The Tudors meets ACOTAR in this sweeping romantasy where sirens rule the seas, thrones are won with blood and lies, and a disgraced princess must decide if her destiny is to bow before the crown, or shatter it. When her father beheaded her mother, Princess Elowyn Blackthorn was stripped of her titles and banished for twenty years. When she’s unexpectedly called back to court, Elowyn dares to dream it’s a second chance instead she’s tricked into a betrothal to a man she despises, she’s convinced her life is over—until her ship is seized by sirens. In Naiadon, the castle beneath the sea, the sirens believe Elowyn is the key to uncovering the truth behind their vanishing kin and perhaps to winning the war they plan to wage on her homeland. Though held captive, Elowyn grapples with her loyalty to the kingdom that betrayed her and her growing connection to the ocean’s mysterious inhabitants. Her only ally is fellow prisoner Captain Arlo—maddeningly handsome and fiercely determined to free his captured crew. As they plot their escape, both try to suppress the attraction to one another, knowing distraction could cost them their freedom. But while Elowyn begins to see the sirens as something more than monsters, Arlo sees only captors. As tensions rise above and below the surface, Elowyn must decide where her loyalty with the man she’s falling for, the realm that forgot her, or the people who might finally set her free. Book one in a gripping trilogy, this is a tale of crowns, monsters, and slow-burn romance perfect for fans of political intrigue, enemies-to-lovers tension, jaw-dropping twists, and heroines who rise from the ashes to take back their power.

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.

Combining elements from science-fiction, fantasy, and philosophy, MAYA is a new mythology for the 21st century - not of gods and monsters, but of us. The Divya Trials have been announced. Billions will compete. One will ascend to godhood. On the planet Neh, the omnipresent Maya trees form the planet’s neural network. Each citizen tethers daily to Maya, entering shared dreamscapes for work, play, and learning. The immortal Divyas harvest this data - every thought and every memory - predicting futures and bending reality itself. Everyone is connected. Everyone is tracked. Everyone is controlled. Everyone except Yachay. An ordinary nineteen-year-old manushya raised in isolation by his ailing grandfather, Daddu, Yachay has never tethered to Maya - making him invisible to the gods of data. Daddu urges him to enter the upcoming Divya Trials, a once-in-a-lifetime competition where billions vie for immortality and omnipotence. But what will Yachay do next? Not even the all-knowing Divyas can tell. Seed Takes Root, the first novel in the expansive MAYA universe, combines hard science fiction, high-fantasy, and South Asian philosophy into a thrilling epic adventure and urgent allegory. It asks the questions that define our time: Who controls our stories? Who profits from our data? And in an age of perfect prediction, is freedom still possible?

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. Members of the ancient House Rosebourne have a strange gift born of a fairy 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 Viola Lockhart, 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.

Philip Marlowe meets Redwall in this superior adult noir tale, where all the characters are animals, fighting for survival in the city underneath the humans. In the solar cities of the future, the humans relax in the sun and the animals work in the shadows. Genetically engineered Little Helpers, serving humanity—unseen, unheard. Meet Skotch. Racoon, P.I.—Yours for a few buttons as long as the job isn't too illegal, whatever that means. A mouse has gone missing. Normally this wouldn't raise any hackles, nor any alarms, but this mouse has something that everyone seems to want, though nobody appears particularly eager to say what that something is. The fee is good—perhaps too good. Certainly not something Skotch can easily turn down. If only Skotch can work out where the mouse is hiding, what he's hiding, and why his secrets are upsetting a lot of animals caught up in the Green City wars.

NOT YET OUT: DROPPING JANUARY 2026!!! Book Blurb: Meet Lyra Bloom, a fiery redhead with a sharp tongue, a quick mind, and a dangerous streak of magic she can't quite control. Growing up scraping by in the lawless Outerlands, her survival meant learning to fight, lie and to rely on no one but herself. But one fatal mistake changes everything. Captured crossing the border to the Innerlands, Lyra is dragged into the very world she’s spent her life resenting. Inside the walls of the Citadel her magic grows stronger. Wilder. But so does something else: a rising lust and desire for something she doesn’t truly understand. Something shadowed. Something dangerous. Something that threatens to unravel her—and everything around her... And as whispers of rebellion spread and dragons strike from exile, Lyra must decide whether she’ll be forged into the weapon the Citadel wants… or become the spark that burns it all down Romantasy Fantasy Romance

The Song of Salt and Shadow is an atmospheric siren–pirate romantasy about lost identity, treacherous seas, and slow-burn enemies-to-lovers tension. A siren born without a tail. A song meant to drown pirates. A pirate ready to drown for her. Hunted for her blood and the scales that grant humans magic they should never wield, Eryse flees the hunters and climbs aboard a vast black ship. The crew is cursed, and when night falls, ghostly shadows roam the deck. Some would sell her before dawn. Others would keep her. The captain does neither, and he does not let her go. Caught between a curse that tightens its grip and a sea that never forgives, Eryse cannot live in water and cannot live without it. To reclaim what she has lost, she is forced to confront her own voice and follow a path that leads straight through a pirate who may be just as dangerous as the sea itself.