Romance

1. Katie Jung

You're The One That I Haunt

Katie Jung writes romance about the messy parts of being human, and what it means to define our own happy ever afters. By day, she works in climate change communications but she spends her evenings writing stories with happier endings. She lives in New York.

1. Holly Whitmore

Ghosted at Christmas

Holly Whitmore grew up overseas, spending her school years in Europe and summers in the United States. She always dreamt of being a writer and now lives with her family on the Front Range in Colorado where she writes immersive stories about real people with real struggles who ultimately find their happily ever after. Holly also writes fantasy and romance books under the name J.L. Kodanko.

1. Josie Silver

Kooky Spooky Love

Josie Silver is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of five irresistible 'what if...?' love stories, One Day in December, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird, One Night on the Island, A Winter in New York and Slow Burn Summer. She has been published in 34 languages (and counting) and has previously been featured in Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club. Josie is an unashamed romantic and lives with her husband, their sons and an ever-changing cast of animals in Shropshire.

1. Laura , Purcell

House of Splinters

'Impressive' The Times 'An enormous treat . . . beautifully vivid, claustrophobic and macabre . . . a masterful page-turner' Bridget Collins, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding 'A chilling, atmospheric read' Woman's Own Not every house is a home...Belinda Bainbridge has spent her life in the shadow of her anxious mother, so when her father-in-law dies at The Bridge, his remote ancestral seat, she is secretly thrilled. His death means she, her husband Wilfred and their children can relocate and finally begin to create their own happy home together: born a merchant's daughter, she will now be lady of the manor.But their new home quickly proves far from ideal. The garden is a wilderness, the estate is struggling financially, there are whispers about the mysterious death of a servant many years before while their young son, Freddy, seems unusually fixated on the strange wooden figures - so-called 'silent companions' - that were once owned by his ancestors.When Wilfred's charismatic brother, Nathan, arrives unexpectedly from abroad, bringing a very different account of the family's past, Belinda begins to question what her husband has told her. What really lies behind the sad history of the house? And are Belinda's children truly safe here?The outstanding new haunted house story from Sunday Times bestseller and multi-award winner, Laura Purcell, author of The Silent Companions, who has reignited readers' passion for classic gothic tales for a new audience. 'Laura Purcell really is a master of the unsettling ghost story' Jen Williams

1. F K Sterling

The Hollow Resurrection

1. Delaina M , Sleigh

Blackwood

A Gothic Paranormal Romance Some debts are written in ink. The Eustace debt is written in blood. Elara Eustace is a woman of logic, driven by the cold certainty of numbers. As a twenty-four-year-old accountant, she believes that every deficit has a source and every theft leaves a trail. But when she returns to the fog-shrouded ridges of Gainesboro, Tennessee, to settle her family's crumbling estate, she finds a bankruptcy that defies the laws of physics. Blackwood Manor is a house of echoes, held in the suffocating grip of a two-hundred-year-old curse known as "The Luck." For generations, the Eustace women have thrived on a prosperity they never asked for-a forced success that demands a brutal, personal price. But as Elara digs through the family's hidden ledgers, she realizes "The Luck" isn't a blessing. It's a predatory interest rate. Locked within the Manor's shadows is a secret the ridge has tried to bury: Thaddeus Thorne. A man out of time, Thaddeus is the flickering silver light in the darkness-a soul who has waited two centuries for an audit that will finally set him free. To save her mother and break the cycle of generational trauma, Elara must do the one thing a Eustace has never dared: she must confront the unseen architect of her family's misery. In a world where the line between the living and the dead is as thin as mountain mist, Elara and Thaddeus find themselves bound by a True Vow that transcends time. To survive, Elara must use her clinical mind to uncover a two-hundred-year-old fraud before the ridge claims the last of her blood. The books are open. The shadows are waiting. And the final payment is due.