June 2024 - New Fiction
General Fiction
15 Summers Later
by RaeAnne Thayne

Ava Howell's husband leaves her after she publishes a best-selling memoir that describes what happened to her and her sister and must rebuild her life with her sibling, who is in love with a man whose dad died protecting her.
A Is for Amish
by Shelley Shepard Gray

Four siblings leave their divorced, lapsed-Amish father for the stability and sense of family provided by their Old Order grandparents in a peaceful small-town in Ohio, in the first novel of a new series by the author of Hopeful.
All the Summers in Between
by Brooke Lea Foster

The acclaimed author of Summer Darlings and On Gin Lane returns with the story of two former friends who after a chance reunion in the Hamptons are compelled to confront the traumatic incident that severed their bond.
The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
by Briony Cameron

An indentured servant to the infamous Blackhand, a ruthless pirate captain, Jacquotte, as she struggles to survive his brutality, must rely on her wits, resourcefulness and friends when she discovers treachery at play, forcing her to decide what price she's willing to pay to secure a better future for them all.
Bear
by Julia Phillips

Trapped on a remote Washington island with their dreams out of reach, two sisters clash when a mysterious bear arrives swimming in the channel, forcing them to confront their conflicting desires for escape and connection.
Becoming Ted
by Matt Cain

A Lancaster man working at his family's ice cream company must reinvent himself and his life when his husband Giles sudden leaves him for another man, in the new novel by the author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle.
The Borrowed Hills
by Scott Preston

In the rugged, rural landscape of northwest England, two neighboring shepherds, to reverse their fortunes, set their sights on a wealthy farm in the south with its flock of prizewinning animals until a lawless outsider sets in motion a savage conflict that threatens the ancient ways of Lakeland fells.
Brat
by Gabriel Smith

Mourning the death of his father, Gabriel moves into his parents' house to clear it out but is instead taken on a surreal and mysterious journey where he finds unfinished manuscripts that change and a video hinting at long-buried secrets.
Bright and Tender Dark
by Joanna Pearson

Decades after the murder of nineteen-year-old college student Karlie Richards, her former roommate, now middle-aged and divorced, becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth amidst online conspiracy theories, speculation and the lingering shadows of the past.
Caledonian Road
by Andrew O'Hagan

A celebrated art historian and professor sees his life come crumbling down during a year in London in this biting portrait of British class, politics and money as told through the lives of five interconnected families.
The Coast Road
by Alan Murrin

In 1994 Ireland, when poet Colette Crowley returns home to pick up the pieces of her life, but is denied access to her children, she turns to her neighbor, Izzy, who acts as a go-between, but soon, this friendship leads to tragedy for one and freedom for the other.
A Daughter of Fair Verona
by Christina Dodd

The eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet rejects the betrothal planned by her parents and tries to find the groom-to-be a more suitable bride.
Devil Is Fine
by John Vercher

Inheriting a former plantation from his estranged white grandfather forces a grieving biracial man to confront his family's dark past and his own identity, in the new novel from the author of Three-Fifths.
Enlightenment
by Sarah Perry

Two unlikely best friends in Aldleigh, England investigate the mystery of a vanished 19th century explorer uncovering a devastating tale of love and scientific pursuit, in the new novel from the author of The Essex Serpent.
Eruption
by Michael Crichton

Two of the world's most popular and prolific modern authors team up for a thriller about a history-making eruption in Hawaii that threatens to reveal a huge secret the US military has been hiding for decades.
Fire Exit
by Morgan Talty

Consumed by a long-held secret about his daughter across the river on the Penobscot Reservation, Charles Lamosway grapples with his past, a lost love and the burdens of family as he searches for redemption. as he searches for redemption.
Fondant Fumble
by Jenn McKinlay

Helping professional football players Keogh and Tyler open a Fairy Tale Cupcakes Bakery franchise, Mel, when the two athletes are accused of murdering the owner of their team, must prove their innocence before it's game-over for the new bakers.
For the Love of Summer
by Susan Mallery

Fearing she's losing her teen daughter to her“other family” a Seattle salon owner is shocked when her ex-husband is arrested and her daughter convinces her to take in her stepmother, desperate for a friend.
Four Squares
by Bobby Finger

A gay writer living in New York realizes he is lonely and befriends a rambunctious group of elders at the local center for queer seniors, in the new novel by the author of The Old Place.
The Future Was Color
by Patrick Nathan

In 1950s Hollywood, when George Curtis, a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack scripting monster movies, is offered a political writing residency at a famous actress's estate in Malibu, he discovers that behind this decadent lifestyle lurks the real monsters.
The Glassmaker
by Tracy Chevalier

From the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day, this spellbinding novel follows Orsola Rosso and her family of glassblowers as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, and how through every era, the Rosso women ensure their work, and their bonds, endure.
Godwin
by Joseph O'Neill

A technical writer living in Pittsburgh with his young family is pulled into a scheme with his half-brother to recruit a soccer phenom in Africa to play for his team in the United Kingdom, in the new novel by the author of Neverland.
Hey, Zoey
by Sarah Crossan

A woman's life is upended when she discovers her husband has purchased an $8,000 AI sex doll he's hidden in the garage, but her conversations with the doll lead her on a journey of self-discovery.
Hombrecito
by Santiago Jose Sanchez

Wracked by his mother's abandonment and navigating his queer identity, a Colombian-American man seeks healing in New York and Colombia, confronting his father and past to discover his mother's hidden truths and the true definition of home.
How to Age Disgracefully
by Clare Pooley

The quirky members of the Senior Citizen's Social Club join forces with the tiny members of the daycare next store to thwart the city council's planned sale of the building housing both centers.
How the Light Gets in
by Joyce Maynard

After her husband's death, Eleanor returns to her New Hampshire farm to care for their brain-injured son while facing family tensions, personal struggles and national events, in the follow-up to Count the Ways.
Husbands & Lovers
by Beatriz Williams

Two women, separated by decades and continents, but sharing an exotic family heirloom, search for their lost loves and reclaim secrets, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Summer Wives.
In the Hour of Crows
by Dana Elmendorf

Gifted with the ability to talk the death out of the dying, 20-year-old Weatherly, when she's unable to save the mayor's son and the whole town suspects she was out for revenge for her cousin Adaire's murder, must prove her innocence and find Adaire's killer, no matter what it takes.
Iron Star
by Loren D. Estleman

A pioneering film star searching for a cinematic story that will launch his career, Buck Jones approaches a retired Pinkerton detective to set the record straight about the larger-than-life Deputy U.S. Marshal Iron St. John to tell the truth about this part-time hero in the American West.
Jackie
by Dawn Clifton Tripp

This intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention offers a glimpse into the world of a deeply private woman who led many lives, forging a legacy out of grief and shaping history even as she was living it.
Jackpot Summer
by Elyssa Friedland

When the four Jacobsen siblings, all struggling in life, win the lottery, becoming overnight millionaires, the once close-knit siblings search for comfort in shiny new toys instead of each other until they start to realize they'll never feel rich unless they can pull their family back together. Original.
Last Summer on Sunset Lane
by Kristy Woodson Harvey

A young woman finds the family she has always yearned for during a transformative summer in North Carolina and finds herself in a house that has protected the secrets, hopes and dreams of the women who have lived there.
The Last Twelve Miles
by Erika Robuck

During the Prohibition Rum Wars, which created a booming smuggling economy, two women masterminds—Elizebeth Friedman, the inventor of cryptanalysis working for the government, and Marie Waite, on the rise to rumrunner royalty to save her family—will go to any lengths to rule the Gulf Coast.
Little Rot
by Akwaeke Emezi

When a sex party brutally upends the lives of three old friends, they are sucked into the underbelly of a corrupt Nigerian underworld where they look for a way out of the trouble they've instigated amidst power, sexual violence, murder and betrayal, testing how far they'll go to save each other—or themselves.
The Love Shack
by Lori Foster

The owner of The Love Shack Animal Haven, Berkley Carr, still feeling the sting of scandal from her youth, keeps crossing paths with her handsome neighbor, Lawson, and in a town full of matchmaking busybodies, she must learn to let past hurts go and embrace the love she deserves.
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
by Kirsten Miller

When Lula Dean, trying to rid public libraries of “pornographic” books, starts her own lending library in front of her home, Lindsay, the daughter of Lula's arch nemesis, sneaks in nightly, secretly filling it with banned books wrapped in “wholesome” dust jackets, changing the lives of those who borrow them in unexpected ways.
Malas
by Marcela Fuentes

When her beloved grandmother passes away, 14-year-old Lulu is drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family and a curse that reverberates across generation as one woman must make peace with the past and one girl must embrace her future.
Margo's Got Money Troubles
by Rufi Thorpe

When an affair leads to an unexpected pregnancy, Margo, the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, finds herself on her own with an infant, and in desperate need of cash, starts an OnlyFans account that turns her into a runaway success, which soon comes with a high price.
The Material
by Camille Bordas

While attending the Chicago Stand-Up program, a band of outsiders bound together by the need to laugh, and the longing to make others laugh harder, wonder if the visiting professor—high-profile, controversy-steeped comedian—will help or harm their cause.
Moral Injuries
by Christie Watson

Inseparable friends for 25 years, Olivia, Laura and Anjali, when an eerily similar tragedy to the one they covered up years ago strikes their teenaged children, must decide how far they can stretch their friendship before it snaps as everything they've built threatens to crumble around them.
Nice Work, Nora November
by Julia London

Once clinically dead after a terrible accident she doesn't remember, Nora November, after waking up from a coma, creates a reverse bucket list that includes cooking, quitting her job and bringing her grandpa's garden back to life?—?one that leads her to a reckoning with the truth she almost hid from herself.
Parade
by Rachel Cusk

A new novel follows G, an artist whose life contains many lives.
The Phoenix Ballroom
by Ruth Hogan

A wealthy widow, 74-year-old Venetia Hargreaves declares her independence, first with a makeover, then by adopting a dog and then by buying the Phoenix Ballroom to revive one meaningful thing from her past, finding a supportive and loving community of lost souls who become a multigenerational family-by-choice.
Resurrection
by Danielle Steel

A successful influencer and one part of a power couple on the international stage, 42-year-old Darcy Gray, after her perfect life comes crashing down, must stay indefinitely in France during an escalating worldwide health crisis and, through her newfound friendships with others who are stranded, begins to see glimpses of new possibilities.
The Road to the Country
by Chigozie Obioma

In 1960s Nigeria, Kunle, when his younger brother disappears as the country explodes in civil war, sets out on an impossible rescue mission, which becomes a journey of atonement that will see him forced to fight a war he hardly understands while navigating the prophecies of a local Seer.
Same As It Ever Was
by Claire Lombardo

Finally at age 57, Julie Ames feels she has a firm handle on things, but a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her teenaged daughter and a seductive resurgence of the past threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor's edge.
Sandwich
by Catherine Newman

While on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.
The Seaside Sisters
by Pamela M. Kelley

Retreating to her aunt's oceanfront house in Chatham, Cape Cod, for the summer to get her creative juices flowing, best-selling author Hannah and her sister Sara spend the summer making friends, rekindling romance and opening themselves up to the magic of books and the beach.
The Secret Keeper of Main Street
by Trisha R. Thomas

In 1954 Mendol, Oklahoma, a Black dressmaker with the gift of“second sight,” Bailey Dowery, when she touches the hand of bride-to-be Elsa, she's horrified by what she sees, and against her better judgment, helps Elsa, which puts her at the center of a murder investigation that threatens everyone she loves.
Shelterwood
by Lisa Wingate

In 1990 Oklahoma, Valerie, a Law Enforcement Ranger reporting for duty at Horsethief Trail National Park, is immediately faced with the long-hidden burial site of three children, and working with the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police, unearths old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.
Soldier Sailor
by Claire Kilroy

Spending her days in baby groups, playgrounds and supermarkets, Soldier doesn't know who she is anymore until a chance encounter with a former colleague feels like a lifeline to the person she used to be but can hardly remember.
The Sons of El Rey
by Alex Espinoza

While Freddy Vega struggles to save his luchador father's gym, his son Julian seeks professional and romantic fulfillment as a Mexican American gay man refusing to be defined by stereotypes, in this intimate portrait of a family wading against time and legacy, yet always choosing the fight.
Stuart Woods' Smolder
by Brett Battles

When he is drawn into a case involving a ring of art thieves, which has links to his own mother's paintings, Stone Barrington must draw out a familiar enemy and face down his most vindictive threat yet.
The Summer Escape
by Jill Shalvis

Finding herself racing against the clock with Owen Harris, a sexy, enigmatic adventurist, to prove her beloved father innocent of stealing a million-dollar necklace, Anna Moore, even though they are on opposing sides and suspicious of each other, cannot deny the chemistry between them.
Swan Song
by Elin Hilderbrand

When a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious and overly extravagant Richardsons, social mayhem ensues in the tight-knit Nantucket community, but when their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island must save the day—and their way of life.
Swift River
by Essie Chambers

In 1987, the only Black person in all Swift River after her Pop disappeared seven years ago, Diamond Newberry, receiving a letter from a relative she's never met, is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, gaining a sense of her place in the world and in her family.
Tehrangeles
by Porochista Khakpour

On the verge of landing their own reality show, Iranian American multimillionaires and L.A. royalty Ali and Homa Milani, owners of a microwaveable snack empire, and their four daughters realize their deepest secrets are about to be dragged out into the open before the cameras even roll.
The Year of What If
by Phaedra Patrick

Visiting a fortune teller before her wedding, Carla Carter, when it is revealed that a different man holds the key to her happiness, someone she met 21 years ago, she embarks on a journey to find her perfect match, hoping a face from her past will help break her family's curse.
You're Safe Here
by Leslie Stephens

In 2060, the WellPod, a fleet of floating personal paradises focused on health, solitude and relaxation are scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean, and Noa, when her pregnant fiancée signs up for the program, discovers a history of faulty tech and dangerous cover-ups and will do anything to keep her safe.
Mystery / Suspense
All the Colors of the Dark
by Chris Whitaker

After a string of disappearances in 1975 Missouri, a one-eyed boy heroically thwarts a kidnapping, igniting a chain of events that blur the lines between triumph and tragedy as the townspeople of Monta Clare confront hidden truths.
An Art Lover's Guide to Paris and Murder
by Dianne Freeman

After a footbridge collapses at the Paris Exposition, the American-born Countess of Harleigh discovers one of the victims died of stab wounds, in the seventh novel of the series following A Newlywed's Guide to Fortune and Murder.
Assassins Anonymous
by Rob Hart

After giving up his paid assassin gig and joining a twelve-step program for reformed killers, Mark is attacked and forced on the run from New York to Singapore while he chases down clues that point to who is after him.
Blood in the Cut
by Alejandro Nodarse

Home from prison, ex-con Iggy Guerra races to save his family's failing butcher shop and his father who got in too deep with a group of poachers who are hunting an animal rights investigator in the Everglade swamps.
A Botanist's Guide to Society and Secrets
by Kate Khavari

Despite unresolved feelings, an expert botanist in 1923 London investigates when the brother of her ex is being investigated for a poisoning murder in the third novel of the series following A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality.
Clete
by James Lee Burke

After his car is ransacked at a local car wash, Private investigator Clete Purcel probes into a group of Mexican cartel thugs trafficking fentanyl into New Orleans the latest installment of the long-running series following A Private Cathedral.
The Comfort of Ghosts
by Jacqueline Winspear

In 1945 London, psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs visits a vacant Belgravia mansion where she finds four adolescent orphans and a demobilized, gravely ill soldier and as she tries to bring comfort to them all, she is forced to examine her own painful past and the beliefs she has always accepted as true.
Dead Tired
by Kat Ailes

New mom Alice and her friends from her prenatal group join an eco-protest and investigate when one of their fellow protestors is found strangled, in the second novel of the series following The Expectant Detectives.
Death in the Air
by Ram Murali

Disgraced after being forced out of a high-profile job under mysterious circumstances, lawyer Ro Krishna seeks rejuvenation at a luxurious Indian spa, only to become entangled in a series of murders among the elite guests.
Devil's Kitchen
by Candice Fox

A seasoned fire rescue team by day and secret high-stakes thieves by night races to pull off their biggest heist yet at New York City's largest private storage facility while an undercover agent tries to stop and expose them.
Don't Let the Devil Ride
by Ace Atkins

A Memphis wife and mother hires an old friend of her father, legendary private investigator Porter Hayes, to search for her missing husband and the pair uncover a dangerous knot of international intrigue involving mercenaries, retired actresses and imposters.
Farewell, Amethystine
by Walter Mosley

Los Angeles detective Easy Rawlins investigates when the ex-husband of his ex-lover, Amethystine Stoller, turns up dead and his only friend at the LAPD goes into hiding, in the 16th novel of the series following Blood Grove.
The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
by Ellery Lloyd

Fifty years after runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby perished in an accidental studio fire in Paris, two Cambridge art history students stumble across proof that the fire was no accident, which threatens the very foundation of Juliette's aristocratic family and revives rumors of the infamous curse that has haunted them for generations.
Flashback
by Iris Johansen

Twenty years after their mother was the second victim of the Bayside Stranger, two sisters disappear leaving Kendra Michaels to investigate the cold case, in the 11th novel of the series following More Than Meets the Eye.
Holy City
by Henry Wise

A deputy sheriff in rural Southern Virginia must weigh his personal guilt and his public duty when an innocent man is arrested in the brutal murder of an old friend and an unpredictable female detective is hired to assist him.
The Housemaid Is Watching
by Freida Mcfadden

The New York Times best-selling author presents another addictive psychological thriller in the series in which the Housemaid, now with a family of her own, moves to the suburbs, leaving her dark secrets behind, but soon finds this seemingly perfect neighborhood the most dangerous place of all.
Love Letters to a Serial Killer
by Tasha Coryell

Writing to William, a handsome lawyer accused of murdering 4 women, 30-something Hannah, using this an outlet for pent-up frustration and rage, is consumed by obsession when he writes back, and when he's acquitted, she moves in with him while secretly investigating him for serial murder.
Man in the Water
by David Housewright

After his wife finds the body of an Army veteran in the lake, former cop, now unofficial P.I. Rushmore McKenzie is drawn into the investigation at the request of the victim's daughter who believes her father was murdered despite the insurance companies claiming it was suicide... a case that turns ugly fast.
Market for Murder
by Heather Graham

In Edinburgh, where murder victims are being dissected and sold for spare parts, Special Agent Luke Kendrick and Carly MacDonald, with the clock ticking on every organ being harvested, are running out of time—and people they can—trust to catch the killers before they themselves are put on ice.
Middle of the Night
by Riley Sager

Returning to his childhood home 30 years after his friend Billy's disappearance, Ethan, plagued by strange occurrences, sets out to find out what really happened that night and, reunited with former friends and neighbors, finds his investigation leading him to a mysterious institute where clandestine research is performed.
Middletide
by Sarah Crouch

When Dr. Erin Landry is found hanging from a tree on his property?—. death ripped straight from the pages of his own novel, failed writer Elijah Leith, with the town turned against him, must fight for his innocence against a cunning enemy dead set on framing him for murder.
The Midnight Feast
by Lucy Foley

During the opening weekend of The Manor, a luxe coastal retreat built on top of old secrets, those in attendance all have an agenda but not everyone will survive.
Murder Buys a One-Way Ticket
by Laura Levine

When she finds the body of her client, a wealthy gym chain owner who was a tyrant and a bully with an ego as big as his muscles, Hollywood-writer-for-hire Jaine Austen is the prime suspect in the murder and must track down the real killer before the train reaches its destination.
The Nature of Disappearing
by Kimi Cunningham Grant

A fishing and hunting guide in Idaho's endless woods, Emlyn, when her ex-boyfriend asks for help finding Janessa, her former best friend, agrees to use her tracking skills, and as they press deeper into the wilderness, she suspects a darker truth?—?and that Janessa isn't the only one in danger.
The Next Mrs. Parrish
by Liv Constantine

With her husband Jackson getting out of prison, prominent socialite Amber Patterson Parrish, when an enemy from her past emerges looking for revenge, she, Jackson and Jackson's ex-wife Daphne become unlikely allies but when all is said and done, they'll have to fight for everything they have left in this zero-sum game.
That Night in the Library
by Eva Jurczyk

Gathering in the basement of their university's rare books library on the night before graduation, seven students, preparing to perform a ritual said to free those who take part in it from the fear of death, find themselves trapped with a killer with nothing but the books to protect them.
One Deadly Eye
by Randy Wayne White

When a cataclysmic event hits Sanibel Island, setting Russia's most dangerous prisoners free, including a notorious serial killer, Doc Ford, with a lot at stake, including his family and hipster pal, Tomlinson, teams up with an enigmatic British inventor bent on revenge to survive the 12 hours of chaos that follow.
One of our Kind
by Nicola Yoon

Moving their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, hope to find a community of like-minded people, Jasmyn, perplexed and frustrated by most residents' outlook, discovers a terrible secret about Liberty and its founders and must save her loved ones from embracing the Liberty way of life.
The Paris Vendetta
by Shan Serafin

When his CEO literally goes up in flames at the Paris conference, investment banker Adam, with his career going up in smoke and now a suspect, finds the one woman who can save him and, discovering a powerful syndicate has a target on his back, must rely on his companion's killer instincts.
The Paris Widow
by Kimberly Belle

When her husband goes missing after an explosion in the city square, Stella, after learning he's on the French police's radar as a dealer of rare and stolen antiquities with a long roster of criminal clients, won't leave Paris until she has the full story... no matter how dangerous.
Peg and Rose Play the Ponies
by Laurien Berenson

While in Kentucky to sell her Thoroughbred broodmare's offspring at a high-stakes yearling sale, rival sisters-in-law Peg and Rose discover something seems off about Six Oaks farm, and when the yearling manager with serious anger issues is murdered, the ladies enter the ring to expose the culprit.
The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh
by Claudia Gray

When someone tries to kill his esteemed great-aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Jonathan Darcy and his investigative companion Miss Juliet Tilney, with the attempts escalating, must provoke two confessions: one from the attempted murderer before it's too late—and one, perhaps, of love.
Pitch Dark
by Paul Doiron

In pursuit of mysterious fugitive Mark Redmond, who's responsible for drugging him and killing a bush pilot, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch, to stop Redmond and his daughter from reaching the Canadian border, soon discovers his enemy is prepared to kill his own child rather than have her taken from him.
The Queen of Poisons
by Robert Thorogood

When the affable mayor of Marlow is murdered by aconite—“The Queen of Poisons,” Judith Potts, a cantankerous septuagenarian, and the other elderly ladies of the Marlow Murder Club, finally seen as boons to the village's police department, set out to solve their most difficult case yet.
Red Sky Mourning
by Jack Carr

When three seemingly disconnected events are about to ignite a power grab unlike anything the world has seen, Navy SEAL sniper James Reece, to save America, must reconnect to a quantum computer called “Alice” who is positioned to act as either the county's greatest savior or its worst enemy.
Red Star Falling
by Steve Berry

Searching for the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible, rare manuscripts that contain the key to ending a looming threat orbiting 200 miles above the earth, Luke Daniels must find them before others, both inside and outside of Russia, unleash the destructive potential of the Red Star program.
Requiem for a Mouse
by Miranda James

When his bride-to-be's new employee, a shy, peculiar woman named Tara, is viciously attacked, librarian Charlie Harris takes a break from wedding preparations to find the culprit, discovering shocking glimpses into Tara's past he could've never predicted that could delay his and Helen Louise's happily ever after.
Sentinel
by Mark Greaney

Sent to Ghana to protect U.S. embassy personnel who are there to highlight American commitment to the construction of a new dam, Josh and Nikki Duffy, when the Chinese get involved, find themselves on the run, caught between a Chinese hit squad and a rebel army.
Shadowheart
by Meg Gardiner

When two serial killers—Efrem Judah Goode, imprisoned in Tennessee, and the Broken Heart Killer—are locked in a twisted rivalry, FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix must unravel the connection between them, trapping her between a manipulative psychopath and a ruthless UNSUB and forcing her to dive into two dark and depraved minds.
Shanghai
by Joseph Kanon

After escaping the Gestapo, Daniel Lohr arrives in Shanghai, where glamor and squalor exist side-by-side, and as he tries to navigate through his uncle's world in the city's fabled nightlife, he tries to stay one step ahead of murder and outrun his own past.
Smoke and Mirrors
by M. E. Hilliard

While inventorying the personal collection of a deceased magician in NYC, librarian-turned-sleuth Greer Hogan, determined to solve her husband's murder, finds her investigation has struck a nerve when she's attacked and turns to a magician named Grim to shine a spotlight on a killer before she's next.
Some Murders in Berlin
by Karen Robards

Assisting the Kripo in solving a series of murders in Nazi Germany, Dr. Elin Lund, an expert in psychological profiling, when the killer realizes she's figured out who he is, must join Denmark's Jews, along with her family, who are being smuggled to Sweden that very night to survive.
A Stranger in the Family
by Jane Casey

DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent investigate when the parents of a 9-year-old who vanished from her bed 16 years prior are both discovered dead, in the 11th novel in the series following The Close.
The Stranger in the Library
by Eva Gates

When a reproduction of a famous painting is stolen from a traveling show of impressionist art, librarian Lucy is painted into a corner when a murder occurs, while Louise Jane is captivated by handsome art dealer, who might be the killer... and the person threatening to break her heart.
Such a Bad Influence
by Olivia Muenter

When her 18-year-old sister Evie, a multimillionaire lifestyle influencer, disappears during an unsettling live stream, Hazel, as theories tear through the internet, inspiring hashtags, Reddit threads and podcast episodes, must visit the darkest parts of Evie's world to find the truth.
A Talent for Murder
by Peter Swanson

A newlywed becomes suspicious of her husband after finding a blood streak on the back of a shirt he wore to a conference and discovers a disturbing pattern of unsolved murders in all the cities he's visited.
Tell Me Who You Are
by Louisa Luna

When Nelson, a troubled young man, confesses he's going to kill someone and that he knows who she really is, psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange, when a woman goes missing, becomes the prime suspect, and to prove her innocence, must confront a past she's spent her entire life trying to forget.
Trust Her
by Flynn Berry

Building a new life in Dublin with their young children, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian are drawn back into the IRA conflict when Tess is told she must track down her old handler from MI5 and attempt to turn him into an IRA informant or lose everything.
The Unwedding
by Ally Condie

Recent divorcee Ellery Wainwright, while staying at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, finding the place beautiful, yet unsettling, especially when a mudslide traps her and the other guests with a murderer who has something horrific in store for them all.
What You Leave Behind
by Wanda M. Morris

Returning to her childhood home in Georgia, Deena Wood, when a landowner fighting to keep his family's land, dating back to the Civil War, disappears, and his property is quickly put up for sale, exposes a deadly scheme of illegal land grabs and property redevelopment that threatens her community and family.
You'll Never Find Me
by Allison Brennan

Working alone, P.I. Margo Angelhart, when she takes on a seemingly simple case of proving a wealthy husband is a cheater to void a prenup, is forced to team up with her estranged siblings when her investigation becomes much more than she bargained for?—?and reconciliation is her only hope at survival.
Romance
The Art of Catching Feelings
by Alicia Thompson

Heckling baseball player Chris Kepler, who proves there actually is crying in baseball, Daphne, to apologize, reaches out to him on social media, but forgets to identify herself as the heckler, and as they form a friendship that leads to more, she wonders if she'll strike out when she tells him the truth.
Curvy Girl Summer
by Danielle Allen

Approaching her thirtieth birthday, Aaliyah seeks love through a dating app with her friends' support, but finds unexpected connections amidst the lies, catfishing, fetishizing and overall chaos of online romance.
Experienced
by Kate Young

Reeling from a breakup, Bette decides to explore the queer dating scene, something she missed in her twenties before she realized she was gay and is surprised when her journey takes her to unexpected places.
Fiasco
by Constance Fay

A woman of many aliases, Cynbelline Khaw is offered a bounty on the kidnapper who killed her cousin if she partners with the crew of the Calamity in the second novel of the series following Calamity.
Finding Mr. Write
by Kelley Armstrong

A woman writing under a male pseudonym lands a huge book deal but finds herself falling for the man she hired to pretend to be her, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling Darkest Powers.
Hot Summer
by Elle Everhart

A woman cast as a contestant on an island dating reality show plans to win by wooing the voting public until she meets Ada, a gorgeous fellow contestant who really is looking for a genuine relationship.
Isabel and the Rogue
by Liana De la Rosa

Sent to London to uncover British intelligence that might aid Mexico during the French Occupation, Isabel Luna Valdés meets her match in a rakish English captain, in the second novel of the series following Ana Maria and the Fox.
Just Some Stupid Love Story
by Katelyn Doyle

While at her fifteenth high school reunion, Molly Marks, who writes Hollywood rom-coms for a living but thinks“romance” is a racket, encounters Seth, whom she ghosted after graduation, and after too many drinks and a drunken hookup, makes a bet that challenges everything she thought she knew about love.
Leather & Lark
by Brynne Weaver

When he botches a job for his boss's biggest client, contract killer Lachlan Kane realizes he'll never make it out of the underworld until Indie singer-songwriter Lark Montague offers him a deal: use his skills to hunt down a killer and she'll secure his freedom... if he marries her.
Looking for a Sign
by Susie Dumond

Grey, a single queer woman determined to find her future spouse, consults with an astrologer who advises her to go on a date with someone of each zodiac sign before her 29th birthday to find her most compatible match, learning about her own needs, desires and sense of adventure along the way.
A Love like the Sun
by Riss M. Neilson

A privacy-loving homebody gets help from her internet famous friend with an international brand as the pair pretend to be dating to help boost her family's local Providence shop for natural hair, discovering real romance beneath their friendship.
Match Me if You Can
by Swati Hegde

While writing for Mumbai's top women's magazine, fashionista Jia Deshpande works to get a greenlight for her new matchmaking column, but when her attempts at office matchmaking go awry, risking her friendships and her relationship with a close family friend, she must reevaluate her own thoughts on love.
Not in Love
by Ali Hazelwood

A successful biotech engineer, Rue Siebert, when a hostile takeover and its front man, Eli Killgore, threaten to bring her stable, hard-fought world crashing down, is torn between loyalty and undeniable attraction when they embark on a forbidden, no-strings-attached affair that proves all's fair in love and science.
A Novel Love Story
by Ashley Poston

When her car breaks down traveling to her annual book club retreat, a superfan of romance novels finds herself stranded in the quaint, but fictional town of Eloraton, the site of her favorite series, looking for her own story.
One Last Summer
by Kate Spencer

Arriving at Pine Lake Camp for a much-needed escape, Clara runs into Mack, her old camp nemesis and constant competitor, and when one wildly passionate night turns into many more, she must decide if the life she's always wanted is the life that makes her feel truly alive.
One-Star Romance
by Laura Hankin

Discovering Rob, the best man at their best friends' wedding, wrote a one-star review of her new novel, she hopes they'll never meet again, but when they are forced together for their best friends' celebrations over the years, they grapple with the fact that your harshest critic can become your perfectly imperfect match.
Our Little Secret
by Lisa Jackson

Breaking off her brief affair with Gideon Ross, who threatens he'll never let her go, Brooke Harmon, after a year goes by, wants to believe it's all behind her but the fear hasn't disappeared—and she's right to be worried because Gideon is a man who keeps his word.
Pardon my Frenchie
by Farrah Rochon

Managing her successful doggie daycare, taking care of her teen twin sisters and blowing up on social media, Ashanti, when the world's worst dog hater shows up, finds everything she's worked for hanging in the balance and must make nice with the infuriating man, learning a few new tricks about falling in love.
The Rom-commers
by Katherine Center

Hired to write a rom-com screenplay with her hero, movie-writing legend Charlie Yates, Emma, arriving in LA, discovers he's a jerk and doesn't even believe in love and refusing to go down without a fight, she decides to write her dreams into reality whether he likes it or not.
Seven Summer Weekends
by Jane L. Rosen

Inheriting a property on Fire Island, along with a list of eclectic guests, tying her to the island for seven summer weekends, advertising exec Addison Irwin, constantly butting heads with her surly neighbor, must choose between picking up where she left off or embracing entirely new possibilities.
A Shore Thing
by Joanna Lowell

A former painter and unreformed rake working in bicycle sales in Victorian Cornwall accepts an illustration commission from a feisty botanist who enlists his help in convincing an all-male cycling club to allow women to join.
Summer Romance
by Annabel Monaghan

A professional organizer whose own life is a mess, newly single mom Ali Morris meets a man who looks at her like she's a version of herself she hasn't been in a long while and decides there's no harm in a little summer romance—or is there?
Tangled Up in You
by Christina Lauren

Raised on a homestead and off the grid for most of her 22 years, Ren, who has never held an iPhone or engaged in social media, attends Corona College where she's partnered with Fitz, a handsome, rich player, for a simple assignment, which unexpectedly throws both their lives off course.
Triple Sec
by T. J. Alexander

Convinced love doesn't exist, Mel, a bartender at a swanky NYC cocktail lounge, changes her mind when she becomes a throuple with Bebe and Kade, a fun romp that gives her the self-confidence to try things she's never thought possible, discovering real love is more expansive than she ever thought possible.
Under Your Spell
by Laura Wood

With her life a disaster, Clementine Monroe, during a drunken night out with her sisters, revives a childhood ritual called the Breakup Spell and finds herself accidentally ruining a funeral, having her first one-night stand and stuck spending six weeks alone with very off-limits rock star, Theo Eliott.
Speculative
Apostles of Mercy
by Lindsay Ellis

The nations of earth are working together to fight an alien civilization called the Superorganism that is threatening to destroy humanity in the third novel of the series following Truth of the Divine.
The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
by Carissa Broadbent

A prisoner in her own kingdom, Oraya, grieving the only family she ever had, realizes she cannot trust anyone until Raihn, a Turned king, offers her a secret alliance that is her only chance at reclaiming her kingdom and exacting revenge on the love who betrayed her.
The Cautious Traveller's guide to the Wastelands
by Sarah Brooks

When the Trans-Siberian Express takes a new set of passengers across the Wastelands, home to miraculous and terrifying creatures, the rules of the magical landscape change and the travelers must trust each other as the wildness outside threatens to consume them all.
Cuckoo
by Gretchen Felker-Martin

In 1995, seven queer teens abandoned at a desert conversion camp face an ancient evil that haunts them for years, forcing them to reunite to stop it before it consumes the world.
The Eyes Are the Best Part
by Monika Kim

With her life in disarray after her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure, Ji-won, plagued by horrifying yet enticing dreams of bloody rooms full of eyes, is overcome by hunger and rage that can only be sated by deceit, manipulation and murder as victims accumulate around her college campus.
Daughter of Calamity
by Rosalie M. Lin

By night, Jingwen navigates Shanghai's glittering underbelly as a showgirl and bootlegger, but a gruesome mystery forces her to confront ruthless competition and the city's dark secrets to save herself and her fellow dancers.
Daughter of the Merciful Deep
by L. Penelope

Mute since armed riders expelled every Black family in town, Jane Edwards seeks assistance from a strange man with uncanny abilities to help fight the construction of a dam that will wash away her new home.
The Daughters' War
by Christopher Buehlman

Defying her family's wishes and joining the army's untested new unit, the Raven Knights, Galva marches toward a once-beautiful city overrun by the goblin horde, accompanied by fearsome black birds that may hold the key to stopping the goblins in their war to make cattle of mankind.
Echo of Worlds
by M. R. Carey

Rupshe, an artificial intelligence believes the end of the universe is near and assembles a team to search the multiverse for the Mother Mass who can save them all in the second novel of the series following Infinity Gate.
Foul Days
by Genoveva Dimova

Hunted by her ex, the Tsar of Monsters, Kosara the witch is forced to trade her shadow to make a quick escape, losing her powers and causing a deadly sickness only curable by reclaiming her magic.
Gryphon's Valor
by Mercedes Lackey

Gryphon hero Kelvren returns from the border between Valdemar and Pelagirs Forest barely living through a near-fatal self-sacrifice that caused a diplomatic crisis, in the second novel of the series following Gryphon in Light.
Horror Movie
by Paul Tremblay

The only surviving cast member of a notorious, disturbing 1993 art house horror movie joins the remake, but begins having trouble distinguishing between reality and film in the new novel by the author of The Pallbearers Club.
Incidents Around the House
by Josh Malerman

An 8-year-old girl in the Bronx fights to keep her troubled family together as they offer the only protection against a malevolent spirit she calls “Other Mommy” and who grows stronger and asks her daily for entrance into her heart.
The Last Song of Penelope
by Claire North

When her husband Odysseus returns at last, testing her loyalty and shedding blood to discover if she's been faithful to him all these years, Penelope must use all her cunning to win a war for the fate of Ithaca, the woman who guard it and her family, no matter what the cost.
Mirrored Heavens
by Rebecca Roanhorse

The intertwined destinies of the people of Meridian are revealed as Serpio, the newly crowned Carrion King fights to keep his throne while Xiala must unleash her powers to become queen to her people and Naranpa seeks a way to save Tova from the visions of fire that engulf her dreams.
Moonbound
by Robin Sloan

Thirteen thousand years from now, Ariel, a boy in a remote village under a wizard's rule, encounters an entity from an earlier civilization, a sentient, sensitive AI with a special perspective on all human history who becomes Ariel's greatest Ally.
Rakesfall
by Vajra Chandrasekera

Bound together from here until the ends of time, two souls reincarnate ever deeper into the future, chasing the edge of human possibility, in this dark science fiction epic unlike anything you've read before.
Running Close to the Wind
by Alexandra Rowland

When he accidentally steals the single most expensive secret in the world, Avra, former field agent of the Arasti Ministry of Intelligence, turns to his ex, a notorious pirate captain, for help, and together they hatch a plan to sell the secret on the black market to become wealthy... and legends.
Service Model
by Adrian Tchaikovsky

When a domesticated robot alters its programming, murdering their owner, they flee into a wider world they never knew existed, discovering the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
The Stardust Grail
by Yume Kitasei

Once the best art thief in the galaxy, anthropology student Maya Hoshimoto, when an old friend comes to her with a job she cannot refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction, sending her on a breakneck quest through the universe with her visions as a guide.
The Stars Too Fondly
by Emily Hamilton

When they accidentally steal a spaceship, Cleo and her friends are soon en route to Proxima Centauri, and as they go deeper into space, the laws of physics start twisting, old mysteries come back to life and Cleo's battle with the hologram of the ship's missing captain turns into something desperate.
The Thermopylae Protocol
by David Weber

When a ship from an uncharted universe explodes, revealing a massive weapon is secretly being built in the unexplored reaches of the multiverse, detectives Isaac Cho and Susan Cantrell discover they're the only ones standing between a powerful conspiracy and destruction on a universal scale.
Tidal Creatures
by Seanan McGuire

When someone starts killing the moon gods incarnated into the human world alongside the other manifest natural concepts, the lunar divinities must uncover the roots of the plot and thwart the true goal behind these attacks... control of the Impossible City of itself.
Winter Lost
by Patricia Briggs

While traveling to Montana to help her brother, shapeshifters Mercy and her mate, Adam, are trapped with strangers in a lodge in the heart of the wilderness where Arcane and ancient magics are at work that could, unless they're careful, bring about the end of the world.
The Wren in the Holly Library
by K. A. Linde

Trapped in the library of an old Brownstone with a monster filled with terrible power and darkness, street thief Kierse, when, instead of killing her, the monster offers her a job?—?gets a glimpse into who she really is, which could be something far worse than a monster.
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