Set in the shadowy forests of Wisconsin, Northwoods introduces readers to Eli North, a war veteran barely keeping it together. Struggling with PTSD, alcoholism, and the wreckage of his personal life, Eli works under his mother, the small-town sheriff, in Shaky Lake. When the body of a teenage boy is discovered, Eli is pulled into…
Category: Winter 2024
The Women
It’s the late 60s and Frances ‘Frankie’ McGrath is trying to find her place in the world. When her brother is shipped off to Vietnam, Frankie impulsively signs up to server alongside him as an Army nurse. With no actually clinical experience, Frankie is thrown into the middle of the chaos. But her time overseas…
The Frozen River
Inspired by the real-life diaries of 18th Century midwife Martha Ballard, Ariel Lawhon gives readers just a glance into the life of women in post-Revolution, small town America. Often illiterate and with no prospects other than marrying and having babies, women of the late 18th century were vulnerable and tended to be given sentences (whether…
Interesting Facts About Space
Enid works for the space center. Having grown up to a single mother, unwanted by her father, and deaf in one ear, she’s no stranger to being label weird or quirky. With a manic-depressive mother, and her own paranoia, Enid is convinced something is fundamentally wrong with her. What else would explain why her father…
The Fury
Set primarily on a small private island in Greece, The Fury is the essential thriller with an unreliable narrator. With zero likable characters, and an interesting first person narrative we follow a reclusive ex-movie star and her closest friends and family to spend the East Weekend on her private Greek Island. In the vein of…
January 2024 | BOTM Predictions
The publishing world is kicking off 2024 with a bang! The sheer number of books on my TBR that release in January is ridiculous, and so many of them feel like they would make excellent BOTM picks. With so many interesting books coming out in January, I think we’ll see mostly January releases, though I…
The Heiress
When she was 3, Ruby McTavish was kidnapped and returned to her family 8 months later. As one of the wealthiest women in the Carolinas, upon her passing she left everything to her adopted son, Camdem. Camdem wants nothing to do with what’s left of the McTavish family and has spent the past decade putting…
The Expectant Detectives
Alice and her partner Joe are expecting! Having just moved to the sleepy village of Penton, renting a house sight unseen that is barely habitual, the two are barely ready to dive into parenthood. In an effort to get their life together, the two sign up for a prenatal class. But when a man is…
No One Can Know
It’s been fourteen years since sisters Emma, Juliette, and Daphne’s parents were brutally murdered in their home. None of them have spoken to each other since that night, and the house has remained empty. When Emma finds herself with no other options, she returns to the family home hoping to ignore the past. But as…