Hello Readers,
October is almost here, and the cosy, spooky season has officially begun. It’s the perfect time to curl up with a blanket and some of the most anticipated book releases of October 2025. With autumn in full swing and Halloween just around the corner, there’s no better way to welcome the season of shadows and thrills than with a spine-tingling stack of new reads.
As always narrowing it down to just five was no easy task, but I’ve carefully selected standout reads. For each book, you’ll find the page count, a short synopsis, and a Goodreads link so you can easily add them to your TBR list.
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Blurb: Adam has been in love with his best friend Nicola since college, but the closest he can come to admitting his feelings is inviting her to travel with him to Scotland in search of a legendary cave from his grandfather’s bedtime stories. When a storm washes out the road, Adam and Nicola find themselves at the mercy of Eileen, an eccentric aristocrat, and Finley, her brooding groundskeeper. The Americans quickly get more than they bargained for as they become entangled in Eileen and Finley’s world of mind games, kink, and ancient enchantment.
Pages: 464 Goodreads Publication Date: 7th October 2025 (Gifted Copy Review Coming Soon)
Blurb: Immortal beloveds Rebekah and Hugh are on vacation! Against a backdrop of ongoing war, this pair of chic emotional vampires from San Francisco sets off on a queer Black Sea Cruise, eager to relax, join an orgy, and feast upon their fellow passengers’ desires and sorrows.
When Hugh becomes enchanted by an alluring–and possibly
magical–non-binary social media influencer named Heaven, Rebekah’s reality
capsizes. As she comes to terms with a future she never imagined, Rebekah
begins to question her past, much of it lost to time. Ultimately, her journey
becomes one of self-discovery, and acceptance of her true nature.
Pages: 168 Goodreads Publication Date: 7th October 2025 (Gifted Copy Review Coming Soon)
The Women of Artemis by Hannah Lynn
Pages: 168 Goodreads Publication Date: 7th October 2025 (Gifted Copy Review Coming Soon)
Blurb: Mothers. Daughters. Warriors. Women.
This is the never-before-told story of history's most ferocious heroines: this is the rise of the Amazons.
When she first married at fourteen, Otrera imagined a relationship full of love. A partnership. Years later, living in destitution with her abusive husband, she knows that no such thing exists with a man. It is simply a woman's lot in life to accept the treatment of her husband.
Until it's not.
Rallying the women around her, Otrera fights back, taking no prisoners. Because it's clear to her: when men are in power, freedom isn't granted. It's bought with blood. It's a price she is more than willing to pay, if it means building a new life with other women far from the reaches of their abusers.
But a community of women - an army of women - is bound to make enemies of gods and men alike.
Pages: 496 Goodreads Publication Date: 21st October 2025 (Gifted Copy Review Coming Soon)
Blurb: Good girls deserve a treat.
Every member of The House, the most exclusive sorority on campus, and all its alumni, are beautiful, high-achieving, and universally respected.
After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into The House is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. Once she's taken into their fold, the House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as easy prey.
Meanwhile, adjunct professor Dr. Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support her partner's new position at the cutthroat University. After 18 months at home with her newborn daughter, Sloane's clothes don’t fit right, her girl-dad husband isn’t as present as he thinks he is, and even the few hours a day she's apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui.
When invited to be The House’s academic liaison,
Sloane enviously drinks in the way the alumnae seem to have it all, achieving a
level of collective perfection that Sloane so desperately craves.
As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood, they learn that living well comes with bloody costs. And when they are finally invited to the table, they will have to decide just how much they can stomach in the name of solidarity and power.
Pages: 368 Goodreads Publication Date: 23rd October 2025 (Gifted Copy Review Coming Soon)
No Safe Place To Hide by Murray Bailey
Blurb: Journalist Martin Gillie has vanished, and his wife wants him found. It seems like a straightforward case for newly arrived Ash Carter. But in post-war Philippines, nothing is ever straightforward.
Carter follows a trail that leads from the smoky boxing rings of Manila to the rebel-haunted provinces. And as Carter digs, with each uncovered clue, the stakes rise higher. The police can't be trusted. The military has its own agenda.
Carter begins to Is Martin Gillie hiding from something or someone? And if Carter finds him, will either of them live to tell the story?
Pages: 338 Goodreads Publication Date: 24th October 2025 (Gifted Copy Review Coming Soon)
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