In the year 2025, it’s time to rejuvenate your reading habit, a resolution perhaps that’s been lingering for the past half-decade like ours. With eager anticipation, we see the literary landscape of 2025 sprouting with enthralling new titles, filled with indelible characters and compelling narratives. Whether your interest is piqued by powerful journeys into identities, intricate family dramas, or historical curiosities, these forthcoming books will undeniably imprint themselves in your memory. Explore this diverse collection, with books aplenty for every season of the year. These compelling reads are a necessary addition to your literary collection.
Immerse yourself in a suspenseful saga deeply rooted in historical facts. The year is 1862, and Sarah Bonetta Forbes, once a royal of the Egbado lineage, now addressed as Sally, seeks retribution. Sally, resentful of being exploited as nothing more than a royal asset, holds her grandmother, Queen Victoria, primary to her vendetta. With an unrelenting drive to crush the British monarchy, she is prepared to resort to any means necessary, with an alliance with an enigmatic underworld boss as one. However, when Queen Victoria discerns Sally’s ulterior motives, she engages in a marriage scheme that could rob Sally of her remaining autonomy.
Faced with a tricky crossroads, Sally is compelled to question if risking her identity, freedom, future, and possibly her emotions, are prices she is willing to pay for retaliation. On a parallel narrative, meet Nick Cameron, a PhD holder in geology, an expert in deciphering enigmatic situations. However, when a wealthy agate scion requests his assistance to trade gemstones and subsequently becomes the implicated suspect behind the homicides of two famed lapidaries, Nick is ensnared in a fascinatingly perilous probe.
As Nick and his witty accomplice, self-proclaimed detective Frankie Benally, deftly avoid both the law and an ominous murderer, they scramble to construct an accurate picture of the truth. Taking readers through unforeseen developments, an excursion to a secluded hacienda in the Sonoran Desert, and a vibrant assembly of supporters, this sizzling Western mystery has as much spunk as it does suspense. The inaugural novel in The Secret Society Mystery series makes its paperback debut in the first quarter of 2025.
The plot revolves around Sidney Taylor, a 30-year-old Black historian, who unexpectedly hits a professional roadblock following the revelation of a discomforting historical matter. Seizing an intriguing proposition and an offer of a million-dollar payoff to find a missing archaeological gem in Robbinsville, North Carolina, Sidney embarks on a venture, owing also to the prospect of meeting her grandmother. However, Sidney’s pursuit of the treasure quickly escalates to a dangerous whirlwind tying connections to clandestine societies, ancestral bloodlines, witchcraft, and mystical powers.
Her discoveries not only disrupt her perception of history but also relent on a surreptitious plot posing a formidable threat to the roots of America. A twisted blend of familial strife and political chaos frames another narrative. Post his wife’s demise, Louie spirals into the grip of alcoholism. Meanwhile, his daughter, Lulu, contemplates legal action to manage his monetary affairs. The discord heightened by their contrasting political ideologies, with him being a retired MAGA supporter and her, a queer liberal.
With the eyes of his late wife and her mother, Helen, watching them from the afterlife, they are forced to confront their disagreements, and look towards restoration. The alternative might risk an irrevocable division. This captivating chapter in the realm of lineage and identity focuses on the life of a fifteen-year-old fiery witch, Marisol, seeking to comprehend her roots.