Women's Fiction Archives

4.5-STAR REVIEW: WHEN SHE WAS OURS by Anna Nordberg

Women's Fiction Amy Wilson - 31 July 2026

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...

4-STAR REVIEW: SIX WEEKS OF LOVE & LARCENY by Rebecca Gould Baeurle

Women's Fiction Amy Wilson - 28 July 2026

The Secrets Trilogy: Book 1 Publication Date: November 1, 2025 Six weeks. Two sisters. One very bad idea. Nikki Taylor’s college life in Philly is already a high-stakes balancing act—juggling classes, two jobs, and an...

5-STAR REVIEW: CITY OF WIDOWS by Nadia Hashimi

Women's Fiction Amy Wilson - 28 July 2026

Publication Date: July 28, 2026 From bestselling novelist Nadia Hashimi—a gripping, occasionally terrifying, yet ultimately hopeful novel focusing on the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power. In February 2020...

5-STAR REVIEW: FURIOUS VIOLET by Sarai Walker

Thriller/Suspense Amy Wilson - 27 July 2026

Publication Date: July 28, 2026 From the author of the bestselling phenomenon Dietland comes a razor-sharp, subversive thriller about motherhood, obsession, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. Violet “West” Shelley, a self-described...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE GREEK GUESTHOUSE by Michelle Vernal

Women's Fiction Amy Wilson - 23 July 2026

Publication Date: July 23, 2026 Dropping my suitcase at my feet, I stare up at the Greek guesthouse with its faded blue shutters, clambering purple bougainvillea and wrought-iron balconies spilling pink and red geraniums. I...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE RESILIENCE OF RED THREAD by Catherine Marshall-Smith

Thriller/Suspense Amy Wilson - 20 July 2026

Publication Date: July 21, 2026 For fans of Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, an intense, suspenseful story of a young mother’s fight to save herself after the man she thought was her white knight turns out...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: MURDER IN LOSTMOR by Ann Smythe

Thriller/Suspense Amy Wilson - 16 July 2026

The Lostmor Series: Book 2 Publication Date: November 19, 2025 It is thirty years since Lily witnessed a family tragedy at her childhood home, and the Penwyth House 'curse' is now ancient history. But...

4-STAR REVIEW: BORROWED CHILD by Marguerite Welch

Women's Fiction Sandy Saucier - 15 July 2026

Publication Date: July 14, 2026 For fans of Little Fires Everywhere, a novel that explores the ambiguities of motherhood and salvation through the anguished relationship between a troubled, undocumented Mexican teenager and the grieving,...

5-STAR REVIEW: SINGLE GIRLS by John Searles

Women's Fiction Amy Wilson - 13 July 2026

Publication Date: July 7, 2026 An infectious and utterly charming fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown’s early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, and the intrepid group of women she took under her...

5-STAR REVIEW: NANTUCKET SECOND CHANCES by Pamela Kelley

Women's Fiction Amy Wilson - 10 July 2026

Publication Date: June 9, 2026 Claire Shipman never imagined she'd be the single mom of a teenager, going through a contentious divorce, and unexpectedly pregnant. On the bright side, at least she's on...

4-STAR REVIEW: SUMMER OF LOVE by Kerri Maher

Historical Fiction JoAnne - 7 July 2026

Publication Date: July 7, 2026 In this moving novel about the transformative power of storytelling, three women make life-changing decisions set in motion by the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco, from...

4-STAR REVIEW: OUT OF THE CRASH by Susan Poole

Women's Fiction Amy Wilson - 29 June 2026

Publication Date: July 28, 2025 After a fatal hit-and-run devastates their close-knit community, author Caroline Beasley and high school senior Ethan Shawver find themselves at a crossroads as their lives intertwine in unexpected...