The Froggy Is Back

Fans of Pamela Kelley and Robyn Carr will love this later-in-life, small-town romance.

She’s 65 years old and ready to embrace the adventure of a lifetime!

When Isabel receives an invitation to a reunion from her childhood friends in Sapphire Bay, she hesitates. It’s been a long time since they’ve been together in the small lakeside town where they met as teenagers. Now 65 years old and recently widowed, she’s yearning for a fresh start. Deciding this could be the change she needs, Isabel tells her friends she’ll be there.

After she arrives, she discovers the town’s bookstore is up for sale and at risk of closing. With encouragement from her friends and Frank, a retired lawyer with a mysterious past, Isabel takes a leap of faith and purchases the store.

As Isabel and Frank grow closer, she discovers he’s harboring dangerous secrets. When shadows from Frank’s past catch up with him, Isabel finds herself caught in the crossfire, forcing them both to make impossible choices.

Inspired by real events, the Lady of Lake Como follows the story of a lieutenant with the Italian Police who, during the height of World War II, is tasked with investigating the unsettling disappearance of two women from his small town. Complicating matters, Ezio receives a detestable order from his superiors to arrest a Jewish man simply for the accident of his birth. While enroute to carry out his unbearable duty, Ezio has a crisis of conscience when he encounters a nun whose secret forever changes his heart.

There are three rules in Hell’s Bitters: don’t drink the well water, don’t hike alone after dark, and don’t fall for Dean.

I’m not Little Ava anymore.

I came back to Hell’s Bitters with a broken heart, a bruised ego, and curves my brother’s best friend definitely isn’t supposed to notice. Dean was always the dangerous one — wild, reckless, half untamed even back then. The kind of man your mother warns you about and your body refuses to forget.

Dean lost everything chasing adrenaline. Now he’s back home running wilderness tours with my brother, building something real for the first time in his life. The last thing either of us needs is the kind of complication that ends friendships and burns families to the ground.

But the way he looks at me isn’t complicated at all. It’s hunger.

I know he wants more than my heart. I know my brother will lose his mind if he finds out. I know every single reason this is a terrible idea.

Problem is, I don’t think I care.

Before the attacks, Rose’s life was simple.

Before there was mass violence in America, she was a university student in Liverpool.

Before her roommate was savagely attacked, she wanted to make the world a better place.

That was before the zombie outbreak.

Now, Rose and her best friend Lyra are forced to flee their flat and find refuge onboard a yacht with a group of armed survivors. Although safety seems likely on the open sea, it’s only a matter of time before a new outbreak occurs.

Maplewood Museum’s most despised security guard drops dead after dessert.

When the coffee froth and glitter settles, the only thing missing is the museum’s prized artifact… and everyone’s alibi.

Hattie Calder planned to spend the evening serving coffee, not stumbling into chaos. But when whispers of theft, blackmail, and betrayal echo through the gala hall, the barista with a talent for noticing what others miss becomes the prime candidate to untangle the truth.

Armed with her quick wit, her friend Liam’s tech savvy, and her cat Beans’ uncanny knack for being in the wrong place at the right time, Hattie digs into Maplewood’s polished surface to find the cracks beneath.

Councilwoman Dolores Grant claims Pike was “snooping” before the gala ended, and Greg Benson insists Pike threatened him about museum conspiracy theories. With false leads, and every smile masking grudges, or town secrets, someone is willing to kill again to hide the truth.

If Hattie doesn’t solve the mystery soon, the next person connected to the museum gala might not live to tell their story.