Books Coming Out in July
Book Roundup - Books Coming Out in July
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Love and Other Monsters in the Dark by K.B. Jensen
Readers will encounter serial killers, alien creatures, and dark angels, as well as more “normal” narratives about the horrors of everyday love. Love and Other Monsters in the Dark features a genre-hopping blend of contemporary fiction, noir humor, speculative fiction, and horror, with an undercurrent of love and the relationships that bind us together in the darkness. Among others, the cast of characters includes a catfish and her victim, creepy dolls in prayer, an arsonist housewife, an elderly bank robber, and a “teacup” pig. Some just can’t take it anymore.
Seeing Eye Girl by Beverly J. Armento
As the “Seeing Eye Girl” for her blind and mentally ill mother, Beverly Armento was intimately connected with and responsible for her, even though her mother physically and emotionally abused her. She was Strong Beverly at school—excellent in academics and mentored by caring teachers—but at home she was Weak Beverly, cowed by her mother’s rage and delusions. In this emotional memoir, Beverly shares the coping strategies she invented to get herself through the trials of her young life, and the ways in which school and church served as refuges over the course of her journey. Breaking the psychological chains that bound her to her mother would prove to be the most difficult challenge of her life—and, ultimately, the most liberating one.
Six Ways to Write a Love Letter by Jackson Pearce
Maybe everything they say about Vivi Swan is true. Maybe America’s Sweetheart is all fluff and no substance. And maybe every guy she dates is fodder for her next breakup song. But session drummer Remy Young doesn’t care. Touring with Vivi Swan means more money than he and his brother could ever earn on their own. And he’s smart enough to keep himself far away from drama. Then a bus mix-up forces Remy and Vivi to spend hours together, and he’s surprised to discover that she's nothing like the rumors said she'd be. When she asks for his help writing her next song, he's immediately on board—for professional reasons, of course. Soon, it’s clear that every variation of their song is just a different way to write a love letter, even as Remy wonders if he’s setting himself up to be the next guy on her list of exes. And when Vivi’s private life and public facade finally clash, a celebrity gossip blog threatens everything they've created together.
The Summer of Christmas by Juliet Giglio and Keith Giglio
THE SUMMER OF CHRISTMAS, written by college professors Juliet and Keith Giglio – who just happen to also be Hollywood screenwriters who specialize in none other than Christmas heart warmers - is an adorable rom-com that celebrates our love for those deliciously bingeable holiday flicks that start running (typically in July!) on the Hallmark Channel, Netflix, Lifetime, GAC family and more…
First Born by Will Dean
From the acclaimed author of The Last Thing to Burn, a psychological thriller about the dark secrets that emerge when a woman’s twin sister is murdered, with his signature “intense, gripping, taut, terrifying, moving, and brilliant” (Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author) prose.
Should I Tell You by Jill Mansell
You can always count on Jill Mansell for a feel-good read that makes you smile! You won't want to miss her brand-new story, filled with:
- Effervescent, snappy writing that sticks with you
- Hilarious hijinks that are so endearing and so embarrassing
- A tight-knit family who'd do anything for each other
- Misunderstandings, conclusions jumped to, secrets and revelations that will keep you guessing
Master of Furies by Raymond E. Feist
War has swept across Marquensas. Ruthless raiders have massacred the inhabitants of Beran's Hill, including Gwen, the beloved wife of Declan Smith. Hollow of heart, his hopes burned to ashes, Declan swears to track down and destroy the raiders, an ambition shared by Baron Daylon Dumarch, whose family was massacred as they fled the capital. Meanwhile Hava, whose gift for piracy has seen her acquire the treasure ship Borzon's Black Wake and the swift Azhante sailing vessel, Queen of Storms, and won her the name of 'the Sea Demon', is closing in on the whereabouts of those who unleashed the murderous hordes. Her husband, Hatushaly, the last remaining member of the ruling family of Ithrace, the legendary Firemanes, seeks to control the magical powers he has inherited. He is able now to visualise and even travel among the filaments of energies that power all existence: the furies. But will he be able to channel his magic in time to combat the deepest, darkest threat the world of Garn has ever faced?
The Finalists by David Bell
On a beautiful spring day, six college students with nothing in common besides a desperate inability to pay for school gather to compete for the prestigious Hyde Fellowship. They must surrender their devices when they enter Hyde House, an aging Victorian structure that sits in a secluded part of campus. Once inside, the doors lock behind them. The students are not allowed to leave until they spend eight hours in the house. If the students leave before time is up, they’ll be immediately disqualified. But when one of the six finalists drops dead, the other students fear they’re being picked off one by one. With a violent protest raging outside, and no way to escape, the survivors viciously turn on each other. The Finalists is a chilling and profound look at the lengths both students and colleges will go to survive in a resource-starved academic world.
Who We Were in the Dark by Jessica Taylor
Friends' summer trip goes wrong when one disappears--but was it an accident?
California author Jessica Taylor’s debut YA was a critically-acclaimed Junior Library Guild Selection (A Map for Wrecked Girls), and her newest coming-of-age story seasoned with suspense is perfect for fans of Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls and Genuine Fraud, WHO WE WERE IN THE DARK (Dial Books for Young Readers, July 5, 2022). Every year Nora, Wesley, Rand, and Grace reunite at Donner Lake (named for the infamous Donner Party)– trading truth and lies, falling in love, and pushing each other too far. But two years later Grace is missing–and Nora must find her way through the unspoken hurts and betrayals to figure out what happened to the girl she thought she knew.
Spindrift Love by Jocelyn Holst Bolster
The cicadas are back. The ones that sing like they’ve been waiting in the darkness for seventeen long years to declare their truth—because they have.
Jesse’s only fifteen, but she understands how they feel. Trapped in the lonely plains of Bourbon County and the darkness of her parents’ strict ideals, there is no room for dreaming of a future outside her tiny world. Jesse craves a different life—sand under her toes, to swim in the ocean. And her parents are hiding a secret. What happened the last time the cicadas sang?
When a handsome rail hopper jumps from a freight train into Jesse’s front yard, secrets are confessed, and a door to a new life cracks open. When the real world turns out to be more violent and unjust than Jesse imagined, will she choose the safety of her parents’ boundaries? Or risk losing everything to trust the voice that has been shouting inside her all along?
This tender coming-of-age story by Jocelyn Holst Bolster distills truths about family and love, in all its forms, as Jesse discovers who she wants to be, and translates her love into boldness and understanding.
Sister Mother Warrior by Vanessa Riley
SISTER MOTHER WARRIOR is a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti. Both an emotionally palpable love story and a detail-rich historical novel, SISTER MOTHER WARRIOR tells the often-overlooked history of the most successful Black uprising in history. Riley celebrates the tremendous courage and resilience of the revolutionaries, and the formidable strength and intelligence of Toya, Marie-Claire, and the countless other women who fought for freedom.
The Floating Girls by Lo Patrick
Twelve-year-old Kay Whitaker lives in an isolated marsh house with her family. One hot, sticky summer, Kay stumbles across a stilt house in a neighboring marsh and upon a boy her age, Andy Webber, living there with his father. Kay doesn’t listen when her parents tell her to stay away from the Webbers. Not even when Kay’s sister, Sarah-Anne, goes missing, resurrecting the mystery of Mrs. Webber’s death—and Kay’s parents’ potential role in it. Kay and her brothers must navigate the layers of secrets that emerge during the investigation as their family, and the world as they knew it, unravels around them. Where is Sarah-Anne? And who killed Mrs. Webber?
The Night Shift: A Novel by Natalka Burian
Sweetbitter meets Russian Doll in this nostalgia bomb. When Jean’s friend Iggy introduces her to the underground world of NYC shortcuts—secret passageways that allow you to jump through time and space to emerge in different parts of the city—it’s nice to shorter her commute between her night shifts bartending and at the upscale bakery. But when the side effects become tough to shake, her past traumas become her present. When Iggy goes missing, Jean must explore the origins into these shortcuts, discovering a startling connection. A shimmering, propulsive novel set in New York City during the early aughts and across time, The Night Shift shows that by confronting the past can we reshape our future.
Long Shadows by Abigail Cutter
Tom Smiley signed up as a private in the Confederate army when he was eighteen and quickly came to regret it. Spending the last year of the war in a Union prison scarred him so deeply that even death hasn't brought freedom from its memory. A ghost in his deserted childhood home, he can’t forget the bloody war and its meaningless losses, or shed his revulsion for his role in the Confederate defense of slavery. But when a young couple moves in and makes his home their own in the early 21st century, trouble erupts—and Tom is forced to not only face his own terrible secret but also come to grips with his family’s hidden wartime history. He finds an unexpected ally in his house’s new owner, Phoebe Hunter, who is both fascinated and frightened by his ghostly presence—and whose discoveries will have momentous consequences for them both.
Remember Love by Mary Balogh
As a child, Devlin Ware thought his family stood for all that was right and good in the world. They were kind, gracious, and shared the beauty of Ravenswood, their grand country estate, by hosting lavish parties for the entire countryside. But at twenty-two, he discovered his whole world was an elaborate illusion, and when Devlin publicly called his family to account for it, he was exiled as a traitor.
So be it. He enlisted in the fight against Napoleon and didn’t look back for six years. But now his father is dead, the Ware family is broken, and as the heir he is being called home. It’s only when Gwyneth Rhys—the woman he loved and then lost after his family banished him—holds out her hand to help him that he is able make the difficult journey and try to piece together his fractured family.
It is Gwyneth’s loyalty, patience, and love that he needs. But is Devlin’s war-hardened heart even capable of offering her love in return?
We Lie Here by Rachel Howzell Hall
TV writer Yara Gibson’s hometown of Palmdale, California, isn’t her first choice for a vacation. But she’s back to host her parents’ twentieth-anniversary party and find the perfect family mementos for the celebration. Everything is going to plan until Yara receives a disturbing text: I have information that will change your life.
The message is from Felicia Campbell, who claims to be a childhood friend of Yara’s mother. But they’ve been estranged for years―drama best ignored and forgotten. But Yara can’t forget Felicia, who keeps texting, insisting that Yara talk to her “before it’s too late.”
But the next day is already too late for Felicia, whose body is found floating in Lake Palmdale. Before she died, Felicia left Yara a key to a remote lakeside cabin. In the basement are files related to a mysterious tragedy, unsolved since 1998. What secrets was Felicia hiding? How much of what Yara knows about her family has been true?
The deeper Yara digs for answers, the more she fears that Felicia was right. Uncovering the truth about what happened at the cabin all those years ago will change Yara’s life―or end it.
Dark Objects by Simon Toyne
In Simon Toyne’s new thriller, DARK OBJECTS (William Morrow, July 12, 2022), a glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and her husband goes missing. According to public records, neither of them exists.
The only leads police have are several objects arranged around the woman’s body, including a set of keys and a book called How to Process a Murder by Laughton Rees—a book that appears to have helped the killer forensically cleanse the crime scene.
Laughton Rees is an academic who doesn’t usually work live cases after the brutal murder of her mother as a teen left her traumatized and emotionally scarred. But the presence of her book at this scene draws her unwillingly into the high-profile investigation and media circus that springs up around it. As the dark objects found beside the body lead her closer to the victim’s identity, a dangerous threat to Laughton and her daughter emerges, as well as painful memories of her past related to the man she has always blamed for her mother’s death: John Rees, Laughton’s father, the current Metropolitan Chief Commissioner and a man she has not spoken to in twenty years.
Laughton’s family was destroyed once, and she built herself a new one. Now, she faces her darkest fears: can she catch he killer before this one is destroyed too?
Barbarian Lover by Ruby Dixon
The third novel in the international publishing phenomenon the Ice Planet Barbarians series, now in a special print edition with bonus materials and an exclusive epilogue!
The You I See by Danny Freeman
Brandon’s family are long-time members. In fact, his dad is the preacher. Alex’s skeptical parents reluctantly attend after repeated invitations from a colleague of Alex’s father. Alex and Brandon feel an immediate and undeniable attraction to one another, though both of them are confused about their own and each other’s feelings. They soon develop an affectionate, endearing friendship, mostly by balancing out each other’s opposite personalities and quoting their favorite lines from The Princess Bride until they nearly wet themselves. Brandon is loud, impulsive, irreverent, and foul-mouthed. Alex is quiet, thoughtful, shy, and considerably more precocious than Brandon.
With the support of Alex’s unconventional and affirming parents, Alex and Brandon navigate the challenges of being gay teenagers in Houston in the early 1990s. They face obstacles, setbacks, misunderstandings, and outright homophobia but remain resolutely committed to their unique friendship and budding romance.
From beginning to end, The You I See by Danny Freeman is an infectiously funny, relentlessly hopeful, and ultimately life-affirming celebration of friendship and young love in one of its many-hued variations.
Out of Her Depth by Lizzy Barber
Rachel lands her dream summer job at a luxurious Tuscan villa, where she’s quickly drawn into the world of the rich and young. Their world is one of partying, toxic relationships and even more toxic substances. But then someone goes too far. Someone dies. And nothing will ever be the same.
Out of Her Depth weaves a clever and deadly web of manipulation and desire, a perfect escapist read for fans of Euphoria, J.T. Ellison’s Her Dark Lies, or Rachel Hawkins’s Reckless Girls.
The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters
A sweeping historical adventure set during one of the most turbulent periods of British history—featuring a heroine you’ll never forget ...
Dorset, 1642.
When bloody civil war breaks out between the king and Parliament, families and communities across England are riven by different allegiances.
A rare few choose neutrality.
One such is Jayne Swift, a Dorset physician from a Royalist family, who offers her services to both sides in the conflict. Through her dedication to treating the sick and wounded, regardless of belief, Jayne becomes a witness to the brutality of war and the devastation it wreaks.
Yet her recurring companion at every event is a man she should despise because he embraces civil war as the means to an end. She knows him as William Harrier, but is ignorant about every other aspect of his life. His past is a mystery and his future uncertain.
The Swift and the Harrier is a sweeping tale of adventure and loss, sacrifice and love, with a unique and unforgettable heroine at its heart.
After We Were Stolen by Brooke Beyfuss
When the police discover that Avery and her brother Cole, who are living on the streets after a fire destroyed the compound they called home, are the children from cold-case kidnappings fifteen years ago, the pair is separated. Lonely and desperate, Avery knows she won’t find peace until she ascertains whether anyone else in her “family” survived the fire… and the truth behind the fire itself. When it gets out that only six bodies were found in the fire, not ten, Avery knows what must be done. She’ll discover the truth behind the fire, even if it’s the last thing she does.
The T Room by Victoria Lilienthal
When her charismatic mentor, Ernesto, publicly chooses her as his professional partner, all indications are that Vera's bodywork career is about to ignite. There is just one glitch--no, make that two. Vera--single mother of savvy, smart teenage India and her scruffy mutt, Francisco--is fucking Ernesto. As for her new promotion . . . Ernesto took it from his wife, Jean, in order to give it to her. As Vera becomes increasingly embroiled in Ernesto and Jean's dark shenanigans, she quickly realizes that what seemed like an exciting opportunity is more like a deal with the Devil. Confronted with the consequences of her own yearning for male validation, it takes India, a glamorous and aristocratic client named Grace, and the mysterious goddess White Tara, Tibetan Goddess of compassion, to teach Vera the virtues of a sustainable path to self-authority. A luscious, propulsive romp, The T Room is sure to prove irresistible to every yogi and yoga mom familiar with that Saturday-morning-bookstore trajectory that starts with Self-Help, diverts into Romance, and lands headfirst in Sexuality.
Finding Grace: A Novel by Maren Cooper
When Caroline, a gifted ornithologist who wants a life of travel and adventure, gets pregnant against her wishes, her husband, Chuck, assumes she will change her mind. She doesn’t and as their daughter, Grace, grows up, she falls through the devastating schism that grows between them.
Provenance by Sue Mell
Winner of the Madville Publishing 2021 Blue Moon Novel Award, Provenance is a story of hope in ruin. With subtle poignancy and humor, it offers a fresh take on contemporary conflicts, exploring pivotal moments of sorrow, longing, and renewal in the lives of three deeply textured and indelible characters
Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories — she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there, beneath the house he'd built for his family.
Coming home is hard enough for Vera, and to make things worse, she and her mother aren’t alone. A parasitic artist has moved into the guest house out back and is slowly stripping Vera’s childhood for spare parts. He insists that he isn’t the one leaving notes around the house in her father’s handwriting… but who else could it possibly be?
There are secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder House. Vera must face them and find out for herself just how deep the rot goes.
The Force of Such Beauty by Barbara Bourland
Caroline, a former marathon runner who dropped out of school at fourteen to pursue an Olympic medal, was the perfect candidate for a tiara: shapely, disciplined, accustomed to public attention, and utterly uneducated.
After she meets Finn, the handsome prince of a small European kingdom, her fate is sealed. With a collar of pearls locked around her throat and a rope of diamonds leashing her to a balcony, Caroline uses her once-powerful body to smile, wave, and produce children with perfect grace.
But once she begins to open her eyes to the world around her—and examine her own reflection—Caroline discovers that she may have entered a bargain that cannot be undone.
Finding Edward by Sheila Murray
Cyril Rowntree migrates to Toronto from Jamaica in 2012. Managing a precarious balance of work and university he begins to navigate his way through the implications of being racialized in his challenging new land. A chance encounter leads Cyril to a suitcase full of photographs and letters dating back to the early 1920s. Cyril is drawn into the letters and their story of a white mother’s struggle with the need to give up her mixed race baby, Edward. Abandoned by his own white father as a small child, Cyril’s keen intuition triggers a strong connection and he begins to look for the rest of Edward’s story. As he searches, Cyril unearths fragments of Edward’s itinerant life as he crisscrossed the country. Along the way, he discovers hidden pieces of Canada’s Black history and gains the confidence to take on his new world.
A History of Delusions by Victoria Shepherd
For centuries we’ve dismissed delusions as something for doctors to sort out behind locked doors. But delusions are more than just bizarre quirks – they hold the key to collective anxieties and traumas. In this groundbreaking history, Victoria Shepherd uncovers stories of delusions from medieval times to the present day and implores us to identify reason in apparent madness.
Small Acts of Defiance by Michelle Wright
Sisters of the Resistance meets The Women’s March in this stunning WWII novel about the small but courageous acts a young woman performs against the growing anti-Jewish measures in Nazi-occupied Paris.
January 1940: After a devastating tragedy, young Australian woman Lucie and her mother Yvonne are forced to leave home and flee to France. There they seek help from the only family they have left, Lucie’s uncle, Gérard. As the Second World War engulfs Europe, the two women find themselves trapped in German-occupied Paris, sharing a cramped apartment with the authoritarian Gérard and his extremist views. Drawing upon her artistic talents, Lucie risks her own safety to engage in small acts of defiance against the occupying Nazi forces and the collaborationist French regime – illustrating pro-resistance tracts and forging identity cards. Faced with the escalating brutality of anti-Jewish measures, and the indifference of so many of her fellow Parisians, Lucie must decide how far she will go to protect her friends and defend the rights of others before it’s too late.
Youngblood by Sasha Laurens
A queer vampire friends-to-enemies-to-lovers dark academia romance with lots of snark and lots of heart.
Sasha Laurens flips the script on tired vampire tropes (age gap romance, constant wealth, and heteronormative stereotypes) as she imagines a fresh, “real” vampire society that’s more diverse racially, economically, and in gender identity in YOUNGBLOOD (Razorbill, July 19, 2022). When poor Kat Finn and wealthy Taylor Sanger discover a dead vampire on campus and a shocking secret in the school’s archives of their prestigious vamp-only prep school, they team up as investigative partners–and maybe something more–to uncover a frightening conspiracy: secrets that pit them against the most powerful figures in Vampirdom, and to the synthetic blood they all rely on.
The Wrong Kind of Woman by Sarah McCraw Crow
Called “smart and thoughtful” (Publishers Weekly) with “gentle grit and determination” (BookReporter), Sarah McCraw Crow’s entrancing 2020 debut THE WRONG KIND OF WOMAN (MIRA; On sale: July 19, 2022), will be available in paperback this summer. The novel brings to life the turbulent 70s—sexism, the drug culture, the Vietnam war, and the rise of the women’s movement.
Living in the Gray by Katie Weber
When Katie Weber was 23, she was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor. After surgery and treatment, she seemed good to go — until a relapse at 28 sent her life into a spin and forced her to forge a new identity and give up many of her dreams.
This is a cancer memoir because it’s about and written by a young woman who gets cancer, but it’s so much more than that. In many ways, cancer causes us to ask all of the same questions about life any of us ask, but at a much faster rate. Questions about meaning and existence that just don’t seem to have clear answers. Katie especially lives in the gray right now, but really, we all do.
In Living in the Gray by Katie Weber we learn that the gray is something we all need to be comfortable with, because uncertainty is the only thing we can ever be certain of.
The Kitchen is Closed: and Other Benefits of Being Old by Sandra Butler
Age is just a number, and at 80-something, Sandra Butler is just getting started.
This summer, introduce your readers to a hilarious, touching, and deeply personal series of essays in Butler’s The Kitchen is Closed: and Other Benefits of Being Old (On Sale: July 22, 2022; Both/And Productions; 979-8-9857560-0-5; trade paperback).
The author doesn’t identify as a senior citizen, elderly, or even mature. She is unequivocally old. While she addresses the inevitable limitations that aging brings, she also delights in the freedom that oldness confers, at least the freedom not to care about so many of the things that once seemed so important.
In this witty collection of essays, Butler writes about topics ranging from late life online dating to the confessions of an insecure autodidact, giving up the ghost of her struggle with technology, and the relief of the title story—never having to cook another meal again. Butler focuses—as she has in her previous works—on bringing the unspoken issues in women’s lives onto center stage.
Written with honesty and heart, this book is the perfect read for any woman who either is or intends to become old and redefines our ‘golden' years.
The Woman with Two Shadows
For fans of ATOMIC CITY GIRLS and THE SECRETS WE KEPT, a fascinating debut historical novel of one of the most closely held secrets of World War II and a woman caught up in it when she follows her missing sister to the mysterious city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
For Butter or Worse: A Novel by Erin La Rosa
All chef Nina Lyon wants is to make a name for herself in male-dominated culinary industry and inspire young women to do the same. So, when she gets the incredible opportunity to co-host the competitive reality TV series The Next Cooking Champ!, albeit alongside Hollywood’s smarmiest jerk and her greatest rival, restaurateur Leo O’Donnell, she takes the leap. But after a major on-screen fallout, they have to fake date to save their careers, only to find their feelings for each other become more real than reality tv. An enemies-to-lovers mash-up of The Hating Game and The Great British Bake-Off that that serves up great side themes of addressing one’s mental health and breaking the glass ceiling. The perfect summer beach read!
Some Of It Was Real by Nan Fischer
Perfect for fans of Colleen Oakley’s You Were There Too and Rebecca Serle’s In Five Years, SOME OF IT WAS REAL is the captivating tale of a clairvoyant with a hidden past, and the journalist who sets out to expose her as a fraud. Both are unprepared for the journey that lies ahead, and the shocking emotional truths that they are about to uncover.
Getting to Good Riddance: A No Bullsh*t Breakup Survival Guide by Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt
Are you ready to get over heartbreak and move on with your life? Psychologist Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt, author of Move on Motherf*cker: Live, Laugh, and Let Sh*t Go, provides the tools to survive and thrive after a breakup in this empowering, BS-free guide. This seriously motivational guide utilizes salty straight talk, humor, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and positivity to get you to growth and recovery. Overcome self-defeat, smash the sh*t out of heartbreak, and get ready to move on, motherf*cker!
Bayou Sweetheart by Lexi Blake
After leaving the military, Major Blanchard moved to Papillon, Louisiana, to be with his aging father, where he's taken a deputy position with the sheriff’s department. Now that he’s settling into life on the bayou, he’s trying out the dating scene. Every single woman in town seems to be pining after the handsome newcomer. But so far, nothing’s worked out, and he’s had some spectacularly bad dates. Major’s getting ready to give up on love when a new lady roars into town to film a movie and turns his world upside down.
Actress Brynn Pearson is trying to make a successful transition from child star to leading lady. Now that she’s landed her first lead in a major film, nothing can stop her. She's committed to focusing solely on her work, so romance is the last thing she needs—too bad she can’t get her mind off the dreamy deputy she keeps running into. He’s gorgeous, and something about him makes her feel safe. As Brynn’s feelings for Major deepen, she starts to wonder if maybe there’s more to life than her career.
When a family crisis throws Major’s life into a tailspin, he turns to Brynn for support, and hopes the relationship growing between them will shine brighter than Hollywood lights.
Prepare for Departure by Mark Chesnut
More than an end-of-life memoir, more than a collection of childhood memories and travel stories, Prepare for Departure showcases what happens when a permissive mother and a mistfit son face death while revisiting life. Buckle your seatbelts for a witty, touching and darkly humorous trip - through time, loss, forgiveness and acceptance.
Dream Pop Origami by Jackson Bliss
Dream Pop Origami is a beautiful, ambitious, interactive, and engrossing lyrical memoir about mixed-race identity, love, travel, AAPI masculinities, and personal metamorphosis. This experimental work of creative nonfiction examines, celebrates, and complicates what it means to be Asian & white, Nisei & hapa, Midwestern & Californian, Buddhist & American at the same time. In this stunning collection of choose-your-own-essays and autobiographical lists, multiracial identity is a counterpoint of memory, language, reflection, and imagination intersecting and interweaving into a coherent tapestry of text, emotion, and voice.
No Parm No Foul by Linda Reilly
Don’t swiss out on the second installment of Linda Reilly’s Grilled Cheese Mystery series! It’s Halloween in Balsam Dell, and grilled cheese shop owner Carly Hale is gearing up to win the town’s Scary-Licious Smorgasbord competition with her spooky sandwiches.When the body of Carly’s toughest competitor is found dead in his kitchen, she must put her nose to the rind to solve the mystery before she’s pinned for the crime.
The Rake's Daughter by Anne Gracie
An earl is forced to play matchmaker for the daughters of a rake in a smart and witty new Regency romance from the national bestselling author of The Scoundrel’s Daughter.
Recently returned to England, Leo, the new Earl of Salcott, discovers he's been thrust into the role of guardian to an heiress, the daughter of a notorious rake. Even worse, his wealthy ward has brought her half-sister, the beautiful but penniless Isobel, with her. Leo must find Clarissa a suitable husband, but her illegitimate half sister, Izzy, is quite another matter. Her lowly birth makes her quite unacceptable in London’s aristocratic circles.
However, the girls are devoted to each other and despite the risk of scandal if Izzy’s parentage is discovered, they refuse to be separated. To Leo’s frustration, nothing will convince them otherwise. Even worse, sparks fly every time Leo and Izzy interact.
Called away to his country estate, Leo instructs the young ladies to stay quietly at home. But when he returns, he's infuriated to discover that Izzy and Clarissa have launched themselves into society — with tremendous success! There's no going back. Now Leo must enter society to protect Clarissa from fortune hunters, and try not to be driven mad by the sharp-witted, rebellious, and intoxicating Izzy.
Wolf in the Shadows by Maria Vale
Julia Martel was once a spoiled young shifter surrounded by powerful males who shielded her from reality. Now she is a prisoner of the Great North Pack, trusted by no one and relegated to the care of the pack’s least wolf, the Omega, Arthur Graysson—the only wolf who has shown her kindness. Every day with Arthur opens Julia to the harsh wonder of Pack life and to a bond unlike any she's ever known. But when the Pack is threatened, Julia must confront a legacy of doubt and insecurity. Only then can she lay claim to the power and fierceness that is her birthright. Only then can she protect the wolves she has grown to love. And especially Arthur, who is immensely powerful in his own quiet way.
