This is a story of belonging as lifelong friendships continue to mature. In The Gray New Deal by Miriam Kuznets, Barry owns West House, where he and his family reunite. Doris, Ellen, Jane, Pearl, Tomas, Vihaan, and Barry have been friends since college, and now,...

Isabelle Marsden, "Belle" to everyone, is thirty-four and running from a Chicago life that has hollowed her out. In The Utterly Unacceptable Atrocity of Isabelle Marsden, Nan Sanders Pokerwinski drops her, fresh out of a job, into a Kansas town chosen almost by accident: a...

Jo-Anne Duffett’s novel, Adrift in Time, is a captivating and thrilling romance of two time travelers from two very different centuries. In 1626, Ralph Exmore, 32, of Oarlyn, England, is aboard the merchant ship Zest, bound for India. The ship is under attack by pirates...

The Youngster by Bibi Berki is a story of love, belonging, and loss. Cherry has been diagnosed with dementia. She is a single mother with only one child, Georgie, and they are more like buddies than mother and daughter. Cherry is already showing signs of...

M. E. Lange’s Pause... and Effect follows Lyndsey Barnes, a fifty-two-year-old Oregon engineer who no longer recognizes what her body is doing to her. A sudden office outburst ends her thirty-year tech career. When she finally tells her husband Connor, the conversation exposes how far...

Long Temple’s When the Chat Paused follows the four women of the Ebony M. Elite, a friendship held together through a group chat built into the rhythm of their lives. Their time together moves easily from messages into nights out, where one video of them...

In Carole Wolfe’s Run Around, attorney Angela Laing seems to have a perfect life and career as a partner in a Texas law firm and as a devoted volunteer for CASA until her past catches up with her. While in law school, she and her...

In Jennifer Hardman's What Remains of Grace, Jenna returns home after ten years. Jenna ran away from Tarpon Springs after losing her brother and built a successful company and a new life in Alpharetta. For the next ten years, Grace handled every responsibility alone, keeping...

The Steal is Book 1 of Sunset City Secrets by Ella Kane, and a great start to the series. Bella is a Reiki practitioner with dreams of becoming a screenwriter. Jason is the son of Lewis Hall, who embodies the stereotypes of the domineering father...

E. Masson and Julie G. Henry’s Selecting My Soulmate centers around Amber, a hard-working mom who is doing everything she can to raise her son, Lucas, after a difficult divorce. Between her long hours and focusing on her household, finding a partner is the last...