September 2025 Book Releases

Chloe Roberts has it all: top grades, a clear path to Head Girl, and a coveted place in Morton Academy’s secret society, Jewel and Bone. But betrayal cuts deep when her best friend, Nikhita, steals both her title and her boyfriend in one calculated move. Humiliated, Chloe digs into Jewel and Bone’s shadowy history and uncovers something worse than rivalry. The school loathes the Jewels, and a sinister “Book of Crime and Punishment” lists their sins. When members of the society start turning up dead, suspicion runs rampant, and the line between loyalty and survival blurs. Cynthia Murphy’s Keep Your Friends Close is a sharp, addictive dark academia thriller where ambition is deadly, trust is fragile, and every secret could cost a life.

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1646. Thomas and Margaret Jones dream of a new life across the ocean, bound by decades of love and the promise of family. But Puritan Boston is a place where whispers cut deeper than knives, and every kind gesture can be twisted into suspicion. Margaret’s bold spirit and healing skills should make her beloved—yet they mark her as dangerous. Neighbors begin to see not a caregiver, but a cunning woman. As grief, jealousy, and religious hysteria ignite, Margaret becomes the perfect scapegoat for a fearful town. Her trial will test not only her own strength but the devotion she and Thomas have built their lives on. Based on true events, this is the haunting story of Boston’s first witch.

Hannah can’t outrun her past. Not from the wilderness trip that ended with her fiancé dead. Not from the rumors that still follow her. And certainly not from the ghost of Ben, who haunts her waking hours like an accusation. So when friends invite her to an exclusive healing retreat in Joshua Tree, she reluctantly agrees. Maybe yoga, sound baths, and hot springs can quiet the nightmares. But peace doesn’t last. Beneath Guru Pax’s promises of renewal, something far more sinister lurks. Attendees begin dying in brutal, theatrical ways, and Hannah realizes this “safe space” is anything but. Trapped in a desert sanctuary turned slaughterhouse, Hannah must face her darkest secrets—or join the growing body count.

Gwenna wants a normal life. A steady job with the Royal Artifactual Guild, enough coin to help her mother, and no trouble. Easy. Except the dead won’t stop whispering to her. And necromancy is punishable by death. So she pretends she can’t hear them and hopes no one notices. Enter Raptor, the cocky, battle-scarred Taurian she swore she’d forget after one unforgettable night. He’s back, he wants more, and worse—he’s on a mission to catch a thief. A thief he’s convinced is Gwenna. Now Gwenna must clear her name, hide her dangerous magic, and resist a minotaur who’s entirely too persuasive. But when sparks fly and secrets collide, the choice becomes impossible: deny her power, deny her heart, or risk everything.

For Melody Bittersweet, ghosts are just part of the family business. Love, however, is a whole different kind of haunting. On her twenty-seventh birthday, she launches her own agency, determined to make a name for herself by solving supernatural squabbles. Her first case? A stately home terrorized by three mischievous ghost brothers who refuse to move on. Unfortunately, Melody isn’t the only one on the job. Her fame-hungry ex is circling with his ghost-hunting TV crew, and Fletcher Gunn—the infuriatingly handsome reporter who delights in mocking her—is poking around for a story. As ghostly secrets unravel and sparks fly, Melody realizes the biggest challenge may not be the undead in the walls, but the very alive skeptic threatening to steal her heart.

Art can inspire. It can also kill. In Manhattan’s glittering gallery scene, power is currency and envy festers in the shadows. One overlooked artist has had enough—if he can’t earn acclaim, he’ll take it by force. When a young woman is found lifeless, posed like the model from a Dutch master’s painting, Lt. Eve Dallas is called to the scene. The crime is meticulous, theatrical, and meant to be noticed. And it won’t be the last. As bodies begin to appear, each echoing a famous work of art, Eve races to unmask a killer whose obsession knows no bounds. To him, murder is a masterpiece. To Eve, it’s a challenge she can’t afford to lose. Because the gallery of death is only just opening.

Marry the prince. Then kill him. Princess Madalina has always been the weak one in a family that thrives on deceit and cruelty. Her only solace lies in the palace gardens, where she tends her magical “grave flowers,” blooms infamous for their use in torment and torture. But when her twin sister Inessa becomes trapped in a terrifying purgatory, Madalina is forced into her place—betrothed to Prince Aeric of a powerful kingdom. Inessa’s mission was never just marriage; it was assassination. Now Madalina must carry it out. Torn between duty and desire, she finds herself drawn to the clever prince she’s meant to kill. To save her sister, she must play the most dangerous game of all: betray her family or her own heart.

What if Moana broke the heart of Te Fiti instead of saving it? After her battle with Te Kā ends in disaster, Moana faces a nightmare: the heart of Te Fiti is shattered, Maui is trapped in stone, and darkness spreads across the ocean. Desperate, she sails farther than ever before and lands on an island already dying under the blight. Only one survivor remains—Noe, a fierce, enigmatic wayfarer. Noe reveals a dangerous path forward: to restore Te Fiti, they must recover the goddess’s tears, scattered throughout the monster realm. Each gem holds divine power, but every step draws Moana deeper into peril. With time running out, Moana must brave monsters, secrets, and her own doubt—or risk losing the ocean, her people, and her future forever.

Champions are fated. Their names carved into destiny, beyond the reach of even the gods. Ambrose has lived her life in the shadows, a servant in the palace of Eltoria, secretly training in a world where warriors are exalted and the weak are forgotten. The Immortal Trials—brutal competitions held every five years—promise the victors a place among the gods. But Ambrose was never meant to stand in that arena. When betrayal tears her life apart, she’s forced into the Champion’s Tournament, a trial that could kill her before she even grasps the extent of her own powers. Each step forward reveals buried secrets, divine deceptions, and dangerous truths that could topple empires. Survival isn’t guaranteed. And winning might demand everything Ambrose has left to give.

Robert Langdon thought Prague would be a quiet stop—a chance to attend a lecture and support Katherine Solomon, the brilliant scientist he’s fallen for. Instead, the evening erupts in blood and chaos. Katherine is abducted, her groundbreaking manuscript vanishes, and Langdon becomes the prime target of a ruthless organization determined to bury her discoveries about human consciousness. Pursued through Prague’s shadowy alleys, ancient cathedrals, and into London and New York, Langdon must decode symbols that intertwine futuristic science with centuries-old myth. But the threat isn’t just to Katherine. A secret project tied to her research could alter humanity’s understanding of the mind itself. The clock is ticking, the enemy is closing in, and the truth hidden in the Secret of Secrets will change everything.

2014: At a candlelit dinner, celebrated poet Francis Blundy honors his wife with a new poem, A Corona for Vivien. Guests sip wine, plates are cleared, and life carries on. But the poem itself vanishes, leaving only whispers and speculation for generations. 2119: A century later, much of the West lies underwater after catastrophe. In the drowned south of England, lonely scholar Thomas Metcalfe obsesses over the lost poem, longing for the reckless freedom of a world already gone. When a clue surfaces, it reveals a story of entangled loves and a brutal crime. From Booker Prize–winning author Ian McEwan, What We Can Know bends time and genre in a masterful exploration of memory, mystery, and how truth is never quite within reach.

Amara Rose arrives at Black Manor expecting nothing more than a demanding job as a personal assistant. The remote estate in northern O’ahu is isolated, mysterious, and unnervingly beautiful. But it is the men who inhabit it that unsettle her most. Mr. Black is brilliant, magnetic, and secretive. His older brother, Dr. Shadow, is seductive, dangerous, and impossible to resist. Both draw Amara deeper into their orbit, even as the skeletal woods whisper of terrors lurking just beyond sight. As strange events mount and the brothers’ polished charm begins to crack, Amara must confront a truth darker than any tale she’s ever heard. Shelley Leigh Crane’s Wicked Beasts is a gothic romance of Beauty and the Beast shadows and Jekyll and Hyde temptation.

On the Great Plain, where tribes gather under the midsummer sun, Seft dreams of more than the brutal life of a flint miner. He seeks trade, freedom, and Neen, the girl who could change his future. But her sister, Joia, sees a destiny far greater. A priestess with a vision, she imagines a monument of impossible stones, raised to honor the gods and unite warring tribes. As drought spreads and trust fractures among herders, farmers, and woodlanders, her dream becomes both salvation and provocation. Violence simmers, alliances falter, and blood is spilled in the shadow of ambition. Ken Follett’s Circle of Days, #1 bestseller in Ancient History Fiction, is a sweeping story of love, faith, and the brutal struggle to build Stonehenge.

Kinsey thrives on isolation. Leading a research outpost in the desert gives her the solitude she craves, far from temptation and distraction. But when her crew uncovers a strange specimen buried beneath the sands, everything changes. Against protocol, Kinsey brings it inside. What seems at first like a scientific breakthrough soon becomes something darker. The specimen is alive, hungry, and searching for a warm host. As tensions rise inside the outpost, desire and paranoia twist the team against one another. The more Kinsey resists, the stronger its pull becomes. From bestselling author Sarah Gailey, Spread Me is a seductive and terrifying tale of survival, obsession, and the danger of letting something alien too close. Some hungers cannot be denied.

In Earth’s near future, seas swallow cities and mutant fish stalk waters ruled by pirates. Skipper, the youngest of three sisters, survives by scavenging plastic from the ocean to care for her grandmother. But when her eldest sister Nora vanishes after chasing a cure for the world’s dying crops, everything changes. With only a cryptic message to guide them, Skipper and her remaining sister, Carmen, set sail to find Nora. Their journey spans oceans and continents, through a world both ravaged and hauntingly beautiful. Along the way, they uncover Nora’s research, and the corporations desperate to claim it. Yume Kitasei’s Saltcrop is a sweeping eco-thriller, a tale of survival and sisterhood in a fragile world where hope may be the rarest resource of all.

Helena Marino once dreamed of changing the world with alchemy. Now she is a prisoner, stripped of her past, her allies slaughtered, and her memories fractured. The war is over, and Paladia’s victors, guild families and necromancers with their vile undead armies, have remade the land in their image. The Resistance believed Helena was only a healer, someone insignificant. But her captors suspect otherwise. Her lost memories may hold the key to the Resistance’s last desperate plan. To uncover the truth, she is sent to the High Reeve, a ruthless necromancer whose estate is as dangerous as the man himself. SenLinYu’s Alchemised, a #1 new release in Dark Romance, is a spellbinding debut of memory, power, and obsession where survival means surrendering everything.

Mercedes Midnight has one year before hell collects her debt. Lucy Corvine, daughter of the devil, is bound by a cursed contract she never signed. Both women are trapped. Both are desperate for escape. When Midnight claws her way into Finis Academy, a chance meeting with Lucy sparks a dangerous bargain. Lucy will train Midnight to earn the demon’s favor, and in return Midnight will find a way to break Lucy’s chains. But secrets fester, cults plot to resurrect a fallen angel, and war brews between heaven and hell. What begins as a pact becomes something far more dangerous. In candlelit libraries and whispered shadows, desire ignites. Ruby Roe’s Architecti is a dark gothic romantasy of curses, bargains, and forbidden love that could damn them both.

Bonhomie, Ohio, is a town shaped by secrets. In the jubilant days after World War II, Cal Jenkins, haunted by the shame of not serving, shares a fleeting, passionate moment with Margaret Salt, a woman desperate to escape her past. That moment binds their families in ways neither can foresee. Becky Jenkins, Cal’s wife, is a seer who brings comfort to grieving families by conjuring the voices of the dead. Felix Salt, Margaret’s husband, sails safely on a Navy ship—until a telegram arrives that may change everything. As America transforms in the postwar years, their hidden choices echo across generations. Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye, hailed as “a small-town novel of epic proportions,” is a sweeping, intimate portrait of family, love, and the long reach of secrets.

Nick and Fiona were never supposed to be more than best friends. They tell themselves that every day. They’ve survived grief together, losing both of their mothers senior year, and they cling to their friendship like a lifeline. Sparks would only ruin it. Or so they say. But when Fiona lets her guard slip, the fragile balance between them shifts. Nick isn’t ready to give up on the one person who makes him feel whole, not even when his own belief in happy endings has long since died. On a weekend trip meant to bring closure, truths come to the surface that neither can ignore. Jennifer E. Archer’s Into the Deep Blue is an aching, hopeful story about grief, friendship, and daring to love again.