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ROCK PAPER SCISSORS BY ALICE FEENEY

9/7/2021

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The first thought that comes to mind when I think of this book is TWISTED! Not only that, but it also chilled me to the bones! I didn’t expect this one to feel as creepy as it was, but I am so into it!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: September 7, 2021
Genre: Mystery. Thriller. Suspense. 

Series: None. Complete standalone. 
Pages: 304 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Publisher.
Think you know the person you married? Think again…

Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife.

Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts--paper, cotton, pottery, tin--and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.

Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget.

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HATE BY TATE JAMES

9/4/2021

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I haven’t read a dark romance in a long time and was surprised at how much I liked this one! Hate is the first book in the intoxicating Madison Kate series, and I can’t wait to see what happens next!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: May 8, 2020
Genre: Enemies-to-Lovers. Reverse Harem. 

Series: Madison Kate series #1
Pages: 418 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Kindle Unlimited. 
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​“Madison Kate Danvers was murdered tonight.” 

Those words changed my life, and not for the better. 
They were wrong, of course. I wasn’t dead. But I was set up. 

After being charged with a string of offences--and made an example of by my political minded father--I’m eventually released back into Shadow Grove with one thing on my mind.

Hate. 

Someone is going to pay for derailing my carefully laid out future. Someone is going to catch the full force of my hate. How very convenient that someone just moved into the bedroom down the hall from me.

Archer D’Ath and his boys messed with the wrong chick and they’re

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REBELLIOUS BY KRISTY MARIE

9/1/2021

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Rebellious is a breathtaking new adult romance! This story seared its way into my heart, and I ached for the characters. Romance readers, you won’t want to miss this one!
​Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: April 30, 2021
Genre: Friends to Lovers Romance | New Adult

Series: None (as of now). 
Pages: 282 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Kindle Unlimited
A love controlled by guilt, contained by rules… One summer will change everything.


No kissing. 
No cuddling. 
No blah, blah, blah. 
He wrote the rules onto our skin—every ink stroke tragically smeared by the lines we’d crossed. 
He claimed it was the only way we could be together—the only way we wouldn’t destroy our families.
But there was an exception to his rules—one he never saw coming.
All I needed was opportunity and a sunburn. 
The girl who played by his rules is gone. 
This girl… is not his “friend.”  

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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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