If you liked them in YA, you’ll love these authors’ debuts in Adult Fiction!
TOMMY FROM THE MOON by Daisy Garrison
9781250348685 | 12/1/26
Two star-crossed co-stars in the greatest love story ever told.
Grace Franklin was never supposed to be Juliet. When she shows up to audition for the new Broadway production of Shakespeare’s great tragedy, she’s just there as a dancer. But the director, fed up with the big-name actresses auditioning, calls Grace in for a cold read, and changes her life. Then, she meets her Romeo: Miles Drake, cultural icon and the star of Grace’s childhood dreams.
As Grace and Miles are swept up in the thrilling whirlwind of rehearsals, their onstage chemistry is electric, and their immediate friendship evolves into something deeper. But Miles’s fame weighs on him in ways Grace can’t understand. And Grace is keeping a secret from him, too, about her connection to his first big break. As opening night draws closer, it becomes increasingly difficult to separate acting from reality, and Grace and Miles begin to spin out of control. Everyone knows how Romeo and Juliet ends, except Romeo and Juliet. Will Grace and Miles be able to write their own ending, or are they destined to be star-crossed, too?
Utterly immersive, brimming with joy, wit, and heart, TOMMY FROM THE MOON is an ode to being young in New York City, the camaraderie of backstage life, and two characters on the brink of adulthood in a tale as old as time, and fresh as first love.
BAD WORDS by Ríoghnach Robinson
9781250431295 | 10/6/26
Parker Navarro’s buzzy debut novel should’ve been the book of the year. Instead, it was panned so harshly by notorious critic Selina Chan that it became the literary flop of the decade. Four years later, his new novel marks a second chance.
Selina’s carefully curated life is a result of the sacrifices she’s made in her pursuit for excellence. The last thing she wants to do is review Parker’s second book, but as the only Asian-American staffer at City Magazine, and with the iconic publication in financial trouble, she has no choice.
The review goes live: a devastating pan, again. That night, at an industry party, Parker and Selina erupt in a fight that’s secretly filmed—and it goes viral, driving Parker’s preorders and City’s subscription numbers.
As Parker and Selina are pitted against each other through pointed interviews and in-person clashes, their jabs about publishing, criticism, and who gets to lead an artist’s life give way to the realization that they might be more like-minded than they thought. While the feud carries on in public, a different conversation begins in private, especially after they’re thrust together one snowy New York evening and begin an epistolary exchange that starts to feel a lot like flirting.
Witty and endlessly charming, Ríoghnach Robinson’s BAD WORDS is about the power of writing and the unexpected intimacy of being truly, wholeheartedly, read.
LETHAL KISS by Taylor Grothe
9781250433879 | 4/14/26
Preston University wasn’t Marcella’s first choice of employment, but there’s only so many deaths that can be chalked up to mysterious circumstances before people get suspicious, and her 300 years on Earth have taught her how to pack up and move quickly. She’s resolved to keep her head down and enjoy a couple semesters at Preston—and keep her feedings few and far between. That is, until a professor is found murdered on campus, and it’s not her doing.
When Lacie was hired as an assistant professor at Preston a year ago, she knew not everyone makes tenure. But when her only friend disappears without a word, she begins to suspect that her other missing coworkers didn’t just quit. Unfortunately, there’s only one person she can trust enough to ask for help—the beautiful, aloof, and tantalizingly secretive latecomer, Marcella.
Lacie and Marcella team up to make a chilling discovery: there’s something festering under the marble floors of Preston University, and it’s hungry. Marcella might be a monster, but the deeper into the mystery they dig, the more she’s attracted to Lacie’s immovable bravery and quiet intelligence. And the closer they grow, the more Lacie is drawn to Marcella’s vicious nature.
The weight of spilled blood and stolen opportunity might be too heavy to carry alone, so it’s a good thing they have each other. Marcella just has to get her fill, first.
UNAPOLOGETIC LOVE STORY by Elle McNicoll
9781250388100 | 10/13/26
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