April 2027 New Releases

 

Release date not yet known
Cruel Instincts by Clare Edge (Delacorte) 

Krista Marino at Delacorte Press has bought, at auction, Cruel Instincts by Clare Edge (Natural Selection), a dark, twisty YA speculative thriller pitched as Cruel Intentions meets Hitchcock's The Birds. A girl with a mysterious connection to birds gets drawn into the toxic orbit of a privileged clique as the consequences of her family's twisted secrets come home to roost. Publication is set for spring 2027; Jennifer Azantian at Azantian Literary Agency did the six-figure deal for North American rights.












A Totally Fake Love Story by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Simon and Schuster) - not yet added to Goodreads.
Daniela Villegas Valle at S&S has acquired world rights to Zoe Hana Mikuta's A Totally Fake Love Story. While trying to win a K-drama writing competition, Korean American teen Anna Nari accidentally brings her love interest to life, and the only way to send him back seems to be to open her heart to the one person who broke it. Publication is scheduled for April 2027; Laura Rennert at Andrea Brown Literary Agency brokered the deal.

April 1st
Gravespell by James Trevino and Elizabeth Sagan (Sourcebooks Fire)

WEDNESDAY ADDAMS meets ONE OF US IS LYING in this magic-filled thriller set at a modern school for wizards.

Alice Howe is an outcast at the elite Deepgrove Academy for Magic, which suits her just fine. But an unwelcome premonition means she’ll have to step out of the shadows. Because now she’s the only one at Deepgrove who knows two terrible things. In seven days her schoolmate Xena Wycomb, daughter of the American President of Magic, will be dead. And, if left unsolved, Xena’s murder will ignite a war.

Despite Alice’s warning, Xena meets her foreseen demise. But before she does, she points a finger at the prime suspects in her own murder, each of whom has a deadly secret to keep.

Christopher: The ex-boyfriend she cheated on and the heir to the biggest magical corporation in the world.
Delvy: The traitorous best friend who is embroiled in a scandal of her own.
Ben: Xena’s new boyfriend, a mage born without magic and the perfect scapegoat.
And of course, Alice herself.

Soon, the four of them are at the center of a huge media scandal, amid a very public murder investigation, which brings the modern wizarding world to the brink of war between those born with magic and those born without. And it all leads back to Xena.

Alice knows she can’t trust devilishly charming Christopher, picture-perfect Delvy, or morose Ben, but they all hold a piece of the puzzle. As suspicion falls on each of them in turn, Alice must find a way to uncover who killed Xena before the whole of magekind meets the same fate.

April 27th
Trans Panic! by Logan-Ashley Kisner (Delacorte) - note the addition of a "!" to the title. Moved from September 2026.

Krista Marino at Delacorte Press has bought, in an exclusive submission, in a two-book deal, Trans Panic by Logan-Ashley Kisner, a YA slasher horror novel in which a young trans teen finds herself stuck in a summer camp for queer youth that has been infiltrated by a serial killer; and Docile Creatures, a YA murder mystery thriller set in 1950s America, featuring two trans teens who get caught up in a deadly mystery after swapping identities. Publication is slated for fall 2026 and fall 2027; Chloe Seager at Madeline Milburn Ltd. did the deal for North American rights.