July 5, 2024
New Fiction
You’ll Never Find Me by Allison Brennan – Working alone as a private investigator is tough. Estranged from her PI family, Margo Angelhart does what she must to get by – including taking on sordid cases that pay the bills, even if she’d rather be helping those the justice system has failed. That is, until a cheating husband case she’s working intersects with her siblings’ corporate espionage investigation, forcing Margo to cooperate with the Angelhart firm. Now, as the siblings compare notes, it’s clear they need to work together before a white-collar crime escalates to murder. With far more questions than answers and a key suspect on the run, they’ll need the whole family to pitch in. But as they investigate the ever-twisting mystery, Margo isn’t sharing everything. Can she learn to trust her family and heal their once-close relationship before her secrets put those she loves most in danger?
The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant – How she and her best friend, Janessa, barely speak anymore. How Tyler, the love of her life, left her half dead on the side of the road three years ago. Her new life is simple and safe. She lives alone in her Airstream and works as a fishing and hunting guide in scenic Idaho. Her closest friends are the community’s makeshift reverend and a handsome Forest Service ranger who took her in at her lowest. But when Tyler shows up with the news that Janessa is missing, Emlyn is propelled back into the world she worked so hard to forget. Janessa has become a social media star, documenting her #vanlife adventures with her rugged boyfriend. She hasn’t posted lately, though, and when Emlyn realizes the most recent photo doesn’t match up with its caption, she reluctantly joins Tyler to find her old friend. As the two trace Janessa’s path through miles of wild country, Emlyn can’t deny the chemistry still crackling between them. But the deeper they press into the wilderness, the more she begins to suspect that a darker truth lies in the woods – and that Janessa isn’t the only one in danger.
A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston - Eileen Merriweather loves to get lost in a good happily-ever-after. The fictional kind, anyway. Because at least imaginary men don’t leave you at the altar. She feels safe in a book. At home. Which might be why she’s so set on going her annual book club retreat this year—she needs good friends, cheap wine, and grand romantic gestures—no matter what.
But when her car unexpectedly breaks down on the way, she finds herself stranded in a quaint town that feels like it’s right out of a novel…Because it is. This place can’t be real, and yet… she’s here, in Eloraton, the town of her favorite romance series, where the candy store’s honey taffy is always sweet, the local bar’s burgers are always a little burnt, and rain always comes in the afternoon. It feels like home. It’s perfect—and perfectly frozen, trapped in the late author’s last unfinished story. Elsy is sure that’s why she must be here: to help bring the town to its storybook ending. Except there is a character in Eloraton that she can’t place—a grumpy bookstore owner with mint-green eyes, an irritatingly sexy mouth and impeccable taste in novels. And he does not want her finishing this book. Which is a problem because Elsy is beginning to think the town’s happily-ever-after might just be intertwined with her own.
Known to the Victim by K.L. Armstrong – When Kimberly is brutally murdered by her boyfriend, her daughter, Amy Gibson, is completely undone. Overcome with grief, Amy withdraws from everything – college, her friends, her entire life. Until her estranged half-brother, Oliver, saves her, pulling her back into her own self and giving her family. Giving her a home. Eight years later, she’s picked herself up and has worked hard to move forward. She’s the host of a popular true crime podcast that focuses on intimate partner violence and is finding purpose through helping women in ways she couldn’t help her mother. But then Oliver is accused of the unthinkable – something that is so unlike him. Something that horrifies Amy. Desperate to save the only family she has, she sets out to prove her brother’s innocence. But as the days go by and more information about Oliver and his past slowly comes to light, Amy begins realizing that nothing is ever as it seems – especially when it comes to family.