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,…
Category: You need a family drama
Heather
In the myth-riddled woods of the New Jersey Pine Barrens in 1994, sixteen-year-old Annabelle Riley’s twin sister Sabrina has been having an affair with a mysterious older man and then both sisters vanish. Years later, newly instated Police Chief Callie Hauser makes an arrest that unexpectedly cracks open the cold case, sending shockwaves through generations…
Helpless
Jessica Knoll’s latest follows Faye Heron and Henry Spalding, former college lovers who haven’t seen each other in twelve years. Faye is now half of a Hollywood power couple. Henry is a married father running the family business. When a beloved college professor dies and brings them both back to campus for the funeral, old…
How to Write a Love Story
Catherine Walsh’s newest book follows Sam, an ambitious editor and total fanboy, who’s sent from his New York publishing house straight to the Irish coast to help Ciara Sheridan finish her late father’s final fantasy novel. Ciara’s legendary author dad left her with a sprawling, crumbling estate, an outline for the series finale his fans…
The Burning Side
Sarah Damoff’s The Burning Side is a beautifully layered family drama about marriage, memory, and what survives after disaster. After a house fire forces April and Leo and their young children to move in with April’s family, old wounds and buried secrets rise to the surface, testing not only their marriage but their understanding of…
Nowhere Burning
Set in the unforgiving maw of the Rocky Mountains, Nowhere Burning is Catriona Ward’s latest unsettling novel, blending isolation, cult dynamics, and simmering menace in a story that will appeal to fans of Yellowjackets. When Riley flees her uncle’s home with her younger brother to the ruins of an infamous movie star’s ranch, rumored to house feral children,…
So Old, So Young
So Old, So Young hooked me right away. The premise is strong, the writing is sharp, and so much of it immediately felt familiar. Grant Ginder does an excellent job capturing that millennial space between feeling young and realizing you’re suddenly not, especially when it comes to friendships and the passage of time. As a full-time…
Anatomy of an Alibi
Two women, Camille Bayliss and Aubrey Price switch lives for twelve hours to uncover secrets tied to Camille’s suspicious husband, Benjamin Bayliss. When Benjamin is found murdered the next morning, both women need an airtight alibi but only one of them has it. With timelines tangled and identities blurred, one wrong move could unravel everything….
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…
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…