Book of the Month Reviews

The Verifiers

Claudia Lin is a lifelong mystery reader and a new employee at a company that verifies the identities of its clients’ online love interests. When Claudia’s newest client ends up dead, she takes it upon herself to solve the mystery of her suspicious death. Read
Black Buck

A crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems. Read
The Magnolia Palace

Formerly a sought-after artists’ model, Lillian is rudderless and desperate—the work has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an employment as a private secretary at the Frick mansion—a building that, ironically, bears her own visage—Lillian jumps at the chance. The more deeply… Read
Love & Other Disasters

On the set of America’s favorite cooking show, two competitors – newly divorced Dahlia and the first nonbinary contestant London – fall for each other. Read
A Flicker in the Dark

Psychologist Chloe Davis has tried to escape her dark past. Her father has been in prison since she was 12 years old for the murder of six teenage girls. Now, 20 yeas later and in a different city, teenage girls begin to go missing and her past comes crashing back. Read
Pretty Little Wife

Debut author Darby Kane thrills with this twisty domestic suspense novel that asks one central question: shouldn’t a dead husband stay dead? Read
Rock Paper Scissors

In a last ditch effort to save their marriage, a couple becomes snowed in on a weekend away in Scotland. But their secrets come back to haunt them, and someone does not want them to live happily ever after. Read
The Holiday Swap

A feel-good, holiday-themed romance about identical twins – both bakers – who switch lives in the days leading up to Christmas. Read
A History of Wild Places

Travis Wren has a talent for finding missing people. His is hired to find children’s author Maggie St. James who vanished into thin air five years prior. But soon, Travis vanishes too after finding Pastoral – a 1970s reclusive community the outside would has forgotten about. Read