This month, hints labeled as “feeling lucky?” Appropriate for the month with St. Patrick’s Day, the March hints feature Lucky Charms cereal atop a book cover.
Book #1
Because I have already composed my predictions for March (coming soon!), I found this one easy to figure out. It is clear from the video (still captured above) that the title has a “K” and either an “R” or “B”. Together with the colors, it seems pretty obvious that this hint is Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, whose previous novel Once There Were Wolves was a Book of the Month selection.
Personally, I am super excited (and guessed this would be a pick for March). Wild Dark Shore is my most anticipated book of the year.
Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
An enthralling new novel from the New York Times Bestselling author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves. A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.
Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.
But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.
A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Book #2
It was no surprise for me to see the book – Our Infinite Fates – to which this hint alludes. As soon as I learned about this novel and then saw its comparison to Addie LaRule I added it to my March predictions.
Our Infinite Fates
Laura Steven
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets This is How You Lose The Time War in this fantastical love story that defies death as two souls reincarnate through the centuries.
They’ve loved each other in a thousand lifetimes. They’ve killed each other in every one.
Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday by Arden, a supernatural being linked to her soul. The problem is that she’s quite fond of the life she’s in now, and her little sister needs her in order to stay alive. If Evelyn wants to save her sister, she’ll have to find the centuries-old devil who hunts her through each life before they find her first, figure out why she’s being hunted and finally break their curse, and try not to fall in love . . . again.
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
Genre: Young Adult
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Book #3
BOTM posted a last hint today to the app. It confirms what I saw in BOTM’s Instagram reel early today. The third book from the hints is definitely Count My Lies.
Count My Lies
Sophie Stava
A read-in-one-night suspense thriller narrated by a compulsive liar whose little white lies allow her to enter into the life and comfort of a wealthy married couple who are harboring much darker secrets themselves. For the millions of us still chasing those gone girls, this is perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Lucy Foley, and Laura Dave.
Sloane Caraway is a liar.
Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting.
So when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she can’t help herself—she tells the girl’s (very attractive) dad she’s a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girl’s foot.
With this lie, and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy, and privileged Jay and Violet Lockhart. The perfect New York couple, with a brownstone, a daughter in private school, and summers on Block Island.
But maybe Sloane isn’t the only one lying, and all that’s picture-perfect harbors a much more dangerous truth. To say anything more is to spoil the most exciting, twisty, and bitingly smart suspense novel to come out in years.
The thing about lies is that they add up, form their own truth and a twisted prison of a world. And in Count My Lies, Sophie Stava spins a breakneck, unputdownable thriller about the secrets we keep, and the terrifying dangers that lurk just under the images we spend so much time trying to maintain.
Careful what you lie for
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
Genre: Thriller
Publisher: Scout Press
