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#-STAR REVIEW: THE SPECTACLE by Anna Barrington
Publication Date: July 8, 2025
A powerful art dealer who presents a convincing portrait of international success pulls an idealistic young gallery assistant into his web of lies. This sharp, edgy social thriller explores the price of ambition in the...
5-STAR REVIEW: WRITERS AND LIARS by Carol Goodman
Publication Date: July 15, 2025
In the latest thrilling suspense novel from Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author Carol Goodman, a group of mystery authors gathers on a secluded Greek island for a writers retreat, only to discover that their enigmatic...
4-STAR REVIEW: A SUMMER FOR THE BOOKS by Michelle Lindo-Rice
Publication Date: July 15, 2025
Fans of Jennifer Weiner and Sunny Hostin will love this emotional dual-timeline novel about two former besties finding their way back to each other.
To heal their friendship, they’ll have to face their past.
Jewel Stone has...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: BOTTOM OF THE BREATH by Jayne Mills
Publication Date: July 8, 2025
For fans of Liane Moriarty and Maria Semple, this contemporary debut novel weaves together romance, mystery, and adventure as a woman travels to the Grand Canyon seeking answers after uncovering an old family secret.
After crashing...
5-STAR REVIEW: THE THINGS THEY DIDN’T SEE by Angela Shaeffer
Publication Date: June 4, 2025
Raised on sunny days at Lake Koda, Jill piloted a speedboat long before driving a car. Her husband and three boys share her love for boating—until a surprise storm and tragic accident change everything.
As grief...
5-STAR REVIEW: THE SECRET LOCKET by Catherine Hokin
Publication Date: July 7, 2025
Germany, 1941. Noemi’s hazel eyes shine with tears as she takes Pascal’s hand. ‘Please don’t go,’ she begs him. ‘If you leave me now, we might never find each other again…’
When Pascal kisses Noemi and presses his mother’s silver...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: ONLY LOVERS IN THE BUILDING by Nadine Gonzalez
Publication Date: July 15, 2025
Wanted—no, NEEDED: a summer escape with beach reads, cocktails…and a little romance on the side.
After her legal career comes to a sudden and humiliating end, Liliane Lyon books a restorative summer rental at The Icon, a...
5-STAR REVIEW: MY GRANDMOTHER’S SECRET by Laura Sweeney
Dovecote Cottages: Book 1
Publication Date: July 1, 2025
Grace stares at the glittering blue sea from her grandmother’s bedroom, clutching an old envelope to her chest with shaking hands. This will change everything she believed about her grandmother…
After her marriage...
5-STAR REVIEW: CRASH TEST by Amy James
Publication Date: July 1, 2025
Formula 1 meets Red, White, & Royal Blue in this contemporary romance in which an F1 phenom battling for the championship is sent spinning after his secret love is involved in a massive crash.
Twenty-four-year-old Formula 1 driver...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE SECRETS OF THORNDALE MANOR by Syrie James
The Audacious Sisterhood of Smoke & Fire: Book 2
Publication Date: June 28, 2025
She risks everything for the truth. He threatens her heart.
Athena Taylor realizes a life dream when she and her sister open the Darkmoor Bridge School for Girls...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: A DAUGHTER’S GUIDE TO MOTHERS AND MURDER by Dianne Freeman
Countess of Harleigh Series: Book 8
Publication Date: June 24, 2025
In the latest USA Today bestselling, Victorian Era-set Countess of Harleigh Mystery from multi-award winning author Dianne Freeman, Frances Hazelton and her husband, George, uncover the secrets of backstage Paris to find...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: BOUND BY STARS by E.L. Starling
Publication Date: July 1, 2025
With sweet romance and sharp wit, Bound by Stars is a stunning voyage through class, courage, and what it means to belong—ideal for readers 13 and up.
A Love That Defies Gravity…and Fate
She never belonged in his world....
5-STAR REVIEW: A FAMILY BETRAYAL by Emma Tallon
The Capello Family: Book 1
Publication Date: June 30, 2025
Betrayal cuts deep when it comes from within the family...
Maria, Alex and Antonio Capello were raised by their gangster father with just one rule: family is everything. Now he's dead, Maria works as a lawyer by...
5-STAR REVIEW: GRAVE BIRDS by Dana Elmendorf
Publication Date: July 1, 2025
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires meets Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this twisty, fresh take on a Southern gothic that follows a mysterious, charming bachelor as he makes his way into...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: WHAT THE DEEP WATER KNOWS by Miranda Cowley Heller
Publication Date: May 29, 2025
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, comes a debut poetry collection that paints a moving portrait of a rich life from childhood to love to marriage to...
5-STAR REVIEW: A MOTHER ALWAYS KNOWS by Sarah Strohmeyer
Publication Date: July 1, 2025
The beloved, award-winning author of Do I Know You? and We Love To Entertain returns with an electrifying novel of psychological suspense that explores the way our pasts shape our futures in so many unexpected ways.
Stella O'Neill is...
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