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RISE de Freya Finch

The action and adventure of Percy Jackson meets the complex heroines of The Cruel Prince as a family of valkyries fight to stop Ragnarök.

RISE
by Freya Finch
Disney Hyperion, July 2024
(via Kaplan DeFiore Rights)

For seventeen-year-old Bryn, being the youngest, messiest, most rebellious sister in a family of valkyries isn’t easy. Especially considering home is a Renaissance faire in Chicago full of costumed workers who see her as nothing more than a nuisance. When her mother disappears on a mission for Odin, Bryn begins having strange visions about the impending Ragnarök. Bryn senses their mother is in great danger, but her annoyingly perfect older sisters refuse to take her seriously. Their mother is, after all, captain of the valkyries.

Things only take a turn for the worse when a half human, half giant named Juniper crashes the party with a violent zombie in tow, confirming Bryn’s worst fears—her visions of Ragnarök are real. If that wasn’t enough, the faire’s mysterious new addition, Wyatt the Black Knight, just so happens to have a ferocious secret that threatens everyone around him. Determined to survive Ragnarök, Bryn, Juniper, and Wyatt team up to combat the horde of monsters that keeps appearing throughout the faire. But after Bryn ignores the call to deliver Wyatt to Odin’s eternal warriors in Valhalla, choosing to save his life instead, she starts to wonder if she’ll ever get this valkyrie thing right.

Whispers of divine interference—including sightings of the mischievous Loki—reach Bryn’s ears. Soon everyone at the faire becomes a suspect, leaving Bryn, her sisters, and their newfound friends the only ones who can stop the war to end all realms. Whether she’s ready or not, Bryn is about to learn how the ties between fate and choice are as interwoven and unbreakable as the bonds between sisters.

Freya Finch writes about myths, magic, and mischief-makers. Born and raised in Michigan, she earned her MA in writing and publishing from DePaul University in Chicago. Now she lives in the mountains of Poland, where you can find her hiking with her German shepherd or lounging at home with her husband watching their favorite movies. RISE is her first novel.

THESE DEATHLESS SHORES de P.H. Low

P. H. Low’s debut fantasy is a richly reimagined tale of Captain Hook’s origin, a story of cruelty, magic, lost innocence, and the indelible power of stories.

THESE DEATHLESS SHORES
by P.H. Low
Orbit/ Hachette, July 2024
(via KT Literary)

Jordan was once a Lost Boy, convinced she would never grow up. Now, she’s twenty-two and exiled to the real world, still suffering withdrawal from the addictive magic Dust of her childhood. With nothing left to lose, Jordan returns to the Island and its stories—of pirates and war and the heartlessness of youth—intent on facing Peter one last time, on her own terms.

If that makes her the villain… so be it.

P. H. Low is a Locus- and Rhysling-nominated Malaysian American writer and poet. Their shorter work is published in Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Tor.com, and Diabolical Plots.

P. H. is an alum of Viable Paradise and Pitch Wars; a first reader for khōréō, a magazine of speculative fiction and migration; and a finalist for the Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award for Disability in Speculative Fiction.

NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE de Megan Lally

There’s nowhere Brooke can hide from her dark secrets in this twisty new thriller from USA Today bestselling author Megan Lally.

NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE
by Megan Lally
Sourcebooks Fire, January 2025

Brooke works hard to maintain perfect grades, perfect looks, a perfect life–especially after “the incident” that threatened everything. Getting into her dream university puts her that much closer to a fresh start. How she can’t say no to her BFF’s coaxing to celebrate the good news…even if it means returning to the same beach that she’s avoided since the incident?

Except leaving the party at the end of the night is just the beginning. A truck tails them on the two-lane highway that winds through the woods. Then tailing becomes trying to push them off the road, becomes a terror-filled chase through the dark night and Brooke’s darkest fears…

Megan Lally is a professional book coach who loves writing all things creepy and twisted. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family. That’s Not My Name was her debut.

THE INFATUATED FAE de Jeneane O’Riley

I fear that if I do not destroy the girl soon, she may be the only thing that’s capable of truly destroying me.

THE INFATUATED FAE
by Jeneane O’Riley
Bloom Books/Sourcebooks, 2024 –

HOW DOES IT FEEL? (Book 1, March 2024)

From breakout TikTok sensation Jeneane O’Riley comes the first in THE INFATUATED FAE series, full of forbidden enemies-to-lovers romance, twisty betrayals, and fairy tale magic. When a trip into the forest goes wrong, biologist Callie finds herself falling through a Fae portal and straight into the arms of the Unseelie prince.

A forbidden obsession. Unyielding family allegiance. Three deadly challenges.

When a trip into the forest to collect a rare mushroom for her research goes horribly wrong, biologist Callie Peterson finds herself falling through a fairy portal and straight into the arms of the Unseelie Fae prince. The dangerously unhinged and viciously handsome Unseelie Fae prince. He thinks she’s an assassin sent by the humans to kill him, not a scientist, and he imprisons her in his realm—where unwillingly, unwittingly, his obsession with her begins to grow.

WHAT DID YOU DO? (Book 2, June 2024)

Finally reunited with her family, Caly struggles to adjust to her new life and the decisions she made to get there. After giving up everything for them, she eagerly awaits the ceremony to receive the second half of her heart and become whole, even though it comes at an unsettling cost: she must marry Prince Aurelius and solidify her place within the Seelie Court. But as she prepares, Caly finds herself haunted by the memory of Malum Mendax, the Unseelie Prince, always feeling eyes on her among the shadowy silhouettes in her room and even touching him in her dreams. What Caly doesn’t know is that it’s more than just his memory that haunts her. Malum Mendax has returned to punish his pet and those that took her away from him.

Jeneane O’Riley is a #1 bestselling author of whimsically dark and romantic fantasy books. Her love of storytelling began as a small child, dreaming up glorious fantasies to fall asleep to. As she has grown older, her love of storytelling remained, but the tales grew more dangerous and full of toe-curling tension.

TAKE A CHANCE ON ME d’Elizabeth Eulberg

The international bestselling author of Better Off Friends returns to form with a love story that’s Once meets The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.

TAKE A CHANCE ON ME
by Elizabeth Eulberg
Scholastic, March 2025
(via KT Literary)

A heartbroken and betrayed Evie flees to London which brings her face to face with the person who has hurt her the most, her father. She doesn’t want to open herself up again, until she meets a British busker who just may be worth taking a chance on…if she doesn’t let her past get in the way of her future.

Elizabeth Eulberg is “a must-read for anyone who’s ever fallen in love – or sworn it off completely.” —Stephenie Meyer, author of The Twilight Saga on The Lonely Hearts Club

Elizabeth Eulberg was born and raised in Wisconsin before moving to New York City to work in the publishing industry. She is the author of novels for teens and young readers, including internationally best-selling YA novels The Lonely Hearts Club and Better Off Friends, and the acclaimed Great Shelby Holmes middle-grade series. Elizabeth lives in London, where she spends her free time going on long walks around her favorite city in the world and eating all of the scones. ALL OF THEM.