Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Fiction AwardA Good Morning America Book of the Month Selection • A Popsugar Must-Read Book of the Month • A Buzzfeed Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year“Provocative…. [An] assured, beautifully written book.” —Sarah Lyall, New York TimesIn this provocative meditation on new moth...

" **Delightful and darkly magical. . . . [A] beautiful modern myth, a coming-of-age story for a girl with a worrisome power over life and death. I loved it." —Audrey Niffenegger, New York Times–bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful SymmetryCursed. Maisie Cothay has never known the feel of human flesh: born with the power to kill or resurrect at her slightest touch, she has spent her childhood sequestered in her family's m...

A darkness takes shape beneath the waters of Venice . . .and somewhere in the Ospedale della Pietà,there are two girls breathing beside each other,legs entwined.'Enchanting and suspenseful' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Rich and heartbreaking' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'A lush, decadent fairytale' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

"[A] beguiling fairy tale." — Vanity Fair (A Best Book of Summer)"Enchanted...A slow-burn gothic novel that will make you lose track of your surroundings…An atmospheric banger." —LitHubVenice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. As a student at the Ospedale della Pietà, she hopes to join the highest ranks of its illustrious girls' orchestra and become a protégé of the great Antonio Vivald...

A Buzzfeed Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year""A massively entertaining and slyly enlightening story nestled inside another story like a ghost within its host."" —Kathleen Rooney, author of Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey and Lillian Boxfish Takes a WalkIn this provocative meditation on new motherhood—Shirley Jackson...

For fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Mexican Gothic, a novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school, about two girls drawn together by a dangerous wager“A sumptuous feast of a novel, rich and strange and heady. Julia Fine is an extraordinary writer.” —Kelly Link, bestselling author of Get In Trouble"Julia Fine's lyrical prose borders on the poetic, while Robe...

“Delightful and darkly magical. Julia Fine has written a beautiful modern myth, a coming-of-age story for a girl with a worrisome power over life and death. I loved it.” —Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful SymmetryIn this darkly funny, striking debut, a highly unusual young woman must venture into the woods at the edge of her home to remove a curse that has plagued the women in her family for millennia—an utterl...

A gothic, Venetian fairytale about the fierce bond between two teenage girls at an 18th century music school, and the fateful bargains they make with a dark magic in the waters of Venice.A darkness takes shape beneath the waters of Venice . . .and somewhere in the Ospedale della Pietà,there are two girls breathing beside each other,legs entwined.

""Only Katy Simpson Smith could have written a novel of such elegance, emotional power, and grace. The Everlasting, a quadruple love story spanning two millennia, is no less than the story of love itself—its frustrations and thrills, its blunders and transcendent glories. Meraviglioso.""—Nathaniel Rich, author of King ZenoFrom a supremely talented author comes this brilliant and inventive novel, set in Rome in four differe...

Reminiscent of The Golem and the Jinni, The Glass Magician by Caroline Stevermer is a magical and romantic tale set in New York's Gilded Age.New York 1905—The Vanderbilts. The Astors. The Morgans. They are the cream of society—and they own the nation on the cusp of a new century.Thalia Cutler doesn't have any of those family connections. What she does know is stage magic and she dazzles audiences with an act that takes your breath away.

A captivating debut novel about a woman who falls into an overwhelming mutual obsession with the Upper East Side mother who hires her as a nanny.Ella is flat broke: wasting away on bodega coffee, barely making rent, seducing the occasional strange man who might buy her dinner. Unexpectedly, an Upper East Side couple named Lonnie and James rescue her from her empty bank account, offering her a job as a nanny and ushering her into their moneyed world. Ella’s days are...

""Don't be alarmed - that dizzy pleasurable sensation you're experiencing is just your brain slowly exploding from all the wild magnificent worldbuilding in Nicky Drayden's Escaping Exodus. I loved these characters and this story, and so will you.""- Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving and Blackfish CityThe Compton Crook award–winning author of The Prey of Gods and