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IMMORTAL ROSE d’Alexandra Bracken

From Alexandra Bracken, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lore comes a stunningly original adult fantasy. Set in a sumptuous world ruled by magical perfume, this achingly romantic, slow-burn love story will shatter your heart and leave you breathless.

IMMORTAL ROSE
by Alexandra Bracken
Avon, August 2026
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Members of the ancient Rosebourne family have a strange gift born of a fairy ancestor: the ability to infuse fragrance with magic capable of manipulating mind, body, and emotion.

When a shocking murder leaves the kingdom of Albion vulnerable to a coup, royal spymaster Hugh Thornton seeks the one person who can help: Viola Lockwood, the last living Rosebourne and secret heir to a fraught legacy.

Livid at the silver-eyed aristocrat who had her thrown in jail to force her compliance, Viola nevertheless comes to an agreement with him. In exchange for crafting Immortal Rose, the singular perfume capable of saving Albion, illegitimate Viola can seize the life–and fortune–that should have been hers.

As Hugh and Viola race to find the perfume’s lost fairy ingredient, hidden deep in Albion’s dark underbelly, neither can deny the scorching attraction building between them–especially as the attempts on Viola’s life grow increasingly brazen.

But a terrible truth lurks in the heart notes of their kingdom–and while every bargain has a cost, Immortal Rose may demand more than Hugh and Viola can ever pay.

Alexandra Bracken was born in Phoenix, Arizona. The daughter of a Star Wars collector, she grew up going to an endless string of Star Wars conventions and toy fairs, which helped spark her imagination and a deep love of reading. After graduating high school, she attended The College of William & Mary in Virginia, where she double majored in English and History. She sold her first book, Brightly Woven, as a senior in college, and later moved to New York City to work in children’s book publishing, first as an editorial assistant, then in marketing. After six years, she took the plunge and decided to write full time. She now lives in Arizona with her tiny pup, Tennyson, in a house that’s constantly overflowing with books. Alex is a #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, and internationally bestselling author. Her work has been adapted for feature film and is available across the world in over 20 languages.

KENNEDY JONES HAS A PROBLEM de Liz Kay

KENNEDY JONES HAS A PROBLEM
by Liz Kay
(via Writers House)

Kennedy Jones has a problem. She has a lot of problems actually. One, she has aphids in her garden again this year. Two, she has buried a lot of bodies under her garden, and after the last one, there is the distinct possibility that police are closing in. Three, the secluded property she lives on is being developed into an artists’ colony and the (admittedly hot) general contractor seems a little too interested in whether Kennedy had anything to do with his dead cousin.

Kennedy tries lying low and keeping tabs on the case by dating a sweet but dumb deputy, but when the police throw out the words “serial killer” and start connecting victims that aren’t even hers, Kennedy realizes she’s not the only murderer in town. Recruiting the help of one of the artists at the colony—a failing novelist turned true-crime writer, Kennedy races to uncover her competition before they can pin their crimes on her—or do something much worse.

The novel combines Liz’s trademark wit with a highly propulsive mystery and a darkly charismatic protagonist. It marries the hijinks of Finlay Donovan is Killing It and You’d Look Better As a Ghost with the darkly comic horror of Final Girl Support Group, This Girl’s a Killer, and My Sister, the Serial Killer.

Liz Kay holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska, where she was the recipient of both an Academy of American Poets Prize and the Wendy Fort Foundation Prize for exemplary work in poetry. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Nimrod, Willow Springs, The New York Quarterly, Iron Horse Literary Review, Redactions, and Sugar House Review. She is the author of the Something to Help Me Sleep {dancing girl press}, The Witch Tells The Story And Makes It True (Quarter Press), Monsters: A Love Story (G. P. Putnam’s Sons), and Fallout (Red Hen Press, forthcoming). Liz teaches and directs the Creative Writing Program at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska.

PLAYING COLTRANE d’Andre Hardy

Former NFL player Andre Hardy’s debut, featuring a young man who has risen from the rarely seen dark side of San Diego to the upper echelons of the city’s elite, serving as the fixer to a corrupt kingmaker who now wants to get out and focus on his family, but first he’s got to survive one last job. A potent and atmospheric new vision of the hard-boiled detective and noir genres.

PLAYING COLTRANE
by Andre Hardy
Grand Central, September 2026
(via Writers House)

Like the complex, morally ambiguous protagonists written by Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald, Cain and their many descendants, Coltrane Davis is at once a knight and a hustler. He has risen to wealth and success, graduating from San Diego’s back alleys to the halls of power through his partnership with Saul Sollman, a crooked kingmak­er among the city’s elite. Running multimillion dollar scams with Saul, he has been Saul’s fixer, but now he wants out of the hustle so that he can focus on his teenage daughter’s burgeoning tennis career and finally be the dad he has always wanted to be. But when the San Diego Chargers’ star running back disappears one evening before a big game, Coltrane is drawn into an investigation of what happened by Saul and his protégé, the player’s agent; at the same time, Coltrane’s daughter’s closest friend disappears into San Diego’s underworld of drugs and pros­titution, and Coltrane is haunted by his failure to save her from San Diego’s sex industry. Torn by the unreconcil­able demands of the life he can’t seem to quit, Coltrane brings himself and his loved ones to the brink of destruc­tion in his quest to free himself once and for all of Saul’s control.

PLAYING COLTRANE is brimming with gorgeous writing about place, music, and the hard-fought struggle for personal growth against legacies of violence and neglect.

Andre Hardy is a former NFL running back and Antioch University MFA graduate whose essays and short fiction have appeared in journals and anthologies. His extraordinary journey from professional athlete to Big Five-published novelist infuses his storytelling with grit, rhythm, and authenticity. With this novel, he estab­lishes himself as a breakout voice in contemporary crime fiction, speaking to identity, resilience, and justice with global resonance.



MURDER MOST DELICIOUS de Danielle Postel-Vinay

Thursday Murder Club meets Butter—with a dash of the healing fiction of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop—in this heart-warming and delectable mystery set in Paris featuring two women in need of comfort: an American sommelier who has lost her sense of taste and an agoraphobic detective afraid to leave her quaint Parisian neighborhood.

MURDER MOST DELICIOUS
by Danielle Postel-Vinay
HarperCollins, May 2026
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Olivia Branch has a legendary palette—or, rather, had. She was a master sommelier—a distinction given to only 269 people in the world, and only a handful of them women–with a mental catalogue for the scent and taste of wines that ran into the thousands. She was even, for a time, the youngest-ever Head Sommelier at the most prestigious French res­taurant in New York City. That is, until Covid robbed her of one of her greatest weapons: her sense of taste.

While Olivia manages to keep this a secret for as long as she possibly can, her cover is blown one disastrous evening when she fails to identify one of the most important wines of her career. Reeling from the public humiliation, adrift, and massively depressed, she gets a miraculous second-chance opportunity in the form of an invitation from Jacques de Bizet—an old friend and celebrity chef in Paris—who invites her to fly to France to interview with him. Everything finally seems to be turning around for Olivia…until the esteemed gourmand takes his first sip and immediately drops dead.

Augusta Dupin is a former detective. Eccentric and intimidating in her intellect, she’d solved some of the hardest cases to come through the Sûreté de Paris. That is, until Covid arrived, and with it, a severe flare-up of her childhood agora­phobia. Unable to leave the borders of her tiny neighborhood, she was forced to quit her job, but she just can’t seem to give up her passion for mysteries. And now, one has landed right at her doorstep: Who killed the neighborhood’s dear friend and favorite chef Jacques? And who is the mysterious American woman who fled the scene of the crime?

In this captivating mystery full of sensual delights and adventures, Olivia and Augusta must join forces with a group of neighborhood amateur sleuths—a pâtissier, a café owner, a perfumer, and a florist—to solve the crime, and along the way find fresh purpose for their lives. Set against the backdrop of the enchanting Seventh Arrondissement, readers will be immediately transported to the cozy, charming Parisian neighborhood where friendship, food and creature comforts have the power to soothe the soul in dark times.

Danielle Postel-Vinay is the French alter-ego of The New York Times and internationally bestselling author Danielle Trussoni, whose books have won The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Le Prix Bête Noire des Libraires and been trans­lated into more than thirty languages. She spends part of the year in Paris with her French husband and their family.

FEW BLUE SKIES de Carolina Ixta

In her latest novel, Pura Belpré Award-winning author Carolina Ixta weaves a tender story about love and hope, following a teen as she works to protect her family and community from a major corporation taking over her town.

FEW BLUE SKIES
by Carolina Ixta
Quill Tree Books, February 2026
(via Writers House)

Paloma Vistamontes is heartbroken. A year ago, her ex-boyfriend, Julio Ramos, broke up with her after his father’s death, a tragedy that drove Paloma and him apart. Ever since then, the mountains have felt flatter, the sky farther away.

Now, her hometown of San Fermín, a place where honest people work on farms and in factories, is in danger. Selva, a massive e-commerce conglomerate, threatens to open one of their warehouses beside her high school.

This isn’t the first time they’ve done this. Since Selva arrived, they’ve opened warehouses everywhere where there used to be green spaces. Because of them, the air pollution is so bad that school is often canceled. Many people, including Paloma’s ever-practical Ma, want to leave.

But Paloma wants nothing more than to stay. Because when the smog clears, there is still hope. That hope drives Paloma to reconnect with Julio to expose and challenge the dangers that Selva introduces to communities like their own. Can they stop Selva from destroying everything they know? Is there still a chance for their budding romance?

Carolina Ixta is a writer from Oakland, California. A daughter of Mexican immigrants, she received her BA in creative writing and Spanish language and literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and obtained her master’s degree in education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her debut novel, Shut Up, This Is Serious, was a Morris Award finalist, an LA Times Book Prize finalist, and the winner of the Pura Belpré Award. Few Blue Skies is her sophomore novel.