Whether you’re looking for action, mystery, magic, or romance, these enchanting YA series starters will leave you on tenterhooks for the next book!
UNROYALLY YOURS by Emma Lord
9781250414601 | 4/20/27
THE PRINCESS DIARIES meets THE BODYGUARD in this sparkling and frothy novel of royalty and romance, secrets and spies, from New York Times bestselling author Emma Lord.
Rosie’s name is synonymous with loyalty and protection. Part of an elite security training program for teenage recruits, her instincts are great. Her impulse control? Not so much. After an assignment gone wrong, she’s shipped off to Europe on probation. If she messes up, she can’t come back. Her job? To go undercover as the bodyguard for the long-lost prince of Marilova. There’s just one problem: Rosie already knows him.
Nick’s life has been a whirlwind ever since his identity was uncovered. Now he’s been thrust into the spotlight as heir of Marilova, and tensions have never been higher. The Queen will spare no expense to keep him safe—including hiring a bodyguard. Except, Nick doesn’t want Rosie’s protection. They worked together years ago. He even saved her life once. But he has his reasons for keeping his distance.
As a plot against the royals unfolds, Rosie and Nick are thrust into an intricate web of secret alliances and courtly games as they unravel who wants Nick off the throne. But tensions have always existed between Nick and Rosie, and she wonders if she can protect the prince while also protecting her heart.
LITTLE NECROMANCERS by Emma Devlin
9781250450012 | 3/23/27
Eighteen-year-old psychic Mercy Hawkins is drowning in the exorbitant debt she owes to the necromancers who resurrected her parents. Ghost therapy is an unreliable source of income, and her death predictions never come to fruition, meaning no payout. So when those same necromancers—the powerful and affluent Granville family—come to her with an opportunity to wipe the slate clean, Mercy can’t afford to refuse.
The Granvilles task her with convincing their youngest and most obstinate member, Julian, to come back to life after a brutal fall from his bedroom window. With her ability to see ghosts, only Mercy can reach him. But Mercy has her own reasons to believe that Julian’s death was no accident, and one look at his bloodied ghost confirms her suspicions.
As her employers become her suspects, Mercy reluctantly teams up with the strange and hostile ghosts haunting the Granville estate. Together, they surreptitiously investigate Julian’s murder, entrenching Mercy into a decades-long feud between the house’s two factions—the ghosts, who invisibly cook, clean, and toil for the Granvilles, and the Granvilles themselves, who must acquiesce to the ghosts’ every material demand in exchange for their service. Both sides are anxious to point the finger at the other . . . and both sides have secrets to kill for.
BY BREATH by P. C. Cast
9781250388148 | 3/2/27
In P.C. Cast’s thrilling, romantic new YA fantasy, Maeve rescues a mysterious horse from the cold waters of her Scottish loch, only to discover he’s a royal kelpie, bound to ancient magic.
This is Maeve’s last summer in her favorite place: Loch Chon, Scotland. Here at her great aunt’s stables, she rides and cares for the horses she loves, paints to her heart’s content, and soaks up the magick of the Gateway to the Highlands. She’s also been hired to lead trail rides by the new, luxurious resort that shares the loch shores. Soon, she can’t resist spending more time with the resort’s heir: the enigmatic Keir, who holds an endless supply of secrets.
There is more to this loch and its magick than Maeve could have ever imagined. She discovers that the stories her great aunt and Gran raised her on, of fairy Sith and their two courts, Seelie and Unseelie, are very real indeed—especially the tales of kelpies. On land they appear to be magnificent horses with manes strung with silver bells. In the waters of Scotland’s lochs they shift to enormous water dragons who bond with their chosen Riders for life. Maeve cares for what she believes is a wounded stallion, only to discover she has befriended a royal kelpie who has been searching for his Rider. Has he found his Rider in Maeve? No kelpie has ever bonded with a human before. Can Maeve even complete the bonding or will it kill her and her kelpie?
Aided by a witch, a powerful kelpie, and two enemy Sith princes who each want to claim her heart, Maeve begins to realize there is magic that runs through her own veins. The only question is, will she survive it?
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