April 13th
dinipandareads – Book Look
Mx. Phoebe’s Viewpoint – Favorite Quote
The Brave Bookshelf with Kim Bartosch – Top 5 Reasons to Read Forgive Me Not, Tik Tok

April 14th
Never Hollowed By The Stare – Promotional Post
Betwixt The Sheets – Promotional Post
The Violet West – Top 5 Reasons to Read Forgive Me Not

April 15th
Bookcrushin – Review
Nonbinary Knight Reads – 15 Reactions While Reading Forgive Me Not
The Clever Reader – Promotional Post

April 16th
Forever In A Story – Mood Board
unconventionalquirkybibliophile – Mood Board
The Book Dutchesses – Promotional Post

April 17th
Ilovebooksandstuffblog – Promotional Post
Paiges of Novels – Top 5 Reasons to Read Forgive Me Not

April 18th
Rampant Reading Reviews – Review
Twirling Book Princess – Top 5 Reasons to Read Forgive Me Not

April 19th
Ruby Rae Reads – Review
the nutty bookworm reads alot – Review

April 13th
dinipandareads – Book Look
mxphoebesviewpoint – Favorite Quotes
scarlitreads – Top 5 Reasons to Read Forgive Me Not
mytbrsofar – Top 5 Reasons to Read Forgive Me Not
mythicmelancholy – Journal Spread

April 14th
theink.slinger – Promotional Post
kimbartosch – Top 5 Reasons to Read Forgive Me Not, Tik Tok
therearenobadbooks – Top 5 Reasons to Read Forgive Me Not
magnoliapigeonbookblurbs – Review, Playlist
meghenslittlelibrary – Creative Post

April 15th
diamondxgirl – Review
nonbinaryknightreads – 15 Reactions While Reading Forgive Me Not
thecleverreader – Promotional Post
_baby.girl.lit – Review, Favorite Quotes
ablueboxfullofbooks – Creative Post

April 16th
foreverinastory – Mood Board
quirkybibliophile – Mood Board
thebookdutchesses – Promotional Post
brittyoreads – Review
bookish.by.trade – Journal Spread

April 17th
ilovebooksandstuffblog – Promotional Post
paiges_of_novels – Top 5 Reasons to Read Forgive Me Not
redreviews4you – Creative post
bookish_aly_cat – Promotional Post
ninebookishlives – Promotional Post

April 18th
rampant_reading – Review
blackgirlbujos – Top 5 Reasons to Read Forgive Me Not, Tik Tok
onemused – Promotional Post
jaimes_mystical_library – Promotional Post
bookdemonio – Promotional Post

April 19th
rubyraereads – Review
reading.by.evenstarlight – Review
by_hckilgour – Review
bookswithmana – Review
tbrandbeyond – Promotional Post

Genre: YA Graphic Novel
Publishing date: April 14, 2026

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Rep: Rep: Queer, LGBT+

Synopsis:

A queer “enemies to lovers” journey of a lost princess and a changeling who was made to take the heir’s place as part of a fey scheme.

Aisling is many things to many people: princess, heir to the throne, teenage daughter of two loving parents… She’s also about to learn a lot more about herself: changeling. Fey creature. Hunted. Feared. Loved?

Forgive-Me-Not is the name given to the true princess — the lost teenage biological daughter to the king and queen, who’s grown up in the chaotic and untrustworthy realm of Faerie. When Forgive-Me-Not breaks into Aisling’s room the night before their 18 th birthday looking for revenge, the two embark on a long and arduous journey. And what starts as a confrontational and adversarial pairing grows into a bond of mutual understanding, friendship, and maybe something more…

Mari Costa is a Luso-Brazilian cartoonist with a bachelor’s degree in Character Animation. She’s in love with creating stories and populating them with people who have very messy interpersonal drama. Some of her work includes Life of Melody, The Demon of Beausoleil, and Belle of the Ball.

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March 23rd
Bookcrushin – Interview
Ilovebooksandstuffblog – Promotional Post

March 24th
The Brave Bookshelf with Kim Bartosch – Top 5 Reasons to Read One Word, Six Letters
Boys’ Mom Reads! – Promotional Post

March 25th
unconventionalquirkybibliophile – Promotional Post
The Clever Reader – Promotional Post

March 26th
Confessions of a YA Reader – Promotional Post
The Book Dutchesses – Promotional Post

March 27th
Mx. Phoebe’s Viewpoint – Review, Favorite Quotes

March 28th
The violet west – Promotional Post

March 29th
Never Hollowed By The Stare – Promotional Post

March 23rd
diamondxgirl – Interview
ilovebooksandstuffblog – Promotional Post
marmalade.reads – Review

March 24th
kimbartosch – Top 5 Reasons to Read One Word, Six Letters
tardis_free_library – Review
callistoscalling – Creative Post

March 25th
quirkybibliophile – Promotional Post
thecleverreader – Promotional Post
onemused – Promotional Post

March 26th
thebookdutchesses – Promotional Post
chaoshappinessbookmama – Review
rickys_radical_reads – Promotional Post

March 27th
mxphoebesviewpoint – Review, Favorite Quotes
cozyspicyreads – Review, Favorite Quotes
ninebookishlives – Promotional Post

March 28th
blackgirlbujos – Journal Spread, Tik Tok
kerasalwaysreading – Promotional Post
bookdemonio – Promotional Post

March 29th
reading.by.evenstarlight – Review
mama_coffee_books_cardigans – Promotional Post

Genre: YA Contemporary
Publishing date: March 17, 2026

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Rep: LGBTQ, Queer

Synopsis:

Two teen boys grapple with identity and accountability and set off a ripple effect within their community after a school assembly is disrupted by a shouted slur.

Freshmen Dayton and Farshid couldn’t be more different—or so it seems.

When Dayton takes a dare and shouts the f-slur at a visiting author during a school event, it sets off a chain reaction that forces both boys to face parts of themselves they’d rather ignore.

Dayton, grappling with the fallout of his actions, faces rejection from his friends, disappointment from his parents, and a growing awareness of the harm he’s caused. Meanwhile, Farshid is left to untangle his own feelings—about himself and about the quiet struggle of coming to terms with his queerness in a world steeped in heteronormativity.

As their lives unexpectedly intersect, Dayton and Farshid must reckon with what kind of men they want to become and whether they have the courage to defy toxic masculinity and societal expectations.

Timely, raw, and deeply thought-provoking, this novel is perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Nic Stone.

Content Warning: bullying, homophobia, homophobic slur, racism, body dysmorphia, disordered eating, xenophobia

ADIB KHORRAM is a queer Iranian American author of fiction for all ages. His debut young adult novel DARIUS THE GREAT IS NOT OKAY earned the William C. Morris Debut Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor, and was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Greatest YA Novels of All Time. His other young adult novels DARIUS THE GREAT DESERVES BETTER, KISS & TELL, THE BREAKUP LISTS, and ONE WORD, SIX LETTERS have received critical acclaim, awards, and been bestsellers. His debut novel for adults, I’LL HAVE WHAT HE’S HAVING, was an instant USA Today Bestseller; he followed it up with IT HAD TO BE HIM, which also became a USA Today Bestseller and one of the New York Times’s best romances of 2025. He is also the author of the picture books SEVEN SPECIAL SOMETHINGS: A NOWRUZ STORY, BIJAN ALWAYS WINS (which represented Missouri in the Library of Congress’s Center for the Book’s 2025 Great Reads from Great Places), and TEA IS LOVE.

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April 6th
dinipandareads – Review, Favorite Quotes
Mx. Phoebe’s Viewpoint – Favorite Quotes
Never Hollowed By The Stare – Promotional Post

April 7th
Boys’ Mom Reads! – Promotional Post
The Book Dutchesses – Promotional Post

April 8th
Ilovebooksandstuffblog – Review

April 9th
Betwixt the Sheets – Promotional Post

April 10th
pluvioreads – Review, Tik Tok

April 11th
deal sharing aunt – Top 5 Reasons to Read The Wicked Sea

April 12th
The Clever Reader – Promotional Post

April 6th
dinipandareads – Review, Favorite Quotes
mxphoebesviewpoint – Favorite Quotes
bookwyrm.beth – Promotional Post
onemused – Promotional Post
mandyisreading_ – Review
tbrandbeyond – Promotional Post

April 7th
thebookdutchesses – Promotional Post
dreaminginpages – Promotional Post
alexandriavwilliams_ – Book Look
readers_not_writers – Review
stitchsaddiction – Review

April 8th
ilovebooksandstuffblog – Review
scarlitreads – Top 5 Reasons to Read The Wicked Sea
whatjaymiereads – Review
airee_reads – 15 Reactions While Reading The Wicked Sea
ablueboxfullofbooks – Creative Post

April 9th
theink.slinger – Promotional Post
reading.by.evenstarlight – Review, Playlist
thepageladies – 15 Reactions While Reading The Wicked Sea, Tik Tok
bookswithmana – Review
meghenslittlelibrary – Promotional Post

April 10th
pluvioreads – Review, Tik Tok
daniereads87 – Review
firestorm_of_books – Book Look, Tik Tok
whatkarinareads – Promotional Post
blackburnreads – Review

April 11th
dealsharingaunt – Top 5 Reasons to Read The Wicked Sea
lisashelves – Review, Favorite Quotes
deasbookshelf – Top 5 Reasons to Read The Wicked Sea
bookish.by.trade – Journal Spread
ninebookishlives – Promotional Post

April 12th
thecleverreader – Promotional Post
starryworld_ – Review
theenchantedshelf – Review
808bookdr – Mood Board
bookdemonio – Promotional Post

Genre: Adult Fantasy

Publishing date: April 7, 2026

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Rep: Pansexual, LGBT+

Synopsis:

In this dark and sultry romantasy a mermaid battles hatred—and lust—for the wretched warlock who saved her life.

Mermaid Zephyra of the Syl dreams of freedom. On the run from a dangerous captor and years of abuse, she’s shed her tail, grown legs, and hidden herself on land in the merrow-loathing kingdom of Mortia, left to steal and barter on the dirty streets. But her freedom is short-lived when she’s caught and sentenced to death by the brutal warlock, Arion Stone.

Arion is as beautiful as he is cold and deadly, only interested in punishing the merrow he views as evil. He has grown as strong as any warlock might, but at great personal cost…which can only be remedied by the heart of the God of Death, lost to a fabled kingdom beneath the ocean’s treacherous depths.

So Arion offers Zephyra a deal she can’t refuse; help him find the mystical heart, and he’ll spare her life. With no other options, Zephyra agrees, entangling their souls and forbidden desires in a magical bargain until death do they part. But Zephyra’s past is catching up to her, and the enemy she fled seeks vengeance. If Zephyra and Arion can’t learn to fight together–and trust each other–there are worse things awaiting them than just death.

Of course, in the wicked sea, everyone has secrets, and no one should be trusted.
For Fans Enemies-to-lovers
Magic Sensual Bonds
Winged Romantic Lead
Forced Proximity

Content Warning: Gory, death

Jordan Stephanie Gray is the author of the young adult paranormal romantasy, Bitten, and the adult mermaid romantasy, The Wicked Sea.

When she isn’t lounging by the pool and typing away at her computer, she is likely cuddling her pugs in sunny Florida.

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Genre: Adult Fantasy, Romance
Publishing date: April 28, 2026

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Rep: Achillean, LGBT+

Synopsis:

On the hunt for hidden treasure, two former best friends turned adversaries must put the past behind them if they hope to make it home.

This childhood-friends-to-lovers male/male romantic fantasy for fans of Tusk Love and Sara Raasch crackles with tension and heat.

When he isn’t training as a Warden to become half the hero his father was, Griff Sayer is in the business of breaking hearts all across the town of Mayfair, although that slows down after settling in with his current boyfriend. Griff’s ex–best friend, Mal Pryce, meanwhile, is in business with whatever or whoever puts good money in his hands. Now in their mid-twenties, Griff and Mal have only exchanged scathing looks and carefully barbed jabs since the fight that sent them their separate ways years ago. But all that begins to change when an attack Mal plotted for his shady boss leaves Griff near death and their childhood friend Alys as his savior, forcing them back into each other’s orbit.

Livid at his boss, Mal makes a deal to earn his freedom and Griff’s safety. He has just four weeks to retrieve an ancient treasure from Rotrose Mire, a remote swamp known for its ghostly and beastly dangers, the same treasure Alys’s beloved father, Rhun, had been searching for when he disappeared for good. Armed with a map and a broken blade of Rhun’s, Mal sets off—with Alys and a reluctant and newly single Griff in tow.

Yet the explosive tension between the two men—along with the dangers of the mire pressing in around them—makes for a more difficult journey than any of them could have anticipated. As Griff and Mal peel back their tough facades and shared feelings heat up in unexpected ways as they learn to trust again, they also realize that someone—or something—seems to be following their path. Someone who doesn’t want them to succeed, no friend to their parents’ old enemies, but also no friend to would-be heroes…

Our Rogue Fates is a second-chance spicy Achillean romance with the questing spirit of Dungeons & Dragons, perfect for fans of Critical Role.

Content Warnings: Alcoholism and Drug Use (on page), Fantasy related violence (on page), Bodily Injuries resulting from violence (occurrence and treatment on page), References to prior sex work of a side character, Death / Disappearance of a Parent / Parental Figure, Breakup between MC and side character PRIOR TO main MCs getting together, Explicit Sexual Content

Sarah Glenn Marsh has been an avid fantasy reader and Tolkien enthusiast from the day her dad handed her a copy of The Hobbit and promised it would change her life. She’s been making up words and worlds ever since, and is now an author of books for kids including the HOW TO SPOT A FAIRY series; books for teens like the REIGN OF THE FALLEN duology; and romances for adults, including the forthcoming OUR ROGUE FATES, out April 28th, 2026 from Alcove. She has also written for popular franchises including STAR WARS and CRITICAL ROLE, as she loves digging into the sandboxes of her favorite worlds.

When she’s not writing, Sarah frequents the pottery studio and raises awareness about her autoimmune disease, Type 1 diabetes. As a queer person, Sarah is also passionate about seeing more and better representation in all forms of media; we all deserve happy endings.

While her favorite place to be is Ireland, Sarah currently lives in Richmond, Virginia where a tiny zoo of four rescued sighthounds, three birds, a turtle, many fish, and one adorable toddler—not to mention her garden—keep her and her partner plenty busy.

Sarah is represented by Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary

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Genre: YA Contemporary
Publishing date: March 17, 2026

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Rep: LGBTQ, Queer

Synopsis:

Two teen boys grapple with identity and accountability and set off a ripple effect within their community after a school assembly is disrupted by a shouted slur.

Freshmen Dayton and Farshid couldn’t be more different—or so it seems.

When Dayton takes a dare and shouts the f-slur at a visiting author during a school event, it sets off a chain reaction that forces both boys to face parts of themselves they’d rather ignore.

Dayton, grappling with the fallout of his actions, faces rejection from his friends, disappointment from his parents, and a growing awareness of the harm he’s caused. Meanwhile, Farshid is left to untangle his own feelings—about himself and about the quiet struggle of coming to terms with his queerness in a world steeped in heteronormativity.

As their lives unexpectedly intersect, Dayton and Farshid must reckon with what kind of men they want to become and whether they have the courage to defy toxic masculinity and societal expectations.

Timely, raw, and deeply thought-provoking, this novel is perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Nic Stone.

Content Warning: bullying, homophobia, homophobic slur, racism, body dysmorphia, disordered eating, xenophobia

ADIB KHORRAM is a queer Iranian American author of fiction for all ages. His debut young adult novel DARIUS THE GREAT IS NOT OKAY earned the William C. Morris Debut Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor, and was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Greatest YA Novels of All Time. His other young adult novels DARIUS THE GREAT DESERVES BETTER, KISS & TELL, THE BREAKUP LISTS, and ONE WORD, SIX LETTERS have received critical acclaim, awards, and been bestsellers. His debut novel for adults, I’LL HAVE WHAT HE’S HAVING, was an instant USA Today Bestseller; he followed it up with IT HAD TO BE HIM, which also became a USA Today Bestseller and one of the New York Times’s best romances of 2025. He is also the author of the picture books SEVEN SPECIAL SOMETHINGS: A NOWRUZ STORY, BIJAN ALWAYS WINS (which represented Missouri in the Library of Congress’s Center for the Book’s 2025 Great Reads from Great Places), and TEA IS LOVE.

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Genre: YA Fantasy
Publishing date: April 28, 2026

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Rep: Sapphic, LGBT+

Synopsis:

To free her cousin from an indentured contract, Katrien agrees to fulfill their lord’s bargain with the fabled “Redwood Man.” Three maids before her have posed as his stepdaughter, Lady Zaviera, and met this lord of the forest as promised. But Katrien means to be the first to fool him—and live.

Impersonating a Lady is no easy feat, especially one as beautiful and aloof as Zaviera. With one month before she’s sent off, Katrien is put through endless lessons, even as the Redwood Man’s suffocating vines overtake the manor and threaten its staff.

Zaviera takes a special interest in her training, and their shared interests grow into shared affections. But the Redwood Man awaits his prize. Caught between duty and desire, her future and her past, Katrien must navigate a tricky bargain—or risk failing those she holds dearest.

Markelle Grabo started writing in 5th grade once she realized her squeamish nature wouldn’t lend itself well to a career in Marine Biology. After growing up in Wisconsin, she earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Loyola University Chicago and her master’s degree in creative writing for children and young adults from Hamline University, where she wrote the first draft of her debut YA novel, Call Forth a Fox.

When not writing, Markelle enjoys hiking, food adventures, and going to the movies. Whatever she’s doing, she’s usually listening to an audiobook or a podcast at the same time. She lives in the Greater Chicago Area with her husband and their two very fluffy cats, Matcha and Kava.

Markelle is the author of Call Forth a Fox and The Redwood Bargain (April 2026). She is represented by Tricia Lawrence of Aevitas Creative Management.

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Genre: YA Horror
Publishing date: April 21, 2026

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Synopsis:

Perfect for fans of Don’t Let the Forest In and Wuthering Heights , May the Dead Keep You is a gothic YA horror about the pasts that haunt us and the stories we decide to make for ourselves.

There’s nowhere Catie East would rather be than the redwood forest that surrounds her family’s unusual historic home, the Heights.

She prefers being alone in the forest. People are…complicated. But when a scientist and his son move into the estate’s cottage, planning to study the woods around them, the boy catches Catie’s eye. And when a dead woodpecker miraculously comes back to life in his precious hands…he captures her heart.

Necromancy isn’t the only strange thing happening in the Heights. There’s an unfamiliar face in the mirror. Blood on the floors. Eyes in the wallpaper. And the men around her—including her once-sweet nature boy—are becoming something else. Something possessive and frightening. Something violent.

As the Heights’s dark history starts to come to light, Catie discovers that the home she loves is imbued with pain. And even though the pain isn’t her own, it will corrupt her and the people around her all the same—unless she can stop it.

A story about breaking cycles of abuse and overcoming generational trauma, May the Dead Keep You is an edge-of-your-seat listen—equally horrifying, heart-wrenching, and hopeful.

Content Warning: enerational trauma, animal deaths and resurrections, stalking and related behaviors, drug references, underage drinking, blood and gore, violence including mentions of domestic abuse, miscarriage, parental loss, abandonment, character death, character injuries/ characters in peril.

Jill Baguchinsky writes raw, accessible young adult fiction that resonates with teenagers navigating an increasingly dark and complicated world. Her most recent book, SO WITCHES WE BECAME (LBYR 2024), received a starred review from School Library Journal; the young adult horror novel tackles society’s toxic “boys will be boys” mentality with nuance and sensitivity, challenging women and girls to find strength in the shadows of their past trauma and fight back. MAY THE DEAD KEEP YOU (LBYR 2026), her next YA horror, turns some traditional romance tropes upside down to illustrate that themes like obsession, possessiveness, and stalking aren’t romantic at all. Jill’s debut novel, SPOOKYGIRL, won the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for Young Adult Fiction. 

Although Jill works mainly in the young adult realm, she has also been recognized as a notable voice in adult horror; her stories have appeared in the women-in-horror anthologies INTO THE FOREST: TALES OF THE BABA YAGA and MOTHER KNOWS BEST: TALES OF HANDMADE HORROR (both Black Spot Books). Her work has been adapted for audio on the popular NoSleep Podcast, and her post-apocalyptic short story “Green Thumb” won Uncharted Magazine’s Sci-Fi/Fantasy Short Story Award. Although Jill’s work is often dark and sometimes grim, she weaves hope, strength, and subtle humor throughout her stories, offering readers a bit of light in the shadows.

Jill’s storytelling abilities adapt seamlessly to other genres as well. For her 2018 young adult contemporary novel, MAMMOTH (Turner Publishing), Jill worked with real-life scientists and trained at the Waco Mammoth National Monument to deliver a story of finding one’s confidence and voice as a young female intern in the male-dominated field of paleontology.

Born in New York and raised in Florida, Jill spends most of her time writing with the help of her menagerie of rescued office assistants (currently cats and guinea pigs), giddily cross-stitching rude or political sentiments, and chilling at Walt Disney World’s EPCOT theme park.

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Genre: Memoir, Graphic Novel
Publishing date: April 21, 2026

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Rep: Chinese, AAPI, Depression

Synopsis:

A poignant and vividly illustrated graphic memoir about a young woman’s search for belonging as her immigrant family moves between Canada and China.

Lily isn’t sure where home is anymore. Her family is constantly on the move, resettling in different towns across Canada and, eventually, in Shanghai, China. Her father plays the role of primary caregiver while her mother is absent for long periods of time. When she reappears, her strange behavior turns Lily’s life upside down. As Lily enters her college years, she strives to better understand her family and her place in the world. But can she escape the inherited trauma passed down by her immigrant parents?

Content Warning: trauma, mental health struggles

Lily Kim Qian is a Chinese-Canadian artist based in New York. She graduated with a BFA in illustration from Parsons the New School of Design in 2021. Along with her illustration practice, she works as a Junior Designer at Penguin Young Readers. Until We Meet Again is her debut graphic novel with First Second books. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering at shelters and hanging out with her very own cat assistant, Edgar.

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Genre: YA Fantasy
Publishing date: April 21, 2026

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Rep: Queer, LGBT+

Synopsis:

In this adventure-packed portal fantasy, three teens discover a gateway to a mythical Labyrinth in the Appalachian Mountains

Barren’s Peak, West Virginia, is not a place anyone would call magical, but Thea
LaGuerre calls it home. A high school drop-out whose mother died in an accident, Thea is stuck working part-time jobs just to make ends meet. The most she has to look forward to are barn parties where she can make out with Callum, the one interesting boy who moved to town six months ago.

Thea doesn’t know it yet, but Callum was sent to Barren’s Peak to watch her. He was raised within the magicians’ order, a shadowy organization meant to keep humanity safe from an underworld of monsters. Callum would sacrifice anyone, including himself, to help their cause, but he still can’t help falling into Thea’s orbit. She’s the first person he’s felt seen by since his childhood sweetheart, Oliver—who he hasn’t seen since Oliver’s banishment from the order.

But Oliver hasn’t given up on Callum or on magic. Following a magical creature’s trail to Barren’s Peak, Oliver happens upon Callum and Thea at a barn party that turns into a monster-overrun massacre. To save Callum and the girl he’s protecting from a wave of deadly fairies, Oliver opens a portal for the three of them to flee into the Labyrinth.

To get home again, Thea, Oliver, and Callum will have to work together to survive the Labyrinth’s trials and discover the threads that brought them there.

Content Warning: death of a parent

Michelle Kulwicki grew up in the Pacific Northwest overturning every rock and stick in an unending quest to find portals to worlds far more exciting than her own. After moving to the mountainless Midwest, she earned her bachelors and master’s degrees in music performance, and spent years in the symphony and musical theater pit circuit. She’s now a mom by day, musician by night, and writer in all the spaces in between—a life that is somewhat lacking in portals, but is still full of magic.

Her short fiction has been both Locus Recommended and Hugo nominated, and her novel work has been featured in a special edition Owlcrate box as well as been translated into Italian and French. She can be found on most socials as @kulwickiwrites, or online at michellekulwicki.com

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Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Publishing date: April 14, 2026

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Rep: Black

Synopsis:

Twelve-year-old King has been banished to the Vermont woods for the summer, and there’s nothing he can do about it. As if his parents getting divorced wasn’t bad enough, they’ve shipped him off to his aunt and uncle’s house to protect him like he’s some baby. The only bright side is being reunited with his favorite cousin, Nat, who he hasn’t seen in years.

At first, King wants nothing more than to go home to Boston. There are barely any other Black people in Vermont, the townsfolk are mean to him, and his relatives don’t even have Wi-Fi to play games! But a late-night encounter with a young coyote changes his mind. King develops a bond with the creature, who seems just as lonely and misunderstood as he is. Then King’s uncle calls the local trappers, saying the coyote is a threat to their farm, and King is forced to decide: return home to Boston, or stay and save his new friend?
With the help of Nat, a veteran wilderness explorer and walking wildlife encyclopedia, King scales mountains, faces off against skunks, and sleeps under the stars to find a new home for the coyote—and just maybe, a home for himself, too.

Inspired by her own childhood traipsing through the Vermont wilderness, debut author Rachael MeyersJones brings a fresh take to the classic wilderness survival tale.

Content Warning: racism, mentions of putting an animal down, animal cruelty

Rachael MeyersJones is a neurospicy writer and nonprofit executive director based in Oakland, California, where she lives with her husband and anxious black cat Chi Chi. Oakland is also known as Huichin, the unceded territory of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people who continue to steward and thrive on the land. Rachael grew up in both Boston, Massachusetts, and the Northeast Kingdom, Vermont, splitting her time between urban and rural environments. Her writing has been shaped by her experiences as a Mixed Black woman, and by the many amazing young people she’s known throughout her career. Rachael strives to build and protect consistent communities of care for Black & Brown youth. She loves cooking for her friends and family, making stained glass windows and other visual arts, Prince, and being outside by a lake somewhere. Rachael is the Executive Director of Youth on Root, a grassroots youth environmental justice leadership nonprofit based in California. Her debut novel, King Coyote, will be released on April 14th, 2026.

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