Lucy Muchelney, escaping a painful public marriage scene, answers a call from the Countess of Moth to translate a significant French astronomy text. She arrives at the Countess’s London house expecting work and finds Catherine St Day, a widow who hoped to finish her late husband’s scientific legacy and retire.

Set against the realities of a mid-20th-century reform school in the American South, the novel follows young boys who confront daily physical and moral violence inside a state institution.

A group of men from the Blackfeet Nation are haunted years after a hunting incident in which a pregnant elk was killed. The book follows multiple perspectives as the consequences of that event — supernatural and social — return to demand reckoning.

Set among a hidden network that assigns hits, the novel follows an individual tied to that system whose work and choices set up the central pressure: how does someone who arranges and executes murder live inside the rules, routines, and rivalries of an organized underworld?

A landscape deity—an old hill-god—narrates events around a contested succession and a prince trying to reclaim his position with the help of a loyal retainer. In this world many gods exist in animal or landmark form and are bound to make their statements come true, even at great cost.

Two professionals connected to dating technology navigate attraction and past grievances while juggling careers and public reputations. The setup focuses on their personal chemistry and the complications that arise when business, dating apps, and prior history collide.

Set around wartime conflict in Ethiopia, the book follows characters caught up in the pressures of invasion and resistance. Its central orientation is toward people’s inner responses to violence and the ways ordinary lives and loyalties are tested by war.

A live-in nanny takes a job at a remote, high-tech Scottish house and later finds herself accused of a murder that occurred there.

A thirty-something woman travels to her deceased grandmother’s rural home to clear it out and discovers a relative’s writings and a second, unsettling manuscript that record obsessions with a forbidding local book.