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Title: Family for Beginners Author: Sarah Morgan Published: May 2020, HQN Books Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  New York florist Flora Donovan is living the dream, but her bubbly optimism hides a secret. She’s lonely. Orphaned as a child, she’s never felt like she’s belonged anywhere…until she meets Jack Parker. He’s the first man to ever really see her, and it’s life changing. Teenager Izzy Parker is holding…

Title: The First Lady Author: James Patterson Published: March 2019, Grand Central Publishing Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  From the world’s #1 bestselling writer comes a book that takes politics and mixes it with suspense creating a must-read thriller. Sally Grissom is a top secret service agent in charge of the Presidential Protection team. She knows that something is amiss when she is summoned to a private…

Title: Dear Emmie Blue Author: Lia Louis Published: July 2020, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: ARC E-copy, 311 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  In this charming and poignant novel, teenager Emmie Blue releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it; now, fourteen years later, the one thing Emmie has been counting on is gone…

Title: The First to Lie Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan Published: August 2020, Forge Books Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher/Publicist Summary:  Bestselling and award-winning author and investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan delivers another twisty, thrilling cat and mouse novel of suspense that will have you guessing, and second-guessing, and then gasping with surprise. We all have our reasons for being who we are—but what if being someone else could…

Title: The Wife Who Knew Too Much Author: Michele Campbell Published: July 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  From Michele Campbell, the bestselling author of It’s Always the Husband comes a new blockbuster thriller in The Wife Who Knew Too Much. Tabitha Girard had her heart broken years ago by Connor Ford. He was preppy and handsome. She was a pool girl…

Title: A Woman Alone Author: Nina Laurin Published: June 2020, Grand Central Publishing Format: Paperback, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A high-stakes, pulse-pounding thriller from the bestselling author of Girl Last Seen. A year after a brutal home invasion that left her traumatized, Cecelia, along with her husband and their three-year-old daughter, move into a new house with a complex security system that is supposed to make her feel safe.…

Title: The Butterfly Room Author: Lucinda Riley Published: July 2020 (First published May 2019), Blue Box Press Format: ARC E-copy, 403 pages Source: Netgalley via GetRed PR Summary: Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows…

Title: The Queen’s Secret: A Novel of England’s World War II Queen Author: Karen Harper Published: May 2020, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  If you love Jennifer Robson or The Crown you will love New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper’s novel about Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. 1939. As the wife of the King George VI and the mother of the future queen, Elizabeth—“the…

Title: The Safe Place Author: Anna Downes Published: July 2020, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Emily is a mess. Emily Proudman just lost her acting agent, her job, and her apartment in one miserable day. Emily is desperate. Scott Denny, a successful and charismatic CEO, has a problem that neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can fix. Until he meets Emily. Emily is perfect.…

Title: Hello, Summer Author: Mary Kay Andrews Published: May 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: Hardcover, 472 pages Source: Publisher via Kathleen Carter Communications Summary:  New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads Mary Kay Andrews delivers her next blockbuster, Hello Summer. It’s a new season… Conley Hawkins left her family’s small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rearview mirror years ago. Now a star reporter…

Title: Somebody’s Daughter Author: Carol Wyer Series: Detective Natalie Ward, #7 Published: July 2020, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 378 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  One by one the girls disappeared… When the frail body of a teenage girl is discovered strangled in a parking lot, shards of ice form in Detective Natalie Ward’s veins. As Natalie looks at the freckles scattered on her cheeks and the pale pink lips tinged with…

Title: Jo & Laurie Author: Margaret Stohl & Melissa de la Cruz Published: June 2020, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Reads Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley via @mbc_books Summary:  Bestselling authors Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz bring us a romantic retelling of Little Women starring Jo March and her best friend, the boy next door, Theodore “Laurie” Laurence. 1869, Concord, Massachusetts: After the publication of…

Title: The Golden Cage Author: Camilla Lackberg Published: July 2020, Knopf Publishing Group Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  An exhilarating new novel from a global superstar–a sexy, over-the-top psychological thriller that tells the story of the scorned wife of a billionaire and her delicious plot to get her revenge and bring him to his knees. Faye has loved Jack since they were students at business school. Jack,…

Title: Hurry Home Author: Roz Nay Published: July 2020, Crooked Lane Books Format: ARC Paperback, 262 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  From the bestselling author of Our Little Secret comes a suspenseful new thriller featuring two estranged sisters desperate to keep their deepest and darkest secret where it belongs–in the past. Blood is thicker than water… And it could cost you everything. Alexandra Van Ness has the perfect life. She lives…

Title: The Paris Hours Author: Alex George Published: May 2020, Flatiron Books Format: Hardcover, Source: Personal copy Summary:  One day in the City of Lights. One night in search of lost time. Paris between the wars teems with artists, writers, and musicians, a glittering crucible of genius. But amidst the dazzling creativity of the city’s most famous citizens, four regular people are each searching for something they’ve lost. Camille was…

Title: A Happy Catastrophe Author: Maddie Dawson Published: May 2020, Lake Union Publishing Format: Paperback, 380 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ‘MATCHMAKING FOR BEGINNERS’ COMES A NOVEL ABOUT LOVE, LOSS, AND THE BEAUTIFUL MESS OF FAMILY. Marnie MacGraw and Patrick Delaney have been in love for a few years now, enough to realize that they are imperfectly perfect together. Still, there are somethings that maybe need…

Title: The Dilemma Author: B.A. Paris Published: June 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  It’s Livia’s fortieth birthday and tonight she’s having a party, a party she’s been planning for a long time. The only person missing will be her daughter, Marnie. But Livia has a secret, a secret she’s been keeping from Adam, her husband, until the party is over. Because how can…

Title: Such a Fun Age Author: Kiley Reid Published: December 2019, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: ARC Paperback, 307 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains’ toddler one night, walking the aisles…

Title: The Wife Stalker Author: Liv Constantine Published: May 2020, Harper Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Breezing into the tony seaside paradise of Westport, Connecticut, gorgeous thirtysomething Piper Reynard sets down roots, opening a rehab and wellness space and joining a local yacht club. When she meets Leo Drakos, a handsome, successful lawyer, the wedding ring on his finger is the only thing she doesn’t like about…

Title: A Good Marriage Author: Kimberly McCreight Published: May 2020, Harper Format: Hardcover, 400 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Big Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, in which a woman’s brutal murder reveals the perilous compromises some couples make—and the secrets they keep—in order to stay together. Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call.…

Title: The Mountains Wild Author: Sarah Stewart Taylor Series: Maggie D’arcy Series, #1 Published: June 2020, Minotaur Books Format: Hardcover, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  In a series debut for fans of Tana French and Kate Atkinson, set in Dublin and New York, homicide detective Maggie D’arcy finally tackles the case that changed the course of her life. Twenty-three years ago, Maggie D’arcy’s family received a call from the Dublin…

Title: The 20th Victim Author: James Patterson Series: Women’s Murder Club, #20 Published: May 2020, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 432 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Three victims, three bullets, three cities. The shooters’ aim is as fearsomely precise as their target selection. When Lindsay realizes that the fallen men and women excel in a lucrative, criminal activity, she leads the charge in the manhunt for the killers. As…