THE PEACOCK THRONE (Delacorte Press)

The first book of a YA fantasy duology, a Desi Muslim twist on the Anastasia story, about an orphan girl who wakes up one day and decides she must be a long-lost princess. Coming Fall 2026!

Text courtesy Publishers Weekly, graphic by Gina Chen.

MIDNIGHT STRIKES

In this explosive fantasy debut, a provincial girl must work with an infuriatingly handsome prince to escape a nightmarish curse that forces them to relive the same night over and over.

Seventeen-year-old Anaïs just wants tonight to end. As an outsider at the kingdom’s glittering anniversary ball, she has no desire to rub shoulders with the nation’s most eligible (and pompous) bachelors—especially not the notoriously roguish Prince Leo. But at the stroke of midnight, an explosion rips through the palace, killing everyone in its path. Including her.

The last thing Anaïs sees is fire, smoke, chaos . . . and then she wakes up in her bedroom, hours before the ball. No one else remembers the deadly attack or believes her warnings of disaster.

Not even when it happens again. And again. And again . . .