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AMERICAN WEREWOLVES d’Emily Jane

America’s venture capitalist werewolves meet their match in USA Today bestseller Emily Jane’s third rollicking, genre-defying novel. From the author of On Earth as It Is on Television and Here Beside the Rising Tide…

AMERICAN WEREWOLVES
by Emily Jane
Hyperion Avenue, September 2025
(via Kaplan/DeFiore Rights)

Many full moons ago, a young American boy with ambition in his belly and the moon in his veins followed his destiny west, determined to carve a path to success no matter the carnage.

Two centuries later, a city is captivated by the strange and savage murder of a young woman. Her roommate, Natasha, no longer able to afford their apartment alone—and hounded by both rumors of wolves and a pop-star’s angry fan-swarm—has resorted to living in her car. There’s nothing left for her…except vengeance.

Across town, Shane LaSalle is about to see his wildest dreams come true. He already has a gorgeous apartment and a high paying job in venture capital. Now the partners of Barrington Equity have invited him to board the company’s private jet for an exclusive retreat. But with partnership finally in his reach, Shane realizes he’s losing his taste for just how ruthless and all-consuming the firm is.

Epic and electric, AMERICAN WEREWOLVES brings readers from the wilds of the New World to the opulent board rooms and golf courses of the twenty-first century, where devouring the weak is an American birthright as old as the country itself.

Emily Jane is the USA Today bestselling author of On Earth as it Is on Television and Here Beside the Rising Tide. She grew up in Boise, Boulder, and San Francisco. She earned her BA in psychology from the University of San Francisco and her JD from UC Law San Francisco. She lives on an urban farm in Cincinnati with her husband, Steve; their two children; their cats, Scully and Ripley; and their husky, Nymeria.

SCAVENGERS de Kathleen Boland

Hacks meets Rebecca Makkai in this rollicking novel about a cautious daughter and her eccentric, estranged mother venturing west in search of buried treasure—and a way back to each other—before they run out of patience, money, and options.

SCAVENGERS
by Kathleen Boland
Viking, January 2026
(via The Gernert Company)

After being fired for taking an uncharacteristic risk at her commodities trading job, Bea Macon sublets her New York apartment and books a one-way ticket to stay with her mother, Christy, a free spirit who has been living in Salt Lake City on Bea’s dime.

Usually the responsible one, Bea isn’t about to admit exactly why she’s suddenly decided to visit, but she isn’t the only one keeping secrets: Christy has a man. She has a map. She has . . . a username on a forum devoted to unearthing $1 million in buried treasure that an antiquities dealer claims to have hidden somewhere in the western U.S.?

Bea is convinced this is just another one of her mother’s wild larks, an elaborate way to refuse, as she has for Bea’s entire life, to finally grow up. But Christy believes she’s onto something—and she’s arranged a rendezvous in a rural town called Mercy with the guy she’s been obsessively trading theories with online to prove it. Out in the desert that one woman believes to be a promised land, the other a wasteland, they find themselves barreling toward a more high-stakes, transformative escapade than either of them could have imagined.

Populated with unforgettable characters and set against one of the world’s most oddly enrapturing landscapes, Scavengers is a funny and heartbreaking novel about old injuries, new beginnings, and the lengths to which we’ll go to find, escape, and reinvent ourselves..

Kathleen Boland‘s fiction has appeared in Tin House, Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere, and she has received support from the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center. The former event director for Catapult/Counterpoint Press/Soft Skull Press, she earned her MFA from Louisiana State University, where she received the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award.

KITTEN de Stacey Yu

The “what will she do next” charged outsiderness of Emma Cline’s The Guest meets Melissa Broder’s off-kilter humor and Banana Yoshimoto’s luminosity in KITTEN, a debut novel about a detached young woman whose obsession with her boyfriend’s unusual cat ushers her into the possibilities of her own life—but not without first threatening to unravel it.

KITTEN: A Novel
by Stacey Yu
Random House, Summer 2026
(via The Gernert Company)

Katie is far from home and fresh out of college in New York, desperate to skirt adulthood’s demands, all too willing to let her wealthy boyfriend make decisions for both of them. But when James takes her on vacation to his family’s house by the sea, he brings Silver, his childhood cat, and the calculus of care changes. Rocked by class dysphoria in the face of the town’s quietly insistent superiority and drifting from James, Katie finds giddy comfort in Silver, who has life figured out. Soon enough, they’re inseparable, and something inside Katie begins to crack open, or maybe just…crack.

It doesn’t help that back in New York, her roommate has abruptly moved out. Or that she’s no longer speaking to her mother, who resents her for leaving Little Rock. As the days pass and her uncomfortable awareness of her dependence on James grows, Katie becomes increasingly enamored of Silver, who looks out for her in mysterious ways. But when her fixation deepens and the stakes of her relationships intensify to the point of detonation, Katie must confront the demands and desires of her life: the one she comes from, the one she longs for, and the one she has.

KITTEN deftly explores the politics of helplessness (especially through the lens of class, family, and race), what we owe—and don’t—to those we care for and who dare care for us, and the startling joy that comes from connecting on our own terms. A tale for our times, KITTEN has all the trappings of a cult classic with mass appeal—a darkly playful, heartfelt, stylish bildungsroman about braving love in a lonely age.

Raised in California and based in London, Stacey Yu is a Chinese-American writer with a community – for now – of over 112,000 literary fiction readers on her TikTok account @literaryfling. She’s also the author of “Blue Hour,” a new literary Substack which just crossed 1,000 followers (launched earlier this month). Every day, Stacey connects with readers hungry for, in her own words, “stories that reflect their own deeply personal yet universal anxieties: growing older, loving the wrong person, missing their mother.” She began her career by working in publishing, first as an intern at Writers House, then as a reader for Alanna Feldman Scouting, and finally, in publicity at Random House before pivoting to branding as her day job, and writing (and talking about books across platforms) as her passion. In 2024, Stacey was a finalist for the UK BookTok Creator of the Year Award. She is twenty-six years old.

LITTLE GERMANY de Maria Nikolai

Two women, two worlds, two lives at a crossroads.

LITTLE GERMANY #1 DER DUFT DER NEUEN WELT
by Maria Nikolai
Penguin Germany, May 2025

Germany, 1901. Domestic servant Lissi has embarked on a foolish affair with the scion of the family she works for. But her hopes of a romantic wedding are shattered, and when she finds herself pregnant, alone and desperate, she decides to leave her home town. Meanwhile, Julia Varrell has been lured into an arranged marriage under false pretences, and feels lonely on her husband’s idyllic estate. She, too, wants out. And so Lissi and Julia find themselves on board a ship bound for New York.

The two of them quickly become close friends, and agree to help each other make a fresh start. A bakery in Manhattan’s Little Germany offers them work and a roof over their heads. Soon, the bakery and its heavenly sweet pretzels gain a reputation among the upper echelons of New York society. What no one suspects, though, is that disaster is looming on the horizon – one that will disrupt not only Julia’s and Lissi’s lives, but the whole of Little Germany…

• Based on a true story
• Vol. 2 to be published in October 2025

Maria Nikolai loves the stuff of history and tender love stories. With her debut The Chocolate Villa she wrote her way into the hearts of her readers, and spent many months in the bestseller lists. The saga sold about half a million copies. Maria Nikolai’s fans were also enchanted by her second historical fiction trilogy, set on picturesque Lake Constance towards the end of the First World War. LITTLE GERMANY, her new émigré saga, tells the story of two bold young women seeking their fortune in the New World.

Série SKY CIRCUS d’Ayla Dade

I’m meant to trust him. But will he catch me when I fall?

THE SKY CIRCUS SERIES
by Ayla Dade
Penguin Germany, 2025

Book 1: A MILLION STARS ABOVE (January 2025)

Trapeze artist Heaven, daughter of a circus director, has dreamt all her life of becoming the star attraction at Sky Circus. The spectators waiting with bated breath and shining eyes, glittering costumes and dangerous acts – this is where she feels at home. But despite all her hard work, she hasn’t made it to the top yet. Only when her rival is injured does Heaven finally have a chance to prove herself. Overnight, she becomes the star of the show – but being in the limelight comes at a price: she is told to pretend that she and her professional partner, the recently hired strongman Hell, are romantically involved. But she can’t bear him: he’s brash, arrogant, and clearly thinks he’s irresistible, what with his big muscles and tattoos. Heaven has taken an instant dislike to him – and how is she meant to train with someone like that, let alone trust him with her life? But the more often he throws her high into the air and catches her, the more often she has to tell herself that the fire in his eyes and the wild pounding in her chest are just for show…

Book 2: A THOUSAND FLAMES BELOW (March 2025)

Will Heaven recover from her accident and will she find true love with her trapeze partner?
She was the star of the show, but now she’s nothing. Ever since her accident at the big Sky Circus show in Las Vegas, trapeze artist Heaven can remember nothing about the past few months. Not being able to trust her memory – or her body – is the worst feeling in the world. Because she has to relearn everything from scratch, Heaven joins a beginners’ trapeze class. Then irresistibly handsome strongman Hell unexpectedly offers his help. Despite the critical looks he gives her, and although he drives her hard, she realises that they’re the perfect partners on the trapeze… and when he wraps his strong arms around her, she finds it hard not to give in to the chemistry between them. But the more her body recalls the sensuous movements of the past, the more Hell pulls back – almost as if he were afraid of what else she might remember…

• Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Fake Dating, Bad Boy x Good Girl, Forced Proximity, circus setting without animals

Ayla Dade is a star of the New Adult genre. Her Winter Dreams and Frozen Hearts series have won her a large fan base, and every single one of her novels is a bestseller, staying at the top of the charts for weeks. The secret to her success is her addictive mix of art and glamour, secrets and intrigue, love and spice, often set in high society. Her latest series, Sky Circus, invites you to a breathtaking show that promises drama, passion and magic moments.