book picks
This Story Might Save Your Life
Thriller
Benny Abbott and Joy Moore host one of the world’s most beloved podcasts, sharing “against all odds” survival stories with wit, warmth, and dark humor. Best friends from their very first episode—about Joy’s life with severe narcolepsy—they’ve built a massive following and a thriving empire, carefully managed by Joy’s husband, Xander.
But their next survival story may be terrifyingly real. When Benny arrives one morning to record, he finds shattered glass, an empty house, and an unfinished draft of Joy’s secret memoir. As Joy and Xander vanish and suspicion turns toward Benny, it becomes clear that the truth behind these famous BFFs—and the secrets they’ve hidden from their fans and each other—may be far more dangerous than anyone imagined.
No Matter What
romance
After a traumatic car accident fractures their once-happy marriage, Roz and Vin find themselves living side by side as strangers. A year later, they can barely look at each other—until Roz discovers Vin has signed a new lease. Desperate for a distraction and a sense of self, she signs up for a figure drawing class, trying to focus on art, friendship, and survival while her husband quietly prepares to leave.
Things get complicated when Vin—who is also her best friend’s older brother—offers to pose for her. What begins as practical soon becomes intimate in unexpected ways, forcing them to truly see one another again after a year of avoidance and pain. As Roz learns to draw the man she once loved, they must decide whether love can still bring them back together—or if some breaks can never fully heal.
Her Last Breath
thriller
After years of avoiding it, claustrophobic Tess finally agrees to go caving with her fearless best friend, Allie—a wildly successful travel influencer whose life couldn’t look more different from Tess’s own. But deep underground, the adventure takes a terrifying turn when a hostile stranger appears, and a confrontation leaves Tess trapped in a suffocating crawl space, fighting for her life.
Twenty-four hours later, battered and hospitalized, Tess recounts her survival to a detective who reveals unsettling truths about Allie’s past. As the pieces come together, Tess begins to question whether the attack was truly random—and whether escaping the cave was only the beginning of the danger still lurking in the dark.
And Now Back to You
romance
Jackson Clark and Delilah Stewart are total opposites who’ve never managed to work together without sparks—or disaster. Jackson prefers structure and control from his radio booth, while Delilah thrives on chaos and chasing stories in the field. When they’re reluctantly paired to cover the snowstorm of the century, they’re forced to navigate icy conditions, clashing styles, and a partnership neither of them wants.
To prove herself, Delilah strikes a deal: Jackson helps her nail the assignment, and she helps him rediscover how to have fun. As tension melts into an unexpected friendship—and something more—the line between professional and personal begins to blur. But once the storm clears, will what they found in the mountains survive the return to real life?
Kin
historical
Vernice and Annie grow up inseparable in Honeysuckle, Louisiana—two motherless girls bound by friendship but pulled toward very different futures. Raised by a determined aunt, Vernice leaves home for Spelman College and a life of privilege, power, and stability, while Annie—abandoned by her mother and haunted by that loss—sets out on a dangerous, searching journey shaped by love, risk, and survival.
Years later, a devastating tragedy brings their worlds back together, forcing both women to confront the lives they’ve lived and the bond that has always tied them together. Tender, sharp, and deeply moving, Kin is a rich exploration of friendship, motherhood, and the complicated paths of womanhood in the American South.
Strangers in the Villa
thriller
After her husband admits to an affair, Sydney Lowe’s carefully built life begins to unravel. Desperate to save their marriage, she and Curtis escape to a remote villa on Spain’s Costa Brava, hoping distance and isolation will help them start over and heal old wounds.
But their fragile peace shatters when two stranded travelers arrive and refuse to leave. What begins as a generous offer of shelter spirals into something far more dangerous as secrets surface, trust erodes, and tensions turn deadly. In this chilling psychological thriller, not everyone who enters the villa will survive.
In Her Own League
romance
Reese Remington has spent her life preparing to become the first female owner in Major League Baseball, yet the world still sees her as an outsider in a man’s game. Brilliant, driven, and under relentless scrutiny, she knows one wrong move could cost her everything—especially when the team’s infuriatingly handsome field manager challenges her authority at every turn.
Emmett Montgomery is used to running the field his way, but working so closely with Reese reveals the passion and heart beneath her polished control. As sharp banter gives way to undeniable chemistry, keeping things professional becomes harder by the day. With careers, reputations, and a championship season on the line, resisting each other may be the riskiest play of all.
So Old So Young
literary
Six college friends reunite across five parties spanning twenty years, each gathering capturing a different stage of love, loss, and becoming. As careers, cities, marriages, and children reshape their lives, the friendships they once believed unbreakable are tested by time, distance, and the people they’re growing into.
From messy East Village apartment parties to milestone birthdays and suburban backyard barbecues, this sharp, tender novel traces the growing pains of millennial middle age. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, it’s a celebration of friendship—and how love evolves, fractures, and deepens in ways we never expect.
How to Get Away with Murder
thriller
When a teenage girl is murdered in a London park, Detective Inspector Samantha Hansen seizes the chance to return to work after a breakdown nearly ended her career. The investigation’s most chilling clue is a self-help book found in the victim’s backpack—How to Get Away with Murder—written by a man who claims to be the world’s most successful, and completely unknown, serial killer.
As the book goes viral and its disturbing details begin to mirror real crimes, Sam is drawn into a dangerous hunt for its elusive author, Denver Brady. To stop another murder and uncover the truth behind the book, she’ll have to trust her instincts again—before someone truly gets away with murder.
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fantasy / historical
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