If you’re looking for a queer story of cut-throat academic rivalry, look no further.

Rory is the heir to the world’s most successful tutoring company. This means everything he does has to be perfect, and his reputation for being smart, savvy, and academic must be flawless. But there’s one person he seems to lose his edge to, and that’s Luca Melendez.

Luca wins everything without trying, and it infuriates Rory. At one point, Rory is so infuriated that he has a public meltdown, throwing a smoothie at Luca and maring his own reputation.

So Rory’s going to fix his image. He’ll do it by winning at the hardest, most elite academic camp in the country. BRAIN is all his.

That is, until Luca shows up there, too.

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With the World’s Fair gone, so, too, is the dybbuk–restless spirit–that’s been possessing Alter. Now Alter and his bestie Frankie can start a detective agency using their unique skills. Frankie’s come from his dark past, and Alter’s come from his always-on interest in doing good for his community.

There’s just one problem. Children are going missing, and Frankie fears the supernatural is still at play. Now Frankie and Alter are trying to track down a demon-like entity called a sheyd.

There are actually two problems. It’s not just the sheyd. It’s also Frankie’s resistance to confronting his past. Until he can do that, he and Alter may never solve the problems plaguing their community.

The estate housing the Harrow Home for Wayward Girls was where young women were sent to hide when they were pregnant. The girls’ cries echoed through the halls, and Grace heard them throughout her childhood.

When the Home is sold to a wealthy hotelier in 1947, Grace worries that the new owner’s daughters will be the kind of rich brats she can’t stand. But when Grace meets Rose, she’s pleasantly surprised to see she’s normal–and Rose is drawn to Grace, too. Rose has no idea how cruel Grace’s father, Mr. Harrow, is, and neither girl knows the true history of the Harrow Home.

Together, they’ll unravel the secrets and darkness within the walls of the Harrow Home, even and especially if it means unearthing the cruel legacy of Grace’s father.

Readers who love quests and who love romance will find both in this new standalone fantasy.

Bria thinks she’s a normal girl, helping run her parents’ inn with her sisters. She’s got a pretty useless Gift in her world, but it’s okay. Things are safe, even idyllic.

But then raiders destroy Bria’s family and livelihood. She doesn’t believe she’s going to survive to see where those raiders are taking her. Except she does, and it’s in part because she crossed paths with the mysterious Titus.

Titus is on a quest. He didn’t choose it; the perilous adventure was chosen for him. Bria’s now part of it, and it’s making her question everything she thought she knew about her life and her world. As she journeys with Titus, Bria begins to discover that the Gift she thought might be useless could be the very thing that changes the course of everything.

Ella’s plans that night were to hang out with friends, but she ended up being roped into a babysitting job instead. Things go from bad to worse when she arrives at the house where she’s caretaking, though: the door’s open and it smells like gas. Even though Ella can call for help, not everyone survives.

As Ella begins her own recovery, the investigation takes a turn for the worse. It seems this was no accidental gas leak, and the person or persons responsible are not going to give up until they reach Ella.

Readers who cannot get enough Greek mythology won’t want to miss this first book in a forthcoming series from poet Gill.

Godling Hekate was taken to the Underworld when her parents were on the losing side of the war between the Titans and Olympian Gods. Raised by Styx and Hades, Hekate grew up desperate to know her purpose and feel like she belonged.

As Hekate grows up and discovers her powers as the goddess of witchcraft and necromancy, she also realizes how feared she is. So when an immortal war breaks out–again!–Hekate realizes she can bring an end to the battles for good.

Fei was born under a prophecy that she would become the Empress of All Empresses. All this has meant for her throughout her young life, though, is that she’s been raised in a palace while awaiting the time to marry the Crown Prince. It’s lonely, to put it mildly.

Fei then has the opportunity to take her fate into her own hands, knowing it is dangerous. But she’s going to hunt a legendary tiger, even though she knows the potential costs.

What she didn’t anticipate was meeting Yexue, a runaway prince from a rival kingdom. But it wasn’t just meeting him that was unanticipated. Fei is falling for him, and he, her. Yexue is full of dangerous magic and can command an army of dead vampires (really!). Escaping the prophecy, though, will be anything but easy, and Fei will be torn not just between two rival partners but two rivaling kingdoms.