This month has seen couples celebrating one another’s love, despite of the blistering cold and dark winter nights. To us, that sounds like perfect curling-up book-reading weather – and if it does for you as well, why not one of our new releases?

These adult titles are all due for release this Thursday, 29th February.

Let’s start this month with our general fiction books: Blue Violet, No. 87 is the story of Alicia, a girl forced to keep secrets from her family, despite the fact that unbeknownst to her, her family are keeping secrets of their own; in Fall of the Guardians, teenage Vanessa is sent away to a military boarding school for so-called ‘Troubled Teens’ and must deal with the harsh consequences; Fledermama’s Son follows Susan, a successful businesswoman, her son Kyle, who has just been charged for drug possession, and their journey towards rekindling their love; the spiritually aligned Tortitude is a guide and a celebration of living life a little bit differently; and if you fancy some shorter stories, Kaleidoscope follows characters finding love, exploring relationships, and the beauty of emotions and feelings.

For the detective readers amongst our audience, these three titles are tantalising pieces of evidence: Jack in Time is a tale, inspired by the murders of Jack the Ripper, but with their own deceptive and addictive happenings; after a fatal car crash hits close to home for private investigator Jack Thomas, he starts to wonder if The Solution is… Murder; and in Escape From Rest Haven, Anna and her mother, a suffering Alzheimer’s patient, are caught up in an ever more dangerous world – more dangerous then Anna could ever know.

The threats are high, the stakes teeter on a knife’s edge. Immaculate Deception follows DI Frank Carroll and Reverend Ted Maloney, two men forced to unravel a childhood mystery they wanted to keep in the past; in Born in a Storm, a group of physicists unlock Zero Point Energy which in the depths of a climate crisis, will accost you lots of enemies; and the criminal high-octane underworld is dived into head-first by Ex Special Forces Devon Gregory in Mafia Magnate.

If the pressure and intensity of crime fiction is too tame for you, then perhaps these horror titles will raise your hairs: in The Dream Merchant, petty thief Daniel stumbles across a dream recorder, right as the creator’s daughter Lydia is on a mission to destroy it – and right as the nightmares that live inside the recorder start to escape; or in White, where eighth-grade schoolboys Ben, Franky, Sean and Eddie spend their first summer camping in the dark, eerie and haunted woods. Four boys leave… only three return.

Speaking of young adults, our YA fiction release of the month is The Road Thieves, a story where Volya and Nassa, two under-privileged orphans unexpectedly meet, can no longer escape their pasts, and join forces to discover their futures. They live in a world where magic is illegal – but I’d expect some magic goings-on will occur.

For more out-of-this-world stories, how about these titles? SHADOWzzzzz follows FLR2, or Shadow Charlie, as he ignores the needs of his human and decides to hang around with rogue shadows instead; the world of Tales of Havengarde: Creatures in the Dark is teeming with blood sucking Morlars, with the scared Lycan community forced to flee in search of a new safe haven; and in The Satyr, the titular protagonist and their loyal aid, a Sprite, must navigate a treacherous distant island together, pursued by a deadly enemy.

A good story is as old as time and these books set place in a time unfamiliar to us: The Beginning is set 9th century Norway and tells the story of survival after a boat wreckage leaves a man all alone on foreign shores; Operation Seagull is a Trojan horse style mission to uncover a Nazi plot on an island in the Outer Hebrides.

These fiction releases are a little closer to home and set in our contemporary time: Paula Guildea’s Want is a poignant exploration of identity, loss and the ever-evolving landscape of woke culture through the eyes of Dublin university student Darcy; Peter Carty’s Art is a satire about the birth of the Young British Artists in the early 1990s through the life of a visionary Hoxton-based gallery curator; James Bovill’s The Tale of Franklin Gaddarini has an unreliable titular protagonist, which asks its reader to thoughtfully explore the difficult to navigate society of the 21st century.

To round out our February releases, here are three poem anthologies. Each one is thoughtfully crafted, intricately designed and beautifully poignant. They are Genevieve Snell’s Rhymes like These, Rhodesia’s 100 POEMS on Love, Faith and Life, and Joanne Boyle’s Me, You and Mental Health, Too.

All of the above titles can be purchased from our website and are available for further browsing at https://pegasuspublishers.com/books/latest-releases