Here are the new releases from Crossroad Press for September and October 2025. Unless noted otherwise, you can purchase any of them at Amazon, B&N, Apple, Google Play, Smashwords, or Kobo.
(Release date – 9/2/2025)
ARIS WILL BURN
One Empire Rises …
Twins Stiva and Chandris zri Aris learned the rules of deadly court intrigue long before becoming king and queen. To find her way as queen while enemies threaten from both within and without, Stiva must become colder, more cunning, more calculated. But her biggest challenge, and by far the most dangerous, is dealing with her twin. Chandris is determined to forge a new empire, using the forbidden ancient science of the Elders … a technology that destroyed their ancestral homeworld.
… As Another Falls
As Stiva realizes that her brother’s dreams of glory will either bring Aris into a new golden age or leave it in ashes, she fights to protect the Reonih from her twin’s lust for power. But as a new order rises and war rages through the land, she realizes she may also have to protect herself from them. The Zhur, the supernatural elementals that walk between worlds, seem to have their own intentions for Stiva, and the one man who stands loyally beside her, the ice-cold assassin Khirin, may have an agenda of his own. As kingdoms fall and the stakes rise, Stiva finds that the line between ally and enemy is covered in blood and gold.
(Release date – 9/7/2025)
The Western Territories, 1880. For four years, Civil War veteran and former U.S. Cavalry Captain Jonas P. Hollister has been rotting in a prison cell at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His crime: lying about the loss of eleven soldiers under his command… who he claims were slaughtered by a band of nonhuman, blood-drinking demons.
But now a famous visitor, the detective Allan Pinkerton, has arrived with an order for Hollister’s release. The brutal murder of a group of Colorado miners in a fashion frighteningly similar to the deaths of Hollister’s men has leant new credence to his wild tale. And suddenly Jonas Hollister finds himself on a quest both dangerous and dark—joining forces with Pinkerton, the gunsmith Oliver Winchester, an ex-fellow prisoner, a woman of mystery, and a foreigner named Abraham Van Helsing, who knows many things about the monsters of the night—and riding hell for leather toward an epic confrontation… with the undead.
by John McCarty
(Release date – 9/9/2025)
The suspenseful tale of a vengeful criminal long believed dead, set against the backdrop of turbulent post-World War 1 France and Roaring Twenties Hollywood, where Universal’s super-production of a horror classic starring Lon Chaney is being sabotaged at every turn.
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“Gets right down to business from the first page and rapidly develops into an inventive re-invention of The Phantom of the Opera. A mix of the real and the unreal, tied together with a magic thread, this is a must for lovers of both the classic story and silent Hollywood.” – David McGillivray, actor, producer, playwright, screenwriter and film critic
“This gripping fiction blends seamlessly with Hollywood fact in the 1920s as a tense murder melodrama centers around a psychopath long thought dead and the French inspector nemesis on his trail – with vivid bit parts for a feisty entertainment reporter, an innocent ingénue, and the “man of a thousand faces” himself: Lon Chaney Sr. A thoroughly enjoyable read.” – Elias Savada, co-author of Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, “Hollywood’s Master of the Macabre
“Masquerade is a wonderful thriller that transports you from Paris, France to Hollywood during the glory days of silent film. Only a movieland insider like John McCarty could convincingly introduce us to stars like Lon Chaney while maintaining an iron grip of unrelenting suspense. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough, while loving every one of them!” – Joseph A. Citro, author of The Gore, Shadow Child, and Lake Monsters
(Release date – 9/16/2025)
Titus Andronicus.
William Shakespeare’s first—and bloodiest—play.
It’s a real killer.
1590s London: Two friends and playwrights, Will and Kit, battle demonic creatures throughout the city, armed with only their wits and their words.
Modern-day New York: Small theater director and would-be playwright Sunil Nair decides to put on an abbreviated version of Titus Andronicus. But as rehearsals begin, accidents start to occur among the cast and crew. Each one forces Sunil to adjust his plans, but each adjustment somehow makes things worse.
As the calamities pile up, Sunil begins to realize that some dark force is afflicting those around him—and it seems to be centered on the play. Can he figure out what is going on and stop it before it claims the lives of everyone involved . . . and then spills out into the wider world?
The play’s the thing, wherein to catch . . . something.
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A chilling new supernatural thriller from bestselling novelist Aaron Rosenberg, author of the OCLT novels Incursion, Digging Deep, and Focal Point!
(Release date – 9/20/2025)
Rejoice, for the Earth is His.
Detective Hunter will do anything to prove Dean Tyler’s innocence. The question is, is he willing to sacrifice his family to Cthulhu to do it?
All it takes is a single glance at a screen for the voices to take control. For idle hands to make things the human mind wasn’t meant to see. And for it to spread like wildfire.
Will he succumb to the virus plaguing the San Bernardino Valley and beyond?
Or can he find the will to stop it?
Please Don’t Tell My Parents I Bought Super Powers
(Release date – 9/23/2025)
Imagine you’re a flamboyant teenage girl convinced that super powers are the social edge you need. Imagine you convince a mad scientist to give you those powers. They always need test subjects, right? Imagine those powers come with a big drawback, like they always do.
Congratulations, you’re Stella Deetz, the best dressed and most popular fear eating monster in LA.
And you forgot to keep a secret identity. Oops.
(Release date – 9/23/2025)
Washington DC, 1824.
A new president is about to be sworn in after a contentious election. Among the celebrants who descend upon the city, are three young men from different backgrounds, arriving there for different reasons. Unknown to them, an evil presence has also made its way to the capital. A presence that will one day be revealed to the world as a powerful and ancient evil. And he aims to destroy the young republic. His name is Count Dracula.
These three young men, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln must join together and stop the count before he wreaks havoc on the new nation. With the help of a mysterious stranger named Reynolds Van Helsing, this team of heroes uncovers the Count’s deadly plot. Only time will tell if they can muster the strength to stop a nearly unstoppable force before it destroys them all.
(Release date – 9/25/2025)
IF DELIVERANCE SCARED YOU…
IF LORD OF THE FLIES SHOCKED YOU…
YOU’RE READY FOR A TRIP INTO THE TERROR OF…
THE WILDS
A remote forest hidden high and deep in the Sierra Nevada….The Donner Party died here. Now fourteen campers are about to enter that savage sanctuary. They think their “survival weekend” will be a blast, a real party-adventure into the unknown.
But before nightfall, someone will make a fatal mistake. Before daybreak, man’s most primitive instincts and nature’s most brutal forces will be unleashed. Without warning, the happy outing will become an orgy of horror where nothing is what it seems and survival means escaping the engulfing evil of…
THE WILDS
by Julie Hyzy
(Release date – 10/11/2025)
Meet Grace Wheaton, lover of history and mystery—both of which can be found in her hometown’s palatial Marshfield Manor…
Everyone wants a piece of millionaire Bennett Marshfield, owner of Marshfield Manor, and letters are coming in daily from those claiming to be poor relations. The elderly, reclusive heir trusts no one but his aged curator, Abe. But when Abe is killed in a case of mistaken identity, the tide changes…
Although shaken by the murder, Grace Wheaton, whose lifelong dream has been to work at the manor, steps up to the challenge of assuming Abe’s job. But now some of the letters arriving for Bennett have taken a nasty turn, demanding millions—or else. When an uninvited stalker shows up at the manor and at Grace’s home, she and handsome groundskeeper Jack Embers must protect their dear old Marshfield. But to do this, they’ll have to investigate a botched Ponzi scheme, some torrid Wheaton family secrets—and sour grapes out for revenge…