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4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE GIRLFRIEND’S SECRET by Daniel Hurst
Publication Date: August 19, 2026
My son thinks she’s perfect. But I know she’s here to destroy me…
From the moment I meet my son’s new girlfriend, I know she’s going to be trouble. Haven isn’t the kind of partner I imagined for...
5-STAR REVIEW: SO YOU WANT TO BE ASTRONAUT by Linda Soules REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆
So You Want To Be A...
Publication Date: April 13, 2026
RECIPIENT of a Kirkus Starred Review
RECIPIENT of the Mom's Choice Award(R) Gold - Honoring Excellence
NAMED 2026 Book of the Year by Creative Child Magazine
WINNER - 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Award (1st Place), STEM
FINALIST - 2026...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE BLUE FLAME by George Pelecanos
Derek Strange & Terry Quinn: Book 6
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
Private investigator Derek Strange returns in a riveting drama about revenge, greed, and redemption-from bestselling author and Emmy-nominated writer for HBO's The Wire and Treme, George Pelecanos.
He was curious. It was the...
4-STAR REVIEW: TAPEWORM by A.P. Thayer
Publication Date: August 18, 2026
From Dusk Till Dawn meets The Thing in this debut horror novel, where a group of friends must confront questions of identity, aging, and desire during a vampire infestation in an isolated Californian desert.
It needs to feed.
After the...
5-STAR REVIEW: EVERYTHING VS. MAX CREED by Matt Cost
Publication Date: June 17, 2026
Alfred Prince has created a social media site that is… EveryThing.
“I am looking for investors to support a new tech startup that will transform the world.” Prince had apparently moved into business mode. “It is...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: WHEN THE SILENCE BREAKS by Elizabeth Goddard
Mercy Ridge: Book 1
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
A deathbed confession. A decades-old secret. A mountain that holds the answers--and danger closing in.
When intelligence analyst Sarah Ellison learns of her grandfather's deathbed confession connected to her brother's murder, she's determined...
4-STAR REVIEW: IN THE DARK PLACES by Helen H. Durrant
Detective Vincent Swann: Book 1
Publication Date: August 17, 2026
He came home to escape his past. Now it’s back to haunt him.
Crouched over the body of a young woman in the mud, her glassy eyes reflecting the glowing Manchester skyline, DI...
SPOTLIGHT: WHEN THE SILENCE BREAKS by Elizabeth Goddard Plus Giveaway!
Mercy Ridge: Book 1
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
A deathbed confession. A decades-old secret. A mountain that holds the answers--and danger closing in.
When intelligence analyst Sarah Ellison learns of her grandfather's deathbed confession connected to her brother's murder, she's determined...
5-STAR REVIEW: HOW TO FIND A ROMANCE IN A BOOKSHOP by Poppy Alexander
Publication Date: August 18, 2026
After a social media post gone wrong, a literary agent runs away to look after a seaside bookshop for the summer-and forms an unlikely friendship with a charming novelist struggling with his latest idea.
Petra doesn't...
5-STAR REVIEW: SEALING THE DEAL by Bella North
Publication Date: August 14, 2026
For a New York billionaire and a country girl bar owner with a smart mouth, one deal could change everything.
Grayson Ashborne is public enemy number one in laidback Denver, where the locals really don’t like the idea of...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: MY SISTER IS GOING TO KILL ME by Nina Simon
Publication Date: August 18, 2026
From the New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit Mother-Daughter Murder Night, a Reese's Book Club pick, comes another fun, family-centered whodunnit about two sisters who work together to find a killer as they raft down...
4-STAR REVIEW: THE MATCHMAKER’S COTTAGE by Kat Sloane
Publication Date: August 11, 2026
A cozy fall romance wrapped in small-town charm reunites the owner of a bed-and-breakfast with her childhood sweetheart for a celebrity matchmaking scheme which has them both seeing stars.
Julia Schaeffer might run the most romantic...
3.5-STAR REVIEW: PRECIOUS UGLY by Rae Cline
Publication Date: August 18, 2026
Clementine is a girl in trouble. She's homeless, living in a conversion van at a campground tucked into a little stretch of riverfront on the Potomac. She's hungry, craving Pop-Tarts while forced to eat fried...
5-STAR REVIEW: WHAT THEY DID by Rio Youers
Publication Date: August 18, 2026
A dark, deadly secret between two friends tears them apart, only to reunite them decades later as they are forced to confront what happened that night . . . or lose all they hold dear.
She...
5-STAR REVIEW: RISE by Kat Helgeson
Publication Date: May 26, 2026
The year is 1968, and American astronauts are making the final push toward landing on the moon. On the ground in Houston, their families devote their lives to supporting the astronauts’ dreams. But for Joanie...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE RESISTANCE BOOK CLUB by Ellie Curzon
Publication Date: August 11, 2026
Every page is shared in secret… and a single book could cost a life.
France, 1941. Margot locks her bookshop door and slips into the cellar, where a circle of brave women gather by candlelight to read the...
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