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I Don't Wish You Well
by Jumata Emill
Five years ago, the infamous Trojan murders turned the small town of Moss Pointe into a living nightmare. Four teen boys—all star players on the football team—were murdered by a Trojan-mask wearing killer. The murderer was unmasked, but some folks in town still wonder whether the police got it right. Pryce is one of them. An aspiring journalist, he's pretty sure he just stumbled upon evidence that throws the killer's guilt into question. It's the perfect story for his podcast, and a reason to go back to the hometown he's been avoiding. But in Moss Pointe, digging into the past is anything but welcome. There's so much more to what happened five years ago, and Pryce is ready to crack it all wide open... if he lives to tell the tale.
Mystery/Thriller, Murder Mystery, High School, LGBTQ+
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When I Was Death
by Alexis Henderson
Roslyn isn’t herself anymore. It’s been a year since her sister, Adeline, died in the woods under mysterious circumstances, and Roslyn is still tormented by her absence. So when the elusive caravan of girls that Adeline spent her last summer with rolls back into town, Roslyn joins them to figure out what happened to her sister. Strange, beautiful, and intriguing, the girls are closed off from the world and brought together by a force more sinister than Roslyn’s nightmares: Death himself. Death has spared the girls from untimely endings, and to pay for their lives, they travel the country reaping souls on his behalf. Now Roslyn must decide if finding closure is worth the price of striking the same deal.
Paranormal Horror, Mystery, Speculative Fiction
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A Wild Radiance
by Maria Ingrande Mora
Josephine's outbursts are infamous at the House of Industry, the school for children who can wield radiance, an electricity-like magic. She’s tried to follow the rules, but her fiery nature is at odds with the core tenet of the House: never form attachments. So, no one is surprised when she is banished to a remote Mission. In Frostbrook, she must work under standoffish Julian, the former golden boy of the House of Industry who seems determined to watch her fail. And then there’s Ezra, the flirtatious stranger who’s a little too curious about how the Mission operates. But there are bigger problems than Julian and Ezra’s secrets. A deadly disease is spreading across the countryside, and in Frostbrook not everyone is eager to embrace Progress. As Josephine questions the system that raised her, she must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to expose the corruption within the House, and the truth about the radiance in her core.
Fantasy, Romance, Dystopia, Steampunk, LGBTQ+
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Love Goes Viral
by Alexander Berman
Love Thompson went viral. Now she has it all—fifty million followers, brand deals, a Hollywood address, and the fast track to the music career—until she doesn’t. After she takes the blame for her influencer boyfriend’s mistake, the fallout goes even more viral. By morning, she’s lost sponsorships, ten million followers, and her debut single. Love needs to rehab her image and that means dating someone more homegrown. Enter Austin Grey, whose only followers are the regulars at his family’s diner, which he’s doing his best to save. Everything changes when he gets a DM from a star he never expected to cross paths with again. When Love walks back into Austin’s life, she thinks this is a purely online scheme with an expiration date. But as genuine feelings start to develop, will either of them be willing to take a chance on something real?
Contemporary Romance, Fake Dating, Influencers, Small Town
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The Spiral Key
by Kelsey Day
At the start of each school year, Madison Pembroke, the most popular girl at Lincoln Academy, sends out invitations to her birthday party in the form of spiral keys. For that one night, a few lucky teens get to enter Ametrine, a virtual paradise designed to be the party of the year. But Madison’s hated ex-BFF, Bree Benson never receives a key... until this year. Despite warnings from her boyfriend, Bree sees the invite as the perfect opportunity to rekindle her friendship with Madison. But as the party games begin to turn provocative and violent, Bree finds that Ametrine might not be the virtual paradise she was promised. And that Madison may have no intention of ever letting Bree leave.
Contemporary, Mystery/Thriller, Virtual Reality
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If All the Stars Go Dark
by S. G. Prince
When Keller is recruited into the Legion’s most prestigious galactic unit, it’s a dream come true. He's worked hard for this. He’s ready to prove himself. The problem? His new partner, Lament, wants nothing to do with him. Forced to work together under Legion orders, Keller and Lament team up with a motley crew of specialists to investigate a mysterious visionary who can predict catastrophes. As they begin to peel back layers, they realize there's more to the story. With threats mounting and secrets unfolding, Keller and Lament will need to trust one another in order to stop the dangers at play. But with trust comes other feelings—ones neither of them is prepared for. With the fate of the universe hanging in the balance, the only thing worse than failing their mission might just be losing each other.
Science Fiction, Space, Found Family, LGBTQ+ Romance,
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A Practical Guide to Dating a Demon
by Hannah Reynolds
As a scholarship student at the magical Lyceum, Naomi would rather focus on deciphering ancient scrolls than dating. Especially since the only boys asking her out are less interested in a night in Naomi’s company than an introduction to her influential aunt. So Naomi devises an excuse to turn down her persistent suitors: She claims to be betrothed to a demon. Her story works perfectly, until she arrives home one night and finds the demon Daziel insisting that he’s her betrothed. Naomi knows he’s lying, but the demon is surprisingly resistant to her banishing spells. And with his penchant for baking and home décor, it’s not so bad having him around. Besides, she has bigger worries—like the ancient scroll she’s trying to translate, and the way the city’s magic has become suddenly unstable. But the more Naomi learns about the scroll, and the more she gets to know Daziel, the more it seems like she might be at the center of something bigger than she could have imagined.
Fantasy, Romance, Magic, Demons, Fake Dating
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Prodigal Tiger
by Samantha Chong
For five years, Caroline has lived in exile from her home and family in Malaysia at a magical academy in New York City, until she is abruptly summoned home in an emergency. Her older brother, Aaron, who is next in line to become the Protector of the Island, has vanished. And now back in Penang, things don’t feel the same. Despite her family’s desire to keep her close and the Council’s explicit instructions to stay out of trouble, Caroline is hell-bent on saving her brother. But when it turns out that Aaron has been kidnapped by vengeful ghosts with a centuries-old grudge, even Caroline will need the help of friends she abandoned, including her first love, J.J. The ghosts’ goals are simple: break the barriers between the ghost and mortal realms during the Hungry Ghost Festival using Aaron to cement their rightful place as the true—albeit dead—rulers of the island. With only seven days, Caroline is in a race against time to save her brother. But as enemies stack up, she can’t help but wonder if she’s strong enough for this battle. Or is she doomed to repeat the mistakes that sent her away all those years ago?
Urban Fantasy, Mythology, Malaysian Culture
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The Roommate Arrangement
by Samantha Markum
Blair might be a little type-A, but she never thought of herself as overbearing, until her friends drop her from their housing arrangement a week before her summer coding program starts. Desperate, she agrees to be the fifth roommate to four off-campus sophomores who are also in a last-minute bind. But things get complicated when one of her new roommates is her brother’s best friend, Jamie. Blair begs Jamie not to tell her brother about the new living arrangement. Her brother would go straight to their parents, who would definitely not approve, and all her plans would fall apart. So they strike a deal: she’ll help him finish coding the app he’s building if he promises to keep her secret. Spending more time together shouldn’t be a problem. After all, they’re only roommates, right?
Contemporary Romance, Found Family, Roommates
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The Sun and the Starmaker
by Rachel Griffin
Deep in the snowy mountains of the Lost Range, the small village of Reverie endures on a miracle. Beyond the reach of the Sun, Reverie is dependent upon the magic of the mysterious Starmaker: every morning, he trudges across a vast glacier and pulls in sunlight over the peaks, providing the village with the light it needs to survive.
Aurora grew up on tales of the Starmaker’s magic, never imagining she’d one day meet him. But on the morning of her wedding, a fateful encounter changes everything. The Starmaker senses a powerful magic within her and demands she come study under his guidance. With her newfound abilities tied to the survival of the village, Aurora is swept away to his castle at the mountain’s peak.
The Starmaker is cold and distant, leaving Aurora to explore his enchanted castle with only an immortal rabbit for company. Yet the more she discovers about the sorcerer, the stronger their ruinous attraction grows, pulling her closer to the secrets he refuses to share. A deadly frost approaches, and Aurora must uncover what the Starmaker is hiding before she is left in an endless winter.
High Fantasy, Romance, Magic & Mystery
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Until the Clock Strikes Midnight
by Alechia Dow
Darling is the most talented Guardian to get a chance at winning the coveted Mortal Outcome Council mentorship. Getting the spot would mean having the opportunity to shape the future happiness of all mortal realms—if she succeeds at her first assignment, Lucy. Darling thinks it’ll be an easy job, until she meets Lucy. Her life is a complete mess, from her failing bookshop to her doomed flirtation with the princess of Lumina. But if there’s one thing Darling’s good at, it’s a makeover.
Calamity is the most talented Misfortune of his class. It’s his job to save mortals from their own terrible decisions. When Calam is granted a shot at the Mortal Outcome Council mentorship, he thinks his dreams are finally coming true. But first, he must pass the test. It should be easy—Lucy has been unfortunate for years. All he has to do is continue her string of bad luck so she can finally come to terms with reality and settle for a safer, more logical path in life. Yet when he arrives, he finds that Lucy already has a Guardian assigned to her.
To thwart each other, Darling and Calam insert themselves into Lucy’s life posing as a betrothed couple. As they try to guide her, they start questioning their roles and ultimately what they want for themselves. And if their feelings of loathing for each other might actually be something more like love.
Cozy Fantasy, Romance, Fairy Tale Retelling, LGBTQ+
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Ungodly Chaos
by Selma Soren
Amira is having a perfectly good, perfectly normal year, until her boyfriend, Kaidan, breaks up with her on her seventeenth birthday. But Amira is never one to let things go, and after overhearing Kaidan loudly arguing with someone in town, she follows him, only to fall through a portal to the underworld, also known as Duat. There, she learns that her chaotic ex-boyfriend is a descendent of Apep, the god of chaos.
Kaidan is intent on solving a spree of murders happening in the human realm. Someone is killing other descendants—and if Kaidan isn’t careful, he might be next. Feeling a mystical pull to Kaidan and the underworld, Amira insists on helping solve the mystery. Together with Kaidan’s rival and descendent of the sun god, Zain, they uncover secrets behind Amira’s mysterious connection to the Egyptian pantheon and pursue the killer who may have been hiding among them all along.
Fantasy, Romance, Mystery, Egyptian Mythology
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Sibylline
by Melissa de la Cruz
Raven, Atticus, and Dorian have dreamed of attending Sibylline for as long as they can remember. But when the magical university rejects them, the friends’ plans for a future studying the arcane together come crashing down. Until they decide to steal an education.
Getting jobs on campus, they sneak into lectures and swipe forbidden texts, dodging the administration’s watchful eye. In the quiet of night, in the thrill of secrecy, their magic awakens. And so do long-buried attractions that turn their friendship into something more. But like magic, love can create and destroy. As unrequited feelings and resentment threaten to fracture their bond, the trio discovers an insidious magic that has sunk its claws into Sibylline, killing students and corroding the very bones of the university. Now the three intruders may be the key to saving the institution from wreckage... if they don’t wreck one another first.
Fantasy, Romance, Dark Academia, Magic Boarding School
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Carnival Fantástico
by Angela Montoya
Esmeralda Montero, a thief pretending to be a fortune-teller, competes for the starring role at a magical traveling circus in the hopes of gaining the wealth and respect she's always longed for. But when the irritatingly handsome boy who once broke her heart resurfaces and warns her that carnival is more sinister than it appears, Esmeralda must decide whether fame and fortune are worth their deadly price.
Fantasy, Romance, Magic & Mystery
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