EXCLUSIVE THRILLER 2 REVEAL

After two years of being bound to secrecy about all things Thriller 2, at 12PM EST today, I’ll be revealing for the first time the title, cover, blurb, and release date. Excited, who, me? Not at all. And since you all have shown an extra bit of interest in my stories and writing journey by signing up for my updates, I wanted to share it with you all first. But remember, it’s an early sneak peek just between us, at least until noon today.

Are you ready? Can I trust you to keep a secret for a few hours, without engaging in a blood oath?

If so, it is my great pleasure to invite you to…

…THE LIBRARY AFTER DARK, my second adult thriller novel, coming to bookshelves on May 5th, 2026.

Here is the official summary:

A bookseller must escape the infamously haunted library that holds her darkest secrets, but with a murderer in her tour group, escaping alive is not as simple as it seems, in this twisty locked-room thriller from the bestselling author of You Are Fatally Invited.

He’s trying to unearth the skeletons in her closet. She’ll do anything to keep them buried.

Aria Stokes is finally feeling settled—she lives in a tiny New York apartment, works as a bookseller at a local shop, and has even taken a leap of faith in love by indulging her attraction to bookstore regular Jasper. And he seems to already know her so well.

As a Valentine’s Day surprise, Jasper gets the two of them tickets to an exclusive, after-dark tour of the Daedalus Library—the grandiose establishment famed for its immersive genre-based reading rooms and, more notoriously, its rumored hauntings. While Aria normally loves all things ghastly, this place holds more dark secrets than she’d prefer Jasper to know. Like that the last time she was here, she left a body behind.

But when the automatic-door entry malfunctions and Aria, Jasper, and the five other people in their tour group become trapped in the library, they are forced to venture through the storied rooms and hidden passageways of the Daedalus in search of escape . . . and Aria quite literally has nowhere to hide from the shadows of her past. Then the group learns there’s a murderer in their midst.

Now, as she tries to break out of the library’s intricate reading rooms, Aria has to decide who she can trust—and what secrets are best kept buried—if she wants to make it out alive.

The Library After Dark has been my most challenging book yet (of the six I’ve written recently), but I fell hard, head-over-heels for it in these last couple of drafts. Books about books, locked-room mysteries, serial killers, lovers-to-enemies-to-??, and a haunting setting soaked in dark academia... It’s quite literally all of my favorite things. There’s also the Valentine’s Day date from hell (sorry, characters), a self-proclaimed villain of a female main character, a Grayson Hawthorne-coded male main (IYKYK), a hint of ghost lore, and as many bizarre true facts about rare books and their history as I could cram into the pages. And I haven’t even told you guys about the rare manuscript of dark fairytales yet—they ain’t children’s fairytales, I’ll tell you that much.

And, of course, can’t forget the presence of a mysterious rabbit I’ve been teasing you all about.

So much more to come, but for now, it’s up online for preorder (!) anywhere you can buy books, and on Goodreads if you’d like to add it to your shelves. And honestly, every preorder, every add on Goodreads, every time someone even shares about it with a friend makes a huge difference—excitement from YOU signals to publishers, booksellers, media folks, etcetera that this is a book to notice, and they should support it. That is extremely important for authors (especially newer ones, like yours truly!).

I’ll be doing an “Ask Me Anything” over on my stories in Instagram, so if you have any burning questions about THE LIBRARY AFTER DARK, writing, publishing, where the heck I’ve been this year, etc, head over to my page to ask! Thanks for coming along with me, and I hope you’re as thrilled for this story as I am.

Yours Fatally,
Ande

Author of YOU ARE FATALLY INVITED and THE LIBRARY AFTER DARK
www.andepliego.com
IG: @andepliegowrites