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  • Cover for The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies, showing a bright blue sky with a hint of an Oxford college at the bottom. A man and woman's sillouhettes stand beside the title with a fountain pen spilling red ink stabbing the letters.

    The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies

    September 1
  • Cover for Death in Verse, showing an illustrated girl with rusty red hair and wearing a dress and black sweater standing in a library and holding a book. Her hand touches the pages and ink flows up into the library, where pages swirl around the room. Standing before her is a nonbinary Chinese person in a coat and pants watching her. Beyond the library through the window, rain falls on a forest landscape. The book title and author's name are written in a bold font in all capitalized letters.

    Death in Verse

    September 22
  • 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
  • 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 Cloak and Dagger Club, showing a 1930s woman holding a bleeding pen over an Art Deco background. She has red hair and a green dress. The book title and the author's name, Jackie McMahon, are written in a vintage font. The tagline is: No one knows more about murder than a mystery writer.

    The Cloak and Dagger Club

    July 14
  • 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
  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    The Legacy of Poe

    December 31
  • Two teenage girls in regency attire are cuddling together on a chaise lounge. One is blonde with a blue dress; the other is dark haired and is wearing a slip and a dark green men’s coat.

    The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy

    April 7
  • Cover for Bones of Jade, Flesh Like Ice, showing an image of a woman in a hanfu with butterflies crawling up her neck and covering her face. There is a snake hidden in her hair ornaments and a pig carved onto the jade pendant at her neck. There is a fisherman featured on the hanfu.

    Bones of Jade, Flesh Like Ice

    November 10
  • A stylized book cover with ornate pink borders and gothic flourishes. The large word “Beth” appears at the top in white cursive letters, dripping with blood. Below it, in bold block letters, are the words “IS DEAD.” At the bottom, the author’s name “Katie Bernet” is written in a classic serif font. The design has a dramatic, high-contrast aesthetic with a mix of elegance and horror.

    Beth Is Dead

    January 6
  • A book cover in lime green depicting the silouhette of a female rice farmer with her chin slightly raised ,looking upward. Within the silouhette there are images of rice terraces and distant mountains. The cover features the book title, And The Ancestors Sing, and the author name, Radha Lin Chaddah.

    And The Ancestors Sing

    February 3
  • The UK cover for Vile Lady Villains, showing an illustration of two women, one with red hair, a white dress and a red cloak, and one with black hair and a black dress. Both are holding daggers on each other's throats.

    Vile Lady Villains

    April 2
  • Cover for A Fate Worse Than Drowning, showing dark red waves leading up to a craggy island and a lighthouse that is shining yellow light across a sky with stars.

    A Fate Worse Than Drowning

    July 21
  • Cover for The Wives of Herrick Hall, showing an image of a wreath made of burning flowers, with a purple ribbon, purple thread, glass bottle, and a pair scissors wound throughout. Two cameo purple and white brooches showing two young women facing each other rests at the bottom of the wreath. The book title lies in the center of the wreath, and the author's name, Julie Lew, at the bottom.

    The Wives of Herrick Hall

    May 5
  • A man reads on a park bench beneath a modern lamp post in the upper left corner, upside down. A woman waits beneath an old-fashioned lamp post in the bottom left corner, right side up, both silhouetted in light blue against yellow clouds. Silhoettes of St. Paul's cathedral sit in opposite corners in blue. The title, All We Have is Time, covers the center in stacked words over grey and yellow clouds on a navy blue background dotted with stars. The authors name sits beneath it.

    All We Have is Time

    February 24
  • Cover of the book "Burn the Sea" with the title written in swoopy gold-yellow font. There is a woman in the foreground playing a tambura. She is wearing a teal-green lehenga with gold trim and is holding the tambura such that its neck is covering half her face. She is staring at the audience and her unbound curls cascade down her shoulders. A dagger leans against one of her legs. She is sitting in a stepwell, and her toes and hem are in the pool of water at the base. There is a snake made of smoke hovering in the upper right corner.

    Burn the Sea

    April 21
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