Fresh New Books, March 31, 2026 | Kiss Your $ Goodbye!
New Books Because You Deserve Them!
This is where I spotlight the sparkling new weekly releases that are tempting me so you can succumb to temptation too. The focus will be on dark fiction and romance with the occasional thriller tossed in that catches my eye.
This week is a little slim because I accidentally included a few of this week's releases on last week's post. Oops! You can see them here.
HORROR, HORROR-adjacent & THRILLERS
Monumental by Adam L.G. Nevill
A Novel of Pagan Terror from the Author of The Ritual
A story of life and death in the wilderness, and a horrifying tale of extreme survival against supernatural powers, from the four times winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel.
Disaster strikes quickly and without warning. What should have been a glorious weekend of kayaking and camping, in a secluded beauty spot, is transformed by a scream. The first crisis, initiating a deadly momentum that accelerates as the valley reveals itself to Marcus and his five companions.
They're trespassing on strictly private land. There's only one way out. An escape route closed until the next high tide fills the estuary. In twelve hour's time.
Recreation becomes survival.
Marooned, unable to summon help, harassed by dire and worsening circumstances, the ties that bind the expedition are stretched taut. If they snap, vital cooperation will unravel and the group member's damning secrets will be revealed.
Only the most courageous and committed have any chance against the area's inhabitants. But is any mind strong enough to endure a confrontation with the most hideous revelation of all? An ancient evil that coils beneath the valley's sinister folklore.
Learn more at Goodreads
A Spell for Saints and Sinners by Emily Carpenter
Like a gender-flipped You but dripping with Southern Gothic atmosphere, a young psychic on the verge of losing everything becomes obsessed with a wealthy, beautiful heiress in this clever, darkly atmospheric novel of psychological suspense set amid the lush, moss-draped beauty of Savannah.
In front of an elegantly shabby townhouse on a Savannah side street sits a hand-painted Miss Edie, Psychic. Ingrid White inherited the house and business from her beloved grandmother, a local celebrity in town. But unless Ingrid can find a way to pay for crushing property taxes and mounting repairs, she’s going to lose them both.
Ingrid has faith in the homespun witchcraft Edie passed down to her, yet hope and clients are dwindling. . . . Until Sailor Loeffler’s bachelorette party changes everything. Sailor is local royalty—part of the vast “Savannah Sauce” empire, beautiful and wealthy beyond imagining—and Ingrid’s reading is so accurate that she becomes the bride-to-be’s confidante. To keep that access and all the privileges it brings, Ingrid relies more and more on hexes and dark spells—using the baneful magic Edie always warned her against.
As Ingrid works even riskier spells, she is drawn further into the Loefflers’ inner circle and the obstacles in her path melt away. But is it witchcraft or other, more earthbound forces? Ingrid can feel the lines blurring even as her powers seem to grow, until she must confront the truth about just how far some people, including herself, will go to keep the life they’ve always wanted . . .
Learn more at Goodreads.
Where No Shadow Stays by Sara Hashem
A homecoming queen and a bad-boy loner team up to break a generational curse in this YA supernatural horror from a talented American Egyptian voice.
Seventeen-year-old Mina is always focused on what comes next: exams, school dances, opportunities for a picnic by the lake. Filling up the future keeps her from lingering over how little she knows about her history or where she comes from. Anytime she asks her father questions about Egypt--or about her mother's mysterious death--he struggles to open up.
When Mina receives an invitation from an aunt she’s never met to visit the Haikal mansion, her mother’s childhood home in El Agamy, Mina accepts. She can’t resist the chance to learn more about her roots or what happened to her mother, even if it means lying to her loves ones for the first time in her life.
But when Mina returns from El Agamy, she doesn’t come back alone.
A sinister entity follows Mina from the Haikal mansion to her tiny California town. Mina is forced to abandon her friends, her father, and everything she loves in order to prevent the entity from violently possessing them. Isolated and fighting for her life, Mina must seek help from an unlikely ally: Jesse Talbot, the mortician’s hostile son and the only person who proves immune to possession. Jesse would rather floss with barbed wire than team up with social butterfly Mina, but he doesn’t exactly have a choice—after all, he’s running from family secrets of his own.
As Mina and Jesse dig deeper into Mina's family lore, they uncover a bloody debt that must be satisfied if Mina wants to finish senior year alive.
Learn more at Goodreads.
MONSTER & FANTASY ROMANCE
Date Night with a Monster by Mary Elisabeth Graves
Date Night with a stories where headboards go bump in the night
A strange woman at a party…. a devoted undead boyfriend… a shadowy stalker… a werewolf best friend… This monster romance anthology has it all! Date Night with a Volume 1 has four very spicy short
Date Night with a Witch - A crystal girlie “witch” has met her match when she flirtatiously reads the wrong (or right) witch’s palm. No date with a witch is complete without glowing crystals, dark magic, and bed levitation.
Date Night with a Zombie - Warm tea, a used book store, and as many cassette tapes as she can get her hands on. All this date is missing is infected zombie venom. They may not go “all the way”, but this zombie can sure eat her brains out.
Date Night with the Grim Reaper - The Grim Reaper has been stalking her ever since she almost died, taking her loved ones (and the neighborhood pets) too soon just for another glimpse of her. Enough is enough! It’s time to DTR because she’s DTF the shy, shadowy figure haunting her fractured life.
Date Night with a Werewolf Girl - They’ve been best friends since fifth grade, and now after college they’re supposed to go their separate ways. One last full moon together, one last chance to say how they really feel.
Date Night with a Monster has diverse LGBTQ representation, unique *special features*, gorgeous monster illustrations, and fun outfit pairings of what each human wore on her date.
Learn more at Goodreads.
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