Genre: Urban Fantasy

The Winged Game by Sophie Kim Genres: Adult, British Literature, Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, Low Fantasy, Magic, Romantasy, Urban Fantasy, Scottish Literature, Sports Romance Published by Penguin Michael Joseph on June 30, 2026 Format: Hardcover, Special Edition Pages: 528 Source: FairyLoot Carriwitchet, the violent, rugby-esque game played atop winged beasts, was once Taissa Cho’s whole life, and she was once the United Kingdom’s most promising player. Until her nemesis, rival player Kion Locke, destroyed her career in a single moment. Expelled from the sport in disgrace, Taissa has spent the last two years dreaming of nothing but revenge and relishing watching Kion’s team plummet to the bottom of the league.  So when Taissa is offered the chance to redeem herself and her career, she can’t refuse―even if the offer is coming from the very man who ruined everything in the first place. It’s close to a dream come true… except for that pesky clause in her contract that demands she and Kion enter a fake relationship in order to garner some much-needed positive PR for the team. This could not be a worse match. Taissa and Kion only have two things in common: their love of the game, and their undying …

Half City by Kate Golden Series: Harker Academy #1 Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Dark Academia, Paranormal, Romantasy, Urban Fantasy, New Adult Published by Arcadia on February 19, 2026 Format: Hardcover, Special Edition Pages: 475 Source: FairyLoot Welcome to Harker Academy for Deviant Defense. Keep your daggers sharp, and your wits even sharper. Viv Abbot is an average twenty-one-year-old girl. She lives in an expensive city where the rent is too high, works long hours at a thankless job, and is dating a guy she doesn’t even like in the hopes of winning her prickly mother’s approval. She just also happens to be a demon hunter. Ever since her father’s murder, she’s been forced to hunt deviants alone, meaning everyone, including her family, sees her as an outsider. . . . Until the day she crosses paths with a dangerously alluring demon, Reid Graveheart. The reformed deviant tells her of a school for people just like her: Harker Academy for Deviant Defense. If she enrolls, she’ll learn to hone her craft, work with other hunters, and never be alone again. But Viv has a deadly secret. One that not even her new friends at Harker can know about. Not when the school …

Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Cozy Fantasy, Magic, Urban Fantasy Published by Del Ray on February 16, 2026 Format: Hardcover, Special Edition Pages: 357 Source: Owlcrate Agnes Aubert leads a meticulously organized life—and she likes it that way. As the proudly type-A manager of a much-needed cat rescue charity, she has devoted her life to finding forever homes for lost cats.&nbsp But after she is forced to move the cat shelter, Agnes learns that her new landlord is using her charity as a front—for an internationally renowned and thoroughly disreputable magic shop. Owned by the disorganized—not to mention self-absorbed, irritating, but also decidedly handsome—Havelock Renard, magician and failed Dark Lord, the shop draws magical clientele from around the world, partly due to the quality of Havelock’s illicit goods as well as their curiosity about his shadowy past and rumors of his incredible powers. Agnes’s charity offers the perfect cover for illegal magics.&nbsp Agnes couldn’t care less about the shop—magical intrigue or not, there are cats to be rescued. But when an enemy from Havelock’s past surfaces, the magic shop—and more importantly, the cat shelter—are suddenly in jeopardy. To save the shelter, will Agnes have …

The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim Series: Fate’s Thread #1 Genres: Adult, Asian Literature, AAPI, Korean Literature, Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Fantasy Romance, Paranormal, Romantasy, Urban Fantasy, Folklore, Mystery, Ghosts Published by Hodderscape on May 31, 2024 Format: Hardcover, Special Edition Pages: 419 Source: FairyLoot In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up with a trickster god–turned–detective to track down a wrathful demon . . . before it can destroy the mortal world.  Kim Hani has retired from a life of devouring souls. She is, simply put, too full. Once known as the infamous Scarlet Fox, she now spends her days working in a coffee shop and annoying a particularly irritating, if unfairly handsome, trickster god as often as she can.  That god is Seokga the Fallen. Exiled from the heavenly kingdom of Okhwang, he now begrudgingly resides in the mortal realm, working toward his redemption and suffering through his interactions with the particularly infuriating, if sneakily charming, gumiho barista at his favorite café.  But when a powerful demon escapes from the underworld and threatens to end all of humanity, Okhwang’s emperor offers Seokga an enticing bargain: Kill this rogue creature, …

Darker by Four by June C.L. Tan Series: Darker by Four #1 Genres: AAPI, Fantasy, Magic, Mythic Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Published by Hodderscape on April 1, 2024 Format: Hardcover, Special Edition Pages: 400 Source: FairyLoot A vengeful girl. A hollow boy. A missing god. Rui has one goal in mind—honing her magic to avenge her mother’s death.  Yiran is the black sheep of an illustrious family. The world would be at his feet—had he been born with magic.  Nikai is a Reaper, serving the Fourth King of Hell. When his master disappears, the underworld begins to crumble… and the human world will be next if the King is not found.  When an accident causes Rui’s power to transfer to Yiran, everything turns upside down. Without her magic, Rui has no tool for vengeance. With it, Yiran finally feels like he belongs. That is, until Rui discovers she might hold the key to the missing death god and strikes a dangerous bargain with another King.  As darkness takes over, three paths intersect in the shadows. And three lives bound by fate must rise against destiny before the barrier between worlds falls and all Hell breaks loose—literally.  Perfect for …