Trauma Recovery

The Night We Met

Abby Jimenez · Romance

**A beautiful, compelling novel that revels in laughter, friendship, and the messy choices life can throw our way.** In everyone’s life, there’s a…

slow burn · friends to lovers · romantic comedy · trauma recovery

Stay Buried

Jennifer McMahon · Horror

From the New York Times bestselling author of Children on the Hill comes a queer folk horror in which a woman must confront decades of secrecy and…

gothic atmosphere · trauma recovery · haunted setting · revenge plot

If He Had Been with Me

Laura Nowlin · Romance

*A BookTok Viral Sensation* An achingly authentic and raw portrait of love, regret, and the life-altering impact of the relationships we hold…

second chance romance · coming of age · trauma recovery · slow burn

Into the Fading Twilight

Catherine Cowles · Mystery & Thriller

Book Two in a brand new suspenseful small town series - Starlight Grove - from New York Times Bestselling Author, Catherine Cowles.

found family · psychological thriller · small town · trauma recovery

The Anniversary

Alex Finlay · Mystery & Thriller

Today became an anniversary they would never celebrate.

psychological thriller · revenge plot · twist ending · trauma recovery

Meat Bees

Dane Erbach · Horror

Jaws with wasps. By the time Scarlett Sutton arrives at her dad's cabin in the Smoky Mountains, two locals have already been eaten alive by wasps. Of…

high stakes survival · psychological thriller · trauma recovery

Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo · Fantasy

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class.

dark academia · urban fantasy · trauma recovery · ghosts · demons

Daggermouth

H. M. Wolfe · Fantasy

He Is Her Ruin. She Is His Rebellion. The first thing you’ll learn in New Found Haven is mercy no longer exists. Showing mercy is a weakness, and…

dark romance · enemies to lovers · grimdark · dystopian society · trauma recovery · forced proximity

The Midnight Train

Matt Haig · Literary Fiction

When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?

magical realism · time travel · second chance romance · trauma recovery

The Burning Side

Sarah Damoff · Literary Fiction

When their house goes up in flames, family secrets and thorny histories emerge as they are forced to decide what is worth salvaging.

coming of age · trauma recovery · secret identity

Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

Ben Reeves · Literary Fiction

For fans of Fredrik Backman, Virginia Evan s and Lisa Ridzén, an astonishing, deeply moving novel about finding beauty in the brevity of life, as…

coming of age · magical realism · trauma recovery

Molka

Monika Kim · Mystery & Thriller

From the award-winning author of The Eyes Are the Best Part, praised by The New York Times Book Review as “violent, smart, gruesome and wildly…

psychological thriller · revenge plot · cat and mouse · trauma recovery

The Only One Left

Riley Sager · Mystery & Thriller

At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one…

psychological thriller · gothic atmosphere · unreliable narrator · trauma recovery

The Renovation

Kenan Orhan · Literary Fiction

A dazzlingly original new voice in literary fiction for fans of Ali Smith, Mohsin Hamid and Elif Shafak The Renovation is a heart-breaking portrait…

historical fiction · trauma recovery · political intrigue

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier · Horror

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs.

gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · haunted setting · second chance romance · trauma recovery

The Housemaid

Freida McFadden · Horror

Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom.

psychological thriller · haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · trauma recovery

Wolf Worm

T. Kingfisher · Horror

Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, a new gothic masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author T.

gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · survival · trauma recovery

Carrie

Stephen King · Horror

The story of misfit high-school girl, Carrie White, who gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers.

coming of age · trauma recovery · psychological thriller

And the Sea Gave Up the Dead

William Friend · Horror

For fans of Jennifer Thorne's Diavola and We Have Always Lived in the Castle comes William Friend's latest stunning novel where grief, mystery, and…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · trauma recovery · ghosts · small town

Misery

Stephen King · Horror

Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing…

psychological thriller · survival · obsessive love · trauma recovery

The Winter Folk

Jen Julian · Horror

A woman returns to the mysterious lodge in the woods where she once worked, and to the inscrutable creature that bound her there, in this haunting…

gothic atmosphere · slow burn · haunted setting · paranormal romance · trauma recovery

The Summer Fun Massacre

Craig DiLouie · Horror

It’s 1992, and in the heat of Texas, camp Summer Fun rests by a crystalline lake surrounded by a shady forest.

survival · trauma recovery · twist ending · high stakes survival

A Forbidden Alchemy

Stacey McEwan · Romance

Australian BookTok star Stacey McEwan’s stunning slow-burn romantasy series traces a fated pair who stumble upon a world-changing secret and are…

slow burn · fated mates · forbidden romance · quest · coming of age · trauma recovery

The Lion Women of Tehran

Marjan Kamali · Literary Fiction

When Homa, a girl from her childhood, reappears in her privileged world, Ellie, amidst Iran's political turmoil, joins her in pursuing their goals…

coming of age · historical fiction · political intrigue · trauma recovery

SHE WHO REMAINS

Rene Karabash · Literary Fiction

High in the Accursed Mountains, in a village ruled by the ancient laws of the Kanun, Bekija escapes an arranged marriage by becoming a sworn virgin,…

historical fiction · coming of age · forbidden romance · trauma recovery

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte P. Gilman · Literary Fiction

Specially printed limited edition release for the Miskatonic Literary Society.

psychological thriller · unreliable narrator · historical fiction · trauma recovery

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee · Literary Fiction

In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea.

historical fiction · coming of age · found family · trauma recovery

The Shadow of the Object

Chloe Aridjis · Literary Fiction

***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026*** 'One of our boldest writers' Deborah Levy A magnificent work of shadow-play and a meditation on desire,…

magical realism · unreliable narrator · multiple timelines · trauma recovery

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan · Literary Fiction

A stunning new edition of Claire Keegan's multi-award-winning, bestselling novel Small Things Like These.

historical fiction · trauma recovery

The Names

Florence Knapp · Literary Fiction

**The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?** In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her…

psychological thriller · trauma recovery · survival

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver · Literary Fiction

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with…

coming of age · trauma recovery · redemption arc

The Bright Years

Sarah Damoff · Literary Fiction

Ryan and Lillian Bright are deeply in love, recently married, and now parents to a baby girl, Georgette.

coming of age · found family · trauma recovery

June Baby

Shannon Garvey · Literary Fiction

Some summers never leave you. In this moving debut novel, set over the course of one transformative summer in the lush, beachy enclave of Block…

coming of age · small town · trauma recovery

Shatter Me

Tahereh Mafi · Fantasy

Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of…

slow burn · enemies to lovers · dystopian society · forbidden romance · trauma recovery · high stakes survival

Foster

Claire Keegan · Literary Fiction

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home.

coming of age · historical fiction · trauma recovery

One Dark Window

Rachel Gillig · Fantasy

An ancient, mercurial spirit is trapped inside Elspeth Spindle's head - she calls him the Nightmare.

dark romance · gothic atmosphere · chosen one · demons · trauma recovery

Souls in Ruin

Jacqueline White · Fantasy

Raven Kennedy’s Gild meets Jennifer L.

dark romance · revenge plot · obsessive love · trauma recovery · demons

Spark of the Everflame

Penn Cole · Fantasy

A captivating fantasy romance that serves as the first book in the Kindred's Curse Saga.

coming of age · grimdark · revenge plot · chosen one · trauma recovery