BEATRIZ WILLIAMS s the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of Husbands and Lovers,  The Summer Wives, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, A Hundred Summers, the Wicked City series, and several other works of historical fiction, including five novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA in Finance from Columbia University, Beatriz worked as a communications and corporate strategy consultant in New York and London before her first novel was published in 2012. Beatriz’s books have won numerous awards, have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and appear regularly in bestseller lists around the world.

A devastating secret haunts the women of an old New England family in this rich new novel set on Winthrop Island

Audrey Fisher has struggled all her life to emerge from the shadow of her famous mother by forging a career as a world-class chef. Meredith Fisher’s glamorous screen persona disguises the trauma of the tragic accident that haunts her dreams. Neither woman wants to return to the New England island they left behind and its complicated emotional ties, until Audrey discovers an old wooden chest among the belongings of her estranged father—Mike Kennedy, proprietor of the island’s only watering hole—and the astonishing contents draw the women deep into Winthrop’s past and its many secrets . . . How did a trove of paintings from one of America’s greatest artists wind up in the cellar of the Mohegan Inn? And who is the mysterious woman portrayed on every canvas?

On a stormy November night in 1846, Providence Dare flees Boston and boards the luxury steamship the Atlantic one step ahead of the law….or so she believes. But when a catastrophic accident leaves the ship at the mercy of a mighty gale, Providence finds herself trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the one man who knows her real identity—the detective investigating the suspicious death of her employer, the painter Henry Irving. As the Atlantic fights for her life and the rocky shore of Winthrop Island edges closer, a desperate Providence searches for her chance to escape…before the sea swallows her without a trace…

VICTORIA BENTON FRANK is the Bestselling Author of My Magnolia Summer. She is a graduate of the College of Charleston and the French Culinary Institute. Victoria worked in restaurants in New York before returning to Charleston, South Carolina, which she considers home, with her husband, two kids, and sweet pup. When she isn’t writing, she is reading, cooking, playing Mahjong or chasing her children. Victoria is the daughter of the beloved and dearly missed NY Times Bestselling Author Dorothea Benton Frank.

A heartwarming and empowering novel about thriving after tragedy, from the author of the “enchanting, hilarious, and insightful” My Magnolia Summer (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times Best Selling author)

Violet Adams is the perfect, youngest child in a family of loud, passionate women on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. As the sweet, traditional one, she’s always been the steady hand in her family but after a sudden breakup and subsequent tragedy, she doesn’t know who she is anymore.

Aly Knox, Violet’s best friend, is still struggling with the loss of her mother and adjusting to joining Violet in Southern living. With her best friend’s help, Violet is determined to break out of her shell—and who she thought she was—no matter what. And what better place to look for success, meaning, and possibly love than the Lowcountry of South Carolina?

ELIZA KNIGHT is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling author. Her love of history began as a young girl when she traipsed the halls of Versailles and ran through the fields in Southern France. Eliza also published her first contemporary women's fiction novel in 2025 under the pseudonym Michelle Brandon. She is the creator of the popular historical blog, History Undressed and host on the History, Books and Wine podcast.

There are no female publishing CEOs in 1960's New York. And that is exactly what savvy, ambitious Bernadette Swift plans to change…For Fans of Mad Men, Lessons in Chemistry & The Bookclub for Troublesome Women

Bernadette Swift, a young copyeditor at Lenox & Park Publishing, is determined to become the first female CEO in the publishing industry. But first she needs to take the next step up that ladder with a promotion. Seeking a base of support, Bernadette joins a women's book club at the New York Public Library, and soon, she's inspiring her fellow members to challenge the male gatekeepers and decades of ingrained sexism in their workplaces and pursue their personal and professional dreams.

With the support of her book club buddies and a certain charismatic editor at Lenox & Park who has completely fallen for her, maybe, just maybe, Bernadette will prove able to claim victory for herself and the young women coming after her.

KAREN WHITE has almost two million books in print in fifteen different languages. She is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 36 novels. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband near Atlanta, Georgia.

Beloved New York Times bestselling author Karen White returns with a brand-new contemporary stand-alone novel about sisterhood, secrets and one woman’s reckoning with the past

As a child, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creeks near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams, and always living in the shadow of her beautiful sister, Addie. Now, years later, she is summoned back to South Carolina, to help Addie care for their ailing mother.

As Phoebe’s return lures her back into deep-rooted tensions and conflicts, she is drawn toward Celeste, whose granddaughter went missing years ago. Their connection, woven through shared losses and hope, brings comfort to Phoebe, while Celeste’s adult grandson Liam resurrects complicated emotions tied to Phoebe’s past.

But the longer Phoebe spends in her childhood home, the more her recurring nightmares intensify—bringing her closer to the shocking truth that will irrevocably change everything…

VALERIE BAUERLEIN is the author of the Instant NY Times Bestseller THE DEVIL AT HIS ELBOW. She is a national reporter for The Wall Street Journal who writes about small-town America and Southern politics, economics, and culture. She has covered the South her entire career, including nineteen years at the Journal and four years at The State in Columbia, South Carolina. She graduated from Duke University and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband and their two children.

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the true story of Alex Murdaugh’s violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who has become an authority on the case.
 
Alex Murdaugh was a benevolent dictator—the president of the South Carolina trial lawyers’ association, a political boss, a part-time prosecutor, and a partner in his family’s law firm. He was always ready with a favor, a drink, and an invitation to Moselle, his family’s 1,700-acre hunting estate. The Murdaugh name ignited respect—and fear—for a hundred miles.

When he murdered his wife, Maggie, and son Paul at Moselle on a dark summer night, the fragile façade of Alex’s world could no longer hold. His forefathers had covered up a midnight suicide at a remote railroad crossing, a bootlegging ring run from a courthouse, and the attempted murder of a pregnant lover. Alex, too, almost walked away from his unspeakable crimes with his reputation intact, but his downfall was secured by a twist of fate, some stray mistakes, and a fateful decision by an old friend who’d finally seen enough.

Why would a man who had everything kill his wife and grown son? To unwind the roots of Alex’s ruin, award-winning journalist Valerie Bauerlein reported not just from the courthouse every day but also along the backroads and through the tidal marshes of South Carolina’s Lowcountry. When the jurors made their pilgrimage to the crime scene, trying to envision Maggie and Paul’s last moments, she walked right behind them, sensing the ghosts that haunt the Murdaughs’ now-shattered legacy.

SARAH PENNER is The NY Times Bestselling author of the Instant Bestseller THE LOST APOTHECARY and THE LONDON SEANCE SOCIETY. Sarah was born and raised in Kansas​, graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree in finance. She began seriously writing in 2015. She loves to travel and is now a full-time writer. She is married to her best friend and currently resides in Florida.

Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, has come to the sun-soaked village of Positano to investigate the mysterious shipwrecks along the Amalfi Coast. But Haven is hoping to find more than old artifacts beneath the azure waters; she is secretly on a quest to locate a trove of priceless gemstones her late father spotted on his final dive. Upon Haven’s arrival, strange maelstroms and misfortunes start plaguing the town. Is it nature or something more sinister at work?

In 1821, Mari DeLuca has been plotting to run away with her lover, Holmes-a sailor aboard a merchant ship owned by the nefarious Mazza brothers, known for their greed and brutality-leaving her small town and her friends and family in grave danger without her there to protect them. When the Mazzas learn about the women of Positano, they devise a plan to kidnap several of Mari’s friends, she is forced to choose between the safety of her people and the man she loves…

As Haven searches for her father’s sunken treasure, she begins to unearth a tale of perilous love. Can she unravel the Amalfi Curse before the region is destroyed forever?

KELLY MUSTIAN is the USA Today bestselling author of The Girls in the Stilt House. She is the recipient of the Mississippi Library Association’s 2023 Author Award for Fiction, and The Girls in the Stilt House was shortlisted for the 2022 Crook’s Corner Book Prize for best debut novel set in the American South. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and commercial magazines. Originally from Mississippi, she currently lives in North Carolina.

From the acclaimed author of The Girls in the Stilt House comes a long-awaited novel both atmospheric and lyrical, a haunting Southern story about memory, family secrets, and fierce and fragile love…

For nearly thirty years, Nell has kept a childhood promise to never reveal what she and Evie found tucked inside a copy of Jane Eyre in their mother’s bookcase—a record of Evie’s birth listing a stranger as her mother. But lately, Nell has been haunted by hazy memories of their early life in Mississippi, years their reclusive mother, Hazel, has kept shrouded in secrecy.

In dual storylines decades apart, Nell, forty-two in 1971, reaches into the past to uncover dangerous, long-buried secrets, and Becca, a young mother in the early 1930s, presses ahead, each moving toward 1934, the catastrophic year that would forever link them.

From a windswept ghost town long forgotten to a river house in notorious Natchez Under-the-Hill to a moody nightclub stage, Evie’s other mother emerges from the shadows of Depression-era Mississippi…

MARSHALL WATSON founded his design firm in 1987. With more than four decades of design experience, Marshall Watson and his partners craft luxurious homes with expertise and creativity. The team at MW&RDG has designed projects across the globe, from Sweden to the Bahamas, London to Mexico, and throughout the United States from New York to California and everywhere in between. His work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Veranda, House Beautiful, House & Garden, Hamptons Cottages & Gardens, and the New York Times. He has received Traditional Home’s Designer of the Year award and has been featured on Luxe’s Gold List.

Acclaimed for his understated elegance and European-inspired style, Marshall Watson creates interiors that blend quiet luxury with true comfort.

With an in-depth knowledge of periods and styles, Watson is known for his meticulously researched designs. Watson strives to uncover special qualities found in historic structures and furnishings, and to preserve them while moving them forward into the present.

In his second book, Watson shares all-new work, revealing how his design principles adapt to different geographies and climates. Whether a light and airy seaside home, or a modern renovation of a barn in Napa Valley, Watson explains how he translates each owner’s lifestyle, the house’s history, and the setting into a highly original form of elegance.

HAZEL GAYNOR is an award-winning New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author known for her deeply moving historical novels which explore the defining events of the 20th century. Hazel’s co-written novels with Heather Webb have all been published to critical acclaim, and have been shortlisted for several international awards. She lives in Ireland with her family and is making a special trip to visit us again! We are so delighted to welcome her back.

Long before Dorothy visits Oz the woman who raised Dorothy comes alive in this Depression-era origin story that peels back the intriguing layers of Auntie Em. Emily and her husband Henry enjoy the American dream of farm life in Kansas until tragedy hits; drought, devastating dust storms and her much-loved home becomes a place of uncertainty. Their eyes widen when their orphaned niece Dorothy lands on their doorstep. When the past catches up with the present and old secrets are exposed, Emily fears she will lose the most cherished thing of all: Dorothy…

WENDY WAX a former broadcaster, is the USA Today Bestselling author of sixteen novels and two novellas including the popular Ten Beach Road series. Her novels revolve around journeys of self-discovery and the bonds of friendship that get us through the toughest times.  And while her characters deal with real life issues, Wax, like Mary Poppins, believes that a spoonful of humor helps the harsh realities go down.

A former Hollywood actress in need of a reset heads to Treasure Island, Florida. Swept up in a flourishing social life—she reunites with her spunky grandmother and acts on the sizzling chemistry between herself and Luke, a local police officer she recruits to help with the frequent break-ins at grandmothers beach house. A perfect summer read!

KRISTINA MCMORRIS is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of two novellas and eight historical novels, including the million-copy bestseller Sold on a Monday. Published by Sourcebooks Landmark, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Harper Muse, and Kensington Books, her novels have garnered more than two dozen prestigious awards and nominations, most notably the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, RWA's RITA® Award, and a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction.

A gripping tale of family, motherhood, love, resiliency, identity, and class. Celia, 1880 Portland, is an American Chinese woman, that wakes up one morning drugged, disguised, shanghaied and desperate to find a way to return to her family.

JOY CALLAWAY is an international bestselling author of historical fiction and southern contemporary romance. She formerly served as a marketing director for a wealth management company. She holds a B.A. in Journalism and Public Relations from Marshall University and an M.M.C. in Mass Communication from the University of South Carolina. She resides in Charlotte, NC.

A tale of both tragedy and triumph. World War I, Charlotte, NC. 1918. Broadway darling Calla Connolly had it all as the resident performer to cheer the troops. She inadvertently overhears a sensitive Army secret and is ordered to remain at Camp Greene for the duration of the war. Calla falls in love with the man responsible for trapping her at camp, and she's sworn to keep the secret that threatens the men she's come to care for. Calla is forced to decide what her dreams are worth-and if the future she never expected might only be possible if she lets those dreams go.

KATHERINE SCOTT CRAWFORD is an 11th generation Southerner, born and raised in South Carolina. At ten she climbed a shelf to nab her parents’ copy of Pat Conroy’s The Prince of Tides because its cover looked good and worn. Katherine double majored at Clemson University, moved to Charleston and earned a MA in English from the College of Charleston/The Citadel, studied in Italy, lived on Folly Beach, became an adjunct professor, and published her first historical novel, Keowee Valley in 2012. She was a columnist for Gannett with The Greenville News (SC) and the Asheville Citizen-Times(NC). She spent 13 years as a college English professor and earned an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

“My historical fiction is steeped in place: I want my readers transported. Always, it sparks from a scene I can’t get out of my head. With THE MINIATURIST’S ASSISTANT, I met an early-1800s girl in an old Charleston alley on a hot summer night, who begged me to Come back.”

In historic Charleston, art conservator Gamble Vance throws herself into her career restoring centuries-old miniature portraits. But one portrait haunts her: a woman in a fox stole, with familiar hazel eyes. When Gamble meets a girl in an alley, she’s convinced it’s the same woman—and it’s not the first time they’ve met…Gamble races to reconcile her complicated past, solve an art mystery, and save the people she loves across two different lifetimes…

CATHERINE MACK is the pseudonym for the USA Today and Globe & Mail bestselling author Catherine McKenzie. Her books are approaching two million copies sold worldwide and have been translated into multiple languages. Television rights to Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies and its sequels sold in a major auction to Fox TV for development into a series. A dual Canadian and US citizen, she splits her time between Canada and various warmer locations in the United States.

Attending your best friend’s wedding should be a piece of (wedding) cake, but not for Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series, murder seems to follow her every time she goes on vacation. Emma, Eleanor’s best friend is starring in the movie adaptation of When in Rome, Eleanor’s first novel. Emma is also marrying Fred Winters, a major movie star and Emma’s co-star. Filming wraps and they invite the whole cast and crew to their wedding at nearby Catalina Island. There may be a storm headed their way—because of course there is—but nothing will stop their nuptials…that is until Emma receives a note that says “Someone is going to die at the wedding.” Eleanor will do everything she can to uncover the murderer so true love can prevail before it’s too late…

MARY ALICE MONROE is the NY Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe is the New York Times bestselling author of over 30 books. Nearly 8 million copies of her books have been published worldwide, and she’s earned numerous accolades and awards, including induction into the South Carolina Academy of Authors’ Hall of Fame.

The first of two epic and triumphant novels celebrating one intrepid woman's life across multiple generations in the American South.

1908: The Lowcountry of South Carolina is at the cusp of change. Mayfield, the grand estate held for generations by the Rivers family, is the treasured home of young Eliza. A free spirit, she refuses to be confined by societal norms and spends her days exploring the vast property, observing wildlife, and riding horses. But the Great War, coastal storms, and family turmoil bring unexpected challenges to Eliza, putting her on a collision course with the patriarchal traditions of a bygone era.

1988: At 88, Eliza is the scion of the Rivers/DeLancey family. She’s fought a lifetime to save her beloved Mayfield and is too independent and committed to quietly retire and leave the fate of the estate to her greedy son. She must make decisions that will assure the future of the land and her family—or watch them both be split apart.

In conversation partner Signe Pike, is the Bestselling Author of The Lost Queen series, and her nonfiction work, Faery Tale. She was an acquisitions editor at Random House and then Penguin. The Lost Queen series is currently in development for television by the Emmy award-winning production company Made Up Stories. Pike has researched and written about Celtic history for over a decade. Her non-fiction has been published by Salon, Charleston City Paper, Book Riot and NPR.org.

MARIE BOSTWICK is a New York Times bestselling author of nineteen uplifting works of historical and contemporary fiction. Marie’s novel, “The Second Sister” was adapted into the 2018 Hallmark Hall of Fame feature film “Christmas Everlasting”, starring Patti LaBelle. Marie’s books have been published in fourteen different languages.

If you love stories about friendships, strong women, the 60's, and the power of the written word, this is the book for you. In 1963 picture-perfect suburbia, four women discover that their seemingly perfect lives are missing something essential. Bound by a shared sense of longing and dissatisfaction, they form a book club that will challenge their assumptions, ignite their ambitions, and forge an unbreakable bond of sisterhood. A powerful tribute to friendship and self-discovery, this captivating novel celebrates the power of women to find their voices and create a better future for themselves, one page at a time.

MARY MARTHA GREENE excelled with a career in government relations and politics, including serving on the staff of Governor (and, later, US Secretary of Education), lobbying, political action, business development, and consulting. Throughout her career, Mary Martha has shared her love of cooking, baking, and entertaining to aid her in making friends and influencing people in the legislative arenas. Since the publication of her first book, The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All by the University of South Carolina Press, Mary Martha has been featured on Cookbooks with Virginia with Chef Virginia Willis; appeared with Chef Jacques Pépin at the Amelia Island Book Festival’s Celebrity Author Luncheon; and interviewed her treasured friend, the late Mrs. Emily Meggett, the New York Times Bestselling author of Gullah Geechee Home Cooking at the Pat Conroy Literary Center.

The Cheese Biscuit Queen returns with signature sass, spirited stories, and 80 new recipes. Mary Martha Greene is back and serving up generous portions of fabulous Southern cooking and lively storytelling in this sequel to her best-selling book “The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All”. 

In this new book, Queen Mary Martha exclaims, "kiss my aspic!," and invites readers into her world of Southern hospitality. She tells the kinds of stories that some might wish were kept within the family, and shares recipes just as juicy and delicious as the best gossip. Greene's real-life characters sparkle with humor and Southern charm.
  Organized by course, recipes include Shrimp Remoulade Deviled Eggs, Pride of the Pee Dee Chicken Bog, Chocolate Pound Cake with Pecan Fudge Icing, Chatham Artillery Punch and more!  Charmingly illustrated with vintage photographs, and complete with a foreword by Cassandra King, author of “Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy”.

The Cheese Biscuit Queen, Kiss My Aspic! is the perfect addition to all kitchens celebrating food, family, friends, and Southern culture.

ALKA JOSHI is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times Bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick, an LA Times Bestseller, a Toronto Star and Globe & Mail Bestseller, an Indie Bookstores Bestseller, a Cosmopolitan Best Audiobook, and a Goodreads favorite. Forbes selected Alka as one of 50 Women Over 50 who are shattering age and gender norms. Alka was born in India and came to the U.S. with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts.

A novel of identity and self-discovery takes readers from Bombay to Prague, Florence, Paris and London, to uncover the mystery behind a famous painter's death.

When renowned painter Mira Novak arrives at a hospital in Bombay, she's expected to make a quick recovery, and Sona is excited to spend time with the worldly woman who shares her half-Indian identity. Mira is released from the hospital just in time to attend a lavish engagement party with all of Bombay society and invites Sona along. But the next day, Mira is readmitted to the hospital in worse condition than before, and when she dies under mysterious circumstances, Sona immediately falls under suspicion. 

Before leaving the hospital in disgrace, Sona is given a note Mira left for her, along with her four favorite paintings. But how could she have known to leave a note if she didn't know she was going to die?

The note sends Sona on a mission to deliver three of the paintings—the first to Petra, Mira's childhood friend in Prague; the second to her art dealer Josephine in Paris; the third to her first painting tutor, Paolo, with whom both Mira and her mother had affairs. As Sona uncovers Mira's history, she learns that the charming facade she'd come to know was only one part of a complicated and sometimes cruel woman. But can she discover what really happened to Mira and exonerate herself?

VIOLA SHIPMAN is the pseudonym for Wade Rouse, the internationally bestselling author of several books, which have been translated into nearly 20 languages. Wade chose his grandmother’s name, Viola Shipman, as a pen name to honor the woman whose heirlooms and family stories inspire his fiction. Wade earned his B.A. from Drury University and his master’s in journalism from Northwestern University. He divides his time between Michigan, and Palm Springs, California, and is also an acclaimed writing teacher who has mentored numerous students to become published authors.

A young romance writer makes a discovery that throws her elitist family into chaos in this sharp, witty and entirely delightful family drama.

Emma Page grew up the black sheep in a bookish household. Her parents, self-proclaimed “serious” authors who run their own vanity press, The Mighty Pages, mingle in highbrow social circles that look down on anything too popular or mainstream.

Hiding her own romance manuscript from her disapproving parents, Emma finds inspiration at the family cottage among the “fluff” they despise: the juicy summer romances that belonged to her late grandmother. But a chance discovery unearthed from her Gigi’s belongings reveals a secret that has the power to ruin her parents’ business and destroy their reputation in the industry—a secret that has already fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous publishing insider with a grudge to settle. Now Emma must decide—as much as she’s dreamed of the day when her parents are forced to confront their own egos, can she really just sit back and watch The Mighty Pages be exposed and their legacy destroyed?

Whisking you from the wealthy enclaves of the Hamptons to the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan, The Page Turner is a delectable glimpse inside the world of publishing and Viola Shipman’s most glittering achievement yet!

COLLEEN OAKLEY is the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island, You Were There Too, Close Enough to Touch, Before I Go, and The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise. Colleen’s novels have been longlisted for the Southern Book Prize twice and Close Enough to Touch won the French Reader’s Prize. Her books have been translated into more than 21 languages, optioned for film and have received numerous accolades.

Jane and Dan have been married for nineteen years, but Jane isn’t sure they’re going to make it to twenty. Her one published novel sold under five hundred copies. Worse? She’s pretty sure Dan is cheating on her. When the couple goes to an upscale restaurant to celebrate their anniversary, Jane thinks it’s as good a place as any to tell Dan she wants a divorce.

But before they even get to the second course, an activist group bursts into the dining room. Jane is shocked—and not just because she’s in a hostage situation the likes of which she’s only seen in the movies. Nearly everything the disorganized and bumbling activists say and do is right out of the pages of her failed book. Even Dan (who Jane wasn’t sure even read her book) admits it’s eerily familiar.

Which means Dan and Jane are the only ones who know what’s going to happen next. And they’re the only ones who can stop it…

RENEE ROSEN is a USA Today bestselling author. Her novels include Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl, The Social Graces, Park Avenue Summer, and several others. She is a native of Akron, Ohio, and a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C. She lives in Chicago.

She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. Barbie is born in this bold new novel by USA Today bestselling author Renée Rosen.

When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other, she knows what she’s setting in motion. In 1956, the only dolls on the market for little girls let them pretend to be mothers-Ruth’s vision for a doll shaped like a grown woman and outfitted in an enviable wardrobe will let them dream they can be anything.

As Ruth assembles her team of creative rebels—head engineer Jack Ryan who hides his deepest secrets behind his genius, and designers Charlotte Johnson and Stevie Klein, whose hopes and dreams rest on the success of Barbie—she knows they’re working against a ticking clock to get this wild idea off the ground. In the decades to come—through soaring heights, public scandals and private tensions— each of them will have to decide how tightly to hold on to their creation. Because Barbie has never been just a doll—she’s a legacy.

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY is a New York Times, Globe and Mail, and USA Today bestselling author of seventeen novels. She is the co-host and co-creator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction live web show and podcast.

Inspired by a true literary mystery, a sweeping story of a legendary book, a lost mother, and a daughter’s search for them both…

In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington’s magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book that became a national sensation. As the headlines focus on the missing author, Clara yearns for something far deeper and more insatiable: her beautiful mother…

By 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughter. When a stranger contacts her from London claiming to have discovered something that could lead to her mother’s disappearance, Clara is skeptical. Compelled by the tragedy of her mother’s vanishing, she crosses the Atlantic and finds refuge in a family retreat nestled in the Lake District and it is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind…

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AIMIE RUNYAN writes to celebrate history’s unsung heroines. She has been honored as a Historical Novel Society Editors’ Choice selection, as a three-time finalist for the Colorado Book Awards, and as a nominee for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer of the Year. Aimie is active as an educator and speaker in the writing community and beyond.

Unraveling the tangled roots of her family takes her places she never expected.

Veronica Stratton visits her parents in idyllic Estes Park for Christmas. She's fresh from a breakup with her longtime boyfriend, so she's eager to reconnect with her beloved family in the mountains and forget about her troubles for a few days. But with the holiday comes a DNA test from her younger sister that confirms her secret suspicions: she's adopted. Having the truth out in the open leaves her feeling unmoored in ways she didn't anticipate.

She plans to go to Europe to see four of the places listed on her DNA ancestry report. She treks to County Mayo in Ireland; the Dordogne region of France; the countryside of Lombardy in Italy, and Copenhagen, Denmark. She hopes to learn about where her family lived while also making connections for her rapidly expanding business, but she finds that each stop brings her visions of her ancestors that raise more questions than they answer. And among those pressing questions is how charming Irish castle keeper Niall Callahan will fit into her visions for the future…

CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 25 books. He has published somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.5 million words. His work has been translated into 35 languages and become three movies (MIDWIVES, SECRETS OF EDEN, and PAST THE BLEACHERS) and an Emmy-winning TV series (THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT). He has two other novels in development for TV series as well. He is also a playwright. He has won countless awards and accolades on his work. He lives in Vermont.

A Washington Post “Book to Watch for in 2025.”

In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger…

Virginia, 1864—Libby Steadman’s husband has been away for so long that she can barely conjure his voice in her dreams. It’s an uneasy life in the Shenandoah Valley, the territory frequently changing hands, control swinging back and forth like a pendulum between North and South, and Libby awakens every morning expecting to see her land a battlefield. And then she finds a gravely injured Union officer left for dead in a neighbor’s house. Captain Jonathan Weybridge of the Vermont Brigade is her enemy—but he’s also a human being, and Libby must make a terrible decision: Does she leave him to die alone? Or does she risk treason and try to nurse him back to health? And if she succeeds, does she try to secretly bring him across Union lines, where she might negotiate a trade for news of her own husband?

A vivid and sweeping story of two people navigating the boundaries of love and humanity in a landscape of brutal violence, The Jackal’s Mistress is a heart-stopping new novel, based on a largely unknown piece of American history, from one of our greatest storytellers.

Join us to meet not just one, but THREE bestselling authors and writing pals as they chat about their brand new books.

JOY JORDAN-LAKE is the #1 Amazon bestselling author of thirteen books and has been awarded the winner of the Christy Award for “Best First Novel”, a 2023 North Carolina Reads selection, and an Editors’ Choice recipient selection. Joy spent many a summer vacation on St. Simons Island, Georgia, a place of heartbreaking and surprising history. She holds two master’s degrees and a PhD in English and has taught literature and writing at several universities.

Echoes of Us: In the midst of World War II, a Tennessee farm boy, a Jewish Cambridge student, and a German POW forge a connection that endures―against all odds.

Everything that Will Dobbins, Dov Silverberg, and Hans Hessler fought for is at risk as their descendants clash for control of the corporation they founded together. In an attempt to remake its tattered corporate image, the firm hires event planner Hadley Jacks and her sister Kitzie to organize a reunion for the families on St. Simons Island, Georgia, the place that changed all three men’s lives forever. As Hadley and her sister delve into the friends’ past, they uncover the life of the courageous young woman who links them all together…and the old wounds that could tear everything apart.

Told in dual timelines spanning World War II and the present, Echoes of Us follows the ripple effects of war, the bonds that outlast it, and the hope that ultimately carries us forward.

CAMILLE DI MAIO is the bestselling author of Until We Meet, The First Emma, The Beautiful Strangers, The Way of Beauty, Before the Rain Falls, and The Memory of Us. She and her husband have worked in real estate for twenty-five years in both Texas and Virginia.

Come Fly with Me: Welcome to a glamorous gateway to the jet age. It’s 1962, the dawn of the jet-set era. Hope takes flight for two Pan Am stewardesses navigating an adventurous new life…

Judy Goodman and Beverly Caldwell have different reasons for putting continents and oceans between themselves and their disparate pasts, but they have the same desire―to earn a coveted position on an elite team of stewardesses for Pan American Airlines. For Judy, running away from an oppressive marriage in small-town Pennsylvania is a risk she must take. And for Beverly, leaving behind the gilded cage of New York society will allow her to pursue a future of her own making.

Judy and Beverly are bound for faraway destinations and opportunities that other women dare only to dream about. But as they build a deep friendship, encounter love and danger, and discover what’s truly important, Judy and Beverly must also confront the secrets that could change their lives all over again―and forever…

ROCHELLE B. WEINSTEIN is the USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of eight women’s fiction novels. A former entertainment industry executive, she splits her time between sunny South Florida and the mountains of North Carolina. Rochelle is the monthly book contributor for NBC’s South Florida Live, Miami’s AQUA Magazine, and Women Writers, Women’s Books and teaches publishing workshops at Nova Southeastern University.

We Are Made of Stars: Secrets, lies, and second chances are served up beneath the stars at a picturesque mountain getaway

At the Vis Ta Vie inn, Reneé and Jean-Paul De La Rue face the daunting decision to close their beloved home for good. They’re not the only ones going through a season of change, though. Their guests include three couples in crisis: Hollywood celebs Leo and Penny are spending their silver anniversary together while on the cusp of divorce. Lucy, a practical-minded therapist, and Henry, an astronomer with his head in the stars, are struggling to find common ground. And former lawyer and current stay-at-home mom Sienna and charismatic sports agent Adam look perfect but are hiding rifts of their own. Thrown into the mix are self-absorbed single mother Cassidy and her sullen fifteen-year-old daughter, Rosalie.

The stage is set for a week of betrayals, regrets, and shocking truths that can rend the heart or heal it. Vis Ta Vie―live your life―captures what it means to love through the darkness, and to find the light even after the magic fades.

ETHAN JOELLA is the bestselling author of A Little Hope- A Read with Jenna Pick, A Quiet Life, and Same Bright Stars. He grew up in Pennsylvania. He teaches English and psychology at the University of Delaware and specializes in community writing workshops and online instruction. His work has appeared in River Teeth, The Cimarron Review, The MacGuffin, Delaware Beach Life, and Third Wednesday. He lives in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with his wife and two daughters.

From the author of A Little Hope, an uplifting and emotionally resonant novel set in a beach town about a local restaurant owner at a turning point...

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s namesake beachfront restaurant and Jack has been at the helm since the death of his father. Jack puts the demands of the restaurant above all else. He can't remember the last time he sat on the beach or even enjoyed a moment to himself.
Meanwhile, the DelDine group has been snapping up beloved eateries along this stretch of coast and are pursuing Jack with a very generous offer to take over Schmidt’s.
Jack craves companionship and maybe even a family. He wonders if closing the door on the restaurant might open a new window for him. But who would he be without Schmidt’s, and can he trust that DelDine will continue to employ his staff and honor his family’s legacy?

When Jack receives startling news from the past, he begins to reshape his life and forge unexpected new friendships. But will he really let go of the very things that have defined him?

PAM JENOFF is the NYT bestselling author of Code Name Sapphire, The Woman With The Blue Star, The Lost Girls of Paris, The Orphan’s Tale, The Kommandant’s Girl, The Diplomat’s Wife, The Ambassador’s Daughter, The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach, The Winter Guest, The Things We Cherished, Almost Home, and A Hidden Affair.

She attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge University in England. Upon receiving her master’s in history from Cambridge, she accepted an appointment as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army. Following her work at the Pentagon, Pam moved to the State Department. In 1996 she was assigned to the U.S. Consulate in Krakow, Poland. It was during this period that Pam developed her expertise in Polish-Jewish relations and the Holocaust. Pam left the Foreign Service in 1998 to attend law school and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. She now teaches law school at Rutgers.

A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman’s quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this riveting novel of love and survival.

London, 1953. Louise discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is marked with the name of a department store in Paris, and she is certain she has seen the necklace before when she worked with the Red Cross in Nazi-occupied Europe —and that it holds the key to the mysterious death of her friend during the war…

Following the trail of clues to Paris, Louise seeks help from her former boss, with whom she shares a romantic history. The necklace leads them to discover the dark history of Lévitan—a once-glamorous department store that served as a Nazi prison, and Helaine, a woman who was imprisoned there, torn apart from her husband when the Germans invaded France.

Louise races to find the connection between the necklace, the department store and the death of her friend, but nothing is as it seems, and there are forces determined to keep the truth buried forever.

MARIE BENEDICT is a lawyer with more than ten years' experience as a litigator at two of the country's premier law firms. She found her calling unearthing the hidden historical stories of women. She is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Mitford Affair, Her Hidden Genius, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, The Only Woman in the Room, Lady Clementine, Carnegie's Maid, The Other Einstein, and the novella, Agent 355. With Victoria Christopher Murray, she co-wrote the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian and The First Ladies.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie―a thrilling story of the five greatest women writers of the Golden Age of Mystery and their bid to solve a real-life murder.

London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment.

May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods. What is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized murder, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation, discovering they’re stronger together…

Want to dine at the famous Caffe Piccolo on Valentine’s Day💖and listen to some Carolina Beach Music? We’ll make that reservation for you! Bring your gal pals, book club friends, or that special someone to hear about the stories behind the hits in Dr. Rick Simmons’ newest book, Carolina Beach Music.

From the author of “The Hidden History of the Grand Strand” comes a book reminiscing on soulful songs about the beach, parties, a special love, dancing or just relaxing in the sun- an honorable tribute to the music and artists of the classics that defined generations.

Just as the dances of beach music have their twists and turns, so, too, do the stories behind the hits. Carolina beach music has long been a mainstay of culture in the Southeast. Yet until the late 1960s, you needed an impressive collection of 45s if you wanted to hear those songs in your home or at a party. But beginning with Atlantic Records’ Beach Beat in 1967, that music slowly became available on albums from Bell, Warner Bros., Ripete and other labels. Through interviews and firsthand accounts, author Rick Simmons examines the stories behind those classic albums, the people who created them and the artists and songs that contributed to the phenomenon known as Carolina beach music.

DR. RICK SIMMONS was previously the George K. Anding endowed professor and director of honors at Louisiana Tech University. He is the author of more than 130 published works, including 8 books, his previous works for Arcadia Publishing, The History Press include Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Years and Carolina Beach Music from the ’60s to the ’80s: The New Wave, as well as Defending South Carolina’s Coast: The Civil War from Georgetown to Little River and Hidden History of the Grand Strand. He currently lives in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, and teaches at the Georgetown School of Arts and Sciences.

JENNIFER COBURN is the author of Cradles of the Reich, a historical novel about the strength of women's friendship and the connections that can be forged during even the most harrowing of times. She has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir, We'll Always Have Paris, as well as six contemporary women's novels. Additionally, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies. Jennifer lives in San Diego.

From the author of Cradles of the Reich comes a poignant and inspiring tale for fans of The Forest of Vanishing Stars and The German Wife about resistance, friendship, and the dangers of propaganda, based on the real story of the Nazi "show camp" Theresienstadt.

Childhood friends meet again as adults during the making of the Nazi propaganda film Hitler Gives a City to the Jews. Hannah is a Jewish prisoner, and her former friend Hilde is now working for the German Ministry of Propaganda. When the two face off, they discover who they truly are - and who they are meant to become.