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  When Frost Was Spectre Grey Nicola Italia Publication date: August 30th 2026 Genres: Adult, Historical, Mystery Yorkshire, 1881. Imogene York has one job: authenticate a dead man’s signature and witness the reading of his will. It should take an afternoon. But the moment she arrives at Trelawney Grange, she can tell the people gathered to hear Lord Alaric Trelawney’s final wishes aren’t waiting on an inheritance. They’re waiting on something they’ve spent fifteen years hoping would stay buried. Every person in that house-the doctor, the solicitor, the reverend, the aristocrat, the household staff who move through it like they were never there at all-is bound together by a secret from one terrible summer years before, and no one will say what it is. As the snow closes in and the will’s true purpose comes to light, Imogene realizes she wasn’t hired to verify a signature. She was hired to witness a reckoning fifteen years in the making, and there is no walking away from th...

  This is Halloween Sarah Branson (A Blue Spruce Hills Novella) Publication date: September 17th 2026 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Midwife. Halloween. A Pennsylvania hill town. A ghost with an agenda. A historian with patient eyes. Jules Lockwood, nurse-midwife and family nurse practitioner, wants two years of loan forgiveness and a one-way ticket to Australia. Her obstacle: a town that keeps finding reasons to need her. Eli Matthews, Blue Spruce Hills town historian, is the kind of man who came back when it mattered and stayed. He brings coffee every morning without being asked. Agnes Bell, midwife, 1856 to 1931, has been waiting in Blue Spruce Hills since her death for the right pair of hands to pass her work to. She has found them. She is not subtle about it. On Halloween night, when the veil between past and present is at its thinnest, everything Jules came to Blue Spruce Hills to avoid arrives at once. This Is Halloween delivers the satisfaction of a woma...

  Silver Bells, Single Bed Paula Dombrowiak (Hollow Reign, #2) Publication date: September 1st 2026 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance My bandmate’s little sister is off-limits. Then a Christmas blizzard traps us together in Chicago with only one bed. After months on tour, all I want is to get home for Christmas. Instead, a winter storm strands me in Chicago with Harper Beaumont, a rising ballet star with everything on the line, including the lead role in her company’s production of The Nutcracker . With both our flights canceled and Harper watching her dream disappear, I do the one thing I absolutely shouldn’t do—convince her to experience the Christmas magic of Chicago. Somewhere between sparkling lights, one forbidden kiss, and a snow-covered city, Harper stops being my bandmate’s little sister… and becomes the woman I can’t stop wanting. When the only hotel room left has one bed, resisting her becomes impossible, sspecially when she asks me to be her first. On...

The Art of Keeping Dangerous Books R.J. Blain (The Apothecary’s Secret, #1) Publication date: July 6th 2027 Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy To master the art of keeping dangerous books, one must learn the golden rule: some knowledge should never be shared. Bookshop owner by day, restorer of rare and dangerous books by night, Kita James is thrilled to acquire a new poisonous book from the Victorian era. From the swirling patterns on the cover to its unusual leather binding, IN SEARCH OF LIFE is truly a unique find. However, testing of the vibrant tome reveals its darker nature: the leather is that of a human along with an extinct animal from the ice age. To further complicate matters, a new radioactive element is discovered lurking within its pages. The deeper she delves into the toxic text, the less she likes about what she learns. From the dawn of humanity, people had searched for the secrets of eternal life and resurrection. And if Lugalbanda-Alad, the author of the mysteri...

  Immortality Island Nikki Jefford Publication date: July 21st 2026 Genres: Fantasy, New Adult, Paranormal, Romance Survivor meets Fear Factor in this romantic fantasy filled with magic, vampires, and enemies-to-lovers adventure. Hunting her was meant to be easy . . . until desire got in the way. Twenty human spellcasters. One deadly island. Four cutthroat vampire masters. Only one caster can make it to the end . . . and win a place in a vampire clan for eternity. After her doctor discovers a brain tumor and gives her months to live, Joni Mullins sees winning the show as her last chance at survival. Sterling Alder is a vampire master with a personal vendetta and a mission: destroy her. But on Immortality Island, survival isn’t just about magic—it’s about temptation, betrayal, and falling for the one person he should never want. Welcome to Immortality Island, where contestants are literally thrown to the sharks! Goodreads / Amazon Visit the KICKSTARTER here ! — ...

  The Sea Queen’s Key R.S. Kellogg Genres: Adult, Fantasy At eighteen, Mira is one of the last humans in Breadcove Bay with formal training in Fire and Heat magic outside the faculty of Borealis University. Masitro has already lost a string of talented fire‑workers to failed confrontations with Shora, the Ice Queen, whose sightings creep closer to the city every month. Mira just wants to get home for winter break. The politics of a rogue ice queen and a missing mermaid queen get in the way.   Visit the Kickstarter NOW ! If you enjoy: • Cozy fantasy with higher stakes • Fairytale retellings with no romance, but all the emotions! • Stories where asking the right questions matters more than force… Then Welcome to the Sea Queen’s Key! — Author Bio: R.S. Kellogg writes the Everyday Goddess Stories, the Mermaid Magic Tales, and fiction in the story realms of Breadcove Bay and Agratica, among other places. Website / Goodreads / Facebook GIVEAWAY! The...

  Hott Hotter Hottest Serena Bell (Hott Springs Eternal, #5) Publication date: June 9th 2026 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance Real bodyguard. Fake boyfriend. Unexpected benefits. Trouble guaranteed. Tucker: Autumn Sato is a happiness influencer. And I’m…well, let’s just say my brand is more big gray stormcloud. If life were going to plan, the closest I’d get to her would be scrolling past her posts as fast as my thumbs could fly. But my sister needs help, so I agree to bodyguard Autumn at her sister’s wedding. One thing leads to another, and suddenly I’m pretending to be her new boyfriend in front of all her friends and family. It’s a hot mess, made worse because I swore I’d never do this again. Never get close to someone I was guarding. Never fall for someone whose safety was in my hands. Never let distraction get in the way of my job. Unfortunately, this entire week is nothing but distractions: trapped in a car with my smoking hot client, only one bed in o...

  How to Love a Prince Hayden Stone (Being Royal, #2) Publication date: June 1st 2026 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance What happens when a playboy prince must find a respectable husband to redeem himself and secure the monarchy’s future when he unexpectedly inherits the throne? When London-based playboy Prince Theodor learns he’s about to inherit the Danish throne, he must clean up his scandalous image by finding an appropriate husband. But his planned redemption arc to audition fake boyfriends to fake marry creates another set of problems, until a fateful trip to Corfu, Greece, leads him to Greek Prince Stefanos, of the former Greek monarchy, and challenges his guarded heart as sparks fly. It’s too bad they accidentally sink a yacht, which inevitably leads to more scandal, and they must start apart. However, Theodor and Stefanos can’t stop thinking of each other, leading to heated, secret encounters between Greece and England guaranteed to set the tabloids ...

  Tell Them Goodbye E. R. Sanchez (Third Death Series, #1) Publication date: December 17th 2025 Genres: Thriller, Young Adult 16-year-old Sino and his 17-year-old cousin, Martín, run away from their family’s ranch—El Petaco—after witnessing their cousin Adal murder their cousin Javier over Adal’s marijuana business. Not wanting to be forced into Javier’s job, Sino and Martín plan to run, knowing that Adal will come after them and anyone they tell. Although running away will leave people confused, Sino and Martín agree that leaving will protect both them and their loved ones from Adal’s wrath. The pair realize the journey ahead of them is going to be rough, so before leaving they hatch a plan that includes stealing two goats, making it to Arteaga, getting on as many buses as it takes, and paying a coyote to smuggle them across the U.S.-Mexico border. Sino and Martín don’t know much about life in 1970s America due to their sheltered life on El Petaco, but they’ve heard of ...

A Chatter of Bones & Baby’s Breath Suzanne Phillips Publication date: April 21st 2026 Genres: Young Adult From acclaimed author Suzanne Phillips comes this compelling novella collection–gritty coming-of-age stories in narrative and verse that Kirkus Reviews calls “haunting and heartbreaking. . .an unflinching look at surviving trauma.” A CHATTER OF BONES Kaitlyn has come to rely on Olivia, the woman who rescued her from human trafficking, but is learning to trust her instincts and lean into her hard-earned strength. All of this will be challenged when a monsoon bears down on their remote spread, a mountain lion, flushed out of the surrounding hills by the weather, attacks, and human visitors push Kaitlyn to face her deepest fears. BABY’S BREATH Teen poet bares the geography of her heart and the “no care” foster care system as she mourns the mother she lost, releases dreams of reunification, and accepts that the only life she can live is the one in front of her. Recommended f...

  Broken Wings Miloa Scape Publication date: April 7th 2026 Genres: Fantasy, Steampunk When a city begins to fall, the truth rises. On her tenth birthday, Marty Oakley expects comfort and celebration, not a city tearing itself apart. As Velarisca trembles and steam-powered defenses spiral out of control, Marty flees through chaos with her father, only to discover he is not who she believed him to be. With the city collapsing around them, long-buried secrets surface and a hidden legacy awakens. Caught in a conspiracy stretching from the depths below to the skies above, Marty must face truths no child should ever carry, or lose everything she loves. Broken Wings is a heartfelt steampunk fantasy prequel filled with wonder, danger, and unexpected adventure. Broken Wings is now on Kickstarter! — Some truths are inherited. Some are stolen. Others wait quietly, buried so deep that only loss knows how to uncover them. The world teaches obedience first. Then fear. Then sil...

You Don’t Belong Here D.M. Siciliano Publication date: October 13th 2025 Genres: Adult, Horror, Paranormal, Suspense A girl who feels invisible finally faces her worst fear on her sixteenth birthday and hastily makes a dark deal. An old man returns to the same place every year on the anniversary of his wife’s death, to have one last moonlit dance with her. A woman’s health concerns are ignored, and it leads to global chaos. A young woman goes home to bury her father and sell his house but finds that the home is no longer hers. An old man with Alzheimer’s becomes increasingly lost in his own house, which seems to be doing its own forgetting. Two young girls find a Ouija board, thinking they’re communicating with a deceased relative, but find something much more cunning. A woman, grieving the loss of her baby, takes a trip to a remote cabin in Tahoe. Her worried sister goes after her and isn’t prepared for what she finds. A woman’s drive through California’s winding roads leads ...