fiction

  • It’s Not What You Think, Claire Mackintosh

    You think you know the people you love. You think you know who to trust. You think you know how a story ends. Cute. Wrong. Nadeeka is convinced Jamie is cheating. She knows the signs—she’s lived this nightmare before. So she does what any self-respecting, emotionally spiraling woman would do: she goes to confront him.…

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  • June First, Jennifer Hartmann

    June First is a forbidden, emotional romance about Brant—the boy shaped by tragedy—and June, the girl he was never supposed to love. Growing up together blurs every line between right and wrong until their bond becomes impossible to ignore. Three tragedies define Brant’s life…but at the center of all of them is one thing: June,…

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  • Older, Jennifer Hartmann

    Popping my Jennifer Hartmann cherry because all I’ve heard lately is about this book. I saved Older as a winter read, mostly because the author captures that season so beautifully that posting about it in autumn would feel like a crime. Before he discovered her age, he uncovered her heart. Seventeen-year-old Halley, bruised by a…

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  • Too Old for This, Samantha Downing

    Once upon a time, Lottie Jones was the nightmare under the bed. Now she’s just trying to win bingo without throwing her back out and keep her past buried deeper than her victims. Retirement was going so well — a fake name, a quiet town, and the most dangerous thing in her life being weak…

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  • Somebody else, Guillaume Musso

    Gosh, I wish they would translate Musso’s books into English, but if you know Romanian or French, this one’s for you. Musso is such a brilliant thriller author—sometimes I feel like he’s secretly the real-life Dexter Morgan. “There are three versions of the truth: mine, yours, and the truth itself.” Côte d’Azur, spring 2023. A…

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