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New Adult Fiction Titles recently added to our collection 07/14/2026 |
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Ransom
by Daniel Silva
Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon searches for the missing wife of a British billionaire in the electrifying new tale of greed, corruption, and betraya. Alice Winter, one of Britain's most dazzling socialites, seemingly has the perfect life--a lavish home in posh Knightsbridge, a grand estate in Devon, millions of followers on social media who eagerly await her next post. But when she disappears without a trace while on holiday with three old friends from Cambridge, her desperate husband, the real estate baron Edward Knight, turns to none other than Gabriel Allon to find her.
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Pretty as a Peach: A Novel of Friendship, Courage, and Small-Town Secrets
by Grace Helena Walz
A rising star in Southern fiction, Grace Helena Walz returns with Pretty as a Peach, another story full of charm, sass, wit, and characters you'll want as friends. When a new beauty company threatens everything she holds dear, Delilah must find the courage to speak up and reveal the truth.
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The Sins of Summer Daughters
by Lo Patrick
Four generations of women struggle with life in a small Southern town where the heat and lack of options are oppressive and snakes hide in the tall grass. When her granddaughter is accused of murder, a woman must confront the buried secrets of a summer long past--because she can try to forget, but the Georgia land remembers. Meg Gregory never wanted to return to Tuskin, the small Georgia town she grew up in, as barren as the fields that surround it. But after her divorce left her wounded, she knew she had to quit running.
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Lady X
by Molly Fader
The search for a notorious vigilante exposes the secrets among three generations of women, from contemporary L.A. to gritty 1970s New York, in this propulsive novel hailed as an unputdownable paean to female rage and retribution. Los Angeles, 2024. After learning that her A-list actor husband sent explicit photos to multiple girls on social media, Margot Cooper runs away from the world by fleeing to her childhood home with her teenage daughter in tow. But home isn't a sanctuary.
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The Country Road Murders: A Thriller
by James Patterson
After a shocking accident, Silas Tucker's legendary football career is suddenly over in this action-packed sports thriller powered by loyalty, competition, and family. Humbled, but never defeated, he returns to his backwoods hometown, Cross Rivers, North Carolina, where his father was murdered. He goes back to what's left of his family and their small, struggling farm.
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This Changes Everything
by Lisa Scottoline
In this riveting, deeply felt and empowering thriller that is also a touching ode to female friendship a woman risks her life to help her closest friend find justice for a tragic crime and realizes she has more power than she ever knew. Julia Pritzker loves her new life as a wife and mother in beautiful Tuscany--except that she misses her best friend Courtney. One night, Julia calls Courtney and reaches her as she's arriving at her grandmother's farm in Pennsylvania. Then the unthinkable happens.
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Hot Girl Murder Club
by Ashley Winstead
What's a girl got to do to get some fame, a few million record sales, and justice for murder? Ten years ago, aspiring singer-actress Scout Sage lost the only thing that mattered: her sister, Georgia. Ever since Georgia's mysterious death at a Hollywood party, Scout's done her best to honor her memory, clawing her way through the industry and collecting a network of climbers along the way, fellow hot girls in stilettos with cutthroat ambition, a new Hollywood order.
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A Dark Path: And Other Kate Burkholder Short Stories
by Linda Castillo
For the first time in print comes a collection of five short stories in the Edgar award-winning Kate Burkholder series, PLUS one new, never-before-published story, from New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo.
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The Haul: A Heist Novel
by Gary Phillips
A professional thief takes the chance of a lifetime when he agrees to mastermind the raid of a tech billionaire's secret bunker in this action-packed heist thriller set in the heart of contemporary Los Angeles, from master of West Coast noir Gary Phillips. After years of close calls, O'Conner--the former Warlord of Willow Ridge--spends most of his time in semi-retirement, running his legitimate businesses and playing pickleball. Except for his longtime girlfriend, no one in his middle-class neighborhood is the wiser to his double life.
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Unreliable Narrator
by Araminta Hall
It's his story. But it's her life. When twenty-three-year-old Hope Jenkins arrives at the isolated, otherworldly Shadowlands estate, she's certain her life is finally about to begin. Hope is eager to spend her summer assisting the up-and-coming literary star Ambrose Rosie Glencourt, but at Shadowlands, art and danger blur into one. Rosie and his enigmatic wife, Delia, preside over a circle of glittering guests with morals as questionable as their wealth.
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The Intrigue
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a sizzling noir about desire, danger, and greed, in which seduction is the ultimate con. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People, Book Riot, Southern Living Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters in order to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico.
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The Novel Detective: A Detective Novel
by Teresa Dovalpage
A twisty, genre-bending metafictional mystery set in Cuba past and present about a writer returning to her hometown to seek the buried truth about two suspicious deaths, 2020: Teresa, a Cuban-born mystery writer now living in America, gets an unexpected call from her childhood best friend, Estrella, inviting her to Havana. Estrella is determined to get answers about a case that has haunted them both for decades: the purported dual suicides of a teacher and student at their high school.
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The Last to Drown
by Noelle West Ihli
Five days. Twenty strangers. No way out. The rafting trip was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime. But Kaia's starting to think she made a mistake. Because ever since the whispers about Camas Creek began, all she feels is dread. Seven years earlier, a guide murdered a group of rafters on this same isolated stretch of water. The killer's body was recovered downstream-but the true-crime community has never stopped asking questions. And for good reason.
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Sisterhood Above All: A #Rushtok Novel
by Kathleen Barber
Any girl would kill to be a Gamma.Barber and Shaienne's juicy, sexy, vicious collab is like America's Next Top Model stitched with The Art of War. You'll be equally riveted by the reality TV-level drama and the raw authenticity of the characters in this sure-to-go-viral sorority rush thriller. -Being a Gamma at Southern State University means belonging to the most desirable, exclusive sisterhood there is. For Ava, it means even more--it's the last connection she has to her beloved late mother, and she'll do anything to wear the Gamma letters.
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The Parisian Heist
by Jo Piazza
A propulsive dual-timeline mystery drenched in art-world intrigue and brimming with family secrets, betrayal, and the intoxicating lure of power. Emma, a struggling American artist in Paris, thought she had left her dreams behind when she took a job cleaning for the city's wealthy elite. Then she meets Stella Swanson, the widow of one of the most notorious art dealers in the business. T
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The Death Row Club
by V. A. Vazquez
A dark, dazzlingly original psychological thriller about a woman invited to an annual weekend getaway for the adult children of serial killers...but when one of the participants ends up dead, they begin to wonder if someone among them might be carrying on the family traditions. When Nicola Fischer's father is arrested for the murder of five women--including her best friend--the entire world watches it unfold on To Catch a Killer, the hit true crime TV show hosted by Greer Woods.
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Killer Vibes: The First Peter Key Mystery
by Jack Friday
A wild and wickedly funny series debut, introducing readers to the irresistible and irrepressible private investigator, Peter Key. Peter Key: self-proclaimed laziest private investigator in Texas (it's harder than it looks), unapologetic bisexual, dedicated stoner, and the surprised recipient of a windfall inheritance from an uncle he barely knew. Peter's life was a mess before, but now-- as the owner of a dilapidated house in one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Austin--he has a mountain of debt to deal with and pressure to sell from every side.
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The Romance Revival
by Christina Lauren
New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren returns with an unforgettable romance in which a fateful accident erases a troubled marriage from memory--and a scientific breakthrough gives love one extraordinary do-over. Three years ago, scientist Emery Finch did something completely out of character: She got married. To Luca--the impossibly charming landscaper she met on one blistering night in Vegas who made her laugh, made her dance, made her feel.
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Karla & Ash
by Brittainy Cherry
The highly anticipated third book in the Chances series by USA Today bestselling author Brittainy Cherry. Since her mother's death a year ago, Karla East feels as though life has forgotten her. Every day passes in emptiness--until a quiet morning in the cemetery changes everything. There she meets him: the boy with the saddest eyes she's ever seen. The boy whose silence speaks louder than words.
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Falling for You
by Natasha Madison
USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Natasha Madison turns up the heat when a night of passion brings together a man who was never looking for love and a woman who thinks she doesn't deserve it.Theo Williams loved and lost once and isn't interested in doing it again. He has his family and friends, and plenty of women passing through his new hometown who are happy with a no-strings-attached night of passion. .
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I Want You to Be Happy
by Jem Calder
A tender, witty, and sharp debut novel about the passions and peculiarities of modern love. Chuck and Joey meet in a bar. He's in his mid-thirties; she's twelve years younger. He long ago abandoned his ambition of being a novelist and works as a copywriter at a big ad agency. Lead copywriter, he corrects himself. Joey is living paycheck to paycheck on her barista wages and privately dreams of making it as a poet.
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Die for Me
by Shirlene Obuobi
I'm obsessed. --Ali Hazelwood I never wanted it to end...Stunning. --Lyla Sage What my eyes are showing me can't be possible. Can't be real. Because if they are, then I have to accept that Julian Conrad has been alive for a very long time. Too long to be human. A stay-up-all-night, smart, spicy romance following a doctor who finds herself falling for an alluring, much-younger man with a deadly secret Sean's not in the market for love.
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Extracurricular
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
When a former pop star enrolls in college, the last thing she expects is A-plus chemistry with her psychology professor in this sexy and tender romance. Ramona Wilder has spent her whole life in the spotlight. After a hit kids' TV show, she transitioned into music, singing in arenas around the world and becoming an icon for millions of teenage girls. Now at age twenty-six, exhausted by the inhumane lack of privacy, she's done--with all of it. She wants a chance at normal.
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In Stormy Weather
by Chelsea Curto
An emotional lightning strike of a book. Nothing can rain on Quincy Monroe's parade. She's a woman in STEM with a PhD in atmospheric sciences, the host of a successful online weather show, and has one million followers on her meteorology Instagram. Quincy has spent endless hours forging her path in this male-dominated field, becoming one of the best in the industry. Nothing can derail her success. Except for the ill-timed arrival of Sebastian Dunn.
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The Light of Stars: An Arranged-Marriage Regency Romance
by Jenelle Hovde
An arranged marriage. A powerful company tainted with corruption. Two souls caught between obligation and a longing to find their true calling in this Regency romance set in glittering London ballrooms and Calcutta street markets. When Kitty Grenville's grandfather announces her engagement to Sebastian Sinclair, she's appalled. She barely remembers the boy she met once as a child-
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Scary Movie Night
by Miranda Smith
In this nail-biting thriller, a horror-themed birthday party turns deadly when guests start disappearing--and the birthday girl realizes that she must face a long-buried secret to make it out alive. Buckle up. Tippi is ready for a fresh start. After breaking off her engagement to an increasingly demanding, controlling, and emotionally unstable man, she is newly inspired to do whatever it takes to put herself first.
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Not with a Bang
by Temi Oh
Station Eleven meets Leave the World Behind in this family drama at the end of the world about a crumbling household's attempts to find their way back to each other amidst a cataclysmic event. Our father had imagined the end of the world so often that, for a while, he believed that he summoned it. The Minton family is in crisis. After losing his job, Marcus begins stockpiling cans, running evacuation drills and digging a doomsday bunker in the back garden.
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The Eye of Leviathan
by M. A. Carrick
From the author of The Mask of Mirrors comes a sweeping adventure set in a world where fae secretly walk amongst those who seek to persecute them. In an alternate Spanish Golden Age, the Council of the Sea Beyond has risen to unrivaled power, exploiting the Otherworld's most precious resources for their own gain. Estevan seeks to uncover their secrets, but he risks the exposure of his own: that he is a faerie, masquerading as a mortal.
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Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die
by Mallory Arnold
From the USA Today bestselling author of How to Survive a Horror Story comes a biting slasher perfect for fans of John Tucker Must Die and The Final Girl Support Group, following three women who lure their cheating boyfriend to a remote mountain cabin, only to realize that darkness lurks within the very walls, waiting to pick them off one by one.One isolated cabin. One cheating boyfriend. One plan to get even.
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