The Red Winter is a dark historical fantasy that blends folklore, history, and horror into a brutal retelling of the legend of the Beast of Gévaudan. In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives word that the infamous Beast, thought to have been killed decades earlier, has returned to terrorize the French countryside. A monster hunter with…
The Correspondent
Seventy-three-year-old Sybil Van Antwerp, a woman who makes sense of the world through the letters she writes each morning. Through correspondence with friends, family, authors, and even institutions, Sybil reveals her sharp wit and reflective nature while quietly keeping the people who love her at a distance. When letters from someone tied to a painful…
April 2026 Book of the Month
April books are here! Is it just me or do alot of this month’s picks give off vibes for another book club subscription and not the usual BOTM vibes? I’m not hating on this month’s picks, I was just surprised to see some of these this month. However, we do have plenty to choose from…
How to Get Away with Murder
How to Get Away with Murder is a clever debut thriller that blends a traditional murder investigation with a chilling meta twist. After six months away from work recovering from a breakdown, Scotland Yard detective Samantha Hansen returns to duty when a fourteen-year-old girl is found murdered in a local park. The only clue is…
She Fell Away
She Fell Away is a gripping international thriller set against the stunning backdrop of New Zealand. State Department diplomat Lake Harlowe is used to moving from country to country, both for her job and to stay ahead of the ghosts of her past. Hoping for a quieter assignment after a difficult posting in Cambodia, she…
The Ghost Women
The Ghost Women blends mystery, history, and the supernatural into an atmospheric story set at a secluded art academy with a dark past. When a student at St. Luke’s Institute of the Arts is found hanging in the woods, his body posed exactly like the Hanged Man tarot card. Detective Lola Germany is called to…
Muscles & Monsters
Tegan literally runs into Atlas (a wolven who owns a gym) and ends up enlisting his help moving a cake, after a wedding cake disaster leaves her scrambling for her backup cake. After their chaotic meet-cute, she ends up joining his gym, Leviathan Fitness, where training sessions, lingering glances, and growing attraction quickly turn into…
The Anniversary
On May 1, 1992, Jules Delaney and Quinn Riley are strangers whose lives collide in ways neither could imagine. Jules, the high school queen bee in a small Midwestern town, survives a brutal attack by the elusive May Day Killer; a predator who strikes every May 1st and then disappears without a trace. That same…
April 2026 BOTM Predictions
It’s time to start guessing what might be in the April 2026 Book of the Month box! One of my favorite parts of each month is trying to predict which new releases BOTM might choose, and April has a lot of interesting possibilities which are heavy on the fiction and mystery genres. There are plenty…
April 2026 | Aardvark Predictions
Even though Aardvark is great about giving us hints each month so we know what the picks will be before they ‘go live’, I thought it would be fun to start putting together my own predictions based on my reading and experience with Aardvark. This will be my third month doing predictions for Aardvark and…