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4-STAR REVIEW: FINDING SUTTON’S CHOICE by Brenda Haas
Publication Date: July 18, 2025
Award-winning book club fiction about complicated parent-child relationships, failing mental health, and second chances. KIRKUS recommended!
It's been ten, long years since her abrupt departure, and, with a cryptic voicemail, 28-year-old writer Charlotte Sutton finds herself...
5-STAR REVIEW: THE CHILDREN ON THE TRAIN by Anna Stuart
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
November 1938, Germany. Grete guides two small children onto the train. Placing her arms protectively around their shoulders, she prays the journey is uneventful because she must get six-year-old Adele and eight-year-old Rosa out of...
4-STAR REVIEW: TIME TRAVEL FOR BEGINNERS by Jaclyn Moriarty
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
In her dazzling new novel, award-winning author Jaclyn Moriarty asks the question, if you could revisit one moment in your life, what would it be?
On a bustling road in Sydney, Australia, lies a nondescript storefront...
5-STAR REVIEW: THE UNKNOWN by Riley Sager REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one hundred years later, it's happening again.
Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about...
5-STAR REVIEW: YOU’LL BE SORRY by Lisa Gardner
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
A newlywed couple each with their own secrets. An abandoned lodge with a horrific decades-old mystery. And a small mountain town where everyone believes they know their neighbors…except they don’t.
For Raquel and Theo Collins, it...
4-STAR REVIEW: TANGLED WEBS by Callie Coles
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
For fans of Broken Country and The Heir Apparent, the first book in Callie Coles’ Spinning Silks trilogy—a sweeping love story about a woman trapped by a dangerous past, and the man who may offer a chance at...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE CASTLE IN THE GLEN by Rhys Bowen
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
A ghostwriter plunges into danger as she unravels the dark secrets of a powerful Scottish family in a thrilling novel of romance and mystery by the bestselling author of Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure.
Australian writer Emma Callander...
4-STAR REVIEW: WHERE THERE’S SMOKE by E.J. Copperman
A Haunted Paint Store Mystery: Book 2
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
Paint store owner Laura Meehan must prove her amateur sleuthing skills (again!) when her small town’s public library starts burning in this installment of the Haunted Paint Store cozy...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: TEN SECONDS by Robert Gold
Ben Harper: Book 3
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
The headlights blind me as the cab pulls away, but I catch a glimpse of my friend's carefully made-up face before the car disappears into the darkness. If I knew that was...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE SECRET BOOKSHOP IN IRELAND by Susanne O’Leary
Sisters of Cherrywood: Book 1
Publication Date: July 31, 2026
‘It devastates me that this will be the first you’re hearing of the bookshop. But it’s yours now, and I hope it can heal you despite everything you might hear about...
SPOTLIGHT: WHERE THERE’S SMOKE by E.J. Copperman Plus Giveaway!
A Haunted Paint Store Mystery: Book 2
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
Paint store owner Laura Meehan must prove her amateur sleuthing skills (again!) when her small town’s public library starts burning in this installment of the Haunted Paint Store cozy...
4-STAR REVIEW: MARRIED WITH BENEFITS by Ellie Palmer
Publication Date: July 21, 2026
A trope-filled delight of a rom com about two strangers who enter into a marriage of convenience that becomes anything but convenient.
For better or worse is just the beginning.
Lainey Davis can't wait for the day...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: QUEEN OF SHADOW by P.C. Cast
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
From #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling author P. C. Cast—a passionate and magical epic bringing alive Celtic legend, perfect for romantasy fans who love Sue Lynn Tan and Thea Guanzon and historical fantasy fans of...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE SÉANCE GARDEN by Juliet Blackwell
Publication Date: July 28, 2026
After a cheesy ghost tour in one of California’s oldest towns stumbles upon an actual haunting, a skeptical historian of the occult becomes entangled in solving a murder case.
When Professor Harper Grae loses a bet...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: WHEN SHE WAS OURS by Anna Nordberg
Publication Date: August 1, 2026
Thea Erickson, a renowned surgeon, is filled with both joy and grief as her family gathers at their home on a summer night in 1995. Her elder daughter Phoebe is getting married, but even the...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE HISTORY WE CARRY by Margaret Whitford
Publication Date: June 2, 2026
For fans of Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died, a memoir for daughters who recognize that to truly understand themselves and the patterns of their lives, they must first understand their mothers and the...
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