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Today's books I suggest are: Queen of faces by Petra Lord and The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan

QUEEN OF FACES

by

Petra Lord

Anabelle is trapped in a male body, and it's rotting from the inside out. In Caimor, where the magical elite buy and swap designer bodies like clothes, Ana can't afford to escape her tattered form. When she fails the entrance exam to the prestigious Paragon Academy, her last hope of earning a new body implodes. As the clock ticks down to her last breath, she's forced to use her illusion magic to steal a healthy chassis – before her own kills her.

But Ana is caught by none other than the headmaster of Paragon Academy, who poses a brutal ultimatum: face execution for her crime or become a mercenary at his command. Revolt brews in Caimor's smog-choked underworld, and the wealthy and powerful will stop at nothing to take down the rebels and the infamous dark witch at their helm, the Black Wraith.

With no choice but to accept, Ana will steel, fight, and kill her way to salvation. But her survival depends on a dangerous band of an impulsive assassin, a brooding bombmaker, and an alluring exile who might just spell her ruin. As Ana is drawn into a tangled web of secrets, the line between villian and hero shatters – and Ana must decide which side is worth dying for.

• Queen of Faces Goodreads Summery

Queen of Faces will be published on February 3^rd 2026 by Henry Holt and Co

THE RED WINTER

by

Cameron Sullivan

In 1785 Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the Terrible Beast of Gevaudan has returned and the French countryside runs red in it's wake.

Sebastian knows the Beast. A monster-slayer with centuries of experience, he joined the hunt for the creature twenty years ago and watched it slaughter its way through a long and bloody winter. Even with the help of his indwelling demon, Sarmodel – who takes payment in living hearts – it nearly cost him his life to bring the monster down.

Now two decades later, Sebastian has been recalled to the hunt by Antoine Avenel d'Ocerne, an estranged lover who shares a dark history with the Beast and a terrible secret with Sebastian. Drawn by both the chance to finish the Beast for good and the promise of a reconciliation with Antoine, Sebastian cannot refuse.

But Gevaudan is not as he remembers it, and Sebastian's unfinished business is everywhere he looks. Years of misery have driven the people to desperation, and when France teeters on the edge of revolution. Sebastian's arcane activities – not to mention his demonic counterpart – have also attracted the inquisitorial eye of the French clergy. And the Beast is poised to close his jaws around them all and plunge the continent into war.

• The Red Winter Goodreads Summery

The Red Winter will be published on February 24^th 2026 by Tor Books

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