-
The Last Father-Daughter Dance: A Short Story By: Lisa Wingate
A short story that you wouldn’t want to miss out on. It’s like a cozy 1-episode TV show. For a father and daughter, it’s a journey through the four seasons in a poignant short story about memories and everlasting love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Wingate. (Goodreads blurb) I always like to start reviews…
-
The Tenant By: Freida McFadden
McFadden does another thriller – and I was not disappointed. There’s no place like home… Blake Porter is riding high, until he’s not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancee, he’s desperate to make ends…
-
Rebecca By: Daphne du Maurier
A classic that has been on my TBR for way too long … First published in 1938, this classic gothic novel is such a compelling read that it won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century. A classic Gothic mystery that everyone should be reading. This book is extra interesting because of when…
-
The Midnight Knock By: John Fram
The latest horror book I read. I don’t read a lot of horror, but when I do … I like to make sure it’s weird-horror. A locked-room/Groundhog Day mystery meets white-knuckle horror in this thriller, where strangers must survive a deadly night in a remote Texas motel. The Midnight Knock is Groundhog Day meets horror-locked-room-mystery.…
-
The Bookbinder’s Secret By: A.D. Bell
A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder. An absolute page turner. It feels like there is so much going on in this book, but it also feels very manageable chaos. I felt…
-
An Academic Affair By: Jodi McAlister
From the “masterly” (The New York Times) Jodi McAlister, a charming new romance about two English professors who embark on a fake relationship…only to discover that it may be harder to pretend than they realized. Big news: This is my first McAlister book and it won’t be my last. This is a perfect enemies to lovers…
-
Just Friends By: Haley Pham
Catching up on some ARC reads I did this summer. Coming to you in spring of 2026! Heartwarming and swoon-worthy second chance romance about childhood friends reconnecting as adults is the highly anticipated debut novel from BookTok icon Haley Pham. Let’s get the biases out-of-the-way, I do watch Haley’s YouTube channel. I do enjoy her cute…
cmacs paperbacks 