Aria Stokes, a New York bookseller, is invited on an exclusive after-hours tour of the infamous Daedalus Library; a place known for its eerie, immersive rooms and whispered hauntings. But the night takes a deadly turn when the group becomes trapped inside and discovers there’s a murderer among them. As secrets unravel and danger closes…
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Dark is When the Devil Comes
Dark Is When the Devil Comes is an eerie supernatural horror set in the small English countryside town of Idless. After a traumatic divorce, Hazel returns home planning to quietly regroup at her parents’ empty house and reconnect with her estranged sister, Cathy. But when Hazel never arrives, Cathy begins to worry. As Cathy searches…
The Man With No Shadow
How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow blends eerie folklore with dark humor in a campy horror story set at the infamous Goat Valley Campground. Kate, the campground’s manager, has inherited both the land and the responsibility of protecting campers from the supernatural dangers that live there. Over the years she’s developed a…
Cloud Nine
Cloud Nine kicks off Amanda Sinatra’s Snowy Peak series with full-on winter sports romance energy. Set against the icy slopes of Vermont, this enemies-to-lovers story is perfect for anyone craving snow, rivalry, and that slow-burn romantic tension that makes you swoon. The story follows Hannah St. Pierre, a photographer who’s sworn off men after her last relationship collapsed…
The Girls Before
The Girls Before is a chilling, slow-burn thriller that intertwines two haunting storylines: a woman trapped in a dark room (“below”) and a search-and-rescue expert (“above”) haunted by her ex–best friend’s disappearance years earlier. As Audrey uncovers evidence suggesting a missing runaway may be tied to a powerful local family, the novel peels back decades of…
Nowhere Burning
Set in the unforgiving maw of the Rocky Mountains, Nowhere Burning is Catriona Ward’s latest unsettling novel, blending isolation, cult dynamics, and simmering menace in a story that will appeal to fans of Yellowjackets. When Riley flees her uncle’s home with her younger brother to the ruins of an infamous movie star’s ranch, rumored to house feral children,…
So Old, So Young
So Old, So Young hooked me right away. The premise is strong, the writing is sharp, and so much of it immediately felt familiar. Grant Ginder does an excellent job capturing that millennial space between feeling young and realizing you’re suddenly not, especially when it comes to friendships and the passage of time. As a full-time…
Anatomy of an Alibi
Two women, Camille Bayliss and Aubrey Price switch lives for twelve hours to uncover secrets tied to Camille’s suspicious husband, Benjamin Bayliss. When Benjamin is found murdered the next morning, both women need an airtight alibi but only one of them has it. With timelines tangled and identities blurred, one wrong move could unravel everything….
Is This a Cry for Help?
Darcy appears to have built a quietly perfect life: she’s a librarian, married to her wife Joy, living in a sun-filled house by the lake with two cats and shelves overflowing with books. But when she learns of her ex-boyfriend’s death, unresolved guilt sends her into a mental health crisis that forces her to step…
The Irish Goodbye
Over one Thanksgiving weekend, three adult sisters return to their childhood home on Long Island, forced back into close quarters and into the unresolved grief that has shaped their family for decades. Years earlier, a tragic accident involving their brother Topher’s boat set off a chain of events that ended in loss, lawsuits, and heartbreak…