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New Fiction October, 2025 |
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Land so wide : a novel
by Erin A. Craig
Trapped in the prosperous but cursed settlement of Mistaken, mapmaker Greer Mackenzie defies the Warding Stones to rescue her beloved from monstrous creatures, uncovering dark secrets about her town and her own origins.
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We are all guilty here : a novel
by Karin Slaughter
When two girls vanish on fireworks night in North Falls, Officer Emmy Clifton races to uncover their secrets and redeem her past failure, only to find the town—and those closest to her—harbor darker truths than she ever imagined.
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Emma on fire
by James Patterson
What Emma Caroline Blake has planned at New Hampshire's Ridgemont Academy is to change the world will shock all involved.
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Kiss her goodbye
by Lisa Gardner
Frankie is called to Tucson, Arizona, to find a missing Afghan refugee, whose friend suspects she is in grave danger—before it is too late.
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Marrow : a novel
by Samantha Browning Shea
Kicked out of her mother's coven, Oona hopes motherhood will bring out her magic, but when she's unable to carry a pregnancy to term, she returns to a small island near Maine to her mother, a witch who gives childless women the chance to become mothers.
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The winds from further West
by Alexander McCall Smith
A dazzling and uplifting novel of new beginnings and endless possibilities, in which a slew of personal and professional disasters cause a young researcher to upend his seemingly stable life in Edinburgh and move to a remote island off the Scottish coast.
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A mother's love : a novel
by Danielle Steel
Empty-nester and bestselling author Halley Holbrook befriends charming Bart Warner on a flight to Paris, but when a cunning thief steals her handbag and starts harassing her, reawakening ghosts from her traumatic childhood, she fights back with Bart's help.
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Beautiful nights : a novel
by Nina George
On a summer trip to the Brittany coast, a restless biologist and her son's passionate girlfriend confront a shared secret and their own desires, setting off life-changing transformations, in the new novel by the author of The Little Paris Bookshop.
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The Belles : a novel
by Lacey N. Dunham
In 1951, outsider Deena Williams navigates the rigid world of Bellerton College and the seductive, secretive sisterhood of the Belles, where loyalty, privilege, and rebellion collide, and where uncovering the buried past may expose her own dangerous truths.
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Circular motion : a novel
by Alex Foster
The acceleration of Earth’s spin begins gradually. At first, days are just a few seconds shorter than normal. Awareness of the mysterious phenomenon hasn’t reached Tanner, a young man preoccupied with dreams of escaping his tiny Alaskan hometown. One night, desperate to make his mark on the world, he runs away. He lands an unlikely job at CWC, the global operator of a network of massive aircraft that orbit the Earth at 30,000 feet, revolutionizing global transportation. Now goods and people can travel anywhere in little more than an hour—you can visit Paris for an evening or order sushi from Japan. But a wave of social unrest presents challenges for CWC just as Tanner settles into his new lifestyle and develops surprising feelings for one of his colleagues.
That unrest sweeps up Winnie. A high school outcast in an era of street protests, wild parties, and online savagery, Winnie falls in with a group of teen activists who blame CWC for the planet’s acceleration. As days on Earth quicken to twenty-three hours, then twenty, the sun rising and setting ever faster, causing violent storms and political meltdowns, Tanner and Winnie’s stories spiral closer together. They meet cynical executives toiling to forestall the crises they created and religious zealots for whom the apocalypse can’t come soon enough, lobbyists and lovers all coping in their own ways, and Victor Bickle—the self-aggrandizing TV scientist whose shameful secret will bind Tanner and Winnie’s fates . . . if they can uncover it before the Earth spins so fast that even gravity might lose its grip.
Three-hour days. Two-hour days . . .
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Play nice
by Rachel Harrison
Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so-glamorous secret: she grew up in a haunted house. Well, not haunted. Possessed. After Clio's parent's messy divorce, her mother, Alex, moved Clio and her sisters into a house occupied by a demon. Or so Alex claimed. That's not what Clio's sisters remember or what the courts determined when they stripped Alex of custody after she went off the deep end. But Alex was insistent; she even wrote a book about her experience in the house. After Alex's sudden death, the supposedly possessed house passes to Clio and her sisters. Where her sisters see childhood trauma, Clio sees an opportunity for house-flipping content. Only, as the homemakeover process begins, Clio discovers there might be some truth to her mother's claims. As memories resurface and Clio finally reads her mother's book, the presence in the house becomes more real, and more sinister, revealing ugly truths that threaten to shake Clio's beautiful life to its very foundation.
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Fiend
by Alma Katsu
Historical horror maven Alma Katsu turns her talents to the modern world for the first time, in this terrifying tale about an all-powerful family with an ancient evil under its thumb. Imagine if the Sackler family had a demon at their beck and call. The Berisha family runs one of the largest import-export companies in the world, and they've always been lucky. Their rivals suffer strokes. Inconvenient buildings catch on fire. Earthquakes swallow up manufacturing plants, destroying harmful evidence. Things always seem to work out for the Berishas. They're blessed. At least that is what Zef, the patriarch, has always told his three children. And each of them knows their place in the family-Dardan, as the only male heir, must prepare to take over as keeper of the Berisha secrets, Maris's most powerful contribution, much to her dismay, will be to marry strategically, and Nora's job, as the youngest, is to just stay out of the way. But when things stop going as planned, and the family blessing starts looking more like a curse, the Berishas begin to splinter, each hatching their own secret scheme. They didn't get to be one of the richest families in the world without spilling a little blood, but this time, it might be their own.
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The vanishing place
by Zoèe Rankin
A child who ran from the forest.
A woman who must return to it
Growing up with her younger siblings in the unforgiving New Zealand bush, Effie believed their parents had cut them off from civilization because they loved Nature. She never suspected that their reasons might be more menacing. After witnessing a terrifying episode of violence, she escaped the wilderness to forge a life for herself halfway across the globe.
Now, when she learns the only witness to a murder is a little girl who looks just like her, Effie is compelled to return to the scene of her troubled childhood, where the secrets of her upbringing and the terrors of her past come rushing back to the surface. In order to find out once and for all what became of her family—and possibly help this mysterious girl who could be her younger self—Effie must face her greatest fears once more.
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Hot wax : a novel
by M. L. Rio
The new novel from the bestselling author of If We Were Villains and Graveyard Shift-a vivid and immersive tale of one woman's reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood, and made her who she is.
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Boy from the North Country : a novel
by Sam Evan Sussman
Summoned home to his dying mother, Evan uncovers the astonishing truth of his origins and the secrets of her life, including a hidden romance with Bob Dylan, as he finally understands her profound wisdom.
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Lover Forbidden
by J. R. Ward
Devlin comes out of nowhere to save Lyric's life, and when she later searches for him they are drawn to each other, but she doesn't know he's hiding a secret -- or that he could be the key to ending war between the Black Dagger Brotherhood and the lessers forever.
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Circle of days : a novel
by Ken Follett
As drought and tension grip the Great Plain, a gifted flint miner and a visionary priestess unite to build a monumental stone circle, but escalating tribal conflicts and brutal violence threaten their civilization and their shared ambition.
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The girl from Devil's Lake
by Judith A. Jance
Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady solves her biggest case yet, from a body in the desert to crimes spanning decades and countries.
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Billion-dollar ransom : a thriller
by James Patterson
When five members of a billionaire's family are kidnapped in a perfectly timed attack, FBI Special Agent Nicky Gordon faces off against a ruthless mastermind, racing to outsmart a plan that's as precise as it is dangerous.
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A courtship for the Amish spinster
by Vannetta Chapman
As the last unmarried girl in her family, Eunice Yoder is given an ultimatum--find a husband or full-time job, or move out. Too independent for a suitor and with no one willing to hire such an unconventional Amish woman, Eunice's future seems set. Untilwidower and best friend Zeb Mast offers her a deal. He'll pretend to court her if she will help care for his young son. Both believe they are done with romance, but as they begin their arrangement, their pretend courtship starts to feel a little too real.
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Caring for her Amish neighbor
by Jo Ann Brown
After an explosion leaves Juan Kuepfer injured and blind, Amish widow Annalise Overgard is asked to help him adjust to living without his sight. She's raising a daughter who is blind, so she can understand some of the challenges he might face. But Annalise doesn't trust her neighbor-until she learns who he really is. Now, falling for Juan is the one thing Annalise won't see coming...
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A carol for Mrs. Dickens
by Rebecca Connolly
Catherine Dickens, wife of Charles Dickens, experiences her own Christmas Eve transformation as she magically travels through her cherished memories to rediscover her lost love of Christmas.
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The dragon wakes with thunder
by K. X. Song
After winning a war and facing imprisonment for defying tradition, Hai Meilin—guided by the sea dragon Qinglong—must navigate palace politics, rising rebellions, and conflicting loyalties as rival factions across the Three Kingdoms seek her power for their own ends.
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The end of the world as we know it : new tales of Stephen King's the Stand
by Christopher Golden
Set during and after the events of The Stand, this authorized anthology gathers original stories from acclaimed writers who expand on the novel's apocalyptic world, exploring survival, morality, and human resilience amid civilization's collapse and the uncertain rebuilding that follows.
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Glory days : stories
by Simon Rich
A collection of humorous short stories for aging millennials including tales about a discarded participation trophy that dreams of the one field day in 1993 when he meant something and a 40-year-old Super Mario who contemplates his bad life choices.
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People we meet on vacation
by Emily Henry
Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She's a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart--she's in New York City, and he's in their small hometown--but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she's stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together--lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?
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Sweet heat : a novel
by Bolu Babalola
Twenty-eight-year-old Kiki dishes out life advice on her podcast, but as she prepares to be Maid of Honor in her best friend's wedding, everything starts to unravel; finding herself face-to-face with Best Man and ex Malakai, they are hell-bent on ignoring their smoldering chemistry.
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Whatever happened to Lori Lovely? : a novel
by Sarah McCoy
In 1991, college student Lu Tibbott investigates her aunt Lori Lovely's sudden transition from Hollywood starlet to cloistered nun, uncovering hidden ambitions, forbidden love, and dark secrets behind Lori's dramatic life change amid scandal and mystery.
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Star of wonder : Dobah's story
by Robin Lee Hatcher
Dobah's lonely, widowed life changes the night her cousin Yosef arrives with his wife, Miryam, and their newborn son, Yeshua, but Yosef receives a warning that danger is near and he and his family must flee, so taking Dobah and her son, Levi, with them, they undertake a long journey of faith, love and the promise of a better future.
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Buckeye : a novel
by Patrick Ryan
In postwar Ohio, a stolen moment between Cal Jenkins and Margaret Salt reverberates through generations, as a small town's buried secrets and a wife's spiritual gift expose the longing for love and goodness.
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The secrets of secrets : a novel
by Dan Brown
When Katherine Solomon vanishes and her manuscript disappears following a murder in Prague, symbologist Robert Langdon races across three cities to uncover a hidden truth about consciousness, pursued by ancient myths, secret societies, and a revelation that could upend humanity's understanding of the mind.
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For richer for poorer : a novel
by Danielle Steel
As fashion designer and single mother Eugenia Ward faces business setbacks, her daughter's questionable, lavish wedding and a looming hurricane, she finds unexpected support and a chance for a new beginning with a real estate developer.
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