Melissa DeWild

All the May 2025 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.

Love wins—eventually—in 10 delightfully trope-filled tales from fake dating to enemies-to-lovers.

Sea dwellers, fortune tellers, tricksters, faeries, roving robots, and other fantastical creatures inhabit the pages of these out-of-this-world novels.

Readers will need to leave the lights on as they devour these tales of terror that are sure to delight.

Eight meaningful, whimsical, philosophical, historical, and fantastical works that are a joy for both reading and viewing.

Bestselling Laura Lippman returns with a book featuring middle-aged widow Muriel Blossom from her Tess Monaghan books, Nilima Rao writes a second Sergeant Akal Singh historical mystery, and Sally Smith debuts with a cozy gaslight series set in 1901 London.

Readers can look forward to new suspense from Lisa Jewell, psychological thrillers from Matthew Blake and Liv Constantine, and a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic from S.A. Cosby this month.