Did you know the average reader has 47 unread books on their shelves? (Totally made that up, but it feels accurate, doesn’t it? Might be more accurate if it’s 147…) This week, we’re helping you add a few more to that precarious pile—or finally tackle the ones collecting dust. Either way, we support your choices.
I have 2 phenomenal books launching this week and they don’t release until later this week, so you have time to catch up on reading if you’re behind!
This Week’s New Releases
Title: Convicted
Series: Free Judge Reborn Book 3
Release Date: 4/21/2026
Justice doesn’t stop for earthquakes.
Kara Greims is Neo Los Angeles’ most dangerous secret: a Free Judge with the power to execute criminals who escape mundane law. She killed corrupt police commissioner James Torres. Now she wears a mask.
When the Big One levels the city, it unleashes something worse than aftershocks—Slate Mountain Correctional collapses, flooding the ruins with hardened killers. While two million survivors scramble for water and shelter, a criminal mastermind is carving an empire from the rubble.
The police are crippled. The fires are closing in. Half the city will die within days.
Kara has one week to identify the kingpin, serve supernatural justice, and stop a takeover that will turn Neo Los Angeles into a mass grave. But the ruthless Janine Fellows answers to someone deadlier. And Kara’s brother’s killer—Brendan Mercer—is hunting in the smoke.
Can she bring down a criminal empire before the city burns? Or will the earthquake’s body count be nothing compared to what comes next?
For fans of gritty urban fantasy and legal thrillers where justice wears brass knuckles.
Title: Harvest Moon and Haunted Ground
Series: Sassy Shifter Shenanigans Book 6
Release Date: 4/24/2026
Roxie Ryder’s rule for October: no murders at the festival. Her record is not great.
She’s survived three of them in as many years. So when the true crime podcaster with 2.3 million followers arrived asking pointed questions about Howling Falls’ darkest founding secrets, Roxie had a bad feeling.
She was right. Margot Vale is dead in the upper orchard, the phone missing, the Samhain rift her death cracked open pulling every violent ghost this mountain has ever held into broad daylight.
Roxie is running two investigations at once: the one the sheriff can see, and the one only she can. Because Margot didn’t leave. She’s still here, still narrating everything, and still three days from becoming Howling Falls’ most permanent resident if Roxie can’t name the killer before Halloween midnight.
The clock is real. The killer is still at the festival. The dead are walking the orchard rows in full view of the cider tent.
Will Roxie solve a murder woven through a century and a half of buried history and give Margot the ending she earned? Or will the truth stay quiet, exactly the way someone needs it to be? Grab Harvest Moon and Haunted Ground find out.