New Edelweiss E-galleys (7/21/26)

Hello e-galley readers! Check out some of the exciting e-galleys that were recently added to Edelweiss for your downloading pleasure:

A DEVIL OF A CRIME by T. Kingfisher
9781250342065 | 3/9/27

When the murder of a priest rocks a quiet small town in North Carolina, the prime suspect is who else but the local retired agent of hell, Nicholas Fallen.

But Fallen long ago traded his pitchfork for gardening shears and smites only the beetles who try to feast on his carefully cultivated tomato plants.

If the reformed devil is to clear his (relatively) good name, he’ll have to pick up the mantle of detective, and partner with the last person he’d choose: retired angel Serafina Fuller.

As more bodies turn up and their peaceful retirement starts to go up in flames, the two will stop this killer. Come hell or high water.

WHEN THE STARS ANSWER by Harper Ross
9781250394583 | 3/30/27

Rowan Winslow spent her career exposing liars, no matter the consequences. That attitude cost her a job at a prestigious Boston paper, as well as her reputation. At 28, she’s back in her hometown of Pinebridge, Vermont, navigating the wreckage of her relationship with her sister and trying not to suffocate in a town where everyone knows her business. Then a birthday wish during a meteor shower grants her what seems like the perfect gift: the power to hear when people lie.

At first, it’s liberating. Seductive, even, as she uses her ability to uncover secrets for stories that could relaunch her career. But soon her own choices undermine the relationships she’s been building. Then her world grinds to a halt after a shocking family secret rewrites everything she thought she knew. The truth has always been Rowan’s creed, but now it’s demanding a sacrifice she’s not sure she can make. Turns out not all truths set you free—some trap you in impossible choices.

MUCH ADO ABOUT EVERYTHING by Madeline Bell

9781250373496 | 3/23/27

In the ten years since their breakup, Beatrice and Richard have never called or texted, but they have composed rude poems, left mocking secret messages in mutual friends’ apartments, and spent way too many hours dreaming up elaborate revenge fantasies. It’s been a decade of zero communication (technically) and yet their feud is as fiery as ever.

But now, as the maid of honor and best man at the wedding of their closest friends, Beatrice and Richard need to put aside their pride, spite, and weirdly exhilarating hate-fest in order to celebrate a more functional couple’s happy ending. The thing about a feud, though, is that when it’s the only thing tying you to the person who broke your heart, it’s really hard to let it go. And isn’t it better to fight with your mortal enemy (*cough* the love of your life) than to never speak at all?

Over the course of one weekend, six friends reconnect for an Italian wedding extravaganza—and a scheme is hatched to get the exes back together. Inspired by Shakespeare’s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, this is a story about the friendships that evolve as we grow up, from barely-adults in college to fully-formed humans, warts and all. And of course, it’s a heart-pounding second-chance love story about two stubborn, hilarious exes with sizzling chemistry. Beatrice and Richard’s hatred is so fiery it risks explosion. But maybe burning things down is the best way to start over.

NOCTURNUS by Greer Rivers

9781250409867 | 2/16/27

THE CROW

Freedom has a price. Mine was blood. The Order of Graveston pulled me from a prison cell and made me their weapon. By day, I’m a student. By night, I’m a Crow, one of four sworn to protect their secrets.

We vow. We obey. We erase. I don’t question assignments until Cadence Whitmore’s name lands in my file: get close, gain her trust, end the threat. She was supposed to be a job. Instead, she becomes the one thing I refuse to lose.

If the Order makes me choose between my freedom and her—They’ll remember why they locked me in a cage.

THE MARKED

Graveston runs on power, and I know something I shouldn’t, something the Order would bury. Carver Vale watches me like I already belong to him, controlled and certain.

I tell myself he’s a warning. But the more he circles, the more I understand the truth. He’s claiming me. If he chooses them over me—I won’t just disappear. I’ll be erased.

THE MAGICAL CHEESE EMPORIUM by Sarah Beth Durst

9781250400710 | 1/19/27

After the Great Library burned down and her position as Assistant Librarian with it, Eloren had no other choice but to return to the only other home that would have her: her grandmother’s shop.

Now, she’s stuck at the Magical Cheese Emporium in the remote island town of Dew, struggling to become the small business heiress she never wanted to be. But the unicorns won’t let her milk them, there’s a monster in the cheese caves, and Eloren is more into books than Brie. The only good thing about coming home is reuniting with Garyn, the childhood friend and clever inventor who, at some point, got a whole lot taller—and handsome.

When Dew’s governor imposes impossible taxes on small business owners, Eloren knows one thing: she didn’t take down the emperor just so someone else could exploit good people.

Eloren, Garyn, his (mostly) helpful contraptions, and a mouse made of cheese set off to rescue the cheese emporium and all the other local businesses. And in helping to save this community, Eloren might finally realize that home is where the Havarti is.

THE MAGICAL CHEESE EMPORIUM is a fantasy romance about the places that tell you you’re home when everything burns down and daring to see old friends with new eyes. Prepare for hard work, sparkly dreams, and lots of magical cheese.

STILL FALLING FOR YOU by Isabelle Engel

9781250396235 | 1/26/27

It’s been three years since stunt double Mavis Stilton traded punches (and kisses) with hotheaded stuntman Fox Wildwood. After their whirlwind romance ended in a devastating breakup and near-fatal accident, Mavis left stunts behind for good.

When A-list actress Vanessa Watkins offers Mavis the chance for a comeback doing stunts on a Wild West vampire movie, she jumps at it, desperate to win back the life of adventure she set aside. The only catch? Fox is the stunt double for the male lead, forcing Mavis to face the danger of working with him again.

After several on-set mishaps, Mavis and Fox start to suspect that someone is trying to sabotage the production. With the future of the project on the line and the stunts ramping up in difficulty, the two must begrudgingly work together to save the film—and their careers—before someone falls head over heels . . . literally.

STILL FALLING FOR YOU is a second-chance, enemies-to-lovers romance packed with adrenaline, twists, turns, and sizzling chemistry.

USE YOUR BRAIN: THINK DEEPER IN A WORLD ON AUTOPILOT by Erica Dhawan

9781250450548 | 1/12/27

There is a version of you that has stopped thinking; you just haven’t noticed yet. It happens quietly. You stop drafting emails and start approving them. You cannot answer a question without checking your phone. You stop wrestling with the idea and start accepting the summary. Every shortcut feels like a win until you’ve outsourced your mind to machines that don’t doubt, don’t feel, and don’t care.

The atrophy is subtle; the cost is staggering. It’s the promotion lost to the person who can still reason out loud. It’s your child freezing at an open-ended question because no one ever let her sit in the discomfort of not knowing. We are becoming a generation that prompts brilliantly and thinks almost nothing, and the most dangerous part is how good it feels on the way down.

But you don’t have to go down. USE YOUR BRAIN is a field guide for revitalizing your creativity and original thinking when the generic answer is always a tap away, whether it’s in the boardroom or around the kitchen table. From CEOs to artists to students to parents, the most effective navigators of the modern era have one thing in common: they aren’t afraid to pick up a new tool, but they know exactly when to put it down and think for themselves.

Drawing on years of research, globally-recognized leadership expert Erica Dhawan delivers common-sense habits for protecting your judgment in the age of AI that you can start building tonight. You will learn how to catch yourself on autopilot before you act, how to interrogate an answer that looks finished, how to separate signal from noise under pressure, and how to own a decision instead of laundering it through a machine.

The thinking class and the prompting class are separating in real time, and the gap is going to be brutal. The window to keep your edge is still open. It won’t stay open long.

THAW: UNFREEZE MIDDLE MANAGEMENT TO UNLOCK STRATEGY, INNOVATION, AND GROWTH by Jimmy Leppert and Justin Wasserman

9781250439987 | 2/23/27

Even though the market is up, somehow corporate America is stuck. Initiatives are stalling out, strategic plans are fizzling, and even the most promising innovations get buried under bureaucracy. Worse still, profit and employee satisfaction are trending lower. Sound familiar? This is the impact of the “frozen middle”—the critical layer of management caught between high-level leadership’s vision and frontline employees’ execution. That corporate paralysis traps passionate managers in inertia, and stymies senior leadership. And every year, it’s costing companies billions.

As experts in organizational transformation, Jimmy Leppert and Justin Wasserman have spent their careers figuring out how to thaw the frozen middle. Their consulting firm, Empactful Advisors, has led major corporations—including Chevron, PepsiCo, and the Department of Defense—to generate nearly $5 billion in cost savings and revenue growth. The key to their success comes from aligning senior leadership and middle management, using empathy and practical frameworks to illuminate the blocks that both sides face, and showing how they can shift from utter disconnect to collaborative goal-setting that helps all parties—as well as the company—hit their targets.

In THAW, Leppert and Wasserman share their field-tested methods for turning strategic goals into tangible outcomes. Along the way, they offer a roadmap for employees at all levels to learn how to move through the bottlenecks that hold their organizations back and to facilitate meaningful change. In the age of AI, a playbook for improving—and celebrating—human contribution is more essential than ever. Sharp, confident, and timely, THAW is poised to be the definitive book on ending organizational paralysis and unlocking true potential.

EAT BITTER, ANASTASIA by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

9781250417282 | 2/16/27

Anastasia An Xiá Huang is the third generation of her family to live in Oakland, but now in her 20s, she feels stuck in the city she loves. She assists a pretentious curator at a modern art museum, but her own artistic dreams have fallen to the wayside. When her beloved uncle passes away, she unexpectedly inherits his house, a rundown Victorian in Oakland Chinatown. At first, it seems like a bittersweet windfall: She can renovate the house with her best friend, Noa, and then sell it. That, combined with the bonus she’s been promised by her boss for finding a mysterious street artist, would give her the push she needs to go to art school.

But the house itself seems to hold darkness. Not just the black mold on the ceiling, not just grief, but maybe something more, connected to the memories coming back with more force and frequency—of Anastasia’s childhood, her volatile father who abandoned her when she was five, her workaholic mother who continues to keep her distance.

Along with a wisecracking best friend, a resurfaced childhood crush, and an irrepressible elderly neighbor, Anastasia attempts to figure out the interconnected riddles of her family, her home, and her art. Full of wonder, self-discovery and bracing revelations, EAT BITTER, ANASTASIA is a colorful ode to the spirit of Oakland and a deeply intimate, surprising story about how the places and people we love contain so much more than meets the eye.

THE HOUSE WHERE NOTHING HURTS by Ali Fountain

9781639738519 | 2/16/27

2022: I need your help. It’s happening again. When she gets the call, Leah is in the midst of her second pregnancy, haunted by the sense that the daughter she carries ought to be one of a pair of identical twins. She knows what “it” is—and knows she must return.

2002: In high school, Leah and her best friend, Christian, lead their volleyball team to victory. But when the team breaks into their town’s haunted mansion to celebrate a win, everything changes. The girls discover that in the house, wounds heal, haircuts grow back, even death can be undone—for almost all the girls.

As the visits to the house turn more dangerous, Leah remains untouched by the house’s magic. Desperate to hide her differences, Leah begs her twin, Laura, to impersonate her for one night. But the house won’t be deceived. One girl is lost, and in the weeks that follow, another dies on the house’s grounds.

Nuanced and propulsive, THE HOUSE WHERE NOTHING HURTS is a masterful portrait of girlhood in all its messiness.

New Edelweiss E-galleys (7/21/26)

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Hello e-galley readers! Check out some of the exciting e-galleys that were recently added to Edelweiss for your downloading pleasure:

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