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PROBLEMATIC FAVE d’Amber Clement

A speculative dark romance for those readers who think « I could fix him » when you know you really can’t. For fans of Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios and Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson, a perfect escapist read for those who have daydreamt of their favourite character appearing in real life.

PROBLEMATIC FAVE
by Amber Clement
on submission
(via Mushens Entertainment)

Like so many teens, fifteen-year-old Emilia Michaels just wants to be seen and loved by someone unconditionally. Even though her longtime crush Bryan Cook seems either cruelly aloof or hopelessly oblivious, Emilia knows she can always turn to her favorite fictional fave, Hayden Frost. Sure, Hayden is technically the villain of Boyfriend Academy, the dating simulation game that Emilia and her friend Darla are obsessed with, but who can blame her? Villains are hot, passionate, and Hayden only murders people around the playercharacter because he’s so madly in love with them.

But Emilia is devastated when she overhears Bryan calling her an “annoying bitch.” To console herself, and with Darla’s encouragement, she uses a newly-gifted drawing pen to illustrate a self-inserted webcomic in which Hayden transfers to her high school and falls in love with her. Rushing around at school the next day, Emilia nearly collides with a boy, and she can’t believe who she’s looking at. The boy is none other than Hayden Frost, himself. And just as she drew in her webcomic, he falls for her at first sight, and she finally has someone who cares only for her.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t take long for Hayden’s murderous nature to emerge, leaving Emilia to rationalize his actions as his way of “protecting her.” What begins as a beautiful, fulfilling courtship quickly spirals into a dark romance with an ever-rising body count––and if Emilia doesn’t figure out how to stop Hayden, his jealous temper could lead him to kill anyone and everyone who stands in the way of his happily ever after with her.

Amber Clement is the author of Fortune’s Kiss (Union Square & Co., 2024). She is a dreamer and a gamer. She lives in Northwest Indiana with a Pomchi who loves to sploot. When she’s not writing, she may be spotted exploring the city in search of new inspiration. Her favourite stories are full of glitter, determined girls, and captivating villains.

EVERYTHING I NEVER WANTED de Meredith Tate

EVERYTHING I NEVER WANTED
by Meredith Tate
on submission
(via Mushens Entertainment)

Maggie Duncan wants three things: for her overprotective mom to stop micro-managing her life; for hot guitarist Brad Hayes to fall madly in love with her; and to be accepted into the prestigious film program at UCLA to follow her dream of becoming a famous director. With the help of her lifelong BFF, Camille, and her next-door neighbor, Caiden, Maggie’s been filming a documentary for the past year to use as a submission into the film program.

On Maggie’s seventeenth birthday, the unfathomable happens: Brad invites her to party at the quarry with his friends. Unfortunately, the even-more-unfathomable happens: Maggie’s mom says no. Desperate, Maggie convinces a reluctant Camille to sneak out anyway. But the night ends in disaster when Camille sustains a serious injury, they get caught, and the whole thing escalates into a blow-up fight between Maggie, Camille, and her parents. Furious, Maggie makes a birthday wish to be a legal adult—only to magically wake up a year later, on her eighteenth birthday.

Meredith Tate grew up in Concord, New Hampshire, where she fell in love with her two passions—writing and traveling. Meredith earned her master’s degree in social work before switching career paths to pursue her true dream of telling stories. She has lived in five states and three countries and currently resides in New Hampshire with her husband, son, and spoiled rescue dog.

THE LOST MASTERPIECE de Lou Morgan

The Time Traveller’s Wife meets I Capture the Castle in this sweeping love story with a time travel (and bookish!) edge.

THE LOST MASTERPIECE
by Lou Morgan
Penguin Michael Joseph, publication date TBC
(via Mushens Entertainment)

When Jess – grieving the loss of her brother – returns to her family home she is alarmed to find a man living in the tower room. Solomon Nash has been stuck there for 150 years, unable to finish his novel. Determined to help set him free – and to unravel the mystery of what her brother intended to tell her before his accident – she doesn’t expect Solomon to unlock a part of her no one else has. But how can she fall in love with someone who doesn’t belong to this time?

The Grant family have been caretakers of Merrith, the house of famed Victorian poet Hercules Nash, for 150 years. Everyone assumed that her brother Toby would be the one to inherit the house, which is full of old books, memories, and family history. But then Toby died, and the Nash Foundation decide to sell it, meaning that Jess is forced back to confront her complex emotions around the property and her family. Jess is lonely, very aware that Toby was the family favourite, and haunted by a mysterious message from her brother before he died.

One day, convinced that she sees someone through a tower window, she visits a room she has never entered before. Defying all reason, she discovers it’s a pocket of time: it’s always 1853 in that room, and Hercules Nash’s younger brother, Solomon, is stuck there, unable to finish his novel. It’s impossible, he’s impossible, but the more time she spends with him, the more he starts to bring her back to life. She wants to help him return to his own time, and to find out exactly why he has been erased from Hercules Nash’s history. But she’s also falling in love. Torn between helping to save him, and wanting to find a way to be with him – and with the ticking clock of the house sale on the horizon – Jess finds herself torn between her heart and her head, and utterly changed by the experience of loving him.

Since 2018 Lou Morgan he has been a regular writer for Big Finish Productions across some of their most popular Doctor Who full cast audio ranges, writing for actors including Sir Derek Jacobi, Michelle Gomez and Richard Armitage. After publishing two urban fantasy novels with Solaris in 2012, she then turned her hand to YA, where she published six novels, with four contemporary romances under the pseudonym Maggie Harcourt. Born in Wales and a graduate of University College London, she now lives in Bath with her family.

HALF LIVES de Krystle Zara Appiah

A heartbreaking novel about the bond between two sisters, perfect for fans of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett and Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors.

HALF LIVES
by Krystle Zara Appiah
The Borough Press, June 2026
(via Mushens Entertainment)

No one can hurt you like a sister

Growing up in 1970s Ghana, Evelyn and Maggie are two sides of the same coin. While reliable Evelyn is entrusted to support her struggling family, Maggie skips class to flirt with boys. Despite their differences, they’ve made a promise: one day they will escape to America, and start a new life together.

Evelyn’s prospects transform when she marries Gus, a wealthy surgeon who already lives in New York, and quickly falls pregnant. Meanwhile, Maggie sees her prospects vanish when she realises she is also expecting, but without the crucial detail of a husband.

When a terrible accident causes Evelyn to lose her unborn child, the answer seems simple, and Evelyn takes her sister’s unwanted baby to the States to raise as her own. But such an act has untold consequences for both sisters, and when one of them changes their mind, an impossible decision awaits.

An emotional gut-punch of a novel, HALF LIVES is about the enduring power of love, and what it can withstand before it breaks.

Krystle Zara Appiah is a British-Ghanaian writer, editor and screenwriter based in London. She has a degree in literature and creative writing from the University of Kent. In 2020, she was one of forty writers selected for the London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme. Her debut novel, Rootless, was highly acclaimed, with Krystle heralded as ‘One of Britain’s best new writers’ by Harper’s Bazaar.

THE BRIDE PRICE d’Alyssa Pickering

The first book in a gripping romantic fantasy trilogy following Valerie Gracey, sent to be married to a man duty-bound to execute her if he discovers the forbidden magic flowing through her veins, who finds an unlikely ally in his younger brother. Containing a love-triangle where you actually like both guys, a rake with a heart of gold and a smart heroine who is willing to play the game of politics to win. For readers of The Hurricane Wars and The Red Queen.

THE BRIDE PRICE
by Alyssa Pickering
Wayward TxF/Transworld, January 2027
(via Mushens Entertainment)

Valerie Gracey never wanted the crown, but as the eldest daughter of a scheming duke, she doesn’t make the plans — she survives them. But survival seems impossible when she’s summoned to marry Crown Prince Aleksander: a man duty-bound to execute her if he discovers her forbidden inherited magic.

Valerie knows a single misstep means death not just for her, but her siblings too, so she resolves to win the prince’s heart. Surely a man who loves her is less likely to want her dead.

But ignoring her magic is not easy, and ignoring the Prince’s rebellious brother is even harder.

Alyssa Pickering has been obsessed with stories for as long as she can remember. When she wasn’t reading fantasy books, she was writing them—especially ones filled with magic. After a brief academic detour to earn a BS in Human Development and an MA in Family and Community Services, she remembered her preference for imaginary worlds and began drafting her debut novel.