Forthcoming Historical Novels for 2026

The Historical Novel Society lists a comprehensive range of titles from mainstream and small press publishers for novels set from ancient times to the mid-1970s.

Titles are listed alphabetically by author last name within their expected publishing month (see links below) and cover all historical fiction sub genres.

Details are pulled from publisher catalogues and websites; Amazon; NetGalley; Edelweiss US & Canada Trade and BNCCatalist Canada Trade.

Information is compiled by Fiona Sheppard (US, CAN, UK, ANZ).

See our guide to forthcoming historical novels for 2025 for previous releases.

For children’s titles, see our guides to children’s and YA historical novels out in 2026 and in 2025.

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Last update: April 11, 2026

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January 2026

Emma R. Alban, Like in Love With You, Avon (sapphic romance set in 1817)

Deepa Anappara, The Last of Earth, Random House (novel set in nineteenth-century Tibet that follows an Indian schoolteacher spying for the British Empiren and an English “lady” explorer as they venture into a forbidden kingdom)

Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Watching Over Her, Simon & Schuster (a star-crossed love story following a dwarf and skilled sculptor as he recounts the moments in his life that inspired his powerful masterpiece)

Jenny Ashcroft, Secrets of the Watch House, HQ Fiction (1934; when a wealthy widower offers Violet employment, she journeys to his home on the remote Cornish island of Aoife’s Bay, where mysteries await)

Mary Balogh, Remember That Day, Berkley (a Ravenswood novel in which soldier and a pacifist make the unlikeliest of pairs, but there’s nothing that can prevent their love from igniting)

Julian Barnes, Departure(s), Random House Canada/Jonathan Cape/Knopf (a love story between two friends who a writer named Julian met at university in the 1960s, and once played matchmaker to)

A.D. Bell, The Bookbinder’s Secret, St. Martin’s (a story of mystery and romance set in Oxford, 1901)

Danny Ben-Moshe, The Watchmaker’s War, Harper Collins AU (high-stakes tale of Nazi hunters in Australia and the war criminals they pursued)

Nancy Bernhard, The Double Standard Sporting House, She Writes (debut historical fiction about a brothel nurse 19th-century New York City who fights brutality in the sex trade and pioneers treatments for survivors)

Graham Brack, Nun Shall Sleep, Sapere (Master Mercurius Mysteries, book 9 tells of another complex murder investigation in 1689)

Kay Brellend, The Match Factory Girls, Boldwood (sag in which one woman must fight for her future and her child’s, in the shadows of 1887 London)

Julie Brooks, A Haunting at Venus Bay, Headline Review (two women, decades apart, and a house that brings them together. Setting – Victoria, Australia)

Elizabeth Camden, Beyond the Clouds, Bethany House (a tale of love, sacrifice, and redemption set against the backdrop of World War I)

Clay Cane, Burn Down Master’s House, Dafina (inspired by the true stories of the men and women who dared to fight back against the barbarism of the Civil War era)

Anna Canic, Sophia and Cassius, Histria (a novel of fantasy, time travel, reincarnation, war, and romance in an ancient historical setting)

Francesca Capaldi, Celebrations at the Beach Hotel, Hera (WWI romantic saga)

Steven Carroll, The Afterlife of Harry Playford, 4^th Estate AU (Victoria 1951; second in a new series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter)

Jennifer Chevalier, The Winter Witch, Simon & Schuster (two sisters set sail on a bride ship from Normandy hoping to leave a curse behind them and find better lives in the wilds of 17th-century Quebec)

Rosie Clark, Tears and Fears on Blackberry Farm, Boldwood (in Cambridgeshire 1944, Pam and Artie hold down the fort as the war continues)

Ryan Collett, George Falls Through Time, William Morrow (genre-exploding love story about a man who time travels to the year 1300s . . . where his modern problems are replaced by medieval brutalities)

Dilly Court, The Wild Rose, HarperCollins (new romance saga of love, loyalty and the strength of a fearless heart)

Karla Cruise, The Water Lilies of Mishipeshu, HTF (a hidden botanical manuscript sparks a centuries-long battle between profit and preservation, leaving a trail of murder, madness and encounters with the supernatural)

Lynn Cullen, When We Were Brilliant, Berkley (novel in which Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold make a deal that will change their lives)

Siobhan Curham, The Secret Sewing Society, Bookouture (in Occupied Ukraine, 1940, seamstresses sew vital secret messages for the resistance into embroidered shirts)

Kim Curran, Brigid, Michael Joseph (reimagining of Ireland’s most beloved saint, in the story of a woman who could never be caged by men or by gods)

Siobhan Daiko, The Girl from Lake Maggiore, Boldwood (WWII story of resistance, resilience set at a quiet hotel by Lake Maggiore, Northern Italy, 1943)

Martin Davies, Mrs Hudson and the Belladonna Inheritance, Allison & Busby (next installment in the Holmes & Hudson series)

Paul Doherty, The Meadows of Murder, Severn House (twenty-fourth Brother Athelstan medieval mystery sees the friar-sleuth investigate a series of ominous murders)

Madeleine Dunnigan, Jean, W. W. Norton (seventeen–year–old Jean, a troubled Jewish boy caught in the countercultural swirl of 1970s London, arrives at Compton Manor, a rural alternative boarding school for boys with “problems.”)

Loretta Ellsworth, The Jilted Countess, Harper Perennial (in the aftermath of World War II, a young Hungarian émigré persuades a Midwestern newspaper editor to help her find an American husband)

Natalie Meg Evans, The Vicar’s Daughter at the Lodging House, Bookouture (London, 1940; story of a young woman’s search for her sister)

Donna Everhart, Women of a Promiscuous Nature, Kensington (accused of promiscuity in 1930s North Carolina, a young woman, unjustly incarcerated decides to fight back)

Rebecca Ferrier, The Salt Bind (UK) / A Spell for Drowning (US), Alcove Press/Renegade (Cornwall, 1779; historical fantasy explores a world of forgotten sirens, sea gods and the alchemy of the Old Ways)

Sharon Lynn Fisher, Tea & Alchemy, 47North (a tea leaf reader in nineteenth-century England falls in love with a reclusive alchemist)

Harriet Fox, The Women in the Shadows, HQ Digital (London, 1888; world’s most famous serial killer story, told from the perspective of a gang of women)

Laura Frantz, The Belle of Chatham, Revell (in the midst of the American revolution, two sisters find their loyalties divided as war reaches their home)

Sandra Freels, Anneke Jans in the New World, She Writes (a young mother faces the unknowns of 17th-century New Amsterdam after fleeing the Old World in search of a better life)

Rosza Gaston, The Queen’s Maid, Sapere (second book in series features Anne Boleyn in France)

Olivia Gavoyannis, The Second Mrs Wallace, Embla (Switzerland, 1963; intrigue and suspense, and old-world glamour, mark this story of obsession, betrayal, and the dark truths behind romance)

Allan Gaw, The Silent House of Sleep, Mysterious Press (a pathologist, haunted by his service during WWI, investigates two murders in post-war London. Book 2 of the Jack Cuthbert Murder Mysteries)

Nicole Glover, The Starseekers, Harper Voyager (1960s; further adventures of the Rhodes family, who have been using magic to aid their community and solve mysteries since before the Civil War)

Xiaolu Guo, Call Me Ishmaelle, Grove Black Cat (1843; built on the bones of Moby-Dick, novel is a feminist exploration of human nature, gender, man’s place among the animals, and the nature of home)

Janice Hadlow, Rules of the Heart, Henry Holt (a married woman of high social standing in 18th century England tries to hide from the judging eyes of her elite circle)

Catherine Hokin, The Girl Who Told the Truth, Bookouture (Germany, 1946; a secretary at the Nuremberg Trials has to decide between two choices to reveal family secrets, or tell what she knows about a Nazi)

Evelyn Hood, A Mother’s Honour, Boldwood (Scotland 1906; start of a new Scottish family saga series)

Theresa Howes, An American Scandal, HQ Digital (a Gilded Age romance with a brother and sister both determined to put their pasts behind them; set in Newport, New York, 1895)

Isabel Ibañez, Graceless Heart, Hodderscape (fantasy romance about Renaissance art and forbidden magic, set in Italy)

Avery Irons, Belonging to the Air, Univ. Press of Kentucky-Screen Door (imagines stories of resilience among Black Queer folks during the early 20th century)

Toni Ann Johnson, But Where’s Home?, Univ. Press of Kentucky-Screen Door (collection of linked stories set in 1963 Monroe, New York, following a Black family that buys a house in an all-white neighborhood)

Jeff Jones, Islands of Mist, Sapere (the third installment of the Legion of the Damned Roman Thrillers set in Britannia, AD61)

Roberta Kagan, Until We Meet Again, Storm (based on true events during the Nazi occupation of Paris, a story of impossible choices and unexpected courage; Mimi’s Journey #2)

Heather Kaufman, On Living Stone, Bethany House (Salome’s story of faith, redemption, and transforming love, set in 1^st-century)

Suzanne Kelman, The Secret Twins of Paris, Bookouture (dual timeline WWII and present-day story in which Lily pieces together long-buried family secrets from the war)

Cathryn Kemp, They Can’t Burn Us All, Bantam (Iceland, 1655; when a land of ice and fire is swept into the Protestant Reformation, a witch-hunting craze begins, not of women, but of respectable men of learning)

Vaseem Khan, The Edge of Darkness, Hodder & Stoughton (sixth thriller in the Malabar House novels set in India, 1951)

Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family, Thomas & Mercer (a girl liberated from a carnival sideshow discovers her mysterious purpose in Depression-era America)

R. J. Koreto, Winter’s Season, Histria (in 1817 London, Captain Winter must tread carefully to unmask a killer, navigate a web of secrets and lies, and in the process, save his own soul)

Tom Kratman, For the Eternal Glory of Rome, Baen (time-travel alternate history where aliens transport the XIIXth legion four centuries into the future)

Poppy Kuroki, Passage to Tokyo, Harper Perennial (Ancestor Memories historical fantasy series, book 2; where a young woman finds herself back in 1920s Tokyo as Japan enters a new and dangerous era)

Paula Lafferty, The Once and Future Queen, Hodderscape (historical fantasy set in present & 7th century AD, Glastonbury & Camelot after a woman jumps through a time portal)

K. Lang-Slattery, Ashes and Ruins: Love, War, and the Home Front, Pacific Bookworks (from Nazi Germany to Blitz-torn London, a mother and daughter fight for love, safety, and resilience in WW2)

Lizzie Lane, Bad Company on Coronation Close, Boldwood (Bristol 1942 WWII saga of friendship and love)

Pam Lecky, The Carver Affair, Storm (in Lucy Lawrence series book 5, in Dublin, 1894, the search for a missing girl becomes a hunt for a killer)

Amy Licence, His True Wife, Sapere (book 5 in The Marwood Family Tudor Saga, set in 1529, Queen Catherine awaits the start of the Legatine Court)

Howard Linskey, Muse of Fire, Canelo (in next in William Shakespeare Mysteries, Will is once again caught between two powerful foes and must choose a side)

J. R. Lonie, The Woman in the Spotlight, HarperCollins AU (during WWII a young actress must employ all the skills of her craft to outwit Goebbels and resist the regime’s attempts to brutalise theatre and culture)

Carmella Lowkis, A Slow and Secret Poison, Doubleday (in the early 1900s, a young gardener at a lush English manor falls in love with her employer)

Faith Martin, A Dangerous Train of Thought, HQ Digital (golden age murder mystery set in Yorkshire, 1926)

Patricia McBride, The Market Girls of Petticoat Lane, Boldwood (WWII saga set in the heart of London’s East End)

Paula McLain, Skylark, Atria/Oneworld (a tale of Paris above and below, where a woman’s quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor’s mission during the German occupation in the 1940s)

Fiza Saeed McLynn, The Midnight Carousel, Park Row (novel about an enchanted carousel that causes people who ride it to disappear; set in Paris, 1910 & Chicago, 1920)

Allison Mick, Humboldt Cut, Erewhon (darkly humorous debut eco-horror novel, as a Black woman returns home to the redwood forests of northern California

Allison Montclair, Fire Must Burn, Severn House (the owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of post-WWII London)

Ross Montgomery, The Murder at World’s End, William Morrow (Cornwall, 1910; Secrets, murder and mayhem collide as an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogenarian hunt a killer)

Javier Moro, trans. Peter J. Hearn, The Architect of New York, Counterpoint (fiction chronicling the life, loves, and successes of Rafael Guastavino, an influential yet largely forgotten Spanish architect)

Carolyn Newton, Songs of the Dead Road, Bloodhound (a tale of memories, survival and redemption set in the shadows of post-war Soviet Union)

Oleksii Nikitin, trans. Catherine O’Neil, trans. Dominique Hoffmann, The Face of Fire, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (offers a tapestry of Ukrainian life under the brutal Soviet and Nazi regimes)

Jennifer Niven, Meet the Newmans, Flatiron (family story about the dual lives we lead, set in 1964)

Olivier Norek, The Winter Warriors, Atlantic Monthly (historical novel of Finnish heroism in the face of Soviet invasion in 1939)

Pamela Norsworthy, The Florentine Entanglement, Black Rose Writing (Cold War era; the marriage of a CIA officer and his wife is plunged into crisis when a spy mission goes awry)

Kelsey O’Brien, The Three, Hera (1791; historical novel set in the gay underworld of Georgian London)

I. V. Ophelia, Fruit of the Flesh, Montlake (behind the glamour of Gilded Age New York, a marriage of convenience between an artisan and a ballerina masks their shared appetite for revenge)

Rob Osler, The Case of the Murdered Muckraker, Kensington (book two, after The Case of the Missing Maid, delves into Chicago’s criminal aldermen, the Gray Wolves)

Anthony Palmiotti, Flight to Freedom, Sapere (naval adventure inspired by a true story of early World War Two heroism)

Rebecca Perry, May We Feed the King, Granta (literary story dances between a historical subject who resists the march of progress and a woman who turns to the past to hide from her present)

M. J. Porter, Lords of Iron, Boldwood (in the conclusion to the Dark Age Chronicles in AD541, Meddi and Wærmund will finally collide in a world of iron and rust)

Marianne T. Rafter, Dancing on the Brink of the World, She Writes (imagined account of real-life British sailor Captain William A. Richardson after he is marooned in the San Francisco Bay)

Sheila Riley, Binding Threads on Beamer Street, Boldwood (Liverpool, 1935; saga of love and betrayal set in the Beamer Street community bound by grit, secrets, and ever-shifting loyalties)

Vanessa Riley, Fire Sword and Sea, William Morrow (Caribbean, 1765; saga based on the life of the legendary seventeenth-century pirate Jacquotte Delahaye)

Candace Robb, A Lion’s Ransom, Severn House (York, 1377. Owen Archer is called upon when a lion created by the goldsmiths of York as a gift for King Richard’s coronation is stolen)

Linda Robertson, The Lusitania Code, Level Best Historia (Book 1 of the Lady Butterschloss Mystery Series, set in post-war Britain)

Heather Rose, A Great Act of Love, S&S/Summit (novel set among the champagne vines of 19th century France and Australia, follows a young woman searching for her father who has committed an unspeakable crime)

Gabriella Saab, The Star Society, Harper Muse (inspired by Audrey Hepburn, story follows Ada and Ingrid as they reunite after World War II, embarking on a journey amid the backdrop of the Red Scare in Hollywood)

John Sayles, Crucible, Melville House (novel about Henry Ford and the violent rise of the Ford Motor Company in 1920-30’s Detroit)

Kelly Scarborough, Butterfly Games, She Writes (based on a true story in early-1800s Europe, a historical tale of forbidden love, fierce duty, and the cost of ambition)

Leslie R. Schover, Fission, She Writes (World War II novel of a young mother’s self-discovery as she is drawn into a love triangle with an atomic spy in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project)

B. D. Smith, Red Mound, Black Rose Writing (troubles arise in various forms for the archaeologists digging at Hamblin’s Fort, an ancient Native American settlement in Arkansas)

Linda Stratmann, Sherlock Holmes and the Widow’s Key, Sapere (book 10 in The Early Casebook of Sherlock Holmes series)

Janell Strube, Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution, Acorn Press (inspired by the true story of one of the first women admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in the 18^th-century)

Tom Sykes, Tangled Saviours, Roundfire (an 80s B-movie star’s survival is inextricably tangled with the fate of a matriarchal tribal community in 16th-century Philippines)

Tangea Tansley, Snakes in Paradise, Arden (novel of power, treachery, cross-cultural friendship, loyalty and love, brings alive a pivotal period in the life of the last sultan to rule on the Iberian Peninsula)

Daniel Taylor, The Prodigal of Leningrad, Paraclete Press (World War II novel set during the siege of Leningrad, where Daniil Aslanov, a docent at the Hermitage Museum, gives tours of empty frames)

Angela Tomaski, The Infamous Gilberts, Scribner (spanning the eve of World War II to the early 2000s, novel weaves a tapestry of English country life as readers enter rooms filled with secrets and memories, each revealing the story of the five Gilbert siblings)

Maria Tureaud, This House Will Feed, Kensington (amidst the devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a position at a remote manor house)

Oksana Vasyakina, trans. Elina Alter, Steppe, Catapult (novel follows a queer literature student traveling across Russia with her estranged father, a long-haul truck driver secretly dying of AIDS)

Betty Walker, The Cornish Girls Before the Storm, Avon (new prequel to the Cornish Girls series, set in 1939)

Max Watman, Tomorrow, the War, Skyhorse/Heresy Press (follows the intertwined lives of Jed Stokes, a restless wanderer shaped by violence, and Raleigh, a once-enslaved man seeking justice)

Lauren Westwood, The Inn at Penglas Cove, Boldwood (dual time frame Cornish mystery of doomed love)

Linda Wilgus, The Sea Child, Ballantine/S&S UK (in early 1800s, a band of seafaring smugglers lands on the Cornish coast, where a young widow with a mysterious past becomes entangled in their schemes)

Nikesha Elise Williams, The Seven Daughters of Dupree, Gallery/Scout (a feminist literary fiction that explores the ripple effects of actions, secrets, and love through seven generations of Black women)

Peggy Joque Williams, Braving the Dawn, Black Rose Writing (sequel to Courting the Sun; a novel of New France)

Alice Evelyn Yang, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing, William Morrow (magical realist family saga explores the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate)

Ellen Yardley, Eleanor and the South Beach Murders, Kensington (Eleanor Roosevelt and secretary Kay Thompson become entangled in a deadly international mystery connected to a famous performer

Chi Zijian, trans. Bruce Humes, The Last Quarter of the Moon, Milkweed Editions (a woman from one of the last remote reindeer-herding tribes of northeastern China tells the story of her family and the last century of her country’s history)

February 2026

Shana Abé, A Crown of Stars, Kensington (account of the Lusitania’s fateful last days, drawn from the true story of a young actress who survived the sinking)

Senaa Ahmad, The Age of Calamities, Pushkin Press/ONE (a collection of novellas and short stories of alternate and speculative histories)

W. M. Akers, To Kill a Cook, Putnam (fast-paced mystery about a food critic in 1970s NY who finds her chef friend murdered and realizes she might be the only one to find the killer)

Cynthia Anderson, The Sister Behind the Berlin Wall, Embla (life-affirming tale of sisterhood and survival set in 1942 and 1989)

Lainie Anderson, Murder on North Terrace, Hachette AU (book two in the cosy Petticoat Police Mystery Series, inspired by one of Australia’s first policewomen)

Sophie Austin, The Storyteller’s Secret, HarperCollins (Ava Adams is known as The Storyteller, using hypnotism to draw long-buried memories from the lost and the lonely in 19^th-century York)

Jan Baynham, The Stolen Sister, Joffe (a secret Greek love affair and a daughter’s search for the truth; set in Crete, 1963 and 1984 Wales)

Vicki Beeby, Courage for the Flying Nightingales, Canelo (a nursing orderly in the WAAF is keen to stick with her friends, when they volunteer for the air ambulance and are moved to RAF Starsden)

Ann Bennett, Once We Were Sisters, Bookouture (WWII story about love and friendship and the bond between women)

Gigi Beradi, Bianca’s Cure, She Writes (Florence, 1563; imagines a young Renaissance noblewoman’s experiences as she pursues a cure for malaria in the Medici era)

Rahul Bhattacharya, Railsong, Bloomsbury (novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways of 20th century India)

Audrey Blake, All In Her Hands, Sourcebooks Landmark (in 19^th-century, a newly graduated physician must return to London to takeover the family practice and face the prejudice of society and a deadly disease)

Dwayne Brenna, The Laundryman, Literary Press Group of Canada (murder mystery set in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, in the winter of 1883/84)

Rachel Brimble, Shared Secrets For the Home Front Nurses, Boldwood (WWII saga; book 4 in series)

Louella Bryant, Sheltering Angel of Belleau Wood, Black Rose Writing (a novel of one woman’s life after Titanic)

Denny S. Bryce, Where the False Gods Dwell, Kensington (1935; inspired by choreographer Katherine Dunham, novel imagines the experiences of three different women who accompany her, hoping to find their destinies)

Anna Caig, The Wise Witch of Orkney, Black & White Edinburgh (1593, Scotland; King James VI launches a bloody witch hunt across the country to rid the land of evil)

Anne Canadeo, More Than You Know, Level Best Historia (a Brooklyn girl fights against the odds to save someone she loves and avenge a cruel murder in post war Manhattan)

Shelly Dickson Carr, Who Killed Lady Pippa, Level Best Historia (book 1 in a new historical mystery series)

Radha Lin Chaddah, And the Ancestors Sing, Rising Action (multigenerational story of sacrifice, survival, and the unbreakable pull of home)

Megan Chance, The Vermilion Sea, Lake Union (about a luxurious 1925 yachting cruise to the Sea of Cortez that turns deadly for a small group of wealthy passengers when its secondary purpose reveals more than one terrible secret)

Janie Chang, The Fourth Princess, William Morrow (Gothic novel set in 1911 China, where two young women living in a crumbling, mansion face danger as secrets of their pasts come to light)

Kerry Chaput, The Secret Courtesan, She Writes (dual-timeline adventure about a historian who risks everything to discover the truth about a female Renaissance sculptor unjustly erased by history)

David Clensy, The Mighty Ocean, Sapere (third book in the Romulus Hutchinson Naval Adventure series following twin brothers fighting with the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy during WWII)

L. D. Colter, Where the Shadows Dwell, Solaris Nova (historical fantasy where two brothers, who have been selling Mayan relics since pre-civil war Guatemala, bring the Mayan destroyer of worlds back to life)

Mary Connealy, Ambush of the Heart, Bethany House (a new series of adventure of love, faith, courage, and resilience in the wilderness of 1870s Colorado)

Catherine Coulter, The Heir of Whitestone, John Scognamiglio (England 1842; Victorian-era romantic mystery filled with daring escapes, exciting twists and witty humor)

Christina Courtenay, Raiders on the River, Headline (Viking historical romance)

Mollie Ann Cox, The Widow Hamilton, Crooked Lane (the widow of Alexander Hamilton faces another mystery in the second book in series)

Carol M. Cram, The Choir, HTF (in an 1890 Yorkshire mill town, in a world that wants to silence them, one group of women dares to sing)

Helena Dixon, Murder at Sea, Bookouture (Kitty Underhay murder mystery set aboard an ocean liner in 1938)

Sarah Domet, Everything Lost Returns, Flatiron (a story of two women separated across time and connected by the arrival of Halley’s comet; set in 1986 and 1910)

Jane Dougherty, Pasiphae, Legend (a feminist retelling of a woman wronged by myth)

Robert Downes, The Sun Dog, Blank Slate (follow-up to The Wolf and The Willow, reintroducing Willow and Wolf in a saga set in Native America during the 1500s. Ojibwe Saga, book three)

Elizabeth Dunne, The Witty Witches of Concord, Level Best Historia (Louisa May Alcott, famed author and detective, is drawn into a web of murder, witchcraft, and small-town intrigue)

Saara El-Arifi, Cleopatra, Ballantine/The Borough Press (Cleopatra tells her own story in this new historical epic)

Jim Eldridge, Murder at the Pyramids, Allison & Busby (1901; historical whodunnit set in Egypt)

Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words, William Morrow (historical novel about an encrypted manuscript that unleashes a chain of consequences across 400 years, set in a world of banned books)

Liz Flanagan, When We Were Divided, Fox & Ink (three lives intertwine in Yorkshire, 1643, during the English Civil War)

Cristina Rivera Garza, Autobiography of Cotton, Graywolf (reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonization, labor activism, environmental degradation, and cross-border migration)

Peter Gibbons, Death of a Kingdom, Boldwood (conclusion to Saxon Warrior series, set in 1004 AD)

C. P. Giuliani, Death at Home, Sapere (espionage adventure thriller set during the Elizabethan era in Tudor England; book 8 in the Tom Walsingham Mysteries)

Ellie Grenier, This Wretched Beauty, Titan (gothic trans retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray unfurls a twisting tale of love, deceit, and dissolution in 1860s London)

Michelle Griep, The Bird of Bedford Manor, Barbour (inspirational Regency romance set in Bedfordshire, England, 1820)

Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes, The Pohaku, HarperVia (saga moving from Hawaii to California and back, about the generations of women tasked with protecting the history and place that made them)

Lori Inglis Hall, The Shock of the Light, The Borough Press/Pamela Dorman (WWII story of twins who meet different fates, but whose bond will last forever)

Kayla Hardy, The Quarter Queen, Ballantine (a Voodoo witch must navigate a magically and racially divided nineteenth century New Orleans to save her mother)

Louise Hare, The House of Fallen Sisters, HQ (from the brothels of Covent Garden to the oppressive society of the 18th century, novel paints a vivid picture of London’s underbelly)

Liz Harris, A Daughter’s Courage, Boldwood (first book in the Linford Family Sagas set in the aftermath of the Great War. Oxfordshire, 1919)

Esther Hatch, If You’ll Have Me, Shadow Mountain (an unexpected connection arises between a lady seeking freedom and a prosperous younger man)

Jody Hedlund, Marrying the Matchmaker, Bethany House (A Shanahan Match series, book 4; romantic conclusion to matchmaking series)

Veronica Henry, The Invitation, Orion (novel set between post-war London and Foxwood Manor in Somerset and filled with secret love affairs, heartbreak and friendship)

Claire Heywood, The Wandering Queen, Hodder & Stoughton (after the death of the King of Tyre, Elissa is forced to flee to North Africa, where she is crowned Queen Dido, new ruler of Carthage)

Naomi Hirahara, Crown City, Soho Crime (two Japanese American men hired to investigate an art theft discover something much more sinister in turn-of-the-century California)

Evelyn Hood, A Dutiful Daughter, Boldwood (Scottish historical saga of duty and dreams)

Chloe Michelle Howarth, Heap Earth Upon It, Melville House (story of sapphic obsession set in 1965)

Tammye Huf, Inharmonious (US), Blackstone (love story set in the segregated South during and after World War II)

Shotaro Ikenami, trans. Yui Kajita, The Samurai Detectives: The Killer on the Streets, Penguin (second volume is a mystery blended into a portrait of honour and justice in the twilight of the Shogun’s world)

Devon Jersild, Luminous Bodies, Paul Dry Books (novel weaves a portrait of a Marie Curie, whose struggles and triumphs have much to say to women and men today)

Sadeqa Johnson, Keeper of Lost Children, Renegade Books/37Ink (novel explores themes of identity, desegregation, alcoholism, the blush of young, forbidden love, and the power of forgiveness and familial reunion)

William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, The Last Ride of the Dirty Creek Gang, Pinnacle (a once-notorious gang of retired bank robbers reunite for one last ride)

Adele Jordan, The King’s Stolen Jewels, Sapere (Shadow Cutpurses Tudor Thrillers Book 4, set at Christmas, 1536)

Dietrich Kalteis, Rust and Bone, ECW Press (part coming-of-age and part family drama, set against the backdrop of World War II Ukraine and Germany)

Diane Keech, Ellie’s Great War, She Writes (debut historical coming-of-age story records an upstate New York family’s suffering and growth through World War I and its aftermath)

Michelle Kenney, The Proposition of the Season, One More Chapter (book three of the Fairfax sisters featuring bluestocking, Josephine)

Kennedy Kerr, An Ocean of Time, Storm (timeslip romance of desire, buried truths and souls destined to find each other across time)

Jasmine Kirkbride, The Forest on the Edge of Time, Tor (historical time-travel crossed with sci-fi fantasy as two women are transported through time to opposite worlds)

Eliot Kleinberg, Hypocrite’s Row, Level Best Historia (crime thriller in which Nate Moran must solve a murder in a Palm Beach hotel where the rich and entitled can drink: Hypocrite’s Row)

Anna Kovatcheva, She Made Herself a Monster, Mariner/Harvill Secker (in 19th-century Bulgaria, a self-proclaimed vampire slayer joins forces with a teenage girl to create a monster)

Andrew Krivak, Mule Boy, Bellvue Literary Press (elegiac novel, set in 1929, of men lost in a coal mining disaster and the boy who survives to tell the story)

Sarah E. Ladd, An Unconventional Lady, Thomas Nelson (sweet Regency romance explores the expanding world of science as two childhood friends work together to separate fact from fiction)

Kathryn Lasky, Sacred Light, Severn House (in the 1937 New Mexico desert, a bloodied axe carves through the night—its story buried in silence and sand; Georgia O’Keefe mystery)

Debby Lee, The Caregiver at Wounded Knee, Barbour (the Enduring Hope series brings an inspirational romance between nurse Rose Rushing Water, an Oglala Sioux and tribal policeman Nathaniel Gray Cloud)

Carmella Lowkis, A Slow and Secret Poison, Atria (in the early 1900s, a young gardener at a lush English manor falls in love with her employer)

Aimée MacDonald, The Last Witch on the Knock, John Murray (dual timeline story tells of an abused woman in present day and a maid in a big house 300 years earlier, trying to escape the lecherous clutches of her master)

Shona MacLean, The Cromarty Library Circle, Quercus (a group of leading townspeople are brought together by a newly founded circulating library in 1831, Cromarty, Scotland and must negotiate their changing world)

Heather Marshall, Liberty Street, Doubleday Canada (novel about one journalist’s journey into an infamous real-life 1960s women’s prison, and the detective who uncovers her story decades later)

Patrice Mcdonough, Murder By Moonrise, Kensington (1867; mystery set in the Victorian era, where Scotland Yard’s first female medical examiner finds her holiday sidelined by a murderer)

Ian McGuire, White River Crossing, Crown (novel about the lust for gold and its bloody consequences, set in the unforgiving landscape of the sub-Arctic Canadian wilderness)

Fenella J. Miller, Trouble Comes to Harbour House, Boldwood (wartime saga series set in Wivenhoe, England, 1940)

Lottie Moggach, Mrs Pearcey, Phoenix (reimagining of a true crime story that scandalised Victorian society)

Jennifer Murphy, The Ghost Women, Dutton (tale of a mysterious art academy in the woods, a deck of ancient tarot cards and a centuries-old secret)

Hester Musson, The Night Hag, Fourth Estate (historical mystery set in Scotland, 1886)

Andie Newton, The League of Lonely War Women, One More Chapter (two American women work undercover in Nazi Germany as part of a propaganda campaign)

Mary Ann Noe, Shadows Behind the Scenery, Black Rose Writing (Lynn and Alfred Tale #3 in which the duo become embroiled in Hitler’s maelstrom in late 30s while visiting Paris)

Jenny O’Brien, The Resistance Knitting Club, Storm (inspired by the true story of a woman who used knitting patterns to encode intelligence during World War Two)

B. K. O’Connor, Eve, Histria (in Paradise Lost retelling, Eve faces relentless toil, pain, and the resentment of Adam, who blames her for shattering their Paradise)

Kelly Oliver, The Case of the Christie Curse, Boldwood (Mesopotamia, 1930; when Agatha Christie invites the Detection Club to witness the excavations at the ruins of Ur, they expect ancient wonders – not fresh corpses)

Lizzie Page, The Airline Girl, Bookouture (Audrey dreams of adventure, even as she plans for a future as a homemaker. But can she grab an unexpected opportunity that presents itself)

Suzanne Parsons, A Parisian Intrigue, Sapere (first in new series about a female-led WWII adventure story; WWII Aviatrix Adventures, Book 1)
Also: Book 2: Red Sky at Night, coming November 2026

Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky, Lake Union (dual timeline coming of age about a sheltered Southern girl whose love of music is strong enough to carry her away from her father’s restrictions on her life, to find peace and love at Woodstock)

Arturo Pérez-Reverte, trans. Frances Riddle, The Final Problem, Mulholland/Atlantic (a locked-room mystery set in 1960 at an isolated Greek island resort following a group of strangers, a suspicious death, and a washed-up actor)

Oliver Pötzsch, trans. Lisa Reinhardt, The Girl and the Gravedigger, HarperVia (Inspector Leopold von Herzfeldt reunites with gravedigger Augustin Rothmayer to excavate the city’s dark underbelly. Book 2)

Alex Preston, A Stranger in Corfu, Canongate (reimagining of a real, hidden slice of the British Intelligence Service’s history)

Mary-Jane Riley, Beattie Cavendish and the Highland Hideaway, Allison & Busby (Beattie Cavendish, special operative for a covert section of GCHQ, is sent to Scotland in 1949, during the Cold War)

Sofia Robleda, The Other Moctezuma Girls, Amazon Crossing (in sixteenth-century Mexico, a fearless young woman strives to uncover the secrets her mother kept as the last Aztec empress)

Pamela Ryder, Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him, Univ. of Alabama (a reimagining of Billy the Kid-myth in a coming-of-age story woven with history, legend, and the omnipresence of birds)

Daniela Sacerdoti, The Tuscan Sister’s Promise, Bookouture (novel highlights a woman who uncovers diary entries from WWI, where she learns of a woman who once shared Mia’s desire to find her place in the world)

Gian Sadar, Land of Dreams, Lake Union (1930’s mystery in which scandal, secret loves and murder shatter a woman’s Hollywood dream)

J. R. Sanders, Blues in the Dark, Level Best Historia (when the sister of Hollywood movie queen Audrey Chase is kidnapped, she hires L.A. private eye Nate Ross to handle the case in book 5 in series)

Toby Schmitz, The Empress Murders, Allen & Unwin (a whodunnit set in 1925 as the Empress of Australia is making her regular Atlantic crossing to New York)

Eleanor Shearer, Fireflies in Winter, Berkley (novel about two women fighting for survival in the icy wilderness of Nova Scotia)

Leila Siddiqui, The Glowing Hours, Hell’s Hundred (1816; revisionist gothic horror about the summer Mary Shelley began work on Frankenstein, as told by her Indian housemaid)

Jill Eileen Smith, A Deeper Well, Revell (reimagines the story of the woman at the well, breathing new life into an encounter that will continue to inspire and encourage)

Cameron Sullivan, The Red Winter, Tor (reimagines the story of Europe, from Imperial Rome to Saint Jehanne d’Arc, the madness of Gilles de Rais and the first flickers of the French Revolution)

Christi Keating Sumich, Lafitte Lives, Level Best Historia (historical mystery set in New Orleans 1831, when the sexton of St. Louis Cemetery, Tobias Whitney, discovers a journal hidden within the tomb of Dominique You, a half-brother of the pirate Jean Lafitte)

Sarah Sundin, Mists Over the Channel Islands, Revell (in WWII, as conditions worsen in Jersey, Ivy’s allegiance to the Allies compels her to risk everything including providing medical aid to escaped workers)

Karen Swan, Three Summers, Transworld Digital (summer romance set in 1957, 58 and 61)

Joseph J. Swope, Sharpened Blade, Black Rose Writing (based on the story of Dinah Clark, an indentured slave who won her freedom)

Stephanie Sy-Quia, A Private Man, Picador (slow-burn forbidden love story, laced with passion and faith, set in 1960s Rome and England)

Johnny Teague, The Lost Diary of Lucrezia Borgia, Histria (in the depths of a Vatican church, an archaeologist uncovers a lost diary that will unravel history’s darkest secrets)

Amy Tordoff, All We Have Is Time, Atria (woven between the biggest events in history from London 1605 to Woodstock 1969 and beyond, a jaded immortal woman and a time traveler fall in love)

Teresa Trent, Crying in the Chapel, Level Best Historia (sequel to the cozy mystery I Can’t Get No Satisfaction, set in 1965)

Alexandra Vasti, The Halifax Hellions, St. Martin’s Griffin/Corvus (story in which the most scandalous ladies in London finally meet their match)

Michelle Vernal, The Orphan at the Irish Adoption House, Bookouture (book 3 in series; Ireland, 1920; story of a mother and her quest to find her daughter after the baby is taken from her)

Howard Whitehouse, The Grey Dawn, Zmok Books (third in The Viking’s Daughter series in which the lives of Gudrid and Gisli are intertwined as they struggle to survive)

Sue Williams, The Duke’s Secret, Allen & Unwin (in contemporary Australia, a woman learns a family legend that they’re descendants of a maid who worked for the Iron Duke; what she sets out to prove shocks everyone)

Karen Witemeyer, Taming Lady Temperance, Bethany House (a new Western series featuring witty characters and romance)

Glenda Young, Celebrations at the Toffee Factory, Headline (war is over and three friends hope for better days ahead in the finale to this trilogy)

Paul Aziz Zarou, Arab American Blues, Interlink (coming-of-age story set during one of the most tumultuous and divisive periods in US history)

March 2026

Kōbō Abe, trans. Mark Gibeau, The Traitor, Columbia Univ. Press (part historical fiction, part detective story; a literary novel about navigating changing political landscapes)

Belinda Alexandra, The Italian Correspondent, HarperCollins AU (Rome, 1951; novel that mixes passion with post-war espionage)

Michelle Collins Anderson, The Moonshine Women, Kensington (in Prohibition era Missouri Ozarks, three sisters take over their father’s moonshine business)

Lucy Andrew, A Very Vexing Murder, Corvus (cosy-crime romp set in the world of Jane Austen’s Emma)

Michael Arnold, The River Warriors, Canelo (in Savage Isle book 2, Cullen, now a warrior of renown, is dispatched by Aoife the Dread to seek out a mystic religious totem which could help unite the bickering clans of Britannia)

Elizabeth Arnott, The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives, Berkley (three women, whose lives have been cracked wide open by their husbands’ crimes, unite to catch a serial killer)

Hannah Lillith Assadi, Paradiso 17, Knopf/Fourth Estate (tale of one man’s restless search for home the world over)

D. R. Bailey, A Valiant Endeavour, Sapere (Cooper’s Renegades Aviation thrillers, book two)

Mark Barber, The Order, Winged Hussar (when two Holy Order knights return from a failed crusade, they find themselves dragged into a new war against an even deadlier foe)

Joanna Barker, A Love Most Daring, Shadow Mountain (romance meets mystery in this tale of danger, redemption, and love worth fighting for. Part of the Proper Regency Romance series)

David Barnett, Scratch Moss, Canelo (five-timeline tale centred on a community first invigorated, then devastated by the coal mining industry)

Marie Benedict, Daughter of Egypt, St. Martin’s Press (tale of a young woman who unearths the truth about a forgotten Pharoah—rewriting both of their legacies forever)

Amy Rose Bennett, The Governess’s Handbook for Managing Misfit Marquesses, Kensington (graduates of The Parasol Academy for Exceptional Nannies and Governesses are prepared for every circumstance, and know a little magic on the side)

Nelio Biedermann, trans. Jamie Bulloch, Lázár, MacLehose/S&S/Summit (story of a noble Hungarian family and their decline, taking us from the beginning of the 20th century through the Nazi and Soviet eras to the Hungarian national uprising in 1956)

Bonnie Blaylock, The Water Women, Lake Union (a generational story of mothers passing down to their daughters the skills of the art of weaving sea silk in Sardinia, and generous love, the deep pain of loss, and the freedom to be oneself)

Soraya Bouazzaoui, Aicha, Orbit (historical fantasy about the daughter of a Moroccan freedom-fighter, her strange magic, fierce rebellion, and her secret lover)

Jeanine Boulay, What Keeps Us, Echo Road (linked stories spanning from the nineteenth century to today, in which ten women navigate impossible choices in New York City)

Rhys Bowen, Clare Broyles, Vanished in the Crowd, Minotaur (retired detective Molly Murphy Sullivan investigates the disappearance of a female scientist)

Kate Bromley, In My Tudor Era, Avon (time-slip novel in which a 21st-century woman finds herself stuck in the body of Catherine Howard, soon-to-be King Henry VIII’s doomed fifth wife)

Izzy Broom, The House of Hidden Letters, Penguin (Skye finds a bundle of letters hidden in the fireplace of a derelict cottage she purchases, their faded pages drawing her into a story of long-forgotten love and tragedy)

Eleanor Buchanan, The Sea Stone Sisters, Headline Review (dual timeline novel weaves together the stories of four sisters and their descendants scattered across the globe)

Rachel Burton, The Strawberry House, Boldwood (dual-timeline novel of forbidden love, buried secrets and the long shadow of war)

June Calvin, Miss Henderson’s Secret, Histria (Regency romance follows one woman’s fight for freedom against a society determined to chain her)

Christy Carlyle, The Scoundrel and the Siren, Avon (a hunt through Norfolk where a legendary treasure hunter and a fierce local woman battle over a Viking hoard. Princes of London series)

Ivy Cassidy, House of Spells and Secrets, Alcove Press (when three sisters return to the house that holds their forgotten legacy, the walls whisper of magic and secrets their mother never told them)

Andrea Catalano, The Lacemaker’s Fortune, Lake Union (in the 1870s, the fate of an immigrant desperate to escape the factories of New York City collides with the ambitions of two men)

Caroline Cauchi, Daughter of the Titanic, One More Chapter (spanning the years after the sinking, an untold story of the daughter history forgot – Helen Melville ‘Mel’ Smith, who carried the weight of a tragedy the world claimed as its own)

Elena Collins, The Three Witches, Boldwood (timeslip historical fiction set in 1050 Scotland and contemporary times)

Kaitlin Corvus, No Such Thing As Monsters, Shadow Spark (set against a 1920s backdrop of realism and enchantment, novel is a psychological fantasy about power, consent, and the monsters we make of each other)

Christopher Cosmos, Island of Ghosts and Dreams, Pegasus (Chania, Crete, 1941; a woman from a small Greek village finds herself swept up in the long and storied history of her island)

Charlotte Cross, The Brides, Tor Nightfire (reimagining of Bram Stoker’s Dracula – with a sapphic romance at its heart)

Elizabeth Crowens, Round Up the Usual Suspects, Level Best Historia (The Hollywood Baskervilles, book 3, where the sleuths concoct a plan for Basil to assume his on-screen persona and round up possible suspects)

Avery Curran, Spoiled Milk, Doubleday/riverrun (the untimely death of a student at a girls’ boarding school uncovers buried truths of teenage repression and queer desire)

Sandra Dallas, The Hired Man, St. Martin’s (set in Dust Bowl Kansas as a teenager is murdered just after a handsome stranger arrives in town)

Janis Robinson Daly, Under Two Flags, Black Rose Writing (a re-write and retelling of a memoir of a young Boston woman who travels to Berlin in 1916 to study opera)

N. R. Daws, Murder at the Tower, Orion (murder mystery set around the early 1950s, in post-WW2 Britain. Book two of the series after Murder at the Palace)

Jill Dawson, Pixie, Bloomsbury (turn of 20^th-century – a tale of the twists and turns, séances and secrets, successes and devastation, of one young woman’s talent, grit and determination)

Felicia Day, illus. Rowan MacColl, The Lost Daughter of Sparta, Gallery (a feminist graphic novel about the lost mythical character of Philonoe—Helen of Troy’s sister)

Alba De Céspedes, trans. Ann Goldstein, There’s No Turning Back, Washington Square Press (originally published in 1938 and banned, story centers on eight women with radically different backgrounds who attend the same college in Rome)

Neil Denby, Speculator, Sapere (book six of the Quintus Roman Thrillers)

Melanie Dickerson, The Good Fortune of Miss Robbins, Bethany House (Regency Romance between a governess and a mysterious earl)

Xavier Dorison, illus. Ralph Meyer, The Undertaker: The Gold Eater & the Dance of the Vultures, Abrams ComicArts (sharpshooting undertaker Jonas Crow has lain low since the Civil War, but when ghosts return to haunt him, he will have to make a stand)

Leisha Douglas, Triple Threat, Sibylline (fictionalized biography traces Elizabeth Hines’ rise from wide-eyed ingénue to international star in 1920s Jazz Age)

J. C. Duncan, Viking Conqueror, Boldwood (finale in the Last Viking adventure series featuring Harald Hardrada)

A. Rae Dunlap, The Dreadfuls, Kensington (true crime and historical fiction combine in Victorian-era thriller featuring a young heroine determined to solve the case of the serial killer, Jack the Ripper)

Álvaro Enrigue, trans. Natasha Wimmer, Now I Surrender, Riverhead (a woman’s desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds during the Mexico–US border wars)

Florencia Etcheves, Frida’s Cook, Atria/Primero Sueno Press (debut set in the home of Frida Kahlo, in 1939, where food, art, and love weave together a story of friendship and loyalty)

E. A. Field, Moon Dark, Rising Action (historical fantasy set in the manor and opera houses of late 1800s France)

Betty Firth, Brighter Skies in the Dales, Hera (saga spotlighting the village of Silverdale which has been forever changed by World War Two)

Justin Fox, Malta Inferno, Sapere (book 4 of the Jack Pembroke Naval Thrillers, set in the Mediterranean in summer 1942)

Helen Gaskell, The Regency Switch, HQ (time-travel Regency romcom where two women switch places in time)

Tara Gereaux, Wild People Quiet, Scribner Canada (explores the repercussions of a woman’s decision to hide her Métis identity while living in a small, predominantly white prairie town in the 1940s)

Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru, Berkley (a fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust when a Romanov princess and her brother come seeking answers to an old mystery)

Esther Goldenberg, The Song of the Blue Bird, Row House (final book of the Desert Songs Trilogy is a story of community, cooperation, and the struggles and triumphs of striving for freedom)

Alexis Hall, Never After, Montlake (a melancholic tale of queer romance set in nineteenth-century England)

Lori Inglis Hall, The Shock of the Light, Viking/Pamela Dorman  (WWII story of twins who meet different fates, but whose bond will last forever)

Barbara Hambly, Death in the Palace, Severn House (British widow Emma Blackstone gets mixed up in murder in a 1920s New York flooded with high society, mobsters, and silent-movie stars)

Linda Hamilton, The Fourth Wife, Kensington (a historical Gothic horror story inspired by Mormon folklore and the concept of plural marriage)

Liz Harris, A Wife’s Betrayal, Boldwood (second novel in the Linford Family Sagas)

Nicola Harrison, The Island Club, St. Martin’s (a novel of loves lost and found, shocking secrets, and the power of female friendship, set in 1956)

Penny Haw, The Woman and Her Stars, Sourcebooks Landmark (1772; true story of Caroline Herschel, an 18th century astronomer who lived in the shadow of her brother, but learned to pave her own path)

Olivia Hawker, Through All Our Heavens, Lake Union (in a journey through time, an art historian makes a discovery in the past that may foretell our future)

Cathy Hayward, The Last Daughter of Highdown Hall, Lake Union (four sisters travel to Scotland to unravel the mystery of their recently deceased elderly mother)

Natalie Haynes, No Friend to This House, Harper (retelling of the myth of Medea, and her turbulent relationship with the questing Jason)

Gordon Henderson, Man in the Shadows, At Bay Press (illuminates the assassination of Canada’s most eloquent Father of Confederation, and former Irish nationalist, Thomas D’Arcy McGee)

Kate Hewitt, The Irish Daughter of New York, Bookouture (first book in the new Maggie O’Halloran series, set in 1891, a story of one woman’s determination to change her fortunes against all odds)

Rosie Hewlett, Sweetbitter Song, Sourcebooks Landmark (a story of bravery and hope in ancient times, celebrating two women who fought to protect their love from a world that tried to deny its very existence)

Rachel Hochauser, Lady Tremaine, Orion (feminist reimagining of the fairy tale Cinderella)

Ana Holguin, Second Chance Duet, Forever (slow burn romance about a struggling composer whose big break comes at a cost)

Lindsey Hutchinson, The Girl from the Queen’s Head, Boldwood (story of a young woman struggling with her drunken husband and abuse, and the sanctuary she finds in the owner of The Queen’s Head pub)

Michael Jecks, Treaty of Blood, Boldwood (book 5 of The Vintaine, set in 1359 Northern France)

Dinah Jefferies, The Greek House, William Morrow (Corfu, 1930; family drama, mystery, asks can one house hold a lifetime of secrets)

Luisa A Jones, Before the Mountain Falls, Storm (a WWII tale of resilience, found family and second chances)

Tayari Jones, Kin, Oneworld (1950s; story about mothers, daughters, and a lifelong friendship that is as dangerous as it is unbreakable)

Ariel Kaplan, The Kingdom of Almonds, Erewhon (historical fantasy conclusion to the Mirror Realm Cycle set in late 1500s Mediterranean)

Lauren Keegan, The Woman in the Seal Skin, Affirm (set in Scotland in 1695, story of a young woman struggling with grief, oppression, her relationship with nature and her own inherent wildness)

Sophie Keetch, Storm Over Camelot, Magpie/Random House Canada (conclusion to the Morgan le Fay trilogy, a feminist retelling of the story of the misunderstood villainess of Arthurian legend)

Jim Kelly, The American Suspect, Allison & Busby (1942; a story of love and revenge which spans two world wars)

Paulette Kennedy, The Two Deaths of Lillian Carmichael, Lake Union (novel about a disgraced 1840s Charleston debutante convicted of murder, who is buried alive and escapes her family mausoleum)

T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm, Tor Nightfire (something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in 1899)

Marion Kummerow, The Last Train Home, Bookouture (novel telling of the experiences of Sinti and Roma people during the Holocaust)

Richard Kurti, Tyranny of Indulgence, Sapere (the power of the Catholic Church is under threat, in 1517 Rome: Basilica Diaries Medieval Mysteries, book 5)

Shawn Kuruneru, Cave Grave: Wild West Tales, Oni Press (graphic novel explores two stories of double-crossing and hopeless humanity set against a backdrop of the lawless West)

M. A. Kuzniar, A Remedy for Fate, Hodderscape (in Prague, early 1760s, Thea bargained away her heart and her memories to the apothecary’s owner; now a stranger offers her a way to escape the bargain)

Rebecca Lehmann, The Beheading Game, Harville Secker/Crown (speculative fiction of Anne Boleyn who wakes up the day after her execution and seeks justice)

Andrew Lifson, Rogues in a Nation, Little Creek (a multigenerational saga from Cold War paranoia and blacklists to union-busting and Indigenous erasure)

H. M. Long, Entwined, Titan (historical fantasy in which three sisters join the hunt for a stolen magical artefact in the start of the Gilded Age)

Lindsay Lovise, Never Spar With a Viscount, Forever (a brooding Viscount fake-courts a fiercely independent governess-spy)

Aimée MacDonald, The Last Witch on the Knock, John Murray (Scottish debut about two women bound together by a centuries-long curse, inspired by a local legend)

Timothy David Mack, All the Tea in China, Blackstone (historical adventure rife with treasure, thrills, and a ruthless pirate queen)

Jennifer Mandula, The Geomagician, Del Rey (when a Victorian fossil hunter discovers a baby pterodactyl, she vows to protect him, with the help of a fellow scholar in this historical fantasy)

Clare Marchant, The Alchemist’s Secret, Boldwood (Two women’s stories are linked across history, with a love story, and a mystery that must be solved)

Joanna Margaret, The Daughters, Mysterious Press (a grieving archivist uncovers a strange connection between recent disappearances and a small New York town’s history of witch trials)

Gay Marris, The Beasts of the Black Loch, Bedford Square (murder mystery set in 1970s remote Scottish highlands –A Natural History of Murder series)

Juan Marsé, trans. Nick Caistor, Last Evenings with Teresa, Mountain Leopard (in 1950s Barcelona, a rebellious daughter of a wealthy family meets an ambitious rogue at a party)

Violet Marsh, Miss Wick and the Duke Dilemma, Forever (the daughter of a pirate and a newly titled duke work together to solve a mystery in this Regency romcom)

Yann Martel, Son of Nobody, W. W. Norton (retelling of the Trojan War from two commoners: an ancient soldier and a modern scholar)

Imogen Martin, An Ocean of Stars, Storm (Boston, 1879; tale of passion, redemption, and the power of second chances)

Sujata Massey, The Star from Calcutta, Soho Crime (the glamour and intrigue of India’s silent film era come to life in the fifth installment of the Perveen Mistry series)

Alice G. May, Danger Awaits the Resistance Girls, Boldwood (World War II saga of defiance, danger, and daring women who refused to be silenced; inspired by The Women’s Secret Army)

Francesca May, This Vicious Hunger, Orbit (a dark, gothic fantasy of intoxication, obsession, and two women’s thirst for knowledge; historical fantasy set in a Victoriana-inspired Italian world)

Henrietta McKervey, The Woman in the Water, Hachette Ireland (gothic thriller set between 1930s London and the windswept Cornwall coast)

Luna McNamara, The Witch and the Huntress, William Morrow (Medea and Atalanta join forces on Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece)

Stacy Lynn Miller, The Nightshade, Severn River (Hattie James, book 4, where Hattie’s sister disappears in December 1941)

Mary Monroe, Bad Seeds, Dafina (Depression-era Alabama novel tells of a businesswoman who discovers her dark side when she’s betrayed by friendship)

Santa Montefiore, Secrets of the Starlit Sea, Simon & Schuster (Timeslider, book 2; time-travel romance series takes Pixie Tate on a gilded-age collision course with history)

Richard Morgan, No Man’s Land, Gollanz (dark alternative fantasy horror set after WWI)

Richard Morgan, No Man’s Land, Gollancz (alternate speculative historical fantasy as the Great War endures, an ancient fae race have decided to end mankind’s ascendency over the world)

Susan J. Morris, Wayward Souls, Bindery/Inky Phoenix (a twisty puzzle of a historical fantasy, with characters drawn from the worlds of Dracula and Sherlock Holmes; sequel to Strange Beasts)

Donald S. Murray, The Loch of the Bees, Saraband (a novel of interlinked stories that sweeps from the eighth century to the present day)

Jenna Ness, The War Orphan’s Courage, Bookouture (WWII story of courage and hope)

Erica Ruth Neubauer, Vengeance in Venice, Kensington (1927; Jane and Redvers have arrived in Venice for their honeymoon, but behind a mask at a costume ball hides the gaze of a heartless killer)

Robert Newman, Intelligence, Serpent’s Tail (Oxford, 1938; when her friends are called up for intelligence work, Ida stays in academia, but stumbles across secret information that could change the direction of the war)

Shelley Noble, The Sisters of Book Row, William Morrow (timely novel of books, banning, and the women who helped save New York’s famed Book Row)

Randy O’Brien, Ribbon of Dreams, Histria (coming-of-age novel set in 1970s Tennessee, exploring identity, family, and hope in a divided America)

Emily Organ, A Death at Raven’s Roost, Storm (book 4 in the Emma Langley Victorian Murder Mystery series, set in London, 1889, when a labourer working on the construction of Tower Bridge is found fatally injured)

Allison Pataki, It Girl, Ballantine (novel inspired by a singular artist and icon who captured the collective imagination of American society)

Tracie Peterson, Faithful of Heart, Bethany House (new inspirational series set in 1870 Minneapolis, weaving themes of redemption, faith, and the healing power of love)

Gin Phillips, Ruby Falls, Atlantic Crime (historical mystery set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression and the unthinkable crime that happens in its caves)

Marie-Josee Poisson, Blood Bound, Guernica (a mystery unveiling Madame de Pompadour)

Angela Ranson, Grave Merriment, Sapere (Catrin Surovell Tudor Mysteries, book 4, set at Christmas 1561)

Deanna Raybourn, A Ghastly Catastrophe, Berkley (in book 10 in series, Veronica and Stoker find themselves up against a secret society and a darkly seductive duo)

Victoria Redel, I Am You, Firefinch (in 1600s Amsterdam, two women—a painter and her assistant—defy the norms of their time as they take on the male-dominated art world and fall in love)

Lynette Rees, The Coal Miner’s Wife, Boldwood (Victorian saga of one woman’s determination to survive; set in Wales, 1889)

Karen Robards, The Moonlight Runner, Park Row (in the wake of the Great War, a young woman joins the Irish rebellion and risks everything for her country)

Linda Rosen, Abandoning the Script, Black Rose Writing (a novel of a woman who reinvents herself in 1922, when she finds herself in a situation she never wanted)

Ailsa Ross, Hovel, Strange Light/Random House Canada (a young woman in the Rocky Mountains turns to ancient rituals to find solace and connection)

David Rotenberg, City Rising: The Age of Dry Water, At Bay Press (book 4 and the final end in the City Rising ‘Shanghai Tetralogy’)

Rosemary Rowe, Death Stalks Glevum, Severn House (Glevum, Britannia, 200 AD; on his way to see the Emperor’s spy, Junio is distracted by something even more unpleasant)

Shari J. Ryan, The Girl With the List, Bookouture (World War Two story which demonstrates the power of love in triumphing over evil)

Kate Schatz, Where the Girls Were, Dial Press (novel about coming of age in 1960s San Francisco, where a pregnant teenager reckons with womanhood and agency after being sent to a home for unwed mothers)

Moacyr Scliar, trans. Heath Wing, The Woman Who Wrote the Bible, Univ. of New Mexico Press (satire in which a mysterious woman discovers that in a previous life she was one of King Solomon’s seven hundred wives)

Irina Shapiro, The Carnival Murders, Storm (the discovery of a murdered woman sparks a nightmare that may destroy everything for Gemma and Sebastian as they plan their life together)

Victoria Shorr, Fatherland, W. W. Norton (set in a prosperous midwestern town in the 1950s, a story about the effect of convenient lies and discovered truths set against the backdrop of family commitment)

Francis Spufford, Nonesuch, Scribner/Faber (tale about an ambitious young woman who must thwart an occult plot by time-traveling fascists during the chaos of the London Blitz)

Dana Stabenow, The Harvey Girl, Head of Zeus-Aries (mystery featuring an all-female detective bureau set during the American frontier boom time of the lawless 1890s)

Linda Stasi, The Descendant, Regalo (story of an Italian immigrant family in the Wild West whose brave, magical women overcame impossible odds to become bootleggers, brides, and Mafia bosses)

M. L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life, Scribner/Penguin AU (a tale about family and belonging, fate and time, set in remote Western Australia in 1958)

Sarah Steele, The Riviera Secret, Headline Review (novel set in the French Riviera in the dangerous days leading up to the outbreak of WWII)

Mary-Lou Stephens, The Hobart Hotel, HQ (dual timeline novel of glamour, intrigue and two women who will gamble their lives to survive; set in Australia 1939 and 1973)

Anna Stuart, The Last Baby in Auschwitz, Bookouture (inspired by true stories, novel tells of a mother’s love and courage during WWII)

A. S. Tamaki, The Book of Fallen Leaves, Orbit (the fates of gods and samurai converge in this Japanese-myth inspired fantasy)

Sally Tarpey, The Country Nurse, Joffe (WWII romance saga set in 1937 and 1939)

ReShonda Tate, With Love from Harlem, William Morrow (a romantic historical drama set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Harlem)

Stephen Taylor, The Cold Light of Day, Sapere (second book in the Augustus Swift Investigation series, set in 1795 London; sequel to Brotherhood of Death)

Cassandra L. Thompson, The Agony of Her, Quill & Crow (two stories, 1910 and 1981, weave together as women grapple with their ideas of motherhood while being confronted with things both sinister and ancient)

Kate Thompson, The Secret Society of Librarians, Hodder & Stoughton (London, 1939 and Occupied Poland, 1942; story, based on real events, tells of two women torn apart by war)

Seána Tinley, The Irish Midwife at War, Hodder & Stoughton (second book in series following the lives of Peggy and her midwife friends)

Charles Todd, A Day of Judgment, Mysterious Press (Inspector Rutledge faces a puzzling case and a cast of locals that don’t take kindly to outsiders)

Colm Tóibín, The News from Dublin, Scribner (collection of eleven short stories, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love)

Solitaire Townsend, Godstorm, Bedford Square (in an alternate fantasy petrol-fuelled Roman Empire which never fell, a gladiatrix turned governess must rescue the child she has loved as her own)

Lydia Travers, Death in a Scottish Tower, Bookouture (Lady Poppy Proudfoot is determined to find the culprit in this 3^rd installment of the cosy mystery series)

Neil Tully, The Visit, Eriu (during the social change of 1963, two men are used to being on the fringes but while Jim is a romantic, Patrick is full of anger and action)

Sharon Virts, Masque of Honor, Flashpoint (tale of political intrigue, romance, and betrayal set in antebellum Virginia, based on the true events behind the 1819 Mason–McCarty duel)

Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet, Lake Union (in the Oklahoma prairie of 1893, Minnie Hoopes withstands the volatile wilderness and outlaw threats–but her greatest adventure will be confronting her past)

Eoghan Walls, Field Notes from an Extinction, Seven Stories (told in the vernacular of the day in a novel-as-notebook style, story of a 19th-century ornithologist sent by the Royal Society to a remote Irish island)

Alexandra Walsh, The Boleyn Curse, Boldwood (dual timeline story of love and heartbreak, loyalty and revenge; set in 16^th-century and present day)

Chrissie Walsh, The Herring Girl, Boldwood (Ireland, 1937–1941; a young Irish girl finds peace and love in a small harbour town)

Rachel Wesson, The Irish Orphan’s Secret, Storm (set against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence and delving into the dark history of the infamous Mother and Baby homes)

Jenny Williamson, Game of Thieves, Mira (enemies-to-lovers romance set in the last days of the Roman empire)

K. R. Wilson, Stan on Guard, Guernica (follow up to the historical novel Call Me Stan: A Tragedy in Three Millennia)

Evie Woods, The Missing Notes, HarperCollins (historical fantasy in which one violin charts its own course through history whereby its origins unlock a mystery stretching back decades)

April 2026

Elizabeth Arnott, The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives, Viking/Berkley (a celebration of women – their friendships, courage and resilience – and what happens when they dare to break free of the mold that society has set for them. Set in 1960s)

Lucy Ashe, The Model Patient, Union Square/Simon & Schuster UK (psychological exploration of obsession, betrayal and the relationship between a patient and therapist in 1960s London)

Lynn Austin, The Lumber Baron’s Wife, Tyndale (when the young wife of a powerful lumber baron vanishes into the wilds of frontier Michigan, her friend is left to unravel the truth; inspirational fiction)

Dane Bahr, The Dead Ringer, Counterpoint (Montana, 1935; Western story features a man brought back from the dead to exact revenge upon those who have wronged him)

Brianne Baker, Edmonia, Dafina (the story of Black and Native American Neoclassical sculptor Edmonia Lewis, who overcame adversity to create enduring tributes in stone to her race and times)

Kylie Lee Baker, Japanese Gothic, Hanover Square (a haunted house story in which two people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds. Settings in 2026 and 1877)

Henry Barajas, Death to Pachuco, Image Comics (Chicano noir retelling of the Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial and the Zoot Suit Riots during 1943 wartime Los Angeles)

Brynn Barineau, Jungle of Ashes, History Through Fiction (novel explores ambition, resistance, and forbidden love against the backdrop of Henry Ford’s ill-fated rubber empire in the Amazon)

Ellen Barker, Nothing North of Delmar, She Writes (a novel of one young woman’s post-college foray into the adult realities of landlords, economics, and urban politics, set against the Bicentennial summer of 1976)

Carol Marques Barrios, Mahala, Arcade (coming-of-age story about women’s rights, family expectations, and the courage to forge your own path, set in St. Vincent, British West Indies, 1920)

Judy Batalion, The Last Woman of Warsaw, Dutton (two very different Jewish women in Warsaw in the late 1930s, unexpectedly come together in their search for love and meaning)

Lauren J. A. Bear, Aphrodite in Pieces, Berkley (two hundred years before the common era, Aphrodite asks a sculptor to carve her likeness in stone)

Maryka Biaggio, Margery and Me, Regal House (based on the true story of Margery Crandon, the medium who tangled with magician and spiritualism detractor, Harry Houdini)

Andrew Dennis Biersack, Black Madonna, Rare Bird (gothic horror set in the shadowy underbelly of 1950s Hollywood)

Chelsea Bobulski, A Deal With a Debutante, Haven (a sweet historical romance set in Edwardian England)

Matthew Booth, A Sudden Vengeance, Level Best Historia (Everett Carr series 1930s mystery)

Sarah Bourne, The Paris Resistance, Joffe (wartime romance of courage, sacrifice and forbidden love in occupied France)

Stephanie Bramwell-Lawes, Thornby Manor, Orenda (historical Gothic mystery of love, betrayal, obsession and a house that will not release its past; set in Warwickshire, 1891)

AnneMarie Brear, The Ragged Runaway, Boldwood (saga of courage, friendship and lost love, set in Wakefield, 1901)

Verity Bright, A Very Irish Mystery, Bookouture (Lady Eleanor Swift is having a grand time with her husband in Dublin’s pubs, until another body ruins all their plans)

Jennifer N. Brown, The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton, St. Martin’s (dual-timeline murder mystery set in the English countryside, when an ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetess)

Elizabeth Buchan, Woodspring, Corvus (a multi-generational family saga)

Colleen Cambridge, In the Spirit of French Murder, Kensington (Paris, 1950; after moving to France, Tabitha Knight has a new friend in fellow expat and Cordon Bleu student Julia Child)

Christian Cameron, The Captain of Venice, Orion (the Chivalry series follows young William Gold, who runs away from London to follow the Black Prince, through life as a routier and criminal, and redemption with the Knights of Saint John)

Melodie Campbell, The Pharaoh’s Curse Murders, Cormorant (in winter of 1929, Lady Lucy Revelstoke and her pickpocket-turned-maid, Elf, are voyaging to Egypt in the third installment of The Merry Widow Murders series)

Ella Carey, The Tuscan Villa, Bookouture (Italy, 1945; a crumbling family villa that becomes a vital safe space for the people of Cortona during the war)

Anita Chapman, The House in the Tuscan Hills, Bookouture (dual timeline where a mysterious woman arrives at Jen’s newly inherited house in Tuscany, and lays claim to her inheritance)

KJ Charles, How to Fake it in Society, Tor Bramble (1821; Nicolas-Marc Compte de Valoise, infamous for stealing a priceless diamond necklace meant for Marie Antoinette, hopes to restore his wronged mother’s reputation)

Jennifer Chiaverini, The Patchwork Players, William Morrow (a new installment of the author’s Elm Creek Quilts series)

Rosie Clarke, Wild Hearts on the Pennine Moors, Boldwood (new Yorkshire Dales romance saga series, set in 1888)

Kate Clinch, Every Inch a Saint, Monkfish (dual timeline story of Eileen O’Connor, woven with the lives of a fictional contemporary family a century after her death)

Peter Clenott, The Murder Investigation of Adolf Hitler, Level Best Historia (next installment of the historical mystery series set in Germany)

K. M. Colley, The Roaring Ridleys, Thomas & Mercer (in Jazz Age New York, a murder shatters the privileged life of the city’s most elite family)

Moorea Corrigan, Thistlemarsh, Del Rey (in the wake of WWI, Mouse’s wealthy uncle leaves her Thistlemarsh Hall, with the proviso that she renovates it within a month, or lose it all)

Clair Coughlan, Among the Ruins, Simon & Schuster UK (Dublin, 1970; mystery about one woman’s need to find the truth, whatever the cost)

Anna Cowan, The Duke, St. Martin’s Griffin (sapphic regency romance about the duke who fears nothing, until the woman she never forgot walks through the door)

Lindsey Davis, Murder in Purple and Gold, Hodder & Stoughton (Flavia Albia stumbles upon the murdered corpse of a young man near Rome’s Circus Maximus)

Cristóvão de Aguiar, trans. David Brookshaw, Roots Stirred, Tagus Press/Univ. of Massachusetts (coming-of-age as seen through the eyes of a young boy growing up in the 1940s in a small village on São Miguel, the largest of Portugal’s Azores islands)

Camille de Peretti, trans. Hildegarde Serle, Portrait of an Unknown Woman, Europa (saga inspired by the incredible but true story of the iconic Klimt painting)

Francesca de Tores, Cast Away, Bloomsbury Circus (reimagines the real-life story of Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for the classic novel Robinson Crusoe)

Melanie Dobson, The Lost Story of Via Belle, Tyndale (searching for a story to adapt for film, a screenwriter becomes captivated by a bestselling classic and the disappearance of the woman who wrote it)

Deborah Lee Luskin, Into the Wilderness, Sibylline (a love story and a testament to the surprising flexibility of the human heart; set in Vermont in 1964)

E. Davis Enloe, Into the Night Woods, Regal House (in the North Carolina Appalachian Mountains, Boyd embarks on an adventure to find an abandoned trestle and explore a cave with personal significance)

Leah Eskin, Like Wafers in Honey, Levine Querido (dual timeline novel set in 1960s Westchester and Italy in 1943 when Mussolini enacted anti-Jewish laws across the country)

Jonathan Eyers, Tenacious, Sapere (England, 1779; first adventure in an Age of Sail series)

Juliet Faithfull, Liar’s Dice, Doubleday Can (debut about a young teenage girl in 1970s Brazil who is torn away from her twin sister)

Suzanne Fortin, The Secret Midwife of Berlin, Embla (WWII story of one woman’s courage, bravery and sacrifice in the face of fear and tragedy)

Philip Fracassi, Sarafina, Clash Books (historical horror where three brothers go AWOL during one of the most violent battles of the Civil War)

Max Francis, Honour & Heresy, HarperVoyager (gothic, dark academia fantasy of two scholars racing each other to find answers to an invasion in a haunted library)

Emily Franklin, Love & Other Monsters, Godine (story of love, lust, art and betrayal, based on the largely forgotten life of eighteen-year-old Claire Clairmont)

Emma Fraser, Valley of the Fireflies, Storm (a story inspired by true events in the Tuscan mountains in 1939)

Genevieve Graham, The Chambermaid’s Key, Simon & Schuster (novel set in Toronto in 1929, about a young chambermaid, a handsome waiter, and a murder)

Jocelyn Green, The Manhattan Confessions, Bethany House (historical intrigue and the quest for justice against the backdrop of Manhattan’s dark secrets)

Jiyoung Han, Honey in the Wound, Avid Reader Press/Manilla Press (debut novel about a mysteriously gifted Korean family confronting the brutality of the Japanese empire)

Elizabeth Hardinger, Won’t Be Long Now, John Scognamiglio (set in same fictional town as All the Forgivenesses, novel brings to life a misunderstood young woman who finds her way to an unexpected grace)

Indrek Hargla, trans. Adam Cullen, The Secret of Saint Olaf’s Church, Pushkin Vertigo (historical murder mystery featuring a chemist turned-sleuth who battles ignorance and superstition and killers in 15th century Estonia)

C. S. Harris, When the Wolves are Silent, Berkley (a brutal string of ritualistic killings terrorizes a city already shaken by economic and political turmoil. Sebastian St. Cyr mystery)

Gracie Hart, The Chocolate Box Girls Find Love, Penguin UK (WWII era saga conclusion to the Rowntrees series)

M. B. Henry, Hold on to Tomorrow, Severn House (a young woman fights to follow her dreams at the start of the 1960s)

Kate Hilton, City of the Muse, Simon & Schuster (dual-timeline novel about the death of a female papyrologist during an archaeological dig in the early 1900s and a present-day quest to find out who killed her)

India Holton, The Antiquarian’s Object of Desire, Berkley (when two history professors and best friends are forced to fake hate to protect their reputations, chaos ensues, in this next historical-fantasy)

April Howells, The Unforgettable Mailman, Alcove (story about intergenerational friendship and the power of human connection, set in 1966 Chicago)

Violaine Huisman, The Monuments of Paris, Penguin (novel drawn from life about a Frenchwoman’s efforts to come to terms with the legacy of her father and grandfather)

Sabrina Jeffries, Nearly A Bride, Kensington (next installment of the Lords of Hazard series set in the Regency Napoleonic era an English nobleman is finally free from exile—but can his heart still be captured?)

Kitty Johnson, Where the Sea Lavender Grows, Lake Union (a woman restoring a historic cottage on the English coast uncovers a connection to the past in this dual timeline novel about art, loss, and love)

Wayne Johnston, The Novice of Holloway Hall, Knopf Canada (over the course of a single week, failed nun Vivvy Holloway faces off against her domineering sister, her ten cleric brothers, and a host of meddling hangers-on, unearthing long-buried secrets)

Samantha Keller, The Light Remains, Catalyst (a family saga unfolds against the backdrop of South Africa in the 1960s)

Jane Kirkpatrick, With the Enduring Tides, Revell (portrays the courage and triumphs of women overcoming the odds and banding together to make a difference in the early 20th century West)

Jean Gordon Kocienda, Girl in a Box, Sybilline Press (in early twentieth century Japan, one precocious daughter runs away from home to live a life of her choosing)

Lana Korchik, Sisters of the Storm, HQ Digital (Albania, 1943; when two US Army nurses find themselves stranded, their only route to safety is through the mountains with the Germans on their tail)

Maxim Langstaff, Sasq’et, Manhattan Book Group (a story blurring the lines between myth and reality, set in a Canadian wilderness of tangled forests, untamed rivers, bears, wolves, and the ancient reverence of Indigenous traditions)

Jane Lark, Heartbreak for the Great Western Railway Girls, Boldwood (book 3 in a saga of sisterhood and sacrifice)

Della Leavitt, Vivian’s Decision, She Writes (Chicago, 1956; story of repeated history, female friendship, and the strength that it takes to make choices of one’s own)

Adam Lofthouse, Tribune and the Sword, Boldwood (next installment in the Shadow of Rome series, set in 383 AD)

Andre Ludington, Double Shadow, Minotaur (2^nd installment of the Splinter Effect series, in which time-traveler Rabbit Ward returns to the past to save his former adversary and track down a murderous thief in first century Jerusalem)

R. MacLeod, Fast and Fastidious, Harper Perennial (1810; romantic Regency adventure in which a meticulous young woman must abandon the rules of propriety to save Britain)

Stephens Gerard Malone, The Unnameable, Nimbus (1960s; exploration of masculinity and sexuality, shame and secrets, in an era when being openly queer meant risking everything)

Zoe Manlow, The Last Secret of Wickham Grange, Bedford Square (when Caroline Alleyn inherits Wickham Grange, all she wants to do is sell up, but it can’t be sold without the consent of five elderly women, and they all refuse)

Emily Matchar, The Lost Girl of Craven County, Putnam (in Depression era, story runs from a historic river town to the hinterlands of rural North Carolina, delving into the impossibility of burying secrets forever)

Hilary McCollum, As A Lover, Bella Books (London, 1928; for centuries, the establishment has suppressed public knowledge of lesbian love until a celebrated writer fights back)

Fiona McIntosh, The French Promise, Storm (1950s story sweeps readers from southern England to northern Tasmania and the streets of postwar Paris)

Keith Moray, Sacrilege, Boldwood (2^nd in the Ralph de Mandeville medieval murder mystery series)

Julie Owen Moylan, Elizabeth and Marilyn, Michael Joseph/Ballantine (novel imagines the secret lives of two of the 20th century’s most famous women; set during a summer that brought them face to face)

Chris Nickson, The Faces of the Dead, Severn House (Sergeant Cathy Marsden investigates the death of a local gangster in WWII Leeds)

Michael O’Donnell, Concert Black, Blackstone (a novel of ambition, artistry, music and ambition crossing decades and continents)

Priya Pamar, The Original, Ballantine (life of screen icon Katharine Hepburn, a star whose fierce independence, passionate spirit redefined what it meant to be a woman in film)

Emma Parry, Mrs. Benedict Arnold, Zando (a portrait of the young woman who almost ended the American Revolution)

Jonelle Patrick, The Samurai’s Octopus, Seventh Street (historical mystery set in the shogun world of 1784, featuring Birdie a child who is chosen to serve Yoshiwara’s number one courtesan)

Linda Paul, The Last Gypsy Queen, Black Rose Writing (1942, in a world filled with oppression and prejudice, a young Romani Gypsy woman is forced to work as a tarot card reader for survival, though she longs to become a doctor)

Elaine Hume Peake, Don Keith, The Blacksmith of Dachau, Severn River (A Call to War, book 2 -WWII human story of courage, survival, and the choices that define us)

Tom Perotta, Ghost Town, Scribner (tale about a summer in 1970s suburban New Jersey, from the perspective of a middle-aged writer, looking back on a series of events that changed his life)

Kristen Perrin, How to Cheat Your Own Death, Quercus/Dutton (book 3 of the Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series, in which Annie Adams and her Great Aunt Frances team up across decades to solve two interlocking murders)

Anne Perry, Victoria Zackheim, Death Times Seven, Ballantine (two violent crimes challenge the investigative skills of young Daniel Pitt and his wife, Miriam, in the final novel of mystery series)

Glynis Peters, The Orphan’s Mission, Boldwood (WWII saga of courage and bravery)

Joanna Politano, The Life She Forgot, Grafted Page (a story of enduring love set in Cornwall 1913 and 1947)

M. J. Porter, Storm of Mercia, Boldwood (Viking adventure set in Wessex AD836)

Victoria Purman, The Marriage Trap, HQ (looks at the 1960s, the effects of the pill, rebellion and new ideas on ordinary Australian women, alongside shorter skirts and the Beatles and the search for freedom)

Matthew Reilly, The Detective, Orion (Sam Speedman, a most unique private detective, investigates women and the investigators who searched for them, all of whom have disappeared over 150 years)

Ros Rendle, Shadows at the Manor, Sapere (a romantic adventure family saga set in 1401 Lincolnshire; book three of the Tapestry Tales Medieval Sagas)

Kim Michele Richardson, The Mountains We Call Home, Sourcebooks Landmark (return to the librarians and blue people of Kentucky, in a tale of Appalachia and its people, told by the original Book Woman, Cussy Lovett)

Michael Ridpath, Operation Berlin, Boldwood (mystery set in a world between wars)

Michelle St. Romain, Song of Belonging, She Writes (multigenerational novel infused with touches of magical realism about a woman’s journey to find her place in an uncertain world)

Linda Margolin Royal, The Star on the Grave, Sibylline (biographical fiction of the Japanese diplomat who defied his government to save thousands from the Nazis)

Robert Seethaler, trans. Charlotte Collins, The Last Movement, Europa (1910; a portrait of genius, love, and betrayal at the end of Gustav Mahler’s life)

Muna Shehadi, The Jewel of Cairo, Headline (dual timeline cross-generational novel set in Cairo 1915 and 1976)

Leslie Shimotakahara, The Breakwater, Cormorant (family saga in which two brothers, both old men not far from death, must at last confront long-buried family secrets — and their lingering effects on subsequent generations)

Jane Smiley, Lidie, Knopf (America, 1857; panoramic portrait of a volatile era and the headstrong women trying to live an honest life in it)

Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, Opposite Sully’s Gym, Dundurn (new case takes out-of-work PI Patrick Bird down a path of intrigue reaching right into the centre of one of the most infamous assassinations of the 20th century)

Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club, Spiegel & Grau/Fig Tree UK/Doubleday Canada (story of a group of women whose fates converge as summer turns to fall and the Depression tightens its grip)

Richard Strachan, Night Fire, Raven (after completing a 30-flight bomber mission, three characters will discover whether they can find peace amongst the devastation of war)

Emily Sullivan, A Murder in Marylebone, Kensington (widowed mother of two Minnie Harper has left Greece and returned to her native England at the turn of the 20th century—just as a cloud of suspicion falls over her younger sister)

Deborah Swift, The Enemy’s Wife, HQ (1941; when Zofia’s husband is conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army, she is left to navigate Japanese-occupied Shanghai alone)

Stephanie Sy-Quia, A Private Man, Grove (slow-burn forbidden love story, laced with passion and faith, set in 1960s Rome and England)

Monica Tewari, Burn the Sea, Bindery Books (historical fantasy that reimagines the Portuguese attacks on South India in the 1500s and the fierce real-life queen’s story)

Mark Thielman, The Firefall, Severn River (special agents Johnson and Nance unravel a historical puzzle from 1938, when a Jewish violinist, fleeing Nazi Germany, disappeared in Yosemite, carrying a secret that could alter the course of history)

Gill Thompson, The Child at the Window, Headline Review (inspired by the true story of two sisters who helped Jewish people escape fascist Germany)

Lyonel Trouillot, trans. Dr. Lena Robles, The Old Woman of Calvary Hill, Schaffner (completes the trilogy and gives voice to the women of Haiti, the true guardians of their country)

Jen Turano, In Pursuit of Civility, Bethany House (a tale of hijinks, humor, and romance at the Merriweather Academy)

Bridget Walsh, The Spirit Guide, Pushkin Vertigo (novel of murder, manipulation and quest for celebrity in Victorian London)

Mollie Walton, The Suffragette of Ironbridge, Mountain Leopard (beginning in 1911, WW1 saga of love, loss, heartbreak and bravery)

Pam Weaver, Bright Lights for the West End Nannies, Hera (series follows young women working as private nannies in the swinging sixties)

Jaime Jo Wright, The Bookshop of 99 Doors, Bethany House (a tale of historical hauntings and present-day mysteries, set in 1910 Pennsylvania and a contemporary bookshop)

Zhang Xiaoyu, Twin Lotuses, Magnetic Press (graphic format novel mixes a snapshot of war-torn China with philosophical sci-fi questions, capturing an ugly time and the flicker of hope and love)

Karen Tei Yamashita, Questions 27 & 28, Graywolf (polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II)

May 2026

Lucy Andrew, A Very Vexing Murder, William Morrow (debut whodunit that reimagines Harriet Smith, the sidekick of Jane Austen’s Emma, as a spitfire con woman, hired to break off an engagement and uncover a murderer)

Laura Anthony, The Forgotten Midwife, Gallery (dual timelines of present-day and 1950s Ireland; a novel of feminism and resilience that follows the life of a young woman consigned to work in a home for “fallen girls”)

Kelley Armstrong, An Ordinary Sort of Evil, Minotaur (next installment of the A Rip Through Time series, set in 19th-c)

Anna Bradley, How to Lose a Laird, Kensington (three unusually gifted sisters in Georgian Scotland must protect their family fortress from those who would steal its rumored treasures)

Kate Lord Brown, The Silver Thread, Simon & Schuster UK (a tale of enduring love crossing oceans, cultures and timelines)

Rebecca A. Carter, An Inheritance of Lies, Lake Union (a young woman must navigate societal expectations, and her own independence in the shadow of WWI and the RMS Lusitania’s doomed voyage)

Elizabeth Chadwick, The Crownless Queen, Hachette Mobius (second book in the Jeanette of Kent duology, after The Royal Rebel)

Janet Skeslien Charles, The Parisian Chapter, Atria (dual timeline story offers a panoramic view of a real historic institution, and revisits characters from both of Charles’s novels)

Eve J. Chung, The Young Will Remember, Berkley (novel about a correspondent trapped behind enemy lines during the Korean War)

David Clensy, The Restless Wave, Sapere (in 1943, twin brothers Romulus and Remus Hutchinson are caught up in the ongoing battle for control of the seas. Book 4 in series)

Rebecca Connolly, Three Queens, Shadow Mountain (Abigail Adams, Queen Charlotte, and Marie Antoinette form an unlikely sisterhood, navigating revolutions, royal pressures, and personal losses as they shape their own legacies)

Martha Conway, We Meet Apart, Regal House (WWII novel set in Ireland 1940, about sibling relationships and magic and belief in the unbelievable)

Tracy Cook, Wings Over Valletta, Allison & Busby (in Malta, 1941, Kitty’s search for her little girl will force her to choose between loyalty to her country and to her child)

Nicola Cornick, The Fourth Queen, Boldwood (time-slip dual timeline based on Anne of Cleves; set in present and in 1539)

Laurel Corona, Aloha Wanderwell Takes the Wheel, Sibylline (16-year-old Idris Hall ran away from boarding school in 1924, changed her name, and joined a decade-long adventure across five continents behind the wheel of a Model T)

H. W. Crocker, Kruger’s Korps, Knox Press (a deadly game of espionage with an American spy behind enemy lines in World War II)

Richard Cullen, Harbour of Thieves, Boldwood (a tale of treachery and rivalry between Yorkshire’s tough smuggling gangs)

Sunyi Dean, The Girl with a Thousand Faces, Tor (a Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong that meshes ancient myths and local legends into a haunting story of ghosts, grief, and women who will not forgive)

Sebastien de Castell, Our Lady of Blades, Arcadia (new novel in the Court of Shadows historical fantasy series)

William Demby, King Comus, Vintage (time-bending literary tale weaves elements of the neo-slave narrative and Afrofuturism into a panoramic vision encompassing the forces of empire, race, gender, and religion)

Becky Docton, The Ruins, HarperCollins (debut set in 1937 when Lucie Kyte’s world changes forever during her stay with a distant cousin at The Ruins, the rambling Kyte ancestral home)

Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, A Founding Mother, William Morrow (portrayal of Abigail Adams, wife of one president and mother to another, whose wit, willpower, and wisdom helped shape the fledgling republic)

Lesley Eames, A Promise for Tomorrow, Penguin (the Wartime Newspaper Girls series, book 1)

Scott Eveloff, The Golem’s Holocaust, Histria (a fusion of history and folklore, where courage, memory, and the human spirit are the ultimate acts of resistance)

Jessica Everett, Last Summer at Maine Chance, Sourcebooks Landmark (by summer’s end, 1954, in Elizabeth Arden’s health and beauty resort, a young woman learns a most important lesson: that her best investment is in herself)

Molly Fader, Lady X, Doubleday Canada (the search for a notorious vigilante exposes the secrets between three generations of women)

Marthese Fenech, Eight Pointed Cross, Rising Action (16th-century Mediterranean epic chronicling the clash between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St John. Book 1 of Siege of Malta)

Clare Flynn, The Tea Planter’s Secret, Storm (Ceylon, 1908; Stella Baxter returns to the island that once promised her everything haunted by her father’s death and an assault that left her with a baby)

Kate Foster, The Repentants, Mantle (tale of two women forever bonded in their exile to the world’s most desolate prison)

Mark Frost, The Yankee Sphinx, Flatiron (a novel about one of FDR’s closest wartime advisers and the president’s final days)

Jean Fullerton, A Wartime Promise for the East End Girls, Bookouture (East London, 1943: As air raid sirens wail, the East End Girls join forces to protect their city and the people they love)

Ann H. Gabhart, A Chance for Kallie Mae, Revell (history and romance from the Appalachian Mountains)

Jerry Gabriel, Deserters, Acre (adventure story set during the American Civil War follows four travelers as they escape toward the Western territories)

Emma Garman, The Kindness of Strangers, Summit/S&S/Virago (set in post-WWII London where a stranger’s arrival at a boarding house sets a deadly chain of events in motion)

Rosza Gaston, Queen of Diamonds, Sapere (in The Anne Boleyn Chronicles book 3, Anne finds herself in the service of Queen Claude of France in 1515)

Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Said the Dead, Faber (in a derelict Victorian mental hospital in Cork, a woman uncovers a chorus of voices which murmur from the archives and old records, stairwells and walls)

Renae Ghrist, I Am Joey, Black Rose Writing (based on true story of Josefina Guerro, a socialite struggling with a severe illness, who signs on with the resistance in Manila in 1942)

Nora Gold, Doubles, Guernica (takes place in 1968 in an institution for troubled youth, and told from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl who is obsessed with math)

Khanh Ha, The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester, Red Hen (confronts the brutality of Vietnam’s reeducation camps while illuminating the enduring power of memory, loyalty, and the human will to survive)

Kate Heartfield, Mercutio, HarperVoyager (historical fantasy prequel to Mercutio’s tale, set in 13^th century Italy)

Virginia Hume, Liberty Island, St. Martin’s (dual timeline multigenerational novel of love, legacy and belonging, set in 1900 and in 1922)

Conn Iggulden, Inferno, Pegasus/Michael Joseph (third novel in trilogy as Nero faces the last challenges in his quest for ultimate dominion over the Roman Empire)

Anna Jacobs, Hope Comes to Eastby End, Hodder & Stoughton (new family saga series)

Eloisa James, The Last Lady B, Gallery (witty historical romance with a gothic twist)

Jeff Jones, The Hunt for Boudica, Sapere (Legion of the Damned Roman thrillers book four takes place as the rebellion in Britannia is crushed and Boudica has escaped with her warriors)

Laura Kasischke, The Lifeguard, Red Hen (a novel about grief and ambition, innocence and blame that spools around a Midwestern swimming pool in summer, 1969, and into the future of an America yet to be imagined)

Anne Keer, The Wildness, Honno Welsh Women’s Press (at the dawn of Enlightenment, an ancient oak tree symbolises resistance, wildness and a young woman’s love of nature)

John R. Kelly, The Inklings Detective Agency, Waterbrook (Tolkien, Lewis, and Christie join forces to unravel a deadly conspiracy in a mystery that sweeps from Oxford to London and the shores of Loch Ness)

Stephen P. Kiernan, Pollock’s Last Lover, William Morrow (in New York City, alternating between the 1960s and the early 2000s is the tale of two women whose lives collide as they contend with the art and legacy of Jackson Pollock)

Christina Baker Kline, The Foursome, Mariner (reimagining of a true story features two sisters in 19th-century North Carolina who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam)

Andre Kurkov, The Lost Soldiers, HarperVia (next installment in the Kyiv Mysteries series, wherein detective Samson investigates the sudden disappearance of a troop of Red Army soldiers from a bathhouse)

Dylan Landis, List of All Possible Desires, Soho Press (told in stories, we follow Rainey Royal in 1970s/ 80s Greenwich Village and dip back into the 1940s and 50s to see family prehistory)

Lizzie Lane, Orchard Cottage Hospital, Boldwood (1934; saga series full of community, chaos and charm)

Soraya Lane, The Last Daughter, Bookouture (final novel in the Lost Daughters series; dual timeline setting of present-day London and 1938 France)

Patrick Larsimont, The Hunters and the Vengeance, Sapere (seventh book in the Jox McNabb Aviation Thrillers series, following a young RAF pilot during the Second World War)

Dimitry Elias Léger, Death of the Soccer God, MCD (a global soccer star’s epic ride to the 1950 World Cup places him within shooting distance of his dreams and his own death)

Sarah Nicole Lemon, A Dark and Wild Wood, Harper Voyager (inspired by the tale of Bluebeard, a story of a maiden with dark magic who becomes the apprentice to Lord Death)

Julie Lew, The Wives of Herrick Hall, Quill & Crow (two women must confront Herrick House’s curse, but Herrick has already claimed them as its next ghostly brides)

Terri Lewis, When They Came Home, Miami Uni. Press (portrait of a marriage tested by war’s lingering effects and an example of how the deepest traumas can be met by the patient powers of love)

Christina Li, The Manor of Dreams, Avid Reader/S&S (novel about the secrets in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of two Chinese American families fighting to inherit it)

Amy Licence, Crowned Viper, Sapere (Marwood Family Tudor Saga Book 6, set in spring 1533 when Anne Boleyn finally becomes queen)

Mary Logue, A Wasp in the Beehive, Univ. of Minnesota Press (Salt Lake City, 1881: Brigid Reardon is on the case when her new employer is murdered in his home)

Kate Lord Brown, The Silver Thread, Simon & Schuster UK (a tale of enduring love crossing oceans, cultures and timelines)

Elle Machray, Havisham, HarperNorth (a queer feminist reimagining in which Dickens’ infamous female character tells her side of the story)

Imogen Matthews, The Girl With Two Names, Bookouture (in 1943 Nazi-occupied Holland, a woman works for the Dutch resistance)

JoAnn McCaig, Beneficiary, Univ. of Calgary Press (feminist novel weaves the past and the present in a rich tapestry of life)

Eden McKenzie-Goddard, Smallie, Viking (1961 and present day; tale of a family thrown into collision with the Windrush scandal)

Henrietta McKervey, The Woman in the Water, Hachette Mobius (gothic thriller set between 1930s London and the windswept Cornwall coast)

E. S. McLeod, Andromeda, RH UK Bantam (a reclaiming of the most famed and white-washed woman in Greek mythology)

Lindz McLeod, The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley, Carina Adores (sapphic Regency historical romance of forbidden love)

Rosie Meddon, Isabel’s War, Penguin UK (one woman’s attempt to help the war effort from her sleepy Devon village)

Gabrielle Meyer, Into a Golden Era, Bethany House (next installment of the inspirational time crosser dual time line books, set in 1849 San Fancisco and 1929 California)

Simon Michael, The French Vendetta, Sapere (a Charles Holborne Legal Thriller set in France, 1969)

Ben Miller, A Very Dangerous Pursuit, HarperCollins (charged with a quest, Richard Hannay, intrigue-hunter, finds himself in a dangerous pursuit from the confines of the Orient Express to the decks of the Titanic herself)

Alan Moore, I Hear a New World, Bloomsbury (fantasy novel about murder, mayhem, and magic in the Long London series, set in 1958)

Callie Murray, The Brunswick, Revell (an inspirational WWII novel set in the American South)

Ray Nayler, Palaces of the Crow, MCD (speculative novel in which four young teens, caught between Nazis and the Red Army, survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows)

Andie Newton, The Last Flight From Moscow, One More Chapter (in the underbelly of Cold War Moscow, Mae Pierce, once a formidable OSS agent, has found herself once again thrust into a perilous mission)

Matthew Neill Null, Floodgate, Blair (in the 1960s a former West Virginia coal miner encounters corruption and cultural upheaval working on a dam project that will submerge his town)

Jamie Ogle, Daughter of the Rebellion, Tyndale (historical romance in which a young woman imprisoned in a Roman gladiator school becomes a legendary warrior)

Regina O’Melveny, The Sea-Cure, Running Wild (a novel of journeys in the seventeenth century, aboard a merchant ship that also carries misfits and the mad sent away from their towns as outcasts)

S. J. Parris, Rebel’s Gambit, Hemlock Press (when the body of a Scottish envoy washes up on the banks of the Thames, the Queen’s most powerful spymaster, Robert Cecil, is accused of arranging the murder)

Helen Parusel, The Lost Orphans of Lyon, Boldwood (WWII novel set in Occupied France)

John Pilkington, Death of a Fugitive, Boldwood (1595, Bishopsgate Ward, London. Matthew Cutler, constable for the parish of Spitalfields, finds his duties as constable at odds with his gut feeling)

Richard Ploetz, South, Arcade (1960s story about normal people told with enough intelligence and curiosity to remind us how emotional lives are lived under the veil of normalcy)

Stephen Pressfield, The Arcadian, W. W. Norton (as Telamon and others are drawn into a brutal conflict in Spain in 1500s, novel is a tale of war, fate, and the search for release from a cycle as old as time itself)

Francine Prose, Five Weeks in the Country, Harper (novel inspired by the strange friendship between Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen and set during the summer of 1857, when Dickens’s family life exploded)

Morgan Radford, Now Then, Amistad (dual timeline follows a Harvard student navigating her own path to self-discovery while uncovering her mother’s secret past fleeing the Cuban Revolution)

M. J. Robotham, The Spy and the Snake, Aria (continuation of the Mrs Spy series featuring a heroine who defies societal expectations during the Cold War)

Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews, Warlord of Britannia, Headline (AD 43, Britannia; the story of Caratacus, the barbarian king who led the tribes of Britannia against Rome)

Amanda Schiavo, Fire and Faith, Black Rose Writing (a novel of Mary Tudor. Sequel to In Her Own Right)

Jeff Shaara, The Unfinished Work, St. Martin’s (beginning in 1860, novel reveals the complexities behind President Lincoln, who refused to let the deep divisions and conflicting emotions permanently sunder the country)

Kim Sherwood, Hurricane Room, Hemlock Press (the Double O agents make their last stand in this new spy thriller)

Douglas Skelton, A Thief’s Revenge, Canelo (A Company of Rogues book 6–Jonas Flynt returns from the Caribbean to London to claim revenge against an old enemy)

Amanda Skenandore, When No One Else Will, Kensington (based on the true story of an illegal women’s clinic at the center of a high-profile trial in 1940s Chicago)

Daria Sommers, Sawadika American Girl, Vine Leaves, (Bangkok, 1968; the story of a young American woman coming-of-age on the periphery of war)

Lyn Squire, The Séance of Murder, Level Best Historia (last in Dunston Burnett Trilogy in which an oddly-motivated séance held in a Cambridge country house foreshadows a stabbing)

Thorvald Steen, trans. Olivia Lasky, The Valet, Seagull Books (novel that explores how the Fourth Crusade plundered Constantinople and forever changed the course of European history)

Bradley Steffens, The Empty Quarter, Blue Dome (a mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age continues his lifelong pursuit of knowledge in sequel to The Prisoner of Al-Hakim)

Shaina Steinberg, Echoes of Infamy, Kensington (in postwar Los Angeles, former spies Evelyn Bishop and Nick Gallagher dig into shady real estate dealings, murder, and the aftereffects of WWII Japanese American internment)

Daisy Styles, The Factory Girls, Penguin UK (tale of resilience and friendship among the working women during World War II)

Pamela Taylor, The Abbot, the Knight and the King, Black Rose Writing (a prequel to the Second Son Chronicles when 16th-century printers Henri and Bertrand Dubois find proof that the legend of the lost chronicles of King Alfred is no legend at all)

Sarah Loudin Thomas, These Empty Places, Bethany House (the history of North Carolina is pictured in this literary story of friendship, love, and letting go)

Janyre Tromp, The Scorpion’s Thief, Grafted Page (a political Cold War fantasy with two sisters– one who is guardian of a cursed Egyptian artifact and one who is trying to steal it)

Ayelet Waldman, A Perfect Hand, Knopf (amusing novel of love and subterfuge between a lady’s maid and her clandestine lover, set in the country estates of 19th century England)

Megan Walker, The Duke’s Bargain, Shadow Mountain (ruined by scandal, Georgiana bargains with a duke to regain her place. Part of the Proper Regency Romance series)

George Wallace, Don Keith, Darkest Before Dawn, Severn River (in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, four young submariners are thrown into the chaos of war)

Tiffany L. Warren, A Harlem Wedding, William Morrow (novel of the Harlem Renaissance and its most famous Black debutante, Yolande Du Bois, daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois)

Lucy Waverley, Noble Beasts, Black & White (1858; story of a famed artist, a scandalous affair, and the beasts that roamed his mind)

Heather Webb, The Hope Keeper, Sourcebooks Landmark (story of the legendary Hope Diamond and the last woman to own it)

Alison Weir, The Boleyn Secret, Ballantine/Headline Review (story follows Kate Carey who, at twelve-years-old attends her aunt, Queen Anne Boleyn to the scaffold convinced she is innocent)

G. J. Williams, The Assassin’s Mark, The Book Social (March 1570; Elizabeth’s court has just crushed the Northern rebellion in John Dee and Margaretta, book 4)

Clare Willis, The Singapore Secret, Hodder (dual time WWII novel set in England in present day and Singapore 1942)

L. C. Winter, Spider, Spider, September Publishing (Victorian tale of a woman who has lost herself in the poison of vengeance)

Blair Palmer Yoxall, Treat Them as Buffalo, Algonquin (an anti-Western set in 1885 paints a portrait of a young man coming of age before his time)

June 2026

Chantel Acevedo, Cages, Europa (spanning Havana, London, and Miami, novel explores exile, forbidden love, fractured families and the nature of truth)

Taylor Anderson, Fleet of Ghosts, Ace (alternate history adventure set in the world of the Destroyermen series)

Krystle Zara Appiah, Half Lives, Borough Press (novel about the enduring power of love set in 1970s Ghana)

Katherine Arden, The Unicorn Hunters, Del Rey (with her country’s future and her own life at stake, an orphaned duchess must journey into a world of myth)

Lindsay Jayne Ashford, No Light but the Stars, Lake Union (two women are separated by centuries in a novel about love that transcends time, persecution, and war; settings 1941 and 1606)

Rojé Augustin, The Butcher of Aberdeen, Post Hill (true crime biographical fiction of Katherine Knight, delving into a life shaped by childhood trauma, violent relationships, and descent into madness)

David Baerwald, The Fire Agent, Spiegel & Grau/Doubleday CA (novel of espionage, war, love, and tragedy that redefines our understanding of the first half of the twentieth century)

Helen Bain, The Daffodil Days, Scribner (novel that follows Sylvia Plath through the final year of her life)

Rue Baldry, Dwell, Northodox Press (the story of the developing relationship between two traumatised young men who fall in love with one another across class divisions in England in 1919)

Julie Bates, Fever Pitch, Level Best Historia (book six in the mystery thriller series with widowed tavern keeper, Faith Clarke, set in the Revolutionary War era)

Johanna Bell, The Orphan’s Garden, Hodder (WWII inspirational saga)

Conor Bender, The Wolves of Biscay, Severn River (thriller that explores the shadow war of World War II, where the line between loyalty and treachery is drawn in blood)

Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray, A Pair of Aces, Berkley (novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a prosecutor and a madam—who team up to bring down mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York)

Melanie Benjamin, The Windsor Affair, Delacorte (tells the story of the abdication of Edward VIII—and the two women at the center of it all)

David Bolton, Whispering Pines, Rare Bird (interconnected stories capture the fragile beauty of ordinary lives in extraordinary moments in post-war Baltimore)

Paul Brous, The Undying Lamb, Rising Action (a Robin Hood adaptation that delves into a forgotten corner of history where the line between legend and truth blurs)

Tonya Brown, What the Ocean Brings, Black Rose Writing (love story set on the coast of 19th century Quebec)

David Buzan, Suspension, Black Rose Writing (a standalone action-adventure historical thriller)

Clare Cavenagh, Tillinghast, Borough Press (Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, as the minister of a remote rural parish and what little human contact he has is brief, frenzied and bloody)

Anna Cliffe, Wartime for the Flour Mill Girls, Zaffre (in Kent, 1915, with World War I now in full swing, the Graham sisters take on increasingly vital roles at the family smock mill)

Sara Goodman Confino, Off the Record, Lake Union (novel about an aspiring newspaper reporter in 1962 who gets more than she bargained for)

Vivian Conroy, Peril in Positano, One More Chapter (Miss Ashford Investigates series book 7 takes Atalanta into Italy’s Amalfi coast)

Lorna Cook, The Gilded Girl, Lake Union (second book in Secrets of Trelenna House series following The Distant Daughter)

Abigail Cutter, What the Trees Remember, She Writes (coming-of-age tale set in post–Civil War Appalachia, is part suspenseful mystery, and part an examination of this nation’s history of racial violence)

Sam Davey, The Sisters and the Sword, Diversion Books (a dark retelling of Camelot, where magic and destiny entwine with sibling rivalries, forbidden love, and looming rebellion)

Amy DeBellis, The Widening Gyre, Lanternfish (a guilty secret haunts a young widow as she tries to drown her conscience among the glittering lights of 1920s Berlin)

Boman Desai, Brahms Comes to Dinner, Schaffner (novel set in Germany in the mid-19th century tells the story of renowned composer Johannes Brahms and his lifelong friendship and love for Clara Schumann)

Christina Dodd, Teach the Torches to Burn, John Scognamiglio (third installment of Daughter of Montague series finds a poisoner on the loose on the eve of Rosalind’s wedding to Prince Escalus)

Don Donato, The Privateer, Sapere (first in a new series of 18^th century nautical thrillers)

Kat Dunn, Rottenheart, Manilla Press (set in the 1890s, this a story of love and grief, mothers and daughters, death and madness, inspired by the revenge tragedy, Hamlet)

Lesley Eames, The Wartime Newspaper Girls, Penguin UK (first book in new WWII saga duology)

Martin Edwards, Hemlock Bay, Poisoned Pen (Rachel Savernake Mysteries #5; when a fortune teller insists he’s had a vision of a murder to occur in Hemlock Bay, Jacob Flint gets Rachel to take on the man’s claim)

Jim Eldridge, Murder at Canterbury Cathedral, Allison & Busby (Kent, 1941; a quest to find a killer is hampered when the deadly force of the Blitz strikes very close to home)

Meg Elison, Foundling Fathers, Tachyon (satire of U.S. history and modern technocracy gone terribly wrong, combining history and science fiction)

James Ellroy, Red Sheet, Knopf (Cold War thriller set in 1962)

Laura Evans, Little Wild, Henry Holt/Mantle (debut fairy-tale-like novel of first love, betrayal, and revenge set on a crumbling British estate in Suffolk, 1937)

Malayna Evans, Isis of Egypt, Alcove Press (a feminist retelling about the woman behind one of the ancient world’s most widespread and enduring cults)

Joseph Faulkner, The Tragic Memoir of Prince Katsu Shibayama, Histria (novel sweeps from Japanese royalty to the seas of the Pacific, in a tale of courage, betrayal, and the choices that define a generation)

Hester Fox, A Kingdom of Mist and Mourning, MIRA (Regency-era Romantasy in which a young woman’s untimely death leaves her with a wealth of secrets no mortal can hope to comprehend)

Kelly Frost, The Racing Line, Atlantic (feminist novel about one woman’s rise as a racing driver in mid-20^th-century Britain)

Marius Gabriel, Unti. Book 2, Embla (WWII sequel to The German Daughter)

Shana Galen, A Shop Girl’s Guide to Wooing a Lord, Berkley (1815; a down-on-her-luck shop girl and the son of an earl find they have more in common than they thought)

Amanda Geard, The Glass Key, Headline Review (after discovering a wartime letter and travelling to Norway, Maggie discovers the story of four young women whose lives were forever changed by the WWII occupation)

Julie Gerstenblatt, The Stargazer of Nantucket, Park Row (1850s sea-faring adventure features a husband-and-wife team of merchants as they embark on a record-setting journey to China, battling storms and pirate-infested waters)

Amitav Ghosh, Ghost-Eye, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (magical realism meets 1960s & 70s India in a novel about a girl with mysterious powers and possibly memories of a past life)

Cynthia Gómez, Muñeca, Putnam (1968 Oakland, California; surreal Gothic novel about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress)

Alex Gough, Caesar’s Nemesis, Canelo (fourth book in The Mark Antony series featuring the battle that shook the world and gave birth to the Roman Empire)

Jennie Goutet, A Love Once Lost, Revell (a story of lost love and second chances against the backdrop of Georgian-era Europe)

Claudia Gray, The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield, Viking (fifth book in mystery series set in Jane Austen’s world finds Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney thrown together again by a murder)

Molly Green, Wartime Secrets at the Mayfair Club, Avon (WWII saga)

Jonathan Hammel, The Jewish Hospital, Skyhorse (in wartime Berlin, a young Bavarian nurse named Lena stands at the epicenter of history’s most harrowing moral crucible)

Elizabeth Hand, Unspeakable Things, Mulholland (loosely inspired by Du Maurier’s Rebecca, in which two queer teenager girls in 1920s London go on a killing spree)

Alex Hay, The Midnight Guests, Hanover Square (novel set in 1923 during the opening of a new Mayfair hotel, where the owner has a dark agenda and a group of guests with their own secrets)

Jane Healey, Crescendo, Bloomsbury/Vintage Digital (novel of obsession and rivalry set in the concert halls and ballet theaters of 1950s France)

Wendy Holden, The Queen’s Painter, Mountain Leopard (traces Anne Boleyn’s rise and fall as seen by Tudor court artist Hans Holbein)

Sophia Holloway, Twice Shy, Allison & Busby (enemies-to-lovers Regency romance)

Jasmine Holmes, Our Sister’s Keeper, Bindery/Mareas (blend of historical fiction and Southern gothic psychological horror, with an exploration of Black sisterhood, rage, and resistance)

Robert Holtom, A Morbid Passion, Titan (1930s-set whodunnit features amateur sleuth Selby Bigge, who must solve a murder at Lady Malcolm’s Servants’ Ball in London’s Royal Albert Hall)

Emily Howes, Mrs Dickens, Phoenix (reimagines this forgotten woman in a novel peppered with her recipes, expanding in scope with the increasing size of her family and the Dickens’ family’s meteoric social ascent)

Anna Lee Huber, A Bitter Cut, Kensington (Lady Kiera Darby is in anticipation of the upcoming nuptials of her brother, when a future in-law is implicated in a murder)

C. C. Humphreys, The Double Life of Eve Sinclair, Doubleday Can (Stockholm, 1939: romantic, suspenseful novel about a female spy who must push herself to her very limits to save herself)

James Hynes, Peacock, Picador (sequel to Sparrow, Jacob, now older and smarter, vies to become a player in the internal politics at Arcadia)

Lee Jackson, Crossing the Rhine, Severn River (late 1944, as Allied forces grind their way toward Germany’s heart, the Littlefield family finds themselves caught in a desperate struggle)

Kevin Jagernauth, The Longest Death, House of Anansi-Spiderline (a post-war twisted morality tale about what it means to love someone at any cost)

Arianne James, Daughters of the Tide, HQ (weaving historical fiction with folklore and Tasmanian gothic, debut explores memory and self, the resilience of women and a longing for the sea)

Dinah Jefferies, The Lost Chateau, HarperCollins (saga taking place in France, as the Spanish Civil War is erupting just across the border)

Ethan Joella, The Top of the World, Scribner (1975; dual-narrative novel explores sibling relationships, coming of age, and the quiet power of human connection)

Claire Johnson, The Crookedest Street in the World, Level Best Historia (third in the trilogy crime fiction series set in 1930s San Francisco)

William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, Fool’s Gold, Pinnacle (story of how gold fever turned one small mining camp into a bustling boomtown)

Adele Jordan, The Tudor Vanishing, Sapere (1537; thief-turned-espionage-agent Gwynnie Wightham finds herself at Hampton Court Palace embroiled in a conspiracy)

Kathleen Kalb, A Fatal Flourish, Level Best Historia (Ella Shane’s next adventure at the turn of the century in book 6 in series)

Ben Kane, A Land Aflame, Orion (211BC; military thriller about the struggle for power between Rome and Carthage)

Kate Khavari, A Botanist’s Guide to Tradition and Treachery, Crooked Lane (botanist Saffron Everleigh’s fifth mystery adventure)

Jess Kidd, Murder at the Spirit Lounge, Atria (in second installment of mystery series, former nun Nora Breen returns to track down a ghostly killer before it’s too late)

Eliza Knight, Lost in the Summer of ’69, Sourcebooks (three generations of women, an unforgettable summer of music, and the epic cross-country road trip they’ll never forget)

Kangkang Li Kovacs, Nothing to My Name, Viking (spanning the past hundred years of Chinese history, this multi-generational family saga explores how women survive the tsunamis of history)

Catherine Kurtz, Feast, Berkley (in nineteenth-century France, a young woman’s new role as poison taster thrusts her into the world of the nobility, where secrets and danger lurk around every corner)

Elin Anna Labba, trans. Elizabeth Clark Wessel, The Home of the Drowned, Univ. of Minnesota Press (multigenerational saga, from 1942 to 1982, of a family of Sámi women fighting the devastation of their way of life as the water their people have lived near for centuries is transformed into a menacing force)

Soraya M. Lane, The Underground Sisters, Lake Union (novel set in Nazi Germany focusing on two sisters, Ava and Hanna, who work with the resistance, against the regime, from within)

Alexandra Lapierre, trans. Tina Kover Kover, The Very Secretive and Passionate Stella Miles Franklin, Europa (Australia early 1900s; tells the story of Stella Franklin who reinvents herself again and again across three continents)

Phil Lecomber, The Devil’s Banquet, Titan (1933; Cockney private eye George Harley return to London’s Soho, to investigate a missing cabaret dancer and a child believed stolen by his nemesis, the occultist Professor Morkens)

Natasha Lester, The Chateau on Sunset, Hachette AU/Sphere/Ballantine (blends the Jane Eyre story with the history of the entertainment industry from the 1950s to the 1970s)

Deborah Levy, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, Hamish Hamilton (in contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein)

Chuck Locklear, A Storm Coming, Histria (novel set in 1710 North Carolina, where a young Tuscarora woman must choose between love and loyalty as colonial forces threaten her people’s survival)

Melissa Marr, A Treason of Magic, 47North (historical fantasy set in the Regency Era follows a female duke who is a faery hunter, tasked with defeating a monster)

Heather Marshall, Liberty Street, Ballantine (novel about one journalist’s journey into an infamous real-life 1960s women’s prison, and the detective who uncovers her story decades later)

Carol McGrath, The Queen’s Sister, Headline Accent (imagines the story of Jane Seymour’s sister, Elizabeth, exploring her life and the Tudor era behind the scenes)

Judy Molland, The Making of a Witch, She Writes (novel tells of young Alice Molland, who must grapple with accusations of witchcraft and the persecution of women with mysterious gifts in turbulent seventeenth-century England)

Coirle Mooney, A Deadly Prank, Sapere (new murder mystery series featuring young Thomas Middleton in Elizabethan London)

Naomi Musch, The Girl from Tomorrow’s Town, Barbour (next installment of the Enduring Hope inspirational historical series, set in the early 20^th-century)

André Narbonne, Those Are Pearls, LPGC/Palimpsest (story of a family whose personal passions are woven into the tapestry of world history)

Rasheed Newson, There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood, Flatiron (LGBTQ noir thriller about fame, big money and political freedom)

Stephen O’Connor, We Want So Much to be Ourselves, Bellevue Literary Press (a German psychoanalyst, his Jewish wife, and their young daughter are swept up in the rising tide of fascism)

Karen Odden, An Artful Dodge, Soho Crime (heist novel about an all-female thieving gang and one young woman’s heroic plan to escape a life of crime; set in Victorian London, 1878)

Maggie O’Farrell, Land, Knopf/Tinder Press (historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger)

Randy Overbeck, Abigail Trench, Diversion Books (Revolutionary-era thriller inspired by the lone female operative in Washington’s spy ring in 1776)

David S. Pederson, A Death After Dinner, Bold Strokes (England, 1951; Professor Liam Cuthbert wades through a tangle of secrets and rivalries to get to the truth of why a much-disliked decorator was poisoned)

F. H. Petford, A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Catching a Killer, Hodder (part of The Alma Timperley Mystery series set in 1915)

Kevin Powers, Children of the Wild, Harper (love story set in the Virginia mountains and on the battlefields of World War I France)

Nahid Rachlin, Given Away, Red Hen (portrait of forced girlhood and generational grief reveals the quiet strength of a woman surviving child marriage and motherhood in 1930s Iran)

Vanessa Riley, A Deal at Dawn, Kensington (Regency romance in which a resilient viscountess risks everything for the daughter she loves . . . and the duke she can’t forget)

Kathryn L. Robinson, Under the Tree Ferns, She Writes (dual timeline story reaching across different times, places, and cultures, Eduardo and Pamela find answers about the enigmatic woman who died in 1942 in the El Yunque Rainforest)

Jay Robison, Champion of the Republic, Histria (when a modern scientist is thrust into the heart of ancient Rome, his knowledge could save the Republic or destroy it)

Lisa Rochon, The Paris Thief, HarperAvenue/Headline Review (in wartime Paris, a woman is entrusted with saving the Mona Lisa during the Nazi occupation)

Jane Rubin, Mayhem in the Mountains, Level Best Historia (in the Catskills, in 1924, the Isaacson family stand their ground, defending their land and each other during a turbulent time)

Jennifer Ryan, The Queen’s Coronation, Ballantine (three women working at Buckingham Palace during Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953 navigate personal challenges and societal expectations)

Greg Sarris, The Last Human Bear, Heyday (follows Mary, Native Pomo woman who comes of age in 1930s California, from the Great Depression to the twenty-first century)

Cheryl Sawyer, Murder at Cirey, Sapere (an 18th-century mystery set in France; book one of the Victor Constant Investigations)

Kathleen Schwab, Queenswood, Blackstone (historical and folkloric fantasy adventure set in a 12^th-century Ireland still reeling from the Norman invasions))

Bianca M. Schwarz, The Missing Baroness, Central Avenue (first book in The Inconvenient Heirs Series blends mystery, romance, and feminist grit set against the upper crust of Regency London)

Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon, Scribner (in the turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles comes the story of three Chinese women who managed to survive and thrive, despite all odds)

Ruta Sepetys, A Fortune of Sand, Ballantine (the daughter of an automotive magnate escapes to an artistic retreat that holds secrets and intrigue; 1920s)

Samantha Silva, Sometime This Century, Harper Perennial (Regency romcom about sisters, time travel, and how Jane Austen just might change your life)

Luanne G. Smith, The Gilded City of Dreams, 47North (1920s Manhattan; historical fantasy in which a young fairy godmother is caught in an evil conspiracy to control her sisterhood’s magic)

Myrtle Henry Sodhi, We’ve Been Here Before, Dundurn (following emancipation in 1800s Dominica, novel explores a series of work-related migrations where women to leave families to work for affluent families)

Naomi Stephens, Don’t Upstage the Body, Bethany House (witty British historical whodunnit and manor house murder mystery set in the 1950s)

Linda Stratmann, Sherlock Holmes and the Aeronauts, Sapere (book 11 in The Early Casebook of Sherlock Holmes series)

Matthew Sweet, The New Forest Murders, Simon & Schuster UK (in summer 1944 someone doesn’t want Jill looking into her brother’s circumstances leading to his death tracking a Nazi traitor)

Rose Tremain, The Housekeeper, Chatto & Windus (1930s England; fictionalises the inspiration behind Daphne du Maurier’s novel, Rebecca)

Pam Troy, The Newcomers, Sibylline Press (first novel in a series set on the fictional island of Touperdu, where the lines blur between superstition and magic, legend and history, promises and betrayal)

Alexandra Vasti, Scandal of the Summer, St Martin’s Griffin/Corvus (a desperate debutante meets a ragtag smuggler in this latest Regency romp)

Sharon Virts, Bargains of Fate, Flashpoint (based on true events from the American Regency era, sequel to Masque of Honor explores the thin line between power and integrity, love and lust, honor and death)

Katherine Webb, The Promise of Wonder, Lake Union (spanning three decades of late 19th-c, early 20th-c England, is a story of lost love, atonement, and the long journey towards forgiveness)

Pam Webber, Massawa, She Writes (first in a series about the novice female American spies in North Africa and the Mediterranean that changed the tide of World War II)

Josh Weil, What Came West, Doubleday (portrait of an outsider racing toward belonging in 1840s Sierra Nevada, just before the Gold Rush)

Darcie Wilde, The Abduction of Rosalind Thorne, Kensington (Jane Austen-inspired mystery series finds resourceful Rosalind Thorne facing her most perilous predicament yet)

Jenny Williamson, Game of Thieves, MIRA (Romantasy saga about a Roman Princess and her Goth warlord husband, set in the last days of the Roman empire)

Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvelous Ways, Putnam (set in 1940s Cornwall following the unlikely friendship between an eighty-nine-year-old woman at the end of her story and a young soldier reeling from World War II)

Ovidia Yu, The Tembusu Tree Mystery, Constable (tenth instalment of series of Singapore-set historical mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Su Lin)

Yudori, Lovers of the Empire, Fantagraphics-Takumigraphics (et in the Korean capital in the 1920s, this period piece follows two teenagers from different social strata thrown together to witness emotional, and eye-opening discovery)

July 2026

Laura Lee Bahr, The Knocking, Little A (in a haunted house, the living and the dead pose dangers to a female journalist in nineteenth-century New York)

D. R. Bailey, The Stealth Hunters, Sapere (book 3 of Cooper’s Renegades Aviation Thrillers set in 1944)

Pepper Basham, The Bachelor Spy, Barbour (fifth inspirational Blake and Gracie mystery where they must work together to root out the criminals, thieves, and spies)

Rowan Beaird, Tenderness, Flatiron/Manilla (novel set in the 1970s during an island wedding, where the bride has recently left a sinister cult that might still be trailing her)

Rachel Beanland, The Half Life, Simon & Schuster (a novel set on an Italian island during the Atomic Age about a navy officer’s wife’s reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent)

Angela Bell, A Lady’s Handbook to Gadgets and Guile, Bethany House (witty romp of brilliant women, whimsical gadgetry, and sweet romance set in the Victorian era)

Rebecca Birrell, Venus Vanishing, Picador (debut novel of desire, art, and the stories lost to the darkness of history; set in Berlin, 1928)

D. V. Bishop, Shadow of Madness, Macmillan (sixth Cesare Aldo mystery, set in Tuscany, 1540)

Eliza Chan, Harbor of Hungry Ghosts, Orbit (historical fantasy adventure where unfamiliar monsters start stalking the streets of Opium War-era Hong Kong)

Chanel Cleeton, An Infinite Love Story, Berkley (time-travel historical romance set against the 1960s back drop of the Space Race, when an astronaut goes missing and his wife attempts to unravel what happened to him)

Catherine Cliff, Miss Bates, Pegasus (re-imagining of an Austen classic from the viewpoint of the misunderstood iconic bore, Miss Henriette Bates)

Donyae Coles, The Sunken, the Adored, Amistad (horror historical fantasy in which a freed slave from America making a new life in 1700 Venice, finds the plague that killed her former master may have followed her to Italy)

Daniel Colter, The Eagle and the Serpent, Sapere (book one the Legion of Rome Military Thrillers series set in Illyricum, AD 7)

Charlotte Cross, The Brides, Hanover Square (dual timeline feminist gothic epistolary horror novel, following the three women who became Dracula’s brides, and the fourth who managed to escape)

Arvind Ethan David, The Great Game, Thomas & Mercer (London, 1905; an outsider in London investigates a series of murders targeting English aristocrats)

Cindy Dees, Mary Wine, Where the Sky Begins, Blackstone (in 1929, twenty daredevil women take to the skies in the most dangerous race of their lives)

Giovanni De Feo, The Secret Market of the Dead, S&S/Saga (Italian-inspired gothic historical fantasy about a young woman who finds her power in the nocturnal realm beneath her town)

Emily Dunlay, The Library of Leaving, Fourth Estate (historical novel about an American librarian in 1920s Switzerland who must face the truth of decisions she made to survive during the First World War)

C. F. Dunn, Legacy of Steel, Sapere (book 4 in The Tarnished Crown series – a Wars of the Roses adventure set in medieval England, during the reign of Edward IV)

Barbara Erskine, The Valley of Ravens, HarperCollins (two women, centuries apart, are bound by fate)

D. K. Furutani, When Mikan Road Was Ours, Atria (debut novel set across four generations of a Japanese American family)

Danielle Giles, Gentle Things, Mantle (tale of deceit and danger set in London, 1668)

Diana Giovinazzo, Daughters of Naples, Alcove Press (Naples, 1940; novel examines the true nature of sisterly bonds and what one will do to survive)

Rosie Goodwin, Our Sweet Violet, Zaffre (family and friendship saga set in Hull, 1905)

Lisa Hall, The Starlet and the Killer Gossip Column, Hera (next installment of the Hotel Hollywood Mysteries)

Kristin Harmel, Meet Me in Paris, Gallery (new novel with several intertwined stories of love, loss, courage, and redemption set over the course of one week in Paris)

Sarah L. Hawthorn, A Fate Worse Than Drowning, Poisoned Pen (queer historical fantasy, set in 1861 Nova Scotia, dealing with themes of sisterhood, and a supernatural bargain with the devil to sink ships)

India Hayford, Days of Sun and Shadow, John Scognamiglio (book two sequel to The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree)

Virginia Heath, Pride Comes Before a Fall, St. Martin’s Griffin (third installment of a witty Regency romcom where a headstrong chaperone is torn between following her principles or her heart)

Jennifer Higgie, Bedlam, Verso (an exploration of the strange and tortured mind of the Victorian artist and patricide Richard Dadd, a painter of fairies who spent most of his life in psychiatric hospitals)

Sara Hinkley, The Red Sacrament, Titan (Paris, 1869; a dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19^th-century Paris on the cusp of revolt and revolution)

Rachel Hore, The French Spymistress, Simon & Schuster UK (when two women’s lives collide in early WWII, they are confronted with what they have lost and what they have gained)

Jenelle Hovde, The Light of Stars, Tyndale (Regency romance featuring two souls caught between obligation and a longing to find their true calling)

Tammye Huf, The Colour of Home (UK), Bantam (1941: in a segregated Floridian town, three young Black soldiers go to war; UK title of Inharmonious)

Graham Hurley, Prey, Head of Zeus-Aries (combining espionage and combat, a thriller of the battle for the skies during the darkest days of World War II)

Douglas Jackson, Blood Enemy, Canelo (part of the Warsaw Quartet set in June 1944)

Jeyamohan, trans. Priyamvada Ramkumar, White Elephant, FSG Originals (novel set during the Great Indian Famine of 1878 that recounts its devastating cost to both life and human dignity)

M. R. C. Kasasian, The Terror of Tannery Lane, Canelo (whilst visiting an injured friend in hospital, Lady Violet Thorn overhears a young woman accusing a married couple of murdering her parents and stealing their home)

Naomi Kelsey, Pale Mistress, HarperNorth (a psychological thriller of jealousy, gaslighting, ambition and envy, in 16^th-century Cyprus)

Jillian Laine, Henry Tudor Must Die, Berkley (England’s most infamous queens unite in vengeance against Henry VIII)

George Lamming, Natives of My Person, Doubleday Outsider (reimagines the age of European exploration to expose the deep scars of conquest)

Ashton Lattimore, Runner, Ballantine (novel set in Prohibition-era Martha’s Vineyard, where a young woman from a Black seafaring family, plunges into the world of rum-running to save her home)

David Lewis, Paris Chase, John Scognamiglio (World War II mystery in which a Welsh spy who has become one of Winston Churchill’s most trusted agents, is dropped into France to retrieve vital Nazi documents)

Elizabeth Lim, Fishbone Cinderella, Del Rey (a mother and daughter must break their family’s curse through trials of war and immigration, love and loss, in multi-generational saga set in 1940s Hong Kong & 1960s San Francisco)

Rosanne Limoncelli, Death at King’s Cross, Crooked Lane (DCI Lilian Wyles is confronted by a troubling case that only the four queens of crime can help solve)

Catherine Lloyd, Chelsea Girls, Kensington (starring one of Swinging London’s defining figures, Mary Quant, who made history with the miniskirt, slashed hemlines, and transformed more than fashion for a generation)

Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, Beyond the Edge of Light, Bantam (Munich, 1938; debut novel of conflicting allegiances, the nature of honour, and the unbearable cost of loyalty in a world on fire)

Kerry Maher, Summer of Love, Berkley (three women make life-changing decisions set in motion by the 1967 Summer of Love, shaping the legacy of their family’s Napa Valley winery forever)

Kirsty Manning, Maisy Bell is Missing, Vintage (reporter Charlotte “Charlie” James investigates the mysterious disappearance of a well-connected American tourist at the Ritz Hotel in pre-War Paris)

Carson Markland, Men Like Us, Algonquin (with Kennedy family sights set on highest office, Bobby takes the role of the ruthless operative behind the scenes—but can Bobby secure Jack’s success, and at what personal cost?)

Jackie McMahon, The Cloak and Dagger Club, Berkley (London, 1930; a murder among a group of golden age mystery writers turns into a second chance romance for two of them)

Ann McMan, The Malign Ghosts of Summer, Bywater (from postwar Paris to mid-century New York City, novel traces how the pursuit of love can shape a life)

Lily Meyer, Short War, Verve (debut novel explores US imperialism, class, family and identity against the backdrop of an increasingly unstable Chile)

T. L. Mogford, The Saffron Thief, HarperCollins (historical adventure suspense novel, set in 1666)

Santa Montefiore, The Last Encore, Orion (final novel in the Timeslider trilogy, starring Pixie Tate)

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Intrigue, Del Rey (noir set in 1940s Mexico about desire, danger, and greed, and in which seduction is the ultimate con)

Boyd Morrison, Beth Morrison, Duel of Beasts, Head of Zeus-Aries (next novel in the Tales of the Lawless Land series, set in Málaga, Spain, 1352)

Marina Nemat, Mistress of the Persian Boarding House, Penguin Can (told in alternating chapters between time in Russia and Iran, this tale tells of the unbreakable bond between women who choose each other as family)

Gaëlle Nohant, trans. Maren Baudet-Lackner, trans. Sophie-Charlotte Buchan, The Bureau of Unknown Fates, Manilla (novel about WWII’s forgotten objects and the lives they hold)

Anna Normann, The Librarian of Oslo, Allison & Busby (WWII story of a woman who dares to resist, and the heroism that changes the course of lives including her own)

Gerald Ortiz y Pino, Beyond the Edge of the Known World, UNM Press (a family saga set against the backdrop of the Spanish colonial world)

Kurt Palka, The Autumn of Madame Hélène, McClelland & Stewart (story about courage and family, and about difficult decisions with life-altering consequences, set in 1960s Nova Scotia)

Philip Paris, A Fire in Their Hearts, Black & White (tale of love, faith, and survival, inspired by true events of seventeenth-century Scotland)

Kaarina Parker, To Rule a Ruler, Manilla Press (sequel to Fulvia, taking her from tragedy to a powerful legacy she knows she deserves)

H. G. Parry, The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood, Redhook (WWII historical fantasy where dreams come to life and Arthurian legends are reborn)

Tracie Peterson, A Life So True, Bethany House (novel of heartfelt romance, steady faith, and the power of redemption set in 1893 Minnesota)

Jo Piazza, The Parisian Heist, Dutton (dual-timeline mystery set in art-world intrigue and family secrets, betrayal, and the lure of power)

Carolynn Pietrangeli, The Sicilian Daughter, Radius (biographical family saga of carving one’s path in ancestral and present culture, multi timeline – present day and various point in the past)

Mel Pennant, Miss Hortense and the Last Rites, Baskerville (second series mystery finds Miss Hortense and her friends grappling with the question, “What happens when a man who can’t die, dies?”)

Matthew Plampin, These Wicked Devices, Borough Press (in Rome, 1650, thousands of pilgrims flood in for the Holy Jubilee, but behind the gilded façade of the Vatican, power is unravelling)

Michael Pogach, Valhalla Burning, Diversion Books (9^th-century Norway; a dark Viking adventure of grief, vengeance, fear, and fate)

Frances Quinn, The Scandalous Ladies Football Club, Simon & Schuster Uk (story inspired by the Victorian trailblazers who showed the world that women can do anything they put their minds to)

Tony Rea, Bouncer’s Buzz Bomb, Sapere (fifth book in the Gus Beaumont Aviation Thrillers series)

Anthony Riches, Swords of Troy, Hodder & Stoughton (first book in a new epic series of ancient myth and historical adventure)

Bora Lee Reed, Song for Another Home, Ink (a story of family separation and reunion, as well as love and war, set during the war between North and South Korea)

Kelly Rimmer, The Story Keeper, MIRA (told across dual timelines, novel weaves a tale inviting readers into the heart of a family’s darkest secrets)

Bruce Rule, The Debutante Detective, Titan (New York City-set mystery that sees Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice Roosevelt, team up with Holmes and Watson to save the president from a kidnapping)

John Searles, Single Girls, Mariner (fictionalization of Helen Gurley Brown’s early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, and the group of women she took under her wing)

Shylashri Shankar, Scorpion Palace, Canelo (Hyderabad, 1895; nine people find themselves marooned at a house party in Faluknama Palace during a storm; second book in the new Murder in the Deccan series)

Irina Shapiro, Murder on Devil’s Ridge, Storm (Nurse Gemma Bell and her new husband, Inspector Sebastian Bell unravel the murder of a young girl in this Victorian mystery)

Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper, Vengeance, Zaffre (new Courtney Series adventure; book 8 in the Birds of Prey sequence set in Van Diemen’s Land, 1835)

Stephanie Soileau, Should the Waters Take Us, Doubleday (literary debut that follows one family across four centuries, from France to Acadia to the bayous of Southern Louisiana)

Jason Stone, The Beauty of the Days Gone By, Atlantic (1866; a Western frontier novel based on historical events about a legendary cattle rancher and a family torn apart by the violent struggle between Texans and the Comanche and Kiowa Indians)

Matson Taylor, Roman Mornings, Scribner UK (novel of hope and healing set between 1952 and 1976)

Victoria Thompson, Ellen Thompson, City of Promises, Berkley (8^th book in historical-mystery series featuring Elizabeth Miles, a young con woman who finds herself embroiled in intrigue in turn-of-the-century New York)

Peter Tremayne, Blood on the Wind, Headline (37^th Irish super-sleuth Sister Fidelma Mystery set in 7^th-century)

S. J. A. Turney, Prince, Canelo (story of the final years of the Roman empire, and the rise of one of her most legendary emperors)

Gabriel Valjan, Four on the Floor, Level Best Historia (book four of The Company Files, set during the Cold War)

Roseanna M. White, The Spy Keeper of Marseille, Tyndale (in occupied France, a woman becomes a spy for the Resistance and rises to lead the largest intelligence operation in the country)

Carolyn Marie Wilkins, Let the Murderer Say Amen, Kensington (during 1920s Jazz Age America, Nola Ann Jackson learns about developing her natural psychic talents from her aunt)

Colby Wilkens, If I Go Down with This Ship, St. Martin’s Griffin (time-travel LGBTQ adventure rom com about taking a chance on love to defy impossible odds)

Daisy Wood, The Secrets of Provence, Avon (dual timeline WWII tale of love, loss and the realities of war)

Bat Ye’Or, Under the Crescent, Skyhorse (from Cairo of the 19th century through two World Wars to the expulsion of Jews from Egypt, trilogy follows three generations of one Jewish family who fight to remain anchored in an unravelling homeland)

James Ziskin, The Prank, Level Best Historia (cautionary tale set in 1968 where a 13-year-old befriends his 7^th-grade teacher setting in motion events that threaten to erupt into a full-blown scandal)

August 2026

Jennifer Ashley, Murder in Blackfriars, Berkley (in Victorian London, valiant cook and amateur sleuth Kat Holloway must help the man she loves solve a murder)

Kerry Barrett, The Last Library of Paris, HQ (sequel to The Bookshop of Secrets)

R. G. Belsky, The Mogul, Level Best Historia (about how a sensational front page murder story causes the downfall of a media empire; set in the 70s and 80s when newspapers were at their peak)

James R. Benn, The Ninth Circle, Soho Crime (US Army Captain Billy Boyle is sent to Havana, Cuba, where the murder of an Intelligence Officer thrusts Billy into the city’s criminal underworld)

Tracy Borman, The House of Boleyn, Grove (history of the Boleyn family woven into a novel of ambition, bloodlines, and the opulent and deadly court of Henry VIII)

Rhys Bowen, The Castle in the Glen, Lake Union (a ghostwriter is in danger as she unravels the secrets of a powerful Scottish family; dual timeline 1964 and 1904)

Corin Burnside, Liesel’s War, HQ Digital (Liesel Heinemann, once a promising student of translation, is now is caught in the storm of war as a reluctant interpreter for the Nazis)

Lyn Liao Butler, Under the Ghost Moon, Lake Union (from the martial law era of Taiwan to present-day Kauai, a woman uncovers her family’s secrets in this multigenerational saga)

Claire Carusillo, The Responsible Party, Henry Holt (replete with inappropriately old boyfriends, dubious medical professionals, and a few boats, several women, in several different times, are trying to stay afloat)

P. C. Cast, Queen of Shadow, William Morrow/Magpie (historical fantasy set in the mystical world of the Isle of Skye in 200 BCE, where legends come to life and the Queen of Shadow holds court)

Brinda Charry, Hocus Pocus, Scribner (a young magician travels across the world seeking fame and fortune all the while hiding a secret; set in the 1800s)

George Makana Clark, The Wreckers, Europa (darkly comic, entertaining epic of pirates, con men, and the enduring scars of the slave trade)

Rory Clements, Invitation from a Dictator, Viking (on the eve of war, in Munich, 1937, a royal guest is lured into Hitler’s deadly web)

Marina Closs, trans. Thomas Bunstead, The Depopulation, Bellevue Literary Press (novel set in a 17th-century Jesuit mission in the Brazilian wilderness, where the harmony of their community is abruptly upended by unforeseen events)

Robert de la Chevotiere, The Twelfth House, Erewhon (1794; a vengeful spirit wills itself into existence in a land where people are property, and dreams of freedom incite rebellion against those who profit from slave labor)

Elizabeth DeLozier, The Whitechapel Full Moon Society, Dutton (a novel blending the historical with fantasy and mystery, set in London, 1888, when Queen Victoria reigns and Jack the Ripper terrorises the East End)

Melanie Dickerson, A Mismatch Made in London, Bethany House (a Regency romance brimming with wit and warmth)

Angus Donald, Templar Assassin, Canelo (second novel in trilogy inspired by a true story about an English Templar knight who joined the Mongol horde of Genghis Khan)

Gordon Doherty, The Eagle and the Wolf, HarperCollins (historical adventure novel; Age of Attila, book 1)

Julianne Edwards, Odette Rising, Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Pamela Dorman (portrayal of a woman fighting against the limitations of her society, set in 1897 Sèvres, France)

Cathi Fleming, The Nun of Ravensbrück, Hachette Mobius (WWII tale of tragedies and small mercies, of the bonds of women in a world of war, and of how one nun’s courage changed the course of history)

Tim Flood, The Flower of Canaan, Histria (forbidden love sparks betrayal and rebellion in ancient Canaan, forcing one woman to defy gods and tradition)

Megan Frampton, Demons and Diplomacy, Berkley (1851 London; a pact between an ordinary woman and the silver-tongued son of the Devil is all that stands between Britain and all hell breaking loose; book one in new series)

Alex Gerlis, City of Traitors, Canelo (towards the end of the Second World War, a new conflict looms over who will control Europe when the war ends)

Carlo Gibbs, Silver’s Phoney War, Sapere (first book in the Oscar Silver WWII Naval Adventures series; adventures set during the Second World War)

Stephen Greco, The Woman Who Had Everything, John Scognamiglio (biographical novel about love, ambition, resilience, reinvention, and Elizabeth Taylor on set in Italy during the summer of 1967)

Cate Green, The Bookbinder, One More Chapter (bookbinder Léon Fortel has been dedicated to a craft that dates back centuries – lovingly building whole universes before watching his books make their way into the world; but now the books are coming back!)

S. M. Hallow, The Halls of the Dead, Harper Voyager (a queer, gothic horror romance set in a necromancy-tinged Victorian London in 1849)

M. K. Hardy, The Haunting of Avis Lovelock, Solaris (a professional sceptic joins forces with a professional spiritualist in this supernatural Victorian mystery)

Matthew Harffy, Bane of Bernicia, Head of Zeus-Aries (Anglo-Saxon warlord Beobrand must navigate the caprices of kings as he fights for his honour and his life)

Robert Harris, Agrippa, Hutchinson Heinemann/Random House (from his earliest meetings with Julius Caesar, through conflict with Mark Antony, the battle of Actium, one man has dominated Agrippa’s life; the ruthless Octavius)

Robert J. Harris, Crescendo, Pegasus (Hollywood, 1959; when a struggling mystery writer is hired by Alfred Hitchcock to work on the script for his new film, madness and murder is his reward)

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Rivals at Ashmore Castle, Sphere (fifth novel in the Ashmore Castle series, set in 1905)

Anastasia Hastings, Of Devotion and Death, Severn House (cozy Victorian historical murder mystery)

Sarah Hawkswood, Act of Betrayal, Allison & Busby (as the 1145 winter bites, Undersheriff Hugh Bradecote, Serjeant Catchpoll and Walkelin begin a new hunt for a killer of a popular iron & coal trader)

Alice Hoffman, Witches of Cambridge, Scribner (following two young women in 1950s Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they become immersed in a mysterious secret group of witches at Radcliffe)

Rachel Hore, The Secrets of Dragonfly Lodge, Simon & Schuster UK (interweaves past and present in the environs of the Norfolk Broads in 2010, and in London in the ’40s and ‘50s)

Anna Lee Huber, The Bravest Hour, Kensington (Verity Kent faces her most dangerous challenge yet, in book 9 in series)

Michael Jecks, Crusader’s War, Boldwood (sequel to Pilgrim’s War, set in 11^th-century)

William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, Whiskey Woods, Pinnacle (new series set during the Texas Whiskey Wars, where a proud family of distillers faces off with a ruthless rival)

Mairi Kidd, Newes of Witches, Black & White (rural Scotland, 1629; historical novel set during the Scottish witch trials filled with confessions and betrayal

Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans. Martin Aitken, Arendal, Vintage (1976; a novel about impossible love and about impossible life and a man trying to find his foothold in the world)

Marina Lisa Komiya, On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides Vol. 1, Fantagraphics-Takumigraphics (manga debut follows the lives of two Japanese war brides following WWII)

Nina LaCour, Meet Me in the Garden, Flatiron (novel set in New Orleans, 1944, inspired by the author’s family and tracing the history of the Great Migration)

Veronica Leigh, Eye For An Eye, Level Best Historia (mystery crime series featuring Claire Williams, Lady Sheriff of Ouabache; set in 1930s)

Zülfü Livaneli, trans. Brendan Freely, Serenade for Nadia, Other Press (based on the real-life sinking of a refugee ship during World War II, an elderly professor revisits the city where he last glimpsed his wife)

Catherine Lloyd, Miss Morton Takes the Waters, Kensington (Caroline and Mrs. Frogeron go to Bath England where some old lady friends share rental apartments and one of them ends up murdered)

Olesya Lyuzna, Liars in Paradise, Mysterious Press (with five days to clear her partner’s name, private detective Ginny Dugan infiltrates a cultish secret society on Long Island’s Gold Coast in 1925)

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, trans. Margaret Jull Costa, trans. Robin Patterson, Memorial de Ayres, Liveright (a domestic drama set on the cusp of Brazil’s abolition of slavery)

Jennifere McMahon, Stay Buried, Gallery (dual timeline queer folk horror in which a woman must confront decades of secrecy and superstition to learn the truth about her mother’s death)

Alyssa Maxwell, Murder at Rosecliff, Kensington (1903; when a party crasher is found dead in a fountain during a soiree in Newport, newspaper editor Emma Cross Andrews must clear her own society reporter from suspicion of murder)

Fauzia Musa, The Strangling Fig, Juniper (novel about how understanding our past can pave the way for a hopeful future; set in Hyderabad, 1946 and California, 2002)

Ava Miller, The French Resistance Hotel, Hodder & Stoughton (France, 1940; one woman will risk all to save refugees from the Nazis)

Vanessa Miller, The Ladies Hall, Thomas Nelson (1880s Ohio; a mirror into times of great change, where progress is met with violence and resistance but hope always rises)

Téa Obreht, Sunrise, W & N (three lives more than one hundred years apart in the small town of Sunrise; set in 1902, 2003 and 2024)

Barbara O’Neal, A Thousand Painted Hours, Lake Union (novel about love, art, and survival spanning 1900s colonial India to Blitz-era London)

Lizzie Page, The Girls Who Took Flight, Bookouture (air hostess Lola has made her home in the skies, starting afresh, but when her past comes calling it may destroy all she’s worked for)

Alan Parks, Deception, Pegasus (in New York City, 1941, the head of the Japanese intelligence section is murdered, and detective Joseph Gunner finds himself in a world where no one can be trusted)

Andrea Penrose, Murder at Somerset House, Kensington (when a murder occurs within the scientific community of Regency London, Lord Wrexford and Charlotte are the perfect pair to unravel it; book 9 in series)

Ginger Pinholster, The Train to Santa Fe, Regal House (imagines the impact of the railroad’s arrival in northern New Mexico, tracing one family’s story across generations)

Kevin Powers, Children of the Wild, Atlantic (love story set in the Virginia mountains and on the battlefields of World War I France)

Alex Preston, A Stranger in Corfu, Pegasus Crime (reimagining of a real, hidden slice of the British Intelligence Service’s history)

Ellen Rachlin, Enheduanna’s Song From the Sands, Histria (fusion of history, myth, and female leadership that challenges how we see the past)

Markus Redmond, Blood Rising, Dafina (blend of supernatural horror and alternate history where a vengeful vampire tribe wages war across the Southern colonies; Province of Carolina, 1710 & Western coast of North America 1711)

Mandy Robotham, The Compass, Sphere (love and long-kept secrets set against the backdrop of the era-defining 1976 European heatwave)

Gareth Rubin, The Waterfall, Simon & Schuster UK (four interconnected mysteries take the reader from Shakespeare’s day to a 19th-century Gothic former Priory, to 1920s Venice, and finally to 1940s California)

Anthony Quinn, The Millionaire Waltz, Abacus (in London in the 1920s, a young woman treads the path between danger and desire)

Riley Sager, The Unknown, Dutton (in 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one hundred years later, it’s happening again)

Del Sandeen, These Walls Remember, Berkley (when two estranged sisters inherit a home possessed by the horrors of its dark past, they must work together to survive; setting early 1900s and contemporary Savannah)

Lauren Lee Smith, The Night Pool, Blackstone (historical horror set in the Gold Rush West, where three women must battle monsters both human and inhuman to survive)

Laraine Stephens, The Bathing Box Murders, Level Best Historia (Melbourne 1928; a storm topples a beach bathing box revealing the graves of a successful businessman, and his wife, Hope. Reggie da Costa series)

Christine Hill Suntz, The Heiress and the Woodsman, Tyndale (Canada 1837; on the road into the Canadian wilderness, Charlotte Carruthers and Joshua Robertson become reluctant allies in a race to save their brothers)

Jodi Taylor, A Family Affair, Headline (time-traveling adventure with Lady Amelia Smallhope & butler Pennyroyal)

Will Thomas, For Services Rendered, Minotaur (Barker & Llewelyn #17, set in London, 1896, where Barker’s world is upturned when his longtime nemesis turns up with evil on his mind)

Terrie Todd, The Reluctant Healer of Halifax, Barbour (inspirational story set around December 6, 1917, when the Halifax harbour was leveled by an explosion)

Louisa Tregere, A Fatal Love, Bloomsbury UK (1955 based on true story; as Ruth Ellis awaits her trial, she recollects growing up in England during WWII and events that led to the death of her lover, David Blakely)

Laura Jensen Walker, The Postmistress of Puddlington, Severn House (WWII fiction in which postmistress, Hester, and her fellow citizens of Puddlington are determined to do their bit for the war effort)

Rose Warner, A Christmas Proposal, Canelo (saga about a woman who must make her own way after losing her fiancé and brothers in the Great War)

LaToya Watkins, The Book of Chuck, Penguin (triple timeline novel, set in Texas and spanning decades, investigates the bonds and boundaries of family, generational inheritance, and the power of belonging)

Shirley Perez West, Dreams of Earth and Sky, Lake Union (a ranchero’s daughter in 1845 California fights for her home)

September 2026

Heather Bell Adams, Starring Marilyn Monroe as Herself, Fugere Books (an alternative look at Marilyn Monroe living past 1962)

Tamera Alexander, In These Hills, Tyndale (a young suffragist on the run in 1905, finds more than refuge in the hills and hollers of Tennessee)

Tasha Alexander, Murder on the Sacred River, Minotaur (1908 and 1740; Lady Emily chases down a killer in India along the banks of the sacred river Narmada)

Kate Atkinson, Our Noble Selves, Doubleday (in summer 1951, foreign correspondent turned war reporter Harry Flynn’s attempts to resume a romantic life founder when one of his dates goes missing)

Sebastian Barry, The Newer World, Viking (set against the rapidly shifting landscape of 19th century America, this is a novel about what it is to survive)

Ron Base, Midnight at the Savoy, Douglas & McIntyre (Priscilla Tempest Mystery, Book 5, set in the glamorous world of 1960s London high society)

Toni Bellon, The Cost of Sin, Histria (historical coming-of-age novel that exposes how silence, faith, and family shape a young girl’s understanding of truth)

Tanaz Bhathena, Witch Daughter, Grand Central (a retelling of the tragedy of Tamineh; a tale of love and loss in ancient Persia)

Remington Blackstaff, The Durbar’s Reckoning, IPG/RIZE (five years after the Battle of Katsina, in 17th century Nigeria, Isa is ready to join the elite order of durbar warriors)

Hemley Boum, trans. Nchanji Njamnsi, The Resistance, Two Lines Press (1950s Cameroon; a chapter of nonviolent political resistance suppressed by the official record, chronicles the sacrifice of fighting for freedom larger than yourself)

Denise Derya Brandt, Istanbul Dreaming, She Writes (novel set in 1950s Turkey about a young woman who flees an arranged marriage to pursue independence in Istanbul, where she finds forbidden love with an American airman)

Deborah Carr, Witchbane, One More Chapter (1640, Jersey; in a world where witches burn, loving the enemy is the most dangerous magic of all)

Meg Clothier, In the Shadow of the Solstice, Wildfire (feminist reimagining of Arthurian legend set in the dark and dangerous years after the Romans left Britain)

Philippe Collin, The Barman of the Ritz, Scribner (a celebrated bartender at the Ritz Hotel, during the Nazi occupation of Paris, harbors a dangerous secret)

Patrick deWitt, Dodge City, Ecco (novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fueled cross-country road trip, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada)

Neil Denby, Evocatus, Sapere (seventh book in the Quintus Roman Thrillers series: historical military adventures set in Ancient Rome)

Tananarive Due, Mazywood, S&S/Saga (multigenerational literary thriller following the grandson of a famous Black actress from the 1940s and 1950s, who returns to his grandmother’s cabin retreat only to encounter the legacy of her rage)

Emily Dunlay, The Library of Leaving, Harper (historical novel about an American librarian in 1920s Switzerland who must face the truth of decisions she made to survive during the First World War)

Cynthia Ellingsen, Until the Last Day, Lake Union (the fate of two strangers becomes part of the history of a celebrated painting in a novel of suspense and forbidden love)

Mario Escobar, Library of Forbidden Books, Thomas Nelson (inspiring story about the power of books and the ideas inside them as inspired by the true events of the Berlin book burnings during World War II)

Lucy Foley, Agatha Christie, Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, HarperCollins (On a rare holiday abroad for Miss Marple, someone is found dead, and a snowstorm descends on the hotel)

Mariah Fredericks, Murder on 34^th Street, Minotaur (1932; novel about a fictional murder mystery at the Macy’s parade leading up to the holidays in historic NYC)

Diane Freeman, A Christmas Guide to Family and Murder, Kensington (a country Christmas in Victorian England takes a murderous turn in this mystery featuring Frances Hazelton, the former Countess of Harleigh, and her husband, George)

Cathy Gohlke, Every Given Day, Tyndale (inspirational historical novel weaving together the discovery of insulin and one woman’s fight to cling to her family and hope)

Rosie Goodwin, The Winter Bride, Zaffre (third book in the new Rags to Riches Trilogy)

Scott Gould, Beneath a Fallen Sky, Regal House (portrait of fear, faith, and the resilience of hope when the world seems poised to end; set May 1910 as Halley’s Comet hurtles towards earth)

Ryan Graudin, Bright and Broken Things, Redhook (a young scholar may be the key to an ancient Egyptian artifact coveted by magicians in novel set amidst the Egyptology craze of 1920s London)

Michelle Griep, Belle’s Christmas Carol, Bethany House (a Dickens-inspired holiday romance novella)

Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge, Scribner (follows two young women in 1950s Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they become immersed in a mysterious secret group of witches at Radcliffe)

Charlie N. Holmberg, Lady of Uncanny Charms, 47North (19th-century Victorian fantasy; book 5 of Whimbrel House series)

Rupert Holmes, Where the Truth Lies, Avid Reader (novel will wine and dine you in whimsical company, all the while luring you into a labyrinth of ever-sharpening bends and darkening corners)

Terrence Holt, Soldiers & Sailors, Liveright (recounts the struggles of a doctor as he confronts the ghosts of his gruesome past)

Leslie Howard, Shades of Emily, Douglas and McIntyre (commissioned to buy a painting at auction, Cassie’s life becomes entwined in the experiences of artist, Emily Carr, sending echoes back and forth over a century)

Angela Hunt, Unwavering Heart, Bethany House (a biblically inspired story of motherhood, love, and God’s everlasting faithfulness told through Rebekah)

Ben Kane, Cannae, Orion (historical epic brings the ancient battle to life amidst fear, madness and brutality of Cannae, one of the bloodiest battles; set in 216 BC)

Linda Kass, World News from Waverley High, She Writes (1969; coming-of-age novel set at an urban high school captures a singular moment in American history)

Kathleen Kaufman, Beyond the Graves Waits Mist and Sea, Kensington (on the fictional Bell Island, microbiologist Harper Hafdótti discovers the 1690 journal of a young woman in the grips of a religious cult)

Terry Kirk, Plunder, At Bay Press (Frank Cork is back as World War II rages across Europe, and the fate of Britain is hanging by a thread)

Stephanie Koens, Daughters of the Wreckage, Thomas Nelson (dual timeline inspirational story brings to light the connection between a woman in 2018 and a haunting story in Amsterdam 1628)

Nancy Kress, The Queen’s Witch, 47North (historical fantasy that reimagines the life of Anne Boleyn from the lens of the witch who helps guide her in courtly rise)

Grace Krilanovich, Acid Green Velvet, Two Dollar Radio/Seven Stories (in late 19th century on the central California coast, two wayward young hobos threaten to kill a man who wronged them)

Ariel Lawhon, The Pirate Queen, Doubleday (adventure inspired by the life of Grace O’Malley, an Irish sea captain and folk heroine who risked everything to protect her people against the Elizabethan regime)

Carol MacLean, Land Girls of the Highlands, Canelo (in WW2 Scotland, Molly Robinson signs up for the Women’s Land Army and is none too pleased when her mother insists she take her older sister along)

Madeline Martin, A Time of Witches, Hanover Square (dual timeline story set between 17th-c witch trials in England & present day)

Regina McBride, The White Deer, Green City (summer 1879, on his way to Moscow to study medicine, 19-year-old Anton Chekhov spends a few weeks in the Ukrainian countryside with a friend)

Diane C. McPhail, The French Innkeeper’s Daughter, Kensington (1718; exiled from her home in France, a young woman journeys through Normandy, to pre-Revolutionary Paris, and to her destiny as one of the founding mothers of Louisiana)

Dana Mentink, Murders in the Marquee, Love Inspired (cosy historical murder mystery set in a San Francisco hotel, where a trio of amateur sleuths must uncover a killer before another guest checks out for good)

Jean Menzies, The Lady of the Lake, Michael Joseph (sapphic romantasy reimagines intrigue and betrayal at the court of Camelot)

China Miéville, The Rouse, Pan Macmillan (decade- and continent-spanning story investigating a personal tragedy, when ordinary woman stumbles on dark conspiracies and provokes the attention of uncanny forces)

Madeline Miller, Mestra, Ecco (novella reimagines the forgotten myth of Mestra, the gifted daughter of the King of Thessaly)

Louisa Morgan, The Faerie Handmaid, Redhook (Arthurian historical fantasy where a handmaid to the most powerful priestess must travel to the land of the fae to break the curse haunting the new king of Camelud)

John Mutter, Fortune and Glass, IPG/Left Field (philosophical spy novel, a love story, and a meditation on moral choice set inside the gathering darkness of WWII Berlin)

Tristan Nettles, The King: A Bronze Age Tale, Histria (continues the saga of the shepherd destined to become a king)

Andie Newton, The Housewives of Atomic Lane, One More Chapter (historical novel based on the author’s own family history)

I. V. Ophelia, The Cannibal, Simon Maverick (third book in the Victorian gothic romance series about a botanist who kills unsavory men, and the one man who’s resistant to her deadly poison)

Elaine Hume Peake and Don Keith, Goodnight from Berlin, Severn River (tale of moral courage in the shadow of victory; A Call to War, book 3)

Cathy Pegau, A Deadly Entanglement, Minotaur (follow-up to A Murderous Business, where two women’s determination challenges the cost of greed and the price of failure; set in turn-of-the-century NY)

Robert G. Penner, Notes on a Colonial Situation in Hell, McNally Jackson (alternative history set as the Old Empire of sails, slavery, and spices transforms into the New Imperialism of steam and scientific racism)

Andrea Penrose, Murder on Threadneedle Street, Kensington (Wrexford and Sloane’s investigation turns more fraught when one of their closest friends falls under suspicion and the deeper they probe, the more treachery comes to light)

Amanda Peters, The Birthing Tree, Catapult (novel follows one Nova Scotian indigenous woman’s journey to protect the land, the traditions, and the memory of the women who came before her)

Barbara Pronin, A Moon at the End of the World, Black Rose Writing (WW II adventure, a coming-of-age story and a love story that stretches from Nazi-occupied Holland in 1944 to contemporary times)

Weina Dai Randel, The Lost Kingdom of Daughters, Lake Union (in 1950s China, a woman’s passions for two American brothers spell love and lust, jealousy and betrayal)

A. Rushby, All Her Beautiful Deaths, Verve (dual-timeline gothic mystery inspired by the macabre world of Victorian death photography)

Gabriella Saab, The Survivor’s Guild, Harper Muse (when the Titanic sinks, wo women’s paths are fused together as one saves the other’s life and they are unexpectedly charged with the smallest survivor—a baby boy)

Michelle Sacks, Dancing at the End of the World, Red Hen (century-spanning collection of interconnected stories which trace Berlin’s history through the lives of its inhabitants, integrating survival, reinvention, and the echoes of trauma)

Antonio Scurati, M: The Ascent to Power, Harper (vol. 2 of trilogy follows the 1930s as Benito Mussolini transcends his youth as a small-time newspaperman, agitator, and socialist to become the charismatic Il Duce)

Mengxi Seeley, Silk and Sensibility, Shadow Mountain (retelling of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility set in Ming-dynasty China)

Lauraine Snelling, Kiersti Giron, Fair Are the Meadows, Bethany House (a heartwarming story of frontier life and the love and faith that sustain through trials)

Marivi Soliven, Taxi Dancer, Red Hen (novel that illuminates the hidden world of Depression-era Filipino taxi dance halls, weaving a forbidden interracial romance with a high-stakes murder mystery)

Julian Spalding, Beauty: Botticelli in Florence, Pallas Athene (speculates on the people, experiences, and events that might have informed Boticelli’s work)

Molly Sturdevant, The Sleepers, Regal House (July 1893; a story of shifting loyalties, loss, and the transformation toward collective power, Congress’ s gold standard sends silver plummeting)

Sarah Sundin, Twelve Days and Twelfth Night, Revell (a World War II Christmas novella)

Elaine Thomson, Saltwater, Sphere (set on the Isle of Stroma, 1896, second in a quartet of ghost stories set in the wilds of Scotland)

Nafissa Thompson-Spires, The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford, Scribner (Oklahoma, 1921; the murder of an infamous moonshiner and the cacophony of true stories a small town can tell about itself)

Oless Ulianenko, trans. Olha Rudakevych, Stalinville, Harvard Ukrainian Research Inst. (set in Kyiv in the post-Soviet Union years, a portrait of a society emerging from decades of violence, repression, and moral ruin)

Fiona Valpy, Sisters of the Midnight Sun, Penguin (two women, decades apart, are torn apart by grief but brought together through hope; set in Shetland 2001 and Norway 1940)

Bo Wang, The Chinese Lady, HarperVia (debut immortalizes the life of the first Chinese woman to be brought to the United States in the 1800s)

Martha Waters, Spellstruck, Atria (in an alternate 1920s London, an enemies-to-lovers rom-com about the owner of a speakeasy supplying magical drinks and an enforcer of the ban on magic who must team up when potions begin to go awry)

Katherine Webb, The Echo of Loss, Lake Union (Hallewell trilogy book #2 – full description forthcoming)

Helen Wecker, The Gates of Midnight, Harper (conclusion to trilogy after The Golem and the Jinni takes readers to 1930 New York)

Christine Wells, The Lost Perfumes of Paris, William Morrow pb (set against the backdrop of mid-century Parisian glamour and the art of perfumery, a tale of love, and pursuit of passion)

Kate Westbury, The Oxford Guide to Scandal & Lies, Minotaur (set against the backdrop of post-WWII Oxford University, debut layers mystery, romance, and a dash of academia)

Tracy Wise, Manufacturing a Duchess, Type Eighteen (a tale of ambition, affection, and aristocracy in the Regency era)

Guzel Yakhina, trans. Polly Gannon, Eisen, Europa (literary portrait of Sergei Eisenstein and the radical dream of cinema)

October 2026

Hasanein Ben Ammou, trans. William Granara, The Foreigner’s Quarter, Interlink (a novel of mid-15th century Venice and Tunisia)

Jeffrey Archer, Adam and Eve, HarperCollins (WWII novel follows two children born on Armistice Day 1918 whose birth marks the end of one era of war while their love will affect the outcome of another)

S. J. Bennett, Death on the Royal Yacht, Zaffre (1966; Queen Elizabeth is touring the Caribbean aboard Royal Yacht Britannia, when her new diary secretary is found dead; book 6 in Her Majesty Investigates series)

Sian Ann Bessey, When You Rescued Me, Shadow Mountain (clean suspense and romance in the heart of eighteenth-century London)

Ryan Burruss, American Crow, Counterpoint (1952, Maryland; beneath a new suburb carved from the echoes of war, an old hunger stirs, awakened by an itinerant stranger whose gifts reveal what the town has tried to bury)

Colleen Cambridge, Death Down the Aisle, Kensington (when a murderer brings mayhem to a wedding, Agatha Christie’s housekeeper, Phyllida Bright is on hand to sweep up the mystery)

Susannah Clarke, The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City, Bloomsbury (fantasy in which Ranulf, Bishop of Durham understands that the survival of the Northern English people depends on to uniting the human and fairy race)

Mary Connealy, The Heart’s Most Wanted, Bethany House (a new action adventure in the Rocky Mountain Marshals series)

C. J. Cooke, The House of Cursed Daughters, HarperCollins (gothic fantasy novel of witchcraft, curses, and female resistance set in historical Spain)

Andreina Cordani, The Murders of Christmas Past, Zaffre (a killer stalks the streets of London, murdering Christmas-hating misers, a mystery only reformed penny-pincher Ebenezer Scrooge can solve)

Connilyn Cossette, Throne of the Heavens, Bethany House (the early years of King Saul’s reign come to life in this biblical-inspired tale)

Matt Cost, 1955, Level Best Historia (a private investigator historical mystery set in Raleigh, NC in 1950s)

Dilly Court, The Midwinter Daughter, HarperCollins (first of two-part series weaves a tale that follows the lives of two spirited sisters navigating the world of a traveling circus)

Jocelyn Cullity, The Nurse at Baker Hospital, Regal House (mystery story explores a dubious cancer hospital in the 1930s and exposes medical fraud)

Anjet Daanje, trans. David McKay, The Song of Stork and Dromedary, Scribe (a literary mystery and meditation on love, life, loss, and the inexplicable nature of time, inspired by the life and work of Emily Brontë)

Fiona Davis, Samantha: The Next Chapter, American Girl (next chapter of Samantha Parkington’s story–now an adult searching for justice after her legacy is stolen in New York City in 1920)

Alysandra Dutton, The Stolen Women, Park Row (a case of missing noble women and a young warrior who sets out to bring them home in an ancient historical set just before the founding of Rome)

Rosa Kwon Easton, Red Seal, Lake Union (the journey of a single Korean mother and her son over four decades as they struggle to build a life together in Manchuria, Soviet-occupied North Korea, and a newly democratic South Korea)

Courtney Ellis, Flyweight, Blackstone (inspired by Annie Newton, London’s first female boxer, a story of the strength, defiance, and resilience of women in an ever-changing post-war England)

Lyndsay Faye, Raven, Mysterious Press (an orphaned young woman in antebellum Maryland is pulled into a maelstrom of passion, pain, and occult power)

Katie Flynn, The Winter Fair, Penguin (love finds a way in Liverpool, 1919 in this inter-war family saga)

Suzanne Fortin, The Secret Nurse of Paris, Embla (WWII story of one ordinary woman’s bravery as she is faced with the ultimate choice, and the sacrifices she must make)

Kathleen Carr Foster, The Jewel of Corlivo, Erewhon (the day after her debut as an apprentice courtesan in Corlivo, Anna finds a letter which will be the key to finding love, friendship, and the greatest adventure of her life)

Kathleen Fox, Evie Walters Takes the Wheel, Lake Union (a widow to take a cross-country journey and explores her memories of the family ranch and childhood dreams and now second chances)

Dayle Furlong, Unto the Day, Dundurn (life changes dramatically for suffragette Anne Brown after her husband’s assassination in spring 1880)

Catherine Gillard, An Incidental Nazi, Histria (follows lives scattered across continents during World War II, where music offers both hope and escape)

Philippa Gregory, The Royal Witch, William Morrow (the story of Eleanor Cobham who was tried and convicted for witchcraft and was almost certainly a practising witch)

Jody Hedlund, A Marriage by the Sea, Bethany House (new historical romance series following a family of sisters living on an island in Maine)

Jenny Holiday, Brown-Eyed Earl, Kensington (romantic comedy featuring three Regency-era Earls on their annual trip)

Silas House, The Tulip Poplars, Algonquin (novel spanning 20th century; four people try to find happiness outside of conventional choices – a story of race, class, sexual desire and being good when you’re told you are evil for loving who you love)

Damion Hunter, Hadrian’s Eagles, Canelo (Emperor Hadrian has ordered Britain’s frontier pulled back to more a defensible line; so a great wall, splitting the island in two, is commissioned)

Nneoma Ike-Njoku, The Water House, S&S/Summit (1967, Nigeria; a Gothic tale where a young Nigerian woman returns to the family mansion where her brother died)

Sabrina Jeffries, Mary Jo Putney, Anna Bradley, A Cinderella Christmas, Kensington (Regency romance Christmas stories)

William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, A Preacher Christmas, Pinnacle (legendary trio of Preacher, Audie, and Nighthawk team up to take on a not-so-jolly night raider; a seasonal western)

Jonas Jonasson, trans. Rachel Willson-Broyles, Algot, Anna Stina and the Water of Life, Fourth Estate (adventure of friendship, love and ingenuity, set in 19^th-century Sweden)

Stephen Graham Jones, Off the Reservation, S&S/Saga (novel shines light on the dark corners of this country’s history when an activist group plans to repatriate the bones of a Blackfeet boy who was sent to the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School)

Mary Beth Keane, Whale Harbor, Scribner (from 1960s Ireland, this multi-generational saga follows eleven brothers torn apart and set on different paths between Ireland, England, Montana, and New York)

Julia Kelly, The Queen of Roses, Gallery (a novel of love and sacrifice set in California 1960 and 1903)

Natalie Kikic, The Haunting of Lavender House, Park Row (dual-narrative alternates between a young woman, whose family is cursed, and a healer centuries earlier, who both fight to be accepted by their homeland)

Lisa Kleypas, Queen of Lombard Street, Avon (Victorian novel about a trailblazing female economist who’s determined to build Britain’s first women’s bank)

Yiyun Li, Music Against the Night, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (19^th-century saga following two musicians as they mature, study, travel, love, grieve, and, above all, chase their ambitions)

Hannah Linder, Tenderly Betrayed, Barbour (a Gothic-style Regency romance)

Will Maclean, Solace House, Grove (puzzle box of a novel following a group of university students who discover an astonishing secret while clearing out a neglected Victorian mansion)

Edward Marston, The Corpse on the Bristol Train, Allison & Busby (the final case for the Railway Detective series)

Amanda Mason, The Dark, Manilla (seaside folk horror novel set against the blackouts of the 1970s)

Catherine Mathis, Leonor, Histria (in 1367, one woman’s hunger for power will set Portugal ablaze, unless she’s devoured first)

Kelly McWilliams, American Nightmare, Crown (a light-skinned Black man goes undercover to investigate lynchings in the Jim Crow South)

Nicole M. Miller, All We Carry Home, Revell (a historical romance weaves through a story of post-World War II resilience full of equestrian passion)

Rowena Miller, The Dancer and the Dream Thief, Redhook (a dancer finds herself at the center of a bootlegging scheme run by elfin creatures in this Prohibition-era historical fantasy)

Keith Moray, Justice of the Peace, Boldwood (3rd in the Ralph de Mandeville medieval murder mystery series)

Cindy Morgan, The Dogwood Gospel, Tyndale (1954; a talented young trick rider finds unexpected community in a traveling carnival, only to discover secrets in the shadow of the Big Top)

Trudy J. Morgan-Cole, Beyond the Brightening Sea, Breakwater (set against the harsh backdrop of seventeenth-century Newfoundland, three women struggle to find freedom)

Heather Morris, The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse, Blackstone (in 1942, the Nazis come for a Jewish family living in the Montparnasse as the eleven-year-old daughter escapes to the only person she can trust: her piano teacher)

Claire North, As We Fall Through Time, Orbit (a tale of time travel, betrayal, and love that echoes through the centuries)

Lance Olsen, An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies, Dzanc (a lyrical novelization of an artist’s solitary, disembodied life, in a series of recollections at the end of his life in 1973)

Laura Purcell, Thorns in the Hollow, Magpie (Tabitha’s world is thrown upside down when her cousin dies in a hunting accident)

Shouhua Qi, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shanghai Press (saga of stratagem, intrigue, and empire set 2000 years ago)

Patricia Raybon, The Sedalia Code, Tyndale (a young woman struggles to rise above her dirt-poor beginnings and outsmart a Nazi threat on U.S. soil during WWII)

Katherine Reay, The Undercover Bookshop, Harper Muse (following her instincts learned through fiction, Gemma Cameron becomes embroiled in an international intrigue involving her Cotswolds village’s mysterious benefactor)

SJ Rozan, John Shen Yen Nee, A Warning to the Curious, Soho, (a missing shipment of weapons for China and the murder of an aspiring scientist kickstart a dash through the world of seances, prizefighting and cutting-edge technology)

Shannon St. Hilaire, The Hanford Necklace, She Writes (dual-timeline family saga, set in a Manhattan Project town, about a granddaughter who uncovers her grandmother’s nuclear-age secrets and her own toxic inheritance)

Marina Scott, My Darling Girls, Lake Union (historical horror ghost story set in 1904 Chicago where a crime family’s request for a final portrait of their daughter Millie, stirs up a spirit that refuses to rest)

Joanna Shupe, The Gilded Rose, Avon (retelling of Beauty and the Beast, set against the opulence of Gilded Age New York)

Natasha Siegel, Chateau Reverie, William Morrow (set amidst the final days of the French Revolution, a fairytale full of horrors and wonders: both a romance and a speculative mystery)

Alex T. Singer, Angel Country, S&S/Saga (in an alternate 1904, a xenobiologist hunts down her former research partner after he steals her life’s work in this cosmic horror story)

Paul Smith, The Women of Ravensbrück, The Book Social (Sarah Rothstein a Jewish book keeper, Marie Laurent a French resistance fighter, Zofia Nowicki a Polish nurse, are thrown together in a crucible of suffering)

Wilbur Smith, David Churchill, Flashpoint, Zaffre (new installment in the Courtney saga set in 1943, America and 1946, Kenya)

Neal Stephenson, D: Heavy Water, William Morrow/Borough Press (second installment in the Bomb Light series—set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control a substance critical to building atomic weapons)

Karen Swan, The Winter Guest, Penguin (dual timeline winter romance set in Paris 1961 and present day Lake Geneva)

Nafissa Thompson-Spires, The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford, Scribner (Oklahoma, at the height of Prohibition, Richard Milford, an infamous moonshiner and womanizer, seems to have crossed the wrong person at the wrong time)

Various, Sherlock: Stories, Atria (ten new original Sherlock Holmes stories)

Nghi Vo, The Scarlet Ball, Tor (historical fantasy in which a former convent girl, courtesan, and thief, takes on the secrets of New York’s Gilded Age Four Hundred by impersonating a missing heiress of a powerful family)

T. I. M. Wirkus, A Bad Deal in Mormon Land, Type Eighteen (it’s 1908, and an itinerant spirit medium takes on a mysterious job offered by a religious extremist in Salt Lake City)

Jaime Jo Wright, The Resurrection of Evania James, Bethany House (dual timeline Gothic suspense that brings together a historical tale and a modern-day mystery)

Stephen Wright, Black Moon, Little, Brown (adventure in a lawless world, inspired by the 18th-century Irish pirate Anne Bonny, reimagined here as Amethyst “Meeks” Connell)

November 2026

Tessa Afshar, The Palace Spy, Bethany House (finale to the Queen Esther’s Court series unveils a glimpse into Esther’s life beyond the well-known story)

Robert Archambeau, The Bloomsbury Forgery, Regal House (sequel to Alice B. Toklas is Missing where Ida must rely on a band of artists, heiresses, and dealers, to save a historic home, her family, and her sanity)

Jess Armstrong, The Lost Souls of Saint Oda’s, Minotaur (1923; as Ruby Vaughan unfurls a mystery, she finds missing souls and a secret that has been simmering at St. Oda’s since the Great War)

Kimberly Bea, Stitching Nettles, Erewhon (feminist fantasy retelling of the Brothers Grimm tale “The Wild Swans”, set in late 16^th-century Germany)

William Boyd, Cold Sunset, Atlantic (third literary thriller starring spy Gabriel Dax draws readers into a world where loyalty blurs, treachery abounds, and any misstep could be fatal)

Celeste Connally, Murder of a Merry Gentleman, Minotaur (fourth installment of the Regency-era Lady Petra Inquires mystery series, set in London, 1815)

Rebecca Connolly, Webs of Ink, Shadow Mountain (in 1920s London, “Lady Detective” Maud West enlists newly published Agatha Christie to covertly investigate a dangerous mystery)

Andreina Cordani, A Scrooge Mystery, Pegasus Crime (Ebenezer Scrooge strays from the path of goodness and starts seeing ghosts again)

Nina de Gramont, Peregrine Hill, Simon & Schuster (a novel set in Gilded Age New York about a mother and daughter navigating a world built on men’s appetites and women’s silence)

Charles Finch, Midnight in the House of Commons, Minotaur (amateur sleuth Charles Lenox investigates the murder of a Parliament member in high society Victorian London)

Amanda Flower, The First Ladies’ Guide to Murder, Kensington (set amid Gilded Age-era Washington, historical mystery series debut features the capital’s most influential women as they band together with a common goal)

Amy Lynn Green, The Home Front Sisters, Bethany House (a Little Women-inspired novel set against the backdrop of World War II)

Annie Groves, Christmas Bells for the Three Sisters, HarperCollins (WW2 historical fiction novel; book 4 in series)

Donna Hill, Nola and Baldwin, Amistad (set during the end of the Great Depression, and shaped by real-world events, is a tale of a love powerful enough to overcome the dark forces of racism)

Allyson Johnson, The Three Lives of Mary Sutton, She Writes (debut novel shows a grittier side of the Gilded Age as two young women struggle to find their own way in 1880s New York)

Mary Beth Keane, Whale Harbor, Scribner/Phoenix (multi-generational saga inspired by the author’s own family history, following eleven brothers set on different paths between Ireland, England, Montana, and New York)

Vanessa Kelly, Murder at Enscombe Park, Kensington (when Emma Knightley visits her pregnant friend Jane and her husband at their Yorkshire estate, a country house party soon becomes the site of a ghastly murder)

Shauna Lawless, Son of the Serpent, Head 0f Zeus-Ad Astra (second volume in Gael Song: Era II, sees invaders mass on Irish soil, kings lose their crowns, and Ireland’s immortals discover new magical powers; set in winter 1169)

Natalie Marlow, Death Comes as a Shadow, Baskerville (May 1935; a respectable spinster is dying and her last wish is to be reconciled with her estranged sister and she believes detectives William Garrett and Phyll Hall can help)

Craig Melvin, Mrs Mackerel and the Poisoned Pasty Puzzle, Allison & Busby (cosy mystery set in 1958, when television personality cook, Mary Mackerel, must leave London in a hurry as public affection for her curdles)

Robbi Neal, With Winter Comes Darkness, HQ Fiction AU (1975 psychological suspense when an accident burns down a family’s life on the same day a murder is committed)

Chinelo Okparanta, This Impossible Life, Mariner (a journey of crime and betrayal, misunderstanding and misfortune, spanning continents and decades: from Nigeria to the United States to Italy)

Frances Park, Ahn Love, Penguin (a reminiscence of the summer of 1969 and the Ahns’ seven-day cruise across the Pacific)

S. J. Parris, The Midwinter Martyr, Hemlock (novella in which Giordano Bruno, heretic, philosopher and spy, is on the run from the Inquisition in Venice 1576)

Tracie Peterson, Devoted to Love, Bethany House (hearts are tested as America edges toward World War I in this finale to A Minnesota Legacy trilogy)

Terrie Petree & Hollands, After the Wolf, Arcade (in mid-19th century the growing Latter-day Saints movement is hounded beyond the boundaries of the frontier by ex-believers and opportunists)

Anna Rasche, The Cursed Diamond, Park Row (dual-timeline mystery that follows two women, a century apart, connected by a cursed gemstone believed to provide good fortune to its owner at great cost)

Orit Raz, The German Officer’s Secret, Histria (in a city under siege, a stolen identity and a forbidden love collide in a story of survival, courage, and the cost of trust)

Abigail Rose-Marie, Between Breaths, Lake Union (in the 1930s, two women defy societal norms and pave the way for a medical breakthrough)

Simon Scarrow, The Sword of Rome, Headline (Cato and Macro return armed for the 25^th installment of the Eagles of the Empire series)

Jeff Shaara, The Unfinished Work, St Martin’s (beginning with his election in 1860, through his pivotal address at Gettysburg, novel reveals the man who refused to let deep divisions and conflicting emotions sunder the country itself)

Gemma Tizzard, The Nightingales of Boston, Gallery (the lives of three women collide in the wake of Boston’s 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire)

G. J. Williams, The Nun’s Kiss, The Book Social (fantasy mystery blending Arthurian legend with historical crime)

December 2026

Bernard Cornwell, Unti. (Uhtred), Harper (returns to the early days of Britain in a new tale featuring Uhtred, the beloved character from The Last Kingdom series)

Angela K Couch, War-Torn Love, Barbour (a post-WWII era romance set in 1946, Colorado)

Sally F. Cutler, Ruth in Shadow and in Light, She Writes (a novel of family secrets and a young Jewish woman whose search for truth leads her to discover the complex and redeeming power of love)

Pia Ghosh-Roy, And I Am the Arrow, Indigo (an exploration of memory, inheritance, and the invisible threads that bind generations together)

Sherrilyn Kenyon, All Things Hidden, Blackstone (a supernatural historical fantasy thriller set during WWII)

Julie Klassen, The Widow of Woodlark Cottage, Bethany House (mystery romance set in Regency England)

Paula Lafferty, Keeper of the Grail, Erewhon (2nd book in Arthurian series following The Once and Future Queen)

A. M. Linden, The Challenge, She Writes (The Druid Chronicles, Book Five; series finale that follows a Saxon sheriff and a Druid priest as they join forces to save an imprisoned princess and bring a homicidal king to justice)

Rosie Meddon, Veronica’s War, Penguin UK (WWII saga; next in The Fairlight Series)

Dale Neal, Floodmarks, Regal House (novella delving into the story behind and the apology demanded by a reader, after the Asheville newspaper mistakenly listed her among the dead in the Flood of 1916)

Phong Nguyen, The Three Daughters of Annam, Grand Central (story set in Viet Nam that reckons with history and the impact of three women upon subsequent generations)

Gaëlle Nohant, The Bureau of Unknown Fates, St Martin’s (a novel of loss and restitution in and after wartime)

Walter Vennett, Sayla Is My Name, Regal House (Civil War tale of courage, resilience, and the struggle to claim one’s humanity in a world determined to deny it)

Carissa Weiser, For the King, William Morrow (fantasy ties Arthurian legend into a kaleidoscopic journey through time, perspective, and the trappings of one’s own destiny)

Jenny Williamson, Game of Thieves, Silhouette (enemies-to-lovers romance set in the last days of the Roman empire)

2027

January 2027

Sara Ackerman, The Volcano Keeper, Harper Muse (1980s story of a woman determined to uncover the 1940s secrets of her family and the island she calls home)

Eleanor Buchanan, The Moonstone Sister, Headline Review (dual timeline second instalment of The Sea Stone Sisters series, combining magical realism with a family saga)

S. J. Parris, Rebel’s Gambit, Hemlock (1601; when the body of a Scottish envoy washes up on the banks of the Thames, the Queen’s most powerful spymaster, Robert Cecil, is accused of arranging the murder)

February 2027

Lucy Diamond, The Storytellers, Headline Review (a battered trunk might hold the key to the secrets that bind four women together across the decades)

F. H. Petford, A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Untimely Death, Hodder & Stoughton (third instalment in the Alma Timperley Mystery series, a quirky paranormal cosy crime mystery set pre-WWI)

March 2027

Phyllis R. Dixon, Notes from Beale Street, Dafina (when their family matriarch dies in 1980s Memphis, two sisters battle over her legacy, only to discover her long-hidden history in 1940s Tupelo and an unexpected connection to Graceland)

Jim Eldridge, Murder at the Vatican, Allison & Busby (the renowned detectives Daniel and Abigail Wilson are asked to investigate a suspected assassination attempt from within the Vatican’s walls)

Joe Hill, Hunger, Headline (Boston, 1776; the dead have been speaking to Captain Amos Crowe since the Battle of Bunker Hill, and now he must track down a witch hidden deep behind enemy lines)

Norman Lock, The Old Man and the Heath, Belleview Literary Press (a reimagined novel of King Lear, resurrected from the heath to bear witness at time’s end, and six stories that present the Bard’s bit characters anew)

Rose Warner, The Teacher’s Secret, Canelo (when a new group of injured servicemen arrive at the village hospital, Nell discovers amongst them a man from her past, one she was hoping not to meet again)

April 2027

Kay Daly, Wilton House, Regal House (17th-century poet Lady Mary Wroth finds scandal and independence through her writing and, four centuries later, inspires a young literary scholar to declare her own independence)

Carol Drinkwater, The Girl From Marseille, Corvus (a novel of love, freedom and community set in Provence, 1938)

Elinor Florence, Touching Grass, Simon & Schuster (late 1800s, Canada’s southern prairies; a woman’s search for her missing sister, and her discovery of a trail of murdered women from Montreal to Maple Creek)

August 2027

Robert Knott, Opium Rose, Putnam (lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch must quell a brewing showdown in the early 1880s)

September 2027

Ken Follett, The Deep and Secret Things, Grand Central/ Quercus (tells the rise and fall of a young man and his legacy, set against the backdrop of the Victorian era, at a time of immense social and industrial change)