JoJo Burton has been bad at love her entire life and she’s decided to fix that once and for all at her sister’s destination wedding on a cruise ship. Her plan: woo the neighborhood guy who was her first crush and first kiss for some long-overdue closure. The problem? She ropes in her childhood best…
Category: You Need a Beach Read
Handle with Care
Handle with Care by Marybeth Whalen follows three women who walk into a small-town post office on an ordinary spring afternoon, only to find themselves held hostage when a domestic dispute spirals out of control. A husband pulls a gun and barricades himself inside with his wife and three strangers: a young woman searching for…
Remarkably Bright Creatures
After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan takes up the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and keeping busy the way she always has, especially in the thirty-plus years since her eighteen-year-old son Erik vanished on a boat in Puget Sound. But when she forms an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a curmudgeonly giant…
The Amalfi Curse
We just booked our trip to Italy for a wedding and so of course I had to read an Italy story this weekend. Set against the dazzling coastline of Positano, The Amalfi Cure follows Haven Ambrose, a daring nautical archaeologist searching for a hidden cache of gemstones her late father once glimpsed beneath the sea….
The Love Haters
Huge KC fan, Huge! & she certainly delivers with her upcoming release, The Love Hater. Katie is faking, it until she makes it. As a video producer, she’s on the potential chopping block as her company looks to reorganize. When her boss offers her a job filming an advertisement for the Coast Guard, she jumps…
Southern By Design
Newly divorced, Magnolia ‘Mack’ Bishop was so close to her dream of securing Charleston’s prestigious Historic Preservation Design Fellowship. With the loss of that dream her mother, the original Magnolia Bishop, has secured Mack a new design job with plenty of strings attached. When a home renovation television network reached out to Mack’s design firm…
Look in the Mirror
Nina, a British professor, has recently buried her father. While going through his things she finds that he’s left her a house in the British Virgin Islands. Having never known about the house, she heads out to see what other secrets she can unearth about her father through the home. Maria, on the other hand…
The Wedding People
When a newly divorced university professor ends up being the only guest at the Cromwell Inn not a part of the wedding slated for the week. Her last-minute booking, gets her mistaken as a part of the wedding crowd, and soon she finds herself accompanying the bride and the rest of the bridal party, as…
One Perfect Couple
An atmospheric thriller with nods to Agatha Christi, One Perfect Couple follows a group of reality show contestants as their scripts get cancelled and they’re forced to admit the reality of being stuck on an island. Lyla and Nico are in a rut both job wise and where their relationship is concerned. When Nico gets…
The Rom-Commers
As a big Katherine Center fan, I’m never surprised to love her books. Her upcoming release The Rom-Commers, which comes out this summer, is going to be the perfect book to put into your pool/beach bag. Emma has put her dreams aside to care for her father after an accident that killed her mother. She’s…