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THE BOOK OF LOST CHANCES de Jennifer Lundquist

« If you’d once held a book that contained a whole other world in your hands―a world where you’d found a beauty and a love that has always eluded you in this one―and then you lost it, wouldn’t you try to find it again? Wouldn’t you always keep searching? »

THE BOOK OF LOST CHANCES
by Jennifer Lundquist
Wildthorn, March 2027
(via KT Literary)

As children, three wayward sisters―wandering the grounds of the family’s mysterious seaside hotel in Northern California, on the day of an annual masquerade auction―discover (and steal) a highly desirable and expensive book. . . and accidentally fall into another, more magical world.

At least, Agatha and Ellery do―Margery, the eldest Ellison sister, stays behind.

At first too cautious, then panicked and furious with regret, she’s the only witness to her sisters’ disappearance as well as the only one to miss them during their absence. . . and when the two younger reappear, they are alternately terrified and awestruck at the fantastical, dangerous years they’ve spent in another world.

Determined to protect them, Margery gets rid of the book so none of the sisters could ever be tempted to return. . . .

As grownups, the Ellison sisters are separated by distance and disappointments. Agatha is wayward and searching for magic denied, while Ellery has taken her penchant for storytelling and become a bestselling author―with a book that echoes the fantastical story of another world. . . and a love that was lost forever. Margery has thrown herself at the joys of motherhood, and the mundane disappointments of her marriage―though now empty nesting, it’s harder to pretend she doesn’t still yearn for adventures, and the chance she hadn’t taken.

But all three will be drawn together again as their secrets spill out in the face of a threat: a dangerous, enigmatic group is looking for a magical book that was stolen decades ago. And they are willing to kill to get it back. . .

« An exquisite read! Thick with the magic of past secrets, tangled memories, and stories that have claws, The Book of Lost Chances is the kind of fantasy that seeps into your bones and leaves an impression on your soul, staying with you even after you’ve left the book behind. » ―Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alchemy of Secrets

Jennifer Lundquist is the author of multiple middle grade and young adult titles including Seeing Cinderella as well as The Library of Curiosities, which was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Jennifer holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and lives in Northern California with her family and their rescue dog, Ollie. The Book of Lost Chances is her adult debut novel. Find Jennifer online at Instagram and Substack.

CELLO’S GATE de Maurice Africh

With a wit to rival Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl, action on par with Pierce Brown’s Red Rising, and the scope of Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, this is a rollicking sci-fi fantasy epic about a ragtag crew of rogues on the hunt for mythic treasure. They did not, however, sign up to save the world.

CELLO’S GATE
(The Sky Pirates of Imperia, Book 1)
by Maurice Africh
Saga Press/S&S, November 2026
(via Writers House)

One crew of sky pirates. Seven mythological stones. A race to find them all.

Captain Grey and his crew of sky pirates have a reputation for doing the impossible. From breaking into high-security military research facilities to conning the iCity elite, there isn’t a lock they can’t pick, a safe they can’t break, or a hidden treasure they can’t find. Until now.

Returning from a harrowing heist involving a neon battery and a trash chute, Grey and his crew are approached by Dalia, the immortal daughter of the infamous ArchGovernor—and she has an offer.

The job? Locate and steal the Stones of Indigo—seven fabled rocks invested with godlike power. The search for the first stone is a bona fide treasure hunt, guided by an ancient map to a deadly, uncharted island that’s protected by a mysterious guardian. The score? One million credits per crew member, per stone. The catch? Well, that’s where things get a little complicated.

The stones don’t exist. They’re a myth. A bedtime story told to little pirates to make them believe that power and wealth are attainable if you just work hard enough.

And to make matters infinitely worse, Grey’s never trusted immortals, and Dalia’s definitely hiding something—something bad. And if they don’t figure out what it is, it might cost them their lives in this “wickedly wild and uniquely imaginative adventure” (Grimdark Magazine).

“A stellar debut. It’s got scheming immortals, a perilious quest, and a ragtag band of eclectic, eccentric, exceedingly dangerous misfits setting out on a grand adventure. This one’s a must-read. » – Nicholas Eames (Author of Kings of the Wyld)

« The very definition of rip-roaring. » – Richard Swan (Author of the Empire of the Wolf Trilogy)

Maurice Africh is an ex-theater kid with a passion for tasty food, semi-luxurious travel, reality competition television shows, D&D, and fantasy novels. He currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his beautiful wife, Rachel, and his cute, albeit cranky chihuahua, Toby.

La série Dungeon Crawler Carl bientôt adaptée en série TV

‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ (credit Ace Books) / Seth MacFarlane (credit Josh Telles/Deadline)

La plateforme de streaming américaine Peacock a donné son feu vert pour lancer l’adaptation en série télévisée de la série de romans de LitRPG à succès de Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl. Le scénario sera écrit par Chris Yost (The Mandalorian), la série produite par Fuzzy Door, société de production de Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy) en partenariat avec Universal Global Television, et Matt Dinniman participera en tant que producteur exécutif. Aucune date de diffusion n’a encore été annoncée.
(Lire l’article complet de Deadline)

L’histoire : une invasion extraterrestre a décimé la majeure partie de l’humanité, et les survivants sont contraints de se battre pour leur survie dans un jeu télévisé intergalactique sadique. Dans ce jeu, ce n’est ni leur force ni leur dextérité qui les aidera à survivre, mais leur popularité et leur nombre de vues. Survivre est une option ; offrir un show d’enfer aux spectateurs, une nécessité.

Les romans sont publiés en français aux éditions Lorestone.

 

THE HEART TRIALS de J. Elle

In a world where love is forbidden, one girl must fight for her heart and freedom through deadly trials in the first book of a new dystopian romantasy duology from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author J. Elle.

THE HEART TRIALS
by J. Elle
Putnam/PRH, September 2026
(via Writers House)

Welcome to The Heart Trials.
The prize is love.
The cost is everything.

In Ethyria the highborn may love; the lowborn may only feel what the Benevolent allows. 

Saltblood lowborn Axira Merreri survives the decaying districts by keeping her heart locked tight, couriering goods by day—and smuggling the ruler’s euphoric Heartfillers to the highborn by night. Until a drop goes wrong and her execution looms. 

When she strikes a dangerous bargain to steal something from the Tournament of Hearts, a ruthless dating competition for highborn citizenship, she enters. Not for love. For freedom. But as the twisted allure of the competition turns deadly, an unexpected connection cracks her defenses, forcing her to confront a truth she fears: In a regime built on engineered happiness, the most dangerous weapon she has is her heart.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author J. Elle delivers a breathless series opener that is bold, bone-chilling, and wholly original. For fans of the cutthroat competition of The Hunger Games, Love Island, and Powerless, this dystopian romantasy explores what happens when the heart becomes the empire’s sharpest blade.

J. Elle is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of dark fantasy fiction examining love as a powerful phenomenon—capable of building and destroying worlds.

DEVOUR ME d’Emily Rath

From New York Times bestselling author Emily Rath comes a dark, spicy polyamory paranormal romance series set on a New England island about the entangled fates of a witch, wraith, and mortal . . .

DEVOUR ME
by Emily Rath
Tor Bramble, July 2026
(via JABberwocky)

Dáinn the Devourer has spent the last two hundred years of his undead life reluctantly bonded to a dark witch. When Dáinn is forced by his mistress to devour the soul of a powerful rival witch, Jasper Prescott, he’s interrupted by a human. With one word, this human does what no being has ever done . . . she takes his breath away.

Forced to stop feeding, the soul he was devouring slips back inside the dying witch. Who is this human? And what dark magic must she possess to stop a wraith?

Birdie Rhodes, hapless historian and sometimes shop girl, works for the witch Dáinn was ordered to devour. Now Jasper Prescott is on the hunt too. For answers. As a powerful witch, with a coven at his command, Jasper will stop at nothing to find out what magical mischief is happening on his island.

Dáinn, Jasper, and Birdie become entangled in a magical love affair which could lead to their ruin.

Emily Rath is an internationally bestselling author whose chart-topping, sex-positive, queer-inclusive fantasy and romance novels include the Second Sons Regency romances, the Tuonella Duet fantasy novels, and the why choose tiktok sensation, the Jacksonville Rays Hockey Romances. A former university professor, she holds PhDs in Political Science and Peace Studies. Emily was born in Florida, raised in Kentucky, and now lives with her husband, son, and cat in Jacksonville, Florida.