Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently added to my TBR pile. I’m still going to be linking up with Wishful Endings/Can’t Wait Wednesday, and I also want to give a shout out to Jill at Breaking the Spine for starting the original Waiting on Wednesday meme. I hope you’ll find some new books to add to your TBR piles, and as always, I look forward to hearing what YOU’RE looking forward to:-D
There were a lot of cover reveals last week, but these three are especially exciting: a favorite author’s new book, and two sequels from series I love, take a look!
A tense, gripping novel about a mother whose child begins to change in ways she can’t explain, from the national bestselling author of The Place Where They Buried Your Heart.
Nora Pacetti is a new stay-at-home mother, tired but coping while caring for her happy, healthy baby Olivia. But then one morning, something that looks like a feather starts growing out of Olivia’s arm. Or at least, that’s what Nora’s mother, Giulia, thinks. Nora thinks her mother has probably spent too much time watching conspiracy videos on YouTube.
Nora’s husband thinks Olivia needs tests, specialists, hospitals. But Nora senses that whatever is happening to her daughter needs to be concealed—and a mother’s intuition is never wrong. Soon sinister people begin asking questions about Olivia, and Nora starts to wonder if there really is something wrong with her baby. But she’s determined discover the truth about her daughter…no matter the cost.
Pinfeathers by Christina Henry. Releases in November 2026 from Berkley. It seems like I’ve been waiting months for this cover reveal! I’m soooo excited for Henry’s next book. The Place Where They Buried Your Heart was one of my favorite books of 2025, so you can imagine how anxious I am to read this!
Queen Ailana of Nornne is famous for her magical powers over ice and snow and her equally frosty self-control. The head of a powerful spy network and the guiding force behind the Queens of Villainy, she makes every decision based on cool and unemotional calculations…
Including marriage to a woman she strongly suspects of keeping dangerous secrets.
Hot-headed High Priestess Clothilde has been under the brutal control of her brother Otto, the Emperor of the Serafin Empire. But behind the smile she’s been forced to wear in public, a fiery passion for justice has been building―and an equally hot passion for Ailana herself. Clothilde proposes a marriage of convenience in their shared efforts to bring down her brother, but she’s determined to melt all of Ailana’s walls of ice, because Clothilde has been keeping another secret, too.
The gods of the Imperial Pantheon have been speaking to her for years, and they’ve gifted her with two world-shaking truths: Ailana is her destined true love…and if the two wives don’t find a way to work together as equals, side by side with their fellow Queens of Villainy, a storm of war and blood will leave all of their futures in ruins.
Melting the Ice Queen (Queens of Villainy #3) by Stephanie Burgis. Releases in March 2027 from Bramble. I love this series so much, so of course I’m excited for the final book in the series!
Six astronauts race against time to escape a parallel Earth before their true home is destroyed. The mind-bending adventure that began with Detour continues in the second book of this emotional thriller series from the creator of the hit Netflix show Manifest and the bestselling author of The Warehouse.
The space crew that made the historic flight to Saturnʼs moon were hailed as heroes—until they discovered a terrifying The Earth that they returned to was the wrong one. Before they can reveal that theyʼre from a parallel world, the power-hungry billionaire who orchestrated the entire mission brands the group as traitors, forcing them to flee in order to survive.
Two members of their group are immediately captured, leaving the rest of the crew off balance and scrambling for a new plan. They quickly realize that their problems transcend this terrifying nationwide manhunt, however, when unexplained and catastrophic phenomena begin to occur all over the globe.
Now on the run and unsure where to turn or whom to trust, the crew can only rely on one another to find their way home—and to save not just one world, but two.
Roundabout (Detour #2) by Jeff Rake & Rob Hart. Releases in January 2027 from Random House Worlds. I loved Detour, the first book in the series, and I’m thrilled this sequel was just announced!
Ooo… I am excited about two of these offerings! Like you, I thoroughly enjoyed Detour, so I’m keen to discover what happens next in Roundabout. And I hadn’t appreciated that the second book in the Queens of Villainy series had already been released – so I need to grab that, because the first book was loads of fun. Thank you for sharing, Tammy:)).
I love the Queens of Villainy series, and you will definitely enjoy the second book:-)
I’m so excited to see Roundabout! I loved Detour — can’t wait for the sequel! And I’d definitely pick up Pinfeathers. Love her books!
Me too, Detour was such a great surprise:-)
Yay for a new Christina Henry book! I like her.
Me too, I cannot wait!
Hooray for more Christina Henry! I am also very excited about Roundabout, I’m intrigued to see where they take this story.
A new Christina Henry is always exciting!
I’m definitely reading Stephanie Burgis and since I read Detour I’m probably getting Roundabout too.
I love the sound of both:-)
I still need to get back to the first Queens of Villainy book… I didn’t even get far in before getting distracted, ahaha.
Distractions are everywhere, I totally get it:-)
Christina Henry is hit or miss for me but either way, I always want to check out what she writes. I have not seen this one yet. I ended up tweaking my Wednesday post to add a horror book in addition to another pick all summer for Summer of Horror. Hope I can keep up!
I loved Christina Henry’s last book so much, I have high hopes for this one.
I still haven’t read Detour but the cover for Roundabout is incredible!
I love the cover too! Detour was a lot of fun:-)
What I remember most about Christina Henry was the Alice in Wonderland re-telling. Which I believe was horror and pretty good?
I loved her Alice books, and yes they were definitely horror:-)
That Pinfeathers cover reveal seemed to appear from nowhere. Its on one of my Summer Of Horror lists and when I drafted it there was no cover, when I updated it with a few more titles later that day the cover was live lol. I haven’t started either of these series but really hope to be up to date with Queens Of Villainy before the next one releases.
I don’t keep up with very many series, but I do love the Queens of Villainy:-)
I’m going to be reading Detour very soon!
It’s a lot of fun, enjoy!
LOVE the cover for the first one! But the second one here sounds really fun.
The Pinfeathers cover is very unsettling, I can’t wait:-)
I love the cover for Melting the Ice Queen! It fits the series so well.
It does fit the series! I’m very excited to read it:-)
Is it me or does the cover of Melting the Ice Queen looks a lot like Kate and Penelope from Bridgerton????
OMG you are right!!
Pinfeathers sounds like it could be a creepy one, depending on what direction it takes.
It’s probably my most anticipated book of 2026 that I haven’t read yet:-)
These all look great but I’m really excited for a new Henry and Burgis! Woohoo.
Lynn 😀
I love when favorite authors have new books:-)
Yay, I actually had Pinfeathers on my watch list for once! The genre that gets me most excited these days is horror/dark fantasy.