lead singer of an obscure indie rock band, she produces the perfect “always on the road” fake boyfriend.
It’s a foolproof plan, until Kabir Mehra shows up to a local function. Kabir, it turns out, is pure rock-and-roll chaos, and he’s delighted to play along with Simran’s farce. But as Simran spends more time with him, she meets the rest of his band. Including Amrita, the band’s effortlessly cool drummer. Suddenly Simran finds herself pulled in two very different directions.
Simran is faced with a choice: hold tight to the future she’s mapped out, or take a leap into something uncharted . . .
Hello, I Love You, Goodbye by Adam Sass (April 27, 2027)
Freddie and Lyle have nothing in common. Except, of course, for the fact that they’re each nursing an enormous crush on the other. A crush that they are both completely oblivious about. Lyle is bi and not out at school, and Freddie is gay, and has never been close enough with a person his age to be able to come out to them.
Enter the high school’s all-night lock-in, where the two finally collide. Freddie has never had a real friend, and Lyle is leaving to move to Germany for the rest of high school the following day. When the two boys are thrown together at last, sparks fly, but can their love for each other outlast the ticking clock?
It’s (Not) the End of the World by Jennifer Dugan (May 25, 2027)
The world is ending. No, seriously. THE WORLD IS ENDING! An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and according to experts, humanity will be wiped out in less than a day. Civilization has slipped into chaos, and the masses are carrying out their innermost desires with reckless abandon.
But Katie Lane is choosing romance. With only fifteen hours left on Earth, she decides to profess her love to Lark Valentine, the beautiful soccer captain she’s had a crush on since ninth grade. To Katie’s surprise, Lark is cool about it and even kisses her back. It’s not a bad way to go. And in fact . . . Katie doesn’t go anywhere. Nobody goes anywhere.
Because the world doesn’t end. The predictions were wrong, and the asteroid never hits. Now, everyone must face the consequences of their reckless choices on their “last day on Earth.”
Katie thought she was ready for the end. But what follows—going viral for her kiss with Lark and discovering that they might not be meant to be after all . . . That she’s definitely not ready for.
Adult
The Fractured Life of Lucy Hughes by Annie Morgan
After a surprise proposal fractures her life into two parallel timelines, a speech pathologist must learn to trust her own inner voice in this hopeful and inspiring story about identity and belonging.
Lucy Hughes has never loved being the center of attention, so she’s shocked when her boyfriend proposes via jumbotron. Frozen under the stadium lights, Lucy’s hesitation fractures her future into parallel lives:
No. A video of Lucy’s refusal goes viral, and the backlash is swift and brutal. Unemployed and sleeping in her best friend’s guest room, she slowly rebuilds her life. She’s barely back on her feet when she’s asked to advocate for victims of online harassment. But it would mean finding the courage to step back into the spotlight.
Yes. Lucy, who grew up in foster care, adores Matthew’s large, loving family. But burying her troubled childhood and her bisexuality to better fit into their Southern political dynasty is causing her to lose her grip on her own identity.
To create a future where she can be her authentic self, both versions of Lucy must confront the childhood trauma that shaped her adult relationships and find her own voice.
Don’t Cross Mo Ellery by Birdie Horne
Mo Ellery’s 29th birthday is a disaster. After one small accident—the exposure of her boyfriend’s genitals (well, maybe not that small) on a work video call—she manages to get fired, dumped, and kicked out of their overpriced Chicago apartment. Luckily, a sign appears to guide Mo to her new life: “Looking for flexible part-time work? Become a school crossing guard!” It’s everything Mo has been looking for: health insurance. How hard can it be?
A few weeks later, Mo is adjusting to her new low-paying job, her bisexual reawakening, and her new neighborhood’s wacky characters. There’s Claudia, an old woman who refuses to let Mo help her cross the street, and Marlowe, a tween cell phone prodigy whose antics terrify her. But Mo’s greatest nemesis is Poodle Dude, a guy with an SUV full of poodles who speeds through her intersection each morning. . . until the day he speeds into a sinkhole. Mo tries and fails to shield innocent eyes from his bloody corpse, but succeeds in accidentally becoming the guardian to his three poodles.
And that’s not the worst of it: some of the locals are convinced that Poodle Dude was murdered. Their allegations are obviously ridiculous, but Mo, desperate for distractions—and for several hot neighbor-suspects—reluctantly agrees to help. But Mo the detective is just as chaotic as Mo the underemployed adult, and the three entitled poodles are not helping. When a second local dies under mysterious circumstances, it’s going to take all of Mo’s broadly applicable and transferrable skills to find the killer.
Murderers beware. . . DON’T CROSS MO ELLERY!
Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham
Temmi, a young trash collector stuck in a dead-end job on a garbage planet, finds herself with a golden ticket she never expected: an opportunity to compete in an intergalactic dating show starring the brother and sister heirs to the galactic empire. Twenty-four women will compete on a televised program to marry the prince and princess—and future emperors—and to win the dynasty’s favor for their home planet.
Temmi may have been hand-picked to date the quiet, bookish prince, who is immediately taken by her brash personality and their shared passion for the sciences. But she can’t seem to keep away from the princess—and even though it couldn’t be a worse idea, their chemistry is undeniable.
But when contestants start turning up dead, and conspiracies begin to swirl around anti-imperial motivations of several contestants, Temmi among them, so much more than feelings are at stake.
In fact, very few of the participants of Love Galaxy have come on the show to find love. Sexy, snarky, and revolutionary, this fast-paced thrill ride will hook lovers of reality TV, fans of thoughtful sci-fi, and anyone who lives for drama.
With All My Haunted Heart by Isabel Sterling
Steadily losing clients to the new DIY-magic shop on the other side of town, Pippa Ainsley is getting desperate. Instead of hiring the witch to correct their magical maladies, local mundanes have been taking their chances with the cheaper—and unpredictable—crystals and herb blends. So when Pippa’s best friend hires her to inspect his newly acquired bed-and-breakfast for ghosts, she doesn’t think twice about it.
That is, until she learns that his unfairly attractive co-owner, Elle Thompson, doesn’t want Pippa to rid their business of spirits. She wants Pippa to give them an edge over the competition by haunting their B&B.
It’s the perfect challenge for Pippa’s experimental magic, but just because she could figure it out, doesn’t mean it’s a smart or safe idea. But Elle is persistent, and the financial boost could save her own business if Pippa succeeds. Soon, Pippa finds herself testing the limits of her magic… and her ability to stop the growing attraction she feels toward Elle, a woman with a painful secret of her own.
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Let’s Not Go Overboard Here by Erica Hendry
This is a story about a definitely dead girl, a possibly dead girl and a living dead girl. All aboard.
There are a lot of things that pop culture aficionado Melanie Hoffman is great at: rattling off storylines from The Real Housewives, reciting the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen filmography from memory, and quoting Gossip Girl like it’s The Godfather, to name a few. And then there are the things she’s not good at: maintaining a healthy work-life balance, sleeping (in general), and being a functioning adult who isn’t completely destroyed by the death of her best friend, Ari. Mel has accepted that nothing will ever fill the crater-sized hole that Ari’s absence has left behind, and the cork on her grief is stopped tight. But then her company requires Mel to take a mandatory vacation. Cue the explosion.
Desperate to avoid two weeks alone with her thoughts, Mel joins her friend Vish on a yacht trip in Greece chartered by his tech company. It’s the Below Deck fantasy of Mel’s dreams, with built-in quasi-celebrities to fixate on in the form of the posh co-founders of Vish’s company. Mel has done enough social media stalking to immediately typecast the fabulous yet fragile Freya, her arrogant boyfriend Seb, and the hardworking and humble Ollie. A luxurious yacht chockful of hot, rich Brits? Mel couldn’t dream up a better distraction from her sorrow.
But Mel’s dream quickly plunges into nightmarish waters when a sinister conversation overheard in the dead of night convinces Mel that Freya is in danger. And when Freya turns up missing the next morning, Mel immediately clocks what happened with the skill of a rabid true crime fan: Freya was murdered, and Seb is the prime suspect.
But Freya’s disappearance doesn’t rock the boat in the way Mel is expecting. In fact, no one else onboard seems to think anything’s fishy. Mel’s concern for Freya grows into obsession, and she becomes dead set on saving Freya’s life like she couldn’t save Ari’s.
With her time left on the yacht quickly dwindling, Mel must uncover what happened to Freya before going under herself.
Sourland by Ariel Delgado Dixon
Sapphire and her farm, Sourland, are fixtures of Northern California’s rugged wilderness, offering refuge to rejects, rebels, and outcasts—anyone willing to work and learn. But the haven Sapphire has built is fractured when she suddenly goes missing, her scorched truck abandoned on a mountain road.
Frankie, a disgraced ballerina and Sapphire’s former girlfriend and right-hand woman, returns to Sourland, claiming ownership of the farm. When she arrives, Frankie finds that Fizz—Sapphire’s most recent lover, an ex–baseball player with a preternatural green thumb—has already begun prepping Sourland for its biggest harvest yet.
As the two grapple for power, the farm’s fate hangs in the balance, and with it, the future Fizz and Frankie each covet for themselves. Past demons and scorned admirers remain hauntingly close, while the specter of Sapphire looms over the farm: in cryptic notes, in bud-tender gossip, in every blade of grass and whorl of smoke.
Damned if I Do by Alexandria Bellefleur
The devil’s right-hand woman must convince her long-lost husband to renounce their vows so she can wed a prince from Hell.
Effie MacLeod is no stranger to making desperate decisions, but making a deal with Lucifer himself—sacrificing her soul to save a loved one—has got to be her most monumental. Several hundred years into her tenure as a demon, Effie’s found herself engaged to Belphegor, a handsome, seductive, and successful Prince of Hell. It’s not a love match, but it’ll do. There’s just one teensy-tiny little problem: She’s still bound to her sixteenth-century Scottish husband. While Effie has completely cast her human life aside, Finn has been reincarnated through several lifetimes.
Effie must convince Finn to renounce their age-old vows in order get the Office of Infernal Internal Affairs off her back. The kicker? When she finds him in this lifetime, Finn doesn’t remember anything, but he refuses her request for a divorce.
Annoyed to be stuck with him in small-town Georgia until she can persuade Finn to abandon their marriage, Effie must convince him that yes, she does want to get on with her devilish shenanigans despite the physical pull she feels toward him. As they get closer in hopes of recovering his lost memories, Effie can’t help but notice murmurings of her deeply buried feelings resurfacing. But while all’s fair in love and war, that’s not the case in Hell—and Lucifer may have his own reasons for wanting to keep Finn and Effie apart for the rest of eternity.
Til Death Do Us Bard by Rose Black
It’s been almost a year since Logan ‘The Bear’ Theaker hung up his axe and settled down with his sunshiny bard husband, Pie. But when Pie disappears, Logan is forced back into a world he thought he’d left behind.
Logan quickly discovers that Pie has been blackmailed into stealing a powerful artifact capable of creating an undead army. With the help of an old adversary and a ghost from his past, Logan sets out to rescue his husband.
But the further the quest takes him, the more secrets Logan uncovers. He’ll need all his strength to rescue his husband – but can he save their marriage?
So It Grows by Andie Burke
Felicity Gallagher thought inheriting her aunt’s plant shop would be the fresh start she needed. She never expected that the trendy, mac and cheese themed restaurant next door–and its inconveniently hot chef–might be her downfall.
Nicolas Holm-Bozic is arrogant and presumptuous and just flat-out gets under her skin. Felicity has made ignoring him an art form―until the exploding popularity of his restaurant leads to renewed interest in Felicity’s quirky corner of Kansas. Now, a greedy developer is threatening both their businesses with a towering parking garage that could steal the sunlight from her plants. With her shop’s future in jeopardy, Felicity must join forces with her least favorite neighbor.
As the pair fight back, Nic and Felicity’s formerly contentious relationship blooms into something new, but hidden battle scars, old secrets, and a devastating storm threaten everything they’ve built. Will they choose to cut and run, or are they finally ready to put down permanent roots?
The Heresy of Thieves by Mia V. Moss (October 6, 2026)
Vael stole magic from the gods for Her people and put an end to centuries of unrest. Now magic is gone, and the battle for the Witchlands’s soul begins
After a millennium of prosperity and magic, one catastrophic night undoes the realm of Yvaelen. Magic has fallen, and prayers to Vael the Giver go unanswered.
Jal Riago knows when it’s time to move on from a con. She can’t maintain her false refugee heiress story forever, and her benefactors grow weary of playing host. Just when she’s about to confess and cut ties, a deadly raid sets Jal’s life on a collision course with a powerful entity reckoning with its own madness.
The young, steadfast King Thealys Vorrine inherited the throne of Dynestra after her parents’ deaths at Spellfall. But sparks of unrest flare all too quickly into the unpredictable wildfire of rebellion, and King Vorrine must forge headlong into unknown territory.
Royal knight and notorious rake Ember Carrado is trying his best to get fired. Instead, when he’s paired with a judgmental paladin and sent on a mission to hunt down a rampaging mythical beast, he finds himself face-to-face with the past he’s been running from since Spellfall.
Beacon Wylda Lorcanthas wields a sharp tongue and the second-highest office in the Church of Vael. When the head of the Faith dies, Wylda must seek out a biddable successor. Unfortunately, the clergy’s clear favorite is a charismatic priest who promises the restoration of magic-for those willing to partake of a bloody cost.
The dark betrayal behind Spellfall, and the very fabric of Yvaelen’s faith, will be hidden no longer. What began with a thief’s touch will end with a reckoning. And salvation for some may be a waking nightmare for others.
The Fall Fix-Up by Karmen Lee (October 27, 2026)
(This is a bi4bi romance.)
Welcome to Peach Blossom, an irresistibly charming small town where falling in love never goes quite as planned . . .
Aiden Flowers can fix anything. Cars, kitchens, houses—if something was broken, it could be rebuilt. Unless that something was his messy family. Especially his dad, who ruined Aiden’s credit. Or his sister, who Aiden hadn’t spoken to in years.
Janae Gunner is crafty, not handy. Give her a blank canvas, and she can make art. But she needed everything to be constructed before she could make it shine. That’s why she pretends her first marriage didn’t happen—pretty on the outside, with no foundation.
When an apartment fire leaves Aiden homeless and Janae living in a half-finished house, they agree to a practical fix up: Aiden will help Janae with repairs in exchange for a place to stay.
But neither of them planned on falling in love, especially not with their secrets threatening to surface. When the past catches up to them in the present, Aiden and Janae must weather the storm—or risk letting their spark burn out forever.
For the Love of K-Dramas by Lyla Lee (November 24, 2026)
(This is a bi4bi romance.)
You Had Me at Hola meets The Hating Game in this spicy enemies-to-lovers romance about two movie stars who are forced to work together after a viral celebrity beef debacle.
Clara Kim is full of spite. Spite is what fueled her to become a Hollywood actress when no one in her immigrant family believed in her. And it’s what drove her to become one of the first Asian American women to win a Golden Globe. But when a heated exchange between Clara and a popular K-drama actor goes viral, it leads to the two being paired up on the movie of her dreams. Even spite may not be enough to get her through this role.
Shin Min-joon is the man Clara loves to hate, but the success of the movie requires them to make out and make nice. Despite the animosity between them, Min-joon’s good looks certainly make Clara’s job a bit more tolerable. But as things get steamier both on and off-screen, will Clara and Min-joon be able to separate fiction from real life?
Red, White & Royal Blue: The Private Correspondence by Casey McQuiston (December 1, 2026)
A brand-new novella told through notes and letters, continuing the unforgettable love story which captured hearts around the world!
After the email leak that made Alex and Henry front page news worldwide they vowed never to use email again for their personal communication. Still, they do love to write each other, so they borrowed a trick from their predecessors: handwritten love letters.
Red, White & Royal Blue: The Private Correspondence delves into the intimate archives of Alex and Henry, spanning over twenty years since the fateful day Alex and Henry joined together on the world’s stage. This epistolary novella includes their personal letters, post cards, journal entries, and more, sharing everything from sarcastic bon mots to sexy fantasies to emotional discussions about starting a family, giving readers compelling insight into the long term futures of Alex and Henry as well as beloved supporting characters.
Lightning & Thunder by Sara Raasch (December 29, 2026)
As a Zeus descendant, Pollux “Lux” Keraunos never intended to be a villain. But if the cyber-crime hat fits, he’ll wear it to destroy the tyrant Hero Council led by his brother.
Then his brother vanishes (not Lux’s fault). Zeus’s line must continue, and the Hero Council turns to Lux as the heir—with the caveat that he trains under Erik Thorson, his brother’s Viking-wannabe BFF. Lux’ll use this to bring down the Council, and he isn’t falling for Erik’s smoking hot with a heart of gold persona—
Even if Erik didn’t know Lux’s brother was corrupt.
Even if Erik actually helps people—and believes Lux can, too.
As Lux tries the good guy role, the truth behind his brother’s disappearance surfaces, and he’ll have to decide if he still wants to destroy the Council . . . or if he wants someone else more.
Hero? Villain? Or a secret third option: disaster bisexual with a savior kink?
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The Last Telegram of Mrs Hudson by Mattea Orr (January 5, 2027)
‘Some problems simply merit solving, Mrs Hudson’
Heartbroken, widowed and penniless, Katherine Hudson never intended to become a lady’s maid; especially not to Violet Holmes, mother of a precocious seven-year-old named Sherlock.
Yet she soon discovers that working for Lady Holmes requires far more than polished manners. Instead, she is drawn into a most scandalous and decidedly unladylike pursuit: solving crimes.
But when a boy from the village vanishes, and a body is discovered on the Holmes estate, suspicion falls on Hudson. To clear her name and protect her family, she must face a dangerous past, all while resisting her growing feelings for Lady Holmes.
In a household built on secrets, can anyone truly be trusted?.
A Curse Carved in Ink by Tzeyi Koay (January 26, 2027)
All Zhenya has ever wanted is to escape the monotony of her tiny village with her best friend Shuhua. But Zhenya must care for her grandmother, whose madness haunts their crumbling family bookstore—and she won’t abandon her, madness and all.
But when her grandmother dies, everything falls apart. For she was never mad—she was cursed. And with her death, the curse has passed on to her one remaining descendent: Zhenya. It screams to be fed, but no matter how hard Zhenya tries, she is powerless to stop it. Even when it demands that she kill Shuhua with her bare hands, trapping her soul in an eternity of torment.
As Zhenya grapples with Shuhua’s death, she’s confronted by two immortals of ancient legend: Kaijun, the broody judge of hell, and Yaori, the flirtatious goddess of death. Together, they drag Zhenya to Diyu—hell itself. To free Shuhua’s soul, Zhenya must journey through the ten layers of Diyu, undertaking trials that will test her in unimaginable ways.
It’s terrifying. And to complicate things further, Zhenya finds herself torn between Kaijun and Yaori, grappling with feelings she doesn’t fully understand. But she can’t afford to be distracted, not when the only way to break the curse is to destroy it herself.
Love at First Flight by Sarah T. Dubb (February 2, 2027)
(August is bi.)
Katrina Harrison isn’t a people person. After a lifetime advocating for her endometriosis diagnosis and treatment, she’s sick of explaining herself to people—now she relies on her prickly exterior to keep them away. Luckily, as the woman in charge of rehabilitation at Free Flight Wildlife Center, Kat spends most of her time with animals. At least until she meets a cute guy at a bar and finds she actually likes talking to him.
August O’Hare won’t be in Portland for long—his position as Northwest Correspondent for the Washington Herald is just one more stepping stone on the way to his break in DC and the stable life he’s always yearned for. He’s not looking to make attachments, but when he meets an intriguing woman at a bar who knows a shocking amount about wildlife, he reconsiders his determination to keep his sights on the future…until he learns that this very same woman is the subject of his next article, making her strictly off limits.
Now August and Katrina must gain the trust of a particularly skittish hawk, spending time with the bird—and each other—every day for the sake of the story. Their attempts to keep things professional crumble as their chemistry takes flight, and when the article takes on new dimensions, it looks like their relationship might do the same. But when August’s article drags up a corporate conspiracy that not only impacts Free Flight but the community beyond, he’ll have to decide if telling the truth is worth the cost to the career that’s always defined him. And Kat will be forced to determine if she can trust someone like August to know and accept her for who she is, spines and all.
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The Pendleton Family’s Guide to Accidental Murder by Brianna Heath (April 27, 2027)
In this family of criminals, everyone is a suspect.
Emmeline Pendleton has been dealing with criminals her whole life. Or, as she calls them, her family. For generations, the Pendleton family has proudly produced a long line of thieves, forgers, grifters, and killers who live by three simple rules: no secrets amongst family, no harming one another, and absolutely no committing crimes on the family estate.
When Em hosts a celebration for their grandfather’s 90th birthday, the family’s grand estate fills up with relatives. But even Em’s most meticulous planning spreadsheets couldn’t account for a dead body crashing the party.
Although each person claims not to be involved, Em is certain the culprit is at this party, and their secrets could endanger everyone. Em will do anything to protect her family, but the killer isn’t the only one with something to hide, and the secrets she uncovers may tear the Pendletons apart forever.
Best Laid Plans by Kate Dramis (June 8, 2027)
Fresh off losing her fiancé and her job as a wedding planner, Addie Huxton has one goal for the summer: retreat to her family’s lake house with her two best friends, drink gin and tonics, and get her bearings until she can figure out her next move.
It’s the perfect plan. Except there’s one tiny problem: Mara Marino, the woman who made high school miserable, has decided to spend her summer at the house next door.
Addie’s content to ignore her. But then Addie’s best laid plans get completely upended. Suddenly, her sister’s engaged, Addie’s planning the wedding, and Mara Marino is inescapable.
She’s also different from what Addie remembers. As is Addie’s reaction to her.
Addie knows what they say about the best laid plans. But they never talk about what happens when the person you can’t stand is someone you no longer hate at all.
Nonfiction
This is Me: A Reckoning by Hayden Panetierre
Hayden Panettiere’s career in entertainment began before she was old enough to walk. From early commercials to film and television roles in hits like Remember the Titans, her career unfolded in the public eye, resulting in tremendous success by her early teens. She had become a fixture of early-2000s pop culture, earning acclaim for performances in Heroes, Nashville (which earned her two Golden Globe nominations), and beyond—while quietly carrying the weight of expectations that came with being Hollywood’s “It girl.”
Behind the image was a far more complicated reality. As Hayden entered adulthood, the industry that once felt playful grew unforgiving as she learned by experience the pressure placed on young performers, the hefty price that often comes with fame, and how quickly someone else can take control of your story. She recounts being scrutinized by tabloids, watching her body and private pain become public property, and performing storylines on-screen that echoed trauma she was living through off-camera.
In this memoir, Hayden shares a rare and intimate glimpse into her life behind closed doors, opening up about postpartum depression, addiction and recovery, trauma, domestic abuse, and loss. She holds nothing back as she reflects on the moments she calls “lifequakes”— experiences that fractured her sense of self and forced her to rebuild it from the inside out.
