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Finding Grace (2025)
Loretta Rothschild
"I can't remember the last time I read a book so wholly original that it also manages to feel like it's always existed. How is it not already a part of our zeitgeist, one of those watershed books people try to imitate for the next decade but never succeed in eclipsing? That enviable balance of blockbuster plot and literary elegance. Such a clever concept, such a whip smart voice, such perfectly rendered characters, all bound together by a theme as simple and utterly, relatably human as Finding Grace. An absolutely powerhouse debut that I will be thinking about for a good long while."
Flirting Lessons (2025)
Jasmine Guillory
"I'm not sure you can have a better summer read: a will-they-won't-they cat-and-mouse romp about challenging yourself to become the fullest - and most fulfilled - possible version of you. Add in a sun-baked setting, lovable sidekicks, and smoldering tension and I am one happy reader. What a perfect addition to the Guillory-verse."
Strange Folk (2024)
Alli Dyer
"STRANGE FOLK is an evocative journey of self-discovery - and rediscovery - that tickles every sensory input. I can't remember the last time I could not only see a story, but smell, taste, touch, and hear it, too. Its witchy prose made me feel like part of the Buck clan and its sense of place is as well-defined as its eccentric characters, somehow both eerily timeless and blisteringly current. With this stunning debut, Dyer shows herself to be a new standard-bearer for contemporary Southern Gothic."
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