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Today's books I suggest are: Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin and The Housewarming by Kristen Offiler

BLACK FLAME

by

Gretchen Felker-Martin

Ellen, a deeply closeted lesbian spends all her time in solitude, restoring films at a failing archive in New York City.

When a group of German academics present her with a pint of infamous exploitation film believed to have been destroyed during the Holocaust, Ellen finds herself forced to confont her own repressed sexuality. And the more she works on the restorationm the more obsessed she becomes over its depictions of occult practices and queer debauchery.

She's soon convinced that the acts portrayed in the film are not fiction, but reality. And their happening to her...

• Black Flame Goodreads summery

Black Flame will be published n August 5^th 2025 by Tor Nightfire

THE HOUSEWARMING

by

Kristen Offiler

For Five years vacationing on Brock Island, it's a summer to remember. How can they forget it when only four make it back to the mainland? One vanishes without a trace. A friendship is changed forever.

Five years after Zoe Gilbert's Disappearance.Callie sutter invites her estranged friends to reunite on the anniversary of the mystery that tore them apart. Back on Brock Island, they can come together again, memorialize Zoe, Allay old resentments and recriminations, and put the past to rest. It won't be easy. A true crime podcaster is most eager for the reunion. Shes made a name for herself by casting suspicion on Zoe's friends, and threatens to expose them all as cold-blooded liars and conspirators in a crime.

Driven by self-preservation, Callie and her friends must reckon with their long-held secrets and shared history if they're to find out what happened to Zoe on that hot August day. No one is prepared fo rthe truth.

• The Housewarming Goodreads summery

The Housewarming will be published on August 1^st 2025 by Thomas and Mercer

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