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

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  • A mermaid with glowing eyes and tentacle-like hair curling around a human girl, while seaweed and coral obscure them from view.

    Endless Blue Beneath

    June 9
  • Book cover for We Sent Them Down Singing by Libby Edwardson. Font in black with an image of a yellow canary with a black hole in its stomach, overlaid over mountains and trees in blue, gray, and black. White background.

    We Sent Them Down Singing

    July 21
  • Cover for How the story goes, featuring a stack of four books against a night sky with the words "How the Story Goes" cascading down their different colored covers at angles. The edges of the books' pages include simple images of a castle, a hand writing, and a couple walking hand in hand, as well as decorative fall leaves and birds.

    How the Story Goes

    May 5
  • A beige book cover with bright, multicolored block letters and hot pink doodles of a heart, a lightning bolt, and the crossed-out letters from a nostalgic M.A.S.H. game. The title reads “The MASH Up” and the words “a novel” are circled beneath it in pink. The author’s name, Laura Marie Meyers, is in a blue script font along the bottom, and at the top, in pink text, is a blurb from author Emily Giffin, which reads, “An irresistible, page-turning treat from first laugh to last swoon.”

    The MASH Up

    July 7
  • Cover of THE PATRON SAINT OF WHITE MENAGERIES by Lauren T. Davila. It is a dark cover, featuring a tan woman's hand behind the white text. She is grasping a white peacock feather and there are orange, purple, and red flowers surrounding her and the feather.

    The Patron Saint of White Menageries

    September 1
  • Cover for Cut to the Ending, showing a M/F illustrated couple embracing against a blue background. She is a white woman with red hair wearing a burgundy shirt, brown skirt, and purple tights and is holding his face. He is a white man with brown hair wearing jeans and a flannel with a robed action figure in his shirt pocket. The book title and author's name (Maria Millage) written in yellow font.

    Cut to the Ending

    November 3
  • Cover the The Haunting of Lavender House, showing a white woman with shoulder-length dark hair looking out from the window of a house. The house has teal-green shutters, and the wall around it is also teal-green. The woman is wearing a lavender colored dress and she is looking over her shoulder at the viewer. In her hands, she is holding a bundle of lavender. Behind her, a dark silhouette of a person looms. The area around her, in the house, is colored an ominous bright red. Along the top and bottom of the cover are embroidered vines and flowers, resembling lavender. The book title is written in a bold, white font.

    The Haunting of Lavender House

    October 20
  • Cover for The Greatest Game. A woman with blonde hair stands in front of an African American man as they stare defiantly at each other. They wear sports clothes and their whistles are tangled together. In the background is a soccer field with a goal and soccer ball.

    The Greatest Game

    May 5
  • Cover for the novel Ghost Orchid, showing an evening swamp scene with a shack on stilts standing in the swamp in the background, its windows glowing with light. A heron wades across the swamp in the foreground, and the scene is framed by mossy trees.

    Ghost Orchid

    September 22
  • Cover for Champion of the Rose: Volume 1, showing Rey, a seventeen-year-old trans swordsman in the heat of battle. He's surrounded by sharp swords from all over the world. Rey wears a suit of armor and a large rose in bloom, over his heart. Colourful confetti falls around him. The book's title and author names for Cat Aquino and Dominique Duran are set in metallic gold.

    Champion of the Rose: Volume 1

    July 14
  • Cover for THE BONE BRIDES, by Marley Rose-Teter. The cover’s main color palate is glowy blues and aquas and features two girls holding hands while standing face-forward. One girl has a missing eye and a place her torso reveals instead a ribcage. The other girl has a hand that has become skeletal. In a satchel the second girl wears sits a skeleton-rabbit. Behind the girls looms a large skeleton-deer, with one antler replaced by vines. Very moody and atmospheric. The book has pale-green sprayed edges, stenciled with deer skulls and the same antler/vine combination.

    The Bone Brides

    September 29
  • Cover for The Jezebel List, showing an illustration of a woman with long black hair in a blue dress kissing a man with shoulder-length brown hair in a black leather jacket. She has a piece of notebook paper in her hand wrapped around his neck. The Jezebel List is written in big font with a checkmark before the word "list." The background is pink with a checklist. Words on the checklist peek out around the title and illustrated characters, such as "attend a a pagan festival," "wear a mini dress," "read," "smoke," etc.

    The Jezebel List

    August 25
  • A purple background with a city skyline. In the middle is a mosque-like building from which a giant skyscraper reaches into the clouds. Surrounding the skyscraper is the title in bright orange: The Third Wish. Between the title, smaller white letters say: What would you wish for? And what would you give up to win? By T. E. Forest.

    The Third Wish

    September 16
  • Two women, side by side. The first is in a blue Regency dress, holding a fan, while the second is in a red minidress. The backgrounds show the same row of houses, but the scene behind the first woman shows historic scenes and young trees while the trees behind the second woman are much older and the scene more modern.

    The Regency Switch

    February 26
  • Cover for Witch Daughter showing a beautiful woman on a bright pink background. She is wearing a beaded blue and green dress, an ancient Bactrian crown, and a necklace with a Faravahar pendant.

    Witch Daughter

    September 22
  • A white woman's and white man's faces are seen through a layer of blue guitar picks on a white background. The Encore and Juliet Izon are written in bold, black text.

    The Encore

    March 3
  • A black background with the hot pink image of a baby carriage. Below that is the title in blurry hot pink letters. Beneath that in white text are the words "A THRILLER". Above the baby carriage is the author's name in white text.

    The Better Mother

    February 10
  • Cover for If Books Could Kill, featuring a bold black and white title on a red background. The "O" of "Could" is depicted as a heart with a knife or sword through it. Beneath the title, an illustrated man and woman are falling into (or out of) an open book with blood on the pages.

    If Books Could Kill

    July 21
  • Full colour, illustrated cover for The Revenant of Surolifia by Florence Chien, with text shown in white and gold. The cover depicts a stern-faced, androgynous figure in their early 30's, with long silver hair. The figure is wearing an elegant black suit and waistcoat with golden embroidery on the lapel. They are standing in side-profile before a gothic window. Dramatic lighting pours down from overhead, backlighting the figure's face to give them a mysterious look. Decorative golden lines radiate from the figure to give them a vaguely religious look. Blurb from Richard Swan reading: "Sorcerous chicanery meets high-stakes political scheming".

    The Revenant of Surolifia

    July 7
  • Cover for Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder showing a graphic of two women, one blonde and one brunette, facing a gallery wall. In the frames on the wall are a victorian woman, bottle of poison, upside down pineapple, lily pads, a chalk outline of a body, and the Liberty Bell.

    Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder

    October 13
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