New Adult Fiction: Wednesday, March 4

Once again, you’ve made it to mid-week and that means planning for the weekend. And that means good reading material. We have lots of new titles—so why not stop by when you can (we’re open til 8 pm tonight) and see what’s on the shelves? To place a book on hold online, visit https://owwl.org and sign in to your account using your library card number. Pick up your book from the shelves near the circulation desk when you have time.

Here are a few of the new adult fiction titles we’ve gotten in recently:

Crown of War and Shadow

In the deep, dark, dead of night, passions rise, and empires fall. …The Fulcrum is failing, and demons are slipping into the mortal world. No one is safe. Especially not Sorrel, an orphan and outcast within the walls of her village because of her mystical abilities. She wants to find somewhere to call her true home, but Fate has other plans. Sorrel must cross the Badlands to return the Queen’s crown and convince her to save their world from destruction. Well aware she’s no hero, Sorrel makes a deal with Merc, a brooding mercenary known only by his unscrupulous profession. The deal? A night in his bed that she will never forget, in exchange for her safe passage. But Merc has secrets of his own, and even though desire runs hot between them, adventure, danger, and betrayal lurk around every corner.

A Better Life

Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son Nico in Brooklyn, decides to participate in a new city program that would pay her to take in a migrant as a boarder. Liberal to the extreme, Gloria is thrilled when sweet, kind, helpful Martine arrives. But Nico is skeptical. A classic live-at-home Gen Zer with no interest in adulthood, Nico resents any interruption of his “hovercraft repose.” As the months go by, Martine endears herself to both Nico’s sisters, while finding her way into Gloria’s heart and even, briefly, Nico’s. But as Martine’s disturbingly dodgy compatriots begin to show up, Nico conceives a dark twin hostile to both his mother’s altruism and the “migrant crisis” in general, and turns out to be anything but a reliable narrator himself.

The Book of Blood and Roses

In the mists of the Scottish Highlands is a university where vampire students study alongside humans. Rebecca Charity is a vampire hunter undercover at the university, searching for the mysterious Book of Blood and Roses, a lost compendium of ways to kill vampires. If she finds it, she’ll be one step closer to avenging her parents, who were slain by those creatures of the night. But when Rebecca arrives, she finds something unexpected: a coffin. Her new roommate is Aliz Astra, scion of one of the most powerful vampire families . . . and the most beautiful woman Rebecca has ever met. The maddeningly gorgeous Aliz is everything that Rebecca has always hated, but also everything she ever wanted, and now Rebecca doesn’t know if she wants to kiss or kill her.