Happy Tuesday!
A bit of a calmer week from last Tuesday. Definitely expect holiday romances to ramp up in the coming weeks.
What books are you excited for? Let us know in the comments!
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As You Wake, Break the Shell
Author: Becky Chambers
Released: October 13, 2026 by Harper Voyager
Genre: LGBTQIA, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Series: As You Wake, Break the Shell #1Explore a universe of stubborn survival and found family, of persistent danger and quiet wonder in the first installment of a heartfelt new duology from Hugo Award–winning author Becky Chambers.
Life on the resource-poor planet of Fortune is challenging, but for its inhabitants, it’s home. For two of them, Signy and Cora, this home might no longer be enough.
Signy is a brilliant but reclusive botanist who bio-prints medicine from her small plant shop, often bending the rules to help those the system leaves behind. Her life is filled with the green of her store, the warmth of her one elderly friend, and the quiet determination to help others without putting herself in danger.
Cora is a rorqual pilot, one of the few with the unique ability to navigate the massive, living ships that connect the scattered settlements of their solar system. Her bond with her rorqual, Colibri, is profound—a connection that is both her greatest gift and a threat to her career.
It is that threat—the “mindbleed,” a dangerous side effect of her piloting—that brings her to Signy’s shop, and her appearance puts Signy in the danger she so fears. But it’s soon apparent it’s not just about losing her license—this delicate balance between risk and trust has the potential to change everything for them.
Told in an alternating timeline of their initial coming together and a not-so-distant future where they have found domestic bliss, this is a story harrowing and haunting, heartfelt and hopeful. Through a love story centered around survival, we are given a glimpse into the very best of what Becky Chambers does in her writing: explore what it means to be human, and what it means to come together.
New Becky Chambers! And it’s the first book in a series.
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Entities to Lovers
Author: Mallory Marlowe
Released: October 13, 2026 by Berkley
Genre: Paranormal, RomanceA connection that’s more than supernatural emerges between two rival tour guides who wish they could ghost each other in this sparkling romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author Mallory Marlowe.
Paranormal medium Rory Woods spends her days offering psychic readings at Ye Olde Spirit Shop and nights haunting the streets of Boston as a ghost-tour guide. Sure, business could be better, but she’s proud of the shop she runs with her mom.
Enter Ezra adjunct history professor, noted thorn in Rory’s side, and—though she’d only admit it under threat of medieval torture he surely knows too much about—a distractingly handsome, charismatic coworker.
Rory can’t stand Ezra’s know-it-all, show-offy behavior. Ezra loves to tease the gorgeous, brilliant medium at the shop. And when the two are forced to host a tour together? It’s no wonder they end up hexed after disturbing a matchmaking ghost.
Saddled with perpetual bad luck unless they’re physically near each other, Rory and Ezra will try anything, from séances to kissing, to stop the jinx from wreaking havoc on both their lives. But in their quest to appease the spirit, they realize that growing closer might not be the curse they once thought it was.
An autumnal paranormal romance.
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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder
Author: Ally Carter
Released: October 13, 2026 by Avon
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Mystery/Thriller, Romance
Series: Kiss, Merry, Kill #2A billionaire’s grandson and the housekeeper’s daughter square off in this cat-and-mouse holiday romance-mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year.
Ella Chambers didn’t kill Liam Montgomery.
If she had, she certainly wouldn’t have done it outside his family’s mansion during the Christmas party of the year. She definitely wouldn’t have loaded his body into the trunk of her car. And she absolutely would not have announced to the town that the boy who ruined her life ten years ago was “so dead to her.”
But now Liam is missing—nothing but a bloody spot on the drive and a host of unanswered questions—and Ella is the only person who knows he’s still alive.
So it’s up to her to prove it.
Liam Montgomery didn’t want to die.
But, it turns out, when you’re the sole heir to a billionaire, someone might want you dead. Luckily for Liam, being dead works for him.
Now he’s on the hunt for a killer. Unfortunately, Ella is on the hunt for him.
She’ll have to prove he’s still alive to clear her name, but that’s easier said than done in a quaint mountain town where everyone knows your story but no one knows the truth. Can the billionaire’s grandson and the housekeeper’s daughter join forces to catch a killer? Or is their past too steeped in secrets and lies?
As the storm of the century blows in, every step will bring these two childhood rivals closer to a killer—and each other.
Because, this Christmas, only one thing is it’s beginning to look a lot like murder.
Lara loved the first book in this series, so we expect good things for book two.
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Love You to Death
Author: Jenna Levine
Released: October 13, 2026 by Berkley
Genre: Paranormal, RomanceA jaded grim reaper and a woman who wants another chance at life give ‘til death do us part a new meaning in this paranormal romance from bestselling author Jenna Levine.
Lucy McKenzie’s life has always been a disaster. So it should come as no surprise when one day she’s hit by an inconveniently-timed bus—and dies. Unfortunately for the handsome grim reaper who shows up to take her to the afterlife, Lucy is not about to go quietly.Daniel is tired of his job collecting souls. While working for the Agency beats the heck out of going to Hell, he’s been doing this for literal ages. The drudgery has him yearning for more. Touched by Lucy’s plea for more time on earth, he convinces the Agency to make a Lucy can have six more weeks of life if Daniel can observe her and report back on humanity.
But as Lucy and Daniel navigate the chaos of life and afterlife together, they discover that a second chance at living might be their real chance at love.
We’re seeing a lot of death/afterlife romances lately!
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Mothsblood
Author: Lynn Jung
Released: October 13, 2026 by Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre: LGBTQIA, Mystery/Thriller, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Urban FantasyAn ambitious alchemist must uncover her university’s dark secrets while trying to escape from her mysterious past in this electrifying debut.
On a rain-soaked night in modern-day Paris, Larkspur Lee and her academic rivals find themselves at the center of an impossible crime: the murder of their university’s headmistress, the immortal Petronelle Flamel.
In the aftermath of Flamel’s death, the school devolves into chaos. The mysterious investigator assigned to the case, Violaine, believes a cult known as the Promethean Genesis is responsible for Flamel’s murder. But Lark, who knows all too well what kind of horrors that the Prometheans commit, will do anything to stay out of the cult’s reach. Matters are complicated when the mentor she crossed an ocean and a continent to escape re-enters her life, enticing her to his side once again while secretly wielding an agenda of his own.
As the Prometheans’ plans come to fruition and the university’s dark history comes to light, Lark has no choice but to decide whether the power she desires is truly worth the price.
Amanda: Fall is cooking with dark academia titles!
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Snow This is Love
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Released: October 13, 2026 by Hyperion Avenue Digital
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Romance
Series: Meant to Be #5.5The Cozy Holiday Romances You’ve Been Dreaming Of…
Come in from the cold and let your heart melt this holiday season with five all-new cozy romance stories from the best-selling authors of Disney’s Meant to Be collection: Zoraida Córdova, Jasmine Guillory, Christina Lauren, Julie Murphy, and Jesse Q. Sutanto.
From Christmas to New Year’s Eve to Lunar New Year, today’s best romance writers reimagine beloved Disney tales as contemporary romances with a dusting of holiday magic.
Featuring:
“Deck the Heels” by Julie Murphy
Nothing says Merry Christmas like a televised fairy tale wedding produced by your not-so-evil stepmother.“Beauty and the Baking Battle” by Jasmine Guillory
A brainy beauty and her (reformed) beast’s visions of sugar plums for their dream baking competition turn into a nightmare.“Siren in the Snow” by Zoraida Córdova
She’s the girl who has everything. He has nothing, when he loses his luggage and control of his romantic Christmas surprise.“Best (New Year’s) Day Ever” by Christina Lauren
Can a sunshine and not-quite grump check off everything on their holiday bucket-list and make it home for their first New Year’s Eve kiss?“Dreaming of a Perfect Lunar New Year” by Jesse Q. Sutanto
A possible curse, a meddling family, and a disastrous Lunar New Year party almost come between a couple that is meant to be.This is a holiday anthology that features continuations from the Disney-retold couples in the Meant to Be series.
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I have been counting down the days to the new Becky Chambers, and my copy is finally on its way.