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Queen Theora reluctantly enters peace talks with the neighbouring enemy responsible for her predecessor’s death, choosing formidable warrior Argos as her undercover bodyguard. Their marriage is supposed to be purely strategic, but Argos has no intention of quietly playing his assigned role—and the rituals he insists they follow only intensify their already fiery attraction. As political tensions rise, their pretend relationship becomes increasingly real, leaving Theora to contend with both a dangerous negotiation and a husband she never expected to want.

Genre: Fantasy Romance / Romantasy

Borrow The Queen's Bodyguard by Lauren Blackwood

Since losing her husband, Margaret has struggled with loneliness and the lingering heartbreak of her daughter Jeanie’s disappearance years earlier. An unexpected visitor gives her a reason to revisit the mystery, and together they begin searching for answers about what really happened. Their investigation offers Margaret something she thought she had lost: the possibility that her story isn’t over yet.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Mystery

Borrow An Unlikely Visitor by Joanna Cannon

Aspiring writer Savannah thinks she has landed a fairy-tale life when famous horror novelist Bennett Bryson falls for her and whisks her away to his secluded home. But her charming new husband soon becomes controlling and secretive, while the presence of his late first wife seems to linger everywhere. When Savannah receives a warning that other women in Bennett’s life have disappeared, she begins digging into his past—only to discover that she isn’t the only one keeping secrets.

Genre: Psychological Thriller / Domestic Thriller

Borrow Promise Me Never by Liv Constantine

M is a world-famous movie star whose celebrity has altered nearly every aspect of ordinary life, bending people, places, and even time around her. A writer observing her closely sets out to understand the woman behind the ubiquitous image, only to find that proximity to such extraordinary fame changes the observer, too. This unconventional novel examines celebrity, beauty, power, identity, and the increasingly blurred line between a person and the image the world consumes.

Genre: Literary Fiction / Experimental Fiction / Contemporary Fiction

Borrow Life of M by Rachel Cusk

Claire sees her family’s move from San Francisco to the suburbs as the fresh start she has always wanted, but something is deeply wrong with their new home. Flowers wither, eggs turn up hollow, and possessions disappear as she discovers an impossible truth: the house consumes anything that was once alive, erasing all memory of it except from its owners. When Claire gives in to temptation and uses the house’s strange power for her own purposes, she forms a dangerous bond with it—and its appetite only grows.

Genre: Horror / Domestic Horror / Supernatural Fiction

Borrow The House That Eats the Dead by Max Doty

In a nearly empty world, Mouse has known only Cat, the girl who saved him from the sickness that devastated humanity, until the arrival of strangers threatens the life they have built together. Nearly two centuries earlier, as civilization collapses, a couple falling in love learns that they are among the few people still capable of having a child—and the authorities have plans for them. As the two timelines unfold, their stories examine survival, family, and the lengths people will go to protect those they love.

Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction / Speculative Fiction / Literary Fiction

Borrow The Two of Us at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher

When Eliza returns from residential school traumatized and barely recognizable, her grandmother Swan turns to the land, traditional medicines, and family stories to help her heal. Decades later, Eliza struggles to understand why her own daughter, Ella, proudly embraces the Cree identity that Eliza learned could make her a target. Spanning three generations of women, their intertwined stories confront the lasting effects of colonial violence while tracing different understandings of identity, freedom, resilience, and what it means to carry family history forward.

Genre: Indigenous Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction

Borrow Eliza Sunshine by Michelle Good

Twenty-one Indigenous writers bring together supernatural terrors, psychological nightmares, monsters, and the very real horrors of colonialism in this dark fiction collection. The stories range from unsettling and sinister to gruesome and full-on terrifying, drawing on both contemporary experience and Indigenous perspectives. With established and emerging writers contributing their own takes on horror, this anthology offers plenty of variety for readers who like their short fiction on the darker side.

Genre: Horror / Indigenous Fiction / Short Stories / Dark Fiction

Borrow Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II by Shane Hawk

A Saturday community 5K ends in murder when one of the runners dies—and the following week, another runner meets the same fate while training for a 10K. When a third death follows the same disturbing pattern, police realize someone may be targeting runners according to the distances they race. With another event approaching and millions of potential victims, simply reaching the finish line could become a matter of life and death.

Genre: Crime Thriller / Mystery / Suspense

Borrow Run for Your Life by Jackie Kabler

Four childhood friends leave rural Brazil for Rio de Janeiro, sharing a Copacabana apartment while studying, working part-time, and chasing their ambitions. When soaring rent threatens their new lives, a desperate money-making scheme draws them into secret dinner parties catering to the disturbing desires of the city’s wealthy elite. What begins almost as a joke becomes increasingly dangerous, testing their friendship and revealing just how far each of them is willing to go for money and the future they want.

Genre: Literary Thriller / Crime Fiction / Dark Fiction

Borrow The Secret Dinner by Raphael Montes

Talia Morgan is on the verge of selling her neuroscience startup for $100 million when a disastrous glitch destroys everything she has worked for. Then a mysterious watch gives her the power to rewind the previous 24 hours, allowing her to fix mistakes, perfect important moments, and reconsider her relationship with the best friend who has loved her for years. But as Talia becomes consumed with optimizing her life, she risks losing the people she loves—and must decide whether an imperfect life lived fully is worth more than one endlessly rewritten.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Speculative Fiction / Romance

Borrow Ideal Life by Evelyn Skye

Recently separated Victor heads to the isolated California desert town of Superstition for an annual getaway with friends whose relationships have begun to fray. Instead of the restorative weekend he expects, he is drawn into the town’s seductive underworld, where a mysterious Welcoming Committee promises the freedom to indulge long-repressed desires—for a price. As something hungry infiltrates the group, their weekend becomes a gruesome confrontation with identity, aging, desire, and just how much they are willing to sacrifice to feel truly free.

Genre: Horror / Vampire Fiction

Borrow Tapeworm by A.P. Thayer

After years serving alongside soldiers in a devastating war, military dog Etna leaves his unit and sets out across a ruined country in search of the home he remembers from his youth. His journey brings him into contact with animals and people who, like him, are trying to survive the aftermath of violence and figure out how to begin again. Told through Etna’s eyes, this unusual odyssey turns one dog’s search for home into a larger story about trust, loss, perseverance, and the stubborn persistence of hope.

Genre: Literary Fiction / War Fiction / Animal Fiction

Borrow Etna by Paul Yoon