Check out some of our upcoming debut novels!
- An Unlikely Spy by Rebecca Starford: A twisting, sophisticated World War II novel following a spy who goes undercover as a part of MI5.
- Nobody, Somebody, Anybody by Kelly McClorey: A darkly comic novel about a young woman who administers a self-made “placebo” treatment in an attempt to rebuild her life.
- Down Range by Taylor Moore: An action-packed thriller featuring a DEA agent’s fight to protect his home on the Texas High Plains from a vicious criminal enterprise.
- Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen: A young Black woman must rely on courage, laughter, and love—and the support of her two longtime friends—to overcome an unexpected setback that threatens the most precious thing she’s ever wanted.
- The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: An intimate yet sweeping novel that chronicles the journey of one American family from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous time.
- The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid: Inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology, a young pagan woman is betrayed by her village to a vengeful cleric seeking to exploit her magic in a quest of religious purity.
- God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney: Set in northern Texas, two sisters discover a dark secret about their father, the head pastor of an evangelical megachurch, that upends their lives and community.
- Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson: A novel that reveals the untold, true story of the only all-Black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps and their dangerous voyage to Europe during World War II.
- In Polite Company by Gervais Hagerty: A captivating novel that looks inside the private lives of Charleston aristocracy, where a former debutante learns that sometimes good behavior leads to bad decisions.
- All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris: A twisty mystery about a Black lawyer who is thrust into her employer’s shady executive circle after her boss mysteriously dies.
Additional debuts:
- The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams: A chance encounter and a list of library books help forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people—a lonely London widower and a troubled teenager.
- Fault Lines by Emily Itami: A witty, sharp, and moving novel exploring the frustrations of motherhood, the imbalance of a marriage, and the loss of self as a family builds around you.
- The Comfort of Monsters by Willa C. Richards: Set in Milwaukee during the “Dahmer summer” of 1991, a remarkable novel for fans of Mary Gaitskill and Gillian Flynn about two sisters—one who disappears and one who is left to pick up the pieces in the aftermath.
- Edge Case by YZ Chin: When her husband suddenly disappears, a young woman must uncover where he went—and who she might be without him—in this striking novel of immigration, identity, and marriage.
- The Radio Operator by Ulla Lenze: Based on a true story, a gripping historical novel about a German immigrant who becomes embroiled in a Nazi spy ring operating in New York City in the early days of World War II.
- The Anatomy of Desire by L.R. Dorn: A modern tale of American striving, social media stardom, a fatal love triangle, and a young woman on trial for murder—a mesmerizing reimagining of Theodore Dreiser's classic novel of crime and punishment, An American Tragedy.
- We Two Alone by Jack Wang: A bold and brilliant collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.
- Happy Endings by Thien-Kim Lam: When working together reignites their passion, will these former flames sizzle or get burned all over again?
- The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin: A brave testament to the power of living each day to the fullest, a tribute to the stories that we live, and a reminder of our unlimited capacity for friendship and love.
- How to Kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina: A fresh, bitingly hilarious, sweeping satire of modern-day India.
- Lights Out in Lincolnwood by Geoff Rodkey: A suburban American family have to figure out how to survive themselves and their neighbors in the wake of a global calamity that upends all of modern life.
- When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen: A haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the horror that ensues as she reconnects with the blood-soaked history of the land and the best friends she left behind.
- Her Turn by Katherine Ashenburg: A journalist who stumbles into an unusual relationship with the woman married to her former husband.
- A Lowcountry Bride by Preslaysa Williams: A heartwarming Avon debut of love, forgiveness, and new beginnings set in the beautiful South Carolina Lowcountry.
-LLF
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