July 7 book releases are here, and on time this week. Last week’s post ran late for some of you because of a caching issue on the site. Sorry about that. Topping this week’s list: Heartstopper by Alice Oseman. Let’s get into it.
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Of Flame and Fury
Paperback Release
Author Mikayla Bridge
Genres Teen & Young Adult Sword & Sorcery Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult Epic Fantasy
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Fourth Wing meets Iron Widow in this enemies-to-lovers romantic fantasy by debut author Mikayla Bridge. The hottest must-read of the summer!
On an island built from ash and shrouded in fire, phoenix racing is a sport just as profitable as it is deadly.
Seventeen-year-old Kel Varra and her team of underdogs, the Crimson Howlers, are desperate to win the annual races and the fortune that comes with it. But the Howlers need a new rider, which leads Kel to join forces with Warren โCoupโ Coupers โ an arrogant rival she canโt get out of her head.
As tensions rise on and off the track, Kel's home is mistakenly burned down, and sheโs forced to take a job from a mysterious tech mogul with an unsettling interest in her phoenix, Savita. This sets in motion a conspiracy that threatens everyone Kel cares for, especially Coup, for whom her embers of resentment are quickly igniting into something dangerously new.
Heart-pounding pages full of steamy romance, fiery confessions, political scheming, and volatile magic culminate ina final twist readers will never see coming.
On an island built from ash and shrouded in fire, phoenix racing is a sport just as profitable as it is deadly.
Seventeen-year-old Kel Varra and her team of underdogs, the Crimson Howlers, are desperate to win the annual races and the fortune that comes with it. But the Howlers need a new rider, which leads Kel to join forces with Warren โCoupโ Coupers โ an arrogant rival she canโt get out of her head.
As tensions rise on and off the track, Kel's home is mistakenly burned down, and sheโs forced to take a job from a mysterious tech mogul with an unsettling interest in her phoenix, Savita. This sets in motion a conspiracy that threatens everyone Kel cares for, especially Coup, for whom her embers of resentment are quickly igniting into something dangerously new.
Heart-pounding pages full of steamy romance, fiery confessions, political scheming, and volatile magic culminate ina final twist readers will never see coming.
Heartstopper: Volume Six
Author Alice Oseman
Genres Young Adult Romance Comics & Graphic Novels, Summer Reading >40K
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The final installment in the bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel series about life, love, and everything that happens in between.
Everyone in school knows Nick and Charlie. Everyone knows theyโre going to be together forever. But Charlieโs busy with his bid to become head boy. And while Nick is preparing to leave for college, heโs starting to wonder who heโll beโฆ without Charlie.
Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders, and sexual references.
Everyone in school knows Nick and Charlie. Everyone knows theyโre going to be together forever. But Charlieโs busy with his bid to become head boy. And while Nick is preparing to leave for college, heโs starting to wonder who heโll beโฆ without Charlie.
Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders, and sexual references.
The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy
Author Brigitte Knightley
Genres Romance, Romantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal & Urban, Romantic, Gaslamp, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
The stakes are high, the love is forbidden, and the slow burn turns steamy in this swoony, witty, and heart-stoppingly romantic sequel to instant New York Times bestseller The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy.
This stunning hardcover features a cover with foil, beautifully designed endpapers, and a black-and-white interior map!
Osric is a member of the Fyren Order, a guild of assassins who gleefully murder for money. Aurienne is a Haelan, a scholar-healer whose Orderโs motto is Harm to none. Clear-cut absolutes separate them: good and bad, right and wrong, light and dark . . .
Until they donโt.
When Osric first bribed Aurienne to heal him, he never imagined those lines would begin to blur. But every healing session draws them closer together. He finds himself developing unwanted feelings for Aurienne as her capable hands heal his bodyโand his heart.
Aurienneโs perfect life has been flung into chaos in the form of a devastatingly handsome assassin. She should be in her research lab, not illicitly healing a Fyren every full moonโnor wrestling an attraction to him that threatens to slip into something else.
Things go superbly sideways when Osric and Aurienne discover more about the deadly Pox deliberately unleashed through the Tฤซendoms. The plague may be the work of another Orderโan Order far nastier than either of them can handle.
As the lines between Osric and Aurienne continue to blur, the balance between peace and war, and love and hate, trembles, shifts, and hinges on a heartbeat.
This stunning hardcover features a cover with foil, beautifully designed endpapers, and a black-and-white interior map!
Osric is a member of the Fyren Order, a guild of assassins who gleefully murder for money. Aurienne is a Haelan, a scholar-healer whose Orderโs motto is Harm to none. Clear-cut absolutes separate them: good and bad, right and wrong, light and dark . . .
Until they donโt.
When Osric first bribed Aurienne to heal him, he never imagined those lines would begin to blur. But every healing session draws them closer together. He finds himself developing unwanted feelings for Aurienne as her capable hands heal his bodyโand his heart.
Aurienneโs perfect life has been flung into chaos in the form of a devastatingly handsome assassin. She should be in her research lab, not illicitly healing a Fyren every full moonโnor wrestling an attraction to him that threatens to slip into something else.
Things go superbly sideways when Osric and Aurienne discover more about the deadly Pox deliberately unleashed through the Tฤซendoms. The plague may be the work of another Orderโan Order far nastier than either of them can handle.
As the lines between Osric and Aurienne continue to blur, the balance between peace and war, and love and hate, trembles, shifts, and hinges on a heartbeat.
Every Version of You
Author Natalie Messier
Genres Literature & Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
For fans of The Love of My Afterlife and The Seven Year Slip, Reeseโs LitUp Fellow Natalie Messierโs debut following a woman who gets a chance to relive her college yearsโwith the opportunity to win back the one that got awayโis โfull of surprises and sneakily perceptiveโ (Yulin Kuang, USA TODAY bestselling author of How to End a Love Story).
Joey Vasquezโs life is the definition of good on paper. At thirty-two, sheโs a Los Angeles lawyer on the cusp of making partner, but while sheโs a professional success, sheโs a personal disaster. Her social life mostly consists of nights spent watching TV with her elderly cat. Life isnโt quite what she dreamed when she was younger, but really, whose life is?
But a dinner party with the best friend sheโs secretly pined after for years and its aftermath changes everything.
When Joey is given a second chance at life, she finds herself in college again. Armed with memories from her first life, Joey is certain sheโs come back to finally convince the one man she ever loved to love her backโso why does she find herself strangely drawn to the man she thought she hated?
Joey Vasquezโs life is the definition of good on paper. At thirty-two, sheโs a Los Angeles lawyer on the cusp of making partner, but while sheโs a professional success, sheโs a personal disaster. Her social life mostly consists of nights spent watching TV with her elderly cat. Life isnโt quite what she dreamed when she was younger, but really, whose life is?
But a dinner party with the best friend sheโs secretly pined after for years and its aftermath changes everything.
When Joey is given a second chance at life, she finds herself in college again. Armed with memories from her first life, Joey is certain sheโs come back to finally convince the one man she ever loved to love her backโso why does she find herself strangely drawn to the man she thought she hated?
A rollicking work of lyricism and humor, about one familyโs tumble into the unknown, from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of
North Woods
Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales, and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be his year to finally move forward with his life.
But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, one who possesses, in Kateโs words, โa great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere.โ And no sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress and a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the worldโs delusions in a โInventory of Wrong Ideas.โ
The new friends, the enchanted woods, the sure, no PhD, but all good fun. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarreโperhaps ridiculousโlocal legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all.
Joyous, absurd, and life-affirming, Country People is a luminous exploration of marriage and parenthood, the nature of belief and the power of stories, and the ways in which we find connection in an increasingly fragmented world.
Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales, and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be his year to finally move forward with his life.
But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, one who possesses, in Kateโs words, โa great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere.โ And no sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress and a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the worldโs delusions in a โInventory of Wrong Ideas.โ
The new friends, the enchanted woods, the sure, no PhD, but all good fun. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarreโperhaps ridiculousโlocal legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all.
Joyous, absurd, and life-affirming, Country People is a luminous exploration of marriage and parenthood, the nature of belief and the power of stories, and the ways in which we find connection in an increasingly fragmented world.
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
Author Ben Reeves
Genres Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction, Family Life Fiction, Death, Grief & Bereavement Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Travis is Death in the modern world. He wears jeans and a T-shirt and lives in a small, grey town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final hours of life. Heโs stoic, gentle, and a little naive, despite everything he knows. Heโs young and handsome, despite who he is. Each death he witnesses is meaningful to him; he listens, never judges, and most importantly, never tries to change anyoneโs fate. He knows that every life must eventually end to maintain the balance of the universe and he respects the cycle.
Then he meets Dalia, a midwife, and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter Layla, who live across the hall. As Dalia and Layla come to embrace Travis, it becomes more difficult to maintain the detachment thatโs allowed him to function for so long. Their time together teaches him whatโs truly important in lifeโand what might be irrevocably lost in death.
Written with radiant warmth, wisdom, and compassion, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt is a timeless story about appreciating life, accepting its end, and finding our place in the universeโespecially when it feels most impossibleโthat will resonate with anyone who has ever loved and lost or worried at timeโs passing.
Then he meets Dalia, a midwife, and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter Layla, who live across the hall. As Dalia and Layla come to embrace Travis, it becomes more difficult to maintain the detachment thatโs allowed him to function for so long. Their time together teaches him whatโs truly important in lifeโand what might be irrevocably lost in death.
Written with radiant warmth, wisdom, and compassion, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt is a timeless story about appreciating life, accepting its end, and finding our place in the universeโespecially when it feels most impossibleโthat will resonate with anyone who has ever loved and lost or worried at timeโs passing.
Helpless
Author Jessica Knoll
Genres Literature & Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Suspense Thrillers, Kidnapping Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
From the New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and Bright Young Women comes a smoldering psychological thriller with a singular, mind-bending last page.
Itโs been twelve years since Faye Heron broke Henry Spaldingโs heart. Henry was her college boyfriend, her first intense love, but Faye was in danger of being subsumed by him.
Now, Faye is one half of a power-producing duo with her Hollywood husband. Henry is a married father running the family business. Both of their lives have essentially gone to plan.
When a former and beloved college professor suddenly passes away, Faye and Henry find themselves back on campus for the funeral, circling something old and dangerous. Something, if Faye is honest with herself, she has been trying to duplicate for years. But Henry is one of a kind.
The kind who delivers a hypnotic apology for the way things ended.
The kind who suggests they go back to the hotel for a drink.
The kind who drugs and kidnaps her.
When Faye comes to Henryโs remote mountain cabin, sheโs beside herself. Has Henry brought her here to punish her? She did, after all, write and star in a lauded episode of television based on their indelicate appetites and vicious breakup. As her week of captivity unfolds, Henryโs wanton demands intensify, and a sprawling, years-old mystery begins to take shapeโone that will rewrite history as Faye remembers it and reveal an astounding, cataclysmic truth.
Itโs been twelve years since Faye Heron broke Henry Spaldingโs heart. Henry was her college boyfriend, her first intense love, but Faye was in danger of being subsumed by him.
Now, Faye is one half of a power-producing duo with her Hollywood husband. Henry is a married father running the family business. Both of their lives have essentially gone to plan.
When a former and beloved college professor suddenly passes away, Faye and Henry find themselves back on campus for the funeral, circling something old and dangerous. Something, if Faye is honest with herself, she has been trying to duplicate for years. But Henry is one of a kind.
The kind who delivers a hypnotic apology for the way things ended.
The kind who suggests they go back to the hotel for a drink.
The kind who drugs and kidnaps her.
When Faye comes to Henryโs remote mountain cabin, sheโs beside herself. Has Henry brought her here to punish her? She did, after all, write and star in a lauded episode of television based on their indelicate appetites and vicious breakup. As her week of captivity unfolds, Henryโs wanton demands intensify, and a sprawling, years-old mystery begins to take shapeโone that will rewrite history as Faye remembers it and reveal an astounding, cataclysmic truth.
He Who Fights With Monsters, Book 1
Hardcover Release
Author Shirtaloon
Genres GameLit & LitRPG Fiction, Fantasy Action & Adventure, Action & Adventure Fantasy, Science Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
"Exciting, hilarious, irreverent, and action-packed."ย โMatt Dinniman (New York Timesย bestselling author ofย Dungeon Crawler Carl)
Survive an alternate universe and jump into the first installment of the witty and magic-fueled HE WHO FIGHTS WITH MONSTERS seriesโnow with a bonus short story exclusive to this deluxe hardcover edition.
Whatโs it like to wake up in a mysterious world of magic and monsters?
Itโs not easy.
For Jason, making the career jump from office-supplies-store middle manager to heroic interdimensional adventurer is surreal. Jason tries to be heroic, but it's hard to be good when all your powers are evil.
Heโll face off against cannibals, cultists, wizards, monsters...and thatโs just on the first day.
Jasonโs a stranger in a strange land, and if heโs going to survive, heโll have to find something inside himself he never knew was there.
Heโs going to need courage, heโs going to need wit, and heโs going to need some magic powers of his own. But first, heโs going to need pants.
Experience the start of this legendary million-copy best-selling LitRPG epic where a snarky underdog takes on everything from corrupt aristocrats to literal gods in HE WHO FIGHTS WITH MONSTERS, Book 1: OUTWORLDER.
About the series:ย An isekai culture clash is unleashed as a laid-back Australian finds himself in a very serious world. See him gain suspiciously evil powers through a unique progression system combining cultivation and traditional LitRPG elements. Enjoy a weak-to-strong story with a main character who earns his power without overshadowing everyone around him, with plenty of loot, adventurers, gods and magic. Rich characters and world-building offer humor, political intrigue and slice-of-life elements alongside lots of monster fighting and adventure.
The Final Score
Author Lana Ferguson
Genres Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Romantic Comedy, Sports
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A hockey player and a grad student are on thin ice until they meet their match in this sexy romance by USA Today bestselling author Lana Ferguson.
Jack Baker is on top of the world now that heโs back on the rink where he belongs. But the high comes crashing down when he reinjures his arm immediately following his return to the ice, and this time, he might never be able to play again. After a lifetime as the strong, happy hockey guy whose sister needed him, Jack is left questioning everything he knows about himself.
Abigail Thompson feels like sheโs hit rock bottom. Itโs only been a few months since the massive scandal that finally severed the cord between her and her narcissistic father. And now, in her last weeks of grad school, sheโs been kicked out of her building with very short notice. The last thing she wants to do is ask her half-brother for help after what sheโs put him through, but itโs looking like his best friendโs spare room might be her only choice.
Jack is flighty, flirty, and a little full of himselfโall the things Abbyโs learned to avoid in men. However, spending every day together breaks the ice between them, and she starts to realize that Jack might not be who he seems. Itโs possible that maybe, just maybe, he might be struggling as much as she is. Soon, confiding in each other leads to falling into bed, and this fling will either play with their heartsโor score them the ultimate goal of love.
Jack Baker is on top of the world now that heโs back on the rink where he belongs. But the high comes crashing down when he reinjures his arm immediately following his return to the ice, and this time, he might never be able to play again. After a lifetime as the strong, happy hockey guy whose sister needed him, Jack is left questioning everything he knows about himself.
Abigail Thompson feels like sheโs hit rock bottom. Itโs only been a few months since the massive scandal that finally severed the cord between her and her narcissistic father. And now, in her last weeks of grad school, sheโs been kicked out of her building with very short notice. The last thing she wants to do is ask her half-brother for help after what sheโs put him through, but itโs looking like his best friendโs spare room might be her only choice.
Jack is flighty, flirty, and a little full of himselfโall the things Abbyโs learned to avoid in men. However, spending every day together breaks the ice between them, and she starts to realize that Jack might not be who he seems. Itโs possible that maybe, just maybe, he might be struggling as much as she is. Soon, confiding in each other leads to falling into bed, and this fling will either play with their heartsโor score them the ultimate goal of love.
History Lessons
Paperback Release
Author Zoe B. Wallbrook
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Black & African American Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Women Sleuths
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A college history professor must solve her superstar colleague's murder before she becomes the next target in this funny, romantic debut mystery, perfect for readers of Janet Evanovich, Kellye Garrett, and Ali Hazelwood.
As a newly minted junior professor, Daphne Ouverture spends her days giving lectures on French colonialism, working on her next academic book, and going on atrocious dates. Her small world suits her just fine. Until Sam Taylor dies.
The rising star of Harrison Universityโs anthropology department was never one of Daphneโs favorites, despite his popularity. But that doesnโt prevent Samโs killer from believing Daphne has something that belonged to Samโsomething the killer will stop at nothing to get.
Between grading papers and navigating her disastrous love life, Daphne embarks on her own investigation to find out what connects her to Samโs murder. With the help of an alluring former-detective-turned-bookseller, she unravels a deadly cover-up on campus.
This well-crafted, voice-driven mystery introduces an unforgettable crime fiction heroine.
As a newly minted junior professor, Daphne Ouverture spends her days giving lectures on French colonialism, working on her next academic book, and going on atrocious dates. Her small world suits her just fine. Until Sam Taylor dies.
The rising star of Harrison Universityโs anthropology department was never one of Daphneโs favorites, despite his popularity. But that doesnโt prevent Samโs killer from believing Daphne has something that belonged to Samโsomething the killer will stop at nothing to get.
Between grading papers and navigating her disastrous love life, Daphne embarks on her own investigation to find out what connects her to Samโs murder. With the help of an alluring former-detective-turned-bookseller, she unravels a deadly cover-up on campus.
This well-crafted, voice-driven mystery introduces an unforgettable crime fiction heroine.
Outworlder
Author Travis Deverell
Genres GameLit & LitRPG Fiction, Fantasy Action & Adventure, Action & Adventure Fantasy, Science Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Jason wakes up in a mysterious world of magic and monsters.
Itโs not easy making the career jump from office-supplies-store middle manager to heroic interdimensional adventurer. At least, Jason tries to be heroic, but it's hard to be good when all your powers are evil.
Heโll face off against cannibals, cultists, wizards, monsters...and thatโs just on the first day. Heโs going to need courage, heโs going to need wit, and heโs going to need some magic powers of his own. But first, heโs going to need pants.
After cementing itself as one of the best-rated serial novels on Royal Road with an astonishing 13 million views, He Who Fights with Monsters is now available on Kindle.
About the series: Experience an isekai culture clash as a laid-back Australian finds himself in a very serious world. See him gain suspiciously evil powers through a unique progression system combining cultivation and traditional LitRPG elements. Enjoy a weak-to-strong story with a main character who earns his power without overshadowing everyone around him, with plenty of loot, adventurers, gods and magic. Rich characters and world-building offer humor, political intrigue and slice-of-life elements alongside lots of monster fighting and adventure.
Itโs not easy making the career jump from office-supplies-store middle manager to heroic interdimensional adventurer. At least, Jason tries to be heroic, but it's hard to be good when all your powers are evil.
Heโll face off against cannibals, cultists, wizards, monsters...and thatโs just on the first day. Heโs going to need courage, heโs going to need wit, and heโs going to need some magic powers of his own. But first, heโs going to need pants.
After cementing itself as one of the best-rated serial novels on Royal Road with an astonishing 13 million views, He Who Fights with Monsters is now available on Kindle.
About the series: Experience an isekai culture clash as a laid-back Australian finds himself in a very serious world. See him gain suspiciously evil powers through a unique progression system combining cultivation and traditional LitRPG elements. Enjoy a weak-to-strong story with a main character who earns his power without overshadowing everyone around him, with plenty of loot, adventurers, gods and magic. Rich characters and world-building offer humor, political intrigue and slice-of-life elements alongside lots of monster fighting and adventure.
In the Wake of the Ruined
Author Kalie Cassidy
Genres Dark Fantasy, Action & Adventure Romance, Romantic Fantasy
Publication Date July 7, 2026
The realm has a new queenโฆ and a new monster.
Imogen can no longer hide. She has claimed her ancestral crown, and now the corrupted bond she shares with the ancient deity Eusia is stronger than ever. Though she is determined to sever it, doing so is no easy feat. The threat of war looms. Shifting alliances, a hunger for magic, and her feelings for Theodore, King of Varya, attempt to thwart her at every turn.
Meanwhile, Theodore is battling the strain of his own crown and commitments. When Imogen suddenly appears on his ship, every dutiful resolution heโs ever made threatens to snap. As they draw nearer to ending Eusia, lurking dangers and their perilous desire for one another prove more insurmountable than they could have imagined.
Will the chaos, ruin, and death that Imogen was prophesied to usher into the realm be the end of all things, or the beginning?
Imogen can no longer hide. She has claimed her ancestral crown, and now the corrupted bond she shares with the ancient deity Eusia is stronger than ever. Though she is determined to sever it, doing so is no easy feat. The threat of war looms. Shifting alliances, a hunger for magic, and her feelings for Theodore, King of Varya, attempt to thwart her at every turn.
Meanwhile, Theodore is battling the strain of his own crown and commitments. When Imogen suddenly appears on his ship, every dutiful resolution heโs ever made threatens to snap. As they draw nearer to ending Eusia, lurking dangers and their perilous desire for one another prove more insurmountable than they could have imagined.
Will the chaos, ruin, and death that Imogen was prophesied to usher into the realm be the end of all things, or the beginning?
An Infinite Love Story
Author Chanel Cleeton
Genres 20th Century Historical Fiction, Science Fiction Short Stories, Science Fiction Crime & Mystery
Publication Date July 7, 2026
When an astronaut is lost in space, his wife relives their epic love as she attempts to unravel what truly happened to him, in this sweeping love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s Space Race, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes.
When Joe Mitchell launches into space, the world is watching. Itโs 1968, and the country waits with anticipation and excitement for another successful mission, another celebration as America sets its sights on the Moon. And then comes the knock at the door.
Joe Mitchellโs spacecraft has lost contact. He and his fellow astronauts onboard are feared to be dead. Itโs his wife Vivianโs worst nightmare come to life, her grief suddenly taking center stage as the nation waits and mourns. In her quiet moments, Vivian relives their memorable story, unable to accept that this is the end to a love that felt as though it was written in the stars.
As the investigation surrounding Joeโs lost spacecraft intensifies and the mishap is written off as an operator error, Vivian is determined to clear her husbandโs name and uncover the mystery of what happened in space. When someone starts sending Vivian messagesโmessages she believes only Joe could sendโshe begins to wonder if their love is stronger than space and time, and sheโll do whatever it takes to bring her husband back to her.
When Joe Mitchell launches into space, the world is watching. Itโs 1968, and the country waits with anticipation and excitement for another successful mission, another celebration as America sets its sights on the Moon. And then comes the knock at the door.
Joe Mitchellโs spacecraft has lost contact. He and his fellow astronauts onboard are feared to be dead. Itโs his wife Vivianโs worst nightmare come to life, her grief suddenly taking center stage as the nation waits and mourns. In her quiet moments, Vivian relives their memorable story, unable to accept that this is the end to a love that felt as though it was written in the stars.
As the investigation surrounding Joeโs lost spacecraft intensifies and the mishap is written off as an operator error, Vivian is determined to clear her husbandโs name and uncover the mystery of what happened in space. When someone starts sending Vivian messagesโmessages she believes only Joe could sendโshe begins to wonder if their love is stronger than space and time, and sheโll do whatever it takes to bring her husband back to her.
Into the Fading Twilight
Author Catherine Cowles
Genres Literature & Fiction, New Adult & College Romance, Special Edition Books
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Sheโs known nothing but darkness for 413 daysโฆbut heโll burn down the world to save her.
After a year in captivity, Nova Monroe is back in Starlight Groveโbut sheโs not the same woman who vanished. She lives on the edge, chases adrenaline, and refuses to be caged again. Cliff diving. Mountain biking. Anything to feel alive and outrun the memories clawing at her.
But the single dad with shadows of his own wonโt let her face it alone. Especially when she finds herself needing a place to stay.
Kol Archer has made it his mission to protect her. As a Forest Service investigator, heโs no stranger to rugged terrain or battling for control. But nothing prepared him for Novaโher fire, her fight, the way she makes him feel something he thought was lost.
The closer they get, the more dangerous things become. Someone doesnโt want Nova to move on. And Kol is determined to stop themโno matter the cost.
Because for the first time in forever, Novaโs not just surviving. Sheโs learning how to live, how to trust, and reminding Kol he can, too. But as darkness looms, the truth could destroy them bothโฆ
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Into the Fading Twilight is a single dad, roommates-to-lovers, small-town romance about a woman starting over and a man who will do anything to keep her safe. This book can be read as a stand-alone.
After a year in captivity, Nova Monroe is back in Starlight Groveโbut sheโs not the same woman who vanished. She lives on the edge, chases adrenaline, and refuses to be caged again. Cliff diving. Mountain biking. Anything to feel alive and outrun the memories clawing at her.
But the single dad with shadows of his own wonโt let her face it alone. Especially when she finds herself needing a place to stay.
Kol Archer has made it his mission to protect her. As a Forest Service investigator, heโs no stranger to rugged terrain or battling for control. But nothing prepared him for Novaโher fire, her fight, the way she makes him feel something he thought was lost.
The closer they get, the more dangerous things become. Someone doesnโt want Nova to move on. And Kol is determined to stop themโno matter the cost.
Because for the first time in forever, Novaโs not just surviving. Sheโs learning how to live, how to trust, and reminding Kol he can, too. But as darkness looms, the truth could destroy them bothโฆ
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Into the Fading Twilight is a single dad, roommates-to-lovers, small-town romance about a woman starting over and a man who will do anything to keep her safe. This book can be read as a stand-alone.
Pretty Dead Things
Author Kelsey Cox
Genres Literature & Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Suspense Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Secrets emerge as a
Texas
beauty pageant turns deadly in this rich and addictive novel with a jaw-dropping twist from psychological suspense author Kelsey Cox.
2000: Isabelle Whitmore vanishes at Sherman Ranch in Anhalt, Texas, without a trace.
2025: The annual Lone Star Princess Pageant looms, bringing long-standing grudges to the surface. Ingrid fled Anhalt in the wake of her sister Isabelleโs disappearance and has now returned, just in time for a construction crew to start digging up Sherman Ranch; the pageant brings up past traumas that Melanie can't forget; Cat, newly sober, starts to feel threatened in ways that bring back old demons; and Sarah Lynn, who comes from a long line of pageant winners, knows that losing is not an option.
When old resentments and new confrontations reach their boiling point, temperatures drop to deadly degrees as a record-setting storm brings down the stateโs power grid. With everyone trapped under one roof, scores will be settled, and more than one person will end up dead.
Some secrets are better left buried.
KELSEY COX'S NOVELS
"Riveting." โPeople
"Heart-pumping." โNina Simon
"Jaw-dropping." โAmanda Eyre Ward
"Joins my auto-buy list forever." โRachel Hawkins
2000: Isabelle Whitmore vanishes at Sherman Ranch in Anhalt, Texas, without a trace.
2025: The annual Lone Star Princess Pageant looms, bringing long-standing grudges to the surface. Ingrid fled Anhalt in the wake of her sister Isabelleโs disappearance and has now returned, just in time for a construction crew to start digging up Sherman Ranch; the pageant brings up past traumas that Melanie can't forget; Cat, newly sober, starts to feel threatened in ways that bring back old demons; and Sarah Lynn, who comes from a long line of pageant winners, knows that losing is not an option.
When old resentments and new confrontations reach their boiling point, temperatures drop to deadly degrees as a record-setting storm brings down the stateโs power grid. With everyone trapped under one roof, scores will be settled, and more than one person will end up dead.
Some secrets are better left buried.
KELSEY COX'S NOVELS
"Riveting." โPeople
"Heart-pumping." โNina Simon
"Jaw-dropping." โAmanda Eyre Ward
"Joins my auto-buy list forever." โRachel Hawkins
The Roommate Rule
Paperback Release
Author Georgia Stone
Genres Feel-Good Fiction, Women's Literature & Fiction, Romantic Comedy
Publication Date July 7, 2026
When two polar opposites find themselves sharing a cabin for the summer, they lay down some ground rules to keep the peaceโonly to discover that one of those rules might be impossible to keep in this steamy new novel from the author of
The Friendship Fling.
Dylan is the kind of person who is always fifteen minutes early and never leaves things to chanceโso she canโt believe sheโs about to spend six weeks on a last-minute trip to Wales that she didnโt plan, living in a cabin with a man sheโs only met once.
Max always goes with the flow, and after his plus-one drops out of his all-expenses-paid travel influencer trip, heโs happy for his sisterโs friend to take the spot. After all, from what he remembers of their brief meeting a year ago, Dylan is the kind of woman heโd be more than happy to spend some alone time with.
Not that anything is going to happen between them, because Dylan knows getting involved with this reckless, irrepressible flirt is the last thing she needs. So she makes a house they are roommates only, and under no circumstances can anything . . . untoward . . . happen between them.
But as the days go by, Max starts to realize how much he enjoys chipping away at the walls Dylan hides herself behind, while Dylan begins to admit to herself that there may be more to Max than she first assumed. And before she knows it, she finds herself wondering if their โroommate ruleโ might be one rule she actually wants to breakโฆ
Dylan is the kind of person who is always fifteen minutes early and never leaves things to chanceโso she canโt believe sheโs about to spend six weeks on a last-minute trip to Wales that she didnโt plan, living in a cabin with a man sheโs only met once.
Max always goes with the flow, and after his plus-one drops out of his all-expenses-paid travel influencer trip, heโs happy for his sisterโs friend to take the spot. After all, from what he remembers of their brief meeting a year ago, Dylan is the kind of woman heโd be more than happy to spend some alone time with.
Not that anything is going to happen between them, because Dylan knows getting involved with this reckless, irrepressible flirt is the last thing she needs. So she makes a house they are roommates only, and under no circumstances can anything . . . untoward . . . happen between them.
But as the days go by, Max starts to realize how much he enjoys chipping away at the walls Dylan hides herself behind, while Dylan begins to admit to herself that there may be more to Max than she first assumed. And before she knows it, she finds herself wondering if their โroommate ruleโ might be one rule she actually wants to breakโฆ
Love You More
Author Emily Giffin
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction, Women's Friendship Fiction, Contemporary Women Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A woman is newly engaged to a man she adores when she receives a call from her first loveโwith news that shatters her carefully ordered worldโin this emotional, powerful novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Pact.
Billie has built the perfect life. Her practice as a doctor in New York City is thriving, and sheโs finally found the right partner in Dean after years spent trying to move on from her high-school sweetheart, Mick. Their young love had been intense and true, but distance and ambition pulled them apart when she left Wisconsin for medical school.
Then one morning, just after accepting Deanโs romantic marriage proposal, Billieโs phone rings. Itโs Mickโcalling for the first time in nearly a decade. His news is urgent, and in a moment, everything changes.
As Billie boards a plane back to Wisconsin, the past comes rushing inโher friendships from home, the love she shared with Mick, and the choices that shaped them. What awaits her is a reckoning with what sheโs lost, what sheโs built, and what she still wants.
Gripping and deeply moving, Love You More is a story about the plot twists life throws at usโand how love, in all its forms, has the power to change everything.
Billie has built the perfect life. Her practice as a doctor in New York City is thriving, and sheโs finally found the right partner in Dean after years spent trying to move on from her high-school sweetheart, Mick. Their young love had been intense and true, but distance and ambition pulled them apart when she left Wisconsin for medical school.
Then one morning, just after accepting Deanโs romantic marriage proposal, Billieโs phone rings. Itโs Mickโcalling for the first time in nearly a decade. His news is urgent, and in a moment, everything changes.
As Billie boards a plane back to Wisconsin, the past comes rushing inโher friendships from home, the love she shared with Mick, and the choices that shaped them. What awaits her is a reckoning with what sheโs lost, what sheโs built, and what she still wants.
Gripping and deeply moving, Love You More is a story about the plot twists life throws at usโand how love, in all its forms, has the power to change everything.
Of Venom and Vengeance
Author Mikayla Bridge
Genres Teen & Young Adult Sword & Sorcery Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult Epic Fantasy, Summer reads for teens
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Prepare for a deliciously dark standalone, set in the same world as Of Flame and Fury, where star-crossed enemies gamble with their hearts, their empires, and the fate of a lost god.
On an island ruled by pageantry and pain, power comes at an impossible price.
Inna is the perfect heiress to the Pallo crime family: poised, cunning, untouchable. Behind this glamorous facade, she hunts for the sinister truth behind her older sister's death. Despite the cover-up sheโs been led to believe, Inna can feel an enemy lurking in the shadows, or perhaps even hiding in plain sight.
Rylan has sculpted himself into a talented thief. His heart may be guarded, but his purpose is clear: retribution for his family, murdered by Inna's mother. Armed with illusion magic, Rylan plans to steal an ancient riddle from the Pallo vault, one that leads to a sleeping god. Whoever wakes the Serpent King will be granted any wish they desire. Rylan means to claim this power, and with it, Inna's ruin.
But when Inna catches Rylan sneaking past her familyโs security, he proposes a deadly alliance that each desperately needs but neither intends to keep โ even as bitter attraction threatens to unravel into something more.
On an island ruled by pageantry and pain, power comes at an impossible price.
Inna is the perfect heiress to the Pallo crime family: poised, cunning, untouchable. Behind this glamorous facade, she hunts for the sinister truth behind her older sister's death. Despite the cover-up sheโs been led to believe, Inna can feel an enemy lurking in the shadows, or perhaps even hiding in plain sight.
Rylan has sculpted himself into a talented thief. His heart may be guarded, but his purpose is clear: retribution for his family, murdered by Inna's mother. Armed with illusion magic, Rylan plans to steal an ancient riddle from the Pallo vault, one that leads to a sleeping god. Whoever wakes the Serpent King will be granted any wish they desire. Rylan means to claim this power, and with it, Inna's ruin.
But when Inna catches Rylan sneaking past her familyโs security, he proposes a deadly alliance that each desperately needs but neither intends to keep โ even as bitter attraction threatens to unravel into something more.
The Great Wherever
Author Shannon Sanders
Genres Ghost Fiction, Family Life Fiction, Black & African American Literature
Publication Date July 7, 2026
From an award-winning writer, a debut novel thatโs a fresh and dazzling portrait of a family and its history in the American South, from Reconstruction through the present day
At thirty-two, Aubrey Lamb is stumbling into adulthood. A semi-employed gig worker in Washington, DC, she's grieving the recent loss of her father and the end of a relationship that sheโd thought would lead to marriage. When Aubrey learns that she has inherited a shared stake in a sizable Tennessee farm from her father, she simply sees an opportunity to get out of the cityโand the potential to erase a mounting pile of debts.
Upon her arrival in Lanyer County, though, Aubrey meets the relatives with whom she shares ownership of the farm, and discovers the backstory of the land, beginning with her great-grandfather Thomasโone of the first Black landowners in his community, who gave his four children a homestead on which they could flourish.
But the land proves to be a burdensome inheritance. Over the years, it divides the family, turning Thomasโ descendants against each other and drawing the attention of external forces only too eager to wrest the land from Black hands. These struggles come to a head when a catastrophic tragedy befalls the Lambs, splintering the family and echoing down through the decades, with repercussions for Audrey herself.
As Aubrey learns this history from her living relatives, the ghosts of her ancestors interject with their own exasperated, gossipy commentary on the flaws and foibles of relatives living and dead, and stake their own claims on the farm.
Injecting the expansive family sagas of Honorรฉe Fanonne Jeffers and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton with a very modern voice, The Great Wherever is at once grand and intimate; it explores the ways we learn to define ourselves through and against our family, how we carry on after loss, and how the past lives on in all of us.
At thirty-two, Aubrey Lamb is stumbling into adulthood. A semi-employed gig worker in Washington, DC, she's grieving the recent loss of her father and the end of a relationship that sheโd thought would lead to marriage. When Aubrey learns that she has inherited a shared stake in a sizable Tennessee farm from her father, she simply sees an opportunity to get out of the cityโand the potential to erase a mounting pile of debts.
Upon her arrival in Lanyer County, though, Aubrey meets the relatives with whom she shares ownership of the farm, and discovers the backstory of the land, beginning with her great-grandfather Thomasโone of the first Black landowners in his community, who gave his four children a homestead on which they could flourish.
But the land proves to be a burdensome inheritance. Over the years, it divides the family, turning Thomasโ descendants against each other and drawing the attention of external forces only too eager to wrest the land from Black hands. These struggles come to a head when a catastrophic tragedy befalls the Lambs, splintering the family and echoing down through the decades, with repercussions for Audrey herself.
As Aubrey learns this history from her living relatives, the ghosts of her ancestors interject with their own exasperated, gossipy commentary on the flaws and foibles of relatives living and dead, and stake their own claims on the farm.
Injecting the expansive family sagas of Honorรฉe Fanonne Jeffers and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton with a very modern voice, The Great Wherever is at once grand and intimate; it explores the ways we learn to define ourselves through and against our family, how we carry on after loss, and how the past lives on in all of us.
Augusta Pine Does Not Exist
Author Emily Lloyd-Jones
Genres Teen & Young Adult Literature & Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Science Fiction, Summer reads for teens
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Combining the suspense of a thriller, the intrigue of spy fiction, and the emotional resonance of a confessional narrative, this is gripping, wholly original novel about a teen secret operative who must outwit a band of murderous cyberterrorists.
I was fifteen when I became a murderer.
After a hack gone tragically wrong, a teen girl is given an ultimatum: accept a harsh prison sentence or leave her old life behind and use her talents in the service of a shady government agency.
Three years later, the newly-named Augusta Pine has become a skilled wraith, one of the Identity Security Divisionโs secret operatives. She has no home, no family, and her only friends are her coolly professional handler and a snarky AI spybot. So when she is sent to Portland for an assignment, she seizes the chance to catch a glimpse of her beloved grandmother and rents the apartment next door.
What begins as nostalgic stalking turns into a fight for survival when a group of cyberterrorists hacks the building and imprisons the residents. Augusta doesnโt know exactly what they want, but she does know they are ready to murder for it. With her quick wits, tech savvy โ and help from an intriguing fellow hostage โ Augusta must race against the clock to stay one step ahead of the killers.
Unfolding through a suspenseful narrative interspersed with case-file excerpts, this is a pulse-pounding novel about identity, connection, and justice.
I was fifteen when I became a murderer.
After a hack gone tragically wrong, a teen girl is given an ultimatum: accept a harsh prison sentence or leave her old life behind and use her talents in the service of a shady government agency.
Three years later, the newly-named Augusta Pine has become a skilled wraith, one of the Identity Security Divisionโs secret operatives. She has no home, no family, and her only friends are her coolly professional handler and a snarky AI spybot. So when she is sent to Portland for an assignment, she seizes the chance to catch a glimpse of her beloved grandmother and rents the apartment next door.
What begins as nostalgic stalking turns into a fight for survival when a group of cyberterrorists hacks the building and imprisons the residents. Augusta doesnโt know exactly what they want, but she does know they are ready to murder for it. With her quick wits, tech savvy โ and help from an intriguing fellow hostage โ Augusta must race against the clock to stay one step ahead of the killers.
Unfolding through a suspenseful narrative interspersed with case-file excerpts, this is a pulse-pounding novel about identity, connection, and justice.
Fabulous Bodies
Author Chuck Tingle
Genres LGBTQ+ Fantasy Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Horror Occult & Supernatural, LGBTQ+ Fantasy
Publication Date July 7, 2026
From Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays, comes Fabulous Bodies, a supernatural joyride where Drive meets Beetlejuice.
Fashion influencer by day and grave-robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaelsโa flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer iconโunexpectedly dies. All Poppy has to do is retrieve Eddieโs body from the medical examinerโs office, but what starts as a routine delivery quickly goes off course when Eddie wakes up.
Poppy must fight for her life in a blood-soaked night of carnage and fabulous entertainment all across Palm Springs.
Also by Chuck
Lucky Day
Bury Your Gays
Camp Damascus
Straight
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Fashion influencer by day and grave-robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaelsโa flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer iconโunexpectedly dies. All Poppy has to do is retrieve Eddieโs body from the medical examinerโs office, but what starts as a routine delivery quickly goes off course when Eddie wakes up.
Poppy must fight for her life in a blood-soaked night of carnage and fabulous entertainment all across Palm Springs.
Also by Chuck
Lucky Day
Bury Your Gays
Camp Damascus
Straight
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Habits of the Sea
Author Shea Ernshaw
Genres Literary Fiction, Time Travel Romances
Publication Date July 7, 2026
The second adult novel from New York Times bestselling author Shea Ernshaw, in which a woman rediscovers the mythical island she stumbled upon as a childโand the man she once met who apparently hasnโt agedโand must choose between the life sheโs built and a love that defies the laws of time and nature.
The night Clay Lockhartโs wife dies, a violent storm tears their homeโand the eight hectares of land beneath itโaway from the Scottish coast, sending it adrift into the Atlantic. Thirty years later, twelve-year-old Ellie Mills discovers the fabled floating island off the coast of Nova Scotia and finds Clay still living in the weatherworn farmhouse perched on its highest hill.
When the island vanishes overnight, Ellie is left questioning whether it ever existed at all. But decades later, now in her thirties, the island resurfacesโand Ellie returns, determined to uncover the truth. What she finds is even Clay hasnโt aged a single day.
Faced with the impossible, Ellie learns that some mysteries arenโt meant to be solvedโand that a life shaped by wonder may hold more promise than one bound by certainty.
Spanning centuries and coastlines, Habits of the Sea is a haunting, romantic journey through time, memory, and the invisible tides that pull us home.
The night Clay Lockhartโs wife dies, a violent storm tears their homeโand the eight hectares of land beneath itโaway from the Scottish coast, sending it adrift into the Atlantic. Thirty years later, twelve-year-old Ellie Mills discovers the fabled floating island off the coast of Nova Scotia and finds Clay still living in the weatherworn farmhouse perched on its highest hill.
When the island vanishes overnight, Ellie is left questioning whether it ever existed at all. But decades later, now in her thirties, the island resurfacesโand Ellie returns, determined to uncover the truth. What she finds is even Clay hasnโt aged a single day.
Faced with the impossible, Ellie learns that some mysteries arenโt meant to be solvedโand that a life shaped by wonder may hold more promise than one bound by certainty.
Spanning centuries and coastlines, Habits of the Sea is a haunting, romantic journey through time, memory, and the invisible tides that pull us home.
Most Ardently Yours
Author Freya Sampson
Genres Women's Literature & Fiction, Romantasy, Romantic Comedy
Publication Date July 7, 2026
From USA Today Bestselling author Freya Sampson comes a swoon-worthy, laugh-out-loud romance inspired by Jane Austen's beloved Pride and Prejudice that begs the question: what if your book boyfriend jumped from the pages of their story and into your life?
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of many romance novels, must be in want of a book boyfriend."
Zoe Knight, a struggling romance writer, has sworn off men for good. At leastโฆthe ones in real life. Once a believer in a happily ever after, she now curbs her loneliness with the help of the best book boyfriends in literature โ and there is no better man than Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy. So when she stumbles into a classic London bookshop and argues with the annoyingly attractive store owner, Nick, who refuses to sell romance novels, she decides to liberate him of a dusty copy of Pride & Prejudice abandoned on a top shelf.
But this is no ordinary book.
After reading from the pages, Zoe finds herself in a remarkable situation: she has accidentally summoned the Mr. Darcy to the real world. Now, she's face-to-face with the man she's loved forever, and he's everything she dreamed he would be. Handsome? Check. Brooding? Check. Talks like he swallowed a thesaurus? Check and check. But even in all his regency perfection, can he ever be as good as in the novel? And if he's here, in her London apartment trying to figure out how to work a shower , what will happen to the literary world he came from? With Nickโthe last man she could ever be prevailed upon to work withโurging her to send the fictional Darcy back to his own story, Zoe will have to decide what she really wants from a happy ending, before it's too late.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of many romance novels, must be in want of a book boyfriend."
Zoe Knight, a struggling romance writer, has sworn off men for good. At leastโฆthe ones in real life. Once a believer in a happily ever after, she now curbs her loneliness with the help of the best book boyfriends in literature โ and there is no better man than Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy. So when she stumbles into a classic London bookshop and argues with the annoyingly attractive store owner, Nick, who refuses to sell romance novels, she decides to liberate him of a dusty copy of Pride & Prejudice abandoned on a top shelf.
But this is no ordinary book.
After reading from the pages, Zoe finds herself in a remarkable situation: she has accidentally summoned the Mr. Darcy to the real world. Now, she's face-to-face with the man she's loved forever, and he's everything she dreamed he would be. Handsome? Check. Brooding? Check. Talks like he swallowed a thesaurus? Check and check. But even in all his regency perfection, can he ever be as good as in the novel? And if he's here, in her London apartment trying to figure out how to work a shower , what will happen to the literary world he came from? With Nickโthe last man she could ever be prevailed upon to work withโurging her to send the fictional Darcy back to his own story, Zoe will have to decide what she really wants from a happy ending, before it's too late.
The MASH Up
Author Laura Marie Meyers
Genres Fiction Satire, Humorous Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Romantic Comedy
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Itโs all fun and games until someone falls in love.
MANSION โข APARTMENT โข SHACK โข HOUSE
Ruby Wynne is a staunch rule-follower who lives by the numbers. So when a surprising breakup โ on her thirty-fifth birthday โ ruins all her well-laid plans, Ruby makes an unexpected wish . . . Only to wake up inside a M.A.S.H. game from seventh grade.
Settled in a Technicolor mansion, driving a tie-dye Jeep, and running a roller-disco restaurant, Ruby is living out her childhood dreams come trueโwith one exception. According to the game, Rubyโs โother halfโ is supposed to be Penn Hayes, her brotherโs annoying, and annoyingly handsome, best friend. But thereโs zero romance between them. Just like in real life, all they share is sarcasm. With no rules to follow and desperate to return to reality, Ruby makes her best guess at an escape plan: win Pennโs heart so the game comes completely true and she can go home.
Itโs unthinkable. On Rubyโs list of dos and donโts, Penn Hayes is a lifelong donโt. But as Ruby navigates the magical world she dreamed up at thirteen, she wonders if, by finally throwing out her rules, she might just find her way home to the life and love she deserves.
MANSION โข APARTMENT โข SHACK โข HOUSE
Ruby Wynne is a staunch rule-follower who lives by the numbers. So when a surprising breakup โ on her thirty-fifth birthday โ ruins all her well-laid plans, Ruby makes an unexpected wish . . . Only to wake up inside a M.A.S.H. game from seventh grade.
Settled in a Technicolor mansion, driving a tie-dye Jeep, and running a roller-disco restaurant, Ruby is living out her childhood dreams come trueโwith one exception. According to the game, Rubyโs โother halfโ is supposed to be Penn Hayes, her brotherโs annoying, and annoyingly handsome, best friend. But thereโs zero romance between them. Just like in real life, all they share is sarcasm. With no rules to follow and desperate to return to reality, Ruby makes her best guess at an escape plan: win Pennโs heart so the game comes completely true and she can go home.
Itโs unthinkable. On Rubyโs list of dos and donโts, Penn Hayes is a lifelong donโt. But as Ruby navigates the magical world she dreamed up at thirteen, she wonders if, by finally throwing out her rules, she might just find her way home to the life and love she deserves.
Rewrite the Stars
Author Lindsay Hameroff
Genres Literature & Fiction, Romantic Comedy
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A sparkling romance between an ex-actress and her contractor, reminding us that itโs never too late to rewrite our destiny.
Semi-retired actress Marissa Morgan has played many parts in her life. But these days, her primary role is mother of two. Since hitting pause on her career, sheโs worked hard to give her kids a normal childhood and shield them from the spotlight. So when her ex-husband announces his high-profile engagement and a media storm ensues, Marissa and her kids flee Los Angeles for a summer at her recently inherited Poconos lake house.
The long-vacant house needs major TLC, so Marissa hires a home renovation company to do repairs. But when the project hits a snag and Marissa finds herself sharing space with the crew, including Jesse, the handsome (and vaguely familiar) foreman, her plans for a drama-free summer hit choppy water.
Jesse doesnโt expect Marissa to remember him; they were just kids when they last played together at the lake. But heโs never forgotten her; heโs spent the last two decades quietly following her career, even as his own dreams fell apart. And now that sheโs stumbled back into his sleepy hometown, Jesseโs predictable life has gotten a lot more complicated.
As the summer days pass, Marissa finds herself centering her own needs for the first time in yearsโand that includes giving into her mounting attraction to Jesse. Soon, she finds herself wondering if their fling could become something more.
After an unexpected career opportunity falls into Marissa's lap, it feels like the stars have finally aligned. But when new complications arise, the pair wonder how theyโll fit into each otherโs future. Can Marissa and Jesse chart a new course together, or is it too late to rewrite the script for a happily ever after?
Semi-retired actress Marissa Morgan has played many parts in her life. But these days, her primary role is mother of two. Since hitting pause on her career, sheโs worked hard to give her kids a normal childhood and shield them from the spotlight. So when her ex-husband announces his high-profile engagement and a media storm ensues, Marissa and her kids flee Los Angeles for a summer at her recently inherited Poconos lake house.
The long-vacant house needs major TLC, so Marissa hires a home renovation company to do repairs. But when the project hits a snag and Marissa finds herself sharing space with the crew, including Jesse, the handsome (and vaguely familiar) foreman, her plans for a drama-free summer hit choppy water.
Jesse doesnโt expect Marissa to remember him; they were just kids when they last played together at the lake. But heโs never forgotten her; heโs spent the last two decades quietly following her career, even as his own dreams fell apart. And now that sheโs stumbled back into his sleepy hometown, Jesseโs predictable life has gotten a lot more complicated.
As the summer days pass, Marissa finds herself centering her own needs for the first time in yearsโand that includes giving into her mounting attraction to Jesse. Soon, she finds herself wondering if their fling could become something more.
After an unexpected career opportunity falls into Marissa's lap, it feels like the stars have finally aligned. But when new complications arise, the pair wonder how theyโll fit into each otherโs future. Can Marissa and Jesse chart a new course together, or is it too late to rewrite the script for a happily ever after?
Love Wells Kept
Author Bailey Hannah
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Western & Frontier Romance, Romantic Comedy
Publication Date July 7, 2026
After an accident erases years of his memory, a man returns to his family's ranch in hopes of piecing back together the life and love he thought he had lost forever in this spicy romance from the author of Alive and Wells.
____________________________
He's forgotten their love story. She'll help him write a new one.
Jackson and Kate have been happily married for over ten years and live a beautifully chaotic life raising two young children on Wells Ranch. But when Jackson sustains a severe head injury that sends him into a coma, years of his memory are gone by the time he wakes. Doctors are confident it will return with time, but Jackson feels like a stranger in his own life. How can he have a wife and children but not know them?
Kate tries to remain strong for her family, but she secretly mourns the loss of the man she knew and fears he may never return. She leans on her Wells Ranch family, who she needs now more than ever. It's scary and difficult, but she won't give up on Jackson and their love, no matter how long it takes.
Despite early struggles, Kate and Jackson share tender moments that stir something in Jackson, even though he doesn't fully understand it. As more time passes, bits and pieces of Jackson's memories return, and he starts slowly rediscovering his instincts as a husband and dad. And though Jackson and Kate's love story may need a rewrite, they'll come to discover this new chapter might just be stronger than all the ones that came before.
____________________________
He's forgotten their love story. She'll help him write a new one.
Jackson and Kate have been happily married for over ten years and live a beautifully chaotic life raising two young children on Wells Ranch. But when Jackson sustains a severe head injury that sends him into a coma, years of his memory are gone by the time he wakes. Doctors are confident it will return with time, but Jackson feels like a stranger in his own life. How can he have a wife and children but not know them?
Kate tries to remain strong for her family, but she secretly mourns the loss of the man she knew and fears he may never return. She leans on her Wells Ranch family, who she needs now more than ever. It's scary and difficult, but she won't give up on Jackson and their love, no matter how long it takes.
Despite early struggles, Kate and Jackson share tender moments that stir something in Jackson, even though he doesn't fully understand it. As more time passes, bits and pieces of Jackson's memories return, and he starts slowly rediscovering his instincts as a husband and dad. And though Jackson and Kate's love story may need a rewrite, they'll come to discover this new chapter might just be stronger than all the ones that came before.
Tsubaki Stationery Store
Author Ito Ogawa
Genres Family Life Fiction, Small Town & Rural Fiction, Literary Fiction, Sociology
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A spellbinding and heartwarming Japanese bestseller about a young woman who inherits a stationery store from her late grandmother and becomes the trusted scribe of the town.
You always told me that writing is life itself.
After many years abroad, Hatoko reluctantly returns to Kamakura to take over the stationery store left to her by her late grandmother. As the custodian of the store, she also inherits the profession of public scribe, a role Hatoko trained for as a child under the guidance of her strict grandmother.
As the locals seek out Hatoko's help, she takes on all manner of writing letters of greeting, condolence, farewell, love, and more on behalf of those who come to her. A local community forms around Hatoko and the store, and when the secrets of her late grandmother begin to unravel, Hatoko learns that the role of the scribe requires much more than putting ink to paper.
Set to the rhythm of the four seasons and the Japanese rituals and festivities that come with them, Tsubaki Stationery Store is a charming story about the importance of community and the reconciliatory power of the written word.
You always told me that writing is life itself.
After many years abroad, Hatoko reluctantly returns to Kamakura to take over the stationery store left to her by her late grandmother. As the custodian of the store, she also inherits the profession of public scribe, a role Hatoko trained for as a child under the guidance of her strict grandmother.
As the locals seek out Hatoko's help, she takes on all manner of writing letters of greeting, condolence, farewell, love, and more on behalf of those who come to her. A local community forms around Hatoko and the store, and when the secrets of her late grandmother begin to unravel, Hatoko learns that the role of the scribe requires much more than putting ink to paper.
Set to the rhythm of the four seasons and the Japanese rituals and festivities that come with them, Tsubaki Stationery Store is a charming story about the importance of community and the reconciliatory power of the written word.
Metamorphosis: A Grove Hollow Novel
Hardcover Release
Author Shelby Nicole
Genres Teen & Young Adult Literature & Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Paranormal & Urban Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult Fantasy Romance, Teen & Young Adult Paranormal Romance
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Stranger Things meets Twilight in this stunning gothic paranormal romance! A teen girl is swept into an opulent world of love, lies, and ghosts after she moves in with the wealthy, mysterious family she never knew she had. Book One in the Grove Hollow series, this is an 80s dark academia-tinged tale full of fated love, a cursed amulet, and twisted family secrets.
The year is 1985, and eighteen-year-old Jade Whitney is about to discover her family holds a dark secret that will change her life forever. Sent to live with her Great Aunt Ruth, Jade moves into Blythe House, her family's sprawling, gilded mansionโbut picturesque Grove Hollow, New York, is anything but welcoming.
At Jadeโs new private school sheโs shunned by everyone except for the Misfits, the schoolโs edgy outcasts, who spend their weekends exploring abandoned haunted mansions and listening to the Cure. But Jadeโs eye keeps wandering back to Brad, the charming, handsome rugby captain, who might just be the only other kid at school to welcome her.
Everything changes when Jade finds a cursed locket in a derelict estate. The locket is connected to a Victorian ghost named William, who desperately needs Jadeโs help, and who Jade feels an undeniable attraction to. And the closer they grow, the more urgent it becomes for Jade to decide where her heart truly liesโand if sheโs really willing to let Will go.
The year is 1985, and eighteen-year-old Jade Whitney is about to discover her family holds a dark secret that will change her life forever. Sent to live with her Great Aunt Ruth, Jade moves into Blythe House, her family's sprawling, gilded mansionโbut picturesque Grove Hollow, New York, is anything but welcoming.
At Jadeโs new private school sheโs shunned by everyone except for the Misfits, the schoolโs edgy outcasts, who spend their weekends exploring abandoned haunted mansions and listening to the Cure. But Jadeโs eye keeps wandering back to Brad, the charming, handsome rugby captain, who might just be the only other kid at school to welcome her.
Everything changes when Jade finds a cursed locket in a derelict estate. The locket is connected to a Victorian ghost named William, who desperately needs Jadeโs help, and who Jade feels an undeniable attraction to. And the closer they grow, the more urgent it becomes for Jade to decide where her heart truly liesโand if sheโs really willing to let Will go.
Perfect Life
Author Kendall Shores
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction, Suspense Thrillers, Murder Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Following a shocking murder, a woman must face the secrets from her pastโand a husband she thought she knewโin this twisty, sizzling novel from the bestselling authors of Happy Wife.
Este Walker didnโt move to Winter Park, Florida, to make friends. Five years ago, she ghosted her life in California to reinvent herself among the lakefront estates of Floridaโs elite. With a cocktail in hand, more money than she could ever spend, and secrets she intends to keep buried, sheโs finally contentโor, you know, close enough. Who cares if her seclusion and secrets have left her with a small social circle? Her husband Beau and her best friend Nora are the only company she needs.
But Esteโs secrets are catching up to her. Last year, when Nora gained national attention as a suspect in her husband's disappearance, Esteโs picture was flashed onscreen. Suddenly the past she had hoped to keep buried is closing in on herโand Beau might be keeping secrets of his own. And then a mysterious death turns Winter Park upside down.
Thrust into a high-stakes murder investigation, Este must unravel a web of lies and secrets to answer the question: What exactly happened in California, and has it come back to haunt her? More importantly: How is she going to get herself out of this mess?
Este Walker didnโt move to Winter Park, Florida, to make friends. Five years ago, she ghosted her life in California to reinvent herself among the lakefront estates of Floridaโs elite. With a cocktail in hand, more money than she could ever spend, and secrets she intends to keep buried, sheโs finally contentโor, you know, close enough. Who cares if her seclusion and secrets have left her with a small social circle? Her husband Beau and her best friend Nora are the only company she needs.
But Esteโs secrets are catching up to her. Last year, when Nora gained national attention as a suspect in her husband's disappearance, Esteโs picture was flashed onscreen. Suddenly the past she had hoped to keep buried is closing in on herโand Beau might be keeping secrets of his own. And then a mysterious death turns Winter Park upside down.
Thrust into a high-stakes murder investigation, Este must unravel a web of lies and secrets to answer the question: What exactly happened in California, and has it come back to haunt her? More importantly: How is she going to get herself out of this mess?
Summer of Love
Author Kerri Maher
Genres 20th Century Historical Fiction, Friendship Fiction, Women's Divorce Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
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, shaping the legacy of their familyโs Napa Valley winery forever, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller .
1967: Concerts, hippies, and war protests define the counter-culture revolution that flourishes during the Summer of Love in San Francisco. No one is more into the messages of love and peace than Winnie Hartley, who has just graduated from UC Berkeley determined to make it as a poet. When she reconnects with her high school boyfriend Lincoln Salyer, it feels like her life is finally everything she wants it to be. Meanwhile, her sister Miranda throws herself into running the family business, Hartley Vineyard, determined to make California wine that rivals French. Little do the sisters know that the choices they make and the secrets they keep will set their lives down radically different paths.
2015: Dawn Hartley has a secret that she canโt share with her mother Miranda, who has long been her closest confidant. How can she possibly admit that she has a drinking problem to her famous vintner mother? It feels like a betrayal of her own heritage. When an assignment for work requires her to research the wildly popular Vineland novels by a famously anonymous writer, she embarks on a quest that will shake her to the core, and just might set her life on the right path at last.
1967: Concerts, hippies, and war protests define the counter-culture revolution that flourishes during the Summer of Love in San Francisco. No one is more into the messages of love and peace than Winnie Hartley, who has just graduated from UC Berkeley determined to make it as a poet. When she reconnects with her high school boyfriend Lincoln Salyer, it feels like her life is finally everything she wants it to be. Meanwhile, her sister Miranda throws herself into running the family business, Hartley Vineyard, determined to make California wine that rivals French. Little do the sisters know that the choices they make and the secrets they keep will set their lives down radically different paths.
2015: Dawn Hartley has a secret that she canโt share with her mother Miranda, who has long been her closest confidant. How can she possibly admit that she has a drinking problem to her famous vintner mother? It feels like a betrayal of her own heritage. When an assignment for work requires her to research the wildly popular Vineland novels by a famously anonymous writer, she embarks on a quest that will shake her to the core, and just might set her life on the right path at last.
Ungodly Rich
Author Katharine McGee
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction, Contemporary Women Fiction, Folklore
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Old gods, new rules. New York Times bestselling author Katharine McGee puts a modern-day twist on ancient mythology in this bold reimagining of the Greek gods as a family of billionairesโwith all the messy drama that entails.
When Julia Dodds meets Harry Adams, love hits her like a lightning bolt. Heโs adventurous, charismatic, and impossibly handsome. Little does Julia know that her boyfriend has left out a few key details. His name isnโt Harry: itโs Ares, as in the ancient god of war. His mother is Hera, and his father is Zeus.
Soon, Julia is caught up in a world of wealth and privilege as she joins Harry at a lavish family reunion. Except these billionaires donโt just have wealthโthey have divine powers. And the moment she steps onto their private island, Julia becomes their latest target.
Itโs no secret that the Gods love to meddle, and when it comes to Julia, Harryโs immortal relatives each have their own agenda. Harryโs mother, Hera, will do anything to protect her own. Harryโs sister-in-law Aphrodite has a deeply personal reason for hating Julia, and tasks Hermes, keeper of family secrets, with digging up dirt. Meanwhile, Hades has spent years trying to upend Zeusโs powerโand now he finally sees an opportunity to strike.
Set against a globe-trotting backdrop that sweeps from New Yorkโs exclusive private clubs to the wilds of New Zealand to the gated estates of the British aristocracy, Ungodly Rich is a story of love, revenge, secrets, sex, and the most ancient motivator of all: family.
When Julia Dodds meets Harry Adams, love hits her like a lightning bolt. Heโs adventurous, charismatic, and impossibly handsome. Little does Julia know that her boyfriend has left out a few key details. His name isnโt Harry: itโs Ares, as in the ancient god of war. His mother is Hera, and his father is Zeus.
Soon, Julia is caught up in a world of wealth and privilege as she joins Harry at a lavish family reunion. Except these billionaires donโt just have wealthโthey have divine powers. And the moment she steps onto their private island, Julia becomes their latest target.
Itโs no secret that the Gods love to meddle, and when it comes to Julia, Harryโs immortal relatives each have their own agenda. Harryโs mother, Hera, will do anything to protect her own. Harryโs sister-in-law Aphrodite has a deeply personal reason for hating Julia, and tasks Hermes, keeper of family secrets, with digging up dirt. Meanwhile, Hades has spent years trying to upend Zeusโs powerโand now he finally sees an opportunity to strike.
Set against a globe-trotting backdrop that sweeps from New Yorkโs exclusive private clubs to the wilds of New Zealand to the gated estates of the British aristocracy, Ungodly Rich is a story of love, revenge, secrets, sex, and the most ancient motivator of all: family.
Crash Into Me
Author Robinne Lee
Genres Family Life Fiction, Women's Divorce Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
โGlittery and sensuous.โ โTIME magazine (A Most Anticipated Book of 2026)
In a keenly observed departure from her blockbuster debut, The Idea of You, Robinne Lee delivers a completely new, fearlessly intimate novel of messy, complicated relationshipsโone that delves into desire, race, power, and the shifting terrain of identity and selfhood.
What happens when a fantasy from your past collides with your reality?
In a complicated marriage and raising her children in Los Angelesโs toxic playground of privilege and power, Cecilia Chen is struggling to find her real self among the many labels assigned to her: wife, mother, artist, daughter.
Until the moment she crashesโliterallyโinto the Anouk Ferrand. Itโs been twenty years since she last encountered the enigmatic model on a photo shoot in Mexico.
And itโs this chance second meeting that will upend Ceciliaโs life.
Seeing Anouk again forces Cecilia to revisit their brief time together and question where she truly fits in. Can the renewed intensity of her explosive physical and emotional entanglement with Anouk finally give her an answer?
Heartbreakingly real and emotionally layered, Crash Into Me illuminates the unexpected detours that change our lives forever.
In a keenly observed departure from her blockbuster debut, The Idea of You, Robinne Lee delivers a completely new, fearlessly intimate novel of messy, complicated relationshipsโone that delves into desire, race, power, and the shifting terrain of identity and selfhood.
What happens when a fantasy from your past collides with your reality?
In a complicated marriage and raising her children in Los Angelesโs toxic playground of privilege and power, Cecilia Chen is struggling to find her real self among the many labels assigned to her: wife, mother, artist, daughter.
Until the moment she crashesโliterallyโinto the Anouk Ferrand. Itโs been twenty years since she last encountered the enigmatic model on a photo shoot in Mexico.
And itโs this chance second meeting that will upend Ceciliaโs life.
Seeing Anouk again forces Cecilia to revisit their brief time together and question where she truly fits in. Can the renewed intensity of her explosive physical and emotional entanglement with Anouk finally give her an answer?
Heartbreakingly real and emotionally layered, Crash Into Me illuminates the unexpected detours that change our lives forever.
The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts: A Novel
Author Robert Thorogood
Genres Literature & Fiction, Women Sleuths, Cozy Mysteries, Amateur Sleuths
Publication Date July 7, 2026
*Pre-order the brand-new gripping novel in the Marlow Murder Club Mystery series now!* THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB is now a major TV series
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The new cosy crime novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB is now a major TV series.
Someone is killing celebrities in Marlow! When footballer Gary Wise and thriller writer Tony Sexton are found dead, Judith, Suzie, and Becks (AKA The Marlow Murder Club) must untangle a web of blackmail and scandal to find the killer. But with their friend and police contact, DI Malik, suspended from duty, and Judithโs own past catching up with her, The Marlow Murder Club find themselves on their own for the first time ever.
With suspects piling up like tabloid headlines, and someone threatening to expose Judithโs secrets, the pressure is on for The Marlow Murder Club in more ways than one โฆ Can they find the killer and help Judith in time, or will this be the end of The Marlow Murder Club?
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The new cosy crime novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB is now a major TV series.
Someone is killing celebrities in Marlow! When footballer Gary Wise and thriller writer Tony Sexton are found dead, Judith, Suzie, and Becks (AKA The Marlow Murder Club) must untangle a web of blackmail and scandal to find the killer. But with their friend and police contact, DI Malik, suspended from duty, and Judithโs own past catching up with her, The Marlow Murder Club find themselves on their own for the first time ever.
With suspects piling up like tabloid headlines, and someone threatening to expose Judithโs secrets, the pressure is on for The Marlow Murder Club in more ways than one โฆ Can they find the killer and help Judith in time, or will this be the end of The Marlow Murder Club?
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Get Lost
Author Justin Halpern
Genres Humor About Law & Crime, Family Life Fiction, Fiction Satire, Humorous Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
For fans of Carl Hiaasen and Elmore a fast-paced thriller about a young woman who reluctantly teams up with her deadbeat dad to find her missing mom, by the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Sh*t My Dad Says
When Lila Dixon gets a call that her mother has gone missing, she initially brushes it offโMattieโs disappearances are a part of life, like earthquakes in their dusty California hometown. But this time the prime suspect is Lilaโs larger-than-life the one-time baseball star, local hero, and fatal charmer John โDixโ Dixon. Dixโs main accomplishment as a dad was finding new ways to disappoint his daughter, but even Lila knows heโs not behind this. And when they uncover a $250,000 deposit to Mattieโs bank account, and someone slips a threatening note under Lilaโs motel door, they realize Mattie may be in real danger. Now theyโre heading down a trail marked by unsavory Russian thugs, fat-cat farmers, and an unseen enemy whoโs always a step ahead.
With crackling banter and characters that leap off the page, Get Lost is a fast-paced and emotionally layered mystery. Justin Halpern tells a story thatโs by turns hilarious and about fractured families, grudges that last a lifetime, and the unexpected ways we find our way back to the people we thought weโd lost for good.
When Lila Dixon gets a call that her mother has gone missing, she initially brushes it offโMattieโs disappearances are a part of life, like earthquakes in their dusty California hometown. But this time the prime suspect is Lilaโs larger-than-life the one-time baseball star, local hero, and fatal charmer John โDixโ Dixon. Dixโs main accomplishment as a dad was finding new ways to disappoint his daughter, but even Lila knows heโs not behind this. And when they uncover a $250,000 deposit to Mattieโs bank account, and someone slips a threatening note under Lilaโs motel door, they realize Mattie may be in real danger. Now theyโre heading down a trail marked by unsavory Russian thugs, fat-cat farmers, and an unseen enemy whoโs always a step ahead.
With crackling banter and characters that leap off the page, Get Lost is a fast-paced and emotionally layered mystery. Justin Halpern tells a story thatโs by turns hilarious and about fractured families, grudges that last a lifetime, and the unexpected ways we find our way back to the people we thought weโd lost for good.
The Season of Sinking
Author Daphne Woolsoncroft
Genres Parenthood & Children Fiction, Death, Grief & Bereavement Fiction, Women Sleuths
Publication Date July 7, 2026
In the second thriller from a hit true crime podcaster turned novelist, a womanโs unsettling past creeps back into her consciousness as she returns to her hometown and begins to suspect the locals are hiding a terrible secret swirling around her mother's recent death.
When Imogen Bly's mother suddenly passes away, she leaves her Seattle apartment and returns to Lake Blairโthe picturesque Washington town where she grew up. After Imogen and her twin sister Amelia arrive, ready to pack up their mother's home, strange things begin to happen, reminding Imogen of her longโheld feelings of dread surrounding her hometown.
Imogen enlists the help of her first crush, next-door neighbor Rory, to uncover the truth about her mother's death and the traumatic event she experienced as a child. But is the boy who got away really the man with something to hide? Or is the suspicious neighbor in the house across the lake behind it all? When Imogenโs own familyโs tragedies lead her to question the disappearance of a local young woman the previous year, her persistent unease becomes terrifyingly real and suddenly nowhere feels safeโฆ
When Imogen Bly's mother suddenly passes away, she leaves her Seattle apartment and returns to Lake Blairโthe picturesque Washington town where she grew up. After Imogen and her twin sister Amelia arrive, ready to pack up their mother's home, strange things begin to happen, reminding Imogen of her longโheld feelings of dread surrounding her hometown.
Imogen enlists the help of her first crush, next-door neighbor Rory, to uncover the truth about her mother's death and the traumatic event she experienced as a child. But is the boy who got away really the man with something to hide? Or is the suspicious neighbor in the house across the lake behind it all? When Imogenโs own familyโs tragedies lead her to question the disappearance of a local young woman the previous year, her persistent unease becomes terrifyingly real and suddenly nowhere feels safeโฆ
A Neighbor's Guide to Murder
Author Louise Candlish
Genres Humor, Psychological Fiction, Women's Literature & Fiction, Dark Humor
Publication Date July 7, 2026
From internationally bestselling author Louise Candlish, a witty psychological thriller where an older woman's suspicions about her charming new neighbor ignite a deadly spiral in their luxury apartment building
In Columbia Mansions, secrets donโt stay behind closed doors for longโฆ
It's rare for a room to open up in Londonโs storied Columbia Mansions, and lonely Gwen is thrilled when an unexpected new subletter, Pixie, turns out to be a friendly breath of fresh air to its stuffy halls. Their unlikely cross-generational bond soon becomes the bright spot in Gwenโs quiet life.
But Gwen canโt help noticing cracks beneath Pixie's cheerful surfaceโespecially when it comes to her questionable financial arrangement with her live-in landlord, Alec. As suspicions mount, Gwenโs protective instincts go into overdrive, triggering a dangerous chain of events no one is prepared for.
The last thing Columbia Mansions wants is a scandal on its hands...
Let alone a murder.
In Columbia Mansions, secrets donโt stay behind closed doors for longโฆ
It's rare for a room to open up in Londonโs storied Columbia Mansions, and lonely Gwen is thrilled when an unexpected new subletter, Pixie, turns out to be a friendly breath of fresh air to its stuffy halls. Their unlikely cross-generational bond soon becomes the bright spot in Gwenโs quiet life.
But Gwen canโt help noticing cracks beneath Pixie's cheerful surfaceโespecially when it comes to her questionable financial arrangement with her live-in landlord, Alec. As suspicions mount, Gwenโs protective instincts go into overdrive, triggering a dangerous chain of events no one is prepared for.
The last thing Columbia Mansions wants is a scandal on its hands...
Let alone a murder.
Single Girls
Author John Searles
Genres City Life Fiction, Women's Literature & Fiction, Sociology Reference
Publication Date July 7, 2026
An infectious and utterly charming fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brownโs early years at the helm of
Cosmopolitan
, and the intrepid group of women she took under her wing to create one of the most talked about magazines of all time.
In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown, a soft spoken, self-professed โmouseburger,โ is fresh off the runaway success of her book Sex and the Single Girl, a revolutionary call to single women urging them not to rush into marriage on anyoneโs timeline but their own, and, even more radically, to enjoy their sex lives, gloriously free of shame. Upon the bookโs publication, half the country is outraged (her mother, for one, hates the book), and the other half will follow her anywhere. Moved by the thousands of letters arriving at her doorstep from readers desperate for advice, she marches from one Manhattan magazine conglomerate to another, looking for a perch from which to dispense her unconventional wisdom. At her last stop, she finally gets her just three issues to turn around the flailing magazine Cosmopolitan.
Helen quickly assembles a team of smart, savvy single girls up to the task. Soon, their lives become the stuff of magazine cover the gorgeous Book Editorโs doomed romance with a man she didnโt know was marriedโand her bold idea for revenge. The (unofficial!) Sex Editorโs trip to soak in the worldโs first champagne glass hot tub, which takes a very wrong turn. The Entertainment Editorโs clash with Joan Crawford and interview with a Park Avenue call girl that leads to unexpected revelations.
Single Girls begins at the dawn of Helenโs legendary tenure and journeys back to her youth, uncovering the devastations and people who forged her into a controversial legend. It examines how one unsinkable group of women navigated gender roles and workplace power dynamics long before these issues entered the headlines. With dazzling, high-energy prose, it captures not just a movement, but a one of ambition, reinvention, and the intoxicating thrill of being young when a new world was possible for a single girl if only she was fearless enough to reach out and grab it.
In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown, a soft spoken, self-professed โmouseburger,โ is fresh off the runaway success of her book Sex and the Single Girl, a revolutionary call to single women urging them not to rush into marriage on anyoneโs timeline but their own, and, even more radically, to enjoy their sex lives, gloriously free of shame. Upon the bookโs publication, half the country is outraged (her mother, for one, hates the book), and the other half will follow her anywhere. Moved by the thousands of letters arriving at her doorstep from readers desperate for advice, she marches from one Manhattan magazine conglomerate to another, looking for a perch from which to dispense her unconventional wisdom. At her last stop, she finally gets her just three issues to turn around the flailing magazine Cosmopolitan.
Helen quickly assembles a team of smart, savvy single girls up to the task. Soon, their lives become the stuff of magazine cover the gorgeous Book Editorโs doomed romance with a man she didnโt know was marriedโand her bold idea for revenge. The (unofficial!) Sex Editorโs trip to soak in the worldโs first champagne glass hot tub, which takes a very wrong turn. The Entertainment Editorโs clash with Joan Crawford and interview with a Park Avenue call girl that leads to unexpected revelations.
Single Girls begins at the dawn of Helenโs legendary tenure and journeys back to her youth, uncovering the devastations and people who forged her into a controversial legend. It examines how one unsinkable group of women navigated gender roles and workplace power dynamics long before these issues entered the headlines. With dazzling, high-energy prose, it captures not just a movement, but a one of ambition, reinvention, and the intoxicating thrill of being young when a new world was possible for a single girl if only she was fearless enough to reach out and grab it.
Star-Crossed Summer
Author Devon Daniels
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Romantic Comedy
Publication Date July 7, 2026
When a Hollywood starlet is unexpectedly reunited with the costar who broke her heart, their chemistry has her questioning whatโs reel and whatโs real in this heartfelt summer romance about first loves and second chances.
Itโs been ten years since the fateful summer Scarlett Everhart filmed The Lost Letter, the tearjerking romantic drama that catapulted her to worldwide fame and set her on a collision course with Ryder Perry, the movieโs intense, irresistible leading man. The pairโs fiery onscreen chemistry captured audiences' heartsโwhile their whirlwind affair offscreen shattered Scarlettโs into a million pieces. Determined to move on, she made a vow: to focus on her career, leave Ryder in her past, and never, ever look back.
A decade later, Scarlettโs kept that promise. Sheโs become one of Hollywoodโs most bankable leading ladies and is on the cusp of the biggest role of her career. And if sheโs been unlucky in love, at least sheโs managed to put her ill-fated relationship with her former costarโand the publicโs obsession with the pairโs star-crossed romanceโbehind her. That is, until a sudden twist of fate thrusts her and Ryder back together in the seaside South Carolina town where they first fell in love, then fell dramatically apart.
As old sparks reignite, Scarlett is swept back into the love story that once defined her life, forcing her to reckon with the choice that tore them apartโฆand the devastating secret sheโs been keeping since their breakup all those years ago.
Itโs been ten years since the fateful summer Scarlett Everhart filmed The Lost Letter, the tearjerking romantic drama that catapulted her to worldwide fame and set her on a collision course with Ryder Perry, the movieโs intense, irresistible leading man. The pairโs fiery onscreen chemistry captured audiences' heartsโwhile their whirlwind affair offscreen shattered Scarlettโs into a million pieces. Determined to move on, she made a vow: to focus on her career, leave Ryder in her past, and never, ever look back.
A decade later, Scarlettโs kept that promise. Sheโs become one of Hollywoodโs most bankable leading ladies and is on the cusp of the biggest role of her career. And if sheโs been unlucky in love, at least sheโs managed to put her ill-fated relationship with her former costarโand the publicโs obsession with the pairโs star-crossed romanceโbehind her. That is, until a sudden twist of fate thrusts her and Ryder back together in the seaside South Carolina town where they first fell in love, then fell dramatically apart.
As old sparks reignite, Scarlett is swept back into the love story that once defined her life, forcing her to reckon with the choice that tore them apartโฆand the devastating secret sheโs been keeping since their breakup all those years ago.
A New Chapter at Midnight
Author Emily W Andersen
Genres Literature & Fiction, Friends to Lovers Romance, Romantic Fantasy, Cozy Fantasy Fiction
Publication Date July 13, 2026
It's the end of something good and the beginning of something even better in the third installment of the Midnights On the Square series.
London bookshop owner Aurelia has guarded an extraordinary secret for the past three years. Each night at midnight, her store comes alive with characters from novels by Austen, Brontรซ, Dickens, and more. Even with her fiancรฉ, Oliver, now living upstairs, she's managed to avoid raising suspicion.
But when her 14-year-old niece comes to visit, Aurelia underestimates the teenager's knack for unraveling her secret and stumbling into a quandary of her own. And when Oliver discovers what she's been hiding, Aurelia must fight to save her wedding and protect the legacy of the family bookshop.
Filled with all the wit and charm readers have come to expect, A New Chapter at Midnight blends classic literature, sweet romance, and a touch of magic into an enchanting read.
London bookshop owner Aurelia has guarded an extraordinary secret for the past three years. Each night at midnight, her store comes alive with characters from novels by Austen, Brontรซ, Dickens, and more. Even with her fiancรฉ, Oliver, now living upstairs, she's managed to avoid raising suspicion.
But when her 14-year-old niece comes to visit, Aurelia underestimates the teenager's knack for unraveling her secret and stumbling into a quandary of her own. And when Oliver discovers what she's been hiding, Aurelia must fight to save her wedding and protect the legacy of the family bookshop.
Filled with all the wit and charm readers have come to expect, A New Chapter at Midnight blends classic literature, sweet romance, and a touch of magic into an enchanting read.
Wisdom Corner
Author David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Indigenous Fiction, American Literature, Literary Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
From the award-winning author of Winter Counts comes a new thriller about lifeโand deathโon the Rosebud Indian Reservation.
Virgil Wounded Horse is desperately trying to escape his past as a hired vigilante on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. But when a legendary figure from the reservation is murdered, heโs forced to return to the job. Making matters more complicated, threats are coming from the Pine Ridge 705โa street gang from a neighboring reservation who want to expand their reach into Rosebudโand Mitch Gagnon, a shady politician who will stop at nothing to gain more power.
With a heated tribal council election looming, as well as new revelations regarding past injustices at the local Native boarding school, the stakes grow even higher. Will Virgil find the justice heโs seeking before itโs too late?
Virgil Wounded Horse is desperately trying to escape his past as a hired vigilante on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. But when a legendary figure from the reservation is murdered, heโs forced to return to the job. Making matters more complicated, threats are coming from the Pine Ridge 705โa street gang from a neighboring reservation who want to expand their reach into Rosebudโand Mitch Gagnon, a shady politician who will stop at nothing to gain more power.
With a heated tribal council election looming, as well as new revelations regarding past injustices at the local Native boarding school, the stakes grow even higher. Will Virgil find the justice heโs seeking before itโs too late?
Candy Apple Kisses
Author Amy Clipston
Genres Holiday Fiction, Small Town & Rural Fiction, Women's Friendship Fiction, Contemporary Women Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
In a pumpkin spice-drenched best-friends-to-lovers sweet romance, a struggling artist returns to her hometown to save her best friend's orchard. Their fight against a corporate giant ignites an unexpected romance full of heart and small-town charm.
Emily never expected to return to Splendid Lake, the quaint town that held her childhood memories, and certainly not to help save Jake's family orchard. She left years ago with dreams of artistic glory in the city, but when Jake calls for help, she can't say no. As she steps back into the beauty of the lakeside community, Emily feels a tug of inspiration she thought she'd lost. Painting the orchard and its autumnal splendor breathes new life into her art, but it also stirs long-dormant emotions for Jake--feelings she's too scared to name, especially with Claire, his ex, hovering so close. Splendid Lake feels like home again, but Emily wonders if she belongs there--and if Jake sees her as more than just a friend.
For Jake, the orchard is more than just a business; it's a living legacy, a bond with his father and a promise to his family. But with a corporate giant threatening to buy up the market and modernize farming in ways he doesn't agree with, Jake feels the weight of saving it all on his shoulders. He knows he can't do it alone, so calling Emily was a no-brainer. What he didn't expect was how much her presence would change things--not just for the orchard but for his life. Amid the chaotic harvest preparations and Claire's lingering attempts to rekindle their broken relationship, Jake begins to realize that Emily might be more than his partner-in-saving-apples; she might just be the missing piece he's been too afraid to reach for.
As the two pour their hearts into revitalizing the orchard, their friendship deepens into something undeniable--until Claire's dramatic reappearance throws everything into chaos. Emily is left wondering if Jake's ready to leave his past behind, while Jake struggles to prove that this time, it's Emily he wants. With the orchard's future hanging by a thread and tensions mounting, Emily and Jake must overcome old fears, meddling exes, and the pressures of family expectations to find the courage to build something new a home, a partnership, and a love worth fighting for.
Emily never expected to return to Splendid Lake, the quaint town that held her childhood memories, and certainly not to help save Jake's family orchard. She left years ago with dreams of artistic glory in the city, but when Jake calls for help, she can't say no. As she steps back into the beauty of the lakeside community, Emily feels a tug of inspiration she thought she'd lost. Painting the orchard and its autumnal splendor breathes new life into her art, but it also stirs long-dormant emotions for Jake--feelings she's too scared to name, especially with Claire, his ex, hovering so close. Splendid Lake feels like home again, but Emily wonders if she belongs there--and if Jake sees her as more than just a friend.
For Jake, the orchard is more than just a business; it's a living legacy, a bond with his father and a promise to his family. But with a corporate giant threatening to buy up the market and modernize farming in ways he doesn't agree with, Jake feels the weight of saving it all on his shoulders. He knows he can't do it alone, so calling Emily was a no-brainer. What he didn't expect was how much her presence would change things--not just for the orchard but for his life. Amid the chaotic harvest preparations and Claire's lingering attempts to rekindle their broken relationship, Jake begins to realize that Emily might be more than his partner-in-saving-apples; she might just be the missing piece he's been too afraid to reach for.
As the two pour their hearts into revitalizing the orchard, their friendship deepens into something undeniable--until Claire's dramatic reappearance throws everything into chaos. Emily is left wondering if Jake's ready to leave his past behind, while Jake struggles to prove that this time, it's Emily he wants. With the orchard's future hanging by a thread and tensions mounting, Emily and Jake must overcome old fears, meddling exes, and the pressures of family expectations to find the courage to build something new a home, a partnership, and a love worth fighting for.
The Farewitch of Foxe Holler
Author Ellen Pauley Goff
Genres Humor, Genre Literature & Fiction, Witch Romances, Romantasy
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Steel Magnolias meets Practical Magic in this charming contemporary fantasy debut in which a thirty-something kitchen witch whose recipes have the power to heal is recruited to help a reclusive warlock and discovers love on the other side of the next bake.
Self-taught chef and baker Honey Frost is Foxe Hollerโs resident Farewitch. Proud of her familyโs legacy for curing all manner of ailments with the right recipe, Honey is determined to be the Farewitch the Holler can depend on, even if sheโs taken on the role twenty years too early.
Honeyโs normal routine is disrupted when the reclusive Warlock living at the edge of the Holler appears for the first time in decades with a peculiar request: he needs a Farewitch. It seems the Warlock has been struck with a mysterious curse-born illness.
Initially reluctant to get involvedโwarlocks and witches do not get alongโHoney changes her mind when he offers compensations she canโt refuseโ access to his infamous library of old texts and kitchen grimoires. Now Honey is the newest resident of his moody farmhouse, Knight Manor. Which happens to have one gorgeous kitchen. And a lot of secrets. And a Warlock that maybeโฆisnโt so frightful at all. Or old. Or bad looking.
Curing people should a piece of Hummingbird cake for any Farewitch, but the grumpy farmhouse and even grumpier Warlock arenโt keen to help with their own healing. And thatโs not the only trouble. The Widow Witch, century-long scourge of the region, is due to blow into Foxe Holler for her annual visit and this time, she has business with the Warlock.
Self-taught chef and baker Honey Frost is Foxe Hollerโs resident Farewitch. Proud of her familyโs legacy for curing all manner of ailments with the right recipe, Honey is determined to be the Farewitch the Holler can depend on, even if sheโs taken on the role twenty years too early.
Honeyโs normal routine is disrupted when the reclusive Warlock living at the edge of the Holler appears for the first time in decades with a peculiar request: he needs a Farewitch. It seems the Warlock has been struck with a mysterious curse-born illness.
Initially reluctant to get involvedโwarlocks and witches do not get alongโHoney changes her mind when he offers compensations she canโt refuseโ access to his infamous library of old texts and kitchen grimoires. Now Honey is the newest resident of his moody farmhouse, Knight Manor. Which happens to have one gorgeous kitchen. And a lot of secrets. And a Warlock that maybeโฆisnโt so frightful at all. Or old. Or bad looking.
Curing people should a piece of Hummingbird cake for any Farewitch, but the grumpy farmhouse and even grumpier Warlock arenโt keen to help with their own healing. And thatโs not the only trouble. The Widow Witch, century-long scourge of the region, is due to blow into Foxe Holler for her annual visit and this time, she has business with the Warlock.
Man Overboard!
Author Kathleen Rooney
Genres Family Life Fiction, Travel & Vacation Fiction, Dark Humor
Publication Date July 7, 2026
From the nationally bestselling author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, comes a funny and moving novel in which a former college swimmer falls off a cruise ship and must keep treading water as memories and regrets wash over himโperfect for fans of Whereโd You Go, Bernadette; Florence Adler Swims Forever; and The Wedding People.
"Man Overboard! is destined to be the best book of the summer.โ โAdriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The View From Lake Como
Patrick โKickโ Kilpatrick hates the ocean. Has always been terrified of it. And now heโs in a real pickle.
Drifting alone in the sea after falling (or jumping? He canโt remember as the all-inclusive drinks on the cruise he was taking with his extended family were, well, inclusive) Kick must survive. Breath by breath, hour by hour in the lonely sea.
As the waves crash over him, so too do the thoughts and memories of just how he got there. A Thanksgiving cruise with an obnoxious brother-in-law he has to bite his tongue to keep from screaming at. A father who gives the Great Santini a run for his money. And a mother, who already left the family boat, so to speak, a long time ago. His family may be complicated, and the pains of life may seem unbearableโinfuriating enough to leap from the deckโbut maybe the will to survive is stronger.
Man Overboard! is an inventive, slyly hilarious, and inspiring novel about what it means to be alive, stay alive, and what keeps us going no matter how choppy the waves of our journey become. Hold on for dear life!
"Man Overboard! is destined to be the best book of the summer.โ โAdriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The View From Lake Como
Patrick โKickโ Kilpatrick hates the ocean. Has always been terrified of it. And now heโs in a real pickle.
Drifting alone in the sea after falling (or jumping? He canโt remember as the all-inclusive drinks on the cruise he was taking with his extended family were, well, inclusive) Kick must survive. Breath by breath, hour by hour in the lonely sea.
As the waves crash over him, so too do the thoughts and memories of just how he got there. A Thanksgiving cruise with an obnoxious brother-in-law he has to bite his tongue to keep from screaming at. A father who gives the Great Santini a run for his money. And a mother, who already left the family boat, so to speak, a long time ago. His family may be complicated, and the pains of life may seem unbearableโinfuriating enough to leap from the deckโbut maybe the will to survive is stronger.
Man Overboard! is an inventive, slyly hilarious, and inspiring novel about what it means to be alive, stay alive, and what keeps us going no matter how choppy the waves of our journey become. Hold on for dear life!
The Lure of Wolves and Whispers
Author Amanda Connolly
Genres Teen & Young Adult Fantasy Action & Adventure, Teen & Young Adult Siblings Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Sword & Sorcery Fantasy
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A darkly addictive romantasy debut about a girl who sacrifices everything to buy the dangerous magic that could save her sisterโthe first in a trilogy perfect for fans of Powerless and Throne of Glass.
On the mist-shrouded Isle of Eireann, buying magic comes with a price.
But when her beloved older sister is gravely injured, Maeve risks everything to buy the forbidden magic that might save her. In exchange, Maeve trades her life to a ruthless and dangerously alluring rebel leader. Bound to do his bidding, Maeve finds herself thrown into a deadly competition to become the next queen and stand beside a prince rumored to be more brutal than his tyrannical father.
With the isle on the brink of war, trust and survival come at a terrible costโone that will tear Maeveโs world, and her heart, in two.
What would you sacrifice to survive?
On the mist-shrouded Isle of Eireann, buying magic comes with a price.
But when her beloved older sister is gravely injured, Maeve risks everything to buy the forbidden magic that might save her. In exchange, Maeve trades her life to a ruthless and dangerously alluring rebel leader. Bound to do his bidding, Maeve finds herself thrown into a deadly competition to become the next queen and stand beside a prince rumored to be more brutal than his tyrannical father.
With the isle on the brink of war, trust and survival come at a terrible costโone that will tear Maeveโs world, and her heart, in two.
What would you sacrifice to survive?
Where I Should've Been
Author Max Monroe
Genres Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Romantic Comedy, Special Edition Books
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Order now and receive the stunning DELUXE FIRST PRINT RUN while supplies lastโfeaturing gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork. This breathtaking collectible is only available as part of a LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN in the US and Canada only, a must-have for any book lover.
Everyone in the smalltown of Red Bridge, Vermont, knows Tad Hanson, the hot sheep farmer who canโt control his flock. He doesnโt believe in forever, but heโll be the best time youโve ever hadโright now. What they donโt know is why.
Heโs too charming, too good with that addicting smile of his, too committed to keeping his dark past buried, and too stubborn to imagine his life could be any other way.
Until a snowstormโand one beautiful womanโsend his carefully controlled world spinning.
Successful art director Beatrice โBreezyโ Bishop thought she had life figured outโuntil her father gave her the middle finger from the grave and left the family galleries she built to her entitled younger brother. With nothing left in New York but resentment and regret, she temporarily heads to Red Bridge, looking for space to breathe.
Instead, she finds a sexy, flirty, secret fling with Tad, and a rivalry with the editor of Red Bridgeโs newspaper. Itโs chaotic, but itโs the happiest sheโs ever been.
But secrets never stay secrets for long, and when hearts get involvedโand the universe clearly has other plansโwalking away isnโt as easy as they thought.
The House Guest
Author Jennifer Pashley
Genres Literature & Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Suspense Thrillers, Murder Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
An aspiring chef finds she has bitten off more than she can chew when her gig as a private cook to a bestselling author turns deadly in this propulsive, whip-smart suspense novel.
Brett Novak is a young upstart chef, with real, raw talentโif only she could catch a break. After getting dumped by her married girlfriend and losing the perfect job offer, Brett accepts a temporary position as a live-in, personal chef of a reclusive, bestselling author, Carson Smart, who resides in a mansion on a secluded beach in Cape Cod.
Carson immediately seduces her, but things get complicated when Carson's wife, Vera, arrives home from her trip, and the love/hate relationship between the two spouses erupts, leaving Brett caught in the middle. Brett, starved for attention, craves Carson's affection and yet is oddly drawn to Vera's seductive and destructive charms.
As Brett becomes an unwitting pawn and weapon, she questions how far husband and wife will go to wound the other. With nowhere else to turn, she has no choice but to stayโeven as her hold on reality begins to slip. Can she survive her employersโ dark appetites?
Brett Novak is a young upstart chef, with real, raw talentโif only she could catch a break. After getting dumped by her married girlfriend and losing the perfect job offer, Brett accepts a temporary position as a live-in, personal chef of a reclusive, bestselling author, Carson Smart, who resides in a mansion on a secluded beach in Cape Cod.
Carson immediately seduces her, but things get complicated when Carson's wife, Vera, arrives home from her trip, and the love/hate relationship between the two spouses erupts, leaving Brett caught in the middle. Brett, starved for attention, craves Carson's affection and yet is oddly drawn to Vera's seductive and destructive charms.
As Brett becomes an unwitting pawn and weapon, she questions how far husband and wife will go to wound the other. With nowhere else to turn, she has no choice but to stayโeven as her hold on reality begins to slip. Can she survive her employersโ dark appetites?
The Memory Bookshop: A Novel
Author Song Yu-jeong, Shanna Tan
Genres Time Travel Fiction, Death, Grief & Bereavement Fiction, Paranormal Fantasy Books
Publication Date July 7, 2026
THE KOREAN SENSATION
For lovers of The Midnight Library and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop , discover a spellbinding novel about a mysterious bookshop that exists outside of time and space, where the past is only a page awayโฆ
If you're lost or grieving, you'll find The Memory Bookshop. Where the shelves are endless. The books, strangely familiar. And memories are bound in pages.
Jiwonโs life has been slowly disintegrating since her mother died. Until one day, caught by a sudden downpour, she stumbles into a mysterious bookstore. Inside, she is met by Manager K and offered no explanation, only a mysterious hourglass and a rare to travel back to three chapters of her life.
But returning to the past isn't without risk. In exchange, Jiwon must give up time in her future.
As she wanders between the shelves, the bookshop humming with memories and regrets, she must ask can the past truly be rewritten? Or does the real magic lie in the life she's yet to live?
Warm, wise, and full of wonder, The Memory Bookshop is a story about the journey of grief and the power of books to carry us home.
Step inside the bookshopโฆ Available to pre-order now.
For lovers of The Midnight Library and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop , discover a spellbinding novel about a mysterious bookshop that exists outside of time and space, where the past is only a page awayโฆ
If you're lost or grieving, you'll find The Memory Bookshop. Where the shelves are endless. The books, strangely familiar. And memories are bound in pages.
Jiwonโs life has been slowly disintegrating since her mother died. Until one day, caught by a sudden downpour, she stumbles into a mysterious bookstore. Inside, she is met by Manager K and offered no explanation, only a mysterious hourglass and a rare to travel back to three chapters of her life.
But returning to the past isn't without risk. In exchange, Jiwon must give up time in her future.
As she wanders between the shelves, the bookshop humming with memories and regrets, she must ask can the past truly be rewritten? Or does the real magic lie in the life she's yet to live?
Warm, wise, and full of wonder, The Memory Bookshop is a story about the journey of grief and the power of books to carry us home.
Step inside the bookshopโฆ Available to pre-order now.
The Country Road Murders
Author James Patterson
Genres Sports Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Suspense Thrillers, Kidnapping Thrillers
Publication Date July 13, 2026
After a shocking accident, Silas Tuckerโs legendary football career is suddenly over in this action-packed sports thriller powered by loyalty, competition, and family.
Humbled, but never defeated, he returns to his backwoods hometown, Cross Rivers, North Carolina, where his father was murdered.
He goes back to whatโs left of his family and their small, struggling farm. He reunites with his best friend in the worldโTaylor McCarter Webb, who is now married.
Then Silas is pulled into a deadly battle with the Southern Mafia who control drugs, trafficking and murder.
As the suspense crescendos, Silas follows one rule for survival: you donโt ride these country roads alone, or in the dead of night.
The Wedding Week
Author Aisha Saeed
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, American Literature, Mysteries, Suspense Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Long-buried secrets resurface when a woman returns home for her sisterโs lavish resort wedding in the Everglades, where gossiping aunties and Burmese pythons arenโt the only threats, in this suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Matchmaker.
It's been three years since Hena Mirza saw her family. Three years since her fiancรฉ mysteriously vanished on their wedding day. Three years since everyone decided she was to blame.
When her younger sister, Lulu, calls with shocking newsโsheโs getting married in forty-eight hours and their mother is dyingโHenaโs plan is simple: fly home, say goodbye, and leave before she reopens old wounds. But nothing about the trip is simple. This isnโt a one-day event. Itโs an eight-day desi wedding with a guest list that eerily mirrors the one from her own failed nuptials. And though Hena feels unexpected sparks fly with two men in the wedding partyโa childhood friend and a newcomer unfamiliar with her historyโthe remaining guests quickly make it clear: No one is happy sheโs back.
Then Luluโs carefully planned itinerary goes awry. Hena initially dismisses the strange incidents, but as days pass and the sabotage escalates, it becomes clear that someone is determined to destroy the wedding, just as Henaโs was destroyed years ago. To survive this week, sheโll have to uncover the culprit behind these attacks . . . before the past sheโs tried to outrun finally catches up to her.
It's been three years since Hena Mirza saw her family. Three years since her fiancรฉ mysteriously vanished on their wedding day. Three years since everyone decided she was to blame.
When her younger sister, Lulu, calls with shocking newsโsheโs getting married in forty-eight hours and their mother is dyingโHenaโs plan is simple: fly home, say goodbye, and leave before she reopens old wounds. But nothing about the trip is simple. This isnโt a one-day event. Itโs an eight-day desi wedding with a guest list that eerily mirrors the one from her own failed nuptials. And though Hena feels unexpected sparks fly with two men in the wedding partyโa childhood friend and a newcomer unfamiliar with her historyโthe remaining guests quickly make it clear: No one is happy sheโs back.
Then Luluโs carefully planned itinerary goes awry. Hena initially dismisses the strange incidents, but as days pass and the sabotage escalates, it becomes clear that someone is determined to destroy the wedding, just as Henaโs was destroyed years ago. To survive this week, sheโll have to uncover the culprit behind these attacks . . . before the past sheโs tried to outrun finally catches up to her.
Formula Zero
Author Meredith Lanzen
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction Romance, Workplace Romance, Science Fiction Short Stories
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Romantic tension between ex-best friends rockets to new heights in this dazzling sports romance debut set in the fast-paced, interplanetary world of Formula Zero racing.
Madeline Clarke didn't think her life would be all fun and trophies after earning her spot in the solar system's most elite zero-gravity racing circuit, but she definitely thought it'd be better than this. Aside from being a female pilot in a male-dominated sport, her boss is a controlling jerk, her estranged father is a beloved figure from her team's past glory days (and an absolute ass), and she's performing so poorly she risks losing her contract. And worst of all, there's Julian Casperi.
Julian was Clarke's childhood best friend and is a rising star in the league. The dance between them has always been complicated, but when Clarke walked away from her feelings years ago and Julian didnโt stop her they became nothing more than competitorsโuntil Clarke gets into a near-fatal accident on the track and Julian comes to her rescue.
Now back in each otherโs orbits, the tension between them is at an all-time high. But navigating their relationship might be the least of Clarkeโs problems. Things keep going wrong on the track, and she suspects there's something shady at play. If she wants to come out on top, she needs to move fast and make bold choicesโabout her team, her future, and her heart.
Madeline Clarke didn't think her life would be all fun and trophies after earning her spot in the solar system's most elite zero-gravity racing circuit, but she definitely thought it'd be better than this. Aside from being a female pilot in a male-dominated sport, her boss is a controlling jerk, her estranged father is a beloved figure from her team's past glory days (and an absolute ass), and she's performing so poorly she risks losing her contract. And worst of all, there's Julian Casperi.
Julian was Clarke's childhood best friend and is a rising star in the league. The dance between them has always been complicated, but when Clarke walked away from her feelings years ago and Julian didnโt stop her they became nothing more than competitorsโuntil Clarke gets into a near-fatal accident on the track and Julian comes to her rescue.
Now back in each otherโs orbits, the tension between them is at an all-time high. But navigating their relationship might be the least of Clarkeโs problems. Things keep going wrong on the track, and she suspects there's something shady at play. If she wants to come out on top, she needs to move fast and make bold choicesโabout her team, her future, and her heart.
Last Night Was Killer
Author Mary Pauline Lowry
Genres Humor About Law & Crime, Parenthood & Children Fiction, Dark Humor, Humorous Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A suspenseful, bighearted, and laugh-out-loud story of a single mom trying to do it allโincluding solve a murder she may or may not have committedโฆ
When Tilly Turner signed up for an introductory pole-dancing class, she was looking for a distraction. Reeling from her motherโs passing, and with her career as a stand-up comedian in ruins, Tilly has just moved back to the Idaho hometown she was desperate to leave, with her twin daughters in tow.
But Tilly gets more than she bargained for after a night out with her new pole-dancing pals. She wakes to a raging hangover, no memory of the evening before, and a dead body in the trunk of her car.
Who was the dead man? And more importantly, who killed him? Tilly has no alibi and needs answers. But investigating a murder is complicated, especially with an old frenemy circling, childcare plans falling through, and pole-dancing classes to attend. And donโt even mention the sexy ATF agent who sheโs trying (and failing) to keep at armโs length.
As Tilly races to solve the mystery before the police come knocking, she finds herself implicated in a larger plot that includes political subterfuge and arms dealing. But who knowsโmaybe busting a criminal enterprise will be just the shake-up she needs.
Balancing both heart and hilarity, and with a witty take on the struggles of modern motherhood, Last Night Was Killer is a charming introduction to the most unlikelyโand likableโof sleuths.
When Tilly Turner signed up for an introductory pole-dancing class, she was looking for a distraction. Reeling from her motherโs passing, and with her career as a stand-up comedian in ruins, Tilly has just moved back to the Idaho hometown she was desperate to leave, with her twin daughters in tow.
But Tilly gets more than she bargained for after a night out with her new pole-dancing pals. She wakes to a raging hangover, no memory of the evening before, and a dead body in the trunk of her car.
Who was the dead man? And more importantly, who killed him? Tilly has no alibi and needs answers. But investigating a murder is complicated, especially with an old frenemy circling, childcare plans falling through, and pole-dancing classes to attend. And donโt even mention the sexy ATF agent who sheโs trying (and failing) to keep at armโs length.
As Tilly races to solve the mystery before the police come knocking, she finds herself implicated in a larger plot that includes political subterfuge and arms dealing. But who knowsโmaybe busting a criminal enterprise will be just the shake-up she needs.
Balancing both heart and hilarity, and with a witty take on the struggles of modern motherhood, Last Night Was Killer is a charming introduction to the most unlikelyโand likableโof sleuths.
Just for the Season
Author Rachel Griffiths
Genres Comedic Dramas & Plays, Historical Fiction, Historical British & Irish Literature, Regency Romances
Publication Date July 7, 2026
For fans of Lisa Kleypas and Sarah MacLean, Rachel Griffithsโs latest historical romance is a sexy, laugh-out-loud romp thatโs The Bachelorette set in Regency England with shades of Bridgerton.
Lady Charlotte Louisa Aveton knows all of Londonโs rules, and better yet, knows how to break them. But when she takes it too far and stumbles into a serious scandal, she knows only one thing will save herโmarriage, as soon as possible.
With only one summer to pick a husband, Charlotte invites all of Englandโs most eligible bachelors to an extravagant summer retreat at a country manor house. Thereโs a brooding artist, a wickedly handsome Russian prince, and one of the richest men in all of Europe...so why do her eyes keep sliding over to the Duke of Warrick, the only man whoโs ever come close to breaking her heart?
Does Charlotteโs summer of suitors have any room for second chances?
Lady Charlotte Louisa Aveton knows all of Londonโs rules, and better yet, knows how to break them. But when she takes it too far and stumbles into a serious scandal, she knows only one thing will save herโmarriage, as soon as possible.
With only one summer to pick a husband, Charlotte invites all of Englandโs most eligible bachelors to an extravagant summer retreat at a country manor house. Thereโs a brooding artist, a wickedly handsome Russian prince, and one of the richest men in all of Europe...so why do her eyes keep sliding over to the Duke of Warrick, the only man whoโs ever come close to breaking her heart?
Does Charlotteโs summer of suitors have any room for second chances?
Conspiracy
Author Colleen Coble
Genres Animal Fiction, Cozy Animal Mysteries, Amateur Sleuths, Suspense Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Conspiracy, the third book in USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen Coble's Sanctuary series (following Ambush and Prowl), delivers exactly what her fans the ideal blend of suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat with just the right amount of romance. Perfect for fans of Laura Dave, Allison Brennan, and Lynette Eason.
Fifteen years of secrets. Once chance for justice.
Just as wildlife veterinarian Paradise Alden begins to envision a future with Blake Lawson, the ghosts of her past return with a vengeance. The murder of her parents has shadowed her for fifteen years, but a new threat brings the cold case into the terrifying present. A trained leopard--a chilling embodiment of Paradise's deepest fears--is now stalking her.
Haunted by resurfacing memories, Paradise, Blake, and her newfound brother, Drew, follow a trail of clues that leads them into a web of dark family secrets. The deeper they dig, the more shocking the connections become, linking their families to a dangerous conspiracy that someone is still willing to kill to protect.
With every step closer to the truth, the killer becomes more desperate. Paradise, Blake, and Drew must race to expose a murderer who has remained hidden for fifteen years, but this time, they are the ones being stalked. If they can't unmask the killer, the past will destroy both the fragile future Paradise and Blake are trying to build and the family she has finally found with her brother.
A conspiracy of lemurs is a family. But a conspiracy of people can be deadly.
Colleen Coble's Conspiracy combines gripping suspense with slow-burn romance and includes intriguing mysteries from both the past and present, sabotage and danger, second-chance romance, found family, and themes of overcoming pain and how the past doesn't have to define you.
Fifteen years of secrets. Once chance for justice.
Just as wildlife veterinarian Paradise Alden begins to envision a future with Blake Lawson, the ghosts of her past return with a vengeance. The murder of her parents has shadowed her for fifteen years, but a new threat brings the cold case into the terrifying present. A trained leopard--a chilling embodiment of Paradise's deepest fears--is now stalking her.
Haunted by resurfacing memories, Paradise, Blake, and her newfound brother, Drew, follow a trail of clues that leads them into a web of dark family secrets. The deeper they dig, the more shocking the connections become, linking their families to a dangerous conspiracy that someone is still willing to kill to protect.
With every step closer to the truth, the killer becomes more desperate. Paradise, Blake, and Drew must race to expose a murderer who has remained hidden for fifteen years, but this time, they are the ones being stalked. If they can't unmask the killer, the past will destroy both the fragile future Paradise and Blake are trying to build and the family she has finally found with her brother.
A conspiracy of lemurs is a family. But a conspiracy of people can be deadly.
Colleen Coble's Conspiracy combines gripping suspense with slow-burn romance and includes intriguing mysteries from both the past and present, sabotage and danger, second-chance romance, found family, and themes of overcoming pain and how the past doesn't have to define you.
The Brides
Author Charlotte Cross
Genres LGBTQ+ Historical Fiction, LGBTQ+ Horror Fiction, LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction, 20th Century Historical Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Before Dracula, there were The Brides. . .
1903. Sir John Seward, survivor of Count Draculaโs murderous campaign ten years before, takes up a post as a psychiatric doctor at an Oxford public asylum. There, a new patient arrives whose traumatic experiences resurrect horrors John has spent a decade trying to forget.
1884. Mafalda Lowell journeys from London to Budapest to care for her recently widowed aunt Reka. She uncovers the chilling truth about her uncleโs death, and writes to her secret love Lucy North for comfort. Chaperoned by former schoolfriend Eliza and ladyโs maid Alice, Lucy travels across the continent to be with her beloved.
Only Alice, beset by nightmares and terrifying visions, notices the strange black-clad man who seems to follow them wherever they go. When Eliza is struck down with a mysterious wasting illness, her doctor orders her to take the healing waters of Transylvania, a journey with devastating consequences.
There was meant to be four . . .
A dual timeline novel, told through letters, diary entries, psychiatric reports, that places women at the centre of literature's most famous vampire story.
1903. Sir John Seward, survivor of Count Draculaโs murderous campaign ten years before, takes up a post as a psychiatric doctor at an Oxford public asylum. There, a new patient arrives whose traumatic experiences resurrect horrors John has spent a decade trying to forget.
1884. Mafalda Lowell journeys from London to Budapest to care for her recently widowed aunt Reka. She uncovers the chilling truth about her uncleโs death, and writes to her secret love Lucy North for comfort. Chaperoned by former schoolfriend Eliza and ladyโs maid Alice, Lucy travels across the continent to be with her beloved.
Only Alice, beset by nightmares and terrifying visions, notices the strange black-clad man who seems to follow them wherever they go. When Eliza is struck down with a mysterious wasting illness, her doctor orders her to take the healing waters of Transylvania, a journey with devastating consequences.
There was meant to be four . . .
A dual timeline novel, told through letters, diary entries, psychiatric reports, that places women at the centre of literature's most famous vampire story.
A Real Animal
Author Emeline Atwood
Genres Coming of Age Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Women's Friendship Fiction, Sisters Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
In this unforgettable debut, a moment of metaphysical transformation launches a womanโs beautiful and terrifying journey through her twenties, through loneliness and complicated love that takes her from the depths of the Pacific Ocean to the plains of Texas
A Real Animal follows Lucy through the decade dividing college and real adulthood, as she navigates three distinct romantic relationships, reckons with the false promise of family intimacy, and seeks connection with the sublime and natural worlds. Lucy wants her life to be extraordinary. But this desire never seems to graft easily onto the smallness of her world. As a senior in college struggling to quell the destructive effects of a sexual assault, she gets a glimpse of a different plane of existenceโmore wild, physical, animal. She moves away from home, breaks up with her long term boyfriend, stops speaking to her mother, and starts dating an alternative, alternatively violent man.
As she changes cities, friends, and partners, there is a persistent sense of wildness in Lucy and in her world thatโs only ever barely being controlled. The thrum of a nonhuman existential force in the back of her mind urges her to reject the ordinary, but also reminds her that she is alone in the world. She feels it in the depths of the ocean while deep sea diving, in the cold silences on phone calls with her sister and her mom, in the misunderstanding gaze of a man she thought would love her forever.
Guided by Emeline Atwoodโs lightspeed, suspenseful prose, we follow Lucy across states, jobs, relationships, and stages of intimacy with her family, witnessing both moments of horrific pain and quotidian happiness. The years pass by seamlessly, bringing her to the edge of her twenties and back to an altered, barren version of her childhood home, where she must finally come to terms with the fear that being human itself might mean feeling alone, and wild, and unknowable.
A Real Animal follows Lucy through the decade dividing college and real adulthood, as she navigates three distinct romantic relationships, reckons with the false promise of family intimacy, and seeks connection with the sublime and natural worlds. Lucy wants her life to be extraordinary. But this desire never seems to graft easily onto the smallness of her world. As a senior in college struggling to quell the destructive effects of a sexual assault, she gets a glimpse of a different plane of existenceโmore wild, physical, animal. She moves away from home, breaks up with her long term boyfriend, stops speaking to her mother, and starts dating an alternative, alternatively violent man.
As she changes cities, friends, and partners, there is a persistent sense of wildness in Lucy and in her world thatโs only ever barely being controlled. The thrum of a nonhuman existential force in the back of her mind urges her to reject the ordinary, but also reminds her that she is alone in the world. She feels it in the depths of the ocean while deep sea diving, in the cold silences on phone calls with her sister and her mom, in the misunderstanding gaze of a man she thought would love her forever.
Guided by Emeline Atwoodโs lightspeed, suspenseful prose, we follow Lucy across states, jobs, relationships, and stages of intimacy with her family, witnessing both moments of horrific pain and quotidian happiness. The years pass by seamlessly, bringing her to the edge of her twenties and back to an altered, barren version of her childhood home, where she must finally come to terms with the fear that being human itself might mean feeling alone, and wild, and unknowable.
The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance
Author Chiara Bullen
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Romantasy, Sword & Sorcery Fantasy, Paranormal Fantasy Books
Publication Date July 7, 2026
BEHIND EVERY HERO, THERE'S A HISTORIAN
An ambitious young scholar is sent to research the mysteries of an adventurer's inn โ only to uncover a centuries-old secret in this heart-warming and poignant fantasy.
Mount Vengeance is legendary, a monumental climb with a dragon at its peak.
For most, itโs an adventure, or a quest to prove themselves worthy of fame and glory.
For Ainsworth, itโs perfect thesis material.
Ainsworth Gladsly, ambitious young scholar, research fellow and up-and-coming historian is finally ready to make his mark on the world. When his supervisor learns of a rustic inn at the foot of the legendary Mount Vengeance, she send him to be the first to to document the exploits of the bold adventurers who face the perils of the mountain โ and the dragon said to inhabit it.
But the inn is far from the sophisticated city life heโs grown to love, and even as he grudgingly warms to its rustic charm โ and its lovely innkeeper, Honey โ the mystery of the mountain refuses to reveal itself. Worse, Ainsworth canโt find evidence that anyone has ever undertaken the climb โ every adventurer comes to the inn, stays for a single night, and then returns home.
And with Ainsworthโs reputation as an academic on the line, itโs a mystery he canโt allow to remain unsolved โ even if he has to push the adventurers up the mountain himself.
An ambitious young scholar is sent to research the mysteries of an adventurer's inn โ only to uncover a centuries-old secret in this heart-warming and poignant fantasy.
Mount Vengeance is legendary, a monumental climb with a dragon at its peak.
For most, itโs an adventure, or a quest to prove themselves worthy of fame and glory.
For Ainsworth, itโs perfect thesis material.
Ainsworth Gladsly, ambitious young scholar, research fellow and up-and-coming historian is finally ready to make his mark on the world. When his supervisor learns of a rustic inn at the foot of the legendary Mount Vengeance, she send him to be the first to to document the exploits of the bold adventurers who face the perils of the mountain โ and the dragon said to inhabit it.
But the inn is far from the sophisticated city life heโs grown to love, and even as he grudgingly warms to its rustic charm โ and its lovely innkeeper, Honey โ the mystery of the mountain refuses to reveal itself. Worse, Ainsworth canโt find evidence that anyone has ever undertaken the climb โ every adventurer comes to the inn, stays for a single night, and then returns home.
And with Ainsworthโs reputation as an academic on the line, itโs a mystery he canโt allow to remain unsolved โ even if he has to push the adventurers up the mountain himself.
Natural Disaster
Author Lisa Owens
Genres Family Life Fiction, Women's Divorce Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction, Mothers & Children Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
One perfect day. A million catastrophes.
For weeks she has been saying it will be their special day. One last, perfect day with her children before she returns to work after maternity leave. Whatโs the worst that can happen?
Unfolding across 24 hours, Natural Disaster is a propulsive, funny and sharply observed novel about the absurd, frustrating, hilarious, precarious, bittersweet, sometimes astonishing challengeโliteral, existentialโof being a woman, a mother, a wife, a person for one single, entire day.
A high-octane Mrs. Dalloway for our hectic times, Natural Disaster is โa thunderously good novelโthe kind that makes you rock with laughter, shed a genuine tear, and immediately think of which friends youโre going to lend it to first.โ (Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall)
For weeks she has been saying it will be their special day. One last, perfect day with her children before she returns to work after maternity leave. Whatโs the worst that can happen?
Unfolding across 24 hours, Natural Disaster is a propulsive, funny and sharply observed novel about the absurd, frustrating, hilarious, precarious, bittersweet, sometimes astonishing challengeโliteral, existentialโof being a woman, a mother, a wife, a person for one single, entire day.
A high-octane Mrs. Dalloway for our hectic times, Natural Disaster is โa thunderously good novelโthe kind that makes you rock with laughter, shed a genuine tear, and immediately think of which friends youโre going to lend it to first.โ (Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall)
Where Lost Girls Go
Author Kody Keplinger
Genres Lesbian Fiction for Young Adults, Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Emotions & Feelings, Teen & Young Adult Coming of Age Fiction, Summer reads for teens
Publication Date July 7, 2026
From New York Times bestselling author Kody Keplinger comes an addicting read that's The Girls by Emma Cline meets The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson.
There are many reasons why six girls have ended up living with Sol in a cabin deep in the Kentucky woods. But the girls don't talk about what has brought them each here or who they were before. The have become sisters and are grateful to have a place to call home.
Iris knows she owes everything to Sol. He has promised to keep them safe from their pasts. All he asks in return is for their loyalty, which Iris freely gives. With her sisters and Sol as her family, she feels happier than she has in a long time. Until a new girl arrives and everything changes. Sol dubs her Rose and the sisters are quick to welcome her.
Iris is drawn Rose, but as they grow closer, Rose has Iris questioning things about this life in the woods. When Sol notices, he challenges Iris to prove her commitment to their family. Her sisters tell her that she should be willing to do anything for the man who saved her. But with each new ask, Iris realizes there is more to Sol - and her sisters - than she knows, and some secret should stay buried deep.
New York Times bestselling author Kody Keplinger weaves a stunning story about girlhood, power, and desperation that asks just how far we'll go to save ourselves - and those we love.
There are many reasons why six girls have ended up living with Sol in a cabin deep in the Kentucky woods. But the girls don't talk about what has brought them each here or who they were before. The have become sisters and are grateful to have a place to call home.
Iris knows she owes everything to Sol. He has promised to keep them safe from their pasts. All he asks in return is for their loyalty, which Iris freely gives. With her sisters and Sol as her family, she feels happier than she has in a long time. Until a new girl arrives and everything changes. Sol dubs her Rose and the sisters are quick to welcome her.
Iris is drawn Rose, but as they grow closer, Rose has Iris questioning things about this life in the woods. When Sol notices, he challenges Iris to prove her commitment to their family. Her sisters tell her that she should be willing to do anything for the man who saved her. But with each new ask, Iris realizes there is more to Sol - and her sisters - than she knows, and some secret should stay buried deep.
New York Times bestselling author Kody Keplinger weaves a stunning story about girlhood, power, and desperation that asks just how far we'll go to save ourselves - and those we love.
The Man
Author Laura Sims
Genres Psychological Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Suspense Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
From the highly acclaimed author of How Can I Help You, a New York Times Best Thriller of the Year, a singular take on the domestic suspense novel that follows a 1960s housewife turned amateur photographer who begins to fear for her life when she notices the dark silhouette of a man in the background of her self-portraits.
The photos Judith Stanley takes are just for her, a private passion to fill her suburban days. But when she shares them with Paul Sorenson, her new photography instructor, she's unprepared to hear his astonished praise. "Stunning," he calls her photos. "Extraordinary." She has an uncanny eye, he says, and should consider publication. He could help. Except Judith has no interest in sharing her work; in fact, the mere idea of it frightens her.
Still, emboldened by Paulโs encouragement, Judith ventures out beyond her quiet neighborhood to the city in search of increasingly striking images. When she starts to notice the dark shape of a man in the corner of her self-portraits, Judith is certain he's an attacker from her past. She doesn't know why he has returned, but she's sure of his the hoarse sound of his breathing, his hard grip on her elbow. Perhaps it would appease the man if she were to put her camera down and give up her private passion. But she can't; she refuses. Until one night when the man finally emerges from the shadows, and Judithโs story suddenly and irrevocably becomes his own.
Chilling and heart-poundingly propulsive, The Man is a phenomenal and timely novel exploring the inescapable fear of living as a woman, the tantalizing seduction of artistic freedom, and the very real dangers that lurk both inside and outside the confines of the mind. The Man marks Laura Sims as an extraordinary talent at the top of her game; and this, her third novel, is her greatest achievement yet.
The photos Judith Stanley takes are just for her, a private passion to fill her suburban days. But when she shares them with Paul Sorenson, her new photography instructor, she's unprepared to hear his astonished praise. "Stunning," he calls her photos. "Extraordinary." She has an uncanny eye, he says, and should consider publication. He could help. Except Judith has no interest in sharing her work; in fact, the mere idea of it frightens her.
Still, emboldened by Paulโs encouragement, Judith ventures out beyond her quiet neighborhood to the city in search of increasingly striking images. When she starts to notice the dark shape of a man in the corner of her self-portraits, Judith is certain he's an attacker from her past. She doesn't know why he has returned, but she's sure of his the hoarse sound of his breathing, his hard grip on her elbow. Perhaps it would appease the man if she were to put her camera down and give up her private passion. But she can't; she refuses. Until one night when the man finally emerges from the shadows, and Judithโs story suddenly and irrevocably becomes his own.
Chilling and heart-poundingly propulsive, The Man is a phenomenal and timely novel exploring the inescapable fear of living as a woman, the tantalizing seduction of artistic freedom, and the very real dangers that lurk both inside and outside the confines of the mind. The Man marks Laura Sims as an extraordinary talent at the top of her game; and this, her third novel, is her greatest achievement yet.
Good Morning Means I Love You
Author Kendra Allen
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Mothers & Children Fiction, Black & African American Women's Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
The electrifying and intimate first novel from the author of The Collection Plate and Fruit Punch, a searing story of a young Texan woman and the family she makes with two men
โA couple years after Noon and I fall in love, we fall in love with Micahโand a couple years after that, I have both of their babies. We choose, this land and this life. We share, ourselves and our sons. We name them, Morning and Night.โ
In her arresting first novel, Kendra Allen investigates love, partnership, motherhood, pleasure and the pursuit of freedom in one young womanโs defiantly unconventional terms. Rae has just returned to her family after leaving for a stretch and suddenly โ that family being her two male partners and the sons, named Morning and Night, that she has mothered with each of them. In the span of one year, they will experience unfathomable depths of devastationโand joys they could never predict.
Good Morning Means I Love You follows Rae as she makes choices around sex, mothering, and partnership that are as stunning to everyone else as they are natural to herself. With pain and pleasure, she watches as her children learn to walk and give language to the world as her lovers contend with their own ideas of masculinity, personhood, and fatherhood. Along the way, Rae begins to understand the hardest and most beautiful truth: that we have only so much time on earth to make love, to make family, and to make good on the promise of this one, short life.
This is a novel of the self in all its simultaneities and a living portrait of intimacy written in poetic, bold, and sensual prose that shines a light on what it means to redefine expectation.
โA couple years after Noon and I fall in love, we fall in love with Micahโand a couple years after that, I have both of their babies. We choose, this land and this life. We share, ourselves and our sons. We name them, Morning and Night.โ
In her arresting first novel, Kendra Allen investigates love, partnership, motherhood, pleasure and the pursuit of freedom in one young womanโs defiantly unconventional terms. Rae has just returned to her family after leaving for a stretch and suddenly โ that family being her two male partners and the sons, named Morning and Night, that she has mothered with each of them. In the span of one year, they will experience unfathomable depths of devastationโand joys they could never predict.
Good Morning Means I Love You follows Rae as she makes choices around sex, mothering, and partnership that are as stunning to everyone else as they are natural to herself. With pain and pleasure, she watches as her children learn to walk and give language to the world as her lovers contend with their own ideas of masculinity, personhood, and fatherhood. Along the way, Rae begins to understand the hardest and most beautiful truth: that we have only so much time on earth to make love, to make family, and to make good on the promise of this one, short life.
This is a novel of the self in all its simultaneities and a living portrait of intimacy written in poetic, bold, and sensual prose that shines a light on what it means to redefine expectation.
Don't Look Away
Author Daniel Kenitz
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction, Murder Thrillers, Serial Killer Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
From the author of The Perfect Home comes a harrowing domestic crime thriller where a former defense attorney is forced out of retirement to defend her husbandโnow the prime suspect in the serial murder case terrorizing Floridaโs Gulf Coast.
Leslie Woodhouseโs most exciting days should be behind her. In a past life, she was a defense attorney with a reputation for finding loopholes in high-profile cases. Now, sheโs enjoying a modest retirement in Florida in a seaside condo with her mild-mannered husband, Robert. The only things that get her heart rate up now are late-night coffees, playful banter with her beloved older sister, and the the serial killer ravaging Floridaโs Gulf Coast has just made his first mistake. An eight-year-old girl has seen his face and lived.
To Leslie, the murderer is little more than a morbid fascinationโuntil she comes home to flashing police lights. Robert is arrested, accused of being the Gulf Coast Killer. Leslie is convinced of his innocence, and despite warnings not to represent her husband, she starts work on his defense. But as she unravels the facts, she canโt shake the unanswered questions. What was Robertโs DNA doing at the scene of the crime? And if sheโs right to defend Robert, then who is the real Gulf Coast Killer, and why is he framing her husband?
Donโt Look Away is a twisty, compulsively readable thriller that what do we owe one anotherโ and what are the consequences of ignoring the truth?
Leslie Woodhouseโs most exciting days should be behind her. In a past life, she was a defense attorney with a reputation for finding loopholes in high-profile cases. Now, sheโs enjoying a modest retirement in Florida in a seaside condo with her mild-mannered husband, Robert. The only things that get her heart rate up now are late-night coffees, playful banter with her beloved older sister, and the the serial killer ravaging Floridaโs Gulf Coast has just made his first mistake. An eight-year-old girl has seen his face and lived.
To Leslie, the murderer is little more than a morbid fascinationโuntil she comes home to flashing police lights. Robert is arrested, accused of being the Gulf Coast Killer. Leslie is convinced of his innocence, and despite warnings not to represent her husband, she starts work on his defense. But as she unravels the facts, she canโt shake the unanswered questions. What was Robertโs DNA doing at the scene of the crime? And if sheโs right to defend Robert, then who is the real Gulf Coast Killer, and why is he framing her husband?
Donโt Look Away is a twisty, compulsively readable thriller that what do we owe one anotherโ and what are the consequences of ignoring the truth?
Traitors
Author Robert B McCaw
Genres Literature & Fiction, Political Thrillers, Espionage Thrillers, Suspense Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A DOJ counterintelligence lawyer pursues a Russian spy ring embedded at the heart of the American government.
As deputy assistant attorney general for counterintelligence in the DOJโs National Security Division, Robert Cooper has built a storied career distinguished by highโprofile arrests and prosecutions of enemy spies. One morning, heโs approached by a Russian sleeper agent looking to defect. The agent offers Cooper alarming information: Russian operatives have infiltrated the US government at its highest levels, including a mole in the senior ranks of the FBI. Cooperโs investigations lead to the discovery of a clandestine Russian plotโcode named Operation Viperโinvolving deepโcover agents in senior government positions. As Cooper and his team at the DOJ race to uncover the Kremlinโs plans and smoke out the traitors, a coup in Russia brings to power a militant extremist regime seemingly intent on sidelining the US on the world stage while Russia retakes its former Soviet territories. In Robert B. McCawโs fastโpaced novel, highโstakes political intrigue mixes with riveting moments of international espionage.
As deputy assistant attorney general for counterintelligence in the DOJโs National Security Division, Robert Cooper has built a storied career distinguished by highโprofile arrests and prosecutions of enemy spies. One morning, heโs approached by a Russian sleeper agent looking to defect. The agent offers Cooper alarming information: Russian operatives have infiltrated the US government at its highest levels, including a mole in the senior ranks of the FBI. Cooperโs investigations lead to the discovery of a clandestine Russian plotโcode named Operation Viperโinvolving deepโcover agents in senior government positions. As Cooper and his team at the DOJ race to uncover the Kremlinโs plans and smoke out the traitors, a coup in Russia brings to power a militant extremist regime seemingly intent on sidelining the US on the world stage while Russia retakes its former Soviet territories. In Robert B. McCawโs fastโpaced novel, highโstakes political intrigue mixes with riveting moments of international espionage.
Dead Men Don't Play Fetch
Author David Rosenfelt
Genres Animal Fiction, Traditional Detective Mysteries, Cozy Animal Mysteries
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Bestselling author David Rosenfelt returns with Dead Men Don't Play Fetch as Andy Carpenter investigates a wealthy dog lover's unusual death.
Itโs defense lawyer Andy Carpenterโs dream to retire. That goal is once again thwarted when he gets a call from Lou, an old friend who he simply cannot refuse, asking for a favor. Lou runs a rehab center, and when one of his patients, a homeless vet, is charged with first degree murder, he needs Andy's help. And of course, Andy will also be called on to care for the accusedโs dog, but thatโs okay, what's one more dog?
The man that Jason Maddox is accused of stabbing to death is none other than billionaire Paul Vincent, an eccentric businessman and inventor. Bickert dedicated a great portion of his life to philanthropy, with a soft spot for dog-related causes. This led him to befriend Jason, a physicist and war hero, whose life fell apart to the point where he ended up on the streets with his dog, just trying to survive.
But why would Jason possibly have wanted to kill him? Well, for one thing, he was to receive a fortune in Vincent's will. That, coupled with the fact that Jason was at the scene, his fingerprints were on the knife, and Vincent's wallet was in his jacket, made it a slam dunk arrest.
Once again, Andy is enmeshed in a puzzling, twisty case. But in order to reunite a man and his dog, Andy will have to untangle it all.
Itโs defense lawyer Andy Carpenterโs dream to retire. That goal is once again thwarted when he gets a call from Lou, an old friend who he simply cannot refuse, asking for a favor. Lou runs a rehab center, and when one of his patients, a homeless vet, is charged with first degree murder, he needs Andy's help. And of course, Andy will also be called on to care for the accusedโs dog, but thatโs okay, what's one more dog?
The man that Jason Maddox is accused of stabbing to death is none other than billionaire Paul Vincent, an eccentric businessman and inventor. Bickert dedicated a great portion of his life to philanthropy, with a soft spot for dog-related causes. This led him to befriend Jason, a physicist and war hero, whose life fell apart to the point where he ended up on the streets with his dog, just trying to survive.
But why would Jason possibly have wanted to kill him? Well, for one thing, he was to receive a fortune in Vincent's will. That, coupled with the fact that Jason was at the scene, his fingerprints were on the knife, and Vincent's wallet was in his jacket, made it a slam dunk arrest.
Once again, Andy is enmeshed in a puzzling, twisty case. But in order to reunite a man and his dog, Andy will have to untangle it all.
Matcha on Monday
Author Michiko Aoyama
Genres Cultural Heritage Fiction, Coming of Age Fiction, Family Life Fiction, Small Town & Rural Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Discover the beloved early classic from the million-copy bestselling author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY
Across a bridge in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo, a charming little matcha cafรฉ โ open only on Mondays โ offers a beacon of light and healing to all who pass through its doors.
All throughout the week, customers flock to the Marble Cafรฉ thatโs tucked away behind the trees โ except when itโs closed on Mondays, when the Matcha Cafรฉ opens in its place, offering its clientele a warm cup of matcha and restoration to start the busy week ahead.
On this one day of the week, people from all walks of life frequent this cozy haven and experience the joys of human connection. Among them include:
- A singer who has just broken up with his lover
- An unsociable young owner of a tea wholesaler
- A husband who has made his wife angry
- A designer and owner of a lingerie shop
- A Kamishibai artist who doesn't get along with his grandmother
This heart-warming story spans Tokyo and Kyoto over twelve months, bringing together a community of untold unfolding lives โ all starting with a cup of matcha.
โI seem tough, but Iโm waiting for the one who can see right through me. I get a little shaky thinking about this possibility,โ Anna Burke says. After receiving a serious health diagnosis, Anna isnโt going to take it lying down. Instead, she sets out in search of something sweet and solid, an undeniable truth she can hold on to as she runs away from her home in the city, landing in a small town in Vermont.
There, Anna meets Noah and Cyrus Wolfe, a father-and-son duo of dynamiters hired to destroy the worst ice dam the town has faced in years. But when the blast goes wrong, neither father nor son can finish the job, and the only person who might be able to save the town is Anna herself.
The Last Sweet Taste is a story of discovering innocence in a difficult world. As Anna searches for truth and comfort, she finds herself among people whose quiet, humble lives offer the sweetness she has been longing for. A resonant story of resilience, unexpected love, and the small triumphs that arrive when everything seems lost, The Last Sweet Taste, as always, is worth the wait.
There, Anna meets Noah and Cyrus Wolfe, a father-and-son duo of dynamiters hired to destroy the worst ice dam the town has faced in years. But when the blast goes wrong, neither father nor son can finish the job, and the only person who might be able to save the town is Anna herself.
The Last Sweet Taste is a story of discovering innocence in a difficult world. As Anna searches for truth and comfort, she finds herself among people whose quiet, humble lives offer the sweetness she has been longing for. A resonant story of resilience, unexpected love, and the small triumphs that arrive when everything seems lost, The Last Sweet Taste, as always, is worth the wait.
A novel without a hero. Hellscape with an infinity pool.
Raj Ladlani is one of thousands in an unemployable actor. He has reasons to believe he is spectacularly talented (his beloved acting coach Anthony says so), a legend in every way but for the success.
His anonymous life working at Yogurtland, obsessively reading Vanity Fair, and fantasizing about stardom, comes to an end when he answers a job ad detailing a relentless, laughable parade of menial responsibilities for a 'Hollywood Family'. So begins the astonishing decline and fall of Raj Ladlani.
The Simp tells the story of Raj's momentous employment and the destruction that follows in the wake of his time with the with the H Jim, a macho director determined to prove himself as an artist; and Anna, his much younger wife who has ambitions of her own.
And when the job reveals itself to be an absurdist walk through affluent domestic chaos and misguided engagements with identity politics, Raj might be about to lose it - on a very public stage.
Raj Ladlani is one of thousands in an unemployable actor. He has reasons to believe he is spectacularly talented (his beloved acting coach Anthony says so), a legend in every way but for the success.
His anonymous life working at Yogurtland, obsessively reading Vanity Fair, and fantasizing about stardom, comes to an end when he answers a job ad detailing a relentless, laughable parade of menial responsibilities for a 'Hollywood Family'. So begins the astonishing decline and fall of Raj Ladlani.
The Simp tells the story of Raj's momentous employment and the destruction that follows in the wake of his time with the with the H Jim, a macho director determined to prove himself as an artist; and Anna, his much younger wife who has ambitions of her own.
And when the job reveals itself to be an absurdist walk through affluent domestic chaos and misguided engagements with identity politics, Raj might be about to lose it - on a very public stage.
We Will See You Bleed
Author Ron Currie
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Women's Literature & Fiction, Murder Thrillers, Organized Crime Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
"We Will See You Bleed, is a thriller in the best sense. You canโt put the damn thing down, and the story of these down-and-outs fighting the powers that be will stay with you a long time. Solid-gold guarantee." โStephen King
It's late summer 1984, and Babs Dionneโs hometown of Waterville, Maine is on the verge of collapse. A strike at the paper mill has dragged on for a year, pitting neighbor against neighbor, leaving everyone broke and exhausted.
As head of the union local, Babs has presided over Little Canadaโs decline. She's sworn off violence since killing a man when she was a teenager, and has stuck to this vow even as it's become clear that only violence can save their community. When Babsโ best friend Rita returns home after five years away, she is shocked by the state of things. And as the strike comes to a head, Rita notices something the men may be broken, but the women are furious, ready to do whatever necessary to take back Little Canada.
They just need Babs to be the fearless woman who emerged from the woods fifteen years ago, drenched in blood. They need Babs to face what she already that the only way to fix things is to assume control. Completely. Mercilessly.
Poignant, unflinching, and brimming with sharp humor, We Will See You Bleed is a triumphant second installment in this electrifying crime thriller series by award-winning author Ron Currie.
It's late summer 1984, and Babs Dionneโs hometown of Waterville, Maine is on the verge of collapse. A strike at the paper mill has dragged on for a year, pitting neighbor against neighbor, leaving everyone broke and exhausted.
As head of the union local, Babs has presided over Little Canadaโs decline. She's sworn off violence since killing a man when she was a teenager, and has stuck to this vow even as it's become clear that only violence can save their community. When Babsโ best friend Rita returns home after five years away, she is shocked by the state of things. And as the strike comes to a head, Rita notices something the men may be broken, but the women are furious, ready to do whatever necessary to take back Little Canada.
They just need Babs to be the fearless woman who emerged from the woods fifteen years ago, drenched in blood. They need Babs to face what she already that the only way to fix things is to assume control. Completely. Mercilessly.
Poignant, unflinching, and brimming with sharp humor, We Will See You Bleed is a triumphant second installment in this electrifying crime thriller series by award-winning author Ron Currie.
All The Lies We See
Author Christina McDonald
Genres Literature & Fiction, Women Sleuths, Suspense Thrillers, Murder Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Framed for murder. A viral video proves it. The case she abandoned after her daughter died could saveโor destroy her, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Night Olivia Fell.
Detective Jess Lambert is days away from the trial of the woman accused of killing her daughter when she wakes in a seedy hotel room with no memory of how she got there. On her phone is a viral video showing Jess calmly shooting the woman in cold blood.
As the footage spreads and her own department closes in, Jess has no choice but to run. Someone has engineered her downfall, and the only way to survive is to uncover whoโs turning her past into a weapon. Desperate to clear her name, she follows the only lead she hasโan unsolved case she abandoned after her daughter died that now holds the key to who set her up.
But the closer Jess gets to the truth, the more she realizes it may not be enough. Because when people prefer the lie, even reality becomes irrelevant.
Detective Jess Lambert is days away from the trial of the woman accused of killing her daughter when she wakes in a seedy hotel room with no memory of how she got there. On her phone is a viral video showing Jess calmly shooting the woman in cold blood.
As the footage spreads and her own department closes in, Jess has no choice but to run. Someone has engineered her downfall, and the only way to survive is to uncover whoโs turning her past into a weapon. Desperate to clear her name, she follows the only lead she hasโan unsolved case she abandoned after her daughter died that now holds the key to who set her up.
But the closer Jess gets to the truth, the more she realizes it may not be enough. Because when people prefer the lie, even reality becomes irrelevant.
Some People
Author Parini Shroff
Genres Multigenerational Fiction, Women's Divorce Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction, Contemporary Women Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A man on the brink of divorce is forced to care for his injured future-ex-mother-in-law in this powerful, heartfelt novel from the nationally bestselling author of
The Bandit Queens
.
Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughter's soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan Whitlock, playing nurse in her home while she recuperates. And yet, that's exactly the quandry in which she finds herself. Her doctor insists on in-home supervision for seven days, and with her daughter, Kavya, abroad at grad school in India, Nathan proves too much of a do-gooder to let Malti rehabiliate alone. Seven days of Nathan, the man divorcing her daughter for all manner of cultural misunderstanding, emotional walls, simmering hostility...most of them having to do with Kavya's scars from her childhood with Malti.
They want nothing to do with one another. But over the course of the week, as Malti grapples with the shadows of her past and Nathan ponders the wreckage of his marriage, they learn that they are the two people who know Kavya bestโand the ones who have hurt her so deeply that she's left them both entirely.
Rich with emotional depth, Some People paints a nuanced portrait of love, forgiveness, and our timeless quest for understanding and acceptance.
Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughter's soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan Whitlock, playing nurse in her home while she recuperates. And yet, that's exactly the quandry in which she finds herself. Her doctor insists on in-home supervision for seven days, and with her daughter, Kavya, abroad at grad school in India, Nathan proves too much of a do-gooder to let Malti rehabiliate alone. Seven days of Nathan, the man divorcing her daughter for all manner of cultural misunderstanding, emotional walls, simmering hostility...most of them having to do with Kavya's scars from her childhood with Malti.
They want nothing to do with one another. But over the course of the week, as Malti grapples with the shadows of her past and Nathan ponders the wreckage of his marriage, they learn that they are the two people who know Kavya bestโand the ones who have hurt her so deeply that she's left them both entirely.
Rich with emotional depth, Some People paints a nuanced portrait of love, forgiveness, and our timeless quest for understanding and acceptance.
The Prodigal Daughter
Author Isabella Valeri
Genres Literature & Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Kidnapping Thrillers, Domestic Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
The youngest daughter of a secretive dynasty returns from a decade in exile, but will her ancestral home become her prison? The intoxicating follow-up to Isabella Valeriโs Letters from the Dead.
Now twenty-two years old, the only daughter of the sixteenth generation is abruptly recalled from her indolent life abroad to return to the isolated Alpine estate where she spent the first twelve years of her life. So many of her childhood memories have been savaged in her long absence. Her grandfather, the former patriarch of the family, is dead. โThe Chairman,โ her father, now rules the dynasty with a cold and clinical efficiency. Recalling his daughter was no accident. The dynasty has plans for the only โdaughter of the line.โ
She quickly finds herself engaged to an aristocratic playboy whom she does not love. A virtual prisoner and without so much as a sympathetic ear, she must begin to solve the mysteries her grandfather first hinted at; the enigmas of a 350-year-old secret society that she must untangle if she is to enlist those who might help her escape.
Her efforts to co-opt her fatherโs trusted aide seem inspired, but will her growing feelings for this handsome, former mercenary with a mysterious past compromise all her efforts, and can she ever be sure where his true loyalties lie?
Even worse, the shadowy forces intent on destroying her family grow ever bolder. With time running out, she must accept the lifetime of servitude that loyalty demands, or choose a dangerous path that could see her forever branded a traitor and cost those closest to her everything.
Now twenty-two years old, the only daughter of the sixteenth generation is abruptly recalled from her indolent life abroad to return to the isolated Alpine estate where she spent the first twelve years of her life. So many of her childhood memories have been savaged in her long absence. Her grandfather, the former patriarch of the family, is dead. โThe Chairman,โ her father, now rules the dynasty with a cold and clinical efficiency. Recalling his daughter was no accident. The dynasty has plans for the only โdaughter of the line.โ
She quickly finds herself engaged to an aristocratic playboy whom she does not love. A virtual prisoner and without so much as a sympathetic ear, she must begin to solve the mysteries her grandfather first hinted at; the enigmas of a 350-year-old secret society that she must untangle if she is to enlist those who might help her escape.
Her efforts to co-opt her fatherโs trusted aide seem inspired, but will her growing feelings for this handsome, former mercenary with a mysterious past compromise all her efforts, and can she ever be sure where his true loyalties lie?
Even worse, the shadowy forces intent on destroying her family grow ever bolder. With time running out, she must accept the lifetime of servitude that loyalty demands, or choose a dangerous path that could see her forever branded a traitor and cost those closest to her everything.
Perverts
Author Mac (Marisa) Crane
Genres LGBTQ+ Humorous Fiction, LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction, Short Stories Anthologies, Fiction Satire
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A full-frontal confrontation of the ways we perform desire and shameโfrom the downright bizarre to the frighteningly relatableโby the award-winning author of A Sharp Endless Need
An employee at a hunting ground where people pay to act out hate crimes prepares to meet their girlfriendโs parents for the first time. A self-destructive client engages in an affair with their therapist, careening their relationship toward its inevitable breaking point. At a theme park where men pay to ogle women dressed as sirens, a mild-mannered boat attendant gets engaged to the star performer. And in the title story, a pregnant internet sex worker blackmails her clients into attending a disastrous party.
Nothing is off limits for Mac Crane as they rework classic stories of rejection, isolation, and connection to suggest that the so-called pervert, by existing in the margins of society, may be the one who sees the world most clearly. Crane brings their keen eye for the unsavory to seventeen transgressive stories that are as tantalizing and addictive as the charactersโ experiences. A provocative and uproarious collection about pleasure, performance, and pain, Perverts is an exaltation of the awesome depravity of queer modernity.
An employee at a hunting ground where people pay to act out hate crimes prepares to meet their girlfriendโs parents for the first time. A self-destructive client engages in an affair with their therapist, careening their relationship toward its inevitable breaking point. At a theme park where men pay to ogle women dressed as sirens, a mild-mannered boat attendant gets engaged to the star performer. And in the title story, a pregnant internet sex worker blackmails her clients into attending a disastrous party.
Nothing is off limits for Mac Crane as they rework classic stories of rejection, isolation, and connection to suggest that the so-called pervert, by existing in the margins of society, may be the one who sees the world most clearly. Crane brings their keen eye for the unsavory to seventeen transgressive stories that are as tantalizing and addictive as the charactersโ experiences. A provocative and uproarious collection about pleasure, performance, and pain, Perverts is an exaltation of the awesome depravity of queer modernity.
Dangerland!
Author Erin Singer
Genres Comedic Dramas & Plays, Family Life Fiction, Dark Humor, Humorous Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
When Harry Met Sally meets The Hangover in this screwball romantic comedy and big-hearted family drama set in Las Vegas, about a will-they, wonโt-they couple who have spent years trying (and failing) to figure out whether to roll the dice on love.
At the annual Fourth of July barbecue in Alluvianโa once-luxurious gated community in the dusty suburbs of Las VegasโKurt Richter has decided heโs in love with Eugenie Zepp.
Well, heโs been in love with her since he was eight years old. But now heโs in his fifties, divorced twice, with four kids. The entire neighborhood is suing him, and heโs been estranged from Eugenie for a decade. Itโs the perfect time to declare his love.
Eugenie and Kurt were two kids raised in Vegas, always loyal to Vegas, with all its glamor and seediness, its slot machines in pharmacies and desert heat and off-the-strip tiki bars. As they built families and careers and homes, as they lived real life in a place filled with transient visitors and quicksilver hopes and dreams, theyโve made a wreckage of their own lives and the lives of their families while trying to figure out who and what they are to each other.
This summer, Kurtโs adult daughter Brianna comes back to town, determined to uncover the secrets in her family and seek revenge on those who she believes have wronged her. Eugenieโs adult son Austin is back, too, trying to become a professional poker player and heal himself after a bad break-up. Bodybuilder Chad collides with the Richter familyโs long-suffering, beloved nanny Nellie who has decided sheโs finally quitting.
Will this be the right time for Eugenie and Kurt, after everything theyโve been through? In this deliciously, darkly funny, romantic comedy, everyone is looking for love in all the wrong places and gambling on the biggest games in lifeโbut in Dangerland, thereโs always one more chance to win.
At the annual Fourth of July barbecue in Alluvianโa once-luxurious gated community in the dusty suburbs of Las VegasโKurt Richter has decided heโs in love with Eugenie Zepp.
Well, heโs been in love with her since he was eight years old. But now heโs in his fifties, divorced twice, with four kids. The entire neighborhood is suing him, and heโs been estranged from Eugenie for a decade. Itโs the perfect time to declare his love.
Eugenie and Kurt were two kids raised in Vegas, always loyal to Vegas, with all its glamor and seediness, its slot machines in pharmacies and desert heat and off-the-strip tiki bars. As they built families and careers and homes, as they lived real life in a place filled with transient visitors and quicksilver hopes and dreams, theyโve made a wreckage of their own lives and the lives of their families while trying to figure out who and what they are to each other.
This summer, Kurtโs adult daughter Brianna comes back to town, determined to uncover the secrets in her family and seek revenge on those who she believes have wronged her. Eugenieโs adult son Austin is back, too, trying to become a professional poker player and heal himself after a bad break-up. Bodybuilder Chad collides with the Richter familyโs long-suffering, beloved nanny Nellie who has decided sheโs finally quitting.
Will this be the right time for Eugenie and Kurt, after everything theyโve been through? In this deliciously, darkly funny, romantic comedy, everyone is looking for love in all the wrong places and gambling on the biggest games in lifeโbut in Dangerland, thereโs always one more chance to win.
Stay Here (New England School of Ballet)
Author Anna Savas
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Romance, New Adult & College Romance, Rockstar Romance
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A deeply emotional, heart-stirring romance about finding home, healing, and love in unexpected placesโset against the backdrop of elite ballet and the pulse of Bostonโs music scene, and featuring stunning stenciled edges.
Rayne Bellamy came to Boston with one dream: to dance at the New England School of Ballet and honor her mother's memory. After losing her parents, the prestigious academy where her mother once studied feels like the only connection she has left to the life they shared. The fresh start she desperately needs proves harder than expectedโuntil she connects with Easton, the singer who recently covered one of her father's songs.
Easton understands her like no one else in the world. In the house he shares with his band, surrounded by music and creativity, Rayne finds something like home for the first time in months. She feels safe with him, drawn to the way he sees straight through to her heart. The feelings he awakens in her are deeper and more genuine than anything she's ever experienced.
But Rayne is trying not to get distracted by the captivating musician whose band is on the verge of their big breakthrough. As she loses herself in his music, she faces an impossible choice: hold onto the path her mother set for her, or risk everything for a love that feels like coming home.
Kiss, Marry, Kill
Author Cara Tanamachi
Genres Literature & Fiction, Women Sleuths, Amateur Sleuths, Contemporary Romance
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Will she catch feelings โฆ or catch a killer?
True crime podcaster Ella Takeda is a sucker for a good mystery. She has an uncanny knack for pinpointing killers โฆ until she gets it wrong. Turns out that identifying an innocent man as the Canceled Killerโa serial murderer who targets high-profile fraudstersโis cause for immediate backlash.
Now sheโs returned to her small Midwest town, but the Canceled Killer may not be done with her yet. Ella has a terrible suspicion sheโs his next target โฆ and worse, she might be dating him. Could it be Jude, the sexy, cheese-loving nerd her mom is convinced sheโs going to marry? Or Aaron, the hot Chicago detective whoโs the walking embodiment of every Swipe Right fantasy? And finally, thereโs Mateoโa Hollywood stunt double whoโs got allll the right moves.
Trusting guys is hard enough, especially when one wants her dead. Will she be able to unmask the killer before she becomes the next victim?
True crime podcaster Ella Takeda is a sucker for a good mystery. She has an uncanny knack for pinpointing killers โฆ until she gets it wrong. Turns out that identifying an innocent man as the Canceled Killerโa serial murderer who targets high-profile fraudstersโis cause for immediate backlash.
Now sheโs returned to her small Midwest town, but the Canceled Killer may not be done with her yet. Ella has a terrible suspicion sheโs his next target โฆ and worse, she might be dating him. Could it be Jude, the sexy, cheese-loving nerd her mom is convinced sheโs going to marry? Or Aaron, the hot Chicago detective whoโs the walking embodiment of every Swipe Right fantasy? And finally, thereโs Mateoโa Hollywood stunt double whoโs got allll the right moves.
Trusting guys is hard enough, especially when one wants her dead. Will she be able to unmask the killer before she becomes the next victim?
Endless Summer Nights
Author Willow Aster
Genres Small Town & Rural Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction, Contemporary Women Fiction, Contemporary Romance
Publication Date July 9, 2026
A steamy, second-chance, small-town, hockey romance full of heartbreak, heat, and the one he could never quite let go of from USA Today bestselling author Willow Aster.
Running into Lola Donavan wasnโt exactly on my summer agendaโnot after she broke my heart in college. But there she is, at my familyโs resortโฆwith her new boyfriend. And not just any boyfriendโmy hockey rival. Perfect.
Seeing Lola again is a punch to the gut. Sheโs even more beautiful than I remember, and the second our eyes meet, I know my feelings aren't as buried as Iโve pretended. I tell myself it doesnโt matter, that whatever we had is long gone. But one look at her and I know Iโm lying to myself.
Then fate throws us into each otherโs path againโno boyfriend, no dissecting the past, just the two of us and a spark that instantly reignites. One night together proves the chemistry between us never died.
But desire is the easy part. Trust? Not so much.
She walked away once without a word, and it still haunts me. Now that sheโs back in my life, I donโt know which is more dangerousโletting myself fall for her all over again, or bracing for the moment she leaves and breaks me a second time.
Endless Summer Nights is book four in the interconnected, standalone Windy Harbor series.
Running into Lola Donavan wasnโt exactly on my summer agendaโnot after she broke my heart in college. But there she is, at my familyโs resortโฆwith her new boyfriend. And not just any boyfriendโmy hockey rival. Perfect.
Seeing Lola again is a punch to the gut. Sheโs even more beautiful than I remember, and the second our eyes meet, I know my feelings aren't as buried as Iโve pretended. I tell myself it doesnโt matter, that whatever we had is long gone. But one look at her and I know Iโm lying to myself.
Then fate throws us into each otherโs path againโno boyfriend, no dissecting the past, just the two of us and a spark that instantly reignites. One night together proves the chemistry between us never died.
But desire is the easy part. Trust? Not so much.
She walked away once without a word, and it still haunts me. Now that sheโs back in my life, I donโt know which is more dangerousโletting myself fall for her all over again, or bracing for the moment she leaves and breaks me a second time.
Endless Summer Nights is book four in the interconnected, standalone Windy Harbor series.
Break Me
Author Tillie Cole
Genres Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Sports Romance, Workplace Romance
Publication Date July 7, 2026
PRE-ORDER NOW! The sexy, scandalous and heart-stopping romance from global sensation and multi-million copy bestseller, Tillie Cole . . .
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Born and raised a Texas cowgirl, Hallie Oakley is the most skilled showjumper on Team USA. She has just one goal in mind - Olympic gold. To achieve this, she must train with the most prestigious facility in the world, Golden Oaks in the Cotsworlds.
There she meets Chester Knighton, the oldest son in a showjumping dynasty, who has recently inherited Golden Oaks.
Their attraction is instant and mutal but when something devasting happens, it threatens to tear both Golden Oaks and Hallie apart.
Something Chester will not allow to happen.
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Born and raised a Texas cowgirl, Hallie Oakley is the most skilled showjumper on Team USA. She has just one goal in mind - Olympic gold. To achieve this, she must train with the most prestigious facility in the world, Golden Oaks in the Cotsworlds.
There she meets Chester Knighton, the oldest son in a showjumping dynasty, who has recently inherited Golden Oaks.
Their attraction is instant and mutal but when something devasting happens, it threatens to tear both Golden Oaks and Hallie apart.
Something Chester will not allow to happen.
Fun Times at the Bloodbath
Author Jeff Strand
Genres Horror Literature & Fiction, Dark Humor
Publication Date July 7, 2026
โNo author working today comes close to Jeff Strandโs perfect mixture of comedy and terror.โโCemetery Dance
The game you canโt stop playingโฆ even if it kills you.
Fun Times at the Bloodbath may be the most insanely violent video game ever designed. The only thing more addictive than playing is the chaos it unleashes. Currently, only a select few have played the beta version, and itโs to die forโฆ literally.
Players are instantly addicted to the point of death: one man dies of dehydration, a woman brutally murders her husband with a meat cleaver after he unplugs the console, and others violently defend their right to keep playing and harm anyone who gets in the way.
Margoโs brother is one of the gameโs victims, and she is determined to uncover the gameโs creators and prevent anyone else from succumbing to its addictive grasp. As she discovers the sinister plot behind Fun Times at the Bloodbath, Margo tries to warn people before it launches to the general public. But with threats to herself, her family, and anyone who helps her, sheโs right to be scaredโฆ
When Fun Times at the Bloodbath launches nationwide, the United States is plunged into chaos, and the rest of the world is next. As the carnage spreads, Margo and others impacted by the gameโs toxic hold infiltrate the company and shut it down before itโs game over for everyone.
The game you canโt stop playingโฆ even if it kills you.
Fun Times at the Bloodbath may be the most insanely violent video game ever designed. The only thing more addictive than playing is the chaos it unleashes. Currently, only a select few have played the beta version, and itโs to die forโฆ literally.
Players are instantly addicted to the point of death: one man dies of dehydration, a woman brutally murders her husband with a meat cleaver after he unplugs the console, and others violently defend their right to keep playing and harm anyone who gets in the way.
Margoโs brother is one of the gameโs victims, and she is determined to uncover the gameโs creators and prevent anyone else from succumbing to its addictive grasp. As she discovers the sinister plot behind Fun Times at the Bloodbath, Margo tries to warn people before it launches to the general public. But with threats to herself, her family, and anyone who helps her, sheโs right to be scaredโฆ
When Fun Times at the Bloodbath launches nationwide, the United States is plunged into chaos, and the rest of the world is next. As the carnage spreads, Margo and others impacted by the gameโs toxic hold infiltrate the company and shut it down before itโs game over for everyone.
Summer People
Author Sally Blakely
Genres Coming of Age Fiction, Family Life Fiction, Small Town & Rural Fiction, Friendship Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
One week. No drama. And absolutely no dating each other.
After graduating college, five friends make a pact. Every summer, theyโll meet for one week at the same beach house on the California coast to relive the golden days of college. Thereโs just one no dating within the group.
Simple enough, except Everett and Sutton already broke the rule before summer even beganโฆ and couldnโt seem to stop. What started as a one-time fling turned into an annual habit neither of them could quit, until the night everything fell apart.
Five years later, Sutton has no interest in seeing Everett ever again. Until one of their friends, newly divorced and looking for an escape, calls everyone back to the beach house. She expects awkward silences and forced smiles, but nothing could prepare her for Everett--still infuriating, still magnetic, and still capable of unraveling her with a single glance.
As the week stretches on and every re-lived tradition, shared meal and outing bring a flood of sun-soaked memories that feed the spark between her and Everett, Sutton begins to wonder if the promise that broke them apart was worth keeping in the first placeโฆ and if breaking it again will ruin the delicate balance their friend group has finally started to reclaim.
After graduating college, five friends make a pact. Every summer, theyโll meet for one week at the same beach house on the California coast to relive the golden days of college. Thereโs just one no dating within the group.
Simple enough, except Everett and Sutton already broke the rule before summer even beganโฆ and couldnโt seem to stop. What started as a one-time fling turned into an annual habit neither of them could quit, until the night everything fell apart.
Five years later, Sutton has no interest in seeing Everett ever again. Until one of their friends, newly divorced and looking for an escape, calls everyone back to the beach house. She expects awkward silences and forced smiles, but nothing could prepare her for Everett--still infuriating, still magnetic, and still capable of unraveling her with a single glance.
As the week stretches on and every re-lived tradition, shared meal and outing bring a flood of sun-soaked memories that feed the spark between her and Everett, Sutton begins to wonder if the promise that broke them apart was worth keeping in the first placeโฆ and if breaking it again will ruin the delicate balance their friend group has finally started to reclaim.
You Had Me at Bigfoot
Author Nancy Campbell Allen
Genres Literature & Fiction, Women Sleuths, Cozy Animal Mysteries, Amateur Sleuths
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Rookie journalist Daphne and war photographer Clark investigate a missing maid and rumors of Bigfoot sightingsโuncovering danger, buried lies, and unexpected romance deep in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.
Rookie investigative journalist Daphne Drew is finally on assignmentโthough itโs not exactly the hard-hitting story she imagined. Sent to cover a high-society wedding at an opulent Pacific Northwest lodge, Daphne expects floral arrangements and champagne flutes, not whispered rumors of a missing maid . . . or reports of Bigfoot sightings.
Sheโs not alone. Tagging along is Clark Finklestine-Henry, a decorated war photographer with a haunted pastโand a camera sharp enough to catch more than just candid reception shots. Together with their loyal dogs, Daphne and Clark begin to suspect something much darker is lurking in the forested shadows of the hotel grounds.
As wedding guests arrive and tension simmers beneath the surface, Daphne and Clark uncover a tangled web of lies, legends, and lost fortuneโone that ties the vanished maid, some returning friends, and the infamous DB Cooper together in a mystery thatโs anything but folklore.
Rookie investigative journalist Daphne Drew is finally on assignmentโthough itโs not exactly the hard-hitting story she imagined. Sent to cover a high-society wedding at an opulent Pacific Northwest lodge, Daphne expects floral arrangements and champagne flutes, not whispered rumors of a missing maid . . . or reports of Bigfoot sightings.
Sheโs not alone. Tagging along is Clark Finklestine-Henry, a decorated war photographer with a haunted pastโand a camera sharp enough to catch more than just candid reception shots. Together with their loyal dogs, Daphne and Clark begin to suspect something much darker is lurking in the forested shadows of the hotel grounds.
As wedding guests arrive and tension simmers beneath the surface, Daphne and Clark uncover a tangled web of lies, legends, and lost fortuneโone that ties the vanished maid, some returning friends, and the infamous DB Cooper together in a mystery thatโs anything but folklore.
We Were Forbidden
Author Jacqueline Harpman
Genres Jewish Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction Short Stories, Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
From the author of I Who Have Never Known Men comes a startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, each plumbing the depths of that most necessary human defiance.
Wandering the forest in the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman and her fellow survivors are forbidden from leaving its boundaries or pausing in their march through its strange depths.
As part of her rigid shcooling, a teenage girl is barred from questioning the dogma she is taught to believe โ her punishment for doing so will be as disturbing as it is disproportiante.
Locked in a loveless marriage, a young woman satisfies her husbandโs desires, twice-weekly, as directed. She has not yet thought to pursue her own.
In varying ways, and across varying worlds, each of these women are trapped. Do they have the will to escape?
BRIEF classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
Wandering the forest in the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman and her fellow survivors are forbidden from leaving its boundaries or pausing in their march through its strange depths.
As part of her rigid shcooling, a teenage girl is barred from questioning the dogma she is taught to believe โ her punishment for doing so will be as disturbing as it is disproportiante.
Locked in a loveless marriage, a young woman satisfies her husbandโs desires, twice-weekly, as directed. She has not yet thought to pursue her own.
In varying ways, and across varying worlds, each of these women are trapped. Do they have the will to escape?
BRIEF classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
ICARUS 17
Author Charles Cumming
Genres Literature & Fiction, International Mystery & Crime, Political Thrillers, Espionage Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
The fourth book in Charles Cummingโs gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 โ a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar.A threat to the lives of his wife and daughter forces Lachlan Kite to move his family to safety. Meanwhile Kiteโs former girlfriend, Martha Raine, comes to him with a plea for help. Her 20-year-old son, Max, has vanished without trace in Greece. Can Kite help to find him?
Analysts at Anglo-American intelligence agency BOX 88 discover that Max was in a relationship with an Israeli woman, Jessica Morrow, who has links to the Mossad. Morrow is being hunted by a ruthless criminal gang. Fearing the worst, Kite and Martha set out for Athens in a desperate attempt to locate Max and Jessica.
Analysts at Anglo-American intelligence agency BOX 88 discover that Max was in a relationship with an Israeli woman, Jessica Morrow, who has links to the Mossad. Morrow is being hunted by a ruthless criminal gang. Fearing the worst, Kite and Martha set out for Athens in a desperate attempt to locate Max and Jessica.
The Beauty of the Days Gone by
Author Jason Stone
Genres Westerns, American Literature, Historical Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
An epic Western novel, based on historical events about a legendary cattle rancher and a family torn apart by the violent struggle between Texans and the Comanche and Kiowa Indians
1866. The young Terry brothers are playing idly in the sun-drenched prairie near their home in West Texas when a Kiowa warparty raids their ranch. Their father, former Texas Ranger R. L. Terry, returns home to find his house in flames, his wife mortally wounded, and his two boys hauled away into captivity. As his eldest boy becomes fully Indianized under the tutelage of legendary Comanche chief Quanah Parker, Terry spends years desperately searching for his sons with the help of his good friend, the trailblazing cattle rancher Charles Goodnight.
The narrative moves from those dramatic post-Reconstruction years to the 1920s, where the 90 year-old Goodnight faces the end of his life and reminisces about his days as one of the early cattlemen to blaze the Goodnight-Loving trail and the first to settle permanently in the land known as Comancheria.
Inspired by contemporary journals, testimony, and historical records, The Beauty of the Days Gone By is a cinematic, vivid, and impeccably rendered Western novel in the tradition of Lonesome Dove and Blood Meridian that weaves the tragic captivity narrative with the calamitous clash of cultures that defined the settlement of the American West.
1866. The young Terry brothers are playing idly in the sun-drenched prairie near their home in West Texas when a Kiowa warparty raids their ranch. Their father, former Texas Ranger R. L. Terry, returns home to find his house in flames, his wife mortally wounded, and his two boys hauled away into captivity. As his eldest boy becomes fully Indianized under the tutelage of legendary Comanche chief Quanah Parker, Terry spends years desperately searching for his sons with the help of his good friend, the trailblazing cattle rancher Charles Goodnight.
The narrative moves from those dramatic post-Reconstruction years to the 1920s, where the 90 year-old Goodnight faces the end of his life and reminisces about his days as one of the early cattlemen to blaze the Goodnight-Loving trail and the first to settle permanently in the land known as Comancheria.
Inspired by contemporary journals, testimony, and historical records, The Beauty of the Days Gone By is a cinematic, vivid, and impeccably rendered Western novel in the tradition of Lonesome Dove and Blood Meridian that weaves the tragic captivity narrative with the calamitous clash of cultures that defined the settlement of the American West.
Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Illustrated Novelization
Author Liz Braswell
Genres Fantasy for Children
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Enter the labyrinth in this illustrated novelization of the classic film that will transport you to a world where nothing is what it seems . . .
Welcome to the realm of the Goblin King, where walls are doors, doors will lie to you, up is sometimes down, and left is rarely right. Join Sarah in her hero's quest through the Labyrinth with her band of adventurous new friends as they make their way to the castle beyond the Goblin City in this illustrated movie adaptation the whole family can enjoy. This brand-new edition, adapted by New York Times bestselling author Liz Braswell, brings Jim Hensonโs iconic story to life with vibrant art by Andrea Guardino featuring all the imaginative characters and creatures that call the Labyrinth home.
Welcome to the realm of the Goblin King, where walls are doors, doors will lie to you, up is sometimes down, and left is rarely right. Join Sarah in her hero's quest through the Labyrinth with her band of adventurous new friends as they make their way to the castle beyond the Goblin City in this illustrated movie adaptation the whole family can enjoy. This brand-new edition, adapted by New York Times bestselling author Liz Braswell, brings Jim Hensonโs iconic story to life with vibrant art by Andrea Guardino featuring all the imaginative characters and creatures that call the Labyrinth home.
In Good Faith
Author Kelli Christina
Genres Literature & Fiction, Legal Thrillers, Medical Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
When a high-powered medical recruiter exposes a culture of harassment, fraud, and corruption at one of the nationโs top staffing firms, sheโs forced into a brutal spiral of lawsuits, betrayal, homelessness, and health collapseโonly to rise again with unshakable resolve.
In Good Faith, real-life events and court cases that went unnoticed by the public eye for over a decade are now fictionalized, offering a thrilling ride through the tribulations of professional offices at their highest and lowest moments.
Lowly Creatures
Author Gaspard Koenig
Genres Friendship Fiction, Literary Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
In this award-winning French novel, two friends from contrasting economic backgrounds, one privileged and one working-class, are drawn and eventually divided by their shared passion for earthworms and their mission to save the environmentโyoung men whose parallel destinies illustrate the difficulty of entering adulthood in a world threatened by ecological disaster.
Lowly Creatures follows the twin destinies of two young men, Kevin and Arthur, each who has vowed to dedicate his life to earthworms to save the earth from impending ecological disaster. Their shared passion brings them together at a Paris agri-tech school, then drives them apart as they pursue divergent paths.
Arthur, an anxious, idealistic, man raised in a bourgeois family, moves to rural Normandy with his girlfriend to attempt a Thoreau-like experiment of introducing earthworms to the soil of his grandfatherโs abandoned farm. Kevin, the handsome, free-spirited, pansexual son of farmers from the French countryside, partners with an ambitious business school classmate to create a worm-composting startup. Arthur thinks Kevin has sold out, while Kevin is frustrated by the hopelessness of Arthurโs plan.
Their relationship devolves further when Arthurโs shallow, elitist girlfriend moves back to Paris, where she becomes romantically involved with Kevin. As the menโs lives spiral out of controlโexperiencing fraud, failed experiments, eco-terrorism, and other dark challengesโthey eventually worm their way back into each otherโs world, undeniably changed, yet still committed to each other.
A surprise literary sensation in France, Lowly Creatures is a provocative and philosophical exploration of how idealistic young people navigate the moral dilemma between living according to principle and working within the capitalist system to create change. Brilliantly insightful and inciteful, Gaspard Koenig's award-winning novel digs deep into the contradictions, temptations, and doubts of a generation.
Lowly Creatures follows the twin destinies of two young men, Kevin and Arthur, each who has vowed to dedicate his life to earthworms to save the earth from impending ecological disaster. Their shared passion brings them together at a Paris agri-tech school, then drives them apart as they pursue divergent paths.
Arthur, an anxious, idealistic, man raised in a bourgeois family, moves to rural Normandy with his girlfriend to attempt a Thoreau-like experiment of introducing earthworms to the soil of his grandfatherโs abandoned farm. Kevin, the handsome, free-spirited, pansexual son of farmers from the French countryside, partners with an ambitious business school classmate to create a worm-composting startup. Arthur thinks Kevin has sold out, while Kevin is frustrated by the hopelessness of Arthurโs plan.
Their relationship devolves further when Arthurโs shallow, elitist girlfriend moves back to Paris, where she becomes romantically involved with Kevin. As the menโs lives spiral out of controlโexperiencing fraud, failed experiments, eco-terrorism, and other dark challengesโthey eventually worm their way back into each otherโs world, undeniably changed, yet still committed to each other.
A surprise literary sensation in France, Lowly Creatures is a provocative and philosophical exploration of how idealistic young people navigate the moral dilemma between living according to principle and working within the capitalist system to create change. Brilliantly insightful and inciteful, Gaspard Koenig's award-winning novel digs deep into the contradictions, temptations, and doubts of a generation.
A Life So True
Author Tracie Peterson
Genres American Literature, Christian Historical Romance, Christian Historical Fiction, American Historical Romance
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Evelyn Turner is determined to work at her physician father's side as he opens a hospital for Minneapolis's poor. But when nursing makes her physically ill, she faces an impossible choice between the promises she's made and her own limitations.
Maxwell Garrison helps manage his father's investments through the financial crisis of 1893, with special interest in their sawmill businesses. At a Turner family fundraiser, he is horrified when he overhears his father and other mill owners plotting to commit arson and insurance fraud. When Evie and Max meet at the same fundraiser, a connection sparks between them. As their interests in each other grow, they confide their secrets and agree to guard each other's trust.
Then a suspicious and devastating fire sets Minneapolis ablaze, and Max and Evie fear the worst. Can they build a life together amid the ashes of deception?
Heartfelt romance, steady faith, and the power of redemption collide in acclaimed author Tracie Peterson's newest novel set in 1893 Minnesota.
Maxwell Garrison helps manage his father's investments through the financial crisis of 1893, with special interest in their sawmill businesses. At a Turner family fundraiser, he is horrified when he overhears his father and other mill owners plotting to commit arson and insurance fraud. When Evie and Max meet at the same fundraiser, a connection sparks between them. As their interests in each other grow, they confide their secrets and agree to guard each other's trust.
Then a suspicious and devastating fire sets Minneapolis ablaze, and Max and Evie fear the worst. Can they build a life together amid the ashes of deception?
Heartfelt romance, steady faith, and the power of redemption collide in acclaimed author Tracie Peterson's newest novel set in 1893 Minnesota.
Our Common Thread
Author Kahli Scott
Genres Coming of Age Fiction, Contemporary Women Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary Fantasy
Publication Date July 7, 2026
In this enchanting tale of modern love and timeless romance, a young womanโs extraordinary discovery whisks her away to alternate timelinesโa multitude of possibilities, a singular love story.
Disconnected and listless, Mattie Bridges is fraying at the edges. Working as a wardrobe assistant on a charming Christmas movie in an even more charming small town should be a balm to her turmoil. But she still canโt find her footing.
And after getting lost in her own closet, her lifeโor more accurately, her livesโbecomes a lot more unsteady.
Following a passageway hidden behind her clothes hangers, Mattie uncovers a portal to all the paths her life could have taken. Each reality sees her in a different career, different headspace, and sometimes, a different romance.
Meanwhile, in her current reality, sheโs trying to untangle her feelings for her coworker, charming actor Austin Farrow. Between professional decorum and past trauma, Mattie doesnโt feel ready to explore that story further.
But if sheโs been paying attention, she might see that her multiple realities arenโt that different after all. Thereโs a common thread running through them, and Mattie needs to decide whether to knot the thread, or let it unravel.
Disconnected and listless, Mattie Bridges is fraying at the edges. Working as a wardrobe assistant on a charming Christmas movie in an even more charming small town should be a balm to her turmoil. But she still canโt find her footing.
And after getting lost in her own closet, her lifeโor more accurately, her livesโbecomes a lot more unsteady.
Following a passageway hidden behind her clothes hangers, Mattie uncovers a portal to all the paths her life could have taken. Each reality sees her in a different career, different headspace, and sometimes, a different romance.
Meanwhile, in her current reality, sheโs trying to untangle her feelings for her coworker, charming actor Austin Farrow. Between professional decorum and past trauma, Mattie doesnโt feel ready to explore that story further.
But if sheโs been paying attention, she might see that her multiple realities arenโt that different after all. Thereโs a common thread running through them, and Mattie needs to decide whether to knot the thread, or let it unravel.
The Quiet Kill
Author Robert Bryndza
Genres Literature & Fiction, Police Procedurals, Traditional Detective Mysteries, Murder Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
The thrilling start of a brand-new crime series from Robert Bryndza, the multi-million bestselling creator of Detective Erika Foster and P.I. Kate Marshall series
Winter, 1987. Detective Jamie Day arrives in London determined to prove himself. After years policing a quiet seaside town, his promotion to the Metropolitan Police feels like the opportunity he has been waiting for.
But the capital is a very different world.
On his first day in plain clothes, Jamie makes a grim discovery: the dismembered body of a young man, left in a dark corner of the city. What should have been a routine first shift quickly becomes the beginning of a major murder investigation.
Then another victim is found.
As winter deepens, young men are being killed late at night across London, their bodies discovered in eerily similar circumstances. The detectives soon realise they may be hunting a serial killer.
Working alongside a tough and experienced team, Jamie must prove he belongs while navigating the pressures of a high-profile investigation. But as the case grows darker, the killerโs pattern begins to emerge. And if they donโt stop him soon, another body will be waiting in the shadows.
The Quiet Kill, is the latest page-turner from multi-million bestselling author Robert Bryndza, so gripping it will keep you reading long past bedtime.
Winter, 1987. Detective Jamie Day arrives in London determined to prove himself. After years policing a quiet seaside town, his promotion to the Metropolitan Police feels like the opportunity he has been waiting for.
But the capital is a very different world.
On his first day in plain clothes, Jamie makes a grim discovery: the dismembered body of a young man, left in a dark corner of the city. What should have been a routine first shift quickly becomes the beginning of a major murder investigation.
Then another victim is found.
As winter deepens, young men are being killed late at night across London, their bodies discovered in eerily similar circumstances. The detectives soon realise they may be hunting a serial killer.
Working alongside a tough and experienced team, Jamie must prove he belongs while navigating the pressures of a high-profile investigation. But as the case grows darker, the killerโs pattern begins to emerge. And if they donโt stop him soon, another body will be waiting in the shadows.
The Quiet Kill, is the latest page-turner from multi-million bestselling author Robert Bryndza, so gripping it will keep you reading long past bedtime.
Never the Same
Author Brittney Sahin
Genres Literature & Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Conspiracy Thrillers, Military Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A brooding hero collides with the one woman who upends his control in this hate-to-love military romance by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brittney Sahin.
Hollis Avery has always been untouchable. A woman whoโs never needed savingโborn into wealth, power, and a family history steeped in secrets.
Until she wakes up with no memory of who she is.
The only thing that feels familiar is Jason Reed, the Delta Force operator who insists they were never friends and nothing more than teammates. Guarded and closed off, Reed keeps his distance, even as Hollis canโt ignore the pull she feels toward him, or the way his gaze lingers like heโs already lost her once and refuses to survive it again.
While they work to uncover who took her memories and why, Hollis begins to change. Stripped of the armor that once defined her, she becomes open, trusting, and dangerously honest. And Reed finds himself falling for the woman behind the legendโthe one he was never meant to touch but canโt stop wanting.
As pieces of Hollisโs past come to light, so do the truths Reed has kept buriedโand the fear that what theyโre building belongs only to the woman she is now.
Restoring her memories is the key to protecting the legacy she was born to defend. But with time running out and danger closing in, Hollis and Reed must choose whatโs worth her pastโฆor the future neither of them was ever supposed to want.
Hollis Avery has always been untouchable. A woman whoโs never needed savingโborn into wealth, power, and a family history steeped in secrets.
Until she wakes up with no memory of who she is.
The only thing that feels familiar is Jason Reed, the Delta Force operator who insists they were never friends and nothing more than teammates. Guarded and closed off, Reed keeps his distance, even as Hollis canโt ignore the pull she feels toward him, or the way his gaze lingers like heโs already lost her once and refuses to survive it again.
While they work to uncover who took her memories and why, Hollis begins to change. Stripped of the armor that once defined her, she becomes open, trusting, and dangerously honest. And Reed finds himself falling for the woman behind the legendโthe one he was never meant to touch but canโt stop wanting.
As pieces of Hollisโs past come to light, so do the truths Reed has kept buriedโand the fear that what theyโre building belongs only to the woman she is now.
Restoring her memories is the key to protecting the legacy she was born to defend. But with time running out and danger closing in, Hollis and Reed must choose whatโs worth her pastโฆor the future neither of them was ever supposed to want.
Late in the Day
Author Imogen Clark
Genres Parenthood & Children Fiction, Multigenerational Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction, Women's Friendship Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
From the million-copy bestselling author of In a Single Moment comes a gripping story of trust, family and the secrets we keep.
When Harriet Carmichael leaves her husband, she is determined to begin new home, new life, a chance to live on her own terms.
A life drawing class seems harmless enough, until she finds herself drawn to Mac, the charming but elusive model.
Her adult children disapprove of her every move, and when Macโsignificantly younger and apparently homelessโmoves in with her, their suspicions reach fever pitch. Yet there is an undeniable spark between Harriet and Mac, one that makes Harriet question what she truly wants from this new chapter.
While her family is convinced sheโs being manipulated by a conman, Harriet longs to believe in his genuine affection. But she has secrets of her own, shaped by experiences she has never dared to share.
As buried memories rise to the surfaceโalong with a friend she thought lost foreverโHarriet must weigh her heart against her judgement. Is she finally ready to reveal who she really is, or is she making the biggest mistake of her life?
When Harriet Carmichael leaves her husband, she is determined to begin new home, new life, a chance to live on her own terms.
A life drawing class seems harmless enough, until she finds herself drawn to Mac, the charming but elusive model.
Her adult children disapprove of her every move, and when Macโsignificantly younger and apparently homelessโmoves in with her, their suspicions reach fever pitch. Yet there is an undeniable spark between Harriet and Mac, one that makes Harriet question what she truly wants from this new chapter.
While her family is convinced sheโs being manipulated by a conman, Harriet longs to believe in his genuine affection. But she has secrets of her own, shaped by experiences she has never dared to share.
As buried memories rise to the surfaceโalong with a friend she thought lost foreverโHarriet must weigh her heart against her judgement. Is she finally ready to reveal who she really is, or is she making the biggest mistake of her life?
Hunted
Author Elayna R Gallea
Genres Dark Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, New Adult & College Fantasy, Dark Fantasy Horror
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Nothing is as it seems.
The Giving Season has ended, but the onset of winter hasnโt brought Wren peace. The king is still after her, and he has more reason than ever to want her dead. In possession of magic she shouldnโt have, sheโs desperate to flee the capital.
Thereโs just one person who can help Gabriel Moreau, the Hunter who chased Wren across the country, duty-bound to bring her to justice. Forced to make the most difficult decision heโs ever faced, Gabriel chooses to break his oath and vows anew to protect Wren. Now, he too will be hunted.
Together, Wren and Gabriel race across the kingdom to escape the kingโs wrath. But the cost of safety is steep, and life on the run is more dangerous than ever. Even with the Hunter by her side, their bond growing stronger with each obstacle, Wren is all too aware that everything, especially the notion of safety, is a lie.
This is book two in The Giving Chronicles, and it should be read after Given.
The Giving Season has ended, but the onset of winter hasnโt brought Wren peace. The king is still after her, and he has more reason than ever to want her dead. In possession of magic she shouldnโt have, sheโs desperate to flee the capital.
Thereโs just one person who can help Gabriel Moreau, the Hunter who chased Wren across the country, duty-bound to bring her to justice. Forced to make the most difficult decision heโs ever faced, Gabriel chooses to break his oath and vows anew to protect Wren. Now, he too will be hunted.
Together, Wren and Gabriel race across the kingdom to escape the kingโs wrath. But the cost of safety is steep, and life on the run is more dangerous than ever. Even with the Hunter by her side, their bond growing stronger with each obstacle, Wren is all too aware that everything, especially the notion of safety, is a lie.
This is book two in The Giving Chronicles, and it should be read after Given.
Those Who Shall Die
Author Michael Bradley
Genres Literature & Fiction, Amateur Sleuths, Suspense Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A collective of mystery writers, known as the Society of Fibbers, has captivated thousands with their addictive podcast-catapulting each member into the limelight. But when one of their own is found dead under chilling circumstances, the remaining Fibbers realize their newfound fame may have painted a target on their backs.
Rebecca Stanchion, one of the group's co-founders, is convinced her friend's murder is a tragic case of domestic violence-until a sinister attempt on her own life shatters that theory and threatens her family. Meanwhile, Zach Hargrove, a fellow writer, becomes obsessed with the cryptic black cards left at both crime scenes. Each card seems to whisper a warning: the killer is watching.
Is this the work of a fan driven to madness, or has betrayal seeped into the heart of the Society itself? As an annual writers' conference approaches, Zach and Rebecca race against time to unmask the killer before the Society of Fibbers' headline appearance turns into a deadly final act.
Rebecca Stanchion, one of the group's co-founders, is convinced her friend's murder is a tragic case of domestic violence-until a sinister attempt on her own life shatters that theory and threatens her family. Meanwhile, Zach Hargrove, a fellow writer, becomes obsessed with the cryptic black cards left at both crime scenes. Each card seems to whisper a warning: the killer is watching.
Is this the work of a fan driven to madness, or has betrayal seeped into the heart of the Society itself? As an annual writers' conference approaches, Zach and Rebecca race against time to unmask the killer before the Society of Fibbers' headline appearance turns into a deadly final act.
McKenna's Guy
Author Mike Lawson
Genres Literature & Fiction, Assassination Thrillers, Conspiracy Thrillers, Murder Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
From Edgar, Barry, and Shamus Award finalist Mike Lawson comes McKennaโs Guy, a fast-paced thriller full of secrets, lies, and betrayal.
When an intruder with murderous intent breaks into Roger Smithโs modest home one night, the big brute gets more than he bargained for, ending up a bloody corpse staining Rogerโs carpet.
Washington, DC, Detective Grace Lillinthal is summoned to the crime scene and marvels at the outcome. Why would anyone want to kill gray-haired Roger Smith? Heโs the picture of respectabilityโa widower devoted to his family, an amateur painter, and a civil servant who works at the Government Printing Office. When asked why heโd be a target, a clearly shaken Roger claims to be baffled.
But instinct tells Grace thereโs more to Rogerโs story, and when she learns that Rogerโafter killing his home invader and before calling the policeโphoned John McKenna, she knows sheโs onto something. John McKenna is a disreputable character of the first order. Heโs the gregarious, larger-than-life owner of a local bar thatโs a notorious den of thieves.
After one hired assassin fails, anotherโs bound to show up. The clock is ticking for Roger and McKenna to find out who wants Roger dead and whyโand suspects abound. Stubborn Grace is as determined to dig up Rogerโs secrets as he is to keep them hidden, and soon the investigation becomes a relentless game of cat and mouse. Even if Roger doesnโt consider himself a criminal, as chaos takes hold of his world, survival requires that he think like one.
When an intruder with murderous intent breaks into Roger Smithโs modest home one night, the big brute gets more than he bargained for, ending up a bloody corpse staining Rogerโs carpet.
Washington, DC, Detective Grace Lillinthal is summoned to the crime scene and marvels at the outcome. Why would anyone want to kill gray-haired Roger Smith? Heโs the picture of respectabilityโa widower devoted to his family, an amateur painter, and a civil servant who works at the Government Printing Office. When asked why heโd be a target, a clearly shaken Roger claims to be baffled.
But instinct tells Grace thereโs more to Rogerโs story, and when she learns that Rogerโafter killing his home invader and before calling the policeโphoned John McKenna, she knows sheโs onto something. John McKenna is a disreputable character of the first order. Heโs the gregarious, larger-than-life owner of a local bar thatโs a notorious den of thieves.
After one hired assassin fails, anotherโs bound to show up. The clock is ticking for Roger and McKenna to find out who wants Roger dead and whyโand suspects abound. Stubborn Grace is as determined to dig up Rogerโs secrets as he is to keep them hidden, and soon the investigation becomes a relentless game of cat and mouse. Even if Roger doesnโt consider himself a criminal, as chaos takes hold of his world, survival requires that he think like one.
January and July
Author Jeff Abbott
Genres Genre Literature & Fiction, Conspiracy Thrillers, Espionage Thrillers, Suspense Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
โJeff Abbott is one of the finest thriller writers working today.โ โHarlan Coben
The latest standalone thriller from New York Times bestseller Jeff Abbott
A disgraced intel officer anxious to redeem herself after a disastrous mission, January Holte vows to uncover the identity of a traitor who is selling her agencyโs secrets. The few clues sheโs found have led her to a sleepy river Lethey, Texasโand Bill Connors, the one man who might know the truth.
July Whitlock, a rookie bodyguard, searches for his one and only client, who has suddenly disappeared. He too follows a trail to Lethey to find his missing protecteeโBill Connors.
But Billโs friends and enemies in Lethey have secrets of their own. And as January and July ask questions no one wants to answer, they find a tangled web of murder, greed, and ambitionโone that will kill anyone who tries to unravel its mysteries.
The latest standalone thriller from New York Times bestseller Jeff Abbott
A disgraced intel officer anxious to redeem herself after a disastrous mission, January Holte vows to uncover the identity of a traitor who is selling her agencyโs secrets. The few clues sheโs found have led her to a sleepy river Lethey, Texasโand Bill Connors, the one man who might know the truth.
July Whitlock, a rookie bodyguard, searches for his one and only client, who has suddenly disappeared. He too follows a trail to Lethey to find his missing protecteeโBill Connors.
But Billโs friends and enemies in Lethey have secrets of their own. And as January and July ask questions no one wants to answer, they find a tangled web of murder, greed, and ambitionโone that will kill anyone who tries to unravel its mysteries.
River Deep
Author Bryan Gruley
Genres Small Town & Rural Fiction, Mysteries, Murder Thrillers, Science Fiction Crime & Mystery
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Attorney Devyn Payne is left navigating thin ice as her small-town community fractures in the wake of a shocking crimeย inย River Deep,ย the second in the Bitterfrost thriller series from Edgar nominee and Pulitzer Prizeโwinning author Bryan Gruley.
โVisceral, vivid, and suspensefulโโMeg Gardiner onย Bitterfrost
Fighting for the cold, hard truth
Attorney Devyn Payne expects a quieter life when she returns to her hometown of Bitterfrost. Until the bodies of two eight-month-old boys are pulled from the icy depths of the local river. Was it a tragic accident or something more disturbing?
The twinsโ distraught parents survived the car crash, but their mother, Catriona Dulaney, was driving. Now sheโs charged with killing her babies, and her admission of guilt has leaked online. Itย shouldย be the most straightforward case Devyn prosecutes all year. And yet, to her, it doesnโt add up.
With time dwindling ahead of the trial, Detective Garth Klimmek questioning Catโs role in the tragedy, and a suspicious outsider loitering around town, this crime might just be the tip of an iceberg. Devynโs put two Dulaneys behind bars before. This time, whose side will she takeโand what will it cost?
This suspense-drenched drama is perfect for fans ofย Dennis Lehane, the TV showย Mayor of Kingstown,ย and small-town thrillers byย Tim Johnstonย and John Sandford.
The Unexpected Caller
Author Shelley Shepard Gray
Genres Amish Romance, Contemporary Christian Romance, Amish & Mennonite Fiction, Contemporary Christian Fiction
Publication Date July 7, 2026
She finds sisterhood in the Amish Widows Club--but will she risk loving again?
Leanna Mast never imagined she'd be a widow at forty-one, but it seems God had other plans. After mourning her husband for a year, she realizes it's time to start living again. But her community expects her to remarry, and after living on her own, she's not eager to start cooking and cleaning in another man's home.
When she's invited to join the Amish Widows Club, she discovers a place of belonging she didn't even know she needed. In this group of women who support each other through sharing books, stories, and companionship, Leanna immediately feels welcome. She's sure her life as a widow will bring her the fulfillment she craves . . . until handsome, kind Evan Keim comes calling. As their relationship deepens, her heart becomes involved. But how could she possibly leave the widows club for a dream that might be too good to be true?
Leanna Mast never imagined she'd be a widow at forty-one, but it seems God had other plans. After mourning her husband for a year, she realizes it's time to start living again. But her community expects her to remarry, and after living on her own, she's not eager to start cooking and cleaning in another man's home.
When she's invited to join the Amish Widows Club, she discovers a place of belonging she didn't even know she needed. In this group of women who support each other through sharing books, stories, and companionship, Leanna immediately feels welcome. She's sure her life as a widow will bring her the fulfillment she craves . . . until handsome, kind Evan Keim comes calling. As their relationship deepens, her heart becomes involved. But how could she possibly leave the widows club for a dream that might be too good to be true?
The Red Sacrament
Author Sara Hinkley
Genres LGBTQ+ Historical Fiction, 19th Century Historical Fiction, Monsters & Creatures Horror
Publication Date July 7, 2026
A savage, hypnotic dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19th Century Paris, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Purcell and Elizabeth Kostova
Paris, 1869. The Thรฉรขtre Saint-Simรฉon is the place to be, if you can get in. The black slips of paper that guarantee entry are rare and highly desired, and given only to certain persons. The actors on stage are magnetic and ageless, performing only at midnight and never seen during the dayโฆ
Arnault and his clan of vampires have survived for as long as they have by observing a rigid set of rules. At night, they perform on stage at the Thรฉรขtre Saint-Simรฉon, picking off just enough people in the audience to survive. But they understand the city, and how to live in it without being noticed.
Their peace is shattered first with a visit from Bรฉatrice, a witch who forms a strange connection to Arnault; then with the arrival of Victor de Rouvray and his sister Franรงoise, vampires from a very different world. And, as Arnault grows closer and closer to the beautiful, enigmatic Victor, he risks becoming distracted from the constant bickering of his immortal friends, from the daily running of the theatre, and worse, from the premonitions of blood, death and starvation that he receives at night.
For a terrible change is on the horizon, revolt and revolution are brewing in the streets and soon, the city, and Arnault will never be the same again.
Paris, 1869. The Thรฉรขtre Saint-Simรฉon is the place to be, if you can get in. The black slips of paper that guarantee entry are rare and highly desired, and given only to certain persons. The actors on stage are magnetic and ageless, performing only at midnight and never seen during the dayโฆ
Arnault and his clan of vampires have survived for as long as they have by observing a rigid set of rules. At night, they perform on stage at the Thรฉรขtre Saint-Simรฉon, picking off just enough people in the audience to survive. But they understand the city, and how to live in it without being noticed.
Their peace is shattered first with a visit from Bรฉatrice, a witch who forms a strange connection to Arnault; then with the arrival of Victor de Rouvray and his sister Franรงoise, vampires from a very different world. And, as Arnault grows closer and closer to the beautiful, enigmatic Victor, he risks becoming distracted from the constant bickering of his immortal friends, from the daily running of the theatre, and worse, from the premonitions of blood, death and starvation that he receives at night.
For a terrible change is on the horizon, revolt and revolution are brewing in the streets and soon, the city, and Arnault will never be the same again.
The Room in the Ground
Author John Ajvide Lindqvist
Genres Literature & Fiction, Police Procedurals, Espionage Thrillers, Suspense Thrillers
Publication Date July 7, 2026
In a tense return to the Bloodstorm series, past choices come back to haunt those who were wrongedโand the ever-blurring lines between good and evil make them question what is right.
Kim Ribbing is a peculiar manโa skilled hacker, but otherwise reticent and fiercely private. Crime writer Julia Malmros never expected more than a working relationship with him, but all that changed the moment they locked eyes. Now thereโs something between them just as thrilling as the mysteries they investigate together.
And just as dangerous too.
Because Kim has secrets. Enemies. A murky past. And itโs all coming to a head in the confines of his basement.
When Julia and fourteen-year-old Astridโorphaned in a childhood friendโs murder Julia and Kim investigatedโventure downstairs, theyโre pulled into the darkest corners of Kimโs life. And they resolve to help him finally get out.
As deep as they go, they still canโt escape Jonny, Juliaโs detective ex-husband whoโs got an axe to grind with Kim. When a new case lands on his desk, confirming his suspicions, he knows just where to look.
But some people always know just how to hide.
Kim Ribbing is a peculiar manโa skilled hacker, but otherwise reticent and fiercely private. Crime writer Julia Malmros never expected more than a working relationship with him, but all that changed the moment they locked eyes. Now thereโs something between them just as thrilling as the mysteries they investigate together.
And just as dangerous too.
Because Kim has secrets. Enemies. A murky past. And itโs all coming to a head in the confines of his basement.
When Julia and fourteen-year-old Astridโorphaned in a childhood friendโs murder Julia and Kim investigatedโventure downstairs, theyโre pulled into the darkest corners of Kimโs life. And they resolve to help him finally get out.
As deep as they go, they still canโt escape Jonny, Juliaโs detective ex-husband whoโs got an axe to grind with Kim. When a new case lands on his desk, confirming his suspicions, he knows just where to look.
But some people always know just how to hide.
Manor of Decay
Author Maxym M. Martineau
Genres Dark Fantasy, Gothic Fiction, Fantasy Action & Adventure, American Literature
Publication Date July 7, 2026
The smouldering slow-burn spicy romance continues in this brooding sequel to the "enthralling" gothic fae fantasy, House of Blight. Edira must learn the secrets of the Ever ways to finally cure the source of the Blight once and for all - Death itself. Perfect for readers of Rachel Gillig's The Shepherd King series and T. Kingfisher.
Edira Brillwyn is not enjoying retirement. She's traumatized and heartbroken by Orin and the battle at Fernglove Manor. Although her brothers are safe and financially secure at home in Willowfell, she fears of wasting away her dwindling lifethreads. It's a welcome surprise when Seville comes knocking at her door โ at least until she reveals that the blight has returned to the Ferngloves.
Edira has had a taste of the power her heartbond with Rorik provides, and she's certain there is a way to cure the blight for goodโฆ with Rorik's help. But Rorik doesn't think his life is worth saving, at least not worth Edira's few remaining years, or months. He's more concerned about keeping her alive than saving the world.
But other powerful Ever families have caught wind of Edira's talents and are desperate for a cure. As those families begin circling, centuries-long conflicts rise to the surface and, once again, Edira finds herself at the whims of power-hungry Evers fighting for their lives. Before she runs out of time altogether, Edira and Rorik will have to face the source of the Death himself.
Edira Brillwyn is not enjoying retirement. She's traumatized and heartbroken by Orin and the battle at Fernglove Manor. Although her brothers are safe and financially secure at home in Willowfell, she fears of wasting away her dwindling lifethreads. It's a welcome surprise when Seville comes knocking at her door โ at least until she reveals that the blight has returned to the Ferngloves.
Edira has had a taste of the power her heartbond with Rorik provides, and she's certain there is a way to cure the blight for goodโฆ with Rorik's help. But Rorik doesn't think his life is worth saving, at least not worth Edira's few remaining years, or months. He's more concerned about keeping her alive than saving the world.
But other powerful Ever families have caught wind of Edira's talents and are desperate for a cure. As those families begin circling, centuries-long conflicts rise to the surface and, once again, Edira finds herself at the whims of power-hungry Evers fighting for their lives. Before she runs out of time altogether, Edira and Rorik will have to face the source of the Death himself.
Rich Girl Summer
Author Lily Chu
Genres Comedic Dramas & Plays, Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature, Romantic Comedy
Publication Date July 7, 2026
Fake heiress. Real secrets. One sizzling summer sheโll never forget.
Event planner Valerie Peng never planned on spending her summer sipping champagne at a lakefront estate, dodging suspicious socialites, or pretending to be anyoneโs long-lost daughter. But when a very public, deeply mortifying mishap lands her in hot waterโand her career in a hot messโher uber-wealthy older client makes her an offer she canโt refuse: come to his glamorous summer home and pose as the long-lost daughter he believes his conniving family has hidden from him. In exchange? Time away from her actual life...and the chance to help uncover a long-buried secret.
But Cinderella needs some magic for this big of a makeover. Enter Nico her clientโs maddeningly perfect right-hand man. Heโs organized, meticulous, impossible to read, and infuriatingly handsome. But even though he claims this scheme is a capital-M Mistake, Nicoโs the only person she can trust to have her back. As they navigate a world of eccentric matriarchs, class divides, and private family feuds, their chemistry is as undeniable as it is ill-timed.
Caught between pretending to belong and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, Valerieโs summer is about to get far more complicated than she ever planned.
Event planner Valerie Peng never planned on spending her summer sipping champagne at a lakefront estate, dodging suspicious socialites, or pretending to be anyoneโs long-lost daughter. But when a very public, deeply mortifying mishap lands her in hot waterโand her career in a hot messโher uber-wealthy older client makes her an offer she canโt refuse: come to his glamorous summer home and pose as the long-lost daughter he believes his conniving family has hidden from him. In exchange? Time away from her actual life...and the chance to help uncover a long-buried secret.
But Cinderella needs some magic for this big of a makeover. Enter Nico her clientโs maddeningly perfect right-hand man. Heโs organized, meticulous, impossible to read, and infuriatingly handsome. But even though he claims this scheme is a capital-M Mistake, Nicoโs the only person she can trust to have her back. As they navigate a world of eccentric matriarchs, class divides, and private family feuds, their chemistry is as undeniable as it is ill-timed.
Caught between pretending to belong and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, Valerieโs summer is about to get far more complicated than she ever planned.
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