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Eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband Ian — and in turn,… Continue reading Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino
Beverley, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They are all wives of convicted killers. During the sun-drenched summer of 1966, the three women form an unlikely friendship after the discoveries of their husbands’ brutal crimes. With their exes—some of California’s most infamous murderers—dead or behind bars, they are attempting to forge a new… Continue reading The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives by Elizabeth Arnott
Naomi was living the quintessential love story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love, get married, buy a dream house, start a family… Then―he kicks her out, hires the city’s best divorce lawyers, drains their accounts, and takes up with a 20-something. It’s a brutal end to the story. Naomi should accept defeat: move into… Continue reading The Divorce by Freida McFadden
Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Miranda is a tree surgeon used to being treated as just one of the guys on the job. Jane is a soft-spoken volunteer for the local charity shop with zero sense of self-worth. These three women are strangers who have only one thing… Continue reading The No-Show by Beth O’Leary
Rules for the Summer was everything I expect from a Meghan Quinn romance—funny, flirty, and impossible to put down! I listened to the audiobook and flew through it thanks to the engaging story and excellent duet narration. Theo and Renley's chemistry was fantastic, the banter had me laughing, and the spice definitely delivered (as Meghan… Continue reading Rules for the Summer by Meghan Quinn
Start at the End took me a little while to settle into with its sliding doors-style storytelling and dual POV, but once I found my footing, I was completely invested. At its heart, this is a story about second chances, love, and the choices we make—as well as the ones that are made for us.… Continue reading Start at the End by Emma Grey
Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes… Continue reading Never Lie by Freida McFadden
I've read Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's previous two novels, so Lake Effect was an automatic pick for me—and it absolutely delivered the kind of layered family story I've come to expect from her. Set between the late 1970s and the present, this novel explores love, desire, family secrets, and the lasting impact of the choices we… Continue reading Lake Effect by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
When Samantha Payne’s grandfather dies, she figures she won’t even get a mention in the will. After all, she hasn’t seen him in fourteen years, not since her father took his own life after being accused of murdering a child at their lakefront cottage. Her grandfather always insisted her father was innocent, despite Sam having… Continue reading The Haunting of Paynes Hollow by Kelley Armstrong
Spencer Pratt wasn’t born into Hollywood royalty—he charmed his way in, driven by an unshakeable need to become somebody. By twenty-one, he had created his own reality show, making him the youngest executive producer in network television history. When that venture imploded, he didn’t give up; instead, he infiltrated MTV’s The Hills, weaponizing Simon Cowell-style villainy to… Continue reading The Guy You Loved to Hate by Spencer Pratt