LAUREN WILLIG‍ is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. An alumna of Yale University, she has a graduate degree in history from Harvard and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She lives in New York City. She is the author of The Summer Country, Band of Sisters, Two Wars and a Wedding, The Girl from Greenwich Street (2025), and many others. She also writes books with her author friends Karen White & Beatriz Williams calling themselves Team W.

For fans of Karen White’s Tradd Street series-In the sprawling Gothic expanse of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, some secrets refuse to stay buried…

Recently laid off and searching for purpose, Jess reluctantly joins her best friend on a supposedly fun nighttime cemetery tour. Separated from her group by accident, she discovers a strange, ancient key that leads to Green-Wood’s surprisingly handsome resident arborist, Adam.

Recently widowed, Adam has more to protect than the leafy residents of Green-Wood. His children, still dealing with the loss of their mother, are acting strangely. A haunting is afoot, and Jess seems to know more than she’s letting on. Sparks fly between Jess and Adam—and the unquiet spirits of Green-Wood rise from their century-long slumber.

As Jess and Adam delve deeper into the cemetery’s haunted history, they uncover a Gilded Age curse, a ghostly socialite, and more. What lies hidden in the Green-Wood’s splendid Vanderwilt mausoleum? Jess must confront a shocking connection to the past if she and Adam truly want to live happily ever after…

WADE ROUSE (AKA Viola Shipman) is the USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly and #1 internationally bestselling author of 21 books, including five memoirs, 13 novels and three holiday novellas. Wade’s books have been translated into nearly 30 languages and have been bestsellers across the world. His novels, The Secret of Snow, The Clover Girls, and A Wish for Winter, have been optioned for film and TV. Wade’s books have been selected multiple times as Must-Reads by NBC’s Today Show, Indie Next Picks by the nation’s independent booksellers as well as Michigan Notable Books of the Year. Wade was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards in Humor (he lost to Tina Fey) and was named by Writer’s Digest as “The #2 Writer, Dead or Alive, We’d Like to Have Drinks With”.

Succession meets The Family Stone in bestselling author Wade Rouse’s humorous and sharply observant look at a family teetering on the edge of merry mayhem…

The Chapmans do Christmas the way they do everything: impeccably, expensively, and with the unshakable belief that good lighting can conceal bad blood. Their annual Christmas card may look picture-perfect, but behind the polite smiles there’s a storm brewing. This year, at their grand lakefront cottage on Mackinac Island, a snowstorm traps generations of Chapmans under one roof.

Chris Chapman is on the verge of losing everything: his father’s trust, his role at the helm of the family business, and his wife’s respect.

Kat Chapman is already fed up with hosting her critical, stuck-up in-laws and their impossibly inflexible holiday traditions. Her solution? Invite her working-class parents – born and bred Islanders – for Christmas, much to the horror of the Chapmans, whose rule that “We do not share Christmas with other people” is about to be broken.

As the snow piles up, so do the grievances: their children are locked in a battle of wits, Chris’s vaguely corrupt brother Cormac and his calculating trophy wife are stirring the pot, and Kat’s mother is holding onto a secret that could upend the entire game…

SCOTT GOULD is the author of seven books. His most recent being Peace Like a River (2024). His honors include an Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction, a Memoir Prize for Books, an IPPY Award for Fiction, the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the S.C. Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Prose. His work has appeared in a number of publications; Garden & Gun, and New Stories from the South, among others. He lives in South Carolina, and recently retired from the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities.

For fans of Pat Conroy and Barbara Kingsolver comes a novel with distinctive Southern flavor and populated with a cast of unique Southern characters

May 1910. As Halley’ s Comet hurtles toward Earth, panic grips the mountains of northeast Alabama. Experts predict the end of all life, and in Fort Payne, four townsfolk face their final days.

Charlie McCracken continues his mail route up Sand Mountain, caring for an elderly Cherokee woman who escaped the Trail of Tears. His aunt Zona baptizes terrified townsfolk for a quarter each, preaching her improvised scripture. Sheriff Tyus Wetley struggles to hold his anxious town— and his marriage— together, while brothel madam Elva Shugart seeks redemption as the heavens prepare to fall.

Over four harrowing days, their paths collide in unexpected and sometimes violent ways. Beneath a Fallen Sky is a sweeping, unforgettable portrait of fear, faith, and the resilience of hope when the world seems poised to end.

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For Fans of Mel Robbins’s The Let Them Theory and James Clear’s Atomic Habits, The Peace Guidebook offers a practical, transformative roadmap for individuals, leaders, and organizations seeking to cultivate personal and collective peace, while also creating positive change in the world.

In a world that often feels divided, noisy, and uncertain, The Peace Guidebook is a soul-stirring invitation to return to what truly matters: a quieted soul, a love that reaches outward, and a life guided by collective compassion.

Rooted in authors Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino’s and Dr. Katie Eastman’s decades of work helping people through grief, change, and transition, and inspired by the Percolate Peace Project, the book delivers Ten Principles of Peace that will help you: Heal what’s unresolved within you, Navigate conflict with courage and grace, Create partnerships rooted in values and vision, Lead from love, even when the world forgets how, and Build real, resilient, peace-filled communities.

VANESSA MILLER is a USA TODAY bestselling and award-winning author whose prolific body of work spans over 50 titles that explore deep themes of redemption, resilience, and faith—often spotlighting strong Black women in pivotal moments of history. She is the author of The American Queen (a Litchfield Books Staff Pick of the year 2025), The Filling Station, The Light on Halsey Street, and many other titles. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and family. She graduated from Capital University with a degree in Organizational Communication and is currently pursuing her MFA at Queens University.

For Fans of The Help, and The Personal Librarian- Based on the real lives of Mary Church Terrell, Anna Julia Cooper, and Ida Gibbs Hunt, The Ladies Hall is a mirror into times of great change…but hope always rises. And it rises still.

1880s, Ohio. When Mary and Anna enter the Bachelor of Arts program, also known as the "gentlemen's course" of study, at Oberlin College, they have little in common other than the color of their skin and their passion for education…

While Mary was raised in luxury, attending presidential inaugurations with her wealthy father, Anna is a schoolteacher, likely the daughter of her enslaved mother's former owner, and works a second job to pay for her room and board.

From its earliest days in the 1830s, Oberlin College admitted men and women, white and Black students. Though the doors are officially open, school policy cannot change the hearts of classmates who refuse to see a woman, and especially a Black woman, excel. Despite constantly being forced to prove themselves, the women triumphantly overcome every obstacle and push through their pain.

The Ladies Hall is an ideal choice for book clubs eager to explore the intersections of race, gender, and resilience in American history.

RHONDA MCKNIGHT is the author of the 2025 Christy Award winner Bitter and Sweet and the 2024 Christy Award finalist and Emma Award winner The Thing About Home, as well as several other bestselling, award-winning novels. She writes book club fiction and romance featuring complex characters, her stories inspire and uplift women, offering heartfelt journeys of love, redemption, and resilience. She lives in South Carolina.

From award-winning author Rhonda McKnight comes a new story of faith, history, and the power of legacy that merges the romance of The Bookshop Sisterhood with the rich Lowcountry setting of Mary Alice Monroe.

Alexandra Chambers is a writer who has run out of words. Struggling with writer's block and the pressure to secure a new book deal, she wins a week in a writer-friendly cabin through a drawing held at a Lowcountry literacy center. What she finds is far more than she expected--a vibrant community brimming with inspiration, a past steeped in history and culture, and a man who both intrigues and unsettles her.

Gabe Scott, a bestselling author and the former writer-in-residence, is everything Alex feels she's not--acclaimed, award-winning, and unshakably confident. When their paths cross at the center, his literary brilliance and dedication to helping struggling Gullah students stir feelings Alex isn't ready to confront. Though undeniably attracted to him, Alex wrestles with the fear that her books pale beside his celebrated work…

ALEXIA JONES HELSLEY is an author, historian and an archivist. She loves to study and write about South Carolina’s long and unique history. She grew up in Beaufort and developed a lifelong love affair with the Lowcountry. Currently, she teaches history at the University of South Carolina–Aiken and serves as the university archivist. Among her publications are; South Carolinians in the War for American Independence, Beaufort, South Carolina: A History, Wicked Edisto: The Dark Side of Eden , Wicked Columbia, and A Girl, a Boy, and a Train in Our Prince of Scribes: Authors Remember Pat Conroy.

A vivid portrait of power, privilege, and peril in 1700’s Charleston.

Eighteenth-century Charleston was a city built on water, wealth, and whispers―where the harbor brimmed with merchant ships and war vessels and status was measured in wharves, wine cellars, imported porcelain, and family names that could open every door. This is colonial Charleston at its peak: a thriving Atlantic port fueled by rice and indigo, shaped by transatlantic trade, and held together by tightly woven kinship networks that blurred the line between commerce and political power.

At the center is Rebecca Brewton Motte―born into privilege, married into influence, and forced by fire, disease, and revolution to become far more than a genteel figure in a drawing room. Through the interconnected worlds of the Brewtons, Mottes, Pinckneys, and their allies, the story reveals how South Carolina’s elite built fortunes, constructed iconic townhouses, navigated epidemics and natural disasters, and managed sprawling plantations with enslaved labor powering every “luxury” detail.

MADELINE MARTIN is a New York Times, USA TODAY, and international bestselling author of historical fiction and historical romance with books that have been translated into over twenty different languages. She is the author of The Secret Book Society, The Booklover’s Library, Keeper of Hidden Books, The Librarian Spy, The Last Bookshop in London and many more titles.

Two women, bound by blood and betrayal, must break silence across centuries—or be silenced forever…For fans of Emilia Hart’s Weyward, Chris Bohjalian’s Hour of the Witch, and Philippa Gregory’s Tidelands

In present day, Lilith’s life is unraveling. Since her mother’s death, strange things have been happening - plants turn toward her touch, animals linger in her path, and the birthmark on her arm has started tingling. Her search for answers brings her from Savannah, Georgia to England, to the decaying Brackenmere Manor. There, Lilith discovers a legacy she never asked for and learns that history must be rewritten, or she too will die.

In 1645 Suffolk, Sybil stands accused as a witch. An educated, wealthy widow, she is branded a threat by men who fear her independence. As arrests begin and suspicion abounds, Sybil must protect her younger sister, even as betrayal takes root within her household. Across centuries, Lilith and Sybil are bound by blood and by danger. To save themselves, and each other, they must confront the silence that has stolen women’s power for generations—and dare to claim their voices before it’s too late.

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ELIZA CALLAHAN is the pen name of author friends Kim Wright and Erika Montgomery/Marks. Kim is the author of The Longest Day of the Year, The Canterbury Sisters, The Unexpected Waltz, Love in Mid Air and Last Ride to Graceland, which was the recipient of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. Kim lives in Charlotte. Erika writes women’s fiction set by the sea, among them Little Gale Gumbo, The Guest House and The Last Treasure. Her most recent novels, written as “Erika Montgomery”, are A Summer to Remember and Our Place on the Island. Erika currently lives with her family in Maryland.

Slip into your sandals and head down to Ocean Blvd, South Carolina because the sun-drenched book delivers the ultimate beach read…

August, 1962: Just before dawn, best friends Philly and Noogie flee their small farming town in a borrowed powder-blue Mustang, chasing the neon promise of Ocean Drive, South Carolina. They believe a single reckless weekend in beachside dance halls can change their lives.

And it will, just not in the way they expect.

When both girls fall for the strand’s most dazzling shagger, the unforgettable Dolvett Darling, what happens under the Boardwalk sparks a betrayal that will shatter a friendship and force a choice neither woman can escape.

October, 2000: Philly Darling’s daughters, Susie and Cyn, are barely holding together the polished lives they present to the world. Susie’s widely envied marriage is empty. Cyn’s promising real-estate career is quietly collapsing. Reluctantly reunited for Ocean Drive’s Save Our Shag celebration—where their late father will be inducted into the Shag Hall of Fame—the sisters arrive home to find their mother missing, her car gone but her packed bags left behind. Even her best friend Noogie, whom the girls have known from childhood, has no idea where Philly has gone…

RACHEL BEANLAND is the author of The House Is on Fireand Florence Adler Swims Forever, which won the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and earned her MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives with her family in Virginia.

A novel set on a remote Italian island about a navy wife’s reckoning with love, loyalty, and being torn between two lives

When twenty-three-year-old Eileen O’Malley meets charismatic naval officer Paul Archer in a Charleston department store, she doesn’t expect to fall so hard, so fast. But Paul is funny and ambitious, and soon, Eileen’s got a ring on her finger and is following him to the tiny, sun-drenched Mediterranean island of La Maddalena, where Paul will be heading up Radiological Controls aboard a submarine tender.

In La Maddalena, Eileen joins a makeshift community of navy wives who are hell-bent on making the island feel a little more like home. Still, it doesn’t take long for Eileen to be confronted with the complexities of being an American abroad. When Italian activists and scientists begin to sound the alarm about possible nuclear contamination in the water, the island erupts in a series of protests, made worse by the ongoing mishaps of the U.S. Navy. Soon, Eileen’s marriage falters and her loyalties begin to shift as she is drawn into a web of secrets—and to a local journalist who forces her to imagine a life beyond the one she’s been handed.

KARIN SLAUGHTER is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-five novels, including the Edgar nominated Cop Town and standalone novels Pretty Girls and False Witness. An international bestseller, Slaughter is published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. Her bestselling thriller series, Will Trent, is now a television and streaming sensation in its 4th season. The Good Daughter will soon be a limited series starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy, and further projects are currently in development for film/TV. Karin Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta.

Welcome to North Falls. A small town with big secrets…

1601 Iris Drive looks like any other house on the quiet, residential street. But rumors are rampant about the Vickery family, and what goes on behind closed doors.

When gunshots ring out, Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, discover a devastating crime scene. Allison Vickery has been murdered in her own kitchen, and her teenage daughter is bleeding upstairs, left for dead.

Everyone thinks they know what happened. But secrets are buried everywhere in this small town. And it’s up to Emmy Clifton to uncover the truth…

CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five books, including The Princess of Las Vegas, The Lioness, Hour of the Witch, Midwives, andThe Flight Attendant, which was a TV series starring Kaley Cuoco. His novels Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers were made into movies, and his work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. His novels have been selections of Oprah’s Book Club. He lives in Vermont with his wife and adorable dog.

When a young golf prodigy, kills a caddy with a stray ball at the country club, the investigation of this freak accident reveals a dark and shocking tale of secret affairs, and a teenager on trial…

1978: It is the first Thursday in August and temperatures are flirting with ninety when Mira Winston, eighteen years old, drives a golf ball from her tee toward the practice net near the clubhouse and caddy shack. The golf ball, weighing 1.6 ounces, tears through the net, traveling 150 miles per hour, and slams, with sickening force, into the temple of a high school junior named Kenny Foster, rupturing an artery and unleashing a torrent of blood. Kenny brings his hand to the side of his head, then topples onto his side. He’s dead before the ambulance even arrives…

In the wake of this terrible accident—and everyone, at first, agrees it was an accident—Mira looks for comfort in all the wrong places: In her lover, a married man three decades her senior. In her mother, a well-kept woman with secrets of her own. In the dead caddy’s little sisters, girls bewildered by grief. But when the investigators look more closely , a detective recalls Mira’s history of recklessness, and when Kenny’s father spies Mira with her married lover, the affluent and mannered community turns on this once-promising young woman.

A gripping story that takes the reader from the sun-soaked greens of a tony Westchester country club to the fluorescent-lit stand of a county courtroom, The Amateur asks: What happens when one small moment changes the course of an entire life?

KRISTIN HARMEL is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau, The Paris Daughter, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, and The Book of Lost Names. She is published in more than thirty languages and is the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series, Friends & Fiction. She lives with her husband and son in Florida.

Love Actually meets The Notebook in a tale of love, loss, and finding your way home, all set over the course of one life-changing week in Paris.

Julia Glover has brought her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time—but they know it will also be their last trip here together. Julia’s time is limited, and as the mother and daughter desperately try to make memories together as the clock ticks down, the world opens up around them. Piper meets a French waiter, who might just understand her better than anyone she’s ever met, and Julia meets a man at a bar and struggles with how to tell him the truth about her future…

Rock star Jackson Quick’s glory days are behind him. He had a handful of hit songs thirty years ago, but he hasn’t toured in a decade. This week, he’ll launch his reunion tour in Paris, the city where it all began. When he meets a woman who finally sees him for who he is , the ground shifts beneath his feet.

Henry McGee has been writing hit songs for decades—including Jackson Quick’s biggest hit, City of Light. But his secret is that every love song he’s ever written is for a woman named Celeste, whom he loved a lifetime ago, when they were both teenagers in Paris during World War II. He has spent 80 years believing she died—but when a letter arrives telling him the opposite, he’s on the first flight to France. Can he use the songs he’s written all these years, to remind her of who they once were to each other—and to tell her he came back for her?

Henry’s granddaughter, Melody, has just discovered that her husband of twenty years, is having an affair. When she confronts him, he tearfully apologizes and begs her to forgive him. But can she? And, perhaps even more importantly, does she want to?

These intertwining stories unfold over a few breathtaking days, as an unforgettable group of Americans in Paris must find their way to their own versions of happily ever after in the City of Light.

KELLY RIMMER is the worldwide, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of The German Wife, The Warsaw Orphan, and The Things We Cannot Say. She lives in rural Australia with her husband, two children and fantastically naughty dogs. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages.

The literary twist of Patti Callahan Henry's The Secret Book of Flora Lea meets the family secrets of Kate Morton’s Homecoming when a woman discovers a curious novel in the library of her crumbling gothic estate, whose uncomfortably familiar story ultimately brings a generations-old mystery to light.

In the aftermath of a tumultuous year, Fiona Winslow finds solace in the decaying grandeur of Wurimbirra, the rambling family estate she once called home. Intent on restoring it, she discovers the keys to more than just the dilapidated mansion—beneath the crumbling plaster and dust are secrets that have been buried for a generation…
When a curious book, The Midnight Estate, catches her attention in her late uncle’s library, the lines between fiction and reality blur, Fiona must ask herself: Is the true mystery the one hidden within the walls of her ancestral home, or is it within the pages of a book that chose her as much as she chose it?
Set against the Gothic backdrop of the estate, Kelly Rimmer, bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say, weaves an intricate and compelling tale, inviting readers into the heart of a family’s deepest secrets with an absorbing book-within-a-book mystery.

JOHN SEARLES is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of four novels. His books have been published in over a dozen languages and have been voted “Best of the Year” or top picks by Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Salon and the American Library Association. A frequent contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post, John was a top editor at Cosmopolitan for two decades, first hired by Helen Gurley Brown (fun photo- left). This novel is John’s love letter to women's magazines and to Helen. It is a book he has always wanted to write that is joyful, funny and full of charm.

An infectious and utterly charming fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown’s early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, and the intrepid group of women she took under her wing to create one of the most talked about magazines of all time.

In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown 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 anyone’s timeline but their own, and, even more radically, to enjoy their sex lives, gloriously free of shame. Upon the book’s publication, half the country is outraged (her mother, for one, hates it), 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 shot: 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 lines: the gorgeous Book Editor’s doomed romance with a man she didn’t know was married—and her bold idea for revenge. The (unofficial!) Sex Editor’s trip to soak in the world’s first champagne glass hot tub, which takes a very wrong turn. The Entertainment Editor’s clash with Joan Crawford and interview with a Park Avenue call girl that leads to unexpected revelations. Single Girls begins at the dawn of Helen’s storied tenure and journeys back to her youth, envisioning the devastations and people who forged her into a controversial legend.

CHRISTINA CAPRI is a debut author who lives just outside of Charleston, South Carolina with her husband, two incredible children, two doglike cats and their golden retriever Queso. She always has a romance novel in her hands or in her ears and is so happy to finally be sharing the ones she has in her head.

Readers who love Emily Henry, and Annabel Monaghan’s Bestseller- Nora Goes Off Script will fall in love with this debut romance. WALK OF FAME will grab you and not let go…A perfect summer beach read!

Emma Watts has never had luck on her side. She works hard to keep her head above water, but her life feels like Groundhog Day. So when she hears about a movie casting call, she goes—desperate for something different in her life. When she lands an acting job on a fluke, she finds herself cast alongside Jacob Morrow, a newly minted Hollywood heartthrob who makes it impossible to see the line between their characters’ feelings and their own.

Jacob Morrow is as dreamy as the character he plays, and he takes his costar Emma under his wing as he coaches her through acting, shooting a series, and love scenes. As his character falls for Emma’s, Jacob finds himself falling, too. The more he has to act like he’s hopelessly in love, the more he realizes that there just might be nothing “fake” about them.

ELIZA KNIGHT is an award-winning and USA Today and international bestselling author of historical women’s fiction. Her love of history began as a young girl when she traipsed the halls of Versailles. As an avid history buff, she’s written dozens of novels including Confessions of Grammar Queen,The Mayfair Bookshop, Starring Adele Astaire, Ribbons of Scarlet, A Day of Fire, and Can’t We Be Friends, which have been translated into multiple languages. She has also written novels under her pseudonym Michelle Brandon.

Daisy Jones and the Six meets Where’d You Go Bernadette in an epic & nostalgic new story

Summer, 1969. Eleanor Bell, a widow, has always given everything she had to her family, forgoing her own dreams of becoming a singer. When she receives a diagnosis of early Alzheimer’s on the eve of her sixty-ninth birthday, she decides to go on an epic musical bucket-list trip to fulfill her dreams…

Except she forgets (maybe on purpose), to tell anyone where she’s going. Leanne discovers her mother Eleanor is missing, and she enlists the help of her college-aged daughter, Nora, to help find her. But then Nora hears something strange on the radio—her grandmother’s voice. Nora and Leanne embark on a road trip in a Lincoln Continental from Atlanta, to California, Denver, Seattle, back to New York, and then New Orleans, always one step behind Eleanor, who has been dubbed the Dame of Rock n’ Roll by none other than Johnny Carson. It's an epic celebration of savoring the encore no matter what the next act may bring.

RUTA SEPETYS is an internationally acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction published in over sixty countries and forty languages. Ruta is the author of the New York Times Bestsellers Salt to the Sea, Between Shades of Grey, Out of the Easy, Fountains of Silence, I Must Betray You, The Bletchley Riddle and more. She is the Winner of the Carnegie Medal and honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Ruta gives voice to underrepresented history and those who experienced it. She has been invited to present at NATO, European Parliament, the U.S. Capitol, the Library of Congress, and embassies worldwide. Ruta alternates her time between the hills of Tennessee and the flats of Florida.

The daughter of an automotive magnate escapes to an artistic retreat that holds more secrets—and more intrigue—than she could have ever imagined, in this 1920s-era novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea.

Detroit, 1927. A city of smoke and ambition, where glittering wealth conceals a graveyard of secrets. Marjorie Lennox is the youngest daughter of a powerful automotive dynasty, a family known for money, not manners. Marjorie has long been dismissed by her controlling father and self-absorbed siblings. But when she secretly applies to an exclusive arts program funded by an elusive benefactor, she sees a chance to redefine herself on her own terms.
The building is grand. The participants are gifted. But something…is off.
The program is uncomfortably restrictive. Doors lock at odd hours. Strange sounds echo through the halls amid whispers that women are disappearing. And the handsome benefactor—mostly absent, yet somehow everywhere—begins to unnerve her. As Marjorie’s sense of self begins to slip, so does her grip on the truth. What happens to women who don’t fit neatly into a gilded frame? Set against the crumbling grandeur of 1920s Detroit and inspired by actual, long-buried historical events, A Fortune of Sand is a haunting mosaic of glamour and grift—a novel about those who vanish, and those who demand to be seen.

LORI GOLD is the author of Love Theodosia, Romantic Friction (HarperCollins, 2025), one of Zibby Media's "Most Anticipated Books of 2025," a Zibby Media 2025 Summer Read Pick, and an NPR Book of the Day, and four novels for young adults. She lives in Massachusetts, where she fosters a writing community through her creative writing classes, book coaching, and writing retreats. She has been an instructor at Grub Street in Boston for the past ten years.

Kiss, Marry, Kill follows three best friends as they play a spin on the game of “kiss, marry, kill” at their company’s summer outing, only to wake up the next morning to discover they’ve each done just that. Perfect for fans of Holly Gramazio's The Husbands.

In the “real world,” quiet, indecisive Aubrey is heartbroken over things ending with her fiancé. In the new reality ushered in by the game, Aubrey finds herself in bed, naked, next to their company’s newly hired graphic designer.
Practical, straight-laced Ilena, on the brink of a divorce, wakes up six months pregnant and married to their company’s general counsel.
Mallory’s philosophy is to ask neither forgiveness nor permission. Yet the reckless behavior of their biggest investor crosses lines even Mallory didn’t know she had. Especially since she’s been secretly sleeping with him for the past year. She’s mad enough to kill. But in this world, he’s already dead.

Told alternately from the perspectives of these three best friends, ultimately asking: Do our choices define us, or do we define our choices?

NATASHA LESTER is the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress, The Paris Orphan, and The Paris Secret, and a former marketing executive for L’Oréal. Her novels have been international bestsellers and are translated into twenty-one different languages and published all around the world. When she’s not writing, she loves collecting vintage fashion, practicing the art of fashion illustration, and traveling the world. Natasha lives with her husband and three children in Perth, Western Australia.

A sheltered young woman living at the Chateau Marmont falls under the spell of a scandalous, secretive man as all of Hollywood's glamour swirls around her—a stunning feminist reimagining of Jane Eyre from the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress.

In 1957, newly orphaned Aria Jones is sent to live with her aunt, a fading star who hides away in Hollywood's infamous Chateau Marmont. There, two aspiring actresses, Calliope and Flitter, take grieving Aria under their wing. Aria's first few nights reveal an insidious secret that continues to haunt her as she grows up in the hotel's halls, where the bright lights of Hollywood cast even darker shadows.

The hotel is bought by Theo Winchester: a reclusive rockstar turned unexpected caretaker of his daughter Adele, and unlike any man Aria has met before. To earn the last bit of money she needs to escape, Aria becomes Adele's tutor, which brings Aria closer to Theo and ignites a passion she never expected. Suddenly, Aria finds herself wondering if she still wants to remain invisible—and if inviting trouble is a risk she's willing to take to pursue what she truly desires.

ANGELA SHUPE is an award-winning author whose essays and articles have appeared in several publications, along with featured short stories in various literary publications. Angela is an active member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association and the Historical Novel Society. Holding a bachelor of arts in English from the University of Detroit, Angela has worked as an editor for a publishing company and as a communications coordinator for a public school district. In the Light of the Sun is her debut novel.

Two sisters, separated by oceans and global conflict, are bonded through music and love in this gripping novel based on true events from World War II.

The Philippines, 1941. Young and gifted, Italian Filipina Caramina Grassi dreams of becoming an opera singer like her older sister, Rosa, and their Nonna before her. But when the Japanese military invades, Caramina's family is forced to flee to the mountainous Luzon jungle. Finding comfort in her music, she must find the strength to not only survive but fight to protect her siblings and overcome the devastation of war.
Meanwhile, amidst the opulence of the Florentine opera, budding star soprano Rosa Grassi is soon to debut professionally. As Italy falls deeper under the shadow of Mussolini and his henchmen, Rosa discovers that secrets run rampant in times of war. When Nazi jackboots march on Florence, Rosa joins la Resistenza to fight the Germans and Duce’s regime. In a time when family or friend could be foe, Rosa will learn that performing isn’t just for the stage. Facing deep betrayal, she’ll risk everything to protect the one she loves. Based on events inspired by the author's family history throughout the war.

MARY KAY ANDREWS is The New York Times bestselling author of Summers at the Saint, The Homewreckers, The Newcomer, Hello, Summer, Sunset Beach. The High Tide Club, The Beach House Cookbook, The Weekenders, Beach Town, Save the Date, Ladies’ Night, Christmas Bliss, Spring Fever, Summer Rental, The Fixer Upper, Deep Dish, Blue Christmas, Savannah Breeze, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies, and Savannah Blues. A former journalist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Pack your bag for a summer read filled with mystery, romance, intrigue, travel, cozy pubs, and hot men with accents!!

Maeve and Therese Dunigan are sisters, but the two have been estranged for years. They could not be more opposite: Maeve is the rule-follower and Therese is the rebel. But when their mother's death brings the family back together, the two find that they have inherited a painting, one that could be worth millions and could save each of them from the wolves at their door.

The only issue is whether it’s real or a fake, and the only way they can prove that theirs is the real McCoy is to solve the mystery of how this portrait of an Anglo-Irish aristocrat made its way to their childhood home in Savannah, GA. This means a road trip to Ireland, to their family roots, and to a mysterious crime that occurred generations ago. With tensions simmering, the two hit the road and find themselves on twisty lanes, in colorful villages, at local pubs, and with handsome men. Can Maeve and Therese actually survive the journey without killing each other?

HEATHER WEBB is the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of seven historical novels, including The Next Ship Home, Queens of London, and Strangers in the Night. Heather’s books have been translated to over a dozen languages. She lives in New England.

A story of possession and obsession, and the curse of the legendary Hope Diamond.

1919, Washington D.C. Elisabeth Beaumont comes from a renowned jeweler family, but after the untimely death of her brother, she’s left on her own to run the failing family business. Desperate for work, she approaches the affluent crowd her brother once courted to expand Beaumont Jewelers. Their ringleader is wealthy socialite Evalyn McLean, owner of the world’s most infamous gemstone, rumored to curse all who travel within its orbit…The Hope Diamond.

As Elisabeth is swept into Evalyn’s toxic world of dark opulence, she’s no longer certain she wants to take over the family business and be beholden to the wealthy elite of D.C. But she can’t fathom leaving her father in the lurch. There’s also the Hope Diamond, which beckons Elisabeth to admire it, touch it, care for it, despite every warning she’s been told. When tragedy strikes one night, her carefully constructed glamorous new life comes crashing down. Now Elisabeth must face the truth about her brother's death and decide what matters most. 

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is the New York Times, USA TODAY, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of fourteen novels, including Beach House Rules and the Peachtree Bluff series. A Happier Life is in development for film with MGM/Amazon, The Summer of Songbirds is in development for television with Hulu, and many of her other projects are in various stages of option or development for film and television. Her work has received numerous accolades. Kristy is the cocreator and cohost of the hit weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction with fellow New York Times bestselling authors Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry. She is also the cofounder of the award-winning interiors site Design Chic, with her mom. She lives on the North Carolina coast.

After the worst day in her professional life, burnt-out NICU nurse Daisy Stevens runs to Cape Carolina, North Carolina, looking for a new life—and possibly new romance. On her first day at her “simpler” job, high school baseball coach Mason Thaysden discovers an abandoned baby, sending ripples through the entire tight-knit town of Cape Carolina.
Mason is still struggling to reconcile the scars of the injury that kept him out of the big leagues, stuck in his hometown, and searching for a way out. This newcomer and the child they’ve saved together might be just the motivation he needs to stay put. Sparks fly as Mason acquaints Daisy with Cape Carolina, introducing her to his friends and family, including his batty Aunt Tilley, who is looking for relief from long-buried family secrets and her own fresh start.
But as Daisy becomes increasingly attached to this abandoned child, a startling discovery is made that threatens to rip the entire town of Cape Carolina apart, placing Daisy, Mason, and Tilley in the center of the storm.

NICOLA HARRISON was born in England and moved to California where she received a BA in Literature at UCLA before earning an MFA in creative writing at Stony Brook. She is a member of The Writers Room, has short stories published in The Southampton Review and Glimmer Train and articles in Los Angeles Magazine and Orange Coast Magazine. She is the author of Montauk, Hotel Laguna, and The Show Girl.

1956: On idyllic Balboa Island, just off the California coast, life seems peaceful and welcoming. But the lives of three women begin to unravel in shockingly different ways…

Milly Kinkaid's plan to fix her crumbling marriage seems to be falling apart before it even begins. She believed that moving her young family from Hollywood to Balboa Island might entice her increasingly distant husband to come home earlier after work. Instead, he's barely coming home at all.
Society matriarch Sylvia Johnson and her husband have been pillars of their community for decades, and have just recently begun a new business venture: The Island Club, a place for members to swim, play tennis and dine in style. But when she learns that he has been risking their financial security and putting their family's future in grave danger, she's not only poised to lose the club, but the entire community she holds dear.
Meanwhile, standoffish loner Adele Lambert's entire world is on the brink of being destroyed if the dark secrets of her past and her hidden identity is revealed…

BRITTANY BUTLER is a former CIA targeting officer with years of experience recruiting spies and dismantling terrorist networks overseas. She brings rare authenticity to her fiction, drawing on her time in the field to illuminate the moral complexities of espionage. Her debut novel, The Syndicate Spy, explores how female operatives navigate religious and cultural divides to fight for peace.

This electrifying new thriller from former CIA officer and TikTok sensation Brittany Butler is the perfect geopolitical thriller for fans of David McCloskey and Alma Katsu.

When a wave of Russian cyberattacks ignites a disinformation firestorm, the United States is pushed to the brink of a civil war. As trust crumbles and chaos spreads, the CIA races to expose the source behind such unrest before democracy collapses from within. 

Brilliant, relentless, and haunted by her mother’s disappearance, Ava was recruited for a moment like this. Dispatched to infiltrate Russia’s foreign intelligence service, her mission becomes personal when she locks onto her target, Konstantine, a charismatic SVR officer whose shadowed past intertwines with her own.  What Ava uncovers is more insidious than she feared. With the country unraveling, she must navigate a minefield of deception. Her only anchor is Ben, a veteran counterintelligence officer with complicated romantic feelings for Ava. But in a world where nothing is as it seems, trusting the wrong person could be fatal…

LISA PATTON is the bestselling author of five novels, and a Tennessee native who spent time as a Vermont innkeeper until three subzero winters sent her speeding back down to the South. She has over twenty-five years of experience working in theater, radio, TV, and music, including a decade with Doobie Brother Michael McDonald, who, along with his wife Amy, helped Lisa cowrite and produce “If Not for You,” an original song for her novel Kissing the Sky. A graduate of the University of Alabama, Lisa is the proud mother of two sons, eight bonus children, and twelve grandchildren. She lives in Nashville.

From the bestselling author of Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter comes a soulful, nostalgic novel about a young woman coming of age in the ‘60s to the blare of the music that shaped a generation.

It’s the summer of ’69. While her peers revel in free love and rock and roll, Suzannah is home from college, sequestered inside her conservative Southern home. Her domineering father has condemned rock music and driven away her best friend. But everything changes when her free-spirited best friend, Livy, resurfaces, urging Suzannah, a talented singer, to join her for three days of peace and music in upstate New York. Fed up with her father’s rules and fearful for her brother’s fate in Vietnam, Suzannah agrees to the road trip, sneaking off without her parents’ knowledge.

Miles outside her comfort zone, the electrifying bedlam of Woodstock jolts her into a journey of self-transformation. Suzannah’s falling hard for Leon, a boy she meets at the festival, and the seductive bud of first love conceals a thorn of heartache. Lies uncover betrayal, and Livy’s wild behavior leads to a startling revelation…

LEAH WEISS is a bestselling author born in eastern North Carolina and raised in the foothills of Virginia. At age 70, she published her debut novel, IF THE CREEK DON’T RISE in August, 2017; it has sold over 200,000 copies and was selected as a Library Reads, Indie Next and SIBA Okra Pick. It was honored as a 2018 finalist for the Library of Virginia’s Literary Fiction and People’s Choice Awards and nominated for the Southern Book Prize.

Summer, 1980. Kate Shaw has lived in Baines Creek for ten years, teaching at a one-room schoolhouse on the brink of closure. A skeptic by heart, she rejects superstition and the belief in Appalachian folklore, much to the chagrin of Birdie Rocas, a lively and reclusive woman with a trove of secrets. Yet when Birdie dies and leaves Kate a trunk of illuminated manuscripts and journals, Kate is thrown into a mystery, overwhelmed by a collection that spans centuries back to Scotland.

Enter Lydia Brown, a psychic with a curious birthmark whose visions stopped the day her parents died. She travels to Appalachia in search of Birdie. From there, the two women’s stories intertwine, as they investigate the questions surrounding Birdie’s death and legacy, through secret rooms, underground tunnels, and back country graveyards.

MARYBETH MAYHEW WHALEN is the author of the recent, Every Moment Since and nine previous novels. Marybeth received a BA in English with a concentration in Writing and Editing from NC State University and has been writing ever since. She is a mother of of six-who are now all in various stages of adulting. Marybeth now calls Sunset Beach, NC home. 

On a quiet spring afternoon, an ordinary small-town post office becomes ground zero for a domestic dispute. A husband draws a weapon and seals the doors, holding four women captive: his frightened wife, a young woman searching for meaning amid uncertainty, a mother on the brink of letting go, and an elderly woman concealing a secret that could shatter everything she knows.

Each of the three women who walked into the post office is carrying something that, if mailed, would profoundly change her life. As minutes become hours in this daylong siege, these strangers forge lasting bonds. Handle with Care shines a light on hope found even in the darkest moments, and illuminates how even strangers, thrown together by chance and hardship, have the power to change each other's lives.

KELLY SCARBOROUGH spent two decades as an attorney, and then began writing historical novels about fascinating women who lived in challenging times. Her passion, took her to Swedish castles and archives. Her debut novel, a tragic love story about two star-crossed lovers, a countess and a prince, is based on real-life characters who lived in Sweden in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. It’s for fans of Philippa Gregory, Outlander, and Bridgerton. Kelly lives on the Connecticut Shoreline and in South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

Based on a true story and set in early 1800s Europe- from the lavish ballrooms of Stockholm to the elegant manor houses of the Swedish countryside.

In the opulent world of the Swedish royal court, Jacquette Gyldenstolpe walks a dangerous tightrope between romance and political intrigue. Neglected by her parents and ostracized by the people around her, the young countess falls in love with Prince Oscar, heir to the Swedish throne—but their passionate affair has far-reaching consequences. By the time Jacquette learns that the Butterfly Game is not for the faint-hearted, it is too late. For she has a secret—one as precious to her as it is potentially devastating to the crown—and she will stop at nothing to protect it.

PAUL ATTATWAY is the author of the Best Seller "Blood in the Low Country". Paul and his wife, Lyn, met in college at Georgetown University and were married after Paul graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law. They moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1988 where Paul embarked on a thirty-year business career before retiring so he could write fiction. Paul now lives in Charleston, South Carolina.

Eli, a celebrated chef, and Walker, a lawyer, are brothers, living in Charleston, SC, building families and careers, each affected by a gruesome murder twenty years ago. The hunt for the killer, in the public’s eyes, cemented Eli and Walker in roles neither wanted—Eli as the savior and Walker in need of a savior. Walker sees a chance to play the hero when he takes on the Governor of South Carolina as a client, Johnny Dunsmore, the eldest son of a politically powerful family. For fifty years, Johnny’s father Colin Dunsmore carefully crafted an image for the family, intent on placing Johnny in the White House. But Walker uncovers a history of deceit and murder that defines the family, and as he pulls at strings, Colin Dunsmore’s tapestry of lies begins to unravel.

Confronted with the Dunsmore’s ruthlessness and the knowledge that they will stop at nothing to win, Walker turns to Eli and together they embark on a cross-country race with the Dunsmores to secure the secrets, that if revealed, would upend their empire…

BEN REIVER was born and raised in the New York City metro area. After the events of September 11, 2001, he became a New York City police officer in order to serve his city and country. His assignments included patrol in Rockaway, Queens, the NYPD Harbor Unit, and the NYPD Special Operations Division. Aside from policing, he is an avid writer, photographer, loves to travel, cook, and creates weather forecasts for a well-known meteorologist. Ben is a member of the NYPD Honor Legion for a rescue he conducted with his partners during Hurricane Irene in 2011, and is currently retired. He now resides in Myrtle Beach.

Take a journey into the destiny of a young boy born and raised in New York, whose path is shaped by a string of seemingly impossible, but true events. Born with a gift and inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, he's put on a collision course with Hurricane Irene to take part in a harrowing rescue never tried before in the modern-day history of the NYPD Harbor Unit. A high-seas drama unfolds that not only illustrates the challenge between man and an unforgiving environment when lives are at stake, but the equally dangerous perils of cop versus administration, before, during, and after a miraculous rescue.