Elder Dylan Gray enters the Missionary Training Center with one goal: to become the kind of young man God, his family, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints expect him to be. He has already lied once — in his final worthiness interview, about a kiss with another boy — but the mission is supposed to fix that. Two years of obedience. Two years of service. Two years to bury whatever part of himself still longs for the love he should not want. What Dylan does not expect is Elder Jacobsen, the companion assigned to share his room, his schedule, his prayers, and the strange intimacy of missionary life. Nor is Dylan prepared for Elder Bromley, whose irreverence and dangerous honesty threaten to pull Dylan toward the very truth he came to the MTC to escape. As the days unfold, Dylan's faith begins to buckle beneath the pressure of temptation, secrecy, and the growing fear that what he feels may not be something God intends to take away. Written in journal form and inspired by real experiences, Missionary is a queer coming-of-age novel about religious devotion, forbidden intimacy, and the painful distance between being forgiven and being known. Set in the charged isolation of the MTC, it begins in the proverbial garden and ends with a question Dylan can no longer avoid: what if it is not good for man to be alone?

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he’ll be married by the end of the year. It doesn’t matter that he’s needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing. After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness—and shipped away to Braxton’s Sanitorium and Finishing School. The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. So when the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton’s innards and expose its rotten guts to the world—as long as the school doesn’t break him first.

It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in fancy frames just below the ceiling. When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tokyo home, with two its resident cats and the persistent rattle of passing trains. Living their lives in imperfect symmetry, they establish an uneasy alliance, stress tested by Chizu's flashes of youthful spite. As the four seasons pass, Chizu navigates a series of tedious part-time jobs and unsatisfying relationships, before eventually finding her feet and salvaging a fierce independence from her solitude. A Perfect Day to Be Alone is a moving, microscopic examination of loneliness and heartbreak. With flashes of deadpan humour and a keen eye for poignant detail, Aoyama chronicles the painful process of breaking free from the moorings of youth.

From bestselling author Maddie Martinez comes a deliciously dark sapphic retelling of The Phantom of the Opera drenched in Polish folklore–perfect for fans of Ava Reid, Catherynne M. Valente, and S.T. Gibson. A tale of obsession and desire… The city of Larzég glitters as bright as its famous Nectar Performance House, where violinist Kasia has worked her fingers to the bone to chase one dream: becoming Perła, the theater’s prestigious concertmaster. When the current Perła mysteriously dies during a performance, Kasia refuses to be distracted by whispers of a phantom in the theater’s wings. All she sees is her chance to replace the fallen star—until the orchestra director refuses her an audition because of her Azjarian heritage. Devastated, Kasia is desperate enough to strike a bargain with the phantom of the theater—revealed to be Death herself. Behind her dark veil, Lady Death is prepared to help Kasia in her quest to become Perła, if Kasia becomes her companion. But one cannot be companion to Lady Death without bearing her mark, and soon Kasia discovers that her music is entrancing, capable of bending the audience to her will. This alluring new gift thrusts Kasia into the spotlight, but also into the city’s highest circles of power, where influential men seek to control her, Lady Death’s demands grow increasingly dangerous, and Kasia finds herself falling further into the thrall of a master who promises her everything… as long as Death can call Kasia hers.

Elder Dylan Gray enters the Missionary Training Center with one goal: to become the kind of young man God, his family, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints expect him to be. He has already lied once — in his final worthiness interview, about a kiss with another boy — but the mission is supposed to fix that. Two years of obedience. Two years of service. Two years to bury whatever part of himself still longs for the love he should not want. What Dylan does not expect is Elder Jacobsen, the companion assigned to share his room, his schedule, his prayers, and the strange intimacy of missionary life. Nor is Dylan prepared for Elder Bromley, whose irreverence and dangerous honesty threaten to pull Dylan toward the very truth he came to the MTC to escape. As the days unfold, Dylan's faith begins to buckle beneath the pressure of temptation, secrecy, and the growing fear that what he feels may not be something God intends to take away. Written in journal form and inspired by real experiences, Missionary is a queer coming-of-age novel about religious devotion, forbidden intimacy, and the painful distance between being forgiven and being known. Set in the charged isolation of the MTC, it begins in the proverbial garden and ends with a question Dylan can no longer avoid: what if it is not good for man to be alone?

An insanely competitive housing market. A desperate buyer on the edge. In Marisa Kashino’s darkly hilarious debut novel, Best Offer Wins, the white picket fence becomes the ultimate symbol of success—and obsession. How far would you go for the house of your dreams? Eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband Ian—and in turn, get their marriage, plan to have a baby, and whole life back on track—Margo becomes obsessed with buying the house before it’s publicly listed and the masses descend (with unbeatable, all-cash offers in hand). A little stalking? Harmless. A bit of trespassing? Necessary. As Margo infiltrates the homeowners’ lives, her tactics grow increasingly unhinged—but just when she thinks she’s won them over, she hits a snag in her plan. Undeterred, Margo will prove again and again that there’s no boundary she won’t cross to seize the dream life she’s been chasing. The most unsettling part? You’ll root for her, even as you gasp in disbelief. Dark, biting, and laugh-out-loud funny, Best Offer Wins is a propulsive debut and a razor-sharp exploration of class, ambition, and the modern housing crisis.