From fantasy to horror to romance, these diverse YA reads have something for everyone!
NIGHTCURSE by Emma Hinds
9781250369550 | 10/13/26
Emrys Swift is so dead. One hundred and fifty seven years worth of dead, to be exact. He’s a Revenant, nightcursed, destined to be stuck being seventeen forever. Hidden away, he spends his infinite days as an undead librarian of witchlore at the NeverEnd library—until a new Revenant arrives and magical artifacts start going missing, jeopardizing his beloved home.
Emrys’s mortal enemy and annoyingly attractive shapeshifter Aubrey Vale is determined to solve the mystery—with Emrys’s help. Suddenly Emrys and Aubrey are magically bonded together on a quest into the dark and frost-bitten world of night-kin. But as Emyrs and Aubrey interrogate ghosts and face drowning by mermaids, deathly creatures aren’t the only spectres haunting them. With the ghoulish Night Hunt chasing them down, can they outrun the secrets of Emrys’ death and Aubrey’s life? And if they can save NeverEnd’s future, can they have a future together?
Hauntingly gorgeous and tender, Emma Hinds’ NIGHTCURSE is both a Gothic mystery and an enemies-to-lovers romance about navigating life and love in the face of death.
KNIGHT OF THE GOD KING by Lauren Blackwood
9781250891167 | 10/20/26
Calliope’s wish has always been to become a knight, an elite healer and protector who uses music to summon magic. Yet despite her exceptional skill, she’s stuck lifting up her talentless cousin, whose family begrudgingly took Cali in as a child. But when an opportunity to become the royal knight of the immortal God King arrives, Cali finally gets a chance at a fairytale life—until her cousin blackmails her.
Forced to bring her cousin to court so she won’t share Cali’s shameful past, Cali immediately snubs Beric, the alluring, handsome squire tending to her. Now she must contend with his ire, even while feeling helplessly drawn to him. If that wasn’t enough, her duty means accompanying the king into The Dark, a demonic entity that only the king’s magic is powerful enough to battle—a battle he has been waging for centuries. She must also keep the king’s secret under pain of death: that he’s not a god at all, and every royal knight’s magic that came before her was the only thing keeping him alive. It seems serving the God King isn’t a fairytale at all, and when people start dying around her, she and Beric realize that they have no choice but to take their fate—and that of an entire kingdom—into their own hands.
In Lauren Blackwood’s thrilling fantasy, KNIGHT OF THE GOD KING, a knight’s power and her squire’s love are the only things that can help her defeat a man playing at being a god.
UNTIL THE LAST LIGHT GOES OUT by Courtney Gould
9781250423474 | 10/13/26
You may not escape, but the truth will.
Twenty-five years ago, the Ripley Memorial High School senior class entered the luxurious Kaleidoscope Key resort deep in the remote Florida Keys. Despite international intrigue and years of investigation, no one truly knows how the 183 students died. And they never will, since the five survivors of the massacre have never spoken a word about what happened to them that night.
Paige Keller, daughter of one of the Kaleidoscope Key Massacre’s infamous survivors, has grown up determined to steer her life away from the resort and the unsolved mysteries her ex-best friend, KJ, can’t leave alone. But when she’s called home on the 25th anniversary of the massacre, she finds that KJ has gone missing.
Paige knows there’s only one place KJ could be: her obsession, the now-abandoned resort. When Paige and the remaining Survivors’ Kids go in after her, they’re forced to confront their—and their parents’—pasts once and for all.
Kaleidoscope Key is waiting, and it’s starving. Once they find their way inside, there may not be a way out. And one way or another, the truth of the massacre will come to light.
Captivating and chilling, Courtney Gould’s UNTIL THE LAST LIGHT GOES OUT is a horror story, a love story, and an ode to the pain passed between generations that you won’t soon forget.
SELKIES & SKEPTICS by Elias Cold
9798890034960 | 11/17/26
Sixteen-year-old Luella lives on an island with only her cruel father for company. Every twenty-fifth ship that passes, he shuts off the lighthouse, leaving Luella to guiltily dive for supplies in the resulting wreckage.
She’s given up hope of rescue—until she spots a newspaper ad for The Society for the Protection of Faeries. She writes in, claiming selkies live on the island to entice the group to come…and they do.
Led by dreamy trans boy Enoch, the Society invites her to join them in gathering evidence of faerie activity. Luella fakes faerie magic to provide proof of her claims, desperate to keep these new friends…only to realize one of them is an imposter who actually possesses magic. Protective of the Society but anxious about her own lies, Luella must face the falsehoods that haunt her to uncover the truth.
DREAMWEAVING by O.O. Sangoyomi
9798890034465 | 10/13/26
Raised by a hidden coven of witches, Deja Freeman is forbidden from mentioning two things: 1) magic, and 2) her mother. But when she discovers her mother’s death is linked to Tanglewood Prep—a prestigious New England boarding school—she enrolls, needing the truth.
Tóbi Ẹkúndayọ̀ is Tanglewood’s future valedictorian. Popular and driven, she has her eyes set on Junior Class President, even if it means facing down the institutional prejudice running rampant in her school.
When Deja and Tóbi begin having terrifying visions, they realize one thing lies at the center: the mysterious demise of Tanglewood’s first Black female student. In investigating the school’s dark history, the girls must trust each other and their crew of friends if they hope to avoid the administration’s suspicions—or something far worse.
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