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An Icelandic night may hide secrets and affairs - or even bodies - in this gruesomely cathartic horror thriller from the author of The Night Guest. Unnur was living a normal, if lonely, life until a black cat showed up at her door. When she tracks down the cat's wayward owner, she finds a young woman just as lost and in need of help. Like a gust of cold air in a Reykjavík night, Ásta and her pet slip into Unnur's life. It's unexpected, but welcome. Unnur likes the company, and she begins to rely on Ásta in turn. But like a black cat, trouble has been tailing her new friend, and Unnur is the only one there for Ásta when things take a violent turn. The two women quickly learn: nothing tests a friendship like blood on your hands.

In 1934, Will Hassett is working as a journalist when he gets a call from an old friend who now works at the White House. He arrives expecting to catch up on old times but is instead brought right into the Oval Office to meet with Franklin D. Roosevelt, who needs help on his speeches. For the next twelve years, Will is at FDR's side through the worst of the Depression, three re-election campaigns, and World War II. The Yankee Sphinx, inspired by Will Hassett's real diaries, focuses on the last few years of FDR's life. From Will's perspective, we witness FDR managing the Allied military campaign abroad and parrying shots from isolationist politicians at home-all while reckoning with his rapidly deteriorating health.

Ten years ago, aspiring singer-actress Scout Sage lost her sister, Georgia, the only thing that mattered. Since Georgia's mysterious death at a Hollywood party, Scout's done her best to honor her memory, clawing her way through the industry and collecting a network of fellow climbers. But then a spate of targeted murders make headlines, framing Scout as the killer. Overnight she turns from a mid-tier pop star into the world's most famous (alleged) murderer. Now everything will fall apart unless she can prove she's not guilty. Meanwhile, the detective assigned to her case begins to unearth secrets not even Scout knows, including the connections between Georgia's death and older pattern of crimes long hushed up in Hollywood.

Dr. Jo Ness prefers jellyfish to people. Her best friend, Aldo, was the exception, but he died seven months ago. His voice is alive in the notes in the margins, and it's enough. Until she receives a call from Nadia, asking for her help. She tells Jo a tale of a giant jellyfish terrorizing her island off the coast of Maine and sends video footage. Frankly, it looks fake, but Jo flys across the country. She couldn't save Aldo, but perhaps she can help Nadia. But when she arrives, Nadia is missing. Instead she meets the islanders who each have something to say about Clementine, a jellyfish who changes all who see it.

On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America - and into another realm.

It's always sunny in Detroit for Faith Richards. The popular TV meteorologist, endearingly referred to as "The Fair Weather Friend" by her viewers, has the world by the tail. But one night, Faith leaves work on a dinner break and never returns. Her body is found the next morning. The town is reeling, suspects emerge, and long-buried secrets are uncovered. While her allies rally, her list of adversaries also grows. Little does anyone know that only the deepest secrets will expose the truth.

A deeply personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America. Unlike many other cultures, our collective stance toward older people in the United States has long been one of casual avoidance and neglect. This attitude became brutally clear during the height of the COVID pandemic, when too many people saw elderly deaths not as tragedies but as foregone conclusions. Like many of us, Lucy Schiller experienced this callousness firsthand when her grandmother passed away during the pandemic. In the wake of this trauma, propelled by equal parts grief and curiosity about her own fear of aging, Schiller embarked on an investigative journey to understand why the prospect of aging is so frightening and how being 'old' in America intersects with class, race, disability, and public policy. From profit-driven networks of care facilities to systemic failures in economic support, the future of older Americans looks increasingly uncertain. In Aging Out, Schiller reports this crisis, sharing the human toll of inadequate housing, health care, and community, while simultaneously excavating her own complicated relationship with aging. Combining the incisive reporting of Evicted with the beautifully rendered introspection of The Empathy Exams, Aging Out is an intimate and unflinching exploration of what it means to age in this country and why Americans--including Schiller herself--are so terrified of getting old.

High in a subsidized studio apartment, the unnamed eighty-two-year-old narrator of Elegy in Blue looks out across the rooftops of Brooklyn all the way to the sea. His distinguished career on Wall Street is in ruins, his mansion in Brooklyn Heights has been burned to the ground, and most of all, his father, his son, and his wife - the stunningly beautiful and equally kind Clare - have been taken from him, one by one, over the decades, by war and an act of antisemitic violence. Now his "allegiance is to this ghosts." He's almost lost to memory, reflection, and a purposeful letting go of life. But when violence threatens to destroy another family, he takes drastic action in hope of restoring a portion of justice to the world. Can he fashion his life into an elegy, one that heals a broken heart and relieves the sting of death?

Fairfield County is the only place the Bolton family has ever called home. For over a century, they have cultivated this land, raising horses, and passing this knowledge on to the next generation. Dwayne is the reluctant inheritor of this legacy. When he's orphaned by a barn fire, the pain of this history is almost too much to bear. He maintains the family farm and raises his daughter Nikki there, but the land is a shell of what it once was. Nikki is a natural rodeo prodigy with no knowledge of her family history. But when events that threaten to take the only land they've ever known, Dwayne must confront his past so that Nikki can step into her future."

Now that her career as a literary agent is over, Petra is stuck in a bookshop. Ross McCloud's debut novel blew people's minds five years ago, but now he and his awaited second work have vanished. When Petra discovers him lurking in the second-hand books section, a kinship forms. In the meantime, Petra's is starting to see some perks at the shop. Her book recommendations are legendary; she's chairing a book club; she's leading a writing group; she's hosting talks by authors. And she's helping launch the inaugural Portneath Literary Festival, becuse Ross thinks unveiling his second novel at the Festival will put it on the map.

The headlines call it the "summer of exsanguination" in LA; girls are being murdered, the Santa Ana winds are blowing a strange energy into the city, and all signs point to fire season. But for Anya Morris, living at home, working at the family store, and dealing with her mother's contempt for Anya's dreams feel more important. Then Anya accepts a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, working for the de Witt family, an LA's film dynasty. She all but moves in to their villa high in the Hollywood Hills, and meets Jude, a recluse who is the family's heir apparent. She seems oblivious to warning signs indicating the villa holds decades of bloodstained history, and perhaps a family curse. In this city, everyone cuts a deal with some kind of devil, and when Anya comes face to face with her own, she'll learn what she's wiling to do to get what she wants.

Sheriff Conor Armenta's routine prisoner transfer turns deadly when an assassin kills his captive and narrowly misses him. Determined to find the shooter, Conor joins forces with his Moapa Paiute friend Rayno Pete and follows the trail across the rugged Mormon Mountains. Their pursuit leads them toward Altaha, a formidable Chiricahua Apache warrior whose skill and cunning turn the manhunt into a dangerous struggle for survival.

London, 1953. Jimmy Sullivan lies dying on the drawing room floor while his housemates look on, their lives about to change forever. One foggy night in the dead of February, a young man arrives unannounced at 42 Tregunter Road in Chelsea. Self-styled Bohemian Mrs. Honor Wilson, who runs a minor literary journal and lodgings from this timeworn Victorian house, introduces him to her "dear house guests": Robbie, the writer; Mina, the teenage sleuth; George, the debutante; and Saul, the haunted refugee. Honor introduces Jimmy Sullivan as a family friend, yet something is not right. Despite everyone's misgivings, the stranger moves into the attic. As they each try to disprove Jimmy's dubious account of himself, secrets, jealousies, and disturbing schemes come to light.

Missy only knew her distant and aloof father from afar. He wholly dedicated his life to his work--and to his new family. But the a devastating diagnosis forces Marty to step down from his tech empire, ipryy, and he chooses Missy to take his place. When she uncovers a dark secret that threatens to destroy everything her father built, Missy must decide what kind of leader she will become. Can she forge her own path and prove her worth, or will she crumble under the weight of her father's shadow?

He was born feet first, and his mother did not survive. The nickname, Agrippa--mother killer--stuck. The taunting hardened his resolve and honed his aggression. A commoner, his life was set on a new path when he helped a bullied boy, Octavius, the nephew of Caesar himself. When Caesar was murdered, their lives, and the fate of the Republic, hung in the balance. Though Octavius inherited the empire, he would have to fight for it, with Agrippa as the brawn, and Octavius, the guile. Together, they would be unstoppable.

Fueled by a love of romance novels, Luna Starr was destined for a life with her head in the clouds. When life throws her a curveball, she decides it's time to turn her cowboy fantasies into reality and purchases a tiny farm in Celestial, Texas. Tate Jacobs hates cowboys, which is kind of a problem considering his family happens to own the largest ranch in Celestial. Life might not have gone the way he wanted, but as head football coach at his old high school and the town's best (and only) handyman, he's figured out how to stay busy and keep his head down. Until the new girl in town shows up. Luna's new property is a bad accident waiting to happen unless someone helps her with her DIY home renovations. As Tate and Luna spend more time together, unexpected feelings and undeniable chemistry bubble to the surface.

Countess Amelia Amesbury has her work cut out. As well as balancing her alter ego--secret advice columnist, Lady Agony--and the blackmailer threatening to reveal her real identity, her sister has also announced she's getting married. It's joyous news, but places all the planning for a high society wedding firmly at Amelia's door. Luckily, her good friend and local vicar Mr. Cross has agreed to the expedited nuptials, so that's one less thing to worry about. Until he's found dead at the church. Now in between bridal arrangements, Amelia must follow the clues Mr. Cross left behind. Clearly, he'd made some enemies during his parishioner work, as strange mishaps begin to occur wherever Amelia goes. But when the danger becomes all too real, Amelia must rely on her friends and Simon Bainbridge to help solve the murder, save the wedding, and Amelia's life too.

When the Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe line completes its tracks to Dodge City in 1872, Maryland native Harry Hannum heads to the new "buffalo town" to start over. Robert Wright, one of the town founders and owner of a prosperous general store, hires him as a clerk, and Harry is determined to keep that job no matter what. What happens next is that a forty-two-year-old oddball named Wyatt Matters comes into his life. Mr. Matters takes Harry under his wing as a protege, and Harry not only gets a good education from his mentor but also learns his closely guarded secrets.

Nanako Hanada is a book lover managing the Village Vanguard, a bookstore in Tokyo. After her marriage ends, she finds herself isolated in Tokyo's four-hour capsules. Then she discovers the meet-up site Perfect Strangers. It's not for dating; people meet for thirty-minutes for friendship, romance, networking, or to share ideas. She joins with a promise to recommend people “the book that will change their life.” Over a year, Nanako meets hundreds of strangers who believe in books. She sees she can connect with just about anyone, and Tokyo begins to feel like a welcoming small town.

The one thing the May sisters can rely upon is seeing each other one week each year at their grandmother's beachside home in Coronado. As adults, Julia, Emily, and Nora aren't particularly close, spread out across the country and busy with careers, relationships, and the minutia of life, but their promise to Grandma Vera keeps them anchored together. One year Julia, the oldest and most dependable sister, doesn't show. And suddenly Nora and Emily start to question how much they truly know about their sister's life.