April 2025 New Book Releases

The Last Session by Julia Bartz

Release Date: April 1, 2025

From the instant New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat, a white-knuckled locked-room thriller about a social worker who, after coming face-to-face with her dark past, must infiltrate a mysterious wellness center in the deserts of New Mexico.

The Maid’s Secret by Nita Prose

Release Date: April 1, 2025

When a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand, Molly’s life is threatened. The question is who’s out to get her, and why? Long-buried secrets will be revealed in this intriguing and heartwarming novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest.

Fair Play by Louise Hegarty

Release Date: April 8, 2025

For fans of Anthony Horowitz and Lucy Foley, a wonderfully original, genre-breaking literary debut from Ireland that’s an homage to the brilliant detective novels of the early twentieth century, a twisty modern murder mystery, and a searing exploration of grief and loss.

Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom

Release Date: April 8, 2025

An electrifying debut about a nonbinary corporate burnout embarking on a road trip from Chicago to Arkansas to find their conspiracy-theorist father, who has gone missing―for fans of Detransition Baby and Chain-Gang All-Stars.

What Remains of Teague House by Stacy Johns

Release Date: April 8, 2025

For readers of Megan Collins with the taut character study of Angie Kim comes a searing mystery that follows three siblings as they reckon with the darkness hidden within their family after multiple graves are discovered behind their childhood home.

The Death of Us by Abigail Dean

Release Date: April 15, 2025

Bringing together the slow-burn simmer of psychological suspense and the propulsive drive of crime thrillers, The Death of Us is the story of a marriage turned inside out by a violent encounter that sets fire to the hairline faults that were there from the start.

The Guilt Pill by Saumya Dave

Release Date: April 15, 2025

Maya Patel has it all—her own start-up, a sexy, doting husband, influencer status, and now, a new baby. Or does she? Because behind closed doors, Maya’s drowning. Enter: #Girlboss Liz Anderson, who introduces her to the “guilt pill,” an experimental supplement that erases female guilt. As Maya falls deeper and deeper down the pill’s guilt-free rabbit hole, her growing ruthlessness could threaten everything she’s built for herself—and the family she’s worked so hard to protect.

One Death at a Time by Abbi Waxman

Release Date: April 15, 2025

A cranky former actress teams up with her Gen Z sobriety sponsor to solve the murder that threatens to send her back to prison in this dazzling new mystery novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.

The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose

Release Date: April 15, 2025

It’s been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. After discovering her new husband, Bob, engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah wastes no time filing for divorce. However, amid their ugly separation, new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and putting Sarah right back in the spotlight. Everyone wants to know what really happened, most of all former Deputy Hudson, who is hell-bent on finding the truth. But when the woman Bob slept with is reported missing, he and Sarah start to fight dirty, and a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues.

Every Sweet Thing is Bitter by Samantha Crewson

Release Date: April 22, 2025

Debut Author

A woman with a violent past gets a chance at redemption in this upmarket suspense debut, perfect for fans of Lisa Taddeo and Tiffany McDaniel.

How to Seal Your Own Fate by Kristen Perrin

Release Date: April 29, 2025

Second Book in a series

Kristen Perrin is back with the second novel in her Castle Knoll series. Annie Adams is caught in a new web of murder that spans decades, returning us to the idyllic English village that holds layers of secrets.

Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez

Release Date: April 1, 2025

There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. After one incredible and seemingly endless date, Samantha is forced to admit any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be.

Only no amount of distance or time is nearly enough to forget that something between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life—and even a love—worth remembering.

Swept Away by Beth O’Leary

Release Date: April 1, 2025

What if you were lost at sea…with your one-night stand?

Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no intentions of seeing each other again. Going back home with a stranger seems like a perfect escape from their problems. But a miscommunication in the dark, foggy night means no one tied the houseboat to the dock. The next morning, Zeke and Lexi realize all they can see is miles and miles of water.

Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory

Release Date: April 8, 2025

A captivating and sizzling new queer romance by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory.

Wild and Wrangled by Lyla Sage

Release Date: April 15, 2025

From the bestselling author of Done and Dusted and Swift and Saddled, the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small-town romance in which past lovers get a second chance to rediscover what they lost.

What If I Never Get Over You by Paige Toon

Release Date: April 15, 2025

One Day meets a contemporary Bridgerton in this high-drama, escapist wonder of a love story, Paige Toon’s best yet.

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

Release Date: April 22, 2025

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry.

My Best Friend’s Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner

Release Date: April 29, 2025

Meryl Wilsner’s spicy romance, their first with a nonbinary lead, where two lifelong best friends go on a nonrefundable honeymoon together and discover sometimes to find a happily ever after, you just have to ask.

The Influencers by Anna-Marie McLemore

Release Date: April 15, 2025

A social media influencer’s empire is burned to the ground—literally. The top suspects? The five daughters who made her famous. A campy and escapist exploration of race, gender, sexuality, and class, The Influencers is an evisceration of influencer culture and how alienating traditional expectations can be, ripe for the current moment when the first generation of children made famous by their parents are, now, all grown up—and looking for retribution.

The Seven O’Clock Club by Amelia Ireland

Release Date: April 15, 2025

Debut Author

Four strangers are brought together to participate in an experimental treatment designed to heal broken hearts in this surprising and heartfelt debut novel from author Amelia Ireland.

The Wildelings by Lisa Harding

Release Date: April 15, 2025

A vivid and compulsive story of obsession, control and guilt, set in Nineties Dublin – perfect for fans of dark academia and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.

Bearer of Bad News by Elisabeth Dini

Release Date: April 29, 2025

Debut Author

A sharply funny and moving debut in which a young woman accepts a job that takes her though the Italian Dolomites and into an international mystery far greater—and more personal—than she could have ever expected.

Rabbit Moon by Jennifer Haigh

Release Date: April 1, 2025

A tense, propulsive drama set in Shanghai, about a fractured American family, secret lives, and the unbreakable bond between two sisters, from the New York Times bestselling author of Mercy Street.

Audition by Katie Kitamura

Release Date: April 8, 2025

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.

Big Chief by Jon Hickey

Release Date: April 8, 2025

There, There meets The Night Watchman in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, family, and facing the ghosts of the past.

Things Left Unsaid by Sara Jafari

Release Date: April 15, 2025

A dazzling, electrifying, and thought-provoking novel for readers of Maame and Honey Girl, Things Left Unsaid is a mesmerizing and deeply-felt exploration of discovering your place in the world and the lasting power of love.

When the Harvest Comes by Denne Michele Norris

Release Date: April 15, 2025

Debut Author

In this heart-wrenching debut novel, a young Black gay man, estranged from his father, must confront his painful past—and his deepest desires around gender, love, and sex.

The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff

Release Date: April 22, 2025

One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they’re unable to shake the pull back toward each other in this big-hearted family saga perfect for readers of Mary Beth Keane and Claire Lombardo.

Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Release Date: April 8, 2025

A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family’s ties to it—in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.

The Eights by Joanna Miller

Release Date: April 15, 2025

Debut Author

Following the unlikely friendship of four women in the first female class at Oxford, their unshakeable bond in the face of male contempt, and their coming of age in a world forever changed by World War I.

Zeal by Morgan Jerkins

Release Date: April 22, 2025

The New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby returns with an epic, multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of romantic love.

The Traitor of Sherwood Forest by Amy S. Kaufman

Release Date: April 29, 2025

An immersive, sultry, heart-pounding historical reimagining of the Robin Hood ballads, told through the piercing eyes of one of his spies.

When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory

Release Date: April 1, 2025

From multiple award-winning author Daryl Gregory comes a madcap adventure following two friends on a cross-country bus tour through the mind-boggling glitches in their simulated world as they grapple with love, family, secrets, and the very nature of reality in a simulation.

Cold Eternity by S. A. Barnes

Release Date: April 8, 2025

Cold Eternity is the newest action-packed space horror from S.A. Barnes perfect for fans of Severance, where desperation for eternal life leads to a fate worse than death…

Eleven Percent by Maren Uthaug

Release Date: April 22, 2025

An inverse The Handmaid’s Tale that asks: What if women took over the world?

The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner

Release Date: April 29, 2025

Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, has come to the sun-soaked village of Positano to investigate the mysterious shipwrecks along the Amalfi Coast. But Haven is hoping to find more than old artifacts beneath the azure waters; she is secretly on a quest to locate a trove of priceless gemstones her late father spotted on his final dive. Upon Haven’s arrival, strange maelstroms and misfortunes start plaguing the town. Is it nature or something more sinister at work?

Awakened by A. E. Osworth

Release Date: April 29, 2025

A coven of trans witches battles an evil AI in the magical coming-of-middle-age romp about love, loss, drag shows, and late capitalism. ​

The Cut by C. J. Dotson

Release Date: April 8, 2025

In this chilling supernatural horror novel set in a mysterious hotel, a woman fleeing her abusive ex finds herself running from more than just her past.

Senseless by Ronald Malfi

Release Date: April 15, 2025

A page-turning, supernaturally-tinged LA puzzle-box thriller – Zodiac with teeth, from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated and bestselling author of Come with Me. Perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Lauren Beukes.

Eat the Ones Your Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

Release Date: April 22, 2025

After losing her job and her fiancé and moving back from the city to live with her parents, Shell Pine needs some help. Shell gets a job at a florist shop, and the flowers she works with there are just the thing she needs to cheer up. Or maybe it’s Neve, the beautiful shop manager, who is making her days so rosy?

Neve’s secrets are as dark and dangerous as they come. In the back room of the flower shop, a young sentient orchid actually runs the show, and he is hungry . . . and he has a plan for them all.

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker

Release Date: April 29, 2025

In this explosive horror novel, a woman is haunted by inner trauma, hungry ghosts, and a serial killer as she confronts the brutal violence experienced by East Asians during the pandemic.

The Ghost Woods by C. J. Cooke

Release Date: April 29, 2025

A young woman sent to stay in a crumbling gothic manor will find haunting secrets creeping out of the surrounding dark woods in this new, chilling novel from the acclaimed author of The Lighthouse Witches.

Polybius by Collin Armstrong

Release Date: April 29, 2025

Stranger Things meets The Walking Dead in this chilling novel based on the terrifying urban legend about a video game created by the government for psychological warfare.

The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig

Release Date: April 29, 2025

A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

Release Date: April 1, 2025

The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup.

Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake

Release Date: April 1, 2025

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential.

The Sirens by Emilia Hart

Release Date: April 1, 2025

A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward.

Don’t Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo

Release Date: April 8, 2025

From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes Don’t Sleep with the Dead, a standalone companion novella to The Chosen and the Beautiful, her acclaimed reimagining of The Great Gatsby.

Don’t Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo

Release Date: April 8, 2025

Second book in a Series

Return to the world of USA Today bestselling BookTok favorite Phantasma in this spicy, stand-alone romantasy, where seven immortal siblings are trapped in a deadly game of hide and seek . . . until one mortal woman changes the rules. The print edition includes custom silver foiling on the cover.

The Ashfire King by Chelsea Abdullah

Release Date: April 15, 2025

Second book in a Series

A merchant and a prince trapped in the crumbling realm of jinn must figure out how to save one world to return to their own in The Ashfire King, the second book in the Sandsea Trilogy, perfect for fans of The City of Brass and The Bone Shard Daughter.