Hide those wallets because it’s Tuesday, and that means new releases.
Admittedly, I think it’s a slow start to the month, but the next two weeks are looking overloaded with new books we want to pick up. All I’m saying is get ready and gird yourselves for the next two HYW posts.
This one has a couple rereleases of previously published books with new covers or updated content. There are also contemporary romances and mysteries!
Role Playing
Author: Cathy Yardley
Released: July 1, 2023 by Montlake
Genre: Contemporary Romance, RomanceFrom Cathy Yardley, author of Love, Comment, Subscribe, comes an emotional rom-com about two middle-aged gamers who grow their online connection into an IRL love story.
Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a deal―he’ll be more social if she does the same―she can’t refuse. She joins a new online gaming guild led by a friendly healer named Otter. So that nobody gets the wrong idea, she calls herself Bogwitch.
Otter is Aiden, a fifty-year-old optimist using the guild as an emotional outlet from his family drama caring for his aging mother while his brother plays house with Aiden’s ex-fiancée.
Bogwitch and Otter become fast virtual friends, but there’s a catch. Bogwitch thinks Otter is a college student. Otter assumes Bogwitch is an octogenarian.
When they finally meet face to face―after a rocky, shocking start―the unlikely pair of sunshine and stormy personalities grow tentatively closer. But Maggie’s previous relationships have left her bitter, and Aiden’s got a complicated past of his own.
Everything’s easier online. Can they make it work in real life?
Elyse: I love that the hero and heroine meet while gaming, and that the heroine is over 40!
Shana: Cathy Yardley writes coziness and consent SO well, I can’t wait for this.
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Author: Rachel Lynn Solomon
Released: July 4, 2023 by Berkley
Genre: Contemporary Romance, RomanceChandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in “ghostwriter” until she attends a signing for a book she wrote—and the author doesn’t even recognize her. The evening turns more promising when she meets a charming man at the bar and immediately connects with him. But when all their sexual tension culminates in a spectacularly awkward hookup, she decides this is one night better off forgotten.
Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done. Her next project is ghostwriting a memoir for Finn Walsh, a C-list actor best known for playing a lovable nerd on a cult classic werewolf show who now makes a living appearing at fan conventions across the country. But Chandler knows him better from their one-night stand of hilarious mishaps.
Chandler’s determined to keep their partnership as professional as possible, but when she admits to Finn their night together wasn’t as mind-blowing as he thought it was, he’s distraught. He intrigues her enough that they strike a deal: when they’re not working on his book, Chandler will school Finn in the art of satisfaction. As they grow closer both in and out of the bedroom, they must figure out which is more important, business or pleasure—or if there’s a way for them to have both.
Solomon’s newest contemporary romance with a hero who thinks he’s better in bed than he really is!
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Author: Alex Hay
Released: July 4, 2023 by Graydon House
Genre: Historical: European, Mystery/ThrillerThe night of London’s grandest ball, a bold group of women downstairs launch a daring revenge heist against Mayfair society in this dazzling historical novel about power, gender, and class
“Rollicking fun and entirely original… Anyone who relishes a good party gone wrong will devour this.”
—Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost ApothecaryMrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she’s made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows.
When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate for a magnificent part. A seamstress dreaming of a better life. And Mrs. King’s predecessor, with her own desire for vengeance.
Their plan? On the night of the house’s highly anticipated costume ball—set to be the most illustrious of the year—they will rob it of its every possession, right under the noses of the distinguished guests and their elusive heiress host. But there’s one thing Mrs. King wants even more than money: the truth. And she’ll run any risk to get it…
After all, one should never underestimate the women downstairs.
“A deliciously clever novel… You’ll never have so much fun cheering on grand larceny.”
—Nina de Gramont, New York Times bestselling author of The Christie Affair, a Reese’s Book Club PickSarah: A housekeeper is dismissed and recruits a group of women below stairs to help her get revenge. (It had me at ‘revenge.’)
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Author: Simone St. James
Released: July 4, 2023 by Berkley
Genre: Gothic, Historical: European, Literary Fiction, Paranormal, Mystery/Thriller“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow….”
In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, the patients suffer from nervous attacks and tormenting dreams. But something more is going on at Portis House—its plaster is crumbling, its plumbing makes eerie noises, and strange breaths of cold waft through the empty rooms. It’s known that the former occupants left abruptly, but where did they go? And why do the patients all seem to share the same nightmare, one so horrific that they dare not speak of it?
Kitty finds a dangerous ally in Jack Yates, an inmate who may be a war hero, a madman… or maybe both. But even as Kitty and Jack create a secret, intimate alliance to uncover the truth, disturbing revelations suggest the presence of powerful spectral forces. And when a medical catastrophe leaves them even more isolated, they must battle the menace on their own, caught in the heart of a mystery that could destroy them both.
Elyse: I will read anything St. James writes, and this Gothic WWI thriller is no exception.
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Author: Mariana Zapata
Released: February 28, 2016 by Mariana Zapata
Genre: Romance, Contemporary RomanceNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mariana Zapata’s most beloved book, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me—now with new exclusive content!
Vanessa Mazur refuses to feel bad for quitting—she knows she’s doing the right thing. The thankless job of personal assistant to the top defensive end in the National Football Organization was always supposed to be temporary. She has plans for her life, and none of them include washing extra-large underwear one more day for a man who could never find it in him to tell her good morning, congratulate her on a job well done, or wish her a happy birthday—even when she was spending it working for him.
The legendary “Wall of Winnipeg” may be adored by thousands, but after two years Van has had enough.
But when Aiden Graves shows up at her door begging her to come back, she’s beyond shocked. Mr. Walled-Off Emotions is actually letting his guard down for once. And she’s even more dumbstruck when he explains that her job description is about to become even more outrageous: something that takes the “personal” in personal assistant to a whole new level.
What do you say to the man who is used to getting everything he wants?
This is a rerelease after being picked up by a traditional publisher and has some new, exclusive content.
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The Simone St. James book “Silence for the Dead” is a reissue with a new cover. It was originally published on April 1, 2014 (no joke), so make sure you haven’t already purchased it. I love her books and this one is very good.
@Andrea2 thank you – I was looking at the description thinking I had enjoyed a book exactly like that and hoping this would be as good, not that it would be the same book, lol.
New personal record: every.single.one. of these books is now on my want to read list. Not sure if I should be saying thank you or damn you. 😉
I really enjoyed the Cathy Yardley book which was available for Prime Reading before its release. Someone here on the bitchery pointed that out, so thank you! I really enjoyed it! Its cozy and has heart and meat to it!
I was feeling pretty good about my wallet and my reserve list at the GBPL, but you’ve blown that for me. ARGHHHH!
I’ve just started ROLE PLAYING, another book where the audio version is $1.99 if you buy the digital version. Enjoyable so far.
I’ve been in a serious romance rut for a few months now but I LOVE Rachel Lynn Solomon so I went and bought this and WOW! Read it in just a few hours! I really love Weather Girl but I think this book might be her best (also her steamiest) I was riding such a high I went and bought Role Playing as well and ended up finishing that by the end of the day. Not my usual book style but I really enjoyed it !
Read the Wall of Winnipeg several years ago and really enjoyed it. I’ve liked all the Marinna Zapata books I’ve read.
Can anyone confirm if, now that Mariana Zapata has a traditional publisher, has an editor finally called her out on the fact that every got-danged time a character laughs it is a snicker??? No one snickers that much! And it’s in all of her books! I made the mistake of reading several of hers back-to-back and once I noticed it, I couldn’t go back