Whoops, make that six.
Hit Me With Your Best Charm by Lillie Vale (f/f)
Extraordinary Quests for Amateur Witches by Kayla Cottingham (m/m)
Everything She Does is Magic by Bridget Morrissey (f/f)
Witchlore by Emma Hinds (m/x)
No Charm Done by Tori Anne Martin (f/f)
Brewed With Love by Shelly Page (f/f)
New York Times #1 best-selling authors Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro collaborate again on a new adventure in which Nico di Angelo teams up with his half-sister Hazel Levesque to protect . . . monsters?
Nico di Angelo is feeling antsy. It’s been almost three months since he and his boyfriend, Will Solace, returned to Camp Half-Blood from their journey to Tartarus, and there hasn’t been a demigod quest or a conflict with monsters in all that time. So, when Nico’s half-sister, Hazel Levesque, asks him and Will to join her at Camp Jupiter on the West Coast, he shadow-jumps at the chance to get away and do something.
In her Iris-message, Hazel had said that she needed the boys’ help with an “issue” with some “new guests.” What she didn’t say was that she’s providing a haven for a group of monsters who escaped the Underworld! Apparently, the self-proclaimed “mythics” learned from Nico and Will themselves that they have options and don’t have to be evil. But their integration into the Roman demigod camp isn’t exactly going smoothly.
As Nico and Will endeavor to build bridges between the refugees and the demigod campers, the mythics start disappearing from camp, one by one. A mysterious dark force is at work, and its plan is to punish all monsters for their past crimes. Things only get worse when Hazel learns that she is closely connected to that force . . .
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Magic is in Delilah Bea’s blood. Her absentee father is the world’s most famous cursebreaker, while all the women in her family are fated to never find true love. So when Delilah graduates her magical training and must complete her Calling, she has the perfect task in mind—to break the Bea family curse.
But Delilah’s Calling is hijacked by Kieran Pelumbra, a member of the wealthiest and most powerful family in the country, and breaking his curse suddenly becomes her official assignment. Every generation, a pair of Pelumbra twins are doomed, with one twin draining the other of their life and magic. Each day, Kieran grows weaker while his sister Briar gets closer to…something monstrous.
As Delilah and the twins set out on their quest, they quickly realize that breaking the Pelumbra curse isn’t going to be simple. For one, the Pelumbra family doesn’t actually want their curse broken—and they’ve sent hunters after them to ensure they fail. Secondly…it’s Briar. There’s just something about her that gets under Delilah’s skin and makes her want to kiss the perpetually grumpy look off her face. But with time running out for the twins and Delilah’s own curse getting in the way, they may not stand a chance of finding their Happily Ever After.
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She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham
The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall
Monstrous by Jessica Lewis
Bonus: For a whole anthology full, check out Night of the Living Queers ed. by Alex Brown and Shelly Page
Double Bonus: The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan is maybe more psych thriller than Horror, but check it out anyway
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
People Like Us by Dana Mele
Fraternity by Andy Mientus
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
As I Descended by Robin Talley
Bonus: Coming this fall, The Forest Demands its Due by Kosoko Jackson, and coming in 2024, With Love & Mischief by Derek Milman
TikTok creator, CEO of Beegrizwrites, and romance book ghostwriter ‘s HOMETOWN ADVANTAGE, a queer twist on the traditional small-town holiday rom-com, where two former classmates reunite for a drunken, banter-filled night and a long weekend of hijinks, falling hard along the way; and a second novel, pitched loosely as Bridesmaids meets Ashley Herring Blake, to Nidhi Pugalia at Penguin, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, by Dana Murphy at Trellis Literary Management (world).
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
The Restless Dark by Erica Waters
These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
Rules for Vanishing and These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
The River Has Teeth and The Restless Dark by Erica Waters
Bonus: Coming in June 2023, You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
Please note this does not include any titles already listed here.
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
Livingston Girls by Briana Morgan
Simon Snow by Rainbow Rowell
The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham (Coming April 5, 2022)
Bonus: Coming in Fall 2022 (as of now), Fraternity by Andy Mientus
Double Bonus: While I wouldn’t call it a “boarding school book,” It Ends in Fire by Andrew Shvarts is set at a Wizard Academy, so I’m gonna slip it in here
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
People Like Us by Dana Mele
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
As I Descended by Robin Talley
Bonus: Coming in 2022, My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
