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
Today I have a fantasy series starter from a favorite author, a YA mystery/horror and a workplace horror, take a look:
Hidden from birth into our world until she was twenty, Hannalyn is pulled back into her true world where she discovers she’s the last living member of a powerful house of mages after an attack that has left almost all of her family murdered. Desperate and learning to work magic on the fly, Hannalyn finds that her best hope for survival is marrying into another mage’s home, in New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s start to a new series.
Madison Briggs is having a tough time. Prone to mysterious seizures, idling away at home, she is shocked to see a portal opening before her in her back yard. Is this the leap of faith that will change her life and give it meaning? When a hand reaches out to her, she grasps it to be transported to the world she was truly born into.
Madison discovers her true name is Hannalyn Severne. She is the last living mage of her family line. Her mother is dead, her true twin is dying, and she’s being hunted by rival mage families. They want to use her untrained power for their own gain. Accompanied by her half-siblings Sandlin and Berea, warriors both, Hannalyn begins the perilous journey to find a safe haven via an arranged marriage. Her courtship is conducted through magical visions as the three travelers traverse a land filled with mercenaries who want her captured, or dead, in New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s first book in a new series.
Hold My Spellbook (The Stronghold #1) by Charlaine Harris. Releases in February 2027 from Saga Press. A new Charlaine Harris book! And the start to a new series, I’m so excited:-) Cover rating: B+
A Darkness Lives There by Rebekah Faubion. Releases in June 2027 from Delacorte Press. I don’t often feature YA books, but I couldn’t resist this cover and the promise of a possibly huanted mansion and famiy secrets. Cover rating: A
USA Today bestselling author Chuck Tingle plunges readers beneath the glittering surface of ambition in Rainbow Capital, a surreal nightmare where every opportunity comes with a price.
Scotty is a struggling actress in LA whose credit card debt is growing faster than her career. But as auditions dry up and her savings disappear, she can’t afford to turn down any opportunity that comes her way. A chance encounter at an exclusive party leads her to Rainbow Capital, a queer-focused investment startup in Santa Monica. Its charismatic founder, Carter Nettle, thinks Scotty is the perfect fit. They’re ready to change her life.
The salary is enough to ignore the red flags―at first. The onboarding process is disturbingly unconventional. The competition is cutthroat. And Carter always seems to be inside Scotty’s head. Then the hallucinations begin: vivid crimson sea creatures swimming through her mind.
The deeper Scotty sinks into Rainbow Capital, the more she realizes the company is hiding something monstrous beneath its polished exterior. If she can’t survive the job, she may not survive at all….
Rainbow Capital by Chuck Tingle. Releases in August 2027 from Tor Nightfire. Chuck Tingle’s books are hit or miss for me, but I am always intrigued by workplace horror, and this definitely has potential, especially because of the tentacles on the cover! Cover rating: B+
I loooove the cover of A Darkness Lives There! And the description also intrigues me very much!
It’s a great cover, right? I really want to read it!
Okay, all of these are going on my tbr!
They are sound good to me too:-)
Im very excited for Hold My Spellbook, I always add Charlaine Harris’s books to my TBR and am very curious to see what she does with a portal fantasy. The YA one sounds interesting too, especially as I want to read more haunted house stories. I’m not sure if the last one sounds like my kind of read but I do want to try something by the author sometime. I hope you enjoy all of these and look forward to seeing your thoughts on them all.
I’m also very curious to read this new Harris book, it sounds different from her other series:-)
I’m so excited for the new Charlaine Harris. And I love the look and sound for A Darkness Lives There. And, well, that bottom cover is totally horrifying so obviously I want to read that too. I’m doomed.
Lynn 😀
We’re both doomed…
I’ve never read a Chuck Tingle book, but the covers always draw me in. I hope you enjoy this one.
He gets great covers! I’ve read two of his books, one I enjoyed and one I didn’t, so we’ll see if I decide to pick this up.
Can’t wait for the new Charlaine Harris!!
Me too, and it sounds different from her other books:-)
I vote for Charlaine Harris book!
Me too!
A Darkness Lives Here has a cool cover. 🙂
I love the cover!
I love Charlaine Harris and have read the entire True Blood series as well as the one that was in Texas. I will read this one for sure. I loke YA horror better than other YA genres and it is about the only YA I give a try now. And I have to admit; those are the most un-tentacly looking tentacles I’ve ever seen. Great choices though!
LOL they aren’t really tentacles are they? This Charlene Harris sounds so different, I can’t wait!
I love Hold My Spell Book. Makes me want the book featured on the cover. LOL And than I spied the author. A win win.
Right? I can’t wait, I haven’t read a Charlaine Harris book in a long time.
I DEFINITELY want a copy of Hold My Spellbook! I’m a huge fan of Charlaine Harris’s writing and I had the privilege of listening to her talk on a series of panels at Fantasycon… erm – I can’t recall the year, but I do remember the event! She is a charming person. As ever, you are the One Who Knows what is coming out and when… Thank you for sharing:)).
I’ve met her too, years ago, and she was lovely:-)
True story, I did not even read the synopsis for Rainbow Capital, I just added it, because that is what we do when Chuck Tingle has a new book! Looove the cover for A Darkness Lives There, that honestly might have pushed me over the “maaaybe” edge to add it to my TBR heh. I have always enjoyed Charlaine Harris, despite not always loving the paranormal, so I am going to keep this on my radar even if I am not the biggest magic fan out there. Thanks for putting these all on my radar! (In fact- I knew there was a new Chuck Tingle but couldn’t remember the title and Goodreads was just letting me endlessly wade, and I am glad for the link heh.)
I saw the new Harris book around but I am a bit undecided, on one hand I am really curious to see how this new series will go but on the other, it doesn’t really sound so appealing. I think that in the end my curiosity will win and I will try it, but I am not 100% sure at the moment. And A Darkness Lives There sounds intriguing, even if it is not my usual pick!
Just added all three to my watch list. A new Charlaine Harris book on the horizon is definitely exciting!
This is the first I’m hearing about Chuck Tingle’s new book! Thanks!