The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
Release Date: July 15, 2025
A lonely and banished librarian finds herself on an island full of magical greenhouses. The grumpy greenhouse caretakers is less than thrilled to have her there. Full of honey cakes, grumpy x sunshine, and a sentient flower, this stand-alone seems poised to be as lovely as Sarah Beth Dursts first novel, The Spellshop.
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Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
Release Date: January 14, 2025
On her first day as the new owner of a secret pawn shop that deals in regrets and disappointing life choices, Hana finds the shop ransacked and her father missing. With the help of a charming stranger, she must journey through a mystical world to find him.
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Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes
Release Date: April 8, 2025
Halley decides that a space station devoted to cryogenics is the perfect place to hide from her political problems. But the holograms are glitchy, strange sounds echo through the place, and something crawls through the halls.
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Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
Release Date: February 11, 2025
In the third book in the Emily Wilde series, Emily is about to embark on a journey to study the inner workings of the fae court… as their queen.
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The Manor of Dreams by Christina Li
Release Date: July 15, 2025
A Hollywood movie star is dead, and two daughters, along with their families, compete to inherit her home. To do so, they both move into the opulent southern California garden estate. Immediately, visions and disturbing behaviors grip everyone in the house. This is a gothic haunted house story I’m excited to read.
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I Got Abducted by Aliens and now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming
Release Date: July 15, 2025
A lonely and banished librarian finds herself on an island full of magical greenhouses. The grumpy greenhouse caretakers is less than thrilled to have her there. Full of honey cakes, grumpy x sunshine, and a sentient flower, this stand-alone seems poised to be as lovely as Sarah Beth Dursts first novel, The Spellshop.
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The Geographer’s Map to Romance by India Holton
Release Date: April 8, 2025
A year after their marriage of convenience goes entirely off the rails, two experts in their fields are assigned to investigate a magical catastrophe in the English countryside. Explosions, goats, and the single bed trope make this a fun, magical, and romantic read.
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Space Brooms by A.G. Rodriguez
Release Date: March 25, 2025
When a space janitor named Johnny finds something life-changing in a pile of alien poo. This discovery propels him into a life on the run.
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First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison
Release Date: February 11, 2025
Sleepless in Seattle remake. Her daughter’s call-in brings together a grumpy radio host and a single mom. Soon, the two arrange the woman’s set-up in Baltimore through the romance hotline. But are they exactly what the other has been looking for?
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A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson
Release Date: January 7, 2025
Vivian wants to lead an everyday life. She does not want to start a war, but that’s exactly what she does. She’s assigned work as a code breaker. If she doesn’t succeed in her task, her family will be executed. But as she works, she discovers a terrible secret that could destroy the tenuous truce between the dragons and humans.
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A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Release Date: July 15, 2025
Sera is trying to regain her magic while helping her aunt run her enchanted inn. Luke is a historian who wants to avoid getting involved—there is lots of found family and cozy vibes.
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Death on the Caldera by Emily Paxman
Release Date: May 27, 2025
Murder on the Orient Express but with witches! Three siblings taking a train trip are derailed when the engines explode. This triggers one of the sibling’s witch powers, erasing her memory of the explosion. Then someone starts offing every passenger on the train one by one. Is it the witch sibling or someone else?
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Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang
Release Date: May 13, 2025
Two women in a codependent relationship converge when one’s husband creates a technology that enhances empathy. Soon, the line between the two women as independent people begins to blur with disturbing consequences.
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Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
Release Date: March 4, 2025
Evelyn remembers all of her past lives, including the fact that she fell in love with and was killed by the same supernatural being over and over again before her eighteenth birthday. In her current life, she needs to live past her eighteenth birthday in order to save her sister. Can she break the curse?
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Rose in Chains by Julie Soto
Release Date: July 8, 2025
The war is over, and the bad guys have won. The citizens of Evermore are to be sold off to the highest bidder. As the princess, Briony fetches a high price from her enemy’s heir, Toven. Will she find horrors or help?
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The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn
Release Date: March 18, 2025
Practical Magic meets Gone Girl in Ava Morgyn’s next dark, spellbinding novel about a woman who is more than a witch―she’s a hunter.
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The Busybody Book Club by Freya Sampson
Release Date: May 27, 2025
A new book club filled with prominent personalities decides to solve a murder. The murder is at a former member’s house, and everyone has different theories.
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The Garden by Nick Newman
Release Date: February 18, 2025
Two women working in their garden find a nameless boy in the abandoned shed. The women can’t imagine where he came from since they don’t remember anything before their lives in the garden. They need to find out if anything lies beyond the garden. The boy disrupts the life they’ve only known in the garden.
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The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth
Release Date: May 13, 2025
A paranormal investigator looks into a series of strange deaths. Every few years, a woman is found dead in the Brown Place Hotel in room 904, whether that’s the room the victim was staying in or not. And all roads lead back to her sister’s death years before.
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The Staircase in the woods by Chuck Wendig
Release Date: April 29, 2025
Friends on a camping trip find a mysterious staircase in the woods. One brave friend ascends and doesn’t come back down for twenty years. What did he see up the stairs?
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The Third Rule of Time Travel by Philip Fracassi
Release Date: March 8, 2025
Time travel has been cracked. There are three unbreakable rules.
Rule One: Travel can only occur to a point within your lifetime.
Rule Two: You can only travel for ninety seconds.
Rule Three: You can only observe.
When a widow begins traveling to see her husband again, she finds that the rules are breaking.
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The Way Up is Death by Dan Hanks
Release Date: January 14, 2025
A tower of unknown origin appears floating in the skies over England. Thirteen strangers are pulled from their lives and told to ascend.
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We Lived on the Horizon by Erika Swyler
Release Date: January 14, 2025
In a walled city ruled by an AI, the descendants of those who gave up everything to found the city are the upper class. After a brutal murder, the system AI erases the evidence. Revolution is brewing in the city’s hidden lower class.
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The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley
Release Date: July 8, 2025
This is a Dramione fanfic in disguise. A healer and an assassin team up to overcome a sickness ravaging the nation. When these enemies begin to feel attraction for each other, they vehemently deny it.
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The Otherwhere Post by Emily J. Taylor
Release Date: February 25, 2025
Investigating a mysterious note suggesting her father may still be alive, Maeve signs up to work at the Otherwhere Post, where letters are sent between worlds.
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