Hello everyone! We are so happy and excited to announce the tour for Teach Me to Prey by Jenni Howell. We have limited physical copies available for US residents and digital copies (Netgalley) for anyone in the US, Canada or International.
Genre: YA Thriller
Publishing date: December 8, 2026
Synopsis:
One heart for another. One life for another. And only her soul to pay.
Two years ago, Tara Corbane made a deal with a demon. Before each lunar eclipse, she must make a trade—a lover’s heart offered as sacrifice to save her sister’s. And with each offering, Tara fears she’s becoming more and more like Thorn, the twisted but tantalizing demon she’s sworn to hate.
Thirty days before the next eclipse, Tara heads to New Orleans, where her newest target awaits. But Rian Connach, the handsome heir to a real estate empire, is nothing like the others. He’s single, for starters, and isn’t out for love but vengeance. He’s hot on the trail of the serial killer he blames for the death of his girlfriend. Whose heart was ripped out by none other than Tara herself.
As the eclipse draws near, Tara finds herself trapped in a game of cat-and-mouse. To save her own skin, she teams up with the broken and beguiling boy hunting her, all the while fighting her feelings for the demon whose secrets threaten everything she’s ever believed about him, and herself. With Rian getting closer and closer to learning the truth, and Thorn warning of the gruesome consequences to come if Tara doesn’t fulfill their bargain, time is running out to answer the ultimate question.
Is Tara the predator, or the prey?
Content Warning: loss, death by suicide
Authors Note: This book explores justice and revenge as well as love and loss. Death in all its pain and all its forms, including death by suicide, is often discussed–as well as the ways, some beautiful and some heinous, that we try to avoid it. Please read with care.
Jenni Howell is an American dark academia and thriller author whose books feature characters that pluck themselves out of their pages and into your mind, eerie mysteries, and swoon-worthy romances that are almost never a good idea.
Her debut, Boys With Sharp Teeth, was an Instant New York Times bestseller. It combines a gothic boarding school thriller with lush character work and a pulse-racing toxic romance…or two. Boys comes out in paperback from Square Fish this July — preorder from Park Books for a signed edition with vellum overlays!
Teach Me to Prey, Jenni’s sophomore novel, releases December 8, 2026 with Macmillan. It’s set in New Orleans and the surrounding bayou because Jenni’s grandfather is Cajun and she’s freaking obsessed with that region. You’ll find her favorite things in it’s pages, like morally grey romances, delicious gumbo, pulse-pounding bite/kiss scenes, and lunar eclipses.
Before she was an author, Jenni dabbled in archaeology, playacting Attila the Hun for captive but still feral grade schoolers whoop wait ahem teaching, and casual espionage. Now, she runs rampant with her four personally crafted minions and scribbles for you.
Life is good.
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