New Indie & Diverse Books Releasing This Week (March 9th 2025)

Release Radar | Books coming out this week!

Birthed in shadow. Forged in fire.

A Splintered Kingdom

An ancient grudge has kept humans and the magical races of Arcanis at odds for centuries. The Arcane Crucible, a legendary series of trials that occurs every 25 years, offers a chance for peace.

A Haunted Warrior

Elyria Lightbreaker, once a celebrated fae war hero, is a shadow of her former self. Drowning in grief after losing the man she loved to the previous Crucible, now she must rise to stop his sister from falling to the same fate.

A Vengeful Knight

Hardened by loss and fueled by hate, Cedric Thorne's lifelong goal to conquer the Crucible on humanity's behalf is finally within reach. The only problem? Getting through the trials alive means working with Elyria-the very fae he blames for his parents' deaths.

An Unwinnable Challenge

With alliances fragile as spun glass and betrayal lurking at every turn, Elyria and Cedric must navigate deadly trials that test their strength, spirit, and magic... as well as their increasingly complex feelings for each other.

This is the Arcane Crucible. ¹Read More

OW FAR ARE YOU WILLING TO GO TO KEEP YOUR SECRETS?

After years of living as a lady in the Givensmir court - a life of luxury and opulence - Eve's past has slowly come back to haunt her. One of secrets and magic that courses through her veins, thought to have been long forgotten.

Now, a princess lies mysteriously dead before her in the great hall.

The eyes of the duplicitous court are everywhere.

And there is nowhere left to hide. Read More

When it comes to romance, Maya still believes in meet-cutes, but she’s done with boys wasting her time. After her freshman romance refuses to put a label on their relationship, Maya decides to reclaim her life and completely turnaround her college experience. She’s got big plans to throw the most spectacular Holi—a colorful Hindu festival symbolizing rebirth, which Maya feels she desperately needs.

Enter college heartthrob Nishant Rai, an upperclassman, notorious playboy, and well-connected DJ. Read More

ANYA MEHRA
For years, I've been the girl who follows the rules-a perfect student, a good daughter, and the one who dreams of making her father proud. All I've ever wanted is for him to see me, to take my ideas seriously, and to believe I'm just as capable as my brother.

It's everything I thought I needed. Until him.

Daniel Grayson is the university's basketball captain, and he's the last person I expected to change my carefully laid plans. He's confident, determined, and so frustratingly charming that staying indifferent feels impossible.
They say you can't control every part of life, but I never expected my heart to go against my rules. Read More

A real-life historical figure, the woman known as Malinalli, Malintzin, La Malinche, Doña Marina, and Malinalxochitl was the Nahua interpreter who helped Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés communicate with the native people of Mexico. When indigenous leaders observed her marching into their cities, they believed she was a goddess—blessed with the divine power to interpret the Spaniards’ intentions for their land. Later, historians and pop culture would deem her a traitor—the “Indian” girl who helped sell Mexico’s future to an invader. Read More

By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.

Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt—enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus’s livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb’s Gauntlet.

Melinoë is a Caerus assassin, trained to track and kill the sacrificial Lambs. The product of neural reconditioning and physiological alteration, she is a living weapon, known for her cold brutality and deadly beauty. She has never failed to assassinate one of her marks. Read More

When the duty-bound Huntress collides with the beautifully stubborn Solborn Heir, something unexpected sparks between them. Myths begin to unravel from legends in a sea full of secrets and untrustworthy alliances.

As the Solborn Heir and Crown Princess of Navia, Naru is expected to carry on the legacy of the Solborn ancestors before her but her light magic— the magic the Vaelith call Ina— is nothing but a glow of speckles on her skin. Without the full power of her ina, Navia’s goddess-blessed Fyreroot struggles to be resurrected. Year after year, fewer Inakin are born to the Vaelith with the extinction of the Fyreroot. The Orca attacks have increased as more Vaelith disappear. Desperate to prove her worth to her kin, herself, and maybe even her father, the Princess makes a bargain with the Huntress to train her to protect and provide for her people.

To be named Okhena is one of the highest honors of the Vaelith and it was not a title easily won by Ekco. Her duty to her kin comes before all things. If Ekco doesn't use the ancestral gifts of her Ina to hunt, her people will starve. Unrest is building from within the walls of Navia as food has become more scarce with the rising temperatures of the sea. To keep her kin alive, Ekco must tread the dark waters where no other Vaelith dares to swim. That is unless you’re the stubborn Solborn Heir drifting around the Barren Wastes. Ekco knows she should turn Naru over to her father. So why can’t Ekco say no when Naru asks the huntress to train her? Something unexpected sparks between them when a deal is made and the secrets of Navia begin to unravel. Now that the Princess is the latest Vaelith to go missing, the Huntress must ask herself how much darkness she’s willing to face to bring the light back to her kin. Read More

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