2026 Best Book Genre
When Pearl, Primrose, Milly, and Reggie are least expecting it, a locked casket, found hidden in an old railway station, presents Team Bella with the task of solving the puzzle of the silent church.
In ancient Israel, the deep bond between David, a shepherd-warrior, and Prince Jonathan challenges a kingdom. Shrouded in taboo, this sweeping LGBTQ+ historical epic reimagines history's most famous brotherhood as a powerful, defiant tale of forbidden love, political intrigue, and ultimate loyalty.
Star the cat is visiting New York City for the first time and can’t wait to see the sights! From the towering buildings to the bustling streets, everything is new and exciting. But when Star meets a lost kitten named Jet, her adventure truly begins. She explores the city, visits the Natural History...
After Shocks is Book 2 in the REBOOT series. In Book 1, Lander (short for Alexander) Shaw leaves his home at the height of a pandemic, for reasons we don't at the time know. Book 2 begins on the night he leaves
Part coming-of-age story, part urban fantasy, The Greatest Comic Book Tale Ever Told follows Sonny Forever, a young dreamer navigating grief, trauma, and self-discovery in Irontown City, where the line between imagination and reality begins to blur in ways that could change his life forever.
A lifetime of cosmic secrets revealed: Michel is abducted by highly evolved extraterrestrial beings and taken to their utopian planet, Thiaoouba. There, he learns the true history of Earth, the illusions of material wealth, and the spiritual path to human enlightenment. An eye-opening journey.
Austen is re-born in a multi-award-winning series mixing characters from her fiction, including PRIDE AND PREJUDICE from Darcy's point of view, EMMA from a clued-up Harriet's perspective, a tale about the wicked Lady Susan when only sweet sixteen, and a dazzling sequel to SENSE & SENSIBILITY.
Beth and Cameron have an astonishing power. They can read each other's minds. One day Callum disappears. Beth senses trouble, but can she use their gift to save him? She begins a search which eventually finds Cameron. But then she must deal with the true horror of what has happened to her friend.
Peglar is an outlaw and Ragul's men are searching for him. Yalka blames Peglar for the fire which killed her brother. Fate pushes them together, but before they can reunite they must face separate challenges which could destroy them both.
You can change your name. Change your life. But someone knows exactly who you are. Twenty years ago, Mason Tucker was convicted as the teenage accomplice who helped lure young boys to the serial killer known as the Pied Piper of Peasedale. He was nineteen when he went to prison. Now he’s free —...
An American vintner and novelist living in rural Spain experiments with his own pain tincture and wakes in a nightmarish tribunal where manuscripts are treated as crimes; to save his book, his mind, and his life, he must survive eight psychological trials designed to erase him.
Torn between her Amish roots and the moder world, Hannah believes she has a choice – until murders decides otherwise. 'Hannah must make a choice: stay in her tight-knit Amish community or leave for a life beyond the fields and fences. When a severed hand lands at her feet one winter morning, this...
REBOOT #3 brings the story to a climax. Liberty is threatened by a dictatorial government. Lander remembers how a seemingly dead plant called a Jericho Rose can, with care, be restored to life. Is that a symbol for what must come next?
When you’ve lost everything, what’s left to lose? In a silent, post-pandemic world, a ten-year-old boy roams Utah’s red-rock desert, haunted by grief and memory. When a childhood friend reappears, comfort slowly turns to uncertainty as their relationship unravels, and the boy must confront the most...
The past is always present in this time-hopping thriller. In the 1500s astrologer and magician John Dee finds a jar with amazing properties and uses it to save the nation from disaster. 400 years later a honeymooning couple stumble upon the jar. But have they found the jar, or has it found them?
When Miranda employs underhand ways to flush out whether herbalist friend Lizzie's husband really died a natural death, she seeds a flowering of romantic rivalries, financial cupidity and misteps that ripen into murderous intent, and threaten to ensnare Miranda herself as an accomplice next.
In Occupied Paris, danger lurks in every shadow. For Hannah, a Jewish refugee, and Kat, a socialite torn by loyalty and fear, survival means defiance. Sewing Resistance weaves a powerful story of friendship, sacrifice, and the quiet courage that defies tyranny in a desperate fight for Liberation.
Suzannah is pregnant with her third child. The first is in prison. The second is dead. Suzannah is finally happy — pregnant, engaged, and rebuilding her life. There’s just one problem. Her life is built on lies. Alec thinks this is her first pregnancy. He doesn’t know about the daughter who died. Or...
When Shane fails to capture a fugitive, he must rely on a dubious smuggler to navigate a city rife with magic and treachery. Their job becomes far more dangerous when the fugitive makes friends with the city’s ruling immortal.
A passion for books creates a lasting bond between teenage Patty Jo and David, but small-town prejudice dooms their romance. Forty years later, Patty Jo and David meet again. Both have defied society; both have fulfilled their dreams. And what if first love was the right one after all?
Framed for murder and hunted by a shadow network, Sophie Allard must trust Kai Lovac, the assassin who once tried to kill her, before the secrets buried in Dossier 1627 make them both disappear.
A suburban family. A buried secret. A son they never truly knew. When police uncover a mass grave in the Peasedale forest, Scott and Blair Bagby learn their teenage son, Jamie, may be among the victims of a serial killer. But the details of Jamie’s final moments don’t match the killer’s other crimes...
Somehow life finds a way for six-year-old Nancy Sullivan in the years following Ireland's great famine, but poverty and brutal losses follow the family to Boston, where the people they meet define their destiny. Unheard and unseen, she fights to be more than a shadow, but at what unthinkable price?
Lucia Porter emerges from a sheltered background into the life of the wealthy and privileged. It's different from what she was promised or expected. In a tense climax on a lonelt Scottish island she is forced to evaluate her world and choose another.
He had hunted elephants in Africa. Dolphins off the coast. Wolves across the steppe. He had never lost sleep over any of it. Until he fell into his own trap. The novel takes one man through the lives of every animal he ever hunted, from the inside. Their joy. Their families. Their fear.
Raised in complete isolation in a remote mountain village, four siblings are forced to flee the only home they have ever known when terrifying creatures descend upon them — thrusting them into a world of danger, lies and powers they never imagined existed.
Recovering from a stroke, Tom discovers an ability to hear the thoughts of others. Learning about a planned crime involving £250,000, he informs the police. The drug gang kidnap and threaten to harm Tom's wife to force him to recover their cash. He attempts to locate her before the deadline expires.
A highly regarded surgeon has gone missing. Will the search for her whereabouts tear a community apart? Dr. Janie O’Connor’s disappearance from her Savannah estate, Rose Dhu, has shocked the town to its core. Her former fiancé, Phillip Carruthers—once the most eligible bachelor in coastal Georgia...
A world where trauma manifests as powers, a broken boy- Jonske's power awakens as well as a dark inner entity. Forcing him to navigate a collapsing society as another godlike being- Sol descends upon Earth—burning nations, reshaping reality, and challenging humanity to either evolve or be erased
A government “Reaper” agent sanctioned to hunt and kill convicted murderers, learns that his next quarry may be innocent, and that he’s become a target himself.
Electrical engineer Jake Harper battles threats to the grid, and infectious disease specialist Abbey London confronts exotic diseases in Washington, DC. Together they operate Dragonfly Inn in northern Virginia.
From the decaying streets of tomorrow to the quiet triumphs of today, this collection explores the resilience of the human spirit through a kaleidoscope of dystopian grit. heartwarming stories, and poetry.
She’s the quiet wife and mother, until tonight. Dinner with her husband's Russian business clients goes wrong and Mrs Barnes is quickly forced to fight for her life and the lives of those she loves the most. She soon proves that midlife doesn’t mean meak and menopausal; it’s lethal and unapologetic.
As Ragul's men close in, the star-crossed lovers, Yalka and Peglar, face their biggest challenge. In this exciting tale, treachery and undying love collide, loyalties are tested, and sacrifices made. Will Yalka and Peglar find a way to reunite? The answer lies under the hanging moon.
Tech CEO Aiden and lawyer Emma are both drowning in New York’s high-stakes pressure. A spontaneous escape to Bangkok brings these two strangers together in a chaotic hostel. Their connection is raw and sultry, but back home, secrets and ruthless rivals threaten to destroy their fragile new bond.
Manchester University, 1989. After his friend’s murder, Daniel is drawn into a Kabbalistic cult. Becky — battling grief and a predatory tutor — must act fast to save him before the cult leader’s obsession turns deadly.
A decades‑old betrayal drags Becky White into a web of lies, revenge, and murder. She and her team must uncover the truth before her family faces the consequences.
Kerryl finds herself alone when everyone around her falls victim to a fatal virus. Somehow she must survive, but how? Her situation begins to affect the balance of her mind. She dreams someone else is there - Adam, a good-looking boy who she thinks is following her.
Buried in the Darfur desert lies a cylinder that shouldn't exist—an artifact that could rewrite humanity's past and future. Six scientists vanish while studying it, hunted by Mossad and the CIA. Now they must outrun the world's deadliest agencies to answer one question: who, or what, made it?
In 1913 Crimea, a Krymchak girl enters the legendary cavern of blue light and receives a mission from a forgotten goddess. As revolution tears Russia apart, Oksana must decide what love is when truth, survival, and sacrifice demand everything.
A biological weapon hidden in plain sight. A coalition willing to kill to secure global control. As world leaders converge in Davos, former CIA analyst Kate Preacher must uncover the conspiracy and stop the release—but stopping it may require a sacrifice that changes her forever.
A teenage band is overjoyed when asked to play at the wedding of a wealthy celeb. They'll stay in a luxurious Italian villa, with all expenses paid. It's a painful lesson that when something looks too good to be true, it usually is.
Be careful what you wish for because it might come true.
Follow the Chameleon across the road in Uganda! There are challenges on the way and doubts in his heart. Will he make it?
Tideswell, once a thriving fishing village, now lies broken, its streets haunted by suspicion and loss. Its decay echoes Alice's failed marriage and her crumbling family relationships. Alice must summon the courage to reclaim her life before she is drowned in Tideswell’s shadows.
In the shadow of the Civil War, an intersex woman’s deadly wedding night confession sends her fleeing west, pursued by a man determined to see her punished.
In the heart of Africa, where a bloody civil war is killing millions of innocent people, ruthless businessmen control a deadly and very profitable scheme. An American journalist willing to unveil the reality about child soldiers finds herself entangled in a very dangerous situation. In a parallel...
Told in dual registers, a “moral tale” wrapped in historical fiction and a candid autobiographical essay, the novel unspools the life and myth of Samantha Chadwick, a mesmerizing but forgotten actress whose career was launched—and derailed— by a single scandalous film.
The Poisoned Garden is the gripping first book in the Leopard’s Bane series, an epic fantasy family saga of love, ambition, and the dangerous price of power.
A washed-up bestselling author, broke and abandoned after squandering his fortune, journeys into the Sahara seeking new inspiration—only to have two unlikely strangers, a former porn star turned humanitarian and a millionaire philanthropist guarding a secret, unravel everything he believes about...
In this third instalment of the anti-hero series, Dark finds himself on the run from human hunters when he saves an ancient vildravn and is convinced to be crowned ruler of the realm. But the vildravn hides a secret that can only be revealed by the blood of a fae king, and the crows are circling.
Lawful guardsman Boris Dragonheart has his orderly life upended when he's sent to stop a robbery and discovers a conspiracy. Unsure who to trust, Boris forges an uneasy alliance with the very thief he was dispatched to arrest – a chaotic elf of indiscriminate gender and less discriminate morality.
Joy, 11, cares for her brother Ian while fearing Child Protective Services. A baby bird and her eccentric neighbor Ezzie lead her to “rewilding” and to question her dad’s manipulative control. As she secretly restores a wild yard, Joy finds courage, healing, the power of nature and her own voice.
A historical suspense in the Adirondacks … A playland for the wealthy, where long-buried crimes awaken danger, expose corruption and shatter lives.
In the decaying frontier town of Whitepost, a principled U.S. Marshal tracks a phantom outlaw gang, only to find murder, desire, and political treachery colliding over a stolen letter that could change the fate of the West.
She was sent to the dragon station to die. She refused. A slum-born survivor sentenced to labor at a dragon outpost must survive a cut throat flight academy and a brewing political rebellion after she accidentally bonds with the deadliest, most ancient dragon in the realm.
After the exiled Gamma Field takes Jules and Memphis beyond retrieval, scientist Eulǝr must reunite with his estranged former partner Casper and cross into exile before an awakened machine drives their divided world toward irreversible transformation.
Blending fact and fiction, the untold story of the extraordinary experiences that drove Thomas Wakley – the fearless founder of The Lancet - to challenge the corruption, quackery and complacency of 19th-century medicine and spark the radical reforms that shaped modern healthcare.
A rising CDO salesman rides the housing boom to wealth and status, but as cracks spread through the financial system—and his own marriage—he’s forced to confront the cost of ambition, denial, and the lies he’s told himself.
Hungry for a bite? Here is a collection of eros-themed short stories to sample. Some are sweet; some are savoury; some are searingly spicy. Indulge. But be aware that the most common seasoning used is not vanilla.
A warrior out of time. General Rhona never expected to lead a mission that could ignite an intergalactic war. When the daughter of the missing king is taken by the Marauders’ Syndicate, she must defy orders, politics, and her own doubts to bring her back. Failure could doom not only her friend, but...
Teen sleuth Gus Green searches for his missing mother at an off-the-grid community, near an ancient stone circle. The strange people there claim not to know her, but when a storm traps Gus there, and a dead body is discovered, he knows there's a murderer among them - and everyone has a motive.
After inheriting a fortune, a manic young cynic sets off across California to find the mysterious woman he believes is his only salvation, blurring love, obsession, and delusion.
AIVA is book 5 in The Race Is On, a dark speculative thriller series that reimagines the 21st century: where a brilliant scientist gifts her climate-cooling technology to the world…and triggers a global race for control. As governments and corporations close in, survival becomes personal.
A Nineteenth Century mine disaster, a sensitive young boy, and a very angry ghost anxious to get the revenge it so desperately wants.
