I don't like kids. Even when I was a kidI didn't like kids.Mat's a Nan kid. An only child. A loner. So when she meets James and his six-year-old Grace, suddenly her well organised, solo life is blown wide open.Then they decide to add a baby. But that's a lot easier said than done. And Mat finds herself in the middle of anadoption process that forces her to confront her own childhood head on.She doesn't understand how she got here. How...

Neverwhere meets Rivers of London in this fast-paced urban fantasy about friendship, family secrets, and the perils of dating the undead.Lili O’Reilly and her beloved cat, Grimm, live happily together on a quiet Liverpool back street above the coffee shop Lili runs with her best friend, Izzy.But everything changes the day Lili wakes up with a sore head and no pulse. When she accidentally murders someone—not a very nice someone, but a someone all the same—Lili has to conside...

An unsettling, hypnotic descent into the visceral heart of “mommy horror,” Afterbirth is a story of fractured sisterhood, aching hunger, and irrevocable transformation—reverberating with the echoes of classic horror cinema.In the wake of a fraught and ill-omened romance, Brooke arrives in Vancouver to care for her sister Izzy, who is preparing to undergo reproductive surgery. But Izzy’s rapidly decaying apartment building, its hallways sta...

There's a murderer in their midst...When April joins a support group for young widows, she's looking for comfort after her husband's sudden death. What she finds instead is a group in turmoil.The founders are fighting for control, members are keeping dangerous secrets, and forbidden relationships are threatening to tear the club apart. And then there's Nick, the newest addition, whose charm feels just a little too calculated.But the most dangerous s...

A feud between witches and werewolves. Old magic and new romance. In Audiobook #2 of the gripping supernatural crime trilogy, rising tensions in the Jura Mountains lead Sage and Oren to investigate. But neither is prepared for what awaits them.Heart-warming friendships, growing embers of romance, and a growing fog that kills everything it touches.Sage and Oren are sent to investigate rising tensions between witches and werewolves in the Jura Mountains. After dealing with mu...

A fantastic, queer enemies-to-lovers story -- in one corner, a girl with ADHD experiencing her first girl crush in a monumental way; in the other corner, a posh, rich girl who's new to school and has her own reasons to be guarded. Told with humor and heart, this is a perfect novel for Alice Oseman and Becky Albertalli fans, and marks a great new YA romcom voice.Darci catches Elle's eye the minute she arrives as the new girl in school. But Elle keeps her curiosity i...

The brand new novel from the author of Netgalley's Historical Fiction Book of 2025 The Lamplighter's BookshopTwo locked hearts. One secret that could set them free …He can't bear to remember. She is desperate to forget …From the stage of the Penny Farthing Theatre, Ava Adams uses hypnotism to draw long-buried memories from the lost and the lonely. Taught by her late mother, Ava once believed in her gift — until heartbreak shattered...

“I’m being stalked by a vengeful half-witch, my love life’s deader than I am, and now there’s a runaway vampire in my spare room. Eternity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”Lilith O’Reilly just wants to be left alone to run her coffee shop on a quiet Liverpool back street. But you don’t choose the undead life—the undead life chooses you.There’s something strange going on in the local cemetery, and it’s not just the sharply dressed ghost who likes to practise his stage moves ...

“There’s a corpse on my doorstep, a were-cat on my sofa and I’m being stalked by the assassins division of the local Women’s Institute. I’m going to need a lot more coffee.”Lilith O’Reilly might be queen of the netherworld, but she’s determined to live a normal (after)life. All she has to do is figure out which of her admirers wants to kill her, whether it’s possible to date a mortal without injuring them, and what’s really going on in Chester.Being human is difficult when ...

Sophia, Tirzah, and Polly are best friends from boarding school who are living very different lives since leaving. The year is 1896, and Polly is teaching in an orphanage in northern England, Sophia is looking for a rich husband at the dances and parties of the London Season, and Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her forbidding grandmother in a remote part of Scotland. In a series of letters buzzing with the drama of being out in the world, the young women air their hopes, f...

“My cat’s learned how to use the remote control, vampires keep ambushing me and I just kicked one of the most famous kings in history in his soft and squidgy bits. So much for resting in peace.”Lilith O’Reilly might be dead, but that hasn’t stopped life throwing problems at her. An entire city is living rent-free in her head, and her favourite mermaid is hoarding things she probably shouldn’t in the dark depths of the Mersey.And then there’s Liam. He might be the first man ...

“The city keeps dropping people into the past, big cats are prowling Toxteth, and riding the Albert Dock carousel is now considered a dangerous sport. If things don’t calm down soon, I’m going to start banging undead heads together.”Lilith O’Reilly would find eternity far more peaceful if people would just, well, leave her in peace. Instead, she’s been declared (reluctant) queen of all she surveys, the spirit of the city is going through an existential crisis, and Time itself has g...