Mijn TBR voor April 2026

I Know A Place
Door Nat Cassidy

_{There are locations in this world where the light doesn’t seem to reach. Where, no matter how illuminated the place might be, shadows creep in too strongly to fight back.}

_{A suspiciously empty gas station rest stop in the middle of the night, littered with googley eyes… A doctor’s office, where a bottle of booze and a tear-stained folder wait on the desk… A tech millionaire’s haunted kitchen… A Bible-quoting ventriloquist’s dingy apartment… A yoga retreat in the middle of the desert, silent except for the screaming…}

_{These supernatural and sinister locations are your destination, and bestselling author Nat Cassidy will be your guide. Featuring the Bram Stoker Award–nominated, critically acclaimed novella Rest Stop (one of Esquire’s Best Horror Books of 2024), along with a number of other original short stories, some which have never been published before, I Know A Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours is a travelogue down twisting side streets and through alleyways where the darkness has eyes…and teeth.}

_{Let’s hope you make it home in one piece—if the ghosts, gory visions, and splatterpunk nightmares don’t get you first.}

CHAOTIK
Door T. Crissey

_{Turns out that random lady at Target was right when she said I was gonna die that day. I thought she was just mad about the parking space.}

_{I got dragged by a bus. I got hit by an Amazon truck and then dragged by a bus. I died, but I came back. Untethered, supernatural as hell, and off my damn meds.}

_{My name is Bright Leigh Greene. Well, it used to be before it got erased, along with every proof I ever existed. People with powers like mine are a threat to The Balance. Threats to the Balance get eliminated. I’d have ended up a meat puppet for a creepy Victorian ghost child if I hadn’t been found and recruited by a psychic with a heart of gold. Now I work with a team of misfits that includes a narcissistic former A-lister, a blue-eyed killer, and a golden retriever pyrokinetic. I fit right in. Our agency: Payback. Our motto: We do good things the bad way.}

_{You want justice? Good luck with that. You want revenge? Talk to me.}

_{But I’m having a very bad week. Someone from my old life is in trouble. Power-hungry tech bros in fancy robes kidnapped my psychic and my guinea pig. To save them, I’ll have to break every rule and risk having my soul ripped apart.}

_{Better to be cautious. But I’m not cautious.}

_{I’m CHAOTIK.}

_{If you like your heroes mean, messy, and morally gray, you’ve come to the right place.}

Don’t Go Baking My Heart
Door Kate Callaghan

_{In a tale of passion and sacrifice, Peter and Faye discover that sometimes even death may yield to the power of love.}

_{In the realm between life and death, Grim Reaper Peter Matherson dutifully guides souls to their rest. However, when he’s ordered to return to his hometown of Foxford and claim the soul of a young woman from his past, his job doesn’t seem quite so simple. How can he strike a balance between following orders and following his heart?}

_{For Faye Parker, a talented baker trapped in an unhappy and controlling marriage, the only place she can regain some independence is the kitchen. In the end, it’s a new and unexpected friendship that gives her the confidence to start life anew – she just never anticipated that Peter would play such a vital role in her journey of self-discovery. As their friendship blossoms, love starts to take root.}

_{With his deadline closing in, Peter must choose: save his love, or succumb to duty. Defying death may save her, but his punishment would mean never seeing her again, and an eternity in the darkness of purgatory. Is sacrificing his soul worth saving hers?}

Caraval
Door Stephanie Garber

_{Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful and cruel father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.}

_{But this year, Scarlett’s long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to attend. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season’s Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner.}

_{Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But whether Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over, and her sister disappears forever.}