Collection: Adult

It's the 1920s, and money, liquor, and lust are flowing freely in the great city of New York, where dreams are made-and destroyed.

Helena Quintrell isn't the only one in the city with a dark past she'd rather forget. Born into a newly wealthy family, she spends her nights dancing and drinking with her friends, much to the disapproval of her mother, who wants to see her settle down as a 'proper woman' would. When her brother Lucas comes home to find her a husband, her past threatens to break or strengthen her against his iron will and menace.

Until she runs into the only man she'd ever truly loved-who is supposed to be dead.

Vince Thornton is not the man he used to be. He's extremely rich and throws notoriously debauched parties every night, parties where everyone who's anyone attends. Helena falls into his world of night, her eyes opened to the possibilities of luxury and immortality, where blood is the only cost of freedom.

But Lucas doesn't want to let her go, and the game just gets deadlier the more she falls into Vince's den of monsters.

Red Masquerade is a dark and gothic Great Gatsby-inspired vampire romance. Please check the author's website for content warnings.

TAKING A BREAK

Seo Hyunsoo's relationship--if you can call it that--with his coworker Baek Youngchan is getting too complicated. Hyunsoo knows his personality is difficult to deal with, which is why he's always had a hard time making friends. So how can the ever-positive Youngchan put up with him, both in the office and in bed? However, his decision to end things doesn't go over well with Youngchan, bringing new tension to the office that everyone can sense. And to top it all off, Hyunsoo's mom ends up in the hospital. If ever Hyunsoo needed a boyfriend to lean on, now would be the time. But is Youngchan up for the challenge?

The story of Boudicca, the notorious warrior queen who led a legendary rebellion in 60 CE against the Roman Empire in Britain. This book by acclaimed Wolf Den Trilogy author Elodie Harper follows Boudicca's meteoric rise and devastating fall through the eyes of her youngest daughter, Solina, who seeks revenge against Rome.

Boudicca--infamous warrior, queen of the British Iceni tribe, and mastermind of one of history's greatest revolts. Her defeat spelled ruin for her people, yet still her name is enough to strike fear into Roman hearts.
But what of the woman who grew up in her shadow? The woman who has her mother's looks and cunning and her father's druidic gifts, but a spirit all of her own? The woman whose desperate bid for survival will take her from Britain's sacred marshlands to the glittering facades of Nero's Roman Empire . . .
The narrative arc and emotional heart of the book is Solina's complex relationship with Rome, and what resistance means in the radically different world she finds herself in after her mother's fall. After she is taken to the Empire's capital by the ruthless Roman general Paulinus, she will have to decide what it truly means to be Boudicca's daughter.
Forced to fight. Determined to succeed. Meet Solina. Boudicca's daughter.

This epic and emotional novel is perfect for fans of Madeleine Miller's Circe and Constanza Casati's Clytemnestra.

An impulsive young outcast confronts his small town's dark secrets in this atmospheric and haunting debut horror novel from brilliant new voice Jen Julian.

"Drenched in dread and yearning, Red Rabbit Ghost is the kind of Gothic novel that you don't so much read as inhale. I loved it." ― Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love

"Deeply immersive and darkly mysterious. Certain to be one of the year's standout horror reads." ― Craig DiLouie, author of Episode Thirteen

Eighteen years ago, an infant Jesse Calloway was found wailing on the bank of a river, his mother dead beside him. The mystery of her death has haunted him all his life, and despite every effort, he has never been able to uncover the truth.

Now someone is promising him answers. An anonymous source claims that they'll tell him everything. But only if he returns to the hometown he swore he'd left in the rearview.

But in Blacknot, North Carolina, nothing is as it seems. It's a town that buries its secrets deep. Jesse's relentless investigation garners attention from intimidating locals, including his dangerous ex-boyfriend. And he'll soon discover that this backwater town hides a volatile and haunting place on its desolate edge.

The Night House is calling. Some secrets are better left buried...

"At once elegiac and deeply visceral. A bittersweet ode to all the ways in which a place can haunt us long after we've departed―and transform us when we return." ― Georgia Summers, #1 international bestselling author

"Julian weaves a dark spell with the bones of southern gothic storytelling and gorgeous prose. To enter this haunted swamp of a novel is to lose yourself in cosmic mystery." ― Andy Marino, author of The Swarm

Longlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature - Named a BEST BOOK of 2024 by NPR, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, and ScreenRant - "The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you." --Esquire

A hair-raising, poetic novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them edges toward apocalypse.

In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford--a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships: with her difficult but vulnerable mother; with the ex-husband for whom she still harbors feelings; with the boy she nannies, whose parents sent him away even as terrible threats loomed. Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further, her commitment to remaining in place only grows--even if staying means being left behind.

An evocative elegy for a safe, clean world, Pink Slime is buoyed by humor and its narrator's resiliency. This vivid and unforgettable novel explores the place where love, responsibility, and self-preservation converge.

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

DEATH'S EDGE

Horus and Seth's third battle rages on amidst a sandstorm. Seth is in his element until Horus holds Anubis at sword's point and pleads with the god of war to give up on winning. Will Seth forget the competition in exchange for his son's life?

Discover the tortured tales of Heathcliff, Catherine, and the other inhabitants of Wuthering Heights.

Uncover a passionate tale of love lost, found, and avenged in Wuthering Heights. Lockwood, a wealthy man from England, rents a house from an eccentric gentleman named Heathcliff, who is the tortured master of Wuthering Heights. Through Lockwood and the housekeeper, Nelly, the story of Heathcliff's adoption, upbringing, revenge, and love for Catherine is told. The unconventional relationships and complex story structure will keep you turning pages long into the night.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Town & Country, New York Post, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews

On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black--black clothes, black mask--rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it's you. Here you are.

What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey toward physical recovery and the healing that was made possible by the love and support of his wife, Eliza, his family, his army of doctors and physical therapists, and his community of readers worldwide.

Knife is Rushdie at the peak of his powers, writing with urgency, with gravity, with unflinching honesty. It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature's capacity to make sense of the unthinkable, an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art--and finding the strength to stand up again.

*Named a best book of the summer by PEOPLE, ELLE, PureWow and Our Culture, Electric Lit, and a Goodreads Editor's Choice and IndieNext Pick*

A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in the late-90s and early-2000s era of pop music superstardom

It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It's a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group Cloud9 in Los Angeles and escape her small town. She quickly finds herself in the orbits of fellow rising stars Gwen Morris, a driven singer-dancer, and Wes Kingston, a member of the biggest boy band in the world, ETA.

As Amber embarks on her solo career and her fame intensifies, her rich interior life is frequently reduced. Surrounded by people who claim to love her but only wish to exploit her and driven by a desire for recognition and success, for love and sex, for agency and connection, Amber comes of age at a time when the kaleidoscope of public opinion can distort everything and one mistake can shatter a career.

With the captivating style of Stephanie Danler's Sweetbitter and the raw honesty of Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died, Isabel Banta's debut novel, Honey, redefines the narratives of some of the most famous pop icons of the '90s and 2000s. It reimagines the superstars we idolized and hated, oversexualized and underestimated, and gives them the fresh, multifaceted story they deserve.

It's 2012, and post-revolution Egypt is sparking with political energy--but Hannah and Zain are numb.

The flight from New York to Cairo is long--longer still for two siblings on a journey to bury their mother. When they discover their father's unforgivable betrayal, what's left of their family crumbles.

Hannah gives up her spot at Columbia Law to remain in Egypt, where she navigates romantic entanglements and a new culture. Back in America, Zain's self-destructive behavior begins to catch up with him, leaving him to wonder whether he's any different from his father.

When the siblings reunite in Cairo months later, Zain is nearing rock bottom, and Hannah finds herself in the middle of the Arab Spring uprising. Together they confront shared secrets and reconcile their conservative upbringing with their new beliefs as adults. Will they heal together, or has the loss of their only bridge--their mother--set them permanently adrift?

A tender reflection on the effects of grief and loss, this deeply felt novel explores how siblings come together to mend a fractured family and, in the process, find themselves.

An intricate, metaphysical, ambitious "psychogeography of the self" that both disrupts and elevates the 21st century vision of the novel.

Our narrator is held in complete darkness and isolation. His endless thoughts are turned into the book we are reading--Schattenfroh--directed by none other than the narrator's mysterious jailer by the same name. Undulating through explorations of Renaissance art, the German reformation, time-defying esoterica, the printing process in the 16th century, Kabbalistic mysticism, and beyond, Schattenfroh is a remarkable book that, in turn, asks the remarkable of its readers.

Interruptions, breaks, and annotations both buoy and deceive, and endless historical references, literary allusions, and wordplay construct a baroque, encyclopedic quest. Schattenfroh's publication in English marks a seminal moment in the history of the literary form.

From USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes the fifth in a dark and steamy college romance series featuring elite criminal families and morally gray heroes. Mafia heir Nikolai Sokolov is a notorious playboy and as violent as they come, and when he sets his sights on golden boy Brandon, all hell might just break loose.

I'm slowly sinking.

Brandon King never thought he was attracted to men. To be honest, he'd never been that attracted to anyone. But that was before he slammed directly into Nikolai Sokolov, a mafia heir known for being a notorious bastard and violent monster.

Once Nikolai has his sights set on Brandon, he's haunted by him. He can't seem to let him go. A man who is so unlike him in every way: a quiet artist, golden boy, and his enemy's twin brother.

Brandon can't seem to get rid of Nikolai--he's everywhere. And his being everywhere throws a wrench into Brandon's carefully controlled life. Nikolai is desperate to break that control down.

While Brandon worries about Nikolai's role in his life and his slowly disintegrating control, he learns that being wanted by a beautiful nightmare is much worse.

Shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction - Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - Shortlisted for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Debut Author

A Washington Post Noteworthy Book for September - A Good Morning America Spectacular Book of the Month - A Christian Science Monitor Good Summer Reading Pick - A The Root Books By Black Authors We Can't Wait to Read - A The Millions Most Anticipated Book - A Tertulia Best Indie Publisher Book of 2023 - A Debutiful Debut Books to Read in September - A Chicago Tribune Top Pick for Reading Season - A Boston Herald Top Pick for Fall 2023

Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration. Braiding fact and fiction, it is a remarkable, character-rich tour de force exploring the ties that bind three generations.

In 1916, during the early days of the Great Migration, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post-Civil War South for the "Promised Land" of Vauxhall, New Jersey. But the North possesses its own challenges and bigotries that will shape the fates of the women and their families over the next seventy years. Told through the voices of nine family members--their perspectives at once harmonious and contradictory--Coleman Hill is a penetrating multigenerational debut.

Within ten years of arriving in Vauxhall, both Celia and Lucy's husbands are dead, and they turn to one another for support in raising their children far from home. Lucy's gentleness sets Celia at ease, and Celia lends Lucy her fire when her friend wants to cower. Encouraged by their mothers' friendship, their children's lives become enmeshed as well. As the children grow into adolescence, two are caught in an impulsive act of impropriety, and Celia and Lucy find themselves at irreconcilable odds over who's to blame. The ensuing fallout has dire consequences that reverberate through the next two generations of their families.

A stunning biomythography--a word coined by the late great writer Audre Lorde--Coleman Hill draws from the author's own family legend, historical record, and fervent imagination to create an unforgettable new history. The result is a kaleidoscopic novel whose intergenerational arc emerges through a series of miniatures that contain worlds.

"Once in a while, a writer comes along with a brilliance that stops the breath. Kim Coleman Foote is that writer." --Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning author of Red at the Bone

"A masterpiece. Brilliant, vivid, heartbreaking, epic, beautiful, raw and true . . . This is the American story." ―Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less Is Lost

"Kim Coleman Foote has the rare talent of completely immersing you in time and place . . . A sweeping yet intimate family saga." --Sarah Jessica Parker

Pain burned through my veins like wildfire, electrifying each nerve ending and searing through every thought I had ever had. I was sure this was how I would die, and I wished it would hurry up. - Charles Walsh.

Deep in the woods a darkness stirs and impossible, horrifying, creatures exist. Deputy Charles Walsh had always held a healthy level of skepticism. However, when he meets Eric Linnaeus, a man marked by the fae and trained to kill, he is forced to accept a new reality. Facing supernatural creatures and cursed objects, he discovers that everything is not as it seems. If he hopes to survive, he must learn from Linnaeus, yet he can't help but wonder - is this man's word to be trusted?

Book one in the dark fantasy horror series Eric Linnaeus.