The Book: Only If You’re Lucky by Stacy WillinghamPublished January 16, 2024 by Minotaur BooksDate read: February 10, 2024 The Characters: Margot ★★★★ Buy it on Bookshop.org | Amazon This is a Book of the Month title for December 2023. If you’ve been thinking of joining BOTM, use my referral code to get your first book for $5! This page…
Books Set In Asia
Do you keep track of where the books you read take place? I love to read books from all different settings, living vicariously through the…
Courtney Walsh | My Phony Valentine
The Plot (from Goodreads): My days usually consist of agonizing over my failing restaurant, worrying about my mountain of debt and nursing my broken heart….
Sara Ochs | The Resort
The Plot (from Goodreads): A searing vacation thriller set on a remote island in Thailand following two mysterious women, a charismatic group of expats, and…
Ashley Elston | First Lie Wins
The Plot (Goodreads): Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and…
Amy Lea | The Catch
The Influencers Series Set On YouExes and O’sThe Catch The Plot (from Goodreads): A grumpy lobster fisherman tosses a fashion influencer’s impeccably curated life overboard…
Devon Daniels | The Rom Con
The Plot (from Goodreads): After a particularly brutal breakup, Cassidy Sutton has had it with dating. So when her grandmother gives her a 1950’s dating…
January Wrap-Up
I’m trying something new in these monthly wrap-ups–live links on the cover images below! I’m hoping that makes these posts a bit more interesting and…
Mazey Eddings | Late Bloomer
The Plot (from Goodreads): Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin’s’s life. After quitting her dead-end job where she’d earned minimum wage and even less…
Sophie Sullivan | Love, Naturally
The Plot (from Goodreads): Presley Ayers is not the woman you bring on a camping trip. An accomplished concierge at an exclusive hotel in Great…
Kristina Forest | The Neighbor Favor
The Greene Sisters series in order: The Neighbor FavorThe Partner PlotThe Love Lyric The Plot (from Goodreads): Shy, bookish, and admittedly awkward, Lily Greene has…
Elaine Murphy | I Told You This Would Happen
The Plot (from Goodreads): Carrie’s sister is dead. Four months after losing her sister, Becca—a serial killer unknown to everyone else in town—Carrie Lawrence is…
Backlist Book Challenge
If you’re on Bookstagram, you’ve probably seen the #backlistbooks24 challenge that’s going around. The gist is that readers choose 24 unread books from their shelves…
Emma Lord | The Getaway List
The Plot (from Goodreads): The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last four years trying…
Kate Alice Marshall | No One Can Know
The Plot (from Goodreads): Emma hasn’t told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn’t spoken to her…
Megan Lally | That’s Not My Name
The Plot (from Goodreads): She thought she had her life back. She was wrong. It was a mistake to trust him. Shivering and bruised, a…
2023 Annual Wrap-Up
*Obligatory post intro here about how I can’t believe it’s already the end of the year* I did not do a good job of taking…
Katherine Faulkner | Greenwich Park
The Plot (from Goodreads): Helen’s idyllic life—handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house, and cherished baby on the way (after years of trying)—begins to change the…
Mary Carroll Moore | A Woman’s Guide to Search & Rescue
The Plot (Bookshop.org): Kate Fisher and Red Nelson, women pilots and estranged sisters from opposite sides of a fractured family, are thrown together in a…
Amy McCulloch | Midnight
The Plot (from Goodreads): In this pulse-pounding thriller, a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Antarctica—to camp beneath the legendary midnight sun—becomes a desperate battle for survival against…
Arushi Avachat | Arya Khanna’s Bollywood Moment
The Plot (from Goodreads): Shaadi preparations are in full swing, which means lehenga shopping, taste testing, dance rehearsals, and best of all, Arya’s sister Alina…
Abby Jimenez | Yours Truly
The Plot (from Goodreads): Dr. Briana Ortiz’s life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother’s running out of time to find…
Abby Jimenez | Part of Your World
The Plot (from Goodreads): After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery has had her world turned upside…
Taylor Adams | The Last Word
The Plot (from Goodreads): After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the author is a…
Kaitlyn Hill | Love From Scratch
The Plot (from Goodreads): This summer, Reese Camden is trading sweet tea and Southern hospitality for cold brew and crisp coastal air. She’s landed her…
Alex Michaelides | The Fury
The Plot (from Goodreads): This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it?…
2024 Book Releases Master List
We all know that I’m terrible at staying on top of pub dates, but maybe 2024 will be my year. I’m trying something new this…
TJ Alexander | Second Chances in New Port Stephen
The Plot (from Goodreads): Eli Ward hasn’t been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages. Post-transition and sober, he’s a…
Carola Lovering | Bye, Baby
The Plot (from Goodreads): A missing baby. A fraught friendship. A secret that can never be told. On a brisk fall night in a New…
Sarah Grunder Ruiz | Last Call At The Local
The Plot (from Goodreads): Opposites attract when a free-spirited American singer-songwriter with ADHD teams up with a charming Irishman to revitalize his family’s pub in…
Julie Murphy | A Holly Jolly Ever After
The Christmas Notch Series A Merry Little Meet CuteA Holly Jolly Ever AfterA Jingle Bell Mingle The Plot (from Goodreads): Kallum Lieberman is the funny…
Holly Cassidy | The Christmas Wager
The Plot (from Goodreads): One rivalry. Eight days until Christmas. Let the holiday games begin. When LA-based real estate developer Bella Ross arrives in the…
Sarah Vaughan | Reputation
The Plot (from Goodreads): As a politician, Emma has sacrificed a great deal for her career–including her marriage and her relationship with her daughter, Flora….
Liv Andersson | Leave the Lights On
The Plot (from Goodreads): Cape Morgan, Maine, is the utopian ideal for a charmed life, and Beatrice Wicker knows it. The multi-million-dollar house on the…
Gilly Macmillan | The Manor House
The Plot (from Goodreads): Be careful what you wish for… Childhood sweethearts Nicole and Tom are a normal, loving couple—until a massive lottery win changes…
November Wrap-Up
Obligatory “I can’t believe it’s December”! November flew by, and I’m guessing this month is going to as well. I challenged myself this month to…
2023 New Holiday Book Releases
If you’ve been around for a while, you know that I love my holiday rom-coms! Every year I post a roundup of all the winter…
Josie Silver | A Winter In New York
The Plot (from Goodreads): A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she’s been looking for in…
Lillie Vale | Wrapped With A Beau
The Book: Wrapped With a Beau by Lillie ValePublished: September 26, 2023 by G.P. Putnam’s SonsDate read: September 26, 2023 The Characters: Elisha and Ves…
Ali Hazelwood | The Love Hypothesis
The Book: The Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodPublished: September 14, 2021 by Berkley BooksDate read: November 12, 2023 The Characters: Olive and Adam Buy it…
Andrea Bartz | The Spare Room
The Plot (from Goodreads): Staying with a friend and her husband is sexier—and deadlier—than anyone could have imagined, in this provocative domestic suspense novel from…
JT Ellison | It’s One Of Us
The Plot (from Goodreads): Olivia Bender designs exquisite home interiors that satisfy the most demanding clients. But her own deepest desire can’t be fulfilled by…
Naina Kumar | Say You’ll Be Mine
The Plot (Goodreads): In this utterly charming debut romance, a teacher with big dreams joins forces with a no-nonsense engineer to survive an ex’s wedding…
Vanessa Lillie | Blood Sisters
The Plot (from Goodreads): A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma…
Robyn Harding | The Drowning Woman
The Plot (from Goodreads): A deliciously twisted story of friendship, retribution, and betrayal about a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past—and the wealthy society wife she…
Jennifer Hillier | Jar of Hearts
The Plot (Goodreads): This is the story of three best friends: one who was murdered, one who went to prison, and one who’s been searching…
Gillian McAllister | Just Another Missing Person
The Plot (from Goodreads): 22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day…and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not…
Nicole Barrell | The Sham
The Plot (Goodreads): After the harrowing deaths of her parents on Cape Cod, reclusive 20-something Margo Sharpe lives alone in a crap apartment in South…
Amazing Book Influencer Programs
Wondering how book influencers get added to publishers’ influencer programs? Looking for Book Influencer Programs to join? Whether you have a Bookstagram, BookTok, a book…
Rachel Ryan | Someone You Trust
The Plot (from Goodreads): Amy jumps at the opportunity when she’s offered a nannying job in picturesque West Cork. The assignment is for the friendly…