A woman with a violent past gets a chance at redemption in this upmarket suspense debut, perfect for fans of Lisa Taddeo and Tiffany McDaniel. Thirteen years ago, Providence Byrd threw the family car in reverse and ran over her mother. Even though she survived, that single instant of teenage madness made Providence a felon and irrevocably altered her life. When her mother disappears years later under suspicious circumstances, Providence tells herself that returning home is her chance to find closure after a prolonged estrangement from her family. Never mind that this is only half of the truth: she’s also returning to finally confront her abusive father, Tom Byrd. Nothing can stamp out Providence’s certainty that he is guilty of whatever terrible thing has happened to her mother. As the search unfolds, Providence is haunted by the wounds of her past, none of which cut as deep as the distance between her and her younger sisters. Harmony and Grace are both uniquely scarred by her attempted matricide, and both have their own idea of what reconciliations might look like – if reconciling is even possible. Harmony urges Providence to make their father pay for his sins; Grace begs her to end the cycle of violence that has haunted their family for generations. As her thirst for vengeance collides with her desire to heal her relationships with her sisters, Providence must decide which she values more: revenge or redemption. Sharp and poignant, Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter is a stunning novel that eschews picture-perfect endings and dares to tell a story about a resilient queer woman and her relentless determination to persevere.

Ramona Greenbriar did not mean to summon a demon. She didn't even think the spell would work. Divorced, expelled from her coven, selling fake crystals after losing her university position... She's been at rock bottom for years, and her magic? Well, her magic hasn't worked right in, well, ever. And now Zara — an actual demon from Hell — is bound to her. Until they can undo the summoning, they can’t be more than sixty-six feet apart. Suddenly Ramona is dealing with shared bedrooms, forced proximity, and explaining to her roommates why there’s a devastating demon — uh, not a demon, just a totally regular person — in an expensive suit following her everywhere. Falling for a demon wasn’t the plan.But neither was being looked at like she’s the most fascinating thing in any realm. From Hell, With Love is a funny, cozy, spicy sapphic romantasy forced proximity that gets intimatefake dating a demona magical tether that broadcasts your feelings (including the inconvenient ones)a possessive demon who looks at you like you’re prey (affectionate)and the dangerous realization that being claimed might be hotter than any spell you’ve ever cast

Love was never her calling, until she heard her voice in the dark.Hidden high within the twoers of Notre Dame, Mirela tolls the bells. Scarred by fire and kept under the control of her so called savior, Master Ferron, she has learned that devotion can feel like chains. Then she hears Claire, a young nun who awakens something in Mirela she had never felt before... Hope, desire and the aching need to be seen. Their secret meetings begin in whispers and candlelight, until forbidden touches turns faith into temptation. But Ferron's eyes are always watching, and his generosity hides away a sickening obsession. When passion and devotion collide, the walls of the cahtedrall will tremble and the two women must decide if love is worth the fire that will follow.

In her metaphysical mystery Witches of the Wheel, Lindsay Merbaum weaves a spellbinding tale of mythology, bartending, and queer belonging. Gold grows up knowing only a few things about herself: something lets her see ghosts and read her neighbors' secrets, and her mother seems to hate her. But when she strikes out on her own, she stumbles into a job at The Wheel, a literally-underground lesbian bar where a coven gathers every Thursday and each entrance requires a painful sacrifice. It feels like the first place she's belonged. But the bar, its patrons, and its history are more complicated, and more dangerous, than Gold ever realized. As she entangles herself in her new community, she learns more about herself than she wanted to know—and attracts an ancient goddess’s deadly attention. Praise for Witches of the Wheel “Oh, what a world Lindsay Merbaum has created. With her words, she’s woven a spell that blooms then burns bright, unveiling a realm of ancient and unending magic. I only wish the novel was as eternal as its characters. My advice to the novice—grab a cocktail, find a cozy, candle-lit alcove, and let the witches and goddesses take the Wheel.” —EV Knight, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Fourth Whore and Three Days in the Pink Tower “In this intoxicating blend of magical realism, where fairy tales and ancient myths bleed into modern queer life, Gold must navigate a world where bartending is a sacred calling, sacrifice opens doors, and the gods themselves walk among us with their own agendas. As she’s pulled deeper into Babylon’s hidden magical underworld, she discovers that being chosen by a goddess is not a gift but a transformation—one that will demand everything she has and reshape her into something altogether more powerful and more terrifying than human. For fans of Circe and The City We Became, Witches of the Wheel weaves mythology and desire into a darkly enchanting tale of a young woman discovering that her greatest power lies not in controlling her magic, but in surrendering to what she’s always been meant to become.” —Tracy Cross, author of Rootwork and A Gathering of Weapons

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

Ramona Greenbriar did not mean to summon a demon. She didn't even think the spell would work. Divorced, expelled from her coven, selling fake crystals after losing her university position... She's been at rock bottom for years, and her magic? Well, her magic hasn't worked right in, well, ever. And now Zara — an actual demon from Hell — is bound to her. Until they can undo the summoning, they can’t be more than sixty-six feet apart. Suddenly Ramona is dealing with shared bedrooms, forced proximity, and explaining to her roommates why there’s a devastating demon — uh, not a demon, just a totally regular person — in an expensive suit following her everywhere. Falling for a demon wasn’t the plan.But neither was being looked at like she’s the most fascinating thing in any realm. From Hell, With Love is a funny, cozy, spicy sapphic romantasy forced proximity that gets intimatefake dating a demona magical tether that broadcasts your feelings (including the inconvenient ones)a possessive demon who looks at you like you’re prey (affectionate)and the dangerous realization that being claimed might be hotter than any spell you’ve ever cast

From the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence comes a new, genre-bending supernatural horror about a vampire broodmother fighting against her own monstrous descent.Beatrice is a a vampire responsible for nursing newly made fledglings through the first years of their unlife. She nests in an abandoned, isolated warren of office space beneath her patron's skyscraper, raising two fractious Gorgeous—once a heartthrob, now to all appearances a living corpse—who longs for the return of the lover who made him immortal with all the fervor of a rebellious teen, and Fortunata, the scion of Beatrice's mistress, alien and ambitious in her desires.But when Beatrice decides to take on a third fledgling, the product of an attempted siring gone wrong, teetering between vampiric purity and ghoulish depravity, Beatrice finds herself strained to breaking between the societal and physical demands of her position, her own ravenous hunger, and an obsessive need to discover what’s happening to her—because her body is changing too, transforming her into something even more monstrous. She begins to crave the taste of flesh, something anathema to all vampires, and to swing between desperate hunger and vicious power.Desperate to master herself once more, Beatrice courts a mortal OBGYN who might be able to unravel the secrets of her unnatural anatomy. But soon their connection threatens the secrecy of her vampiric coven as well as the safety and development of her dependent nurslings… and the humans they stand to slaughter if left to their own devices.

Susan arrives on Dune Island with a plan, settle her late uncle’s estate, sign the papers, and leave within a week. The inheritance is simple, a weathered cottage, a small distillery, a stubborn dog named Walter. Nothing to linger for. Except Susan isn’t just there to close a chapter. She’s running, from Jen, from a loss she cannot yet name, and from a life that has quietly unravelled. But Dune Island does not let people pass through untouched. Cut off on the edge of the Wild Atlantic Way, where the ferry runs on Mick’s time and every glance carries a question, Susan begins to uncover what her uncle Frank left behind, not just property, but a lifetime of silence. And the longer she stays, the more the island reveals, buried stories, unspoken grief, a family history shaped as much by what was hidden as by what was known. And as the past begins to surface, Susan must confront the truths she came to escape. She came to Dune Island to be alone. The island had other ideas. Blood and Water is a haunting, beautifully observed novel about identity, inheritance, and the quiet devastations that echo through generations. With warmth, wit, and emotional precision, Rebecca Murphy introduces a striking new voice in fiction, one that lingers long after the final page. A debut novel about a marriage broken by grief, a West Cork island, and the family secrets waiting at the end of the road. For readers of Anne Enright and Maggie O’Farrell.