Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree

“Always remember, although the unimaginative see life as a thread stretched from one point to another, birth to death, a life truly lived is a glorious tangle. One is never lost. And if one is lucky, one is never found, either.” Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller’s life for decades, but…

Brimstone by Callie Hart

“I could be dead in the ground five thousand years and the frosts could have taken my bones, and still no other male will ever have loved another female the way that I love you.” Saeris Fane doesn’t want power. The very last thing she needs is her name whispered on an entire court’s lips,…

Best Wishes From the Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki

In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they’ll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a Christmas-time Kyoto moon. Satomi is devoted to her…

Mate by Ali Hazelwood

“He easily resigned himself to a lifetime without her, but… Simply put, he is unwilling to contemplate a universe in which she no longer exists.” Serena Paris is orphaned, pack-less, and one of a kind. Coming forward as the first Human-Were hybrid was supposed to heal a centuries-long rift between species. Instead, it made her…

The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg

“Let’s form a secret society….A League. The League of Secret Storytellers.We shall tell all the stories that are never told. Stories about bad husbands and murderous wives and mad gods and mothers and heroes and darkness and friends and sisters and lovers…Yes! And above all…stories about brave women who don’t take shit from anyone.” In…

A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo

“Have you not had enough of what has happened here? Have you not learned enough, eaten enough, of us?” Wandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the river town of Baolin chasing stories of a legendary famine. Amid tales of dishes served to royalty and desserts made of…

Along Came Amor by Alexis Daria

After Ava Rodriguez’s now-ex-husband declares he wants to “follow his dreams”—which no longer include her—she’s left questioning everything she thought she wanted. So when a handsome hotelier flirts with her, Ava vows to stop overthinking and embrace the opportunity for an epic one-night-stand complete with a penthouse suite, rooftop pool, and buckets of champagne. Roman…

A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal

“Come now, Arthie. You know better than that. I’m certain the evil Ram waters the peonies in her garden. Many well-mannered wives dip their biscuits in their tea while dreaming of butchering their husbands. We contain multitudes.” White Roaring is sharpening its fangs after the deadly night that left the city in shambles. The press…

Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood

“I have never wanted anything as desperately, as ungovernably, as persistently as I want you. Not a single goddamn thing. Not my dead mother back. Not revenge. Not the well-being of the people I love. Not professional success, not even my own happiness. Absolutely nothing has consumed me as mercilessly as you have.” Maya Killgore…

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

“To serve is a tremendously humbling thing. How easy it is to mistake glory and fame for duty! But duty is thankless, invisible, Forgettable—but oh, so very necessary.” In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, an impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—abducted from…