This is my pick for my 2025 Book Challenge for July: Beach Read. Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Ariel Price wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone, no warning, no note, not answering his phone. Something is wrong. She starts with hotel security, then the police, then the American embassy, at each confronting questions she can’t fully answer. The clock is ticking. Ariel is increasingly frustrated and desperate, running out of…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Prince Kirran of the autumn fey returns home from war, his older brothers dead and him now the only heir. He needs a wife, which wouldn’t be a problem, except that he’s not over the girl who shattered his heart seven years ago. Half-human Alia avoids her noble stepfamily by living among the fey king’s…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust