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Trouble's Turn to Lose

Private Investigator Hadley Cooper has a knack for finding trouble—and this time, it’s wearing pearls.

Life on Sullivan’s Island is about as close to bliss as it gets—bike rides at sunrise, cases that don’t make headlines, and a romance with SLED agent Cash Reynolds that’s finally on solid ground. They have one ironclad rule: never work the same case.

When a wealthy Charleston socialite turns up dead, Cash charges her housekeeper, Bridget Donovan, with murder. But the young single mother has a formidable ally in Carolyn Talbot, a local matriarch who implores Hadley to help. Hadley’s heart overrides her head, and her agreement with Cash is gone like confetti in a hurricane.

Soon she’s wading through a tangle of suspects—blue bloods with deadly secrets, her client’s scheming ex-monster-in-law, and the greatest unknown country singer in Nashville. But Hadley’s also grappling with a mystery closer to home—one that will shake everything she thought she knew about her family.

To find justice for Bridget, Hadley will have to risk her heart, her life—and maybe her grip on reality.

  • Year 2026
Twisted Pawn

Twisted Pawn by L.J. Shen is a high-stakes dark mafia romance and the second book in the Society of Villains series. The story follows the volatile relationship between Achilles Ferrante, a lethal assassin and mafia heir, and Tierney Callaghan, the woman who has twice betrayed him.

Years ago, Tierney was the only one who saw the human side of the “monster” Achilles. However, she shattered that bond by breaking his heart and later selling him out to the Feds. Now, Achilles is back to claim his revenge. He has promised to make a spectacle of her death, viewing her as his greatest weakness that must be eliminated to remain undefeated.

The plot is a tense cat-and-mouse game where Tierney refuses to be a submissive victim. As Achilles stalks her, the line between deadly hate and obsessive love blurs. Despite the danger, their explosive chemistryand shared past create a roiling storm of passion. It is a gritty enemies-to-lovers tale focused on betrayal, redemption, and the thin line between being a pawn and a queen in a world of villains.

  • Year 2026
Two Can Play

An enemies-to-lovers spicy novella set in the world of video gaming from the New York Timesbestselling author of Problematic Summer Romance—now in print and ebook!

Viola Bowen has the chance of a lifetime: to design a video game based on her all-time favorite book series. The only problem? Her co-lead is Jesse F-ing Andrews, aka her archnemesis. Jesse has made it abundantly clear over the years that he wants nothing to do with her—and Viola has no idea why.

When their bosses insist a wintery retreat is the perfect team-building exercise, Viola can’t think of anything worse. Being freezing cold in a remote mountain lodge knowing Jesse is right next door? No, thank you.

But as the snow piles on, Viola discovers there’s more to Jesse than she knew, and heat builds in more ways than one.

  • Year 2024
Unbound (The Undone, Book 3)

In the emotional romance Unbound by Peyton Corinne, two college students, Paloma Blake and Bennett Reiner, navigate the messy path of second-chance love. Paloma hides her deep-seated childhood traumabehind a mask of hairspray and a defensive, prickly attitude. Bennett is a meticulous, neurodivergent goalie who uses strict routines to manage his OCD and anxiety.

Unbeknownst to their friends, the two share a painful history as each other’s first real love, which ended in a devastating, unexplained heartbreak. Despite the years apart, Bennett remains Paloma’s protective shadow, always ready to rescue her when she calls. As they are drawn back together, the story alternates between the passionate beginnings of their past and the yearning loneliness of their present.

When Bennett finally uncovers the truth about Paloma’s history, his carefully controlled world begins to come unbound. Together, they must decide if letting go of the past is worth the risk of finding their way back to a love that never truly faded.

  • Year 2026
Under the Stars

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • When a daughter and her famous mother return to Winthrop Island to confront their complicated past, they discover a secret trove of paintings that connect them to a mysterious woman who vanished on a luxury steamship two centuries earlier.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Husbands & Lovers comes an epic tale of family legacy, love, and truths that echo down generations.

Audrey Fisher has struggled all her life to emerge from the shadow of her famous mother by forging a career as a world-class chef. Meredith Fisher’s glamorous screen persona disguises the trauma of the tragic accident that haunts her dreams. Neither woman wants to return to the New England island they left behind and its complicated emotional ties, but Meredith has one last chance to sober up and salvage her big comeback, and where else but discreet, moneyed Winthrop Island can a famous actress spend the summer without the intrusion of other people? Until Audrey discovers an old wooden chest among the belongings of her estranged bartender father, Mike Kennedy, and the astonishing contents draw the women deep into Winthrop’s past and its many secrets…attracting the interest of their handsome neighbor, Sedge Peabody. How did a trove of paintings from one of America’s greatest artists wind up in the cellar of the Mohegan Inn? And who is the mysterious woman portrayed on every canvas?

On a stormy November night in 1846, Providence Dare flees Boston and boards the luxury steamship Atlantic one step ahead of the law….or so she believes. But when a catastrophic accident leaves the ship at the mercy of a mighty gale, Providence finds herself trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the one man who knows her real identity—the detective investigating the suspicious death of her employer, the painter Henry Irving. As the Atlantic fights for her life and the rocky shore of Winthrop Island edges closer, a desperate Providence searches for her chance to escape…before the sea swallows her without a trace.

In Under the Stars, the destinies of three women converge across centuries, as a harrowing true disaster at the dawn of the steamship era evokes a complex legacy of family secrets in modern-day New England. Williams has written a timeless epic of mothers and daughters, of love lost and found, and of the truths that echo down generations.

  • Year 2026
Upward Bound

A wondrous, deeply affecting portrait of the interlocking lives at an adult day care center in Southern California, depicting an often overlooked community with extraordinary wit and grace—by a major new literary voice hailed as a “groundbreaking debut novelist” (Publishers Weekly)

Upward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles’s disabled community is, for many of its clients and staff, a place of last resort. This includes Carlos, a young aide who lost his mother as a boy and now works there alongside his beloved sister Mariana; Jorge, the gentle nonspeaking giant whom Carlos seeks to befriend (and prevent from escaping); Tom, a beautiful young man with cerebral palsy, who pines for Ann, the summer lifeguard at the center’s pool who feels out of her depth; then there’s Dave, Upward Bound’s director who came to L.A. to pursue an acting career but now channels his passion into staging an overly ambitious holiday show starring the center’s irrepressible clients. Framing these intertwined narratives—and connecting them in surprising, shattering ways—is the riveting and sometimes ironic testimony of Walter, a recent community college graduate who, after a family tragedy, must return to the company of his disabled peers.

In Upward Bound, Woody Brown has created an indelible, authentic, and profoundly moving group portrait of autism and other disabilities, all illuminated by his empathy, sly sense of humor, and enormous gifts as a novelist. With remarkable sophistication, insight, and creativity, Brown depicts a community too-often invisible in literature and society. Filled with characters you won’t soon forget, Upward Bound will inspire and touch you, teaching you as much about yourself as the tender, miraculous world behind the center’s doors.

  • Year 2026
We Burned So Bright

We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune is a poignant, heart-wrenching story about love at the end of the world. The story follows Don and Rodney, an elderly queer couple who have been married for forty years. When a wandering black hole approaches Earth, humanity is given just one month before everything is destroyed.

Instead of waiting for the end in silence, the husbands embark on a final cross-country road trip from Maine to Washington State. They travel in a battered RV to fulfill a mysterious final promise involving their son. Along the way, they encounter a world reacting to its demise in different ways—some people celebrate with bright bonfires, while others succumb to despair and violence.

As the sky turns into a kaleidoscope and the moon cracks above them, Don and Rodney reflect on their decades of shared history, including the struggles of the HIV crisis and the joys of family. It is a deeply emotional meditation on mortality and legacy, asking if a life lived with love is enough, even when nothing will remain in the ashes. It is a “tragically beautiful” tale about the bravery of choosing to live until the very last second.

  • Year 2026
We Would Never Tell

Gowns. Champagne. Murder.

Hollywood, but make it French, for twelve days straight, as the red carpet rolls out to the riviera for the Cannes Film Festival. The most famous people are all here to celebrate themselves, while the rest of the world watches in awe. And with a heavy dose of envy, at least for three young, ambitious, talented women who can’t seem to climb up from the bottom rung of the Hollywood ladder. As they swirl in the glitz of Cannes, the VIP invitations seem so hard to come by, and the A-list so far away. It’s enough to drive them a little crazy. Enough to make them snap and do things they might—or definitely will—regret.

It’s a good thing they’re invisible . . . until a multi-million-dollar necklace vanishes and a dead body is found floating in the Mediterranean Sea. Then, the heat of the spotlight turns up so hot that they have nowhere to hide. Now their biggest dreams are even further out of reach. Or can you get away with theft and murder if you want it badly enough?

  • Year 2026
We're a Bad Idea, Right?

In We’re a Bad Idea, Right? by K. L. Walther, the story follows Audrey Barbour, a girl who has spent eighteen years being the perfect daughter with top grades and a safe dating history. Despite her success, her parents refuse to support her true passion: glassblowing. To gain independence and fund a prestigious fellowship, Audrey decides it is finally time to break the rules.

She teams up with her best friend, Henry, in a chaotic plan. Henry wants to win back his ex-girlfriend, so he proposes a fake-dating scheme with Audrey to spark jealousy. Meanwhile, Audrey takes a massive risk by secretly renting out her family’s Connecticut mansion while her parents are out of town to earn the money she needs.

As the lies pile up, the “fake” romance begins to feel dangerously real. Audrey must navigate the messy line between friendship and love while facing the terrifying possibility of disappointing her family. It is a coming-of-age story about finding your own path, taking risks, and realizing that sometimes a “bad idea” is exactly what your heart needs.

  • Year 2026
West of Wicked

Dorothy Gale doesn’t know where she came from. She has only the vaguest memory of her life before landing in the dull, gray world of the vast Kansas prairie.

Then a cyclone rips through the night and carries her, her dog, and the farmhouse somewhere a lot farther than Dorothy imagined. She’s in a strange land that’s apparently cursed, shrouded in shadow. And to get home, Dorothy needs to seek out a wizard, following a treacherous path and watch out for a never-ending list of forest beasts, witches, a cursed mercenary, and perhaps most dangerous of all, the wizard himself.

Nikki St. Crowe vividly reimagines the world of the Wizard of Oz, where the villain gets the girl…and the girl gets the power.

  • Year 2026