A young woman on a tight budget takes a cheap apartment and soon experiences strange, threatening phenomena that suggest the place itself — and those connected to it — endanger her.

A mother receives a call telling her child has been kidnapped and that she must both pay and kidnap another child to free her — and the release depends on a continuing chain where each victimizer becomes a victim.

Two narrative strands span deep time: one traces an artificial-intelligence–guided project to terraform a world where Portia labiata spiders evolve into a complex civilization; the other follows humans aboard an interstellar ark leaving an ecologically collapsed Earth in search of a home.

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.

A fictional reimagining of a doomed overland expedition in the 19th-century American West that places characters under escalating scarcity and suspicion.

Set during the American Civil War, the novel focuses on a freedwoman who takes a dangerous undercover role within a Confederate household to gather intelligence, while a man posing as a Confederate soldier is secretly working the same network for Union purposes.

Two rival temporal agents working for opposing, mutually exclusive timelines exchange secret letters as they sabotage history on behalf of their employers.

A detailed biography of Alexander von Humboldt that follows his formative years, major expeditions—especially in Latin America—and his intellectual effort to present nature as an interconnected system.

A small, remote English setting hosts a tightly observed family story in which religious rites, interpersonal strain, and mysterious occurrences create sustained unease.

A lone survivor who was once part of a distributed starship consciousness seeks retribution after betrayal within an expansive imperial society.

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.

An illicit kiss at a 1960s christening fractures two marriages and eventually results in a blended family. Over roughly fifty years the novel follows six children whose summers and lives intersect, tracing how one adult mistake reshapes relationships, loyalties, and personal trajectories across decades.

Two siblings raised in an elaborate family home reckon with abandonment, parental choices, and the aftereffects of being shaped by a single place. The setup follows their intertwined lives over many years as the house — and what it represents — continues to influence decisions, identity, and family bonds.

An ethnographic study of matsutake mushrooms and the people and places shaped by their global trade. The author follows harvesters, middlemen, buyers, and landscapes to show how a single wild commodity links local ecological disturbance, precarious livelihoods, and transnational markets.

Set in a near-future Earth where humans and intelligent machines can be owned, the story follows Jack, a maker of unauthorized drugs, and Paladin, a law-enforcement combat robot tasked with finding them after one reverse-engineered drug causes dangerous effects.

A contemporary publishing editor wrestles with a missing final chapter and a real-life death tied to a recently published mystery novel.

An envoy from a small, independent station takes up a precarious diplomatic post inside a vast imperial court and must navigate unfamiliar rituals, institutional power, and a suspicious death tied to her predecessor.

An African-American Texas Ranger, Darren Matthews, travels Highway 59 into a small Texas town to investigate the death of a Black visitor and encounters local resistance, simmering racial tensions, and tangled loyalties.

A murder is discovered on the grounds of Belle Vie, a working antebellum plantation in Louisiana that now operates as an event venue. The estate’s manager becomes entangled in the official investigation and the local upheaval that follows, with labor relations and the plantation’s history intensifying the stakes.

A police detective continues to pursue criminal investigations as larger social collapse looms, confronting cases that intersect with themes of suicide and civic breakdown. The central pressure is how an officer's commitment to law and process holds against an eroding public order and personal unease.

Two strangers share the same flat and the same bed on opposite schedules without meeting in person; they communicate through notes and messages while negotiating personal lives and boundaries.

India Morgan Phelps (Imp) attempts to write her memoir while living with schizophrenia, anxiety, and OCD. Her account circles a romantic relationship with a transgender partner and a fixation on a mysterious, silent woman found beside a road.

A first-person memoir that looks closely at a relationship Machado calls the Dream House and how that relationship involved psychological abuse.

A contemporary romantic novel about the fraught, evolving relationship between the U.S. president’s son and a British prince, starting from mutual dislike and escalating into a secret and then public romance.