Horror and myth collide when a Korean American teenager's grief summons something ancient: a water ghost that has been feeding on her family's sorrow for decades. Dark strands of hair crack the corners of my sight, suspended as always in the air, spidering and floating as if in liquid. Mul-gwishin. Water ghost. Gracie Russell feels she belongs nowhere. In suburban 1990s Washington, she is constantly at sea—struggling with her biracial identity, her father's violent alcoholism, and her mother's looming mortality. When Ji-eun dies, Gracie will lose her last chance to mend their relationship. But she can already feel her mother slipping away, pulled by the tides of memory back to authoritarian 1970s South Korea. The secret she buried there has awakened something in the deep. And now it is rising. As Ji-eun's body weakens and the autumn rains fall in torrents, the sound of dripping water haunts Gracie. Cracks form in the basement wall, exposing a crumbling passageway to a sea of liquid darkness, and Gracie is running out of time. The mul-gwishin is coming for her. For readers of Catriona Ward and Han Kang, Cracks is a harrowing vision of heritage, violence, and the histories that possess.

Welcome to the afterlife! We hope you’ve completed your application package for Heaven and don’t have any unfinished business holding you back… Hazel Lawton is a young professional trying to succeed at her first job postcollege. The catch is she’s dead, and her employer is one of Hell’s most fearsome demons. Hazel is tasked with leading the demon’s newest startup company, which helps ghosts complete their unfinished business and move on to the afterlife. Armed with a holy relic that enables the wielder to interact with the living world for three seconds at a time and some aesthetic marketing flyers, Hazel and her two ghostly colleagues—a 1930s housewife and coconut octopus—set out to turn this business idea into the next great business success story.

A criminal’s daughter and a city detective collide in this gritty romantic suspense perfect for fans of Karen Rose and Kendra Elliot. Claire Dyer knows what kind of man her father is. The rest of Fairview, Missouri sees him as a pillar of the community—but Claire suspects he's the one feeding the town's opioid crisis. She's just been too afraid to speak up after what happened last time she tried to run. So she plays the good girl; she bartends at the family's bar, dates who she's told to date, and keeps her head down... Until an addict is found murdered in town with the words it should have been me carved into her skin. The victim looks just like Claire. It's the first thing Detective Seth Winslow notices when he arrives from Kansas City to take over the case. As the youngest man on the force, battling his own history with addiction, he's determined to solve this crime quickly and quietly. But the killer has other plans. As more girls resembling Claire are killed, the investigation keeps leading Seth to the Dyers' doorstep—and to Claire. She's his best witness, but the closer he gets, the more the line between protecting her and wanting her starts to blur. Claire is desperate to trust this new detective, but doing so would mean the one thing she swore she'd never do: betray her family.

THE SCENT OF MEMORY Return to the Sphere and take revenge for Regto's death—that's what Rudo swore to do. After receiving an eyewitness report that people had been seen coming and going from the Sphere to the ground, the Cleaners followed the rumor all the way to No Man's Land to find the mysterious woman who might have the information Rudo needs. They fight off numerous trash beasts and manage to find the woman, but then something goes horribly wrong, and Enjin seems to be out for the count...!

Enter the Rift Realms… Willow is the last surviving himmel, a race created by a forgotten interdimensional entity. Forced from her solitude and imprisoned, she has but one choice—to trust the very hunter who captured her. Feared by the universe and exiled through Kahzia’s only rift, Lykodine Rider Carrick needs her help to get home. When another banished—a fellow Rider intent on vengeance and stellar war—tears her soul from her apex predator body, Willow is thrust into a humanoid form. Together, they must cross the continent and rescue her true self before the impending eclipse, all while resisting a telepathic bond determined to weave them together. What must they sacrifice to prevent the unleashing of a monstrosity… one born from stolen himmel blood and corrupted magic?