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TO OUR UNTAMED CORE de Sonora Reyes

The stunning first YA fantasy novel from award-winning author Sonora Reyes! The Hunger Games meets Chain Gang All Stars in this tournament to the death.

TO OUR UNTAMED CORE
by Sonora Reyes
HarperCollins, September 2026
(via Writers House)

Centuries after a plague arrived alongside the conquistadores, Temo’s people are left largely infertile and with a fraction of their former strength. But as a gift from the people of El Centro, where many of the conquistadores now live, Temo and all other residents of the afueras take a daily capsule that allows them to live a civilized life, uninhibited by their untamed nature.

But the sacrament doesn’t work on everyone and every ten years, El Centro hosts El Torneo, where any afueras who were unable to be tamed by the sacraments must fight to the death in a labyrinth of a temple that once belonged to their ancestors. Hundreds of afuereños compete against each other and one conquistador champion. And each games, the conquistador champion from El Centro inevitably wins, earning his title as their next king, and proving to the people of the afueras how barbaric and inferior they are without the sacraments.

Everything changes when Temo’s boyfriend, Ollin, is unjustly arrested and sent to a certain death in El Torneo. But instead of hiding, Temo gets himself arrested too, willingly entering El Torneo knowing this will be the only way to save his gentle boyfriend from a gruesome fate, if Temo even manages to survive himself.

Sonora Reyes is the bestselling and award-winning author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School, The Luis Ortega Survival Club,  The Broposal, and The Golden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar. Born and raised in Arizona, they write fiction celebrating queer and Mexican stories in a variety of genres, across ages. Outside of writing, Sonora loves breaking their body and vocal cords by playing with their baby niblings and dancing/singing karaoke at the same time.

POSSESSION ISLAND de Sarah McCarry

Women bite back in this queer gothic thriller, perfect for fans of Interview with the Vampire and Plain Bad Heroines.

POSSESSION ISLAND
by Sarah McCarry
Saturday Books, December 2026
(via Writers House)

It wasn’t easy for Angela Bell growing up on Possession island, the remote Pacific Northwest setting of her late mother’s wildly popular vampire novel. When she returns home from college and her estranged best friend, Mo, is murdered, she’s forced to reckon with yet another loss—and finds herself in the crosshairs of the bungled police investigation.

Sally Raleigh has longed to leave the island for years, but she’s trapped by her father’s declining health and her devotion to her charismatic twin brother Adrian. The last thing she needs is her high-school nemesis Angela back in town. But Sally is also devastated by Mo’s death, and finds herself forging an unlikely alliance with her former enemy to find Mo’s killer.

As Angie and Sally delve deeper into the island’s sinister underbelly, they must confront just how far they’re willing to go to protect the people they love. And they’ll soon find that the secrets they’ve been keeping from each other won’t stay buried for long….

Sarah McCarry is the author of the novels All Our Pretty Songs, Dirty Wings, About A Girl, and The Darling Killers. Her work has been shortlisted for the Lambda Award, the Norton Award, and the Tiptree Award. She received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Joint Quantum Institute, the Launchpad Writers’ Workshop, and The Arctic Circle. She’s taught letterpress printing, writing, and zine-making across the United States.

THE FOUR SEASONS OF HEARTBREAK de Sheleana Aiyana

A deeply personal and compassionate companion for anyone who has experienced heartbreak and is searching for a way to heal, by Sheleana Aiyana, the founder of Rising Woman and Spiritual Counselor for those navigating life’s toughest transitions.

THE FOUR SEASONS OF HEARTBREAK
by Sheleana Aiyana
Penguin Life/PRH, Spring 2026
(via Writers House)

Photo credit: Ally Pintucci

Heartbreak is loss, and it brings on real grief, whether it is a romantic partner, a friend, or even your own family. When we get caught in the rush to “move on”, we tend to resist the fluid process of grief, but if we look at nature, we will see its incredible ability to self-heal on its own timeline. In the same way we can’t control the seasons of the earth, we aren’t in control of the seasons of our lives. We can, however, attune ourselves to these changes, and prepare and honor the significance that each of the seasons brings.

With an approach that’s both gentle and wise, Sheleana leads us through the four “seasons” of heartbreak:

• Inner Autumn, a time to gather what we need and prepare to let go,
• Inner Winter, where we allow ourselves to grieve and rest,
• Inner Spring, a season of tentative, hopeful beginnings, and
• Inner Summer, when our hearts feel open to love and joy again.

By looking inward and honoring each season, readers will find that heartbreak isn’t just an end but also a beginning—a chance to rebuild, grow, and connect with themselves more deeply.

THE FOUR SEASONS OF HEARTBREAK is more than just a book; Sheleana offers readers a soulful journey toward transformation and finding ourselves again after loss. For anyone who’s been broken open by life, this book is here to help you gather the pieces and embrace the new version of yourself that’s waiting to be born.

Sheleana Aiyana is the founder of Rising Woman a growing community of more than 3 million readers. Her training and immersion in couples’ facilitation, inherited family trauma, family systems, conscious relationship, and somatic heal­ing inform her holistic approach to seeing relationship as a spiritual path. More than 50,000 women in 146 countries have taken her relationship programs. Her flagship course was the inspiration for her debut book Becoming the One, a transformational inner-work journey to heal lifelong relationship patterns and an international bestseller sold in over 15 countries. Sheleana has been featured in People Magazine, Vogue, ET, Cosmo, Elle, Folklife Magazine, and more.

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE de Mariko Turk

Sold in a rapid US pre-empt, an irresistible instant classic about the thrilling, often infuriating, rush of first love, guaranteed to sweep you off your feet. With a dash of the dreamy atmosphere of Anna and the French Kiss, a twist of Jenny Han’s heartfelt honesty and wit, and a heap of Lynn Painter’s authentic and magnetic characters, with a flair and heart that is wholly Mariko’s own, this new novel is destined to become a vital addition to the pantheon of YA romance greats.

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE
by Mariko Turk
Henry Holt, October 2026
(via Writers House)

Tonight, inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art—somewhere between the hours of 8 PM and 5 AM—Auden Peck will fall in love with Miki Kawamura.

That’s Miki’s plan, anyway. And the plan is destiny.

See, Miki’s grandparents fell in love after accidentally being locked in the Met overnight in 1965. And now, after too many almost-confessions, hopeless romantic Miki will finally tell her best friend Auden that she loves him by retracing the path through the museum that her grandparents took that fateful night.

But destiny has other plans. For it’s not Auden who joins Miki on her midnight tour, but Lou McSweeney—the world’s most jaded cynic, and Miki’s ex. How can she possibly confess her feelings for Auden when she’s stuck sparring with this arrogant jerk? And is it possible that her original plan was not destiny’s true course after all?

Mariko Turk is the author of The Other Side of Perfect and I’ll Be Waiting for You. She received her PhD in English from the University of Florida, with a concentration in children’s literature and lives in Colorado with her husband and daughter.

THE WANDERING SHOP SERIES: SOCKS & SECRET QUESTS de Triona Murphy

In a land where heroic quests are assigned and undertaken in an orderly manner (with perhaps too much red tape), Peri of the Southern Plains does not play the role of a hero—she merely outfits them for their journeys. . . until she must strike out on an illicit adventure of her own. The Wandering Shop series is a charming illustrated middle-grade fantasy, perfect for fans of The Adventurers Guild and Wilderlore.

THE WANDERING SHOP SERIES: SOCKS & SECRET QUESTS
by Triona Murphy
Atheneum/Simon & Schuster, September 2026
(via Writers House)

Peri has been waiting for her magic to show up . . .

But there’s been no sign of it since she was chosen as an Apprentice Shopkeeper a year ago. Now she travels with a magical shop that equips adventurers for their quests, unsure if she’ll ever do more than stock shelves, mend mittens, and knit non-magical hats that mostly just keep heads warm.

Then a dark wizard kidnaps the Master Shopkeeper, intent on using her power to create an unstoppable army.

To save her master, Peri must leave the cozy shop and seek help from the closest adventuring team, who are really good at arguing and really bad at working together. As Peri’s magic unexpectedly begins to show itself in the items she’s knitting, it’s up to her and her team to stop the dark wizard before war breaks out—or it won’t be just her shop at stake, but the entire kingdom.

Triona Murphy designs (unfortunately non-magical) knitting patterns, which provided the inspiration for Peri’s unique magic. She lives near Portland, Oregon, with her husband and three kids in a house overflowing with board games and books.