Coming Soon
Curious about what books will be released in the months ahead so you can pre-order or reserve them? Then click on the months below.
Please note we have not included every book that is coming out, but rather some that caught our eye --- and that we thought should catch yours as well.
Hardcover
S&S/Summit Books | 9781668098318 | Published July 7, 2026
Kurt Richter has been in love with Eugenie Zepp since he was eight years old. Now he’s in his 50s, twice divorced, a father of four. The entire neighborhood is suing him and he’s been estranged from Eugenie for a decade. In other words: perfect timing to declare himself to her. Now their adult children are back in town with grudges, heartbreaks and schemes of their own. As secrets surface and loyalties shift, will this be the right time for Eugenie and Kurt, after everything they’ve been through? In this delicious, darkly funny, romantic comedy, everyone is looking for love in all the wrong places and gambling on the biggest games in life --- but in Dangerland, there’s always one more chance to win.
Gallery Books | 9781668213643 | Published July 7, 2026
Joey Vasquez’s life is the definition of good on paper. At 32, she’s a lawyer on the cusp of making partner, she owns her house in Los Angeles, and she almost keeps pace with her doctor sister in her parents’ eyes. When she reluctantly arrives at the very couple-y dinner party hosted by Elijah Aarons, the best friend she’s secretly pined after for 14 years, she’s dismayed to find that the last person on earth she’d ever want to see again is also there: Alex Aquino, your basic rich Silicon Beach jerk. The night couldn’t possibly get worse --- and then she dies. When Joey is given a second chance at life, she finds herself 18 again, the year she first met both Elijah and Alex. Armed with memories from her first life, Joey is certain she’s come back to finally convince the one man she ever loved to love her back. So why does she find herself strangely drawn to the man she thought she hated?
Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster | 9781668216361 | Published July 7, 2026
Travis is Death in the modern world. He wears jeans and a T-shirt and lives in a small, gray town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final hours of life. Each death he witnesses is meaningful to him; he listens, never judges and most importantly, never tries to change anyone’s fate. He knows that every life must eventually end to maintain the balance of the universe and he respects the cycle. Then he meets Dalia, a midwife, and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter Layla, who live across the hall. As Dalia and Layla come to embrace Travis, it becomes more difficult to maintain the detachment that’s allowed him to function for so long. Their time together teaches him what’s truly important in life --- and what might be irrevocably lost in death.
Cardinal | 9781538778029 | Published July 7, 2026
When Lila Dixon gets a call that her mother has gone missing, she initially brushes it off --- Mattie’s disappearances are a part of life, like earthquakes in their dusty California hometown. But this time the prime suspect is Lila’s larger-than-life father: the one-time baseball star, local hero and fatal charmer John “Dix” Dixon. Dix’s main accomplishment as a dad was finding new ways to disappoint his daughter, but even Lila knows he’s not behind this. And when they uncover a $250,000 deposit to Mattie’s bank account, and someone slips a threatening note under Lila’s motel door, they realize Mattie may be in real danger. Now they’re heading down a trail marked by unsavory Russian thugs, fat-cat farmers and an unseen enemy who’s always a step ahead. With crackling banter and characters that leap off the page, GET LOST is a thrilling and emotionally layered mystery.
Atria Books | 9781668097731 | Published July 7, 2026
The night Clay Lockhart’s wife dies, a violent storm tears their home --- and the eight hectares of land beneath it --- away from the Scottish coast, sending it adrift into the Atlantic. Thirty years later, 12-year-old Ellie Mills discovers the fabled floating island off the coast of Nova Scotia and finds Clay still living in the weatherworn farmhouse perched on its highest hill. When the island vanishes overnight, Ellie is left questioning whether it ever existed at all. But decades later, the island resurfaces --- and Ellie, now in her 30s, returns, determined to uncover the truth. What she finds is even stranger: Clay hasn’t aged a single day. Faced with the impossible, Ellie learns that some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved.
Scribner | 9781668062302 | Published July 7, 2026
Faye is one half of a power-producing duo with her Hollywood husband. Henry is a married father running the family business. When a former and beloved college professor suddenly passes away, Faye and Henry find themselves back on campus for the funeral. When Faye comes to Henry’s remote mountain cabin, she’s beside herself. Has Henry brought her here to punish her? She did, after all, write and star in a lauded episode of television based on their indelicate appetites and vicious breakup. As her week of captivity unfolds, Henry’s wanton demands intensify and Faye finds herself pulled back into his irresistible gravity. But as Faye and Henry spiral into their old dynamic, a sprawling, years-old mystery begins to take shape --- one that will rewrite history as Faye remembers it and reveal an astounding, cataclysmic truth.
Gallery Books | 9781668212387 | Published July 7, 2026
Patrick “Kick” Kilpatrick hates the ocean. Has always been terrified of it. And now he’s in a real pickle. Drifting alone in the sea after falling (or jumping? He can’t remember as the all-inclusive drinks on the cruise he was taking with his extended family were, well, inclusive), Kick must survive. As the waves crash over him, so too do the thoughts and memories of just how he got there. A Thanksgiving cruise with an obnoxious brother-in-law he has to bite his tongue to keep from screaming at. A father who gives the Great Santini a run for his money. And a mother, who already left the family boat, so to speak, a long time ago. His family may be complicated and the pains of life may seem unbearable --- infuriating enough to leap from the deck --- but maybe the will to survive is stronger.
Little, Brown and Company | 9780316600798 | Published July 7, 2026
Brett Novak is a young upstart chef, if only she could catch a break. After getting dumped by her married girlfriend, Brett accepts a temporary position as a live-in, personal chef of an author, Carson Smart, who resides in a mansion in Cape Cod. Carson immediately seduces her, but things get complicated when Carson's wife, Vera, arrives home from her trip and the love/hate relationship between the two spouses erupts, leaving Brett caught in the middle. Brett, starved for attention, craves Carson's affection and yet is oddly drawn to Vera's seductive and destructive charms. As Brett becomes an unwitting pawn and weapon, she questions how far husband and wife will go to wound the other. Can she survive her employers’ dark appetites?
Grand Central Publishing | 9781538770931 | Published July 7, 2026
When Imogen Bly's mother suddenly passes away, she leaves her Seattle apartment and returns to Lake Blair. After Imogen and her twin sister Amelia arrive, ready to pack up their mother's home, strange things begin to happen, reminding Imogen of her long held feelings of dread surrounding her hometown. Imogen enlists the help of her neighbor Rory, to uncover the truth about her mother's death. But is the boy who got away really the man with something to hide? Or is the suspicious neighbor in the house across the lake behind it all? When Imogen’s own family’s tragedies lead her to question the disappearance of a local young woman the previous year, her persistent unease becomes terrifyingly real and suddenly nowhere feels safe...
Little, Brown and Company | 9780316599870 | Published July 13, 2026
Humbled, but never defeated, he returns to his backwoods hometown, Cross Rivers, North Carolina, where his father was murdered. He goes back to what’s left of his family and their small, struggling farm. He reunites with his best friend in the world --- Taylor McCarter Webb, who is now married. Then Silas is pulled into a deadly battle with the Southern Mafia who control drugs, trafficking and murder. As the suspense crescendos, Silas follows one rule for survival: you don’t ride these country roads alone or in the dead of night.
Washington Square Press | 9781668099469 | Published July 14, 2026
Raised in Hong Kong by their Korean grandmother in a quiet village, Eunha and her brother, Solomon, live a sheltered life. Their father is a Dragon Head, a leader within the infamous criminal organization of the Triads. While their beloved grandmother does her best to shield the children from the constant hum of violence and fear that surrounds their father and his world, Eunha only has Solomon and their one permitted companion, a boy named Kai, for company. But as Eunha grows up and marries into a supposedly respectable Hong Kong family, the veneer of her careful life begins to crack. When her young son is kidnapped, she is cast into the city’s criminal underground and back into the orbit of Kai, now a Dragon Head himself. Will Eunha finally give in to the life she has strived so hard to rise above or was her future always fated?
Simon & Schuster | 9781668069134 | Published July 14, 2026
When Eileen meets naval officer Paul, she doesn’t expect to fall so hard and soon, Eileen has a ring on her finger and is following him to La Maddalena. Eileen joins a makeshift community of navy wives who are hell-bent on making the island feel a little more like home. But for Eileen, whose brother died in Vietnam, home is a loaded word, she begins to love the place for all the ways it is not like where she comes from. Still, it doesn’t take long for Eileen to be confronted with the complexities of being an American abroad. Soon, Eileen’s marriage falters and her loyalties begin to shift as she is drawn into a web of secrets --- and to a local journalist who forces her to imagine a life beyond the one she’s been handed.
Gallery Books | 9781668017753 | Published July 14, 2026
Three years ago, scientist Emery Finch did something completely out of character: She got married. To Luca --- the impossibly charming landscaper she met on one blistering night in Vegas who made her laugh, made her dance, made her feel. But now, Emery is consumed by her top research, missing dinners, forgetting anniversaries and promising herself Luca will understand once her cutting-edge discoveries come to light. Until the unthinkable happens: A tragic accident takes Luca from her. Desperate not to lose him, Emery breaks every rule, using the classified technology she’s developed to bring him back to life. And Luca would probably thank her for it, if only he could remember her. Their first kiss, their Sunny Sundays at the beach, the life they built together...all of it is gone. It may be a miracle of science, but for Emery it’s her one shot at a second chance.
Grand Central Publishing | 9781538770030 | Published July 14, 2026
Julia Pritzker loves her new life in Tuscany --- except that she misses her best friend Courtney, back in the States. One night, Julia calls Courtney and reaches her as she’s arriving at her grandmother’s farm. Then the unthinkable happens. A dreadful premonition overwhelms Julia as Courtney is entering the house. Courtney's beloved grandmother has been murdered and the killer is escaping out the back door. Julia flies home the next morning to support Courtney in her grief. The local police believe the murder was a botched burglary, but the women suspect something much more sinister. They dig to unearth the truth in a town filled with explosive secrets and Julia’s uncanny intuition points her to the missing pieces of a dark puzzle. Before long, events take a deadly turn, and Julia becomes the target of a murderous conspiracy. She ends up fighting for her life, with no one to save her...but herself.
Union Square & Co. | 9781454966258 | Published July 14, 2026
Penelope is living in the shadow of loss. Her father is gone, while her mother drifts further away each day, lost in her own grief. Left alone in a home that seems frozen in time, Penelope clings to her routines. But this is no ordinary house. It once belonged to the poet Sylvia Plath and her presence lingers in every corner, her ghost becoming an unexpected companion to Penelope. As the days stretch on, Penelope begins to hear the echoes of Plath’s poetry in the wind. When Penelope’s mother begins to withdraw further into her own world, leaving Penelope more isolated than ever, the girl’s grip on reality starts to fray. Haunted by the absence of her father and the presence of a ghost, Penelope must navigate the treacherous waters of memory, madness and the fear that she, too, will be lost to the abyss.
Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster | 9781668091753 | Published July 21, 2026
On the surface, Matthew Quick seemed to have it all. But secretly, he was depressed and some days, he didn’t want to live. Years earlier, when he first told his father he wanted to be a novelist, the response was immediate and brutal. He channeled his pain into his debut novel, THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, crafting a complex father-son dynamic drawn straight from his own life. Still, the approval Quick longed for never came. In this book, Quick takes readers deep into his psyche, as he wrestles with both his own mental health and his father’s cognitive decline. Just as he is putting himself back together, his father is diagnosed with dementia. DAD, LOVE, ME is Quick’s raw, vulnerable and deeply moving account of what it means to forgive a parent who never really knew how to love you. This memoir is a must read for anyone who has been starved of love but wants to keep loving anyway.
Simon & Schuster | 9781668075111 | Published July 28, 2026
When Ellie moves to 1 Delaney Row, she hopes to find a fresh start --- a place where no one knows her name, her history or her secrets. But what she doesn’t know is that her new home is already hiding someone else’s secrets --- and the people determined to keep them are watching her. As Ellie starts to unravel the house’s disturbing backstory, coming closer to the shocking mystery at its center, she unwittingly puts herself on a deadly collision course not just with her new home’s history, but with her own as well.
Gallery Books | 9781668092538 | Published July 28, 2026
Julia Glover has brought her 23-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time. Julia is dying, and as the mother and daughter desperately try to make memories together. Rock star Jackson Quick’s glory days are behind him. He had a handful of hit songs 30 years ago, but he hasn’t toured in a decade. This week, he’ll launch his reunion tour in Paris, the city where it all began. Henry McGee has been writing hit songs for decades. But his secret is that every love song he’s ever written is for a woman named Celeste, who he believed to be dead, but when a letter arrives telling him the opposite, he’s on the first flight to France. These intertwining stories --- plus several others --- unfold over a few breathtaking spring days, as an unforgettable group of Americans in Paris must find their way to their own versions of happily ever after in the City of Light.
Grand Central Publishing | 9781538780329 | Published July 28, 2026
When Landon receives a letter from Rose --- the woman he once planned forever with --- he learns their love story is over. She’s undergone a radical memory-erasing treatment, leaving behind her grief, her past...and him. But Landon can't bear to lose the love of his life. If she fell for him once, couldn’t she fall for him again? Now living in Edinburgh, Rose's world is a blank canvas and she's dating someone new. When Landon reenters her life as a stranger, they become fast friends, their lives entwining once more. But what Rose doesn’t know is that this new friend carries the weight of everything they once shared: their firsts, their marriage and the heartbreak they barely survived. And when she starts exhibiting strange symptoms, it becomes clear their history isn’t gone --- it’s just buried. And remembering could come at a devastating cost.
Paperback
Grand Central Publishing | 9781538778111 | Published July 7, 2026
In Columbia Mansions, secrets don’t stay behind closed doors for long. It's rare for a room to open up in London’s storied Columbia Mansions and lonely Gwen is thrilled when her neighbor’s new subletter, Pixie, brings a friendly breath of fresh air to its stuffy halls. Their unexpected bond soon becomes the bright spot in Gwen’s quiet life. But Gwen can’t help noticing cracks beneath Pixie's cheerful surface --- especially when it comes to her questionable financial arrangement with her live-in landlord, Alec. As suspicions mount, Gwen’s protective instincts go into overdrive, triggering a dangerous chain of events no one is prepared for. The last thing Columbia Mansions wants is a scandal on its hands... Let alone a murder.
Atria Books | 9781668217436 | Published July 14, 2026
Quincy Monroe is a woman-in-STEM with a PhD in atmospheric sciences, the host of a successful online weather show, and has one million followers on her meteorology Instagram. She has spent endless hours forging her path in this male-dominated field, becoming one of the best in the industry. And with a new job opportunity, nothing can derail her success. Except for the ill-timed arrival of Sebastian Dunn. Sebastian is her best friend’s brother, her long-suffering academic and professional rival, and a flashy TV weatherman from New York City that everyone swoons over. Everyone but Quincy. Over a scorching Florida summer and record-breaking hurricane season, Sebastian and Quincy are forced into close proximity. Setting aside their grudges to chase storms and stay alive is one thing, but can they weather the inevitable collision of their hearts?


