August 21 is a full shelf: two sequels for the fantasy readers, and a cozy mystery for everyone who likes a small town with a secret. Here's what's arriving.

The Broker's Mask — Jennie Wren Foster

The Midnight Auction, Book 2

They could not unmake what Lira Vess did in that ring of gold. So the men who run the Binding have decided the world will simply never hear of it, and mean to re-lock every leash they own on the dark of the moon.

To stop them, Lira puts on a broker's grey and a false name and walks back into the house that sells people, trading in the very cruelty she bled to end. Nox walks at her shoulder playing the one thing he swore never to be again, a tamed weapon on a slack leash, his true name a dead thing in her keeping. The cover holds. Then Hadrien Saul, the house's soft-spoken gatekeeper, looks at a tired apothecary's shaking fingers and begins, patiently, to test whether she is exactly what she pretends to be.

This is a slow-burn, closed-door romantasy for readers of fated bonds, morally grey heroes, and found family. It's Book Two of the Midnight Auction, with a complete romantic arc. New readers can begin with The Midnight Auction.

The Broken Script of the Stars — Jennie Wren Foster

The Chronicles of the Celestial Fold, Book 2

The library is at peace. The peace is the lie.

Three months after they broke a god and remade the Last Library into a place that keeps instead of consumes, the people who won that war finally have an ordinary morning to share. Then a student's name goes missing from every mouth in the school, and only the few who love her most still remember the girl ever existed. Something older than the god they buried is unwriting people again. It calls itself the first ink, it has waited a thousand years in the dark, and it is done watching the world feed people to furnaces.

To stop it, they must go down into the archive that eats memory, where the one witness the erasure cannot silence is a woman the world already wrote off. A standalone-arc sequel to The Last Library of the Gods, full of found family and the kind of dark that keeps rather than consumes.