Author: Natalia Heroux

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Theory of Happily Ever After by Kristin Billerbeck and Revell Books, a Division of Baker Publishing Group.

For Dr. Maggie Maguire, happiness is serious–serious science, that is. But science can’t explain everything, like why her fiancé dumped her and how the breakup sent Maggie into an ice cream-fueled chick flick binge.

When her concerned friends book Maggie as a speaker on a “New Year, New You” cruise, she wonders if she’s qualified to teach others about happiness anymore. But when a handsome stranger on board insists that smart women can’t be happy, Maggie sets out to prove him wrong. Along the way she may discover that happiness has far less to do with the head than with the heart.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Epic Reads. 

In this sequel to Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—now a major motion picture, Love, Simon—Simon’s BFF Leah grapples with changing friendships, first love, and senior year angst.

Leah’s an anomaly in her friend group. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And while her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t told her friends.

So Leah doesn’t know what to do when the group starts to fracture, and with prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high.

It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while her friends are fighting—especially since she might love one of them more than she intended.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Gods of Winter

Bob Daniels, against all odds, becomes a noted psychologist. In unlikely fashion, he meets Gloria Hopkins, a noted stage performer. A rare and daring love ensues, but it’s thwarted by an inexplicable force of madness. The two are pulled into a harrowing journey to save their love, and as they interlock with a range of vibrant characters, in desperation they face the impossible. The stuff of legend. Fiction based on fact. A story to behold. Its humor, laughter, strife, sadness, and tragedy are the stuff of legend. The Gods of Winter: A story of pondering gasps, ending in deep awe.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Pegasus Books’ A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee. 

India, 1920: When the heir to the throne of Sambalpore is assassinated in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant “Surrender-Not” Banerjee, they discover a kingdom rife with suppressed conflict. Prince Adhir’s modern attitudes may have upset the religious elements of his country, while his brother, now in line for the throne, appears to be a feckless playboy.

As Wyndham and Banerjee desperately try to unravel the mystery behind the assassination, they become entangled in a dangerous world where those in power live by their own rules—and those who cross their paths pay with their lives.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by BookishFirst.

Be You. Be Bookish. Be BookishFirst.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by American by Day by Derek B. Miller

A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid—the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller’s best-selling debut Norwegian by Night—from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Flatiron Books

Following two sisters in their pursuit of passion and independence, this is a genre-bending novel that is part coming-of-age, part historical fiction, with elements of mystery and paranormal. When one of the sisters goes missing, the other must put aside her books to find her–and start living.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret of Flirting, Sabrina Jeffries.

The moment spymaster Baron Fulkham meets the stunning Princess Aurore of Chanay, he’s positive her royal persona is a ruse and that she’s actually Monique Servais, the mysterious actress he met three years before in Dieppe. But as he pursues his suspicions, he uncovers a plot of attempted assassination and betrayal that could very well destroy his career, expose his own secrets…and ruin the woman he’s rapidly coming to love