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A Fate Inked in Blood

Danielle L. Jensen
Format: Ebook

A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king—while also fighting her growing desire for his fiery son—in the first book of a Norse-inspired fantasy romance series from the bestselling author of The Bridge Kingdom series.Bound in an unwanted...

 
 
A Feather So Black

Lyra Selene
Format: Ebook

Set in a world of perilous magic and moonlit forests, this seductive romantic fantasy tells the story of a defiant changeling, her cursed sister, and the dangerous fae lord she must defeat to save her family. In a kingdom where magic has been lost, Fia is a rare changeling, left behind...

 
 
A Governess's Guide to Passion and Peril

Manda Collins
Format: Ebook

Two friends reunite—and discover hidden feelings—while investigating a murder in this sensual, witty historical romance perfect for fans of Evie Dunmore and Netflix's Bridgerton! Jane Halliwell once dreamed of a home of her own—but those dreams (and her dowry)...

 
 
A Grave Robbery

Deanna Raybourn
Format: Ebook

Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn.Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining...

 
 
A Great Country: A Novel

Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Format: Ebook

Named an ELLE BEST BOOK OF 2024

Named a BEST or MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR by Readers' Digest, Elle Magazine, CondeNast Traveler, Publishers' Weekly, Indigo, ZibbyMag, Goodreads, BookBub & more

"A deeply...

 
 
Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Xochitl Gonzalez
Format: Ebook

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious deathA Most Anticipated Book of 2024: TIME, The Washington...

 
 
Annie Bot

Sierra Greer
Format: Ebook

For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control.Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug....

 
 
Becoming Madam Secretary

Stephanie Dray
Format: Ebook

She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it…New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic new novel about an American heroine Frances Perkins. Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins...

 
 
Bye, Baby

Carola Lovering
Format: Ebook

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A March 2024 Indie Next and LibraryReads Pick"Powerful, relatable and crazily addictive, Bye, Baby takes an unflinching look at the battling forces of toxicity and love which define so many female friendships. I couldn't put it down." ––Rosie...

 
 
Diavola

Jennifer Thorne
Format: Ebook

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothic. Beautifully unhinged and deeply satisfying, Diavola is a sharp twist on the classic haunted house story, exploring loneliness, belonging, and the seemingly inescapable bonds of family...

 
 
Empire of the Damned

Jay Kristoff
Format: Ebook

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Nevernight Chronicle, Jay Kristoff, comes the much-anticipated sequel to the #1 international bestselling sensation EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE. From holy cup comes holy light;The faithful hands sets world aright.And in the Seven Martyrs'...

 
 
Every Single Secret

Christina Dodd
Format: Ebook

From New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd comes a twisty thriller romance about a woman's perilous quest for revenge, perfect for fans of Sandra Brown, Jayne Ann Krentz, and Lisa Jewell.Never whisper the truth. Never reveal the past.In an isolated lighthouse on the California...

 
 
Everyone Is Watching

Heather Gudenkauf
Format: Ebook

"Big Brother meets Clue in this utterly original and incredibly tense locked-room mystery." —May Cobb, author of A Likeable WomanA mysterious high-stakes game proves life-threatening in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest...

 
 
Expiration Dates

Rebecca Serle
Format: Ebook

From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes a love story that will define a generation. Being single is like playing the lottery. There's always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all.Daphne Bell believes the universe...

 
 
Finding Margaret Fuller

Allison Pataki
Format: Ebook

A “sweeping” (Entertainment Weekly) novel of America’s forgotten leading lady, the central figure of a movement that defined a nation—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post “Whether exploring Margaret’s...

 
 
Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice

Elle Cosimano
Format: Ebook

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!From New York Times bestseller Elle Cosimano comes Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice—the fiercely anticipated next installment in the beloved Finlay Donovan series."Finlay Donovan is irresistible!"—Janet EvanovichFinlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime...

 
 
Glorious Exploits: A Novel

Ferdia Lennon
Format: Ebook

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history.
On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: they've...

 
 
Good Half Gone

Tarryn Fisher
Format: Ebook

"The ending shattered me in a way only Tarryn Fisher can!" —Colleen HooverFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never NeverIris Walsh saw her twin sister get kidnapped—so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her twin sister's fate as a teen:...

 
 
Happily Never After

Lynn Painter
Format: Ebook

Their name? The objectors. Their job? To break off weddings as hired. Their dilemma? They might just be in love with each other.   When Sophie Steinbeck finds out just before her nuptials that her fiancé has cheated yet again, she desperately wants to call it off. But because...

 
 
Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

Nicci French
Format: Ebook

A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed.On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small...

 
 
How to Solve Your Own Murder

Kristen Perrin
Format: Ebook

Named most aniticpated by: Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, BookRiot, BookBub, The Nerd Daily, Shelf Reflection, Novel Suspects, Borrow Read Repeat, The Everygirl, The Scout Guide, The Real Book Spy The Top LibraryReads pick for March 2024A Publishers Marketplace 2024 BuzzBook For fans...

 
 
Into the Dark

Jessa Hastings
Format: Ebook

Book five in the sensational Magnolia Parks Universe series! How many loves do you actually get in a lifetime? Everyone knows by now that Magnolia and BJ are in the stars, but is that enough? Magnolia and BJ are reeling from a devastating loss as they try to plan what’s been dubbed “the...
 
 
James

Percival Everett
Format: Ebook

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, THE SEATTLE TIMES, ELLE, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, AND OPRAH DAILY A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point...

 
 
Kill for Me, Kill for You

Steve Cavanagh
Format: Ebook

For fans of The Silent Patient and Gone Girl, a razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological thriller about two ordinary women who make a dangerous pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink. One dark evening on New York City's Upper West Side, two strangers...

 
 
Kilt Trip

Alexandra Kiley
Format: Ebook

"Deeply romantic and breathtaking...readers will be swooning and flocking to Scotland long after they've turned the last page." —Livy Hart, author of Planes, Trains, and All the FeelsReady or Scot...Globetrotter Addie Macrae always follows her wanderlust. As a travel...

 
 
Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera
Format: Ebook

New York Times BestsellerA Good Morning America Book Club Pick"A world-class whodunit."—Stephen King"An extremely successful high-wire act, balancing between dark comedy and darker thrills."—Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author"Laugh-out-loud...

 
 
Manila Takes Manhattan

Carla de Guzman
Format: Ebook

Fans of Jasmine Guillory and Helen Hoang will adore this irresistibly engaging story of two Filipino celebrities caught between everything they want...and everything they are.
How do you follow your heart when it's in two places?
Filipino musician and producer...

 
 
Murder Road

Simone St. James
Format: Ebook

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases.
July 1995. April...

 
 
Never Too Late

Danielle Steel
Format: Ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Danielle Steel, a stirring novel about a woman striking out on her own after loss as her adult daughters try to find their own independent paths in life.Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco.  Determined...

 
 
Speculations in Sin

Jennifer Ashley
Format: Ebook

To save an innocent man’s life, amateur sleuth and cook Kat Holloway must expose a financial scam that could ruin the most powerful aristocrats in Victorian-era London, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret of Bow Lane.

 
 
Still See You Everywhere

Lisa Gardner
Format: Ebook

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner comes a harrowing new thriller: Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding the missing persons that the rest of the world has forgotten, but even she couldn’t have anticipated this latest request—to locate the long-lost sister...

 
 
Studies at the School by the Sea: The Fourth School by the Sea Novel

Jenny Colgan
Format: Ebook

The long-awaited and never-before published finale in New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan's delightful School by the Sea series.

After all those lessons, it's time to graduate....

Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair...

 
 
Sunbringer

Hannah Kaner
Format: Ebook

"An epic fantasy odyssey." — Entertainment Weekly"A richly rendered world . . . Kaner writes action that's both fun and intelligible." — The Washington PostReturn to the world of Godkiller in this thrilling sequel to the #1 internationally bestselling...

 
 
Swift and Saddled

Lyla Sage
Format: Ebook

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • She’s the city girl who refuses to be saddled with a man. He’s the cowboy who wants her anyway.From the author of the BookTok sensation Done and Dusted comes the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small town romance featuring opposites...

 
 
Take Two, Birdie Maxwell

Allison Winn Scotch
Format: Ebook

Hollywood’s biggest rom-com star tries to recover from her damaged reputation by staging her own rom-com and following a lead on a lost love in the new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch. Birdie Robinson thought she’d gotten everything...

 
 
The #1 Lawyer

James Patterson
Format: Ebook

Biloxi’s best criminal defense attorney has never lost a case. Then his client’s beautiful wife is murdered, and America’s #1 lawyer suddenly becomes its #1 suspect.  Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries....

 
 
The Angel of Indian Lake

Stephen Graham Jones
Format: Ebook

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror novels picks up four years after Don't Fear the Reaper as Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her in New York Times bestselling...
 
 
The Berlin Letters

Katherine Reay
Format: Ebook

Bestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale of the Cold War and a CIA code breaker who risks everything to free her father from an East German prison.From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical,...

 
 
The Best Way to Bury Your Husband

Alexia Casale
Format: Ebook

A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done––and hide their bodies once they’ve killed themWhen Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she’s more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh...

 
 
The Divorcées: A Novel

Rowan Beaird
Format: Ebook

"A rollicking thriller and poignant coming-of-age story." ―People

"Timelier than ever." ―The Cut
A "delicious" (Rebecca Makkai) and "deeply compelling" (Lauren Groff) debut novel...

 
 
The Duchess

Sophie Jordan
Format: Ebook

The thrilling second book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan's amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying for position in the hierarchy...

 
 
The Emperor and the Endless Palace: A Romantasy Novel

Justinian Huang
Format: Ebook

"A sweeping triumph in queer romance." –Booklist
"What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?"
In the year...

 
 
The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County

Claire Swinarski
Format: Ebook

Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter, and a mysterious young man work to bring a community together in this uplifting novel for readers of The Chicken Sisters.Esther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy...

 
 
The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties

Jesse Q. Sutanto
Format: Ebook

What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime foes crash the party in this hilariously entertaining novel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband...

 
 
The Great Divide

Cristina Henriquez
Format: Ebook

A TODAY Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick! A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored thereIt is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built....

 
 
The Hunter

Tana French
Format: Ebook

An Instant New York Times BestsellerNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by the Washington Post, TIME Magazine, BBC, TODAY, Lit Hub, CrimeReads, and more "Hailed as the queen of Irish crime fiction, French spins a taut tale of retribution, sacrifice, and family."—TIMEFrom...

 
 
The Inheritance

Joanna Goodman
Format: Ebook

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve.Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's...

 
 
The Last Verse: A Novel

Caroline Frost
Format: Ebook

"This novel is sexy, suspenseful, and boot-spur sharp." —Eli Cranor, Edgar-Award-winning author of Don't Know Tough

Set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville, a struggling musician writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after...

 
 
The Lost Book of Bonn

Brianna Labuskes
Format: Ebook

For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books.Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany...

 
 
The Love Code: Book 1 in Chemistry Lessons series of Stem Rom Coms

Susannah Nix
Format: Book

Opposites attract in this STEM romantic comedy when a super-intelligent geek girl meets a bad-boy billionaire.
The last thing Melody expects when she interviews for her dream job in LA is to find out that her college one-night stand works at the same company....

 
 
The Morningside

Téa Obreht - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Ebook

“A touching, inventive novel about belonging and loss” (People) from the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife and Inland “I marveled at the subtle beauty and precision of Obreht’s prose. . . Read in the context of today’s conflicts and injustices,...
 
 
The New Couple in 5B

Lisa Unger
Format: Ebook

"Spine-tingling fun." —People"Lisa Unger, you've done it again." —Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emmy Award-winning actressA couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded...

 
 
The Princess of Las Vegas

Chris Bohjalian
Format: Ebook

THE PRINCESS IS FAKE. THE MURDERS ARE REAL • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and The Lioness, a Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of money and murder in this twisting tale of organized...

 
 
The Trail of Lost Hearts: A Novel

Tracey Garvis Graves
Format: Ebook

Thirty-four-year-old Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention, the universe will send you exactly what you need. But her worldview shatters when the universe delivers two life-altering blows she didn't see coming, and all she wants to do is put the whole heartbreaking mess...

 
 
The Truth about the Devlins

Lisa Scottoline
Format: Ebook

Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart.
TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin...

 
 
The Underground Library

Jennifer Ryan
Format: Ebook

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to save the community’s beloved library in this novel based on true events from the author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir.When the new deputy librarian, Juliet Lansdown,...

 
 
This Could Be Us

Kennedy Ryan
Format: Ebook

“Heart-searing, sensual, and life affirming.” ―EMILY HENRY, #1 New York Times bestselling author Featured on The Today Show! Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything....

 
 
Three Kinds of Lucky

Kim Harrison
Format: Ebook

Luck is its own kind of magic, in this first book in an electrifying new contemporary fantasy series from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Hollows novels.Petra Grady has known since adolescence that she has no talent for magic—and that’s never going to change....

 
 
Three-Inch Teeth

C. J. Box
Format: Ebook

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human—in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box.
A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage—killing, among...

 
 
Until August

Gabriel García Márquez
Format: Ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude—a moving tale of female desire and abandon

 
 
Walk of Shame

Avery Flynn
Format: Ebook

One night. No strings. And a really good puck.Five years ago, Astrid O'Malley experienced the ultimate in public humiliation. Being dumped at the altar by her childhood sweetheart was horrifying enough. That fact that he was a professional hockey goalie and her dad was his coach?...

 
 
Watch Where They Hide

Tamron Hall
Format: Ebook

From Emmy Award winner Tamron Hall comes an edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring journalist Jordan Manning as she delves into the case of a mother in danger and uncovers a dangerous web of secrets that could lead right to the missing woman—or put Jordan in the crosshairs of her abductors....

 
 
What Happened to Nina?: A Thriller

Dervla McTiernan
Format: Ebook

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war.

Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont,...

 
 
Women of Good Fortune

Sophie Wan
Format: Ebook

Set against a high-society Shanghai wedding, a heartfelt, funny, dazzling novel about a reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own motives and fed up with the way society treats women, who forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day"Joyous, indulgent,...