Kristin Keaton is an avid reader who uses her joy of fiction and memoirs to escape the daily corporate grind. While living in San Diego with her husband, kayaking and enjoying the beach is a reality that is delightful to live in, there’s nothing quite like the characters and worlds created in books by her favorite authors.
Sofia Montrone’s debut novel, Nymph, is a coming of age story that will sweep you away into the Italian countryside. Split into two parts, Nymph takes us on Leo’s journey as she grows from girl to woman.
In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.
In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.
A disillusioned banker returns to his Appalachian hometown and walks straight into a family tragedy everyone refuses to name. Lost in the Holler blends Southern gothic atmosphere with a tightly wound mystery about memory, loyalty, and the price of silence.
The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave brings the reader on a journey of twist and turns as the main characters race across the globe to end the decades long threat to their safety. The first book in the series, The Last Thing He Told Me, hooked me…
Save Us is the third book and the final installment in Mona Kasten’s Maxton Hall series, which gained popularity in the U.S. after an explosive first season on Prime Video. Season One closely followed book one, Save Me, and with season two releasing later this month, we’ll all find out…
Breathe With Me by Becka Mack is not just the 5th and final book in the Playing for Keeps series; it’s arguably the most anticipated book of the lot. The story follows the only couple in the series that existed before book one. Cara and Emmett are ridiculously fun, attractive…
Reading Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal felt like having the Christmas spirit injected into my veins. Meghan Quinn brought her A game when writing this, her second Christmas romance taking place in the picturesque setting of Kringletown, Colorado. The first novel in these interconnected standalones, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas,…
In A Spell for Midwinter’s Heart, author Morgan Lockhart whisks the reader away into a small mountain town filled with magic. This book hits all the marks I want from a romance for the holiday season: cozy, fantastical, and filled with eclectic characters and local business owners rising up against…
In Sandy Hope Stewart’s brand new novel, Entertaining Angels, Rebekah Lang learns lessons about life that shape her belief system forever. We meet Rebekah at 70 years old as she’s confronting her lifelong guilt, seemingly for the first time, in therapy. What a prologue! I didn’t quite know what to…
What do you get when you combine a family of overachievers taking part in a week-long competition of dangerous and physically demanding events and a fake boyfriend? Well, you get Skylar Page’s current reality in Tessa Bailey’s new release, Pitcher Perfect. Skylar is the only member of her family who…
Contemporary romance meets paranormal historical fiction in Elizabeth O’Roark’s latest book, My Favorite Lost Cause. This is a follow-up to My Favorite Bad Decision, an adventure romance, but it can certainly be enjoyed as a stand-alone. This is my first foray into paranormal romance, and I have to say it…
If you’re like me and have been inundated with People We Meet on Vacation content in anticipation of the upcoming film adaptation, you’re going to absolutely love this take on the friends-to-lovers trope! Emily Henry set the bar high, and Friends to Lovers by Sally Blakely succeeds in reaching it. …
All the Men I’ve Loved Again by Christine Pride is a brand new coming-of-age romance chock-full of so much millennial nostalgia that I doubt readers will be able to read this and not be transported back in time. We meet Cora in 2021 as she’s reflecting on her past, caught…
Overruled by Lana Ferguson barrels onto the page in a steamy scene that paints a clear picture of what we’re getting in this brand-new rivals-to-lovers romance. Dani and Ezra hate each other, but they also engage in clandestine meetings where they channel their professional hate into physical passion. Hooked from the…
The gloves are off and rings are on in Stephanie Archer’s latest marriage of convenience hockey romance! Gloves Off is the 4th book in the Vancouver Storm series of interconnected standalone hockey romances, and it delivers all the charm and spice we’ve come to expect and love from these books.…