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Books by first-time debuts (authors who have never published any book before).

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  • Cover for The Found Object Society, showing a tangled, green vine image with various objects hidden throughout: a QR code, a hand, a ring, a perfume bottle, a cigarette lighter, glasses, a bank vault door, along with the title and author name in a yellow font.

    The Found Object Society

    February 19
  • A broad, colorful Oklahoma sky with a golden prairie and wildflowers. A woman staring off into the expanse. The book title and author's name are written in bold white font.

    In the Great Quiet

    April 1
  • Cover of We Become Darkness with two people, a man with red hair standing behind a blondes haired woman. The woman is wearing a red dress and holding a jeweled dagger. The man has a clawed hand on her waist and throat. The background is gothic architecture with dripping venom on the bricks.

    We Become Darkness

    April 7
  • Cover for Black Widow, White Shroud, showing an illustration of three shadowy figures in the middle. The title is in faded olive green and burgundy letters.

    Black Widow, White Shroud

    December 31
  • Cover for Enchanted Village, showing an illustration of a village covered in snow with a castle-style school up above. Small dragons fly through the sky. A pub with a sign that says "Toasty Owl" is featured prominently.

    Enchanted Village

    October 20
  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    In the Woods They Wait

    December 31
  • Illustrated cover for Love Never Dies, featuring two skeletons facing each other, with white flowers above their skulls, inside a bright red cameo shape on a black background. The border of the cameo features popcorn buckets, film reels, headstones, and skulls.

    Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies

    September 29
  • Cover for A Drop of Color, showing a Nigerian-American girl looking over her shoulder surrounded by vibrant colors. The girl has rich, dark brown skin, gold earrings, and black hair. The book title and author's name are written with a paintstroke font.

    A Drop of Color

    November 3
  • Cover for THE STARGAZERS, showing a blue-haired female astronaut in a background of stars and bioluminescent magical flowers with the book title and author name on the front in a fantasy font.

    The Stargazers

    September 15
  • Cover for Our Common Thread, showing an illustrated silhouette of a woman walking from a gray doorway into a yellow doorway, with a pink measuring tape connecting the doorways. The book title and author's name, Kahli Scott, are written in a bubbly curly pink font, with the words 'A Novel' in white font next to the title. The background is purple on top fading into turquoise at the bottom, with little stars on the background and in the doorway.

    Our Common Thread

    July 7
  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    Where the Bones Took Root

    October 6
  • Cover for Fleet of Wonders, showing an ornate ship-of-the-line on tossing seas against a sunrise. Surrounding the rising sun is a decorative circular gold motif reminiscent of a compass or a clock; toward the top of the cover, this gold motif connects with a decorative rectangular frame for the cover, adorned with three gold-outlined blue and purple Atropa belladonna flowers. Sea hawks swoop through the air, silhouetted by the sun.

    Fleet of Wonders

    October 27
  • Cover for The Fourth Wife showing a woman dressed in white, sitting staring at the reading. The vibes are dark with a hot pink, Gothic lettering for the title.

    The Fourth Wife

    March 31
  • Cover for "Casting April," showing an illustrated Chinese girl pulling back a theater curtain to reveal a stage. She is wearing a headset and a tracheostomy tube, and she's holding the script for a play called "Finding Primula." Onstage, an actor in an astronaut costume is looking into the spotlight. The book title is decorated with stars.

    Casting April

    June 16
  • A pink cover with gold accents. A banner with the title reading “Letters from the Last Apothecary” over a photo of a Victorian style greenhouse at sunset.

    Letters from the Last Apothecary

    June 9
  • Cover for The Sea-Glass Shore, by Julie Salmon Kelleher. A woman sits on a rocky shore with a cliff, trees, and cloudy skies behind her. Her feet are in the water and her eyes on the sea. In the foreground, a seal surfaces to look at her.

    The Sea-Glass Shore

    September 1
  • Cover for Winter's Teeth, showing foliage and flowers with antlers on a blue-gray wash background. The book title and author's name, R. A. Betzer, are written in bold font, as well as the tagline: Don't go into the woods.

    Winter’s Teeth

    October 6
  • Cover for What Is Left For Us, showing a woman in the water on an ombre blue background. The book title and the author's name are written in a strong, sans serif font.

    What Is Left For Us

    March 10
  • Cover for We Became Wild, by H.D. Carver, showing an illustration of two teen girls with large hiking backpacks walking away form the viewer along a desert trail toward mountains in the distance. The sky glows orange and red. The title appears in large white letters across the top and bottom of the cover.

    We Became Wild

    June 23
  • Cover for How to Love You When You're Gone. A blond teenage boy, in a pasta-water yellow poleo, sits across from a brunette teenage girl wearing a yellow hat. They're at a diner, sitting in a red booth. The walls are bright pink!

    How to Love You When You’re Gone

    May 26
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