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Saltwater
In 1992 Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are involved, Sarah’s death is ruled an accident. On the thirtieth anniversary of Sarah’s death, the Lingates arrive at the villa in Capri to find a surprise waiting for them—the necklace Sarah was wearing the night she died. The legendary Lingate family unity is pushed to a breaking point, and Sarah's daughter, Helen, enlists the help of Lorna Moreno, a family assistant, to plot their escape from Helen’s paranoid, insular family. When Lorna disappears and the investigation into Sarah’s death is reopened, Helen has to confront the fact that everyone who was…
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Wild Dark Shore
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants, packing up the seeds before they are transported to safer ground. Despite the wild beauty, isolation has taken its toll on the Salts. Then, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman washes up on shore. As the Salts nurse the woman, Rowan, back to life, their suspicion gives way to affection, and they finally begin to feel like a family again. Rowan, long accustomed…
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Beautiful Little Fools
Jillian Cantor revisits the glittering Jazz Age world of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, retelling this timeless American classic from the women’s perspective. Beautiful Little Fools is a quintessential tale of money and power, marriage and friendship, love and desire, and ultimately the murder of a man tormented by the past and driven by a destructive longing that can never be fulfilled.
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Forget Me Not
Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbell’s older sister, Natalie, disappeared on her eighteenth birthday. Days later, her blood was found in a car, a man was arrested, and the case was swiftly closed. In the decades since, Claire has attempted to forget her traumatic past by moving to the city and climbing the ranks as an investigative journalist... until an unexpected call from her father forces her to come back home and face it all anew. Claire decides on a whim to accept a seasonal job at Galloway Farm, a place where her sister seemed truly happy in that last summer before she vanished. Galloway was supposed to be a place…
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Wrong Place Wrong Time
Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He’s past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don’t know who. You don’t know why. You only know your son is now in custody, his future shattered. That night you fall asleep in despair. All is lost. Until you wake and it is yesterday. And then you wake again and it is the day…
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She’s Not Sorry
This is my pick for my 2025 Book Challenge for July: Beach Read. Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about Caitlin's fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was she pushed and if so, by whom and why? Only when it’s too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims.
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The Haunting of Brynn Wilder
After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers. But in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about all of them, that she shouldn't. Bad dreams and night whispers lure Brynn to a shuttered room at the end of the hall, a room still heavy with a recent death. And now she's become irresistibly drawn to Dominic--even in the shadow of rumors that wherever he goes, suspicious death follows.
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We Are All the Same in the Dark
It's been a decade since Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint behind. Her brother, Wyatt, lives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family house, cleared of wrongdoing by the police but tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion and in a new documentary about the crime. When Wyatt finds a lost girl dumped in a field of dandelions, making silent wishes, he believes she is a sign. The town's youngest cop, Odette Tucker, believes she is a catalyst that will ignite a seething town still waiting for its own missing girl to come home. Desperate to solve both cases, Odette fights to save…
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Two Nights in Lisbon
Ariel Price wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone, no warning, no note, not answering his phone. Something is wrong. She starts with hotel security, then the police, then the American embassy, at each confronting questions she can’t fully answer. The clock is ticking. Ariel is increasingly frustrated and desperate, running out of time, and the one person in the world who can help is the one person she least wants to ask. Tautly wound and expertly crafted, Two Nights in Lisbon is a riveting thriller about a woman under pressure, and how far she will go when everything is on the line.
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The Witch’s Orchard
Former Air Force Special Investigator Annie Gore joined the military right after high school to escape the fraught homelife of her childhood. Now, she’s getting by as a private investigator and her latest case takes her to an Appalachian holler not unlike the one where she grew up. In the shadow of the Blue Ridge, Annie begins to track the truth, navigating a decade’s worth of secrets, folklore of witches and crows, and a whole town that prefers to forget. But while the case may have been buried, echoes of the past linger. And Annie’s arrival stirs someone into action.
Life In The Making
