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Brigitte Knightley’s Dearly Beloathed duology comes to a close with The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy. Full of action, intrigue and a slow-burn romance that finally ignites, Osric and Aurienne’s adventure will leave readers breathless. Osric is part of the Fyren Order, a morally gray guild of assassins who only answer to money. When a terminal illness threatens to rob him of his magic, he seeks out the talent of famed healer Aurienne, who wants nothing to do with him.

Storm Tide Paul Doiron’s mysteries featuring Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch now number 16 with the release of his latest, Storm Tide. This time out, Bowditch is doing penance, demoted to patrol status after having overstepped both his job mandate and the Canadian border, a big no-no for U.S. law enforcement officers. As the novel opens, he arrives as first responder to a devastating house fire. There is only one survivor, a baby, now cradled in the arms of the neighbor who called in the emergency.

In the author’s note for Weaver and the Web, naturalist and award-winning author Chris Baker (On a Mushroom Day) shares that, after growing up with arachnophobia, having a child of their own served as inspiration to commit to “overcoming my phobia.

In Tryhard: A Cautionary Tale of Clocking in and Spinning Out, podcast producer and creator Laura Mayer details her erratic trajectory through the ever-shifting world of audio media—a journey that demanded her energy at every stage, from high school yearbook editor to junior NPR producer to Slate podcast executive.

Known for her work on caregiving and burnout, Kate Washington explored the complications of navigating the multiple crises of her husband’s health in 2021’s Already Toast. With Midstream: A Life Remade in 50 Swims, she complicates that narrative further by admitting that though her husband’s health has stabilized, the rockiness of their marriage—and her satisfaction with it—has not.

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War examines the City of Light in a very dark time by focusing on the different ways that Hotel Lutetia was used before, during and immediately after World War II. Since opening in 1910, the only “grand hotel” on the Left Bank served as a meeting place for artists and politicians, including Joyce, Hemingway, Picasso and Matisse.

Shannon Sanders’ first novel, The Great Wherever, is an ingenious meditation on inheritances material, spiritual and emotional, and a worthy successor to her much-lauded short story collection, Company. Aubrey Lamb has long felt like the underdog in her own story, the problematic black sheep of a successful Black family. A year after her father’s death, while her older sister Bellamy now occupies their childhood home with her dutiful husband and adorable children, Aubrey is flailing.

Shannon Sanders crafted her first novel, The Great Wherever—one of the most anticipated debuts of 2026—in the cracks between motherhood and a challenging day job. On the surface, Sanders’ path to publication seems charmed. Her lauded short story collection, Company, was published by the elite indie Graywolf Press, and won the Los Angeles Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

After an altruistic gesture gone wrong, 70-year-old Indian American Malti Patel gets a concussion. Because Kavya, Malti’s daughter and emergency contact, is out of the country, Malti ends up in the care of Nathan, Kavya’s soon-to-be ex-husband.

Daniel Mason’s fifth novel, Country People, is a delightful family comedy set in rural New England. Readers who remember the town of Oakfield, Massachusetts, from Mason’s Pulitzer-nominated North Woods will note that this new novel takes place right across the state line in Greensbury, Vermont. Like Oakfield, the fictional setting of Greensbury allows Mason’s imagination to roam free, with joy-making results.