In 1919, Frankie O’Massey is the black sheep of isolated Boone’s Ferry, Vermont, training in medicine when a mysterious illness strikes and the town suspects supernatural forces. Nearly a hundred years later, siblings Ashley and Malcolm inherit property in Boone’s Ferry after their grandmother’s death, a place she always refused to talk about. The town…
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September 2026 BOTM Predictions
September might be my favorite month to predict because it feels like the official start of fall reading. Publishers start rolling out their biggest books of the year and BOTM always leans into that cozy season energy with atmospheric picks, strong literary fiction, and the kinds of books you want to curl up with as…
September 2026 Most Anticipated
September! September might be my favorite reading month of the entire year, mostly because it’s also birthday season in my house: mine, my dad’s, my husband’s, my mother-in-law’s, and about three of my closest friends, all crammed into a couple of weeks. It’s basically a nonstop parade of cake, which means my actual reading time…
26 Most Anticipated for Fall 2026
There’s something about fall that just hits different for reading. The air finally cools off (eventually, if you live in Texas, more like “theoretically”), the TBR gets moodier, and publishers apparently know exactly what we need because September through November is absolutely stacked this year. Thrillers that feel better read with a blanket, romantasy with…
The Secrets We Hide
Welcome back to North Falls, a small town with big secrets. When gunshots ring out at 1601 Iris Drive, Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, discover a devastating scene: Allison Vickery murdered in her own kitchen and her teenage daughter bleeding and left for dead upstairs. Everyone thinks they know what…
King of Pride
Kai Young is a billionaire heir to a media empire. He’s reserved, controlled, and proper to a fault. Isabella Valencia is a bartender at the exclusive club where Kai is a member She’s bold, impulsive, purple-haired, and full of life. They’re opposites in every way and she’s strictly off limits. But the chemistry between them…
Heart of Glass
Twenty-five years ago in Seaside, Washington, Sam met three inseparable teenage girls at the local amusement park. Days later, one of them was found dead in a flooded cranberry bog, and Sam was arrested as the Carnival Killer. Best friends Barb and Nicolette moved on with their lives, one staying in Seaside as a local…
August 2026 BOTM Predictions
As the summer heat lingers and the back-to-school buzz starts creeping in, August often brings a curious mix of sun-drenched reads and introspective storytelling. It’s the perfect time for transitional fiction which are books that sit at the intersection of breezy and bold, comfort and complexity. BOTM tends to lean into that late-summer energy with…
August 2026 Most Anticipated
August is bringing the heat in more ways than one and my TBR is looking absolutely unhinged this month. I feel like every time I think the year can’t get any better for new releases, another month proves me wrong. August has a really strong mix of thrillers, mysteries, horror, and a few books that…
King of Wrath
Dante Russo is a ruthless billionaire CEO who thrives on control and never planned on getting married. That plan goes out the window when Vivian Lau’s father blackmails him into an arranged engagement with his daughter. Vivian is a jewelry heiress and event planner who agrees to the marriage out of duty to her family,…