In 1926, five women disappeared from a commune for spiritual mediums on a remote island in Vermont. The only trace of them was five dresses hanging from the branches of an old oak tree. Now, a hundred years later, struggling actress Marin Keane lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery…
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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…
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,…
Everything I Read in 2026
This year, I set out to read more intentionally mixing genres, discovering new authors, and embracing the stories that surprised me, made me feel, or completely took me out of my comfort zone. I’m a few books behind in my goal of reading 125 books for the year, but I think 57 reads so far…
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…
Pretty Dead Things
In 2000, Isabelle Whitmore vanished at Sherman Ranch in Anhalt, Texas, without a trace. Twenty-five years later, the annual Lone Star Princess Pageant brings old grudges roaring back to the surface as four women, each carrying their own secrets and trauma, collide under one roof. When a record-setting storm knocks out the power grid and…
Marion
Marion has stolen money from the Manhattan ad agency where she works to help her sister escape an abusive marriage, but when the bus breaks down late at night, the only place with vacancies is an old set of cabins run by a charming young innkeeper named Norm. When Norm pulls back the shower curtain…
The Last Time We Saw Her
Ten years ago, a group of teenage American summer campers came to São Miguel in Portugal’s remote Azores archipelago for a rugged hiking trip that devolved into a frenzied treasure hunt and ended with the disappearance of “it girl” camper Sydney Azulay. Now, a decade later, Sydney’s closest circle returns to the island for a…