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THAT WEEKEND BY KARA THOMAS

8/29/2021

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While I enjoyed this book, I have to admit that I guessed the twist way before it was revealed. Even so, I do recommend this young adult mystery and thriller!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: June 29, 2021
Genre: Young Adult Mystery and Suspense

Series: None. Complete standalone. 
Pages: 324 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: ​Purchased.
THREE BEST FRIENDS, A LAKE HOUSE, A SECRET TRIP -- WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

It was supposed to be the perfect prom weekend getaway. But it's clear something terrible happened when Claire wakes up alone and bloodied on a hiking trail with no memory of the past forty-eight hours.

Now everyone wants answers--most of all, Claire. She remembers Friday night, but after that . . . nothing. And now Kat and Jesse--her best friends--are missing.

What happened on the mountain? And where are Kat and Jesse? Claire knows the answers are buried somewhere in her memory. But as she's learning, everyone has secrets--even her best friends. And she's pretty sure she's not going to like what she remembers.

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ROOMMAID BY SARIAH WILSON

8/26/2021

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Roommaid is an adorable and quirky romantic comedy that delivers in the feels! I adored Madison and Tyler and seeing them from strangers, to friends, and ultimately to lovers was wonderful!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: October 1, 2020
Genre: Romantic Comedy

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 301 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.
​From bestselling author Sariah Wilson comes a charming romance about living your life one dream at a time.

Madison Huntington is determined to live her dreams. That means getting out from under her family’s wealth and influence by saying no to the family business, her allowance, and her home. But on a teacher’s salary, the real world comes as a rude awakening—especially when she wakes up every morning on a colleague’s couch. To get a place of her own (without cockroaches, mold, or crime scene tape), Madison accepts a position as a roommaid. In exchange for free room and board, all she needs to do is keep her busy roommate’s penthouse clean and his dog company. So what if she’s never washed a dish in her life. She can figure this out, right?

Madison is pretty confident she can fake it well enough that Tyler Roth will never know the difference. The finance whiz is rich and 

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WHERE I LEFT HER BY AMBER GRAZA

8/24/2021

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The ending of this book packs a BIG punch! I’m still reeling from the darkness of it! Even though I saw the twist way before it was revealed, the author saved this book with the way she ended it!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: August 24, 2021
Genre: Domestic Suspense and Mystery

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 248 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Publisher
​From the author of When I Was You comes a spine-tingling new thriller about a mother’s worst nightmare come true, when her teenage daughter goes to a sleepover and doesn’t come back.

Whitney had some misgivings when she dropped her increasingly moody teenage daughter, Amelia, off at Lauren’s house. She’d never met the parents, and usually she’d go in, but Amelia clearly wasn’t going to let something so humiliating happen, so instead Whitney waved to her daughter before pulling away from the little house with the roses in front.

But when she goes back the next day, an elderly couple answers the door—Amelia and Lauren aren’t there, and this couple swears they never were, that she’s at the wrong house. As Whitney searches for Amelia, she uncovers a trail of lies her daughter has told her—from the Finsta account to rumors of a secret relationship. Does she really even know this girl she’s raised? And

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SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF SIMPLE BY KRISTY WOODESON HARVEY

8/22/2021

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Fans of beach reads, and southern novels are going to want to check out Kristy Woodson Harvey! She clearly has a knack for southern women’s fiction, and I enjoyed this book quite a bit more than I thought I would!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: April 25, 2017
Genre: Women's Fiction

Series: The Peachtree Bluff series #1
Pages: 401 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased.
​Caroline Murphy swore she’d never set foot back in the small Southern town of Peachtree Bluff; she was a New York girl born and bred and the worst day of her life was when, in the wake of her father’s death, her mother selfishly forced her to move—during her senior year of high school, no less—back to that hick-infested rat trap where she'd spent her childhood summers. But now that her marriage to a New York high society heir has fallen apart in a very public, very embarrassing fashion, a pregnant Caroline decides to escape the gossipmongers with her nine-year-old daughter and head home to her mother, Ansley.

Ansley has always put her three daughters first, especially when she found out that her late husband, despite what he had always promised, left her with next to nothing. Now the proud owner of a charming waterfront design business and finally standing on her own two feet, Ansley welcomes Caroline and her brood back with open arms. But when her second daughter Sloane, whose military

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TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE BY CAROLA LORING

8/19/2021

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Too Good to Be True is a twisty thriller with an evil and conniving plotline and characters who you simply cannot trust! This isn’t a bad thing either… Not for this book!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: March 2, 2021
Genre: Thriller. Suspense. 

Series: None. Complete standalone. 
Pages: 343 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: ​Book of the Month Box.
ONE LOVE STORY. TWO MARRIAGES. THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH.

Too Good to Be True is an obsessive, addictive love story for fans of Lisa Jewell and The Wife Upstairs, from Carola Lovering, the beloved author of Tell Me Lies.


Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Burke Michaels, proposes after a whirlwind courtship. Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertips—she’s smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family—she’s also battled crippling OCD ever since her mother’s death when she was eleven, and her romantic relationships have suffered as a result.

But now Burke—handsome, older, and more emotionally mature than any man she’s met before—says he wants her. Forever. Except, Burke isn’t who he claims to be. And interspersed letters to 

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THE NEWCOMER BY MARY KAY ANDREWS

8/16/2021

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Mary Kay Andrews delivers in yet again the perfect beach read! This book has it all: suspense, beachy vibes, and women power! I devoured it and smiled long after I turned the last page.
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: May 4, 2021
Genre: Women's Fiction. Beach Reads. 

Series: None. Complete standalone.  
Pages: 442 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: ​Purchased. 
In trouble and on the run...

After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable New York City townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya’s ex; sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Even in the grip of grief and panic Letty heeds her late sister’s warnings: “If anything bad happens to me—it’s Evan. Promise me you’ll take Maya and run. Promise me.”

With a trunkful of emotional baggage...

So Letty grabs her sister’s Mercedes and hits the road with her wailing four-year-old niece Maya. Letty is determined to out-run Evan and the law, but run to where? Tanya, a woman with a past shrouded in secrets, left behind a “go-bag” of cash and a big honking diamond ring—but only one clue: a faded magazine story about a sleepy mom-and-pop motel in a Florida beach town with 

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WELCOME BACK TO RAMBLING TEXAS BY JUNE FAVER

8/16/2021

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Welcome Back to Rambling Texas is a sweet, small town romance. If you enjoy the Blessings, Georgia series by Sharon Sala then I think you’d enjoy this one!
Rating: ★★★
​Release Date: June 29, 2021
Genre: Small Town Romance

Series: A Visit to Rambling Texas #1
Pages: 281 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased.
​For fans of Carolyn Brown, Sherryl Woods, and Sharon Sala, comes a heartfelt, Southern second chance story for a single mom and her rambunctious young daughter.

Reggie Lee Stafford is a hometown girl living in Rambling, the town in Texas Hill Country where she grew up. As a single mom, her world revolves around her young daughter and her great job writing for the local newspaper. But her peaceful life is turned upside down when Frank Bell—the bane of Reggie's teenage existence—returns to town to claim his inheritance.
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Now, Frank is the owner of the local paper where Reggie works. Reggie can't imagine going to work every day and seeing her old 

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A FAMILIAR SIGHT BY BRIANNA LABUSKES

8/14/2021

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A Familiar Sight is certainly a unique story as the female lead is a sociopath AND police consultant. However, I found the book to be too long (and a bit dull) when it comes to the actual plot.
Rating: ★★★
​Release Date: August 1, 2021
Genre: Police/Detective Procedural 

Series: Dr. Gretchen White series #1
Pages: 367 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Amazon First Reads
​A shocking murder carries echoes of the past for a psychologist in a startling novel of suspense by a Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author.

Psychologist and criminologist Dr. Gretchen White is a specialist in antisocial personality disorders and violent crimes. She’s helped solve enough prominent cases for detective Patrick Shaughnessy that her own history is often overlooked: Gretchen is an admitted sociopath once suspected of killing her aunt. Shaughnessy still thinks Gretchen got away with murder. It’s not going to happen again.

When a high-profile new case lands on Shaughnessy’s desk, it seems open and shut. Remorseless teenager Viola Kent is accused of killing her mother. Amid stories of childhood horrors and Viola’s cruel manipulations, the bad seed has already been found guilty by a rapt public. But Gretchen might be seeing something in Viola no 

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TO SIR, WITH LOVE BY LAUREN LAYNE

8/11/2021

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I genuinely loved every single thing about this book. It’s been a while since I was able to rate a book with five stars but this one deserves every single one!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: June 29, 2021
Genre: Romantic Comedy. Chick Lit. 

Series: None. Complete standalone. 
Pages: 286 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased. 
Love Is Blind meets You’ve Got Mail in this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy following two thirty-somethings who meet on a blind dating app—only to realize that their online chemistry is nothing compared to their offline rivalry.

Perpetually cheerful and eager to please, Gracie Cooper strives to make the best out of every situation. So when her father dies just months after a lung cancer diagnosis, she sets aside her dreams of pursuing her passion for art to take over his Midtown Manhattan champagne shop. She soon finds out that the store’s profit margins are being squeezed perilously tight, and complicating matters further, a giant corporation headed by the impossibly handsome, but irritatingly arrogant Sebastian Andrews is proposing a buyout. But Gracie can’t bear the thought of throwing away her father’s dream like she did her own.

Overwhelmed and not wanting to admit to her friends or family that she’s having second thoughts about the shop, Gracie seeks advice

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FIRST AND TENSION BY TARA SIVEC

8/9/2021

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Tara Sivec always writes the best characters! I want to befriend them all and live on Summersweet Island with them! That being said, this is a pleasurable read and I recommend it!
​Rating: ★★★★ (3.5 stars)
​Release Date: June 10, 2021
Genre: Sports Romantic Comedy

Series: Summersweet Island series #4
Pages: 387 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Kindle Unlimited. 
It all started with a dare.

Emily Flanagan has been living her dreams the last four years as a professional cheerleader for the Los Angeles Vipers, thousands of miles away from her tiny hometown of Summersweet Island, Virginia. She’s got the world at the tips of her pom-poms... until she tells her boss to shove those pom-poms where the sun doesn’t shine.

After spending her last night in California with her biggest crush, Emily flies back home to Summersweet, resigned to her boring fate of running her parents’ business, never to be heard from again. Besides, there’s no use crying over a man who lives on the other side of the country, who she’ll never see again.

“Secret love affair for the new quarterback of the Virginia Beach Sharks, or a shocking tale of infidelity, leading all the way back to a birthday party Quinn Bagley threw at his previous home in Calabasas five months ago? New photos of the mystery redhead 

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