MARCH TEXAS BOOK PREVIEW
Preview of Texas-connected books publishing in March, 2026
Hope springs eternal with new releases for March
We hope your March reading adventures are magnificent. Hope thrives best with preparation, so we’ve got you covered. Just marvel at the Texas-connected March arrivals ready and waiting to transport you out of the mundane and into the mind-blowing. Check out nonfiction brimming with aspiration, romance with the yearning dialed up to ten, and mysteries to slake your sleuthing ambitions. Read on to explore these highlights.
For fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July comes a whip-smart, irresistible novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother’s surprise stash of rare pills, or suffer the consequences.
Arvy Keening is just trying to get through the week. Tantalizingly close to leaving her college years at Westheimer University behind, all she has to do is pass her finals, pack up her life, and ship off to San Francisco for a prestigious Big Pharma internship. The problem? Arvy just found 200 hits of Molly in her dead mother’s closet. And when two drug dealers come to collect what they are owed, they reveal that the pills are not Molly, but Mona—a rare pharmaceutical that induces intense orgasms. The dealers give Arvy an ultimatum: Sell 200 Monas in 48 hours or die.
Rita thought her anniversary might finally save them. For one night, her husband Jared’s cold temper melted away, offering a glimpse of the man she had loved for decades. But moments later, in the darkness of a local theater, gunfire shattered. Jared was one of fourteen people who didn’t make it home that night.
Grief-stricken and desperate for answers, Rita teams with a detective to retrace Jared’s final days—only to find his past as a Marine in Iraq held secrets she never imagined. The massacre wasn’t a random act of violence; it was a targeted hit. In this emotionally charged suspense thriller, a mother must navigate a labyrinth of betrayal to find the truth before the real killer silences her and her family.
Another mystery is afoot for Booksie, Goldie, and Greg, the three Detecticorns of Pine Cone Forest. Join these three clever unicorn siblings as they search high and low for Goldie’s hairbrush.
The second installment in the fun chapter book series for elementary readers.
Detective Jax Ferris is back in Fort Worth—and the city hasn’t slept easy since. Haunted by the brutal loss of his mentors and friends, Jax now serves on a joint FBI task force with one purpose: hunt down witches, berserkers, and creatures that prey on humanity.
Armed with mystic gauntlets and fueled by revenge, Jax isn’t just enforcing the law—he’s executing it. When a deadly berserker kingpin surfaces in the city’s club scene, Jax steps into the night knowing only one of them will walk out alive. But the kill is only the beginning. A far greater enemy is moving in the shadows: Debro, the ruthless High Priestess of the Order of Light.
Harlow Phillips had her future mapped out—a prestigious music program in New York City and a promising career as a concert pianist. But in one violent moment, her best friend’s stalker shattered more than just her right hand. He destroyed her dreams, her relationships, and her sense of self.
Now, many months and multiple surgeries, Harlow can barely recognize the musician she once was. Her fingers stumble over keys that used to sing beneath her touch. Consumed by shame and anger, she pushes away everyone who loves her—her devoted boyfriend Luke, her guilt-ridden best friend Carmindy, even her worried mother. Instead, she finds solace in dangerous places and the arms of a stranger who doesn’t know the gifted pianist she used to be.
But when her former study partner Edward refuses to let her give up, Harlow reluctantly agrees to see a performance psychologist. What she discovers there will challenge everything she believes about her worth, her talent, and her capacity to heal.
House of the Winged God is the tense, drama and action filled sequel to last year’s House of the Black Moon. It follows Davis McCarty’s search for the world’s first vampire, and his own hopeful salvation from the vampire’s curse.
Carl Sarabia, a retired homicide detective, moves with his wife Greta from Houston, Texas to Glamis, Connecticut to be closer to their daughter. The idyllic town is upended when Merlin Glenmore is found murdered on April Fools’ Day, midway through his party at the gothic mansion built by his great-great grandfather. Merlin is notorious for his second marriage to a much younger woman a month after his first wife’s death.
Only two party guests do not have alibis-and one of them is Carl’s son-in-law. Carl swore to Greta he wouldn’t involve himself in any more homicide cases. Will he be able to stay out of this one? Meanwhile, Greta conspires with her daughter and in-laws to involve Carl in solving the murder without his knowledge.
Resilient Surrender is the story of Amy and Julius as they embark on a quest to discover her true identity.
Abandoned by her mother on the streets of India and adopted by an oppressively controlling woman, Amy longs to discover her origins in India and reconcile it with her Deaf identity. As her companion, Julius is confronted with the need to focus on his own goals while faced with the need to support and protect her.
Searching for Amy’s birth mother–and her identity–in the midst of chaos and danger, will they find who they’re looking for in time?
Outlander meets Game of Thrones in this blockbuster new epic fantasy series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author duo Ilona Andrews.
When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, it doesn’t take her long to recognize Kair Toren, a city she knows intimately from the pages of the famously unfinished dark fantasy series she’s been obsessively reading and re-reading while waiting years for the final novel.
Her only tools for navigating this gritty world of rival warlords, magic, and mayhem? Her encyclopedic knowledge of the plot, the setting, and the characters’ ambitions and fates. But while she quickly discovers she cannot be killed (though many will try!), the same cannot be said for the living, breathing characters she’s coming to love—a motley band that includes a former lady’s maid, a deadly assassin, various outrageous magical creatures, and a dangerously appealing soldier. Soon, instead of trying to get home, she finds herself enmeshed in the schemes—and attentions—of dueling princes, dukes, and villains, all while trying to save them and the kingdom of Rellas from the way she knows their stories will end: in a cataclysmic war.
Unbroken: Life Outside the Lines is a powerful testament to the human capacity for endurance and reinvention. Caldwell’s story exposes the deep fractures in social and familial systems while illuminating the transformative power of education, compassion, and courage. Her voice is both haunting and hopeful—a reminder that beauty can indeed be born from suffering, and that even the most broken lives can be made whole again.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
There are so many Texas-connected books publishing this month that we couldn’t feature all of them. The following books also publish in March:
CHILDREN'S, MIDDLE GRADE, & YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
Butt or Face? Volume 4: Ador-A-Butts! by Kari Lavelle
The Case of the Missing Hairbrush by Katherine H. Brown & Scarlett Brown
The Kids in Mrs. Z’s Class: Fia Hosein Finds Her Beat by Tracey Baptiste (Author), Kat Fajardo (Illustrator)
The Kids in Mrs. Z’s Class: Sebastian Metzger Solves a Sticky Situation by Kyle Lukoff (Author), Kat Fajardo (Illustrator)
Lawn-Mowing Day! by Breanna Carzoo
Mysterious Teacher: Songbird by Kailin Gow & Kira G
Remember My Royalty by Hannah E. Griggs
Rhea’s Rodeo by Laekan Zea Kemp
FANTASY / SCI-FI
The Alien Contract by D.L. Kilpatrick
The Calypso Enigma by Skyler Ramirez
Desperate Measures by Tom Abrahams
Left is Right by Paul McGrath
My Death Horse Overlord by Bridget E. Baker
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
Tinkers Guild by Jaxon Reed
United in Power by L.J. Breedlove
Wrath of the Cursed Witch by Rocio Carranza
MYSTERY / HORROR
Apollo by Ronie Kendig
The Armoire’s Secrets by Becki Willis
The Bargain by Eric Butler
The Barn Identity by Diane Kelly
Bloodlust by Sandra Brown
Broken Silence by Lynn Shannon
Burgers, Bunting, and Betrayal by Leanne Leeds
Buried Scars by Kristi Copeland
Chasing the Chameleon by Paul Scoggins
Chic Happens by Erica J. Whelton
Claws at the Falls by Erica J. Whelton
Death and the Lost Leprechaun by Bessie Barr
Death on the Danube by D.J. Maughan
EC Catacomb of Torment #9 Anthology (Joe R. Lansdale)
Fighting Dirty by Liliana Hart
Gets Into Everything by Carolyn L. Dean
A Ghastly Catastrophe by Deanna Raybourn
Half Baked Curses by Sarah Noffke
House of Spells and Secrets by Ivy Cassidy
The Lady and a Crazy Fire by Brittany E. Brinegar & J.E. Brinegar
Lemon Hollow Murder by Brittany E. Brinegar
Made of Him: A Kind of Hunger by C.B. Lannister
Murder UnShelved by Vannetta Chapman
Phantom Files by Gary Gerlacher
Poultry and Perjury by Jo Grafford
Primal Suspect by Rochelle Sangabriel
Roasted Deceit by Erica J. Whelton
Shelf Life of Lies by Chelsea Marks
Stakeouts and Strollers by Rob Phillips
Terror in Taffeta by Marla Cooper
Three Good Lies by Luana Ehrlich
The Tooth Collector by Bluebell Mertz
NONFICTION
Asian Smoke by Andrew Ho
Comedians Talking Baseball by Mike Vance
The Cost of Cool by Jon Roberts
Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance by Josie Lopez
El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory by Jazmine Ulloa
How to be Okay When Nothing is Okay by Jenny Lawson
I’m Alive by Errol F. Reilly
Leadership Gets Personal by Nan McRaven and Susan Engelking
The Lie You Don’t Know You Believe by Jennie Allen
Life, Motherhood & the Pursuit of the Perfect Handbag by Emily Roberson
Matt Lankes Photographs by Matt Lankes
The Myth of Red Texas: Cowboys, Populism, and Class War in the Radical South by David Griscom
Nirenberg – The Education of a Texas Public Servant by Ron Nirenberg and David W. Lesch
People of the Wheat by Rebecca Sharpless
The Power in Surrender by Sarah Jakes Roberts
Prairie View by George Ruble Woolfolk, edited by Ronald E. Goodwin
Raising Cole by Marc Pittman
See One, Do One, Teach One by Grace Farris
The Selena Reader edited by Larissa M. Mercado-López and Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa
Smuggler’s Flight by Chuck Stewart
Sowing the West Texas Wind edited by Bryan Giemza
Texas Tombstones: Fredericksburg by Tori Sandoval
Western Star by David Streitfeld
ZenWolf: Memoir of an AI by Tom Klehm
OTHER FICTION
200 Monas by Jan Saenz
The Best Little Motel in Texas by Lyla Lane
Dust Traces Never Fade by Sai Marie Johnson
Dying for Art by CA Humer
Far From Uncertain by Teddy Jones
The Fourth Wife by Linda Hamilton
Frannie’s Story by Erica J. Whelton
Isobel’s Song: Grace and Mercy in the Fight for Texas by Daryl Lott
A Norange & A Napple: A Parable of Faith by Tim Bryant
Only Spell Deep by Ava Morgyn
Pale Horse of the Apocalypse by Mark Greathouse
The Way of the River by Elisha McCall-Preston
Wild Horses on the Laramie by Mark Greathouse
Yorley & Sophistica by Tim Bryant
POETRY
Paper america by Emmy Perez
The Thin Place is the Porch by Tim Bryant
ROMANCE
Angel by Claire Shaw
Between the Shelves by Kasey Stockton
Blue Collar Cowboy by BA Tortuga
Blueprint for the Heart by Laura Finger
Captivating the Highland Rogue by Michelle Miles
Catch a Dream by Cynthia Breeding
Chasing I Do by Dylann Crush
Claimed by the Ex-Military Mountain Man by Macy West
Claiming Her Dragon by Amanda Kimberly
The Convict’s Courtship by KyLee Woodley
The Cowboy and His Enemy by Kaci M. Rose
The Cowboy’s Love Bet by Hope August
Crossfire Creek Protector by Delores Fossen
Darren & Jasmine Ever After by Angel S. Vane
Despite the Duke by Kathleen Ayers
Doctor’s Nine-Month Rival by Kristine Lynn
Fortune’s Secret Son by Christy Jeffries
Fox Hunt by J.C. Murphey
His to Break by Chasity Lee
How to Seduce the Ex by Mallory Black
The Interview by Matilda Martel
Jackson by LaQuette
Loose Threads by Dianne Oren
Love and Let Spy by Lexi Blake
The Magnificent Earl of March by Celia Rene
March’s Cowboy Torin by Eve London
My Worst Mistake by Emma Lee Jayne
Never Enough by Kat Baxter
Off Script by Kimberly Page
One Quick Obsession by Carrie Ann Ryan
Petticoat Ranch by Mary Connealy
A Place to Rest by Quinn Rose
The Police Chief’s Instant Family by Mindy Obenhaus
Prickly Pair by Clio Evans
Pride of a Vampire by Erin Bedford
Property of Death by Sapphire Knight
Property of Icer by Liberty Parker
Rebel by Kris Jayne
Rogue by Elle James
Rooted in Texas by Quinn Rose
Ryan by Chris Keniston
The Sailor by Susan Stoker
The Sheriff Gets His Girl by Jane Poller
Sheriff’s Honor by Jill Sorenson
The Soldier Gets His Girl by Jane Poller
Stormbound by Janalyn Knight
Stranded with the Cowboy by Makenna Lee
Sweet Hearts Start Somewhere by Maya Black
Texas Heat by Irene Lawless
Then Comes Baby by Darlene Tallman
Unbreakable by Erin Rose
Unsolved Amish Abduction by Mary Alford
Until You by Kat Baxter
A Very Grumpy Mechanic edited by Larissa M. Mercado-López and Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa
Where Love Unfolds by Malory Ford
Wilde Ride by Kelly Elliott
Wolf Valley Grumps by Shaw Hart