A TOTALLY FAKE LOVE STORY (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, March 30, 20270)
When the hot lead of her K-drama script comes to life, Anna Nari can only send him back where he belongs by finding her own love story in this deliciously soapy and trope-filled young adult romance perfect for fans of Lynn Painter and Ann Liang!
Anna Nari wants to write K-dramas, not be in one. With divorced, practically estranged parents, real-life romance has always felt more like fiction than real life. Especially after she had her heart broken by her childhood best friend, Jun Park, the summer before junior year. Did she enjoy flirting with him a little too much? Maybe. Did she tuck tail and run when things got too real? Well, that’s nobody’s business. But that suits her just fine, because writing about love is so much more fun than being in love.
At least until Anna decides to enter the Seoul Production Co. Screenplay Contest, and Do-Yun, the impossibly attractive lead of her script, somehow shows up on her doorstep! Now she has only three weeks to finish her script and figure out how to send him back… Even if that means falling in love for real this time.
Could Jun helping with her script be their chance to salvage more than just their friendship? Or is Do-Yun’s presence in her life about to make everything more complicated?
THE COVEN TENDENCY
Just like her mother and her mother’s mother, 18-year-old Vanity Adams is destined to lead a lavish life under the patronship of the Museum, someday taking her place as its premiere necromantic Spectacle and the centerpiece of their weekly soirees thrown for the City’s elite.
But until that day, Vanity (and the other young witches of the Museum) is isolated from the outside world and purged of her magic—magic being particularly unstable for teenagers and often leading to antisocial conduct, mood swings, bloodlust, delusions, and, most concerning, a habitual, violent obsession with one another.
To all of this, Vanity thinks: Well, whatever. Better than being confined to the Sanatorium with the less fortunate witches, imprisoned in a chemically induced coma as her blood is harvested to make World, the City’s favorite designer drug. At least she’ll be dead someday, there’s always that. And at least the Museum has Arrogance, Vanity’s twin sister, who just might remember how to do magic, and who just might be where our story begins. . . .
Praise for The Coven Tendency
★ “A stunningly original tale that’s not to be missed.” – PW
“A disturbingly compelling fever dream.” – Kirkus
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS
Fans of Chloe Gong and Judy I. Lin will devour this Korean-inspired Alice in Wonderland retelling about two very wicked girls, forever bonded by blood and betrayal . . .
In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark Forest where they lurk, young witches and lovers Carousel Rabbit and Iccadora Alice Sickle were once both imprisoned in that Forest for a crime they didn’t commit. But their freedom came at a devastating cost.
Now, five years later, Caro is a successful royal Saint-harvester, living the high life in the glittering capital and pretending not to know of the twisted monster experiments that her beloved Red Queen hides deep in the bowels of the palace. But for Icca, the memory of Caro’s betrayal has hardened her from timid girl to ruthless hunter. A hunter who will stop at nothing to exact her vengeance: On Caro. On the Queen. On the throne itself.
But there’s a secret about the Saints the Queen’s been guarding, and a volatile magic at play even more dangerous to Icca and Caro than they are to each other. . . .
Fierce, fantastical, and utterly uncanny, this Korean-inspired reimagining of Alice in Wonderland by author Zoe Hana Mikuta will send readers down a dizzying rabbit hole and into a world drenched in blood and betrayal.
Praise for Off With Their Heads
★ “Twisted in the worst—or best—ways.” – Kirkus
GEARBREAKERS Duology
Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Sci-fi and Fantasy
Junior Library Guild Selection
Featured in The Seattle Times, NPR, Buzzfeed, Nerdist, CBC, The Nerd Daily, and more!
Two girls on opposite sides of a war discover they’re fighting for a common purpose―and falling for each other―in Zoe Hana Mikuta’s high-octane debut Gearbreakers, perfect for fans of Pacific Rim, Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga, and Marie Lu’s Legend series.
We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead...
The shadow of Godolia’s tyrannical rule is spreading, aided by their giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. War and oppression are everyday constants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their cruel Godolia overlords.
Eris Shindanai is a Gearbreaker, a brash young rebel who specializes in taking down Windups from the inside. When one of her missions goes awry and she finds herself in a Godolia prison, Eris meets Sona Steelcrest, a cybernetically enhanced Windup pilot. At first Eris sees Sona as her mortal enemy, but Sona has a secret: She has intentionally infiltrated the Windup program to destroy Godolia from within.
As the clock ticks down to their deadliest mission yet, a direct attack to end Godolia’s reign once and for all, Eris and Sona grow closer―as comrades, friends, and perhaps something more…
Praise for Gearbreakers
“An absolute joyride of a story set in a vivid, arresting world. Gearbreakers is sci-fi at its very finest, combining the grandeur of mecha fighting machines with the intimacy of (splendidly feral) found family. Zoe Hana Mikuta is a talent to be in awe of.” ―Chloe Gong, New York Times-bestselling author of These Violent Delights
“Dark, fierce, thrilling, and tender, Gearbreakers will make your blood sing. Set in a ruthless, vividly imagined world against the scope of gods and sword-fighting mechas and a crushing war, Zoe Hana Mikuta deftly balances the brutal with the hopeful. An electric heart beats on every page of this breathlessly paced cyberpunk adventure.” ―Nina Varela, author of Crier’s War