Release date not yet known
Immortal the Blood by Molly X. Chang (Random House)
A Spell to Wake the Dead by Nicole Lesperance (G. P. Putnam and Sons)
Gretchen Durning at Putnam has bought North American rights to Nicole Lesperance's A Spell to Wake the Dead, an occult YA thriller set on Cape Cod, about two best friends who unwittingly summon a vengeful spirit and uncover a dangerous mystical cult while trying to solve the mystery of a dead woman who washed up on their local beach. Publication is scheduled for summer 2025; Kathleen Rushall at Andrea Brown Literary Agency did the deal.
Soul of Shadow by Emma Noyes (Wednesday Books) - previously titled Mare of Night, not yet added to Goodreads, release month announced on author's instagram.
Vicki Lame at Wednesday Books has bought, in a preempt, Soul of Shadow by Emma Noyes, a fantasy romance trilogy pitched for fans of The Vampire Diaries and Atlas Six, in which Charlie finds herself investigating a recent disappearance and the Norse symbols that appeared in its wake with mysterious newcomer Elias, and discovers a world made of magic, gods, and monsters—and a first love fated to fall apart. Publication is planned for 2025; Kimberly Whalen at the Whalen Agency negotiated the six-figure deal for North American rights.
July 1st
Soulmatch by Rebecca Danzenbaker (Simon and Schuster)
1. Report to the government institute on your 18th birthday.
2. Get scanned and matched to your past lives.
3. Receive a career path and inheritance (if you’re lucky, a soulmate too).
4. Go about your merry way, knowing who you were and who you are.
Sivon should’ve known her visit wouldn’t be that simple. The signs were there - her uncanny knack for winning strategic games as well as her mom’s ability to read everyone’s auras, everyone's except Sivon's. With her indecipherable colors, she was just hoping she wasn’t a bad soul. You know, the tragic ones with criminal histories who leave the institute in handcuffs.
Sivon couldn’t have guessed her results would stir international frenzy, saddling her with an infuriating bodyguard who’s as stand-offish as he is off-limits. Hounded by the masses, driven into hiding, and hanging on to the guy she can never have, Sivon realizes the painful truth - this life isn’t a game, but to survive, she needs to play like it is.
Tenderly, I Am Devoured by Lyndall Clipstone (Henry Holt) - moved from May 2025, publisher confirms this date.
Perfect for fans of Saltburn, For the Wolf, and House of Hollow, Tenderly, I Am Devoured is a moody, monstrously Gothic romantasy in which a young woman must bind herself to a dangerous chthonic demon with the help of the son of a rival family to save her family's legacy—and herself—from ruin.
Expelled from her prestigious boarding school following a violent incident, eighteen-year-old Lacrimosa Arriscane returns home in disgrace to discover her family on the point of financial ruin. Desperate to save them, she accepts a marriage of convenience… to Therion, the chthonic god worshipped by Lark’s isolated coastal hometown.
But when her betrothal goes horribly wrong, Lark begins to vanish from the mortal realm. Her only hope is to seek help from Alastair Felimath: the brilliant, arrogant boy who was her first heartbreak, and his alluring older sister, Camille. As the trio delve into the folklore of gods, Lark falls under the spell of the Felimath siblings.
Ensnared by a fervent romance, they perform a bacchanalia with hopes the hedonistic ritual will repair the connection between Lark and her bridegroom. Instead, they draw the ire of something much darker, which seeks to destroy Therion—and Lark as well.
Den of Liars by Jessica S. Olson (Feiwel and Friends)
Holly
West at Feiwel and Friends has acquired North American rights to a dark
romantic fantasy duology by Jessica S. Olson (A Forgery of Roses),
starting with Den of Liars,
in which 19-year-old Lola St. James gambles her most closely hidden
truth at a dangerous magical casino as she works to charm the devious
owner, infiltrate his vault, and steal his darkest secret. Publication
for book one is slated for winter 2025 with the second in winter 2026;
Christa Heschke at McIntosh & Otis brokered the deal.
July 8th
Of Flame and Fury by Mikayla Bridge (FSG)
Fourth Wing meets The Fast and the Furious in Of
Flame and Fury – the explosive YA fantasy by debut author Mikayla
Bridge. With deadly phoenixes, edge-of-your-seat action and a
smouldering enemies-to-lovers romance, you won't want to miss the
hottest YA fantasy of the summer.
On an island built from ash and
shrouded in fire, phoenix racing is the most profitable – and deadly –
work you can find. No one knows that better than Kelyn Varra and her
crew, the Crimson Howlers.
When the Howler's rider is gravely
injured during a race, Kel is forced to join forces with arrogant,
hot-headed Warren Coupers – the last person she would ever want on her
team. But with her rising debts and threats to her beloved phoenix,
Savita, the pressure to win has never been higher; and Kel is left with
no other choice.
But then mysterious tech mogul Canen Cristo
takes an unsettling interest in the team. Amidst perilous races, the
threat of an unstoppable disease and her growing attraction to Coup, Kel
soon uncovers a sinister plot that will threaten everything she cares
for, as she fights to keep Savita and her magic out of the hands of
those who would use it for their own gain...
July 15th
Unending by Ivelisse Housman (Inkyard Press) - moved from March 2024, then from June 2024.
Isolde Graygrove has always put her changeling twin sister first. But ever since Seelie returned from the faerie realms with a newfound confidence in her magic and secrets she’s keeping even from her twin, Isolde can’t help but wonder: who is she, if not her sister’s protector?
Seelie knows there are some problems even magic can’t solve. Like the distance between her and Isolde, the terror of her growing and unfamiliar emotions for Raze, or the fact that the world’s last firedrake has imprinted on her like a baby duckling. Still, she can’t help but try.
When Seelie accidentally splinters the three realms, tangling the human and faerie worlds together into something new, the vicious faerie Gossamer is determined to take full advantage of the chaos unleashed. Seelie and Isolde will need to spill their secrets, decide who they can trust, and navigate the sinister glamour of the faerie courts to save humankind and fae alike.
July 22nd
Steel & Spellfire by Laura E. Weymouth (Margaret K. McElderry Books) - moved from August 2025.
A devastatingly gifted mage with clandestine romantic connections to a Royal Guard joins the court social season in an attempt to undo past wrongs, only to fall under suspicion when a creature with powers shockingly like her own begins slaughtering her fellow debutantes.
Pandora Small has two ruling objectives: first, to keep the prodigious extent of her power secret, in a world where mages are feared and governed by suffocating laws. Second, to find her wealthy and noble-born patron, a shadowy figure bound to Pandora by magic, who stole her childhood and grew her power until she became a weapon rather than a girl. To that end, she’s posing as an Ingenue, a privileged and petted young woman of strictly limited abilities, who is allowed access to the royal court’s social season in order to find a husband and patron to control her magic.
But on Pandora’s arrival at court, Kit Beacon, one of the most promising members of the Royal Guard, inadvertently learns the true scope of her power. Privately sympathetic towards mages and the difficulties they face, Beacon decides to keep Pandora’s secret. But when someone or something with powers terribly like Pandora’s own begins slaughtering her fellow Ingenues, Beacon’s resolve to keep what he knows about her private is put to the test.
Tasked with protecting all the girls in the palace, not just one, Beacon will have to decide whether Pandora is a suspect or an ally, while to win his trust, Pandora will have to let him know more of her still—the worst of who she is and what she’s done. Because only unity between them during the social whirlwind to come will enable Pan to find her patron and Beacon the killer, and ensure they both see justice meted out.
Evil-ish by Kennedy Tarrell (Feiwel and Friends) - YA graphic novel, moved from 2024. Description not yet updated on Goodreads.
A disillusioned teen dreams of fame and villainy in this hilarious and heartfelt young adult fantasy graphic novel from debut author/illustrator Kennedy Tarrell.
Hawthorne Vandercast has big plans: join the infamous Brigade of Shade, move into a glamorous castle, and leave their mundane life as a potion barista behind. But when they finally get the chance to join the Brigade, Hawthorne finds themself overshadowed by Maple, a bubbly, bright, flowery girl who could not look further from evil. After an accident ends in death and suddenly Hawthorne is leading the Brigade, they begin to realize that maybe villainy isn't actually all it's cracked up to be.
Evil-ish spins the classic tropes of good and evil on their heads in a hilarious and tender story about a teenager who feels bigger than their job, their town, and their circumstances...and finds out that what they thought they wanted might not be what they actually need.
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