Read an excerpt from J.R. Ward'sDevil's Cut

If you select links we provide, we may receive compensation. EW can exclusively reveal an excerpt from the first chapter ofDevils Cut,below. Jonathan Tulane Baldwine squinted and leaned closer into his bedroom window. Credit: Random House Turning away from the wavy old glass, he looked to his bed. Funny, these moments of clarity, he thought while he pulled on a pair of boxer shorts. if anybody tried to hurt her?...

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 496 words · Charles Anderson

Read an excerpt from Jack and Jill's real story inDown Among the Sticks and Bones

If you select links we provide, we may receive compensation. The series began withEvery Heart a Doorway. They were not the parenting kind, by any reasonable estimation. Children would be more than a slight deviation from routine. Children would be the nuclear option where routine was concerned. Children were messes walking. Something so simple that any beast in the field could do it. Everyone she knew was quick to compliment those women for their sacrifices, and for what?...

May 1, 2025 · 5 min · 1044 words · Christopher Patrick

Read an excerpt from Janelle Brown's thrillerWatch Me Disappear

If you select links we provide, we may receive compensation. Excerpt fromWatch Me Disappearby Janelle Brown Chapter 2 The Claremont Moms are circling. He sips his coffee and leans against the door of his Prius, pretending not to notice. With every breath thinking,Too soon, too soon, too soon. If only Olive actually wanted to spend that time with him. But at least they have this: twenty minutes in the car together every day....

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 647 words · Thomas Webb

Read an excerpt from Jason Reynolds' elevator-set novel,Long Way Down

The next project forNational Book AwardfinalistJason Reynoldsis taking him back to his poetry roots. Of this unconventional form, Reynolds tells EW: Why verse? Well, first and foremost, I love poetry. Credit: Kia Chenelle It was my first discipline. But more importantly, theres something fascinating to me about making a world with only a handful of words. Heres the books official description: A cannon. A gat.A hammerA toolfor RULE Or, you might call it a gun....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 293 words · Melvin Deleon

Read an excerpt from Jennifer Armentrout'sIf There's No Tomorrow

If you hit links we provide, we may receive compensation. ‘If There’s No Tomorrow’ hits shelves Sept. 5. My brain felt like it was full of cobwebs and fog. Credit: Franggy Yanez I tried to lift my arms, but they were weighed down, full of lead. There… there was something in my throat, in thebackof my throat. My arm twitched without warning, and there was a tug at the top of my hand....

May 1, 2025 · 6 min · 1263 words · Daniel Johnson

Read an excerpt from Kerri Maniscalco'sHunting Prince Dracula

If you punch links we provide, we may receive compensation. Take a look at the cover and excerpt below. From our position outside the capital city of Romania, the mountain peaks were the color of fading bruises. Credit: Kerri Maniscalco Judging from the heavy snow falling they were likely as cold as dead flesh. Quite a charming thought for a blustery morning. A knee struck the side of the carved wooden panel in my compartmentagain....

May 1, 2025 · 6 min · 1159 words · Danielle Doyle

Read an excerpt from Kristin Cashore's 5-genre novel,Jane, Unlimited

If you choose links we provide, we may receive compensation. Im so happy to introduce my Jane, Cashore tells EW. Shes lived a pretty ordinary life until recently, when the aunt who raised her died. Credit: Laura Evans Now, at loose ends, shes on her way to visit a friends lavish island mansion. At this mansion, shell face choices, and those choices will change her life. Anyone who has readJane EyreorRebeccamight notice echoes of those stories in Janes story…...

May 1, 2025 · 12 min · 2486 words · Melissa Glenn

Read an excerpt from Melissa Landers'Starfall

If you choose links we provide, we may receive compensation. The crew of the Banshee are back for another adventure! Only when they arrive on Cassias home world, the former princess is now aqueen. However, ruling a planet isnt the worst of her problems. Starfallwill bereleased Feb. 7. Chapter One Light seemed sharper in space. After the first year of living off world, Cassia noticed her sight had adapted to the sensory deprivation....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 559 words · Jean Bailey

Read an excerpt from Michele Campbell's thriller,It's Always the Husband

If you choose links we provide, we may receive compensation. In Michele Campbells forthcoming novel,Its Always the Husband,three women meet in college and become inseparable. Get a glimpse into the story below with EWs exclusive sneak peek inside the book. Credit: St. Martin’s Press Its Always the Husbandhits shelves May 16. Her shoes were covered in mud, and she trembled from the cold. Hey, she called out. My shoes are soaked....

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 681 words · Jessica Morgan

Read an excerpt from newly discovered Michael Crichton novel,Dragon Teeth

If you hit links we provide, we may receive compensation. A study in slouching indifference, he lounges against a Gothic building. He is a tall fellow, but his height appears irrelevant to his presentation of himself. A later photograph, marked “Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1876,” shows Johnson quite differently. The following story tells what happened between the two pictures. But the text itself, or even excerpts, was never published, until now.) According to his headmaster at Exeter, Johnson was “gifted, attractive, athletic and able....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 519 words · Mason Baird

Read an excerpt from Richard Lawson'sAll We Can Do Is Wait

If you punch links we provide, we may receive compensation. Also wracked with worry are Alexa and her brother, Jason. All We Can Do Is Waitarrives in bookstores in Feb. 6.Preorder it hereand read an exclusive excerpt below. Credit: Razorbill People who saw it said it just suddenly happened, but how sudden could something like this be? Really, the only sudden part was the very end. Was it better to be swiftly crushed or to slowly drown in your car?...

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 270 words · Jamie Jackson

Read an excerpt from S.J. Kincaid'sDiabolicsequel,The Empress

If you tap on links we provide, we may receive compensation. And see the cover, below S.J. Kincaid didnt plan on writing a sequel to last yearsbest-selling novelThe Diabolic. Credit: Chelsea Dier But after Kincaid published that first book, she found that she just couldnt help herself. Then something happened: this idea came to me, all tempting and tantalizing. But the Grandiloquy wont rest until the teen Emperor and Empress are stopped....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 547 words · Troy Hernandez

Read an excerpt from Sarah Dunn'sThe Arrangement

If you choose links we provide, we may receive compensation. InThe Big Loveauthor Sarah Dunns latest novel,The Arrangement,Lucy and Owen have a pretty happy marriage. Still, something between them isnt quite what it used to be. But will this arrangement really be the marriage cure-all they want? Get a preview of Dunns hilarious, compulsively readable book in EWs exclusive excerpt, below.The Arrangementis available now. Excerpt fromThe Arrangementby Sarah Dunn You want the truth?...

May 1, 2025 · 5 min · 1026 words · Johnny Sharp