The Outer Banks is home to a famous tennis training facility.

It’s the home of Penny Harrison, a rising tennis star. Fresh off winning a tournament, she’ll be training hard for the next few weeks before the French Open. Her coach brings in Alex, a male tenn...
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Drawing on Chinese mythology, this tension- filled fable pits brother against brother, throne against famine, and adds a dragon. THE POET EMPRESS carries an inherent contradiction, because women are kept illiterate by the haughty Azalea Dynasty.

Knowing tha...
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Isabelle Engel’s debut novel, MOST ELIGIBLE, is a rom-com with the backdrop of a reality television show called Love Shack, where 20 young women vie for the heart of tennis champion Roland Marchetti. From the beginning, the reader knows that music journalist Georg...
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The fourth Monster Hunter Mystery starts with the shocking, brutal killing of a local woman on Bray Road in Wisconsin. The injuries look like they were caused by a monster - could it be the legendary cryptid, the Beast of Bray Road? Or is it a more dangerous kille...
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The day of her father's funeral, a famous author, Emerson, takes his typewriter. She's been forbidden to touch it. In a moment of grief, she types a wish. She's stunned to discover her wish came true, not in the way she expected, and with consequences she never co...
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CROSS YOUR HEART AND HOPE HE DIES by Jenny Elder Moke is a wild cozy mystery and rom-com mix with a headstrong lead character intent on finding a missing manuscript after the author dies and leaves her book deal of the century close to doom.  

Juli...
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The first in a two-book series, SILVER &
BLOOD is a diverting forced proximity enemies-to-lovers
romantasy by an author that I adore, Jessie Mihalek.
My favorite reads by Mihalek have been sci-fi romance.
Her Consortium
Rebellion series is especiall...
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This is a boarding school story with a difference; two differences. This is an alternative history setting, and there are dragons. TO RIDE A RISING STORM is the second in a series featuring Anequs, a girl native to the land we call eastern Canada and the northeast...
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I always love a novel of women running a
small business. Delaney Huger of Virginia is living her
dream job in marketing for a good-sized winery. Life brings
her back to visit Gull Island for a family wedding. Here she
finds SIMPLICITY BY THE SEA, which...
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Anne had dreams of writing a book. She
wasn’t always going to be a teacher. But she likes
teaching, and she’s good at it. When a parent
complains about a book she lent their son, the school wants
her to apologize. Anne’s not sorry for sharing the
bo...
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