Here are the new releases from Crossroad Press for March, April, and May 2025. Unless noted otherwise, you can purchase any of them at Amazon, B&N, Apple, Google Play, Smashwords, or Kobo.
by David Shobin
(Release date – 3/4/2025)
In the terrifying and unique New York Times bestseller, THE UNBORN, the physician-director of a prestigious sleep research lab made a horrifying discovery. A young grad student, strapped for cash, concealed her pregnancy to earn the lab’s commission. The study’s goal was to collate the sleepers’ electroencephalogram data by having the hospital’s unique supercomputer—MEDIC—analyze their EEG brainwaves. All proceeded normally until bizarre blips unexpectedly occurred on the pregnant woman’s tracing. Evaluating the strange blips, the doctor discovered that MEDIC and the fetus were actually communicating.
The unborn child learned and developed with ominous speed; the mother deteriorated rapidly. MEDIC’s goal was to induce an early birth and destroy the mother during labor. With the doctor’s last-minute intervention, she was rescued, and the child entered the world, seemingly normal.
But what if it wasn’t?
THE UNBORN ARMAGEDDON bridges yesterday with tomorrow in an edge-of-your-seat thriller. The child is now a mature man, a compassionate physician. But MEDIC has also grown, evolving into a technologically sophisticated quantum computer. Its knowledge and chilling, real-world power are unparalleled. Over the years, man and machine have gone separate ways. When the doctor is nearly murdered, comatose in intensive care, MEDIC reconnects, and its horrifying intentions become clear.
(Release date – 3/4/2025)
There is only one way to reunite a country that has been split by two bloody civil wars in thirty years, one of them nuclear: savage their external enemies and leave them so weak they cannot interfere with the union until stability is achieved. The newly reconstituted China – now the Federated States of the New Middle Kingdom – has a strike plan that will leave both the Russians and Americans bleeding and desperate to survive.
For there to be any hope of American and Russian vengeance, old allies, resurrected schemes from decades ago, and a plan as innovative as the 1942 Doolittle raid on Tokyo must all be put in motion. A cast of both new and favorite characters, driven by decorated submarine combat veteran Lieutenant Anthony Pacino, is forced to fight for not only his beloved submarine Vermont and the lives of his shipmates, but the fate of the Western world in an epic battle of undersea warfare.
(Release date – 3/11/2025)
To his martial arts students, Vance Palladian is more than just a teacher; he is the Paladin, a man of warrior virtue. Now a widower, and with his finances in disarray, Vance feels disillusioned with his once noble life.
After thwarting a seemingly random robbery, and the kidnapping attempt of a wealthy future heiress, Vance finds himself employed as her bodyguard by the young woman’s father, a mysterious businessman who holds the lineage of the last remaining esoteric school of ancient Japanese fighting arts.
Vance is taught the deadly techniques of Japan’s invisible assassins, and finds the mythology behind these dark teachings is just as real, pulling him into a world of crime, deception, seduction, and vice, where nothing is quite as it seems.
Now, he must battle tengu and oni, along with the forces of organized crime and police corruption, to survive the…
YEAR OF THE DEMON
(Release date – 3/18/2025)
Highsummer Night, the greatest of holidays for changelings…
Drawn to the Unseelie Court of Toronto to help her friend Riley organize a Highsummer party, Tango arrives to discover Riley missing. Her search for clues to his whereabouts leads her to a pack of Sabbat vampires on a grisly murder spree.
Tango begins to unravel the many mysteries in Toronto, and in the process makes a very unlikely ally. She will need all the help she can get as Highsummer’s Eve draws near!
Based on White Wolf Game Studio’s World of Darkness characters, Pomegranates Full and Fine incorporates Unseelie changelings, Sabbat vampires, and Nephandi mages into one story. Written by Don Bassingthwaite, author of the popular Rage novel Breathe Deeply.
(Release date – 3/18/2025)
Grief-stricken over the mysterious death of his beloved wife, the vampire known as Elliott Sinclair is sinking into lethargy and despair.
When a mysterious enemy assails his people, he rouses himself to command the defense, only to discover that he and his clan are merely pawns in a deadly game between two ancient undead. It is a duel that has raged since the dawn of civilization. And the unseen puppet master who has secretly guided the destiny of Elliott and his friends is willing to sacrifice every piece on the chessboard in order to checkmate her opponent.
On A Darkling Plain is a World of Darkness novel and a tale of the Jyhad, the age-old clandestine war among vampires that has shaped the course of human and vampire history. Richard Lee Byers is the author of numerous short stories and ten previously published novels, and has contributed to several White Wolf Publishing anthologies as well as writing the recent World of Darkness novel Caravan of Shadows.
Book Two of the War of Heaven Trilogy
(Release date – 3/25/2025)
The Ascension War has raged between the mages of the Nine Traditions and the Technicians of the Technocracy for hundreds of years. Though bloody battles have been won and lost, victory eludes both sides. Now, however, a mysterious figure has risen, a being of incredible, inhuman power – the Ascension Warrior. Claiming to be the returned Heylel Teomim, Abomination and barabbus, he comes to bring peace and unity to the warring mages. But will his plans bring resolution to the conflict, or the quiet of the grave?
Based on Mage: The Ascension and Vampire: The Masquerade from White Wolf Game Studio, The Ascension Warrior follows The Road to Hell in the Horizon War Trilogy. Robert Weinberg is author of the popular Masquerade of the Red Death Trilogy.
Book Three of the War of Heaven Trilogy
(Release date – 3/25/2025)
In WAR IN HEAVEN, a desperate battle rages in the Horizon Realms, the mystic dimensions that surround Earth. The mages of both the Nine Traditions and the Technocracy are under attack by a mysterious willworker who calls himself Heylel Teomim, the Ascension Warrior. Already, two Horizon Realms have been obliterated, and now others are under attack. But Helyel’s most potent threat is a seductive offer that kindles the fires of revolution in younger mages. Only a small band of unlikely allies stands against the Ascension Warrior. If they fail, mankind is doomed. For though Teomim may promise a bright new dawn, his triumph means an eternity of endless night!
WAR IN HEAVEN is the final novel of the Horizon War trilogy, based on the best-selling games, Mage: The Ascension and Vampire: The Masquerade. Author Robert Weinberg is also the author of the popular Masquerade of the Red Death Trilogy.
Trilogy of the Blood Curse, Book One
(Release date – 3/26/2025)
Savage madness seizes vampires worldwide. Relentless hunger gnaws, no matter how many drained, withered mortals litter the street.
Not since the Black Death has Owain ap Ieuan seen anything like the fatal disease sweeping across the world—but this time vampires are the victims. The anarchs suspect a plot by their elders. The elders blame the Sabbat who lurk in the darkest shadows. The Sabbat fear the return of the Antediluvians—and no one is ready for them.
There is opportunity in chaos, but Owain has long been the servant of many masters. As the Masquerade crumbles around him, whom will Owain serve? The Camarilla? The Sabbat? The Antediluvians? Or himself?
This is the first book of the new Blood Curse Trilogy, interwoven with plots and characters from the ongoing Grails Covenant Trilogy.
Trilogy of the Blood Curse, Book Two
(Release date – 3/26/2025)
The Blood Curse—hunger, madness, Final Death.
As countless vampires perish in torment, the survivors jockey ruthlessly for any advantage. Owain Evans, Ventrue elder and Sabbat spy, is drawn more deeply into deadly plots as figures from his past emerge to call due forgotten promises from centuries gone by. And that may be the least of his worries….
Disturbing visions haunt Owain night and day. Is he touched by the Curse, or something far more sinister?
This second volume of the Trilogy of the Blood Curse follows The Devil’s Advocate and interweaves characters and action with the Vampire: The Dark Ages saga Grails Covenant Trilogy.
Trilogy of the Blood Curse, Book Three
(Release date – 4/10/2025)
When the hunter becomes the hunted…
The crazed Camarilla prince of Atlanta will stop at nothing to kill Owain Evans. Carlos, bishop of the Sabbat, also thirsts for vengeance. The Giovanni might come to Owain’s aid—unless they can benefit from betraying him.
Who can he trust in the diabolic world of the Kindred, those vampires who stalk the night unseen by mortal eyes? The answer us simple—no one.
Not even himself.
Trilogy of the Blood Curse, Book Three
(Release date – 4/10/2025)
Shadows Run Deep
There is a taint in Chicago, a barely suppressed shiver of horror that touches all who make their home in the city. In this collection of three connected novellas, vampire, werewolves and mages all pursue their visions of power. Each novella tells part of the story of the hidden monsters of the Windy City.
A World of Darkness® Novel
Author Janet Trautvetter reveals the vampires of Chicago. Author Sarah Roark focuses on the werewolves. Author Myranda Sarro tackles the mages. Together they tell a story larger than any one monster.
Trilogy of the Fallen, Book Two
(Release date – 4/10/2025)
Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner
Gaviel, a smooth-talking demon who made his way out of hell, finds himself playing the part of Noah Wallace, son and heir apparent to a televangelist mission with bulging coffers. A perfect cover for a devil on the make! Not everything can go according to plan, however. The mad demon Avitu is looking to recruit Gaviel, while the avenging angel Usiel just wants to send him back to Hell. And all the while, the spirit of Noah Wallace is clamoring for its body back, and getting just a little stronger every day.
Even a devil eventually pays his dues.
Trilogy of the Fallen, Book Three
(Release date – 4/10/2025)
Ten Seconds to Midnight
Sabriel, seductive fallen angel that she is, has been playing games with the souls of mortals and devils alike. The demons Hasmed and Usiel have both felt the sting of her tender mercies, but now they might be her only hope of staving off an apocalypse. The ancient creature called Avitu has decided that humanity, demons and all the universe want nothing more than oblivion, and it is getting ready to provide it. Can Sabriel prove it wrong?
Does she even want to?
Tribe Novel Series, Book One
(Release date – 4/10/2025)
The Final Call to Battle
This first book of White Wolf’s exciting new Tribe Novel series shows the Garou—the werewolves of the World of Darkness—at their best and at the worst. In Shadow Lords, we see how the fractious Garou struggle for dominance over one another, and in Get of Fenris, at a Concolation—the largest gathering of Garou—we see them standing together in their endless war against the Wyrm. But how long can the Garou continue to fight this war?
Their numbers are diminishing, and as this seven-book series will reveal, their past is being taken from them as well.