September 2025 New Releases

 

 

 

 

Release date not yet known
Hollow by Taylor Grothe (Peachtree Teen)
HOLLOW, coming from Peachtree Teen in Fall 2025, is a YA horror debut perfect for fans of Sawkill Girls and cult movie Midsommar but set in the mountains of Upstate New York.

After returning to Deep Glen, NY and reuniting with her (ex) friend group after an unwelcome autism diagnosis, all Cassie Davis wants to do is pretend her years away never existed. She’s still the same hero-loving Lord of the Rings superfan and avid hiker she always was. To her delight, she convinces old friends Jac, Melody, and Blake to hike Hollow Ridge with her for old time’s sake. Nothing has changed between them… right?

Simmering tensions flare to a boil. Old hurts erupt over Cassie’s abandonment and her feelings for Jac–including their first kiss, long avoided but never forgotten. The night devolves into an alcohol-soaked haze. Cassie awakens to a freak storm bearing down on an abandoned campsite. The sour memory of a half-remembered argument lingers like a ghost, strengthening her resolve to finish the hike.

She never gets the chance.

Cassie stumbles into The Roost, an artists’ colony home to the kind, if odd, Kaleb. She feels more welcome than she ever has before. But when her friends emerge from the woods–without Blake–and the residents of The Roost begin carving masks for a mysterious trek to the top of Hollow Ridge, the warmth Cassie feels for Kaleb ebbs. It’s replaced by a bone-deep anxiety she trusted the wrong people.

Cassie never wanted to be like the heroes in her favorite stories… but she’ll have to become one to save her friends, and herself.

Publication is set for fall 2025
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A Wild Flame Rises by Maria Ingrande Mora (Peachtree Teen)
Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen has acquired A Wild Flame Rises, a queer, anti-capitalist YA fantasy by Maria Ingrande Mora (The Immeasurable Depth of You), in which a girl with the ability to conduct electricity discovers that the powerful House of Industry that raised her is not the benevolent organization they present to be. She teams up with two boys—former lovers—who are standing against the harm the House has caused in the name of progress. Publication is planned for fall 2025; Erica Bauman at Aevitas Creative Management did the deal for world rights.










I Put a Spell on You by Claire Edge (HarperCollins)
David Linker at HarperCollins has acquired, in an exclusive submission, I Put a Spell on You by Clare Edge. In this contemporary YA fantasy-romance, a heartthrob enby spellcaster must teach the new girl in school how to wield magic in order to save their emerging powers in a rivals to lovers game of wits. Publication is slated for fall 2025; Jennifer Azantian at Azantian Literary Agency brokered the deal for world rights.












Twin Tides by Hien Nguyen (Delacorte)
Bria Ragin at Delacorte Press has acquired, in an exclusive submission, Twin Tides by Hien Nguyen, a YA speculative horror thriller inspired by Vietnamese mythology and pitched as The Haunting of Bly Manor meets The Parent Trap, in which long-lost identical twins Aria and Caliste are beckoned to Les Eaux, Minn., where they unravel the mystery behind their mother's death, discover a ghoul haunting the waters of the small town, and wade through the betrayal that ultimately separated them. Publication is set for fall 2025; Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management sold world English rights.









Everything She Does Is Magic by Bridget Morrissey (Delacorte)
Hannah Hill at Delacorte has acquired Everything She Does Is Magic by Bridget Morrissey, a sapphic YA romance set in a Halloween-obsessed town, in which a local enlists the help of the new girl to plan the upcoming fall festivities, not realizing she has recruited a real witch. Publication is scheduled for fall 2025; Taylor Haggerty at Root Literary sold world English rights.

And the River Drags You Down by Jihyun Yun (Knopf)
Gianna Lakenauth at Knopf has acquired, in a 12-person auction, And the River Drags You Down by Fulbright fellow Jihyun Yun, a Gothic YA inspired by a ghost story from Korean folklore about two sisters—one who dies under mysterious circumstances, and the other who brings her back—pitched as The Astonishing Color of After meets She Is a Haunting. Publication is slated for fall 2025; Annie Hwang and Serene Hakim at Ayesha Pande Literary did the two-book deal for North American rights.

September 1st
This Raging Sea by De Elizabeth (Holiday House)
Kade Dishmon at Holiday House has acquired This Raging Sea by De Elizabeth, a dark YA fantasy about popular but haunted 18-year-old Briar, who must untangle the horrifying secrets of her picture-perfect coastal town in order to save Finn, her more-than-best-friend, after he disappears from the seaside carnival (and maybe from time itself). Publication is slated for fall 2025; Samantha Fabien at Root Literary negotiated the deal for world rights.













September 9th
The Princess in the Piazza by Ben Hatke (Roaring Brook Press) - moved from September 2022, then from February and September 2024, release date not yet updated on Goodreads.
Roaring Brook has bought The Princess in the Piazza, a YA novel from Ben Hatke. The book follows Sebastian, an American teenager spending the summer in Italy, who falls in love with a Renaissance princess who has been dead for 500 years, and finds himself swept up in her ages-old conflict with a sinister wizard.

Split the Sky by Marie Arnold (Little, Brown) - previously titled Jump House.

September 23rd
Unending by Ivelisse Housman (Inkyard Press) - moved from March 2024, then from June 2024 and July 2025.
In this high-octane conclusion to the Unseelie duology, which Andrew Joseph White calls “a portal to a world of glimmering fae and blistering magic,” two sisters discover that the things that make them different can lend them more power than they ever imagined.

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.


September 30th
These Stolen Words by Tori Bovalino (Page Street YA)
Lauren Knowles at Page Street YA has bought These Stolen Words by Tori Bovalino, in which a ghost agrees to help the new girl in town get through high school and talk to her crush if she finds a way to escape the eldritch being who has been hunting him. Publication is scheduled for fall 2025; Amelia Appel and Uwe Stender at Triada US did the deal for world English rights.

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