Title: Grace and Fury Series: Book one Author: Tracy Banghart Release Date: July 31, 2018 Rating: 4/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: In a world where women have no rights, sisters Serina and Nomi Tessaro face two very different fates: one in the palace, the other in prison. Serina has been groomed her whole life to become a Grace–someone to stand by the heir to the throne as a shining, subjugated example of the perfect woman. But when her headstrong and rebellious younger

Title: Trouble the Water Author: Jacqueline Friedland Release Date: May 8, 2018 Rating: 4/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens, Abby’s parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old friend, Douglas Elling. When she arrives in Charleston at the age of seventeen, Abigail discovers that the man her parents raved about is a disagreeable widowe

Title: Something in the Water Author: Catherine Steadman Release Date: June 5, 2018 Rating: 4/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you? Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each o

Title: Flowers and Foul Play Series: A Magic Garden Mystery #1 Author: Amanda Flower Release Date: May 8, 2018 Rating: 3/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: Florist Fiona Knox’s life isn’t smelling so sweet these days. Her fiancé left her for their cake decorator. Then, her flower shop wilted after a chain florist opened next door. So when her godfather, Ian MacCallister, leaves her a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, Fiona jumps on the next plane to Edinburgh. Ian, after all,

Title: Best Beach Ever Series: Ten Beach Road #6 Author: Wendy Wax Release Date: May 22, 2018 Rating: 3.5/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: After giving up their renovation-turned-reality-TV-show Do Over, the ladies of Ten Beach Road move into cottages at the Sunshine Hotel and turn their beloved Bella Flora over to its wealthy mystery tenant. Now, each woman will be forced to reexamine and redefine her life, relationships, and dreams. My Review: I would recommend reading the

Title: The Favorite Sister Author: Jessica Knoll Release Date: May 15, 2018 Rating: 3/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: When five hyper-successful women agree to appear on a reality series set in New York City called Goal Diggers, the producers never expect the season will end in murder… Brett’s the fan favorite. Tattooed and only twenty-seven, the meteoric success of her spin studio—and her recent engagement to her girlfriend—has made her the object of jealousy and vitriol

Title: Lowcountry Bookshop Series: Liz Talbot Mystery #7 Author: Susan M. Boyer Release Date: May 29, 2018 Rating: 5/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: Lowcountry PI Liz Talbot returns to the streets of Charleston in the seventh installment of Susan M. Boyer’s USA TODAY bestselling mystery series. Between an epic downpour and a King Tide, those historic streets are flooded—and dangerous. A late night tragic accident along the Lower Battery leads Liz Talbot straight to her ne

Title: Secrets, Lies and Crawfish Pies Series: A Romaine Wilder Myster #1 Author: Abby L. Vandiver Release Date: June 12, 2018 Rating: 3/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: Romaine Wilder, big-city medical examiner with a small-town past, has been downsized and evicted. With few other options, she’s forced to return to her hometown of Robel in East Texas, leaving behind the man she’s dating and the life she’s worked hard to build. Suzanne Babet Derbinay, Romaine’s Auntie Zan

Title: How to Walk Away Author: Katherine Center Release Date: May 15, 2018 Rating: 5/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in one tumultuous moment. In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that no

Title: The Sugarhouse Blues Series: The Hudson Sisters, Book #2 Author: Mariah Stewart Release Date: May 15, 2018 Rating: 4/5 Stars Synopsis: Allie, Des, and Cara, each having her own reasons for wanting a share of their father's estate, meet in the grand Victorian home in which he grew up, only to be greeted by another secret he purposely hid from them: his sister Bonnie. The women reluctantly band together to take on Fritz's challenge, working with a local contractor to beg