Tiffany Crum arrives on the scene with This Story Might Save Your Life and wastes no time proving she knows exactly what she's doing, with a balance of slow-burn tension, heart, and intrigue in a package that's easy to read. Think of it as a fun mash-up of mystery, romance, and podcast culture.

The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley delivers an intriguing concept that leans towards the scientific side of magical realism: what would life be like if a unique gene meant you aged only one year for every four years an average person experiences?

Such is the life of Kit McKinley, who only reaches her early 20s before watching many generations come and go. The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley follows Kit from her birth in 1916 through to her biological 20s in the early 2000s.

Thanks to the many years that slip by in this novel, Shelley Wood’s novel reads much like historical fiction, with a slice-of-life look at many meaningful historic moments.

Whalefall centers around a solo man, left to fend for himself under seemingly insurmountable survival odds — deep in the sea and in the belly of a whale. As you may expect, Whalefall is atmospheric and tense. What you may not expect is that along with this pervasive sense of adventure comes a good deal of quiet reflection. Readers are taken deep both into the ocean and into the protagonist's emotional growth.

In Great Big Beautiful Life, Emily Henry leans away from her traditional rom-com voice and introduces deeper themes that bleed into contemporary and women’s fiction as well.

By slowly revealing the truth of famous heiress Margaret’s complex past, Henry adds a layer of mystery and intrigue that goes well beyond the romantic tension between professional writers Alice and Hayden. While there's unquestionably a romantic thread to the book, the bulk of the plot is much more about a personal legacy and the convoluted ways that family histories are woven together.

All the Colors of the Dark tells the story of "Patch," a one-eyed boy who is just 13 when girls begin to go missing in his town. When he rescues the daughter of a wealthy family, the latest target in the crime spree, he inadvertently kicks off a tidal wave that ripples for a lifetime. This book is billed as both a crime story and a love story, and it is — but not love in the way you may think. It encompasses romantic love, but also the gruff love of a neighbor, the fearful love of a parent, the loyal love of friendship, and all the many shades in between.

Meet Lalla, a pretentious (and sociopathic) wife, stops at nothing to build the future she imagines. As she strives to ensure her husband gets a promotion and their daughter gains entry into a prestigious boarding school, a comedy of errors — and criminal happenings — quickly follow in her wake.

Evelyn in Transit is a slow and meandering search for a young woman’s budding identity. Main character Evelyn grows up restless in small-town Indiana, never quite able to live on her own terms. At eighteen, she hits the road, hitchhiking across the American West, taking odd jobs, and gravitating toward Buddhism.

The Encore will land well with readers who like family dramas with strong character development, messy-but-likable people, rise-to-riches stories, coming-of-age novels, happy-ever-after romances, and a light touch on darker emotional themes.

The Last Verse should be a big hit with both crime fiction and historical drama lovers alike. Twyla is a nineteen-year-old aspiring musician who decides to head to Nashville with little but the guitar on her back. When she is swept up into a crime and circumstances wholly outside of her nature, she writes a song and sings it to what she thinks is an empty bar. Weeks later, though, she hears another woman performing it on the radio — and it's an instant hit.