2025 Most Intriguing Story Title
321 B.C.: A swashbuckling schoolteacher-by-day/thief-by-night, a Muse only he can see, and their motley crew set out to steal back the corpse of Alexander the Great from his usurper (for an outrageous sum of money, of course, and maybe a shot at redemption).
When poorly and lonely William names a scruffy, one-legged pigeon Jack, he doesn’t just find a friend — he finds the courage to imagine, explore, and heal. Together they travel the world from his bedroom window… until it’s time for William to fly solo.
The Inheritance Games meets The Haunted Mansion: locked up in a haunted house, a 17-year-old loner is forced to work with her housemates and solve a series of riddles left by the resident ghost to discover the house’s dark secret and earn her freedom.
A bright Tanganyikan girl called Redemption finds unexpected humour on the tropical island of Zanzibar until revolution and the threat of conjugal slavery separate her from the man she has grown to love. A tale of betrayal, courage and salvation.
THE RHYTHM OF TIME interweaves the stories of three musicians in 18th, 20th, and 23rd century London. As their parallel timelines unfold, we discover what links them: a lost women composer, her stolen compositions, a 1970s cult hit, and the struggle to make music in a world where it’s outlawed.
In a desert city built on biotech and vice, a dying bounty hunter hunts a missing socialite—his ex’s future sister-in-law—only to uncover a resurrection cult, a deadly drug, and the release of his estranged father, whose past crimes may finish what illness began.
18th Century – a 15-year-old orphan goes to live with his aunt in Cornwall, unaware his arrival has inspired a murder—can he discover the killer’s plot and stop them in time?
When a summer intern with a traumatic past accidentally strands her team in a magical world, she must face arrogant mages, hide from dragons, and, above all, she must guard her heart against the perfect guy who is promised to someone else.
A patient wakes from a coma with no name and a bullet in his head. As a retired neuropsychologist and a homicide detective dig into his fractured mind, buried memories surface—ones not his own. The deeper they go, the closer they get to the truth: he isn’t who he thinks he is. He never was.
An adult, sci-fi, horror retelling of Rosemary’s Baby (sans the sexual violence), featuring a snarky, fish-out-of-water, final-girl and a secret cult of angel worshippers attempting to return the Garden of Earth to the Seraphim by way of a sinister fertility mission in outer space.
Haunted by dreams of a long-dead queen begging for forgiveness, a fearless village girl journeys into a forgotten kingdom — where echoes of a prince’s forbidden love may hold the key to her fate.
Following his mid-life crisis as a gifted writer, Robert is stuck in a dead-end job with a dream to leave. But when he falls in love with a girl with a debt, Robert is thrown into the world of a notorious double-dealing syndicate.
An inspirational story of love and war based on the true account of Makorongo, an East African serviceman who became a prisoner of war to the Japanese but was repatriated by Hans-Werner, his boyhood friend, before America bombed Tokyo in WWII.
Since humans first came to Western Europe we've enjoyed a temperate climate due to the Gulf Stream, but it's now weakening fast. Paradice is set in 2037 when the crucial AMOC current suddenly flips, pitching a couple who've bought their dream Scottish Highlands cottage into an Arctic winter.
Part memoir, part meditation on resilience, The Stoic Rider is the true story of a woman who traded burnout for Bonneville and fear for freedom — proving it’s never too late to change your line, ride with intention, and come fully alive on the road and within yourself.
Diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, Elena Russo's looking for answers. A discovery about her late father leads Elena to India where she tracks down the place he had his future read to him from an ancient Nadi Leaf. But what good comes from knowing your future? Can Elena find her way to healing?
If phobias therapist Dr. Darla Kay Shepard wants to keep her therapy practice from folding, she must learn to face her fears of spiders, public speaking, and romantic rejection--which is easier said than done when she falls for an intellectual sexpot with a Ph.D. in tarantulas and scorpions.
Heather is forty two, terrified and desperate to escape her small, tight world controlled by Mother, who has a nightmarish secret. Set in 1980s Scotland during the last years of the large mental asylums and the first women’s groups, she bravely finds a path to trust in the outside world. And in...
Some stories end in fire. Others begin with it. Scarlet has tasted love, loss, and the agony of being reborn. To end centuries of bloodshed, she must return to where it all began—and decide who lives, who dies, and whether to burn the world that built her… or become its god.
A young woman hoping for a break in her career is forced to work with her arch nemesis instead of getting the outright promotion she was expecting. They are forced to spend two weeks together in a small Scottish town. What could seemingly break them brings them closer than either ever thought.
Fabricated follows an ambitious retail buyer who lands her dream job at a famous fashion firm. She gains behind-the-scenes access to the company’s foreign factories and stumbles into a conspiracy. If exposed, it would shine light on inhumane conditions, dirty secrets, and the high cost of fashion.
After Marley Luck is swindled by the King of Westwind, she vows to do anything she can to remove him from the throne, even if it means sending the kingdom into chaos in the process.
After being sent to an academy for people with extraordinary abilities, a boy with no memories of his previous life is confronted with a girl seemingly connected to his mysterious past and the people hunting her and must choose whether to save her, for she might be the key to understanding his past.
Quinn Stapleton’s trip to Ireland to resolve her grandmother’s estate derails her meticulously planned life. As property law tangles and local challenges emerge, she becomes a force for change in a small town, discovering unexpected community, purpose, and connection beyond her original ambitions.
When a young girl discovers she's a half-merrean, a fæy of water, her peaceful life spirals into chaos. Now hunted by mercenaries who abduct her family, Marina Havson sets out on a quest to save them from their clutches, discovering more of her merrean heritage along the way.
If there was one thing that Ponderosa had learned in life, it was that everybody loved backflips. If you could do a backflip, you were automatically cool. No questions asked. So, when Pond began eighth grade and things started to go downhill, she decided that would be the thing that would save her.
Even Hell needs a hero - when a tattoo artist with the power to save damned souls by sinking her ink (though, sadly not her own) tries to re-home a wayward (demon) dog, she must use her special gift to undo the curse that's ultimately trapped them both under the weatherglass of Meadowhawk Hall.
