Anticipated Releases January-March 2027
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January Releases
Genre: Horror Expected Release Date: January 5th 2027
By the author of: We Spread, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Missy Djalo has spent years trying to mold herself into a real working actor. Someone who can become anyone. Someone who belongs in the spotlight. But so far, her life has been an endless loop of failed auditions, of sleepless nights running monologues in the seedy apartment she can barely afford, of constantly comparing herself to the prettier, richer, better-connected actresses that she’s passed over for again and again.
She knows her struggles will be worth it once she makes it big. Then, she’ll laugh in the face of everyone who ever doubted her. Like her mother, who never understood Missy’s passion.
When Missy is invited to audition for a lucrative commercial, it feels like a light at the end of the tunnel. The kind of paycheck and exposure that could change everything for her. But as the audition stretches on, the boundaries between reality and fantasy become increasingly blurred, and Missy begins to wonder: What will she have to
sacrifice to reach her dreams?
Genre: Magical Realism Expected Release Date: January 12th 2027
By the author of: The House in the Cerulean Sea, In the Lives of Puppets, Under the Whispering Door.
A promise: The dog does not die in this.
As a puppy, Burke’s mother told him that dogs' lives are like the stars in the sky: An everlasting light in the darkness. And so, naturally, Burke believes he will live forever.
When he discovers the truth—that he barely has any time at all—he sets out to make the absolute most of life and all it has to offer.
Try as he might to make every day count, he’s shuffled from one place to another, from family homes to training programs.
Until, at last, he finds the man he knows he's meant to share that life with. But when they’re tragically separated, Burke, a shollie from the suburbs, is sent on an incredible journey through the wilderness, a journey that leads him to the very heart of what it means to have a place in the world, for what little time we’re here.
Genre: Cozy Fantasy, Romance Expected Release Date: January 19th
Series: Spellshop #4
When Eloren joined the revolution against the empire, she didn’t expect to lose everything―her job, her purpose, and her closest friend.
After the Great Library burned down and her position as Assistant Librarian burned down with it, she had no other choice but to return to the only home that will have her: her grandmother’s shop.
Now, Eloren is stuck at the Magical Cheese Emporium in the remote island town of Dew, struggling to become the cheesemonger heiress she never wanted to be. But the unicorns won't let her milk them, there’s a monster in the cheese caves, and Eloren is more into books than cheese. The only good thing about coming home is reuniting with Garyn, the childhood friend and clever inventor who, at some point, got a whole lot taller.
When Dew’s governor imposes impossible taxes on small business owners like her grandmother, Eloren knows one thing: she didn’t take down the emperor just so someone else could exploit good people.
Eloren, Garyn, a mouse made of cheese, and Garyn’s (mostly) helpful contraptions set off to rescue the cheese emporium and all the other local businesses. And in saving her community, Eloren might finally agree to call it home.
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Dystopian
Expected Release Date: January 26th 2027
A new king is being crowned, doctors are on the verge of a massive medical discovery, society is financially and socially segregated by the platelet-count numbers of constant blood tests, and the world is divided into three geographical regions: school, clinic, home. In this lyric sci-fi thriller, a sick young woman is our heroine, and a handful of lone wolf degenerates of the invisible class challenge the medical establishment’s understanding of a debilitating disease to riveting effect.
Based on the true history of the autoimmune disorder thrombocytopenia—and the daring experiment of one medical student who isolated the disease in the blood—Don’t Cure Me is a novel dressed in style and plot twists. This book asks: how does the way women are expected to hold their bodies give them heightened powers? If one’s true worth could be codified and trivialized down to a decimal number, would you tolerate it? Are numbers always violent? What does triumph look like in a world that requires people to live segregated by gender and class?
Genre: Gothic, Historical Horror Expected Release Date: January 26th
By the author of: All the White Places
1901. Minerva Sandford is an adventure-seeker, a botanist—and a reluctant wife. Part of a family of exotic plant-hunters, she chafes at the lack of autonomy in her chilly marriage and is horrified by her sole “purpose” being to produce a male heir. She leaps on the rare opportunity to accompany her husband Guy and cousin Dickon into the fevered Amazonian jungle, searching for the fabled “Man Eater” orchids. No matter what the cost.
As the search for the orchids—and the sinister tendrils of the rubber industry—drive the group deeper into the remote wilderness, Minerva begins to see things amongst the trees. A ghostly woman in green, impossible artifacts, plants moving in all-too-human ways…
Driven by her unquenchable ambition and guided by a secret map, Minerva draws the expedition into uncharted territory, only to encounter untold dangers from without and within. Under the canopy of eerie vines, her lifelong fight for control over her own body takes on ever-more horrific implications. The jungle is alive, and it seems...hungry.
Genre: Horror
Expected Release Date: January 26th By the author of: Humboldt Cut
Two sisters escaping foster care encounter the natural—and supernatural—entities of the North American Great Lakes on an otherworldly quest homeward to the matriarchal commune where they were raised in this Gothic eco-horror novel for fans of Catriona Ward, Kay Chronister, and Vincent Tirado.
The Great Lakes: Huron. Ontario. Michigan. Erie. Superior. Their waters teem with life. Humans have taken advantage of their natural resources for generations. After being poached, polluted, and poisoned for centuries, they have survived, forced to coexist with the toxicity that has tainted them. Thousands of sailors have lost their lives to shipwrecks on the lakes. In the winter, the lakes are at their most angry, and their most powerful. Shipwrecking storms and ravenous vampire fish are just the beginning.
Amidst this setting, teenage sisters Sylvie and Marie-Ève George run away from their foster home and stow away on a Great Lakes bulk freighter, kicking off a supernatural odyssey. The girls grew up isolated from society, on a secluded island on the St. Lawrence River. But after the government removes them from their mother’s care, Sylvie and Marie-Ève will do anything to get back home, including journeying 1,500 miles across the lakes. They face dangerous smugglers, foul-mouthed sailors, a matriarchal cult of witches—and the everpresent threat of the lakes.
Nature remembers, and it doesn’t forgive. Mr. Martin Williams, an industrialist with investment in every part of the lakes, has employed the George family for generations. His crimes against the Great Lakes are never forgotten, and trickle down through his bloodline. His choices ripple outward through time all the way to Sylvie and Marie-Ève.
February Releases
Genre: YA Horror Expected Release Date: February 2nd
By the author of: She is a Haunting, They Bloom at Night
An ancient demon. Three best friends on a trip of a lifetime. Six hours to survive until dawn.
Tess Pham has always been a mess, especially after her brother died. Depression, grief, and a secret crush on her best friend have made the last year feel like hell.
Now, a long-awaited trip to Vietnam is supposed to bring closure. Tess's family plans to bury her brother's ashes in their grandmother's remote village, and her best friends, Nell and Evie, have come along for moral support. They've been through everything together, but a demon might be the breaking point.
When Tess's ailing grandmother vanishes, the girls venture into the wilderness where they find bloodstained altars to a local deity who has consumed the Pham family since the war. With six hours until dawn, they must break the ritual--or decide who among them will be sacrificed.
Tensions rise. Secrets are unearthed. But some demons just can't be buried.
Genre: Literary Fiction Expected Release Date: February 9th By the author of: Pink Slime
A woman lives alone on the slope of a mist-covered mountain, hired by a man she has never seen to patrol the boundary between the cloud forest and the quarry that is slowly devouring it. In her notebooks, she records her solitary days, her fierce desires, the language of her landscape, and the violence that shaped her childhood.
One day, a body appears in her yard. And then another, and another. As the dead repeat their silent message, the woman finds in the act of tending to their remains an answer that escaped her among the living, and she begins to form an intimate bond with the mountain that shelters her, mirrors her, and demands to be heard.
At once earthy and visionary, tender and ferocious, The Mountain Woman is a novel about the violences women inherit and the forms of life that persist in the ruins. In prose of rare intensity, Fernanda Trías gives voice to a world beyond the human, where care can be an act of rebellion and language must be broken open to tell the story of the harm we do to ourselves, others, and the world we love.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Expected Release Date: February 9th
By the author of: Frying Plantain
Twenty-four-year-old Simone longs to fall in love with the kind of man she’s only ever read about and travel the world with her best friend, but when that friendship falls apart and she finds herself unemployed after graduation, she begins to wonder if her dreams are simply out of reach. So when she receives an opportunity to work at a hotel across the pond, perched atop white cliffs and overlooking a deep, dark ocean, it finally feels like a chance to leave Toronto and start living.
The Seacliff Hotel proves to be far from an idyllic escape. With its crimson dining room and peeling frescoes, the hotel is a relic of crumbling Victorian luxury. And nothing could have prepared Simone for the underpaid labour, the less-than-ideal living conditions, or the rude guests.
As the days bleed into one another and Simone attempts to settle into the hotel’s rhythms and rituals, she becomes increasingly drawn into the lives of her colleagues and the grueling demands of her job. After her relationships with her coworkers intensify and tensions at Seacliff escalate, Simone must reckon with the life she’s built at the hotel, even as it threatens to consume her entirely.
Genre: Horror Expected Release Date: February 23rd
By the author of: The River at Night, Girl in Ice
In the rainy suburbs of Boston, where humidity lingers and fungal blooms thrive in every damp corner, scientist and single mother Dani Walters notices a disturbing change in her young daughter after the girl eats wild mushrooms from their backyard. Once sweet and affectionate, she has become sullen and secretive, claiming to hear a voice that demands she do terrible things—but when Dani confronts her, she blames an imaginary friend.
As her daughter’s behavior grows more frightening, Dani searches desperately for an explanation, fearing the early onset of a psychological disorder that runs in their family. Or, as Dani’s father insists, is it something darker—something evil?
As a fungal eruption engulfs the basement of their home, spreading with an intelligence and purpose that defies everything Dani knows about the natural world, the bond between mother and daughter will face its most terrifying test.
A nightmare of ecological and psychological horror, this dark and unforgettable novel What if the person you most love became the very thing you most fear?
Genre: horror Expected Release Date: February 16th By the author of: This Thing Between Us
When Gabe and Espo buy the long-abandoned, three-flat apartment building in Chicago, it feels like their first real step toward freedom from the 9-to-5 grind. But their plan to renovate and rent out the other two units is immediately beset with challenges from all sides, and not just from inside the building. Gabe and Espo can handle the strange dreams, the oddities found within the walls, the music drifting down from empty attic. It's their families they really have to watch out for.
Gabe’s mother asks him to take in his troubled brother Ruben who is spiraling after his divorce. Espo’s estranged father, a recovering addict needs a place to stay. Now, with each floor of the building occupied, a dark presence begins to make itself known. And Gabe and Espo need to face not only what they’ve inherited—debt, grief, addiction, love—but the terrible possibility that some buildings don’t just hold the past. They feed on it.
Genre: Gothic Horror
Expected Release Date: February 23rd
Henry arrives at the vast estate of Dr Robertson Hammond alongside his pregnant mother one rain-soaked night. But after a sudden tragedy, the young boy finds himself orphaned and the ward of the enigmatic doctor.
But stories surround Dr Hammond. There are those who call him an alchemist, those who accuse him of murder. And the more Henry hears, the more he questions his life at the house. Why won't Dr Hammond talk about his mother's sudden death? Why are the entire household staff sent away on the anniversary of the event? And what is the truth of the wild woman who roams the woods, whispering the names of the dead?
As the years pass Henry starts to explore the land upon which he lives, from the wilds of Bald Mountain to the impossible revelations of the towers that he climbs with the enigmatic Xavier. And when the truth behind Dr Hammond's research is finally uncovered, Henry will have to make a decision that will affect everyone he cares about, and which has the power to change reality as we know it.
Genre: Sci-fi Expected Release Date: February 23rd
Series: The Cosmic Wheel #2
Unable to forgive himself for his actions aboard the Counsel of Nicaea, Iris left the religious Starlit Order. People died, he lost his heart to a man of science, and he sacrificed his best friend—an implanted AI companion—to shut down the murdering consciousness birthed within the spaceship. Still devoted to serving others, Iris labors aboard a space station near Nicaea’s husk, a reminder of his frailties and his failures.
Vessel Bacai believes that leadership of the Northern Temple of the Starlit Order is hers by right of inheritance. But her adopted brother Iris was always their late mother’s choice, despite having no ambition to assume the role. Bacai needs Iris to officially step aside so she can continue the holy work he selfishly abandoned.
Iris also left his work on the Nicaea unfinished. The ship has awakened, attacking the space station without warning, harming its inhabitants. And the ship sends Iris a message, begging the former Vessel to end its suffering—by helping it to die.
Now, Iris is returning to Nicaea, accompanied by Bacai and a science team—including the beloved engineer he left behind, Yan Fukui—to confront a sentient AI that understands the behaviors and emotions that drive human nature . . .
Genre: Literary Fiction Expected Release Date: February 23rd
By the author of: Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Lanny, Shy
Quiet on set, please.
Enter Actor, writer, director, showrunner, and star of her final movie in her head—is it a comedy, a tragedy, a farce, or . . . just life?
Her more recent roles The ex-wife (he left for a younger woman); sixty-something daughter to dead parents; sister to dead siblings (they haunt her sometimes); mother to a long-suffering daughter; furious owner of the world’s best-behaved dog. Oh, and a force of nature.
Here’s what else you need to know about
It’s her birthday, and she’s waking up in a hotel room, hungover, in a dreary English seaside town. Outside are gray skies, crazy golf, a row of border defense huts.
She hasn’t worked in a while (she hasn’t been very well). But maybe you recognize her from that television drama that ran and ran? People often do.
Rising this morning, she has one thing on her to meet and slay the ghosts of the past and the ills of today. And, knowing Lynette, she won’t go gentle into that good night.
Genre: Sci-fi
Expected Release Date: February 23rd
By the author of: A Monster Calls, More than This
Meridian tells and retells one phenomenal love affair in search of an ending. We follow these two men across a multiverse of lives, from a near-future dystopia to the trenches of Europe in the First World War, from the American Wild West to the scene of a modern-day high school shooting, from deep space to contemporary Sydney harbour. Patrick Ness' transgressive and tender-hearted novel gets to the crux of the how do we find the right way to tell our stories?
Genre: Literary fiction, magical realism
Expected Release Date: February 23rd
Debut
Millions of years ago, an asteroid crashed into the earth near what is now known as Leefield, a New England town that has seen better days. The mills and factories have long closed, as has the mine on the hill, which now plays host to a cult that rakes rocks in hopes of absorbing extraterrestrial dust. But when the mine on their hill is reopened by shady investors hoping to stir up speculation in “space rocks,” Leefield is transformed overnight into a hotbed of conspiracy theorists, activists, and antagonists. It enters the twenty-first century.
Levitations is a novel that contains multitudes. There's a fast-thinking, disillusioned activist who has fled to sleepy Leefield from southern California; a trio of high schoolers peering at the world through a haze of YouTube; a failed Marxist academic haunted by the specter of Slavoj Žižek; and then there’s the cult. When one of the high schoolers disappears and another mysteriously levitates near an auxiliary entrance to the mine, a series of events are set in motion that spell disaster but also, maybe, renewal.
March Releases
Genre: horror
Expected Release Date: March 2nd
By the author of: At the Edge of the Woods
Natalie is prepared to give up acting forever before being abruptly cast in a leading role in maverick director Robert Langford’s secretive new horror film. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime, so while Natalie has questions about the actress who mysteriously dropped out of the role before her, as well as how her disability will be portrayed in the film, she brushes them aside. Natalie joins the star-studded production for weeks of rigorous rehearsals that employ strange methods and arcane talismans, leading to dangerously deep bonds between cast members.
Once shooting starts on location at a remote Scottish castle overlooking the sea, a series of unsettling phenomena haunt the set, leading to whispers among the local population that the film is cursed. As filming progresses, Natalie debates whether she is using Robert’s film or it is using her, as well as what must be sacrificed in the service of art.
Genre: Magical Realism Expected Release Date: March 2nd
Gina Lee’s life was calm and comfortably predictable—until her husband Mark dropped a bomb that upended everything. After the unexpected death of his mother, Mark drifted out of the family orbit and then escaped its gravitational pull completely, leaving to start a new relationship with a younger woman.
Now, on the day of Mark’s engagement party, Gina finds her family scattered and herself adrift, reckoning with a future that looks nothing like the one she imagined and a past she must rewrite. As Gina struggles through the hours of this difficult day, she wonders how to go forward and what she wants for herself.
It’s only when a strange amphibious creature crawls through her window to ask for help that Gina begins to understand that her life is not over. In fact, with the unlikely wisdom of her new friend, she finds that it might be just beginning.
Genre: Young Adult Magical Realism, Contemporary
Expected Release Date: March 2nd
All anyone in Takini, Michigan, wants to talk about is the rapidly rising tides of Lake Michigan. No one has any idea why it's happening or how to fix it, but water levels around the world keep climbing at an alarming rate, threatening to drown every coastal town on earth. Including Takini. But sixteen-year-old Jackson couldn't care less. Ever since his dad's unexpected death at the hands of Jackson's classmate Edward Malcolm, Jackson's had a hard time caring about anything. His dad is gone. Edward is missing. What does anything matter?
When Edward reappears, claiming he knows how to stop the flood, Jackson suddenly has no choice but to care—because Edward may have also found a way for Jackson to see his dad again. But Jackson doesn't want to just see his dad. He wants to bring his dad back, no matter how many times he has to try.
As the two set off on a journey across Lake Michigan, the concepts of time and death start to lose their meaning and the waters continue to rise. With the end of the world in front of him, Jackson will have to decide what's more the people who need him right now, or the loss that's literally drowning him.
Genre: Sci-fi Expected Release Date: March 18th By the author of: Children of Time, Alien Clay, Cage of Souls, Shards of Earth
On an island alone in the sea, a monastic community of clones lives in the shadow of a long-wrecked spaceship. There are seven clone lineages in their Retreat, so just seven human faces in this world. They know that benevolent ancestors, who landed here in a past age, designed their peaceful lives. But the tide is about to turn.
While serving a punishment detail on the beach, rebellious clone Six-Maijo makes a harrowing discovery. A body has washed ashore, and its face belongs to no known lineage. Secretly pursuing the mystery, Maijo learns some questions are best left unasked. What happened to the missing, submerged section of their wrecked ship? Why is the sea casting up its corpses – and why won’t they stay dead? The Retreat is under threat, and something sinister lies waiting in the depths.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Expected Release Date: March 25th
By the author of: Our Wives Under the Sea, Private Rites
June, 1994. The storied Mount Varda has been untouched by mountaineers for decades: the last expedition ended in tragedy. When Liam Holness and Petal Coulson-Carter, best friends and celebrated climbers, are invited to join a team organized by the famous Jim Callaghan to pioneer a new route, they are initially skeptical. Working-class Liam and butch lesbian Petal exist on the outside of mountaineering’s privilege, and they have no interest in Jim’s media circus.
But the call of the mountain is too strong, and soon Liam and Petal are in the French Alps preparing for ascent. Joining them on the expedition is Bill Franklin, Liam’s oldest rival, whose sweet nature begins to break down Liam’s defenses, while Petal’s heart is turned by a climber’s widow living in the town. As the expedition looms closer, the climbers begin to experience sleepless nights, bad dreams, and hallucinations. And as they make their way up the mountain, the world gives way to something stranger. With oxygen scarce and the altitude dizzying, how can Liam and Petal be sure of what is real? And will they ever know what happened to those they left behind on the peak?
Genre: Literary Fiction Expected Release Date: March 25th
By the author of: Mrs Death Misses Death
It is the summer solstice, and Life is busy preparing for her millennial midsummers feast.
But as she awaits the arrival of her sister Death and their celestial guests, there is a distinct sense of unease in the air. Look closely and the signs are there: the water tastes sour, the light has changed and now an ominous tear has appeared in the dawn sky. Time advances with a new, dark urgency, and as the clocks tick, ancient rivalries ignite and loyalties are betrayed. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
Kaleidoscopic in scope and deeply felt at its core, The Life of Life is a dazzling and timely allegory of good and evil, and an anthem sung to sisterhood, the magic of community and the power of resistance.
Genre: Magical Realism Expected Release Date: March 30th
By the author of: Pet, The Book of Guilt
Dumped by her boyfriend, fired from her job, estranged from her parents, Hazel Whitlock signs up for a sideshow act at the Blackpool seaside she’ll play the Starving Bride.
On display in the iconic Blackpool Tower, with a ravenous lion prowling the enclosure, Hazel must lie in silence while spectators pass judgement on her body. Time compresses and warps in this strange space, and the past returns to Hazel with full and shocking force, making her relive the defining, shameful incident of her youth.
As the days tick down and Hazel’s shrinking frame draws ever larger crowds, her old friend Gilda becomes increasingly worried for her welfare, while local councilman Frank Marsh warns that the tower could collapse at any minute. No one will listen―not even his daughter, obsessed with the bride inside.
Genre: horror Expected Release Date: March 30th By the author of: One Yellow Eye
Ilona Darke has always felt like a ghost in her own life. She’s overlooked at work, can’t find love, and is haunted by the sense that she was meant for something more. Until she discovers Le Fays, a mysterious SoHo atelier, where she finds a stunning suit that fits her like a glove.
When Ilona begins wearing the second-hand garment, a new, more confident voice begins to replace her lifelong internal bully. Ilona stands a little taller. Speaks a little sharper. Wants more than the life she’s accepted. And the new, persuasive voice in her head feels less like a threat than a gift. But every gift comes with a price. As the Manhattanhenge solstice approaches, Ilona begins to lose track of time. She’s been waking up with unexplained bruises and pulling threads from her skin; she’s starting to wonder whether the suit is actually helping her become her best self or if it wants something more…
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