Fresh New Books January 13, 2026 - Kiss Your $ Goodbye!
New Books Because You Know You Deserve Them!
This is where I spotlight brand new releases that are tempting me so you can succumb to temptation too. The focus will be on dark fiction and romance and the occasional thriller that catches my eye.
Today I found three horror novels and two monster romances from new-to-me writers. Will I find the time to read them all? Who knows but I'm going to try my best.
First the HORROR because it'll always be my first love.
Pig Wife by Abbey Luck (graphic novel)
Accidentally trapped in an underground bunker, a teen girl must navigate the bizarre secrets within. This astonishing indie-horror graphic novel will keep readers guessing—and turning pages!
Mary had a bad feeling even before they arrived at dead Aunt Pearl’s house. Dragged to a remote mining town so her mom and stepdad can settle Pearl’s estate, Mary can't wait to escape from her wreck of a family—but she’s stuck with them in the middle of nowhere. After a vicious fight, Mary runs off to hide in an abandoned gold mine. Her escape plan backfires when she realizes she’s trapped inside. Even more terrifying… she’s not alone.
They had me at the title, tbh.
Learn more at Goodreads.
The Shapes of our Screams by TT Madden
The music is alive...
Indie rock band Darrow Foroi is on their way to play an illegal show in Florida to protest their recent anti-drag laws.
It gets inside you…
Lead singer, Lo, is genderfluid, and this upcoming show at a local renaissance festival is intended to mark their first big, public step into exploring their identity.
When the faire is attacked by sentient neofascist music, Darrow Foroi and the rest of the faire have to fight for their very existence.
What will you become?
The Shapes of Our Screams is a bloody rock opera that’s Green Room with a supernatural twist.
They had me at illegal show. You just know that's ending badly for someone
Learn more at Goodreads.
I, In the Shadows by Tori Bovalino
Maybe this is possession; maybe this is truly what it is to be haunted.
There’s a ghost haunting Drew Tarpin’s new room. Liam Orville has been dead for ten months and has no idea how to move on. But the longer he stays, the more likely it is he’ll degrade into an energy consuming husk—which Drew is more concerned about than her grades or her inability to make meaningful connections with other students.
Drew is everything Liam never was when he was alive, but they do share some common ground: Drew finds herself hopelessly attracted to—and completely tongue-tied around—Hannah Sullivan, who happens to be Liam’s former best friend.
After a run-in with a ghost-eating monster leaves Drew and Liam desperate for answers, they strike up a deal: In return for Drew investigating why Liam is still around, he’ll help her talk to Hannah. But Liam’s time is running out, and if Drew doesn’t help him move on, he risks becoming a monster himself.
I love a good ghost story, who doesn't? And the early reviews are all pretty solid.
Learn more at Goodreads.
Oops! I Summoned A Metamorphic Monster by Opal Reyne
When Skylar is tricked into making an online dating profile, she rebels by summoning a boyfriend for the night instead.
What comes out of her magic circle is not what she expected. He doesn’t even have a body! He’s just a mass of glowing blue tentacles. Yet he gives her the hottest—and strangest—ride of her life until the sun rises.
She knows she can’t rely on an amorphous tentacle creature for love, but can she bear to close the one-way door that is the magic circle? Even when that wretched online dating profile helps her find the perfect man, will she be able to resist if the naughty, shape-shifting monster starts knocking?
They had me at, well, everything.
Learn more at Goodreads.
A Reckless Indulgence: A Pirate Monster Romance by Aveda Vice
Sirens can’t fall in love.
It’s a truth Lyx has always believed, even when a dying pirate washed up in her grotto. She should have killed Cav, the infuriatingly charming dragon, but despite her better judgment, she let him live.
That’s a mistake she came to regret.
Two years later, Lyx is trapped in the service of a cruel captain named Tidus. He makes her an help him infiltrate the pleasure ship, Indulgence, and he will finally return her siren song and grant her freedom.
And who has ties to the Indulgence but Cav? It’s a perfect opportunity for Lyx to enact her revenge, but all Cav wants is a chance to make things right. While he bargains to secure her spot on the ship, she agrees to aid him in a series of carnal exploration.
There’s no denying the tension between them. With every entanglement, Cav and Lyx delve deeper into each other until she begins to question what she’s always known.
She needs to remember why she’s to destroy Cav and reunite with her song. Everything else is meaningless…
Isn’t it?
They had me at the cover but then I read the blurb and now it must be mine.
Learn more at Goodreads.
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