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The Seven Year Slip
Ashley Poston · 2023
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER ∙ An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate . . . only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise novel from the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Dead Romantics.<br><br></i>A New York Public Library Best Book of 2023<i><br><br></i>"A gorgeous love story from one of the finest romance writers out there."—Carley Fortune, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Every Summer After</i></b><br><br>Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.<br><br>So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it.<br><br>And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again.<br><br>Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.<br><br>Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed.<br><br>After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden · 2022
Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it's hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina's life. I only try on one of Nina's pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it's like. But soon she finds out - and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it's far too late. But I reassure myself that the Winchesters don't know who I really am. And they don't know what I'm capable of.
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides · 2021
<p><b>**THE INSTANT #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER**</b><br><br>"An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy."<br><b>—<i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br><br><b><i>The Silent Patient</i> is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.</b><br><br>Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.<br><br>Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.<br><br>Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....</p>
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Problematic Summer Romance
Ali Hazelwood · 2025
<p><b><i>What is wrong</i></b> <b>meets <i>what feels right</i> in this romance set in Italy by the <i>Sunday Times</i> and <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Deep End.</i></b><br> <br> Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life.<br> <br> Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him.<br> <br> It's such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother's best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life.<br> <br> But not everything is as it seems - and clichés sometimes become plot twists.<br> <br> When Maya's brother decides to get married in Taormina, she and Conor end up stuck together in a romantic Sicilian villa for over a week. There, on the beautiful Ionian coast, between ancient ruins, delicious foods, and natural caves, Maya realizes that Conor might be hiding something from her. And as the destination wedding begins to erupt out of control, she decides that a summer fling might be just what she needs - even if it's a problematic one.<br> <br> <b>It's <i>officially</i> Problematic Summer - and readers can't get enough:</b><br> <br> 'Ali Hazelwood's books do it for me EVERY TIME. <b>I simply devoured every page of this</b>...I just didn't want it to end! So many things in this just checked every box for me. <b>The setting? GORGEOUS! The angst and tension? FINGER LICKING! The characters? I love them all, your honour...Conor and Maya? Down so bad for them I'm probably ten feet underground</b>...I can't wait for everyone to read this!' Real Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> <br> '<b>VIVA ITALIA!!!!</b> I could feel Ali's love for Sicily through this book. The setting was just <b>absolutely romantic and idyllic</b>, perfect for two people whose orbits can't escape each other. It is <b>the perfect summer book</b>' Real Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> <br> 'My moral compass might just be <b>spinning because I loved this book so much</b>' Real Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> <br> 'Nothing could have prepared me for how much this book would end up consuming my entire being...<b>Ali Hazelwood demonstrates yet again that she can do no wrong in creating the most perfect love story</b>...the t<b>ension in this book is <i>palpable</i></b>... like, my face was red hot from the level of <b>ANGST AND YEARNING</b> between Maya and Conor...this was <b>the most delicious will they/won't they tug of war</b> that ached so good in my chest' Real Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> <br> 'I couldn't put this book down. <b>The pining, the banter, the chemistry, the spice. Perfection...</b>With <i>Problematic Summer Romance</i> and <i>Deep End</i>, <b>Ali Hazelwood has written two of my favorite books this year</b>' Real Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> <br> 'I dare say that this is <b>now my new favorite Ali Hazelwood book</b>?!..I loved every single minute! Between <b>the laugh-out-loud dialogue, the yearning between Maya and Conor, and the moments that had me holding my breath, this book is a work of art!</b>...I really need a follow up book to this one. Like, <b>on my knees begging for crumbs because this book altered my DNA</b>' Real Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> <br> *Ali Hazelwood's <i>Deep End</i> was a <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller w/e 23 February 2025</p>
