Author: Natalia Heroux

Sponsored by Ecco

After another taxing day as the sole female employee at a tech startup, Edwina comes home to find that her husband has packed a suitcase and left, abandoning their life and their increasingly hopeless quest to secure green cards. As Edwina searches for traces of her husband, she sifts through memories of their relationship, hoping to discover when something went wrong. Soon she will have to decide how much she is willing to sacrifice in order to stay in her marriage and in America

Sponsored by Sandra Brown’s new historical thriller Blind Tiger

The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas. It’s there that young widow Laurel Plummer and Deputy Thatcher Hutton will find themselves on the opposite sides of a moonshine war, where the blood flows as freely as the whiskey.

Sponsored by Ecco, publishers of Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

A vibrant story collection—immersive and comic, yet unsparing—that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities. Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship, and family.

Sponsored by Harper Perennial, publisher of When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen

Mira fled her small, segregated hometown in the south more than a decade ago. But now she’s back in Kipsen to attend the wedding of her childhood best friend, Celine at the Woodsman plantation which has recently been transformed into a lush vacation resort. But for all its fancy renovations, the Woodsman remains a monument to its oppressive racist history and there are rumors that can’t be ignored: whisperings that the ghosts of enslaved people roam the property, seeking vengeance on the descendants of those who tormented them. And many of those descendants are guests at Celine’s wedding…

Sponsored by Harper Paperbacks, publisher of Then She Vanishes by Claire Douglas

In 1994, sixteen-year-old Flora Powell vanished from her sleepy seaside town without a trace. Twenty-five years later, tragedy strikes again when Flora’s sister, Heather walks into a stranger’s house and allegedly kills two people in cold blood. Heather’s best friend Jess, now a reporter, returns to the hometown she left behind to cover the case and dig for answers. What happened to the girl she used to know? The question haunts Jess and propels her to find the key that may unlock the mysteries involving both sisters. But the investigation may reveal a darker side to her idyllic hometown.

Sponsored by Sourcebooks

Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to her southern, elite Duquette University. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident, beautiful, indifferent. Not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather Shelby’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she’d been closest to since freshman year.

But not everyone is ready to move on. Not everyone left Duquette ten years ago, and not everyone can let Heather’s murder go unsolved. Someone is determined to trap the real killer, to make the guilty pay.