Lottie needs a break and her inspiration back, so she launches herself into a quiet coastal town and--quite literally--into Leigh's life. As they try to save a summer camp, Lottie begins to rediscover her spark--and the kind of love she never thought she'd find. ***** Lottie Fitzpatrick is a star. She's glamorous, untouchable, and unstoppable. After her sold-out world tour ends in nasty burnout and terrible writer's block, she seeks refuge in a small, coastal town in Massachusetts to find her voice. She doesn't expect to get roped into volunteering at a struggling summer music camp or to be working with Leigh Flores, the snarky, quiet counselor who has no time for superstars. She's not particularly impressed, but Lottie is too charming. Lottie cares. As the camp's days blur into late-night jamming and songwriting sessions, what starts as a creative reset and mental health break begins to feel like something deeper. It demands bravery. Lottie isn't sure if she's ready to be seen. With real life pulling her back toward the spotlight Leigh has never chased, they'll have to decide if their connection can survive after summer ends. ***** WARM HANDS #2 © 2025 caterina george // all rights reserved

All Jos Clarke wanted was to check a box on her therapy-curated bucket list -- not trip headfirst into the world's most inconvenient one-night stand in the form of Niko Costa: a witty bartender with an entirely too frustrating way of flipping the script and making casual feel anything but. (full summary inside) © j toussaint. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED achievements: #14 in adultfiction (13 september 2025) #32 in realisticfiction (29 october 2025) #17 in therapeutic (23 september 2025)

Penn Romero is a smart girl. Smart girls don't get involved with their professors. ***** It begins with a casual meeting at a speakeasy. It begins with a drink. It begins with a stolen stare. It begins with the not-knowing, the secrecy, the sneaking around. Penn Romero hardly knew what she was getting into when she was drawn in by Chase Steele's magnetism, and she hardly knew he'd be her new Film Theory professor. Against everything she's ever known, against everything she should do, she stills falls into a dark spiral of manipulation that keeps her trapped in a spider web, losing sight of who the real Penn is--all that's left is what he has made of her and all he's taken. It ends with him taking and taking. It ends with the should've-knowns. It ends in ruin. ***** THIS IS NOT A ROMANCE. DON'T ADD THIS TO ROMANCE READING LISTS, PLEASE. [[THE AMBYS 2024 TOP PICK IN CONTEMPORARY]] © 2021 caterina george // all rights reserved

Told in two viewpoints over the span of many fleeting summers, two families become inseparably bound. Beginning in the early 2000's, Laurie and Peter have been best friends since they met as kids. They quickly realize the summer before college is more complex than they ever imagined. Then it's present day with Keegan and Peter, a slow discovery of what's been lurking under the surface for so long. This story explores love, heartbreak, longing, and what it feels like to have summer slip through your fingers year after year.

Two best friends agree to date out of convenience to get rid of lingering feelings about their exes, until they actually start developing feelings for each other. What could go wrong? [ extended synopsis inside ] copyright ©️ peonyjoo 2026

After losing the only boy she has ever loved, Jackie must find a way out of the spider web of grief and memory, and hold to the delicate hope of moving forward. ***** Jackie never pictured raising her daughter without Andy by her side. He was supposed to be the finish line, the one she'd always come back to, but the universe always finds a way of turning your life upside down. After a devastating accident takes him away, Jackie is left grasping for a lifeline, trapped in a world filled with memories she can't recover. Leaving home seems like the only choice, but distance can't make the memories disappear or calm the ache of every 'what if'. It doesn't make the pain go away. But love doesn't end with goodbye, or with death. It just changes shape. ***** BENNINGTON COLLEGE #1.5 © 2025 caterina george // all rights reserved

Holding hands with a S&C coach-turned-fake-boyfriend to become a Grand Slam champion wasn't in Gen Haley's playbook. Then again, how "fake" is fake if she never got over Sebastian Yoo in the first place? (full summary inside) achievements: #20 in tennis (4/14/25) #74 in adultfiction (5/12/25) #18 in dramedy (2/13/25) #50 in friendstolovers (2/16/25) #1 in asiansinlit (2/22/25) © j toussaint. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Prudence Mackey's best friend is dead, and she's not been grieving well.