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WHITEOUT de Carola Lovering

Carola Lovering has become known for her keen psychological suspense and portrayal of obsession and complicated relationships. In this new novel, she explores the complexities of marriage, sisterhood, and the capricious relationship between what is true and how the truth is remembered.

WHITEOUT
by Carola Lovering
St. Martin’s Press, March 2027

June Lyons has built a beautiful life in Aspen, Colorado, where she lives with her husband Shep and their young daughter Ivy. Shep is a bestselling author whose skyrocketing career has put June’s own ambitions on the backburner, but it’s a small price to pay. She has a gorgeous, mountainside home, and her sister Penny—her closest friend and confidante—lives just across town. But when June loses her second pregnancy in a tragic ski accident just weeks before her due date, the family’s world is immediately shattered, and everything that she thought she knew about her life is thrown into question.

In the months that follow June’s devastating loss, what exacerbates her despair is the fact that she can’t remember anything about the crash. Why was she on skis, so late in her pregnancy? Why wasn’t Shep with her? And what if it wasn’t actually an accident? Determined to find the answers that no one can seem to provide, June begins to piece together what happened that day, intent on unveiling the truth at any cost—even if it reveals something about herself, or her marriage, that she’d rather not face.

Brimming with secrets and twists and including a past timeline that follows June and Penny through their early years in Aspen, Whiteout excavates the thin line between fact and fiction, memory and reality, as it explores the complexities of marriage, sisterhood, motherhood, and grief.

Carola Lovering is the bestselling author of the novels Tell Me Lies, Too Good to Be True, Can’t Look Away, and Bye, Baby. She is a graduate of Colorado College, and her work has appeared in Vogue, New York Magazine, W Magazine, National Geographic, Marie Claire, and Yoga Journal, among other publications. Her novel Tell Me Lies is now a television series for Hulu. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two young children.

I AM THE MONSTER UNDER THE BED d’Emily Zinnikas

In this horror debut, the only survivor of an unsolved teen massacre returns to her hometown and confronts her stalker with the help of her childhood boogey man and the possessed forest that surrounds her haunted house. For fans of Final Girls by Riley Sager and September House by Carissa Orlando.

I AM THE MONSTER UNDER THE BED
by Emily Zinnikas
St. Martin’s Press, October 2026

Something lives under Willa’s bed.

As an adult, her fondest childhood memories are of the invisible entity under her bed who taught her how to read. Now thirty-two, Willa Greene is a reclusive but successful painter. But when a bombshell news report exposes her identity as the controversial survivor of the unsolved Rapture Mystery Slayings, her tentative peace is shattered.

It was a small-town tragedy her senior year of high school. Six teenagers died in the woods while Willa walked free, and everyone thinks she did it. Collectors who once fought over her paintings can’t distance themselves fast enough. Reporters arrive by the dozens and park themselves on her lawn.

So when an old classmate calls about a funeral, Willa reluctantly escapes to the last place anyone would look: her sleepy hometown, overshadowed by the possessed forest that stole her friends. But her troubled past is waiting there to haunt her. The trees whistle for her attention, there is an unexplained knocking from the shadows in the basement of her decaying childhood home, and a past stalker is creeping on her once again. She is determined to show the stalker the rage of a grown woman; but nights spent pursuing her stalker draws Willa to discover a chilling truth—another stalker is behind the stalker, and one of them is determined to destroy her.

Her defense will draw her closer to the hungry forest she swore she’d never return to, to the monster at home she chose to forget—and to becoming the villain her hometown has always suspected her to be.

Emily Zinnikas has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and lives in New York. Emily loves all things spooky – and considers a ghost tour the highlight of any vacation.

GOOD INTENTIONS de Marisa Walz

A deft and immersive psychological suspense debut about a luxury party planner who becomes obsessed with a woman she encounters in a hospital waiting room.

GOOD INTENTIONS
by Marisa Walz
St. Martin’s Press, February 2026

Cady has worked hard to have a good life. She has a thriving luxury event-planning business, the man she’s loved since she was seventeen, and a social calendar she can barely keep up with. She also has Dana, her identical twin, her beyond best friend, her most trusted confidante. When Cady gets a call that Dana has been in a serious accident and arrives moments too late to say goodbye, her world falls apart.

But to Cady’s family’s growing concern and confusion, it’s not Dana’s death that consumes her. It’s Morgan, a grieving mother Cady encountered in the hospital waiting room, the day her sister died. It can’t be a coincidence, that they both experienced tragedy at the same moment, in the same place―Cady doesn’t believe in coincidences. Instead, she is convinced that she must help this stranger overcome her tragedy, in order to come to terms with her own.

Or…is there more to it? Is it possible that Cady wants something else from Morgan? Something she can’t even admit to herself?

Slyly twisted and deeply provocative, GOOD INTENTIONS captures the moral ambiguity that can arise in the face of impossible choices. Like the aftermath of a car accident―and against your better judgment―you won’t be able to look away.

Marisa Walz is a Federal Reserve executive who also writes novels about people behaving badly. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and two young children.

EVERYTHING LOST RETURNS de Sarah Domet

The poignant, utterly original story of two women separated across time but united by the arrival of Halley’s comet, as blazing and as daring as their stories.

EVERYTHING LOST RETURNS
by Sarah Domet
Flatiron/St. Martin’s Press, February 2026

1986. The Earthshine Soap Company has given Nona Dixon everything, from making her the brand’s first Earthshine Girl to launching her acting career. It also threatens to be the very thing that causes her to unravel when a group of Jane Does file a class action lawsuit accusing the company of putting harmful ingredients into their products. When Nona begins investigating Bertie Tuttle, the company’s third-generation owner, she uncovers a complicated history involving her benefactor and a mysterious woman named Opal Doucet.

1910. Seventy-six years earlier, Opal Doucet, a rural doctor’s wife, is pregnant, on the run, and desperate to get to Paris and to the charismatic spiritualist who supposedly communed with her first love. To save money, Opal goes to work in the Earthshine Soap factory as an Earthshine Girl where she uses her knowledge of medicine, and the spiritualist’s teachings, to prescribe cures to the women who’ve come down with mystery ailments. As she and Bertie Tuttle secretly partner in a labor strike intended to improve the working conditions at the factory, Opal must decide the cost of her own freedom.

Gorgeously written and intricately constructed, Everything Lost Returns is a story of desire and friendship, guilt and redemption, and the power we have, in our own small way, to change the course of history.

« Sarah Domet has written a tenderhearted and brilliantly crafted story, full of tension and surprises, uniting women across time in their struggles, losses, and victories. This novel is a paean to the courage it takes to rise up against injustice, and the magic of friendships formed in the most difficult circumstances. Beautiful, engrossing, and revelatory–Everything Lost Returns is its own celestial event. » –Nina de Gramont, New York Times bestselling author of The Christie Affair

Sarah Domet is the author of the novels The Guineveres and Everything Lost Returns, and the craft book 90 Days to Your Novel. She is a professor and the coordinator of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

 

GIRLS WALKING WITH WOLVES de Jenna Baner

A YA fantasy/queerplatonic love story that is Red Wolf by Rachel Vincent meets Loveless by Alice Oseman. Perfect for younger YA readers and set against a dark fairytale landscape of wolves, witches, and danger behind every tree, this debut brings deep emotional resonance and high narrative stakes to a story of a young woman discovering that love doesn’t need to mean romance.

GIRLS WALKING WITH WOLVES
by Jenna Baner
Page Street YA/St. Martin’s Press, October 2026

Arden Hood, blind since birth, is not afraid of witches. Despite the cautionary tales of evil witches in the forest, every day she walks alone deep into the woods to care for her beloved, ailing grandmother. One day Arden’s small, simple life is changed by two encounters: a chance meeting with the Queen’s Hunter, who develops an interest in her that she isn’t entirely sure she likes; and being rescued from a wolf attack by a mysterious young woman named Myra, the last witch still living in the woods. The two girls form a fast friendship, but the Hunter was sent to these woods for a reason. He won’t leave until he’s captured a witch. When the Hunter imprisons Myra, Arden will have to leave home, learn magic, and discover what “love” truly means for her to save her dearest friend.

Jenna Baner is a debut author who specializes in character-driven, emotionally wrenching Young Adult and New Adult fiction, with a particular passion for spotlighting queer, ace-spec, and disabled female characters. Her years of serving as both a judge and participant in writing contests such as the Young Adult Romance Writers of America Rosemary Contest and Voyage YA have allowed Jenna to hone her craft while collaborating with fellow authors.