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Blake, Olivie. One for My Enemy. Tor. Apr. 2023. 432p. ISBN 9781250892430. $26.99. Downloadable. FANTASY

Castro, V. The Haunting of Alejandra. Del Rey: Ballantine. Apr. 2023. 272p. ISBN 9780593499696. $28. HORROR

Davenport, N.E. The Blood Gift. Harper Voyager. Apr. 2023. 448p. ISBN 9780063058538. $27.99. SF

Doctorow, Cory. Red Team Blues. Tor. Apr. 2023. 224p. ISBN 9781250865847. $27.99. SF/THRILLER

Fox, Hester. The Last Heir to Blackwood Library. Graydon House: Harlequin. Apr. 2023. 320p. ISBN 9781525819568. $28.99; pap. ISBN 9781525804786. $17.99. CD. GOTHIC

Lee, Fonda. Untethered Sky. Tor. Apr. 2023. 160p. ISBN 9781250842466. $22.99. FANTASY

Klune, TJ. In the Lives of Puppets. Tor. Apr. 2023. 432p. ISBN 9781250217448. $28.99. CD/downloadable. FANTASY

Neuvel, Sylvain. For the First Time, Again. Tordotcom. Apr. 2023. 320p. ISBN 9781250262578. $27.99. SF Downloadable. SF

Porter, Chana. The Thick and the Lean. Gallery: Saga: S. & S. Apr. 2023. 384p. ISBN 9781668000199. $27.99. CD. SF

Stewart, Andrea. The Bone Shard War . Orbit: Hachette. Apr. 2023. 416p. ISBN 9780316541510. $29; pap. ISBN 9780316541541. $18.99. Downloadable. FANTASY

Tesh, Emily. Some Desperate Glory. Tordotcom. Apr. 2023. 448p. ISBN 9781250834980. $28.99. Downloadable. SF

In the New York Times best-selling Blake’s One for My Enemy, a firestorm is breaking out between two New York witch families—the beautiful Antonova sisters, serving a mother called Baba Yaga, and the Fedorov brothers, beholden to a father known as Koschei the Deathless (150,000-copy first printing). Castro (Hairspray and Switchblades) delivers The Haunting of Alejandra, about a woman pursued by La Llorona, the dangerous, sobbing ghost of Mexican folklore, who’s intent on pulling into the tragedies of her foremothers (35,000-copy first printing). Having committed herself to the Praetorian Trials with the intent of avenging her grandfather, as seen in Davenport’s debut, The Blood Trials, young Black warrior Ikenna is now a fugitive for illegally sharing The Blood Gift with her squad and is still battling racism and misogyny (50,000-copy first printing). The multi-award-winning Doctorow returns with Red Team Blues, an sf thriller featuring a data-brilliant forensic accountant who knows everything there is to know about finding the money that über-rich people, corporations, and drug cartels want to hide, now facing his riskiest job ever (100,000-copy first printing). Nonplussed when she inherits a Yorkshire estate sometime after World War I, young Ivy Radcliffe learns that she’s The Last Heir to the Blackwood Library, which includes esoteric texts and a foreboding presence, all drawing her into the cursed history of a family she never knew; from librarian-beloved Fox (50,000 paperback and 10,000 hardcover first printing). In World Fantasy Award–winning Lee’s Untethered Sky, Ester joins the King’s Royal Mews after a manticore kills her mother and brother, intent on riding the large, fierce birds of prey called rocs that are used to hunt manticores (75,000-copy first printing). In the New York Times best-selling Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets, three robots (including fatherly inventor android Giovanni) live as a secluded family with human Victor, whose salvage of the hapless android HAP inadvertently alerts the larger world to Gio’s whereabouts; he’s taken back to his old laboratory and must be rescued by his family (400,000-copy first printing). Neuvel wraps up his “Take Them to the Stars” trilogy with For the First Time, Again, which places last-of-the-Kibsu Aster between the U.S. government and her mortal enemies (50,000-copy first printing). In Lambda Award finalist Chana Porter’s The Thick and the Lean, a centuries-old cookbook offers freedom to two women: food-loving Beatrice Bolano, who must flee a community that strictly controls everyone’s caloric intake, and Reiko Rimando, frustrated when her scholarship is pulled, who opts for a life outside the law. Stewart continues her “Drowning Empire” series with The Bone Shard War, with Lin Sukai celebrating her first victory as emperor but finding her empire dangerously short of allies (30,000-copy first printing). A World Fantasy Award winner for her novella duology, “Greenhollow,” Tesh offers a debut novel with Some Desperate Glory, featuring a young woman angry to be relegated to baby-bearing duties and breaking out to do the job for which she was raised: avenging the destruction of Earth (125,000-copy first printing).

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