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Continue reading →: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee BakerHeartbreaking, spine-tingling, funny, and eloquently written. Set during the first few months of the COVID outbreak, Cora Zeng is trying to navigate the world as a crime scene cleaner after watching her sister get murdered on the subway platform. When she starts seeing a pattern to the crimes she’s cleaning… Read More
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Continue reading →: Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeesterRelease Date: December 9, 2025 An ancient curse afflicting generations of women, religious trauma, witchcraft, and sapphic longing…a Tour-De-Force by a uniquely refreshing voice in horror. I went into Dark Sisters with the expectation I was going to read an historical witchcraft story, but what I got was a haunting… Read More
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The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap
Synopsis Edinburgh, Scotland, 1828. Naïve but determined James Willoughby has abandoned his posh, sheltered life at Oxford to pursue a lifelong dream of studying surgery in Edinburgh. A shining beacon of medical discovery in the age of New Enlightenment, the city’s university offers everything James desires—except the chance to work on a human cadaver. For…
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Palmetto by Ania Ahlborn
Synopsis Kim Devland nearly has it all. A great marriage. A baby on the way. All that’s missing is a house–one idyllic enough to fill the Norman Rockwell-shaped spaces in her mind. So when Kim’s husband, Eddie, books a property tour of a home Kim has been eyeing online, it’s love at first sight. Far…
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Key Lime Sky by Al Hess
Synopsis Denver Bryant’s passion for pie has sent him across Wyoming in search of the best slices. Though he dutifully posts reviews on his blog, he’s never been able to recreate his brief moment of viral popularity, and its trickling income isn’t enough to pay his rent next month. Driving home from a roadside diner,…
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You Will Speak for the Dead by R.A. Busby
Synopsis Paul Simard’s life is a mess. When his mother dies, and his boyfriend moves out, the only thing Paul has left is his hoarder house cleaning business, and that’s not exactly a recipe for dating success. But after Paul gets a call to clean out the home of some elderly biologist, nothing will ever…
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Seed by Ania Ahlborn
Synopsis In the vine-twisted swamps of Louisiana, the shadows have teeth.Jack Winter has spent his entire life running from something no one else can see. His childhood is his darkest secret, but after a near fatal accident along a deserted road, the darkness he was sure he’d escaped rears its ugly head… and smiles. But…
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