Title: Passion on Park Avenue Series: Central Park Pact #1 Author: Lauren Layne Release Date: May 28th, 2019 Rating: 4/5 Stars Find it here: Goodreads – Amazon – B&N Synopsis from Goodreads: For as long as she can remember, Bronx-born Naomi Powell has had one goal: to prove her worth among the Upper East Side elite—the same people for which her mom worked as a housekeeper. Now, as the strongminded, sassy CEO of one of the biggest jewelry empires in the country, Naomi finally

Title: The Royal Secret Author: Lucinda Riley Release Date: May 21, 2019 Rating: 3/5 Stars Find it here: Goodreads Synopsis from Goodreads: Keeping secrets is a dangerous game. When Sir James Harrison, one the greatest actors of his generation, passes away at the age of ninety-five, he leaves behind not just a heartbroken family but also a secret so shocking, it could rock the English establishment to its core. Joanna Haslam, an up-and-coming reporter, is assigned to cov

Title: Living Lies Series: Harbored Secrets #1 Author: Natalie Walters Release Date: May 21, 2019 Rating: 4.5/5 Stars Find it here: Goodreads – Kindle - Amazon – B&N Synopsis from Goodreads: In the little town of Walton, Georgia, everybody knows your name--but no one knows your secret. At least that's what Lane Kent is counting on when she returns to her hometown with her five-year-old son. Dangerously depressed after the death of her husband, Lane is looking for hope. What

Title: HOPE & OTHER PUNCH LINES Author: Julie Buxbaum Pub. Date: May 7, 2019 Publisher: Delacorte Press Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook Pages: 320 Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, TBD The New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things and What to Say Next delivers a poignant and hopeful novel about resilience and reinvention, first love and lifelong friendship, the legacies of loss, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to surviv

​​SMLXL Title: The Brilliance of Fireflies Author: Leslie Hauser Release Date: May 21, 2019 Publisher: Gatekeeper Press Formats: Paperback and ebook Pages 310 Rating: 4/5 Stars Find it here: Goodreads – Kindle- Amazon – B&N Synopsis: Emma Loukas had a typical teenage life. Until she didn’t. After choosing to stay home instead of accompanying her family to a minor league baseball game, Emma is not present when a suicide bomber detonates an explosive device at the entrance to

Title: The Scent Keeper Author: Erica Bauermeister Release Date: May 21, 2019 Rating: 4/5 Stars Find it here: Goodreads – Amazon – B&N Synopsis from Goodreads: Emmeline lives an enchanted childhood on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through her senses. What he won't explain are the mysterious scents stored in the drawers that line the walls of their cabin, or the origin of the machine that creates them. As Emmeline grows, however, so

Title: Bright Burning Stars Author: A. K. Small Release Date: May 21, 2019 Rating: 3.5/5 Stars Find it here: Goodreads – Amazon – B&N Synopsis from Goodreads: Best friends Marine Duval and Kate Sanders have trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School since childhood, where they’ve formed an inseparable bond forged by respective family tragedies and a fierce love for dance. When the body of a student is found in the dorms just before the start of their final year, Marine and Kat

Title: The Printed Letter Bookshop Author: Katherine Reay Release Date: May 14, 2019 Rating: 4/5 Stars Find it here: Goodreads – Amazon – B&N Synopsis from Goodreads: One of Madeline Cullen’s happiest childhood memories is of working with her Aunt Maddie in the quaint and cozy Printed Letter Bookshop. But by the time Madeline inherits the shop nearly twenty years later, family troubles and her own bitter losses have hardened Madeline’s heart toward her once-treasured aunt—an

Title: The Unhoneymooners Author: Christina Lauren Release Date: May 14, 2019 Rating: 5/5 Stars Find it here: Goodreads – Amazon – B&N Synopsis from Goodreads: Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in…well, everything. Her identical twin sister Amy, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Her meet-cute with her fiancé is something out of a romantic comedy (gag) and she’s managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a series of Internet

Title: My Ex-Best Friend’s Wedding Author: Wendy Wax Release Date: May 14, 2019 Rating: 4.5/5 Stars Find it here: Goodreads – Amazon – B&N Synopsis from Goodreads: Prized and stored away for safekeeping, the timeless ivory wedding dress, with its scooped neck and cleverly fitted bodice, sits gently folded in its box, whispering of Happily Ever Afters. To Kendra, Brianna, and Lauren it's a reminder of what could have been, the promise of a fairy tale, and a friendship torn ap