Eden Fox is an artist on the brink of her big break when she returns from a run to find her life no longer belongs to her. Her key doesn’t work, a woman who looks eerily like her answers the door, and her husband insists that she is the imposter. Six months earlier, Birdy, a reclusive Londoner…
26 Most Anticipated for 2026
Every year I look forward to this post more than almost any other, my list of the tops books I can’t wait to read this year. There is just something about a fresh year of releases that feels full of possibility, new favorite characters, late-night reading sessions, and stories that stay with you long after…
Scythe & Sparrow
Fionn Kane, a heartbroken small-town doctor hiding out in Nebraska, just wants a quiet life after his career and almost-fiancé imploded. Rose Evans, a motorcycle-riding circus performer who moonlights as an assassin, literally crashes into his world after a job goes wrong. What follows is a messy, hilarious, and emotionally charged entanglement full of secrets,…
Is This a Cry for Help?
Darcy appears to have built a quietly perfect life: she’s a librarian, married to her wife Joy, living in a sun-filled house by the lake with two cats and shelves overflowing with books. But when she learns of her ex-boyfriend’s death, unresolved guilt sends her into a mental health crisis that forces her to step…
The Irish Goodbye
Over one Thanksgiving weekend, three adult sisters return to their childhood home on Long Island, forced back into close quarters and into the unresolved grief that has shaped their family for decades. Years earlier, a tragic accident involving their brother Topher’s boat set off a chain of events that ended in loss, lawsuits, and heartbreak…
Before I Forget
At twenty-six, Cricket Campbell feels stuck; adrift in early adulthood and weighed down by grief from a tragedy a decade earlier. When her father is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and her sister Nina suggests moving him into memory care, Cricket instead returns to her childhood home to become his caretaker, hoping to repair their relationship and…
The Gallagher Place
When Marlowe, an illustrator living in New York City, returns to her family’s Hudson Valley estate for the holidays, she’s drawn back into a past she never fully escaped. The discovery of a murder on the property reopens the unresolved disappearance of her teenage best friend twenty years earlier, forcing Marlowe to confront long-buried memories…
January 2026 Book of the Month
The first books of 2026 are here and it’s a great drop this month. With six new main picks this month and five more new/recent add-ons, I honestly think there is something for everyone. I’ve read 1.5 so far of our picks and have loved and am loving them. and have loved two of those. Narrowing…
The Future Saints
When record executive Theo discovers the Future Saints struggling through a dive-bar set, the band is barely holding together after the death of their manager. Their lead singer Hannah has reinvented their sound, channeling her grief into raw, gut-punching rock that unexpectedly goes viral. Theo stakes his career on giving them one last chance: new…
The Gingerbread Bakery
A wedding in Dream Harbor means the entire town is ready to get involved, whether anyone asks them to or not. With Jeanie and Logan preparing to say “I do,” and Kira hoping to showcase her newly renovated barn at the Christmas tree farm, everything seems perfectly on track. Annie is tasked with baking the…