Hope you ’ve turned the last of thoseApril book of account pages , because there are nearly as manynew releasescoming in May . Haunted house , haunted ship , homesick aliens , witching friend , time loops , royal quandaries , forbidden romances , and more antic , terrifying , and adventuresome tales await !
May 6
pass with flying colors in the Holeby Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle
The last Black Badge serial entry brings a “ culmination of supernatural ability and sometime foes in an epic closing curtain extend from the wild west to the nation ’s capital . ”(May 6 )
The Adventures of Mary Darlingby Pat Murphy
Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi© Tor Books
“ In this sprucely subversive Victorian mash - up of the fabled literary novelsPeter PanandSherlock Holmes , the brave mother of the Darling kid is on the case―and always one footprint ahead of her inept hubby and a renowned detective . ”(May 6 )
bright Than Scale , Swifter Than Flameby Neon Yang
“ Astunning queer novella about a Draco hunting watch finding home with a dragon queen . ”(May 6 )
© St. Martin’s Press, Tor Nightfire, Blackstone Publishing, Inc.
The Butcher ’s girl : The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovettby David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark
“ The story of the vengeful barber Sweeney Todd has grip fans across literary , degree , and covert interpreting — but little has been separate of Mrs. Lovett , Todd ’s partner in crime . Until now . enclose herewith : a hair-raising correspondence of horror and machination , based on the original Victorian penny dreadful that started it all . ”(May 6 )
Cradle of Secretsby Jasmine Wigham
© Melville House, Tor Books, Atria Books
“ When an intrepid American with a sour past becomes a charter gun for a mysterious char in London , he ’s shocked to discover a humankind crawling with monsters . ” ( May 6 )
A Letter from the Lonesome Shoreby Sylvie Cathrall
“ Dive into the magical conclusion to the Sunken Archive duology , a pith - warm charming academe fancy filled with underwater cities , romance of manners , and discover family line . ”(May 6 )
© DAW, Macmillan UK, Penguin
The Manor of Dreamsby Christina Li
A “ haunting novel about the secrets that lie in in delay in the crumbling star sign of a former Hollywood starlet , and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese American families fighting to inherit it . ”(May 6 )
Modern Divinationby Isa Agajanian
© Orbit, Tor Books, Titan Books
“ A wizardly cozy fantasy with witch , have an academic contender - to - lovers romance , found family and yearning . ”(May 6 )
The Night Birdsby Christopher Golden
In this repulsion narrative , a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department prole stationed aboard a half - slump freighter is organise for a tempest when he has a shocking encounter : an ex-husband - girl , with a strange mother and child in towage , begs for avail hiding from the hag they exact are chasing them . ( May 6 )
Overgrowthby Mira Grant
A woman has lay claim she ’s in reality an alien her entire life , but nobody believes her — until an extraterrestrial signaling announces invaders are coming to tame her . ( May 6 )
poetiser : Helby Gregory Frost
In this third entry in the Rhymer series , “ Thomas the Rhymer , immortal , shape - changing opposition of the diabolical Elf Queen and her merciless Yvag knights , continue his one - man war into the reign of England ’s “ Faerie Queen”—Elizabeth I.”(May 6 )
Shield of Sparrowsby Devney Perry
“ A tedious - burning , high - post romantasy where enemies become lovers , monsters haunt a cursed kingdom , and a leave princess finds the potency to tear off her summit and become the warrior she was never meant to be . ”(May 6 )
Silver Eliteby Dani Francis
“ In the first book of a red-hot dystopian romance series , psychical gifts are a death sentence and there are rules to survival : intrust no one . Trygve Halvden Lie to everyone . And whatever you do , do n’t fall for your majuscule opposition . ”(May 6 )
A Spell for Changeby Nicole Jarvis
“ In this sumptuous , atmospheric historical fantasy set in post - World War One Appalachia , three castaway with misunderstood magical gift search for their place in the world while battling the coloured force that circulate their community of interests . ”(May 6 )
The Sun Blessed Princeby Lindsay Byrd
In this first ledger entry in a new duology,“a battle - aweary prince meets a reluctant assassin . But could their adherence end their war?”(May 6 )
A Thousand Natural Shocksby Omar Hussain
A reporter on the trail of a consecutive killer unwittingly gets mixed up with a craze when he seeks out a pill designed to erase traumatic memory . Things do n’t go as project — and he ’s before long “ in a race against sentence to evade the cult , unveil the killer , and reconcile his past times before his own memory fade out . ”(May 6 )
Time Loops & Meet Cutesby Jackie Lau
“ Athoroughly unique honey story about a woman reliving the same Friday over and over again — and the challenging man who ca n’t quite remember her . ”(May 6 )
May 13
Anima Risingby Christopher Moore
“ A hilariously deranged tale of a mad scientist , a illustrious catamount , and an undead woman ’s thrilling journey of ego - breakthrough . ”(May 13 )
Anji Kills a Kingby Evan Leikam
“ An unlikely bravo struggles to escape a legendary bountifulness huntsman in this breakneck fantasy entry that will seize you by the pharynx . ”(May 13 )
Bochicaby Carolina Flórez - Cerchiaro
This mediaeval horror introduction features “ a real - lifetime Latin American obsess mansion . A cloudy labyrinth of family secrets . A young , gentle woman despairing to escape her past . ”(May 13 )
A wizardly Touch of Tarotby Melissa Holtz
“ Four friends discover that their new magical skills may not be enough to preserve them from a sneak infernal region - out to on turning their life upside down . ”(May 13 )
The Country Under Heavenby Frederic S. Durbin
“ Joseph Louis Barrow L’Amour adjoin H.P. Lovecraft in this thrilling western epic about a former Civil War soldier bust up by enigmatic imaginativeness . ”(May 13 )
A Curse carve in Boneby Danielle L. Jensen
“ A shield maiden fight to break the shackle of prognostication — and to overcome the perfidy of the human being who broke her heart — in this searing conclusion to the Norse - inspired fantasy romance duology that began with the bestsellingA Fate Inked in Blood . ”(May 13 )
The Devilsby Joe Abercrombie
“ A firebrand - newfangled epic phantasy featuring a ill-famed band of anti - hero on a delightfully bloody and rowdy journeying . ”(May 13 )
Dungeons & Dragons : Ravenloft : Heir of the Strahdby Delilah S. Dawson
“ A party of adventurers must brave the horrors of Ravenloft in this officialDungeons & Dragonsnovel . ”(May 13 )
The Eye of the Bedlam Brideby Matt Dinniman
The Dungeon Crawler Carl series proceed asCarl and his ex - girlfriend ’s cat , Princess Donut , head to the eighth level , where they see such risk as “ a pantheon of forgotten gods . An older grievance between a talk show host , an inheritress , and the man they shattered along the way . A rapidly deteriorating AI system . An inconvenient tiara upon the capitulum of a champion . ”(May 13 )
A Goddess Unraveledby Morgan Rider
“ A steamy romantasy about a lovestruck demigoddess , incognizant of her royal status , who makes a lurid find and attempts to flee to the underworld with Hades to bunk Zeus ’s wrath . ”(May 13 )
The Incandescentby Emily Tesh
In this “ sapphic dark academe fantasy , ” a potent magician and professor works to keep her students safe from invade daimon But can she protect her school from a possibly far big foeman : herself?(May 13 )
Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basilby Oliver Darkshire
“ A delicious and entertaining tale of self - discovery―as well as fungus , capitalism , and sorcery―[and ] a report for those who ca n’t aid but regain magic even in the oddest and most baffling circumstance . ”(May 13 )
Metallic Realmsby Lincoln Michel
“ Fantastic universes and personal drama collide as a radical of ally blur the channel between real aliveness and fiction with delightfully fatal results . ”(May 13 )
Portalmaniaby Debbie Urbanski
A ingathering of myopic stories tie on sci - fi , fantasy , repulsion , and realism to “ dive bravely into the faint profoundness of betrayal , parentage , revenge , murder , coercive sex , open marriages , asexuality , neurodiversity , and 2d chances . ”(May 13 )
The Secrets of Maiden ’s Coveby Erin Palmisano
After she inherits her late father ’s struggling seafood restaurant , a woman leaves her unhappy spousal relationship and set out to make a new starting . Part of that involve touch on fencing with her long - turn a loss best friend — who might on the Q.T. be a mermaid . ( May 13 )
Sestiaby G.R. Macallister
The Five Queendoms series trilogy wrap up its tale in which “ a C - foresighted public security is shattered in a matriarchal society when a decade passes without a individual miss being born . ”(May 13 )
A Simple Twist of Fateby April Asher
“ A beldame and a gearshift get a second chance at love in this raw extrasensory amorous comedy . ”(May 13 )
Something I Keep Upstairsby J.D. Barker
skilful friends call up drop the summer on a nearby island will be a playfulness last adventure before they head off to college — until they make the domicile where they ’re staying is not only stalk , it ’s a link of ancient evil that ’s recently wake up . ( May 13 )
The Sorrow of the Seaby Stephen Aryan
The epic conclusion to Stephen Aryan’sThe Nightingale and the Falcontrilogy , a blinking and wizardly reimagining of the Mongolian Empire ’s invasion of Persia.(May 13 )
What kip Within the Coveby Harper L. Wood
The Of Flesh & Bone series continues as the admirer realizes “ to survive , I must discover who I am―who I ’m fated to be . Human , and Fae , and something … other . Embracing all the sides of magic , brightness and dark . ”(May 13 )
Where You Once Belongedby Lorna Graham
“ A misanthropic TV news manufacturer sells out her principles to arise to her connection ’s top task , and occur face - to - fount with what looks like her idealistic adolescent self . ”(May 13 )
May 20
Aftertasteby Daria Lavelle
This novel prepare amid New York ’s culinary conniption is billed as “ a whirlwind love story , a heart - wrenching look at love and loss , and a ghost history about all the ways we hunger — and how far we ’d go to rule satisfaction . ”(May 20 )
Behoovedby M. Stevenson
“ A charming slow - burn illusion featuring a duty - bound noblewoman with a chronic unwellness , a prince who would rather be in a library than on a pot , and a magical ride through a world of cozy enthrallment . ”(May 20 )
Esperanceby Adam Oyebanji
This mystery thriller follows “ a seemingly impossible crime rooted in racism , intergenerational hurt , and an cold concept of justice . ”(May 20 )
Feedersby Matt Serafini
“ Awould - be influencer whose dreams of on-line celebrity coil into nightmare territory when she encounters a mysterious and serious social spiritualist program . ”(May 20 )
Going Home in the Darkby Dean Koontz
“ When hometown horrors come back to haunt , friendship is redemption in a novel about puerility fears and buried secrets . ”(May 20 )
The Knight and the Mothby Rachel Gillig
“ A gothic , mist - clothe fib of a youthful prophetess force on an impossible pursuit with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight . ”(May 20 )
The Quietby Barnaby Martin
In a world incase by a mysterious , suffocating Soundfield , a female parent becomes compulsively protective of her son — and keep his dangerous abilities a tight defend closed book . ( May 20 )
Rebel in the Deepby Katee Robert
The Crimson Sails trilogy reason as Nox learns from rebel leader Siobhan that their estranged X , Bastian , has been kidnapped . Can they plunge a rescue before Bastian spills all their secret ? ( May 20 )
The Starving Saintsby Caitlin Starling
“ A transfixing fever dream of medieval horror following three women in a hem in castling that descends ravenously into madness under the piece of occult , divine visitors . ”(May 20 )
unusual New Worldby Vivian Shaw
The Dr. Greta Helsing series concludes as the MD to the undead face “ the latest andstrangest challenge of her career … accompanying an dying Angel Falls and a sullen monster on a road trip across America . ”(May 20 )
That ’s All I Knowby Elisa Levi
“ When a stranger loses his detent on the first daytime after the end of the Earth , Little Lea warns him not to abide by it into the wood , that people who enter never come out . Over a partake in joint , she tells him about the burning in her gut , scent a narration of release , desire , and conspiracy . ”(May 20 )
Then There Was Oneby Wendy Cross
“ Every inhabitant in the Quadrant knows about the Pinnacle , a reality TV competition set on a outside planet with a Brobdingnagian hard cash prize . For three desperate entrants , winning would mean the world … but as the competitor startle , the contestants are agile to attain that this twelvemonth ’s game has unscripted and mortal consequences . ” ( May 20 )
We hold out Here Nowby Sarah Pinborough
“ Ahaunting Gothic novel about a house―and a marriage―gone terribly ill-timed . ”(May 20 )
May 27
expiry on the Calderaby Emily Paxman
In this “ thrilling blend of classic murder closed book and phantasy , ” siblings hurrying home to see their ailing regal male parent are strand when their string crashes atop a vent . As one sibling hand-to-hand struggle with her emergent wizard powers , the 3 must also deal with the fact that a killer has started pick off the other passengers , one by one.(May 27 )
Deliverance of Dragonsby Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
“ The Dragon Prophecy elucidate a sentence when long - lived Elves rule the Fortunate Lands . It is a sentence of dire prophecy , of battle and bloodshed , of great magics unlike any the Elvenkind have learn before . Deliverance of Dragonsis the account of the death of one world and the beginning of the next . ”(May 27 )
Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Meby Django Wexler
“ Dark Lord Davi rule the land , but she must now break the prison term loop that binds her in this uproariously fucking conclusion to the Dark Lord Davi duology . ”(May 27 )
A Fate Forged in Fireby Hazel McBride
“ To become the first queen in centuries , a powerfully sign blacksmith must habituate her learning ability and fire illusion to overthrow the corrupt powers predominate her kingdom — while also fighting her growing desire for one of her dragon - riding adversaries — in the first Word of a sizzling Celtic - enliven phantasy Romance language duology . ”(May 27 )
Harmattan Seasonby Tochi Onyebuchi
This release is draw as “ firmly - boiled phantasy noir : Raymond Chandler meet P. Djèlí Clark in a postcolonial West Africa ” as well as “ dryly funny and memorably resonant . ”(May 27 )
The Grief Nurseby Angie Spoto
“ Lynx is a Grief Nurse . Kept by the Asters , a moneyed , influential household , to ensure they ’re never troubled by minus emotions . When news go far that the Asters ’ firstborn son is all in , Lynx does what she can to alleviate their sorrow . But as guests clump to the island for the wake , tenseness rise and Lynx finds herself trapped at the pith of a family tear itself aside . ”(May 27 )
The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Associationby Caitlin Rozakis
“ Two parent and their recently - bitten - loup-garou daughter seek to fit into a privileged New England companionship of magic aristocracy . But deadly terrors await them — ancient prophecies , remorseless charming trials , hidden conspiracies , and the PTA bake cut-rate sale . ”(May 27 )
successor of Lightby Michelle Sagara
“ With the Academia now awake from its century - farsighted sleep , Robin , a pupil who hails from a prestigious home , must own up to his destiny . As heritor to the Gardianno posterior , a highly coveted position within the human caste court , Robin stands to inherit great king when he assume his patrimony — but at what cost?”(May 27 )
Kitemasterby Jim C. Hines
“ Nial Sarnin is 21 — far too young to have lost her beloved husband , Jika . One year after his death , Nial prepares to fly a kite sew from his wedding shirt , trust it will carry Jika ’s sprightliness to the stars . But instead of drifting lightly skyward , the spirit kite movement under Nial ’s direct command , revealing her as a Kitemaster — a rare natural endowment in a domain perpetually ruled by breaking wind and magic . ”(May 27 )
Never Flinchby Stephen King
“ From professional storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines — one about a grampus on a diabolical retaliation mission , and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker — featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic young dramatis personae of characters . ”(May 27 )
The South Windby Alexandra Warwick
“ A sizzle fantasy love affair novel revolutionize bySleeping Beautyand the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur . ”(May 27 )
The Sword Triumphantby Gareth Hanrahan
“ Gareth Hanrahan ’s acclaimed epic phantasy serial publication of benighted myth , dare warriors and bloodthirsty vengeance close withThe Sword Triumphant . ”(May 27 )
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