""Elana K. Arnold paints prose like a master. A fascinating journey through time, love, and forgiveness." - A.S. King, Printz Award-winning author of Dig
Award-winning author Elana K. Arnold returns with a boldly visionary, deeply felt story that crosses space and time to examine loss and love in a world on the brink.
It is the late summer of 2021, and a girl named Nora is on the Paris Metro.
Nora, whose mother loved her, even though Nora was broken.
Nora, who couldn't help her mother when her mother needed her most.
Nora, from whom the pandemic has taken nearly everything, save the object she clings to: a cylinder containing her mother's ashes.
With no family left, no friends to speak of, and no way to turn back time, Nora has come to France to keep a promise she never got to make: to spread the ashes in a place her mother never got to see. But instead, Nora finds herself on the run through a forest in the night, taking refuge in a dark holloway. And when she wakes, and tries to make her way back to something she recognizes, she realizes that is impossible.
Because it is no longer 2021.
Questioning everything-including her own sanity-Nora sets out on a journey through a time and place completely foreign to her, and yet one that, much like the time and place she came from, is defined by death, loss, fear, and uncertainty. A journey in which she must find a way to honor her mother-and heal herself-in a world that feels irrevocably broken."
"A swoon-worthy and angst-filled forbidden romance about star-crossed lovers at an elite boarding school, perfect for fans of Maxton Hall and Eden Falls. From the author of YA sports romance sensation Rival Darling
Popular. Powerful. Filthy Rich.
Noah Hastings is everything I'm not.
Our worlds never should have collided, but when my long-lost father reappears my life is flipped upside down. It turns out, he's ridiculously wealthy, and without warning he plucks me from my simple life and throws me into a world of excess.
He's sending me to the most elite boarding school in the country, where money and status mean everything. He gives me only one rule while I'm there – stay away from Noah Hastings.
It should be a simple request. Noah is the king of Weybridge Academy, the heir to an empire and a serial heartbreaker. I'm just the new girl who grew up waiting tables. I don't fit into Noah's world, and he could never be a part of mine.
There's more to this boy than I expected though, and he seems just as drawn to me as I am to him.
But it's not only our differences that stand between us – it's the secrets we keep.
Sweet Heartbreak is the first part of a three-book series following Isobel and Noah's story in the elite world of Weybridge Academy.
The Weybridge Academy series is perfect for readers looking for:
- Passionate kisses and swoon-worthy romance
- Relatable characters and fun friendships
- Teen angst and emotion
- Billionaire teens
- Drama, secrets and twists
Don’t miss Alexandra Moody’s heartstopping sports romance series, Darling Devils
Rival Darling
Grumpy Darling
Wild Darling"
"A swoon-worthy and angst-filled forbidden romance about star-crossed lovers at an elite boarding school, perfect for fans of Maxton Hall and Eden Falls. From the author of YA sports romance sensation Rival Darling
Secrets. Lies. Betrayal.
I've only been at my exclusive new boarding school a few weeks, but I've already encountered my fair share of each.
The truth about my upbringing is out, I'm starting to learn more about my family's past, and I finally know why my long-lost father warned me to stay away from Noah Hastings.
It's clear now that Noah and I can never be together. But my heart doesn't seem to care. The boy is everywhere I look. Taunting me. Toying with me. Tempting me – and he's not the only one.
Surviving my senior year at Weybridge Academy is going to be even harder than I thought.
Prepare for swoon-worthy moments, dramatic twists and characters you'll fall in love with in this contemporary teen romance set in the elite world of Weybridge Academy. This is the second part of a three-book series and ends in a cliff-hanger.
Also in the Weybridge Academy series: Sweet Heartbreak, Sweet Ruin
The Weybridge Academy series is perfect for readers looking for:
- Passionate kisses and swoon-worthy romance
- Relatable characters and fun friendships
- Teen angst and emotion
- Billionaire teens
- Drama, secrets and twists
Don’t miss Alexandra Moody’s heartstopping sports romance series, Darling Devils
Rival Darling
Grumpy Darling
Wild Darling"
"A swoon-worthy and angst-filled forbidden romance about star-crossed lovers at an elite boarding school, perfect for fans of Maxton Hall and Eden Falls. From the author of YA sports romance sensation Rival Darling
Passion. Anger. Fire.
All these feelings are burning inside me.
Noah Hastings has taken our families’ feud too far, and the divide between us is now so firmly cemented there’s no going back.
I’m trying to move on, but it seems Noah has only just begun toying with me and my heart.
He still has more secrets, and he’s not the only person hiding something from me. But as I dig deeper, and the truth is finally revealed, I’m torn between the boy I thought was in my past and the one I believed was my future.
I’m facing heartbreak once again, but there’s an even bigger threat on the horizon that I could never see coming — one that could ruin us all.
Sweet Ruin is the third book in the Weybridge Academy series and the final part of Isobel's story, which comes to a complete and dramatic conclusion.
Also in the Weybridge Academy series: Sweet Heartbreak, Sweet Ruin
The Weybridge Academy series is perfect for readers looking for:
- Passionate kisses and swoon-worthy romance
- Relatable characters and fun friendships
- Teen angst and emotion
- Billionaire teens
- Drama, secrets and twists
Don’t miss Alexandra Moody’s heartstopping sports romance series, Darling Devils
Rival Darling
Grumpy Darling
Wild Darling"
"Mother, Mother is a psychological thriller with a twist that plays on the time old tale of "Are you my mother?", perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Kiersten Modglin, and Lucinda Berry.
Iris Blackwood always knew her mother didn't love her.
It's why she left six years ago and never looked back. But when her aunt—her mother's identical twin—and her stepfather die in a tragic accident, she's forced to return home.
The cruel woman she remembers is gone. In her place is someone who cooks breakfast with a smile and says, "I love you."
Iris wants to believe it's real. But then she finds a journal in the attic. One that reveals her mother and aunt used to switch places all the time.
And when her car mysteriously won't start, she begins to fear the truth.
She came home to the wrong mother.
And now she may never leave."
"A woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel.
Sam, finally sober and stable with a cat and a long-term boyfriend in Brooklyn, returns alone to Hemlock, her family's deteriorating cabin deep in the Wisconsin Northwoods. But a quick, practical trip takes a turn for the worse when the rot and creak of the forest starts to creep in around the edges of Sam's mind. It starts, as it always does, with a beer.
As Sam dips back into the murky waters of dependency, the inexplicable begins to arrive at her door and her body takes on a strange new shape. As the borders of reality begin to blur, she senses she is battling something sinister-whether nested in the woods or within herself.
Hemlock is a carnal coming-of-addiction, a dark sparkler about rapture, desire, transformation, and transcendence in many forms. What lives at the heart of fear-animal, monster, or man? How can we reject our own inheritance, the psychic storm that's been coming for generations, and rebuild a new home for ourselves? In the tradition of Han Kang's The Vegetarian, Hemlock is a butch Black Swan and a novel of singular style, with all the edginess of a survival story and a simmering menace that glints from the very periphery of the page."
"One of Marie Claire's 18 Most-Anticipated Mystery-Thrillers of 2025.
Sadie meets The Female of the Species in this YA thriller starring Nev, one of eight missing girls from a group home called Sister's Place—and the only one who returned.
In the town of Avan Island, there was a group home called Sister’s Place. It housed girls no one cared about, girls who had nothing and no one but each other. Over the course of six months, eight girls from the home seemingly disappeared, never to return.
But one girl did.
Nev is the girl who returned. The girl who survived. She's done her best to leave what happened in the forest on Avan Island behind her, but now, five years later, the men in charge of Sister’s Place, the men who brushed the missing girls off as “runaways,” are turning up dead. And Nev realizes that confronting the town that was all to happy to forget her may be her only chance to get answers about what happened to her sisters. As Nev is pulled deeper into Avan's secrets—and as more bodies pile up—she must unravel the mysteries locked in her own mind as she hunts down a killer who is willing to do anything to make sure the past stays buried.
Lost sisters, female rage, and the determination to survive drive Nev on her propulsive journey to find answers and peace—and maybe revenge."
"A witty and heartwarming escape about mothers and daughters, small-town dating, and the surprising ways we find our way home.
When Gigi Jenkins finds herself broke, unemployed, and out of options, she has no choice but to return to Mackinac Island, the horse-and-buggy hometown she swore she'd left behind forever.
Living under the same roof with her meddling, divorced mother, Eloise, feels like a recipe for disaster--especially when Eloise hatches a scheme to set Gigi up with the island's charming new doctor.
Determined to call her mother's bluff, Gigi agrees to the date on one condition: she gets to play matchmaker for Eloise in return.
What begins as a battle of wills spirals into a summer of small-town antics, unexpected sparks, and plot twists neither woman saw coming.
But the greatest love story of the summer isn't about romance--it's about the bond between mother and daughter. Through late-night date debriefs, outfit consultations, and learning to laugh (and forgive), Gigi and Eloise begin to bridge years of misunderstanding, moving from adversaries to confidantes.
With Lindsay MacMillan's signature wit and warmth, Summer on Lilac Island is a joyful, tender tale of second chances, new beginnings, and the countless forms love can take."
"From Lambda Literary Award finalist Linsey Miller comes this thrilling stand-alone fantasy about the lengths we'll go to get ahead—an incredibly fresh, twisty love letter to dark academia...with a body count.
Perfect for fans of A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid, Gallant by V. E. Schwab, and All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman.
There is only one school worth graduating from, and it creates as many magicians as it does graves…
First in his class and last in his noble line, Fabian Galloway’s only hope of a good future is passing his elite school's honors class. It’s only offered to the best thirteen students, and those students have a single assignment: kill their professor.
If they succeed, their student debt is forgiven. However, if an assassination attempt fails or the professor is alive at the end of the year, the students’ lives are forfeit.
And dealing with the professor, a devil summoned solely to kill or be killed, is no easy task.
Fabian isn't worried, though. He trusts his best friends—softhearted math genius Credence and absent-minded but insightful Euphemia—to help. After all, that’s why he befriended them.
As the months pass and their professor remains impossibly alive, the trio must use every asset they have to survive. Or else failure will be on their academic records—and their tombstones—forever."
"In this tender coming-of-age novel set in the socioeconomic tinderbox of the 1960s, two sisters in a struggling and damaged family only have each other to rely on . . . until an ugly secret tears them apart and threatens the cause of justice in their small town.
YALSA BEST FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS SELECTION
Fifteen-year-old Pip and seventeen-year-old Sissy aren't just sisters, they're best friends. Every year, they wait eagerly for the traveling carnival to put its stakes down in their tiny Florida town. It's the only time when the girls can abandon their endless chores on the family's orange grove and give in to pure joy. And the only time Pip and Sissy can forget their many troubles . . . living on the brink of poverty, Mama's despair, and Daddy's perpetual anger.
With the arrival of the carnival, the girls' slow, small lives suddenly feels bigger and brighter. But this year, something is different. Once the carnival leaves, with the charming young sword-swallower with it, Sissy grows increasingly distant from Pip and is soon no more than a stranger in their house. Pip grows closer to her friend Silas as a result, but when Sissy's shocking secret is revealed, the three unwittingly find themselves in a desperate situation that will change them all forever. In the land of the sweetest fruits, Pip must find her way through the soured hopes and bitter regrets of her family to finally break free of the grove.
Set against the class and economic tensions of early 1960s America, this stark yet hopeful novel tells a compelling story about the inescapable bonds of sisterhood and the lies we tell ourselves to survive."
"Cassandra Snow's groundbreaking Queering the Tarot helped change the shape of tarot discourse for scores of new readers to reclaim this ancient practice in their own way. Tarot in Other Words opens doors for these brilliant tarotists, offering unique insights and concepts for tarot readers of all levels. Queerness will be a thematic thread running throughout the project, with individual essays tackling a variety of topics that expand on that theme in new and compelling ways.
Presented in two parts, the anthology comprises ten essays that shine a light on the tarot from multiple queer perspectives. Understanding queerness—and why it matters in tarot—can teach all of us so much about not just gender and sexuality but also how and why we should liberate ourselves in the first place. These essays on queerness show us that who we are is right, beautiful, and sacred. Queerness teaches us to honor differences in others and understand that what is good for one may not be good for all. There is a historical basis for why tarot and queerness go hand in hand: for a lot of cultures, such as the Romani and other oppressed groups forced into nomadic lifestyles, fortune-telling using cards and other tools was and is to this day survival work. This is the same reason we see so many queer, BIPOC, and disabled people take up tarot in the US."
"When a neurodivergent girl finds a ghost in the walls, she must decide if the ghost is an ally or an enemy -- and the wrong decision could destroy her and her family. From Schneider Family Book Award Honor author Meg Eden Kuyatt comes a chilling yet lyrical new audiobook novel-in-verse that's sure to resonate with listeners for years to come.
After a hard school year, V has been sent to her Grandma Jojo's house for the summer in order to get away from it all. But unlike neurodivergent, artistic, sock-collecting V, Jojo is uptight, critical, and obsessed with her spotless house. She doesn't get V at all. V is sure she's doomed to have the worst summer ever.
Then V starts hearing noises from inside the walls of the house...
Knocks, the sounds of a girl crying, and voices echoing in the night.
When V finds a ghostly girl hiding in the walls, they seem to have an immediate connection. This might be V's chance to get back at her perfect grandmother by messing with her just a little bit.
But the buried secrets go much deeper -- and are much more dangerous -- than V even suspects. And they threaten to swallow her and her family whole if she can't find a way to uncover the truth of the girl before it's too late.
A contemporary audiobook novel-in-verse with a ghostly twist by the author of Good Different, this audiobook is about the power -- and danger -- of secrets. The Girl in the Walls will grab you and not let go until the very last word."
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