Your Holiday YA Escape: Books to Get Lost In
12 Dec 2025
Your Holiday YA Escape: Books to Get Lost In
Looking for stories that sweep you into magical realms, messy romances, and high-stakes quests? This curated YA lineup brings together six unputdownable picks perfect for cozy winter nights and holiday downtime
Connections in Time: Seadon’s Story (Stormwalker Series Book 2)
by S.G. Boudreaux
Release Date: November 18, 2025
Seventeen-year-old Seadon Brinley and his family time-traveled to a strange new world. Seadon’s boyish curiosity and hardheaded nature get him in trouble, and he wakes to find he has been stolen from his parents and forced into servitude aboard a pirate ship. One fateful day, his life changes, and he finds himself in a new world, injured and alone.
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Betrayal (The Vulture Effect Book 1)
by Simone Parker
Release Date: November 11, 2025
When a deadly virus threatens to wipe out millions, two star-crossed souls unite, using love and courage to confront the darkness that threatens humanity’s survival.
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Burnout (Shifter High Book 3)
by Scarlett Haven
Release Date: December 5, 2025
After graduating from high school, Will, Blaine, Parker, and I head to my uncle’s home for the summer. That’s when I find out the truth. My uncle is the king regent. And my mother? She was the queen, and I’m her heir. I have to navigate learning how to lead all while facing down the shadowy group that is threatening to end us all.
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Christmas Magic
by Alexandra Moody
Release Date: December 2, 2025
Clio is a claus with one mission in life: to hide her unique powers and avoid other magical beings at all costs. But keeping a low profile becomes a little more complicated when she’s attacked by a group of dark elves. She’s rescued by Dash—a reindeer shifter who’s as irritating as he is handsome. He wants to protect her.
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Korea Rising (Falling for Korea Book 2)
by Piper Jean
Release Date: November 15, 2025
Teen heiress Ji-hee has fallen from the elite Korean society she grew up in—and good riddance. Shipped overseas by her controlling mother, she’s been part of the boarding-school-banishment club for years now. But when she gets a call from her grandfather telling her she can ditch her school in London for a fresh start in California, she jumps at the chance. Determined to avoid drama, Ji-hee plans to ace her
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A Simple Tale of Sugar and Shadows (The Simple Tale Books)
by Kami King Larsen
Release Date: December 2, 2025
Bronwen Elwell knows how to craft magic in the form of spun sugar and delicate cake. She knows the carnival circuit and every town up the coast and back. She knows how to make her sister smile and when to direct patrons to darker attractions. She knows she swore off love ages ago and hasn’t regretted the decision a day of her life. What she doesn’t know is how she went to bed as an elderly confectioner and awoke as a young woman in her prime.
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