Audrey Lane is perfectly fine. Mostly. After leaving a high-powered journalism career and her long-term girlfriend, she’s settled for a quieter reporting job in Shropshire—despite her ex’s relentless voice in her head judging every small choice. A little weekday drinking and an impulsive application to the UK’s favorite baking show suggest she might not be thriving after all. But Bake Expectations cracks her world open. First through Doris, a fellow contestant whose WW2-era queer love story reignites Audrey’s passion for storytelling. Then through foul-mouthed producer Jennifer Hallet—dangerous, magnetic, and impossible to resist—who awakens a fiercer, truer version of Audrey she thought she’d lost.

Residents of the rural town of Griffin face an identity crisis when a heated congressional race exposes long-simmering tensions between longtime locals and affluent gay weekenders reshaping the community. As hometown pub owner Chip Riley runs against wealthy outsider Paul Banks, political divides entangle families and friends. Chip’s devout wife Diane wrestles with her conscience as a real estate agent, while their sons confront grief, addiction, and temptation. Paul’s older husband, Stan, seeks meaning through the campaign while doubting Paul’s readiness. Spanning Memorial Day to Election Day, Town & Country explores loyalty, belonging, and what neighbors owe one another.

For fans of Survivor and Less, this fast-paced debut explores the brutal aftermath of reality TV fame. Luke Griffin first wins Endeavor at twenty-two, shortly after a car accident ends his football career. He thrives on the show, forming deep bonds and a romance, but ambition and betrayal lead to tragedy that haunts him for years. A decade later, Luke is a stay-at-home father and husband to the nation’s only openly gay senator. When his marriage implodes, Luke returns to Endeavor, forced to confront rivalries, guilt, and the cost of reinventing himself under an unforgiving spotlight.

A novel of art, desire, and mortality, Casanova 20 follows Adrian, isolated by extreme beauty that draws obsession and danger. In New York, the twenty-nine-year-old drifts through affairs that fund his life until spring 2021 brings a shock: his beauty vanishes. Across the country, his closest friend, Mark—a famed painter—returns to rural Northern California, dying from a mysterious illness that will soon claim his mother and sister. Neither confesses the truth. Feeling erased, Adrian searches his lovers for meaning, while Mark races his failing body, obsessively watching fifty-two enigmatic VHS tapes, both men confronting intimacy, exposure, and loss.

A gothic tale of magic, queer love, and inheritance, The Curse of the Cole Women follows three generations bound by a deadly legacy. Each Cole woman bears a daughter, loses her love, and ultimately walks into the sea. Ostracized since an ancestor was condemned for witchcraft, the Coles live on a New Hampshire island, tending a lighthouse that keeps sailors alive. Duty traps them there, knowing the sea will someday claim them. Told across three interwoven late-twentieth-century timelines, the novel explores mother-daughter bonds, misogyny, and whether their fate is a supernatural curse or inherited madness.

Andy plans to reinvent herself on New Year’s Eve, but instead humiliates herself, loses her phone, and has her car stolen. With only New Year’s Day left, she must fight the gentrification threatening her family’s business, fix her mistakes, and confront her attraction to the magnetic girl next door. Meanwhile, Dominique, an influencer close to a career-making brand deal, is forced to face unresolved feelings when he reunites with a former best friend. In a small town with nowhere to hide, even from cousin Andy, Dominique must decide whether superstardom is worth sacrificing love. A dual-POV romance about second chances.