Adult & Contemporary Fiction

From the author of Nocticadia comes a spellbinding gothic dark fantasy about a shunned woman who is forced beyond the mortal realm's forbidden boundary, into a terrifying world of cursed souls and grotesque creatures.   Only the banished know what...

Messy, truthful and raw — Caldwell’s novella of Queer identity and painful love may be a quick read, but its impact is lasting.NATIONAL BESTSELLER.   A Most Anticipated Pride Read by Autostraddle, Electric Literature, and GO...

James Carson has gotten away with murder three times.   The only thing that might stop him from killing again? The three women he murdered.   He hunted them online, masquerading as an eligible bachelor. Then he played the perfect gentleman, a...

An utterly unforgettable novel that portrays a vast internal emptiness by using the cool, haunting voice of a young woman in Scotland lost in the profound anomie of her generation—from “one of the most talented, original and interesting...

Thrilling, funny and unique, this immersive collection is about seeing and being seen. Transcending genres, Peters dips into literary fiction, sci-fi and horror to explore transness, gender politics, longing for transformation and the messiness of being...

A future ravaged by disastrous weather, a small town on the brink of collapse and one family at the center of it all. Gripping, visceral and taut, Wild Dark Shore is a complex story about survival, isolation and hope at the end of the world...

A queen destined for magic. A king cursed by love. A fate no one could outrun. Before Selene, there was Roxilana. Discover her darkly delicious origin story in this prequel to Bewitched, a complete standalone from TikTok sensation Laura...

Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio - the handsomest young man in Catania - returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind him. To please his father, Antonio agrees to marry the...

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience, as he struggles with class and race, art and sexuality,...

The bestselling author of How Do You Like Me Now delivers another addictive, funny and deliciously dark tale of relationships, as four university friends are reunited for a baby shower on a sweltering summer's day. An intense heatwave. A...

From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo café where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday miracles.   Tucked away on a narrow...

"A memorable existential tale." —Publishers Weekly.For readers of Han Kang and Sheila Heti, an atmospheric, melancholic novel about a successful sculptor who decides to commit suicide by artfully preparing and deliberately eating a lethal dish of...

The INSTANT New York Times bestseller!The overnight viral sensation everyone is talking about, Blood of Hercules, is a sarcastically funny, dark fantasy romance reimagining of Hercules from bestselling author Jasmine...

The author of Forget Me Not and Not Another Love Song returns with a captivating fantasy world that is easy to get lost in. Princes, princesses, power and pleasure make this a dynamite dark romance.New York Times bestselling...

A safe haven is anything but safe in this pulse-pounding story from the author of The Housemaid. This is one breathless ride from start to finish and the twists just keep coming.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a...

THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE SHORTLIST • From the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist, whose short stories received instant acclaim (“Sparingly told, evoked with lacerating intimacy . . . Extraordinary”—Esquire), a...

Hollywood glitz and glam take on a murderous sheen in Stephanie Garber’s gripping adult debut. Old mysteries resurface as Holland St. James uncovers the truth about a decades-old murder, which leads her down an unexpected and dangerous path. It...

This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a counter-culture classic. 'A satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion' Jay McInerney 'The closest thing we had to a...

A classic queer text of trauma, written by one of the most talented novelists of her generation.The reason it’s never just once is the same reason money’s only a part of it. Most anyone can take or leave that, though they don’t think...

Sharp, gothic and gruesome, this graveyard has a secret to tell — and we can't wait to uncover it.The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local...