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The last week of July has a way of making you aware of time without asking you to mourn it. Summer is still in full bloom, yet you find yourself paying closer attention to the little things that make this season so unforgettable. The mornings begin with warm sunlight streaming through open windows, afternoons are filled with the gentle hum of cicadas, and evenings linger well past dinnertime, painted in soft shades of peach and lavender. There is no urgency yet, only a quiet awareness that these long, golden days deserve to be noticed while they're here.

You decide there couldn't be a better time to begin a new book.

The book has been waiting for you, tucked into the growing stack of summer reads you've been collecting over the past few months. Every time you've walked past it, you've imagined the moment you'd finally crack it open, but you've never felt quite ready. Now, with July beginning its slow transition toward August, it feels exactly right. Summer has settled into its most comfortable rhythm, and you have settled into it right alongside.

You pour yourself something cold to drink before finding a place to read. Maybe it's a tall glass of iced tea with fresh mint from the garden or sparkling lemonade served over ice. You carry it outside and settle into a chair beneath the shade of a maple tree, where sunlight filters through the leaves in shifting patches of gold. The breeze is warm enough to feel comforting but cool enough to keep the afternoon pleasant. Around you, hydrangeas bloom in generous clusters, butterflies drift lazily through the garden, and bees move methodically from flower to flower as though they have nowhere else they need to be.

Before you open the book, you allow yourself a few quiet moments to simply exist within the afternoon. Somewhere nearby, someone is mowing the lawn. Wind chimes ring softly from a neighboring porch. Children laugh in the distance, their voices carrying through the warm air before fading again. A robin lands briefly on the fence, tilting its head before disappearing into the trees. Everything about the day encourages you to slow down, to notice the details that so often disappear beneath the pace of everyday life.

You finally open the cover, and the familiar crack of the spine feels like the official beginning of something. There is always a quiet thrill in starting a new story, knowing you are standing at the edge of a world that will soon feel familiar. The pages are crisp beneath your fingertips, untouched and full of possibility. You don't know these characters yet. You haven't learned what they'll lose or discover or become. For now, they are simply waiting for you to meet them.

The first chapters unfold with the same leisurely pace as the afternoon itself. You find yourself reading slowly, not because the story demands it, but because summer does. This season has taught you that the best experiences aren't rushed. They are savored. You linger over beautifully written passages, pause after memorable lines, and occasionally lift your eyes from the page to admire the sunlight dancing through the leaves overhead.

As the story begins to settle around you, the world outside continues its quiet performance. A breeze catches the edge of the page. The scent of blooming flowers drifts through the air. Your drink grows colder with melting ice, and somewhere overhead, clouds drift lazily across a brilliant blue sky. None of these things interrupt your reading. Instead, they become part of it, woven together with the opening chapters into a memory you'll revisit every time you think of this book.

The characters slowly become companions. Their conversations begin to feel familiar, their worries quietly becoming your own. You realize you've stopped thinking about how many pages remain because you're no longer reading to reach the ending. You're reading simply to remain in this moment a little longer, letting the story unfold as naturally as the season around you.

By the time you close the book, the afternoon has softened toward evening. The sunlight has taken on that unmistakable honeyed glow that only late July seems capable of producing. Shadows stretch across the lawn, and the air carries the faint promise of another beautiful sunset. You slip a bookmark between the pages and rest the book in your lap, reluctant to leave either the story or the afternoon behind.

The last week of July has a way of reminding you that summer isn't measured by how many days remain on the calendar but by how fully you inhabit the ones you have. Sitting there with a new book in your hands, surrounded by warm breezes, blooming gardens, and the quiet soundtrack of a summer afternoon, you realize that this is exactly the kind of moment you'll remember long after the season has passed. It won't be because anything extraordinary happened. It will be because you gave yourself permission to slow down, open a book, and let both the story and the season unfold one beautiful page at a time.

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Books Publishing July 27 - August 1

Desert Heist by Alex Dekker

A former Green Beret and aspiring archaeologist’s expedition to uncover a long-lost ancient civilization turns deadly in this explosive thriller teeming with adventure and discovery.

Nate Wilde is a former Green Beret and aspiring Harvard archaeologist. Leaving the military after a catastrophic deployment that ended with most of his team dead or injured, he chooses to pursue his passion for history. When his dissertation proposal to search for the legendary lost city of Ubar in Saudi Arabia is rejected by the Harvard examining committee and his expedition permit is denied by the Saudi government, Nate resolves to continue his research by any means necessary. And the only path left to him is to enter Saudi Arabia’s Empty Quarter through war-torn Yemen, the same sands where his brothers lost their lives years ago

Buyer Beware by Catherine Ryan Howard

If these walls could talk, they’d scream...

When Ellie moves to 1 Delaney Row, she hopes to find a fresh start—a place where no one knows her name, her history, or her secrets. But what she doesn’t know is that her new home is already hiding someone else’s secrets—and the people determined to keep them are watching her.

As Ellie starts to unravel the house’s disturbing backstory, coming closer to the shocking mystery at its center, she unwittingly puts herself on a deadly collision course not just with her new home’s history, but with her own as well.

A puzzle box of a thriller full of mind-boggling twists and turns, Buyer Beware is a chilling exploration of the dark secrets that any house can hold—and of the lengths we’ll go to start over.

The Night Hunter by Natalie Moss

In a remote corner of the South African bush, two sisters reunite to bury a family secret once and for all, but when they’re stranded among the wild animals, they find a predator far more dangerous waiting for them in the shadows. . . .

A Penance for Crows by Shannon Morgan

An unnerving, hypnotic, modern gothic thriller set on a remote Irish island, where an artist is caught between deadly secrets, ancient superstition, and echoing madness. For fans of Simone St. James, Eve Chase, and Jennifer McMahon.

Off the southern tip of the Beara Peninsula lies Beanna Dubh, an island of savage beauty, its jagged cliffs lashed by Atlantic winds and infested by thousands of crows. Untouched by 21st-century advances, the islanders live under the strict rule of the church, while clinging to old superstitions of the crows as harbingers of disaster. To this desolate, unforgiving place Grizela Urquhart fled, seeking sanctuary from brutal bullying in her native Glasgow.

40 years on, Grizela still remains an outsider—the eccentric painter viewed with distrust and barely tolerated. The feelings are mutual, for she has discovered there are as many secrets on Beanna Dubh as there are crows.

When she stumbles upon the body of a young priest with a diabolical symbol drawn on his chest, the crows darken the skies, and Grizela is plagued by demonic whispers only she can hear. The islanders’ suspicions fall on her, but she fears the answers lie in her tortured past.

As mass hysteria grows, Grizela scrambles to protect the innocent—a quartet of young girls she has taken under her wing. When she uncovers dark truths behind the girls’ mysterious midnight gatherings, her grip on reality unravels and she is faced with an impossible choice: do the unthinkable to protect the girls as the whispers urge, or come out of hiding to face the sins of her past.

Maggie and Arthur's Magic Moment by Leslie René

Despite the college’s budget cuts that slashed her syllabus, Linguistics and Incantation Translation professor Maggie Linden has almost made it to the end of the spring semester. To celebrate, Maggie attends a magical masquerade on Beltane. Maybe the end-of-year frenzy explains why she kissed a masked stranger at the festival, though her celebration may have come too soon….

An accident in the lab of famous (and famously broody) alchemist Arthur Taliesin sets loose a dangerous, haunting magic called a pall that renders the nicer parts of their academic building uninhabitable. Maggie is assigned to share her tiny basement office with none other than Taliesin himself. With his insufferable attitude and unfortunate good looks, Arthur makes it impossible for Maggie to concentrate on anything—her research, her students’ final exams, or tracking down her mysterious Beltane suitor.

She’ll do anything to get Arthur out of her office, including offering to help him reverse the magic that threatens the school. But Maggie is starting to realize her officemate may not be the conceited grump he pretends to be. In fact, much of what she thinks is true about Arthur is merely a mask….

The Mortal Enemy Murder Club by Gloria Chao

In the second Hu Done It mystery by acclaimed author Gloria Chao, the Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club is pulled into yet another murder investigation, and this time the only way to solve it is to team up with the podcaster who almost put them all in prison. Perfect for fans of Dial A for Aunties and Only Murders in the Building.

Kathryn Hu did it. She solved the crime. She and her friends figured out who murdered their ex-boyfriend—unfortunately, one of them was guilty and did end up in prison, but at least they’ve still got each other! And Kat is definitely not getting involved in another murder case ever again.

Except…when her mortal enemy—the podcaster who made up facts and almost put Kat in prison—shows up and begs for help because she’s been framed for a crime she didn’t commit, Kat and the rest of the Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club get pulled into a whole new murder case.

At least this time they definitely didn’t do it…right?

The Séance Garden by Juliet Blackwell

After an amateur ghost tour in one of California’s oldest towns stumbles upon an actual haunting, a skeptical historian of the occult becomes entangled in a murder case on the grounds.

When Professor Harper Grae loses a bet with a friend, she finds herself on a nighttime tour of “haunted” locations in Monterey, California. Harper’s a lifelong nonbeliever of the occult, though her academic career is devoted to the historical and societal significance of witchcraft, ghosts, and poisons of all sorts. But her skepticism is immediately tested when the tour stumbles upon the body of renowned artist Delilah Mason—who’s found murdered on the grounds of a two-hundred-year-old mansion.

On the night Mason is discovered, Harper catches sight of something in the house that she can’t shake, something that’s impossible to explain, at least not rationally. Soon the investigation reveals that this is the second time a woman has been found murdered beneath the sprawling cypress tree in the garden of the Perles Mansion, which once belonged to an infamous local family. And when Harper’s closest friend is questioned by the police, she fears the authorities will fail to uncover the real killer.

As Harper digs deeper into the supernatural speculation and rumors surrounding the deaths, she sees evidence she can’t ignore that the notorious mansion is truly haunted. Can Harper admit she’s been experiencing a paranormal phenomenon, even if it goes against everything she believes about crossing the veil between the living and the dead? And can she figure out what the ghost needs her to know about the two women killed under similar circumstances nearly two centuries apart?

Runner by Ashton Lattimore

In this gripping, emotionally layered novel set in Prohibition-era Martha’s Vineyard, a young woman from a Black seafaring family plunges into the dangerous world of rum-running to save her home and uncover the truth about her father’s death.

Martha’s Vineyard, 1923. The sea was the gift that kept on giving to Lena Jameson’s father, Earl, a fisherman turned successful rumrunner who built up a small fortune smuggling liquor from offshore ships to thirsty customers back on the island. But when Earl and his entire crew are lost in a mysterious shipwreck that some whisper was no accident, his loved ones are left reeling and penniless—and Lena, who’d been on the cusp of a college career in Boston, sees her future slipping away.

Desperate to save her family as well as her own hopes of escaping their small town, Lena decides to take over Earl’s rum-running business. For a crew, she ropes in Walter, her roguish big brother who leans too hard on the bottle; Sam, her steadfast local boyfriend who wants to keep her tethered to shore; and Dee, a glamorous young woman from Boston who is summering in the Vineyard and offers Lena a glimpse of the future that she still wants for herself—and who’s keeping her own explosive secret.

The foursome embarks on a journey from the quaint, colorful streets of Oak Bluffs through gangland Boston to the jazz-filled clubs of Harlem during its Renaissance, all in search of quick money—and the truth about the shipwreck. But as buried secrets rise to the surface and the temptations of the glittering underworld pull Lena in deeper, everything she’s fought to protect soon hangs in the balance: her heart, her family, and her place in a world that’s quick to condemn women who dare to want more.

The Doctor's Widow by Daniel Hurst

An engrossing psychological thriller full of secrets, betrayal, and revenge, for fans of Nicole Trope and Leslie Wolfe.

She trusted him. Now she’s paying the price …

I loved my husband, Doctor Drew Devlin, but he betrayed me. And now he’s dead.

As I put the key in the lock and open the door to the luxurious new home I’ve purchased with Drew’s life insurance money, I’m certain the worst days are behind me. My secret is safe, and I can’t wait to enjoy my new wealth and freedom. Then I meet handsome Roger. I wasn’t looking for a relationship but as we spend our evenings drinking wine on my sunny terrace, I realize he’s just what I need right now.

Roger is nothing like Drew, he’s spontaneous and romantic. And most of all, he’s honest. He thinks I’m a rich, lonely woman. He’s wrong of course, there’s so much more to me …

But then one night, when we’re curled up in bed together, Roger says something that makes my blood run cold. I think he knows the truth about my life as the doctor’s wife. I will do anything to stop my past from catching up with me …

But is Roger really who he says he is? Or is my life now in danger

The Brat and the Bullfighter by Erin O'Malley

Once upon a time, a little girl told her mother she wanted a horse. But not just any horse. The horse, she insisted, must be white. Decades later, she would meet that white horse: Artilheiro do Vouga (Arty), a sensitive Lusitano stallion of the storied Veiga lineage long prized by bullfighters for their intelligence, agility, and courage. He was well out of her league—and it was love at first sight.

In THE BRAT AND THE BULLFIGHTER: A Love Story (She Writes Press; July 28, 2026), Erin O’Malley tells the story of two beings shaped by movement. As an Army brat, Erin’s childhood was defined by moves she did not choose—orders, relocations, constant adjustment. As an adult, the moving continued, but for different reasons. She chased reinvention and escape, drawn by the promise of what might be next, never quite knowing how to settle or stay in one place for long. Her love for horses was the one constant.

Arty’s life was also shaped by movement. Born in Brazil, he was sold through an elite auction and brought to California. His instability came less from relocation than a revolving door of riders and trainers, each with different expectations, none offering a lasting relationship. For a sensitive horse—and despite the best of intentions—the continual change was too much. He started to become “dangerous” under saddle.

The book unfolds in a braided narrative. Told with self-awareness and a touch of irreverence, Erin’s chapters follow a life of seeking—from military bases in Europe to work abroad and relationships that don’t quite land. Arty’s reveal an observant soul who learns that attachment often comes at a cost. Through his eyes, readers get a rare window into the equine mind: the daily realities of barn life, the lasting effects of early loss, an unlikely friendship with a rooster, and the skepticism of a horse who has seen too many people come and go.

Four years after their first meeting, Erin receives the unexpected call that Arty is for sale. She says yes. Loving him is the easy part; understanding him is harder. What follows is a long process of missteps, small breakthroughs, and learning how to listen.

But when devastating loss threatens to undo her, Arty meets her with an unexpected, knowing calm—and in his way, asks her to stay.

City of Promises by Victoria Thompson and Ellen Thompson

Elizabeth Bates must use everything she knows about the art of the con to stop a fellow scammer in his tracks in this first-ever thrilling crossover in the Victoria Thompson universe, featuring characters from her bestselling Gaslight Mysteries.

Famed former police detective turned private investigator Frank Malloy and his wife, Sarah, come to Gideon Bates desperate for legal guidance. The Malloys’ adopted daughter, Catherine, a burgeoning star of the stage, has announced her engagement to a man she barely knows. Catherine has recently gained access to her trust fund, and Sebastian Talbot appears very eager to marry her as quickly as possible.

As Gideon and his wife, Elizabeth, investigate, it becomes all the clearer that Talbot may not be who he says he is. As a former con artist herself, Elizabeth suspects one may be in their midst. Undeterred by her pregnancy, she must pull out all the stops to out swindle a swindler and save another woman from ruin.

Ballad of the Gangster's Daughter

Serena Magic is the gifted middle child of a criminal from the Bronx. By the time she is twelve, her father Gerard has cobbled together enough street victories to relocate their family to the affluent suburbs of Connecticut. All is lush and green until the tranquility of their escape is viciously disrupted when a series of tragedies claims one Magic daughter after another.

Spanning seven deaths over five decades, each chapter tells the loss of a different sister. And every funeral reveals two paths for Serena’s future: one where she can satisfy her desire for adventure and another where she continues to protect her family at all costs, even when they are on the wrong side of the truth, the law, or both.

She voyages out to the ivy leagues, to Washington, and to a career in the music business, only to be dragged back into the family’s dilemmas. We follow her dual loyalties from the fire-hydrant showers of the Bronx to the seafood bistros of Southport, from Dartmouth to inner-city Philadelphia, from the balconies of Rome to the fluorescent-lit supermarkets of Florida, from the apex of New York City back home—to a row of tombs and the yoke of dangerous people who love her very much.

With every tragedy, Serena must make a decision.

The Whisper by Chelsea Iversen

Alice Hoffman meets Riley Sager's Middle of the Night in The Whisper, a speculative thriller following a group of friends who must return to the small mountain town where they grew up to confront the past and use their power to find justice for their dead friend...

Rule 1: When the trees whisper, listen.
Rule 2: Don’t go into the woods alone.

In the small mountain town of Whisper Ridge, the girls were inseparable. Joey, Quinn, Sophie, and Elena lived by six rules as they channeled magic in the woods. The first being: when the trees whisper, listen. But all rules are forgotten, all bonds broken, when Quinn is found dead in the trees.

The friends scatter, all except Joey, who can’t move on. Until, fifteen years later, she hears the trees whisper. Those woods remember some of Quinn’s last words, and for the first time, Joey realizes she may learn the truth of what happened to her best friend. And so, the friends will return to Whisper Ridge, to the woods that once held their magic and their secrets. But unearthing the truth about Quinn puts them all in danger, and they’ll need to channel their power for the first time in fifteen years to put the past to rest.

High Five Your Spirit Guides by Katherine Marie

Imagine having a team of invisible allies who protect you, cheer you on, and nudge you toward the opportunities meant for you. In Katherine Marie’s “High Five Your Spirit Guides," you’ll learn how to identify, connect, and partner with these powerful companions to bring you the life you deserve. By recognizing signs, conducting gentle rituals, and strengthening intuition and focus through journaling, you’ll discover how spirit guides make themselves known, how to communicate with them, and how to trust their guidance. With Katherine’s playful, encouraging tone, this judgement-free book is your roadmap to building a lasting relationship with your spirit guides and manifesting a life of abundance, and joy.

Pop Stars and Playbooks by Juliet Rhodes

She’s a chart-topper. He’s a football player. Together, they’re a love story no one saw coming.

Griffin Hayes is football’s golden boy–charming, talented, and completely out of his depth when a video of him belting out pop star Aria Wilder’s breakup anthem goes viral. Overnight, he’s crowned the internet’s favorite meme, and Aria’s #1 fan. Aria, the reigning queen of heartbreak ballads, sees an opportunity to turn the moment into good PR and invites Griffin to her next concert. When their onstage chemistry sets the internet ablaze, her team suggests the unthinkable: a fake friendship to keep the buzz alive.

Griffin reluctantly agrees, but as they spend more time together–posing for cameras, attending events, and sharing inside jokes–he realizes there’s nothing fake about the way Aria makes him feel. For Aria, Griffin is a breath of fresh air in a world that’s always demanding more from her. Beneath the viral fame and public scrutiny, their connection feels real.

But when Griffin suffers a career-threatening injury and Aria battles creative burnout, their carefully constructed “performance” starts to crumble. With their worlds pulling them in opposite directions, they’ll have to decide: Is this just a PR stunt gone too far–or the kind of love worth risking everything for?

Perfect for fans of fake dating, opposites attract, and swoon-worthy slow burns, Pop Stars and Playbooks is a sparkling romance about finding love in the unlikeliest of places–and learning to trust it when the spotlight fades.

Civics by William Meyers

Civics, the new book by photographer William Meyers, offers a sweeping 25-year visual record of New York City as a microcosm of America, capturing the everyday acts of civic engagement, public service, and neighborly support that sustain the democratic fabric of the nation.
Throughout the collection, Meyers turns his lens on the streets, neighborhoods, offices, and public spaces of New York, his photographs honoring the energy, diversity, and variety of perspectives that define New York and offering a broad, empathetic view of how citizens engage with one another and their communities.

Twelve Weeks of Love & Loss by Rebecca Gould Baeurle

Nikki had a choice.
Go back to Chris — the man she’d loved since college, the one who made her feel chosen and cheated in the same breath. He showed up three years later like no time had passed, like she owed him an audience – persistent, charming, a little too sure of himself and still undeniably irresistible.

Or start fresh — no baggage. Rich was everything you’d expect from a cop: safe, reliable, strong, and attentive. But are comfort and contentment what keep you safe, or just a clever disguise for danger? Her friends weren’t so sure. The attention a little too focused. The concern a little too constant. They said it quietly at first, then louder.

So, she chose. But choices have consequences — ones we can’t predict. Sometimes small, irrelevant event, other times… deadly.

Twelve Weeks of Love & Loss is a pulse-pounding story of obsession, deception and survival set against the backdrop of a love story that never quite let go. Nikki’s fight isn’t just to escape. It’s to find her way back to herself.

Maud and the Very Eventful Week by Lisa Anchin

Follow an adorable little vampire named Maud through a week of ever-so-gently-spooky adventures in this charming vignette-style story—the first in a series poised to engross newly independent readers.

Who would have known on Monday that the week ahead would be such a busy one? In this slightly gothic tour through the days of the week, the delight is in the details as illustrations portray Maud and her family and friends among the familiar objects and activities of childhood, with just enough of a quirky twist to please the young vampire lovers among us.

The Strawberry Moon Tribune by Hannah Wicklund

The Strawberry Moon Tribune is a magazine produced by singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist Hannah Wicklund, and serves as a companion to her upcoming new record 'War on Women; Calling All Good Men'. Each volume of the tribune will be released on the New Moon, and is meant to serve as a guide through each moon cycle and includes contributions from fellow musicians, artists, an astrologer, a witch, a doula, an herbalist (& more!). The Tribune encourages the reader to add their own artistry and introspection within the many journal spaces inside and via the upload portal on www.strawberrymoontribune.com, offering readers the chance to be published within future volumes of the publication. Hannah invites each reader to join the tribune and its many contributors as they answer the call to collective imagination.

On the Street Where You Live

On the Street Where You Live is a cozy audio novel by the creator of one of the world’s most popular sleep podcasts, Nothing Much Happens, and invites listeners into the warmly interconnected lives of a dozen neighbors in a charming village.

On the idyllic tree-lined streets of the Village of Nothing Much, the leaves are starting to change, and the first hint of autumn chill drifts through the air. Peeking through the windows, you may find the Bookseller, who's come home from her shop in town to have lunch and feed her beloved dog. Make your way across the street, and you’ll see the Piano Teacher, who’s just finished up a lesson and opened a letter that calls to mind an important memory. Down by the lake, the Innkeeper is seeing the final summer guests off and preparing for the quiet of the winter season. And so on: each resident has their own tasks, their own small corner of the community to attend to.

Over the course of one weekend, listeners will be introduced to the residents of this closeknit village as they prepare for their annual Labor Day block party. As the villagers chase clues, share stories, and show up for one another, the audiobook reveals the hidden richness of ordinary life. Written with deep tenderness, the story celebrates the beauty of small gestures, chosen family, and the slow magic of community. Scenes from the Village of Nothing Much come alive with lush detail, whether it’s the warm scent of cardamom buns wafting out of the oven or the smooth feel of an old typewriter’s keys under busy fingers, and offer a soft space for anxious minds to land.

When She Was Ours by Anna Nordberg

Thea Erickson, a renowned surgeon, is filled with both joy and grief as her family gathers at their home on a summer night in 1995. Her elder daughter Phoebe is getting married, but even the happiness of the day feels bittersweet, as Thea grapples with a terminal cancer diagnosis. She worries she won’t be around to support her younger daughter Astra, who’s still in college, but even Thea cannot foresee what is to come―a terrible accident the night of the wedding that changes Astra’s life forever.

In a last-ditch effort to protect her family, Thea arranges a secret meeting with an old family friend and extracts a promise that will reverberate long after she’s gone.

Years after her mother’s death, Astra has moved forward with a career and relationship, but she still struggles with her grief. When a man reaches out to her and Phoebe, offering a window into their mother’s past, Astra must make a choice, and her decision forces her to face what it means to love someone after they’re gone, who we decide to forgive, and how families reckon with the past.

How to Ruin a Wedding by Elba Luz

When a professional wedding crasher storms the wrong party, an irresistibly charming man enlists her services for a job that’s about to give her outlook on love a run for its money.

Lucy Delgado knows all about things that don’t work out. Between two failed marriages and losing her job, “meant to be” doesn’t seem to mean much anymore. And watching her sister’s marriage deteriorate isn’t convincing Lucy otherwise.

Desperate for money and disillusioned by love, she turns her nothing-left-to-lose attitude into action as a professional wedding saboteur. Lucy knows how to play any part―old lover, nosy relative, wise stranger―to save brides and grooms from making the same mistakes she did.

Until she crashes the wrong ceremony.

For Anders Kennedy, Lucy’s timing couldn’t be better. She’s exactly what he needs to derail his own sister’s upcoming nuptials by posing as Anders’s new girlfriend so she can slip into the family circle and sabotage from within. And Anders has the kind of money Lucy can’t afford to turn down.

As they fake-date their way through family celebrations, high jinks, and secrets, Lucy and Anders are forced to confront their cynicism about marriage. Their schemes were meant for the greater good, but what if love really does conquer all?

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