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Author: Kate Hewitt

Historical Fiction

FREE

Kate Hewitt has written extensively across historical and contemporary fiction, and the Far Horizons series showcases what she does best: emigration, separation, and the long shadow those choices cast across generations. This opener follows a family leaving everything familiar behind for a new country, carrying grief and hope in roughly equal measure.

The emotional register is unapologetically heavy, and the cover copy doesn’t oversell it. Hewitt writes loss with real specificity—the small practical indignities of poverty, the letters that arrive too late, the way distance turns love into something practiced rather than lived. Readers who reach for saga fiction precisely because it doesn’t flinch will find the tone familiar and satisfying.

What lifts it above the crowded field is Hewitt’s attention to her women. They aren’t passive passengers on someone else’s ambition; they negotiate, endure, and occasionally refuse, and the historical constraints on their choices are drawn accurately rather than conveniently. The multi-generational structure gives the series room to breathe across several volumes without repeating itself. ️

Why this endures: it’s an emotionally substantial family saga from a prolific and well-reviewed author, and the opening volume of a long series costs nothing to start.

Author: H.P. Mallory

Urban Fantasy

FREE

H.P. Mallory was one of the early indie success stories in urban fantasy, and Dulcie O’Neil is the series that built her readership. Dulcie is a fairy working as a regulator—essentially supernatural law enforcement—which puts her in constant proximity to vampires, werewolves, and the various creatures who’d rather not be regulated.

The tone is closer to snarky and quick than dark and brooding. Mallory writes first-person with a lot of attitude, and the case-of-the-book structure keeps each installment moving while a longer arc builds underneath. Readers who came up on early Sookie Stackhouse or Kim Harrison’s Hollows books will recognize the flavor immediately—competent woman, dangerous city, too many attractive complications.

The romantic thread is a genuine draw, with more than one contender and enough unresolved tension to justify continuing. Mallory has since expanded the series considerably and reissued it under updated branding for the romantasy audience, so there’s a substantial backlist waiting for anyone who clicks with the voice. Heat builds gradually across books rather than arriving all at once.

Why this hooks: it’s the entry point to a long-running urban fantasy series with a devoted following, and free is the ideal way to test-drive a new heroine.

Author: Gregory C. Randall

Thriller

FREE

Gregory C. Randall drops his heroine into Venice on what should be a straightforward trip and turns the city’s canals and alleys into a maze with something predatory moving through it. Alex Polonia is a Cleveland cop out of her jurisdiction, out of her language, and rapidly out of anyone she can trust.

Randall’s Venice is the real draw. He writes the city with a traveler’s eye for the parts tourists never reach—the working neighborhoods, the water traffic, the practical geography of a place with no cars and no straight lines. The setting isn’t decoration; it constrains the chase sequences in ways that make them genuinely interesting rather than generic.

Polonia is a well-built lead for the subgenre: competent without being invincible, stubborn enough to keep going when leaving would be smarter, and equipped with police instincts that don’t quite translate to a foreign system. The plot involves art crime, old money, and the kind of corruption that survives because everyone benefits from it. Randall has continued the series across multiple books, so the runway is there.

Why this works: it’s a well-researched international thriller with a strong sense of place and a lead worth following, and there’s no cost to sampling the series.

Author: Sarah Gate

Women’s Fiction

FREE

Sarah Gate opens her Unforgettable Love Stories series with the kind of book that gets passed between readers with a warning about tissues. Love arriving late, or arriving with a deadline attached, or arriving after loss has already rearranged everything—this is emotional fiction built for readers who want to feel something specific and don’t mind knowing it’s coming.

The comparison point most readers reach for is Jojo Moyes or Nicholas Sparks, and it’s fair. Gate writes in short, accessible chapters with clean prose and a firm grip on the emotional throughline, moving between timelines to withhold information the reader will eventually wish they hadn’t learned. The structure does real work rather than just delaying the reveal. ️

What keeps it from tipping into manipulation is the ordinary texture around the grief. Gate spends time on the mundane parts of caregiving and daily life, so the devastating moments land against something recognizable instead of arriving in a vacuum. Readers should know the book deals directly with terminal illness and bereavement. ☕

Why this moves people: it’s a deliberately affecting story about love running out of time, and the first book in the series carries no cost at all.

Author: James David Victor

Military Science Fiction

FREE

James David Victor is one of the most prolific authors working in indie military science fiction, and Star Dragon delivers exactly the package his readers show up for: a marine, an empire with more enemies than it can count, and a mission that goes sideways early enough to make the rest of the book interesting.

Victor writes lean. Chapters are short, the action arrives fast, and the worldbuilding gets delivered in motion rather than in exposition dumps. That efficiency is the point—these are books designed to be consumed quickly and continued immediately, and the structure respects a reader’s time in a way that some doorstop space operas do not. ️

The appeal here is squad-level perspective on galaxy-level conflict. Victor keeps the camera on the people executing orders rather than the admirals issuing them, which grounds the enormous stakes in something human. Readers who’ve worked through Fox, Ringo, or Nuttall will find the register comfortable and the series length reassuring, since Victor rarely leaves a story unfinished. ⚔️

Why this satisfies: it’s fast, competent military sci-fi from an author with an enormous catalog to graduate into, and the first book costs nothing.

Author: GL Robinson

Historical Romance

FREE

GL Robinson takes the Cinderella framework and drops it into Regency England, where the machinery of the original story—a girl with no standing, relatives with no affection, and a society that runs entirely on connections—needs almost no adjustment to work. The fairy tale was always about class, and the period makes that explicit.

Robinson writes clean, traditional Regency with genuine attention to the era’s social rules, which is what gives the underdog plot its tension. Gwendolyn’s disadvantages aren’t abstract; they’re specific limitations on where she can go, who will receive her, and what happens to a woman with no protector. The transformation, when it comes, is earned through her own competence rather than magic. ✨

The heat level stays gentle, closer to closed-door than steamy, making this a good fit for readers who want their historical romance in the Heyer tradition rather than the modern explicit one. Robinson keeps the pacing brisk and the secondary cast lively, with enough comedy in the awful relatives to keep the injustice from becoming grim.

Why this charms: it’s a warm, well-mannered Regency retelling of the most reliable plot in existence, and it costs nothing to try.

Author: Heidi McIntyre

Fantasy Romance

FREE

Heidi McIntyre opens Hidden Gems with the coastal-magic setup that has quietly become one of fantasy romance’s most appealing corners: water that remembers things, a woman discovering she’s connected to it, and a small seaside world where the ordinary and the impossible share the same tide line.

McIntyre’s strength is atmosphere. She writes the sea as a presence rather than a backdrop—weather, salt, the particular quality of light near water—and the magic system grows out of that setting rather than being imposed on it. Readers who want their fantasy immersive and sensory rather than systematized will find the approach welcome.

The romance develops at a measured pace alongside the discovery plot, which suits the material. There’s real mystery about heritage and belonging driving the story, and McIntyre resists resolving it too quickly, leaving enough unanswered to make the next installment feel necessary rather than optional. The tone stays hopeful even when the stakes rise. ✨

Why this appeals: it’s an atmospheric, gently magical series opener for readers who like fantasy with salt air in it, and the first book is free to start.

Author: Lizz Lund

Cozy Mystery

FREE

Lizz Lund’s Mina Kitchen books sit at the comedic end of the cozy spectrum, where the mystery matters less than the escalating disaster surrounding it. Mina is a magnet for chaos, her relatives are worse, and this fifth installment relocates the mayhem to New Jersey, which the title suggests she survives only barely.

The recipes are not a gimmick. Lund weaves food through the plots the way other cozy authors use knitting or bookshops, and readers regularly report cooking from the books afterward. The Italian-American family comedy is the real engine, though—the arguments, the meddling, the guilt deployed as a household management system. It’s affectionate rather than mocking.

Series veterans will get the most from this one, since the recurring cast has accumulated considerable history by book five, but Lund writes each mystery to stand alone well enough for a drop-in start. The body count stays modest, the violence stays offstage, and the tone never darkens past mild peril.

Why this entertains: it’s a genuinely funny cozy with recipes attached, and free is the right price for meeting a heroine this chaotic.

Author: M K Farrar

Crime Thriller

FREE

M K Farrar writes crime fiction that stays firmly on the dark side of the genre, and Law of Sandtown opens with a case built to unsettle. The investigation drives the book, but Farrar is equally interested in the community around it—the neglected neighborhood where the crimes occur and the institutional indifference that let them go unexamined for too long.

The procedural work is solid and unhurried. Farrar builds her case through interviews, forensics, and the slow narrowing of possibilities, and she resists the modern thriller habit of a twist every third chapter. The detective at the center carries her own damage, handled with restraint rather than melodrama, and her professional competence is never sacrificed to make the plot move.

Readers should know the content is grim: the crimes involve young victims and Farrar does not soften the consequences or the grief surrounding them. What she avoids is exploitation—the violence has weight, the victims are people rather than plot devices, and the anger underneath the narrative is directed at systems as much as at the perpetrator.

Why this lands: it’s a serious, well-constructed crime novel with a strong investigative spine, and the first book in the series is available at no cost.

Author: Amanda Seabrook

Historical Romance

FREE

Amanda Seabrook writes for the enormous audience that reads Regency romance the way other people watch comfort television—reliably, frequently, and with clear expectations. Regency Hearts Entwined meets them: a titled hero with a complication, a heroine with more spirit than security, and a ballroom season where everything important happens in overheard conversation.

Seabrook’s approach is clean and traditional. The heat stays gentle, the period details sit lightly, and the plot moves briskly through the familiar beats without stalling for research. What she does well is the slow accumulation of small moments—a dance held slightly too long, a letter written and not sent—which is where this subgenre actually generates its warmth.

The appeal is volume as much as craft. Seabrook writes prolifically, so readers who enjoy the voice have a long shelf waiting rather than a single book and a long wait. For anyone building a Kindle library of dependable evening reads, that consistency is a genuine feature rather than a knock.

Why this comforts: it’s exactly the low-stakes, warmly satisfying Regency that a tired evening calls for, and it costs nothing at all.

Author: Gillian Larkin

Cozy Mystery

FREE

Gillian Larkin is remarkably prolific in the British cozy space, and the Julia Blake books are among her most approachable work. This second installment sends Julia into a restoration project where the building’s history turns out to be considerably more dangerous than its plumbing, which is precisely the promise cozy readers want kept.

Larkin writes short. These are quick reads by design—the kind of book that fits into a commute or a bath rather than a weekend—and the economy suits the form. The clues are laid fairly, the suspects are sketched efficiently, and Larkin doesn’t waste pages on atmosphere she can establish in a sentence. Readers who resent padding will appreciate the discipline.

The tone stays gentle throughout. Violence happens offstage, the amateur sleuthing is charming rather than implausible, and the village setting supplies the requisite gossips and eccentrics. Series continuity is light enough that starting at book two costs almost nothing in comprehension, though the first is a natural next stop. ☕

Why this works: it’s a tidy, quick British cozy from an author with dozens more waiting, and free makes it an effortless addition to the pile.

Author: Ellen Knightley

Western Romance

FREE

Ellen Knightley writes frontier romance for readers who want the American West rendered as both opportunity and hazard. Love and Valor on the Frontier trades ballrooms for dust, distance, and the very real possibility that help isn’t coming, which changes what a romance has to accomplish. Partnership here isn’t sentiment—it’s survival strategy.

The setup leans on the escape plot: a woman with reasons to leave, a man traveling in the right direction, and a journey that forces intimacy faster than either intended. Knightley handles the period constraints on her heroine’s options honestly, which gives the eventual freedom real weight rather than making it a foregone conclusion.

The heat level stays gentle to moderate, closer to the inspirational-adjacent end of Western romance than the explicit one, making it a comfortable fit for readers who want the emotional payoff without the explicit scenes. Knightley writes prolifically in the subgenre, so the backlist is deep for anyone who takes to the voice.

Why this satisfies: it’s a warm, sturdy frontier romance with a heroine worth rooting for, and there’s no cost to riding along.

Author: Gabrielle Zevin

Literary Fiction

Regularly $3.99, Today $1.99

Before Gabrielle Zevin became a household name with Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, she wrote this sharp, furious, frequently hilarious novel about a young congressional intern whose affair with her boss becomes a national punchline. The scandal ends his career precisely not at all. It ends hers permanently.

Zevin tells the story through five women across two decades, each voice distinct enough to justify the structure—the mother, the daughter, the wife, and the woman herself at two very different points in her life. One section arrives as a choose-your-own-adventure, which sounds like a stunt until you realize it’s the most devastating chapter in the book. Every path leads somewhere she didn’t choose. ✍️

What makes it land is Zevin’s refusal to make her protagonist either a victim or a cautionary tale. Aviva Grossman made a bad decision at twenty-two and spent the rest of her life paying interest on it while the man involved kept getting reelected. The novel is angry about that, but the anger comes wrapped in wit rather than lecture, which makes it far harder to shrug off.

Why this cuts deep: it’s a slim, propulsive, genuinely funny book about how the internet made forgiveness obsolete for women and optional for men, and two dollars is a remarkable price for a novel this well-built.

Author: Mahtob Mahmoody

Memoir

Regularly $17.99, Today $3.99

In 1984, a six-year-old girl traveled to Iran with her parents for what was supposed to be a two-week visit. Her father decided they would never leave. The escape that followed became Betty Mahmoody’s bestselling Not Without My Daughter, read by millions and adapted into a film. This is the same story told by the child at the center of it, thirty years later.

Mahtob Mahmoody’s account is not a retread. Her mother wrote about surviving a captivity she understood as an adult; Mahtob writes about a childhood spent afterward in hiding, changing names, watching doors, and carrying a fear of her own father that never fully receded. The book also addresses her diagnosis with lupus as a teenager and the long project of building a life that belonged to her rather than to the story people already knew.

The most difficult and most valuable material concerns her relationship with her faith and her eventual reckoning with her father’s death. She writes about forgiveness without pretending it arrived cleanly or completely. There is real ambivalence here, and she does not resolve it for the reader’s comfort. Readers should know the book deals directly with domestic abuse, abduction, and chronic illness.

Why this matters: it returns the narrative to the person who had the least say in it, and at four dollars it offers a perspective that the famous version of this story could never provide.

Author: Tasha Suri

Fantasy

Regularly $3.99, Today $1.99

Tasha Suri’s debut arrived to immediate critical attention and a British Fantasy Award nomination, and it earned both. Drawing on Mughal-era India rather than the usual medieval European template, Empire of Sand follows a nobleman’s illegitimate daughter whose forbidden heritage gives her access to a dangerous form of magic—and makes her extremely valuable to an empire that would rather own her than kill her.

The magic system is the standout: power channeled through ritual dance, bound by vows, and rooted in dreaming gods who are neither benevolent nor entirely awake. Suri writes it with real physicality, so the cost of using it registers in the body rather than in an abstract mana budget. The desert setting is rendered with the same care, beautiful and genuinely hostile at once. ✨

At its center is a slow-burn romance built almost entirely on two people trapped in the same coercive arrangement, learning to trust each other under constant surveillance. Readers who prize consent and mutual respect in fantasy romance tend to name this book specifically, because Suri makes the negotiation of power between her leads the actual emotional engine.

Why this stands out: it’s a beautifully written, politically sharp fantasy that helped open the door for a wave of South Asian–inspired epic fantasy, and two dollars is nothing for a book this accomplished.

Author: Delilah S. Dawson

Horror

Regularly $3.99, Today $1.99

Delilah S. Dawson takes the eat-the-rich thriller somewhere considerably nastier than the genre usually goes. A working-class woman marries into obscene wealth and finds herself at a private island gathering where the family’s tolerance for outsiders turns out to have very specific limits. The title is not subtle, and neither is the book.

Dawson has written across an unusual range—Star Wars novels, Minecraft tie-ins, YA, and horror under her own name and as Lila Bowen—and the versatility shows in the pacing here. She builds the social discomfort first, letting the reader feel exactly how much scrutiny an outsider absorbs at a table like that, then lets the horror off the leash. The escalation is well judged and genuinely unpleasant in the way good horror should be.

The satire is the sharpest element. Dawson is interested in the specific cruelties of inherited money—the assumption of impunity, the treatment of people as staff, the way politeness functions as a weapon. Readers who liked the class rage of Parasite or the confined dread of The Menu will find the register familiar. Content runs graphic.

Why this bites: it’s a lean, mean, expertly paced horror novel with something actual to say about wealth, and at two dollars it’s an easy weekend of discomfort.

Author: Jayne Ann Krentz

Romantic Suspense

Regularly $3.99, Today $1.99

Jayne Ann Krentz has published well over a hundred novels and essentially wrote the modern template for romantic suspense, and Deep Waters is prime mid-career Krentz: a family with money and secrets, an island setting that limits everyone’s exits, and a heroine whose curiosity is going to get her into exactly the trouble the reader is hoping for.

What Krentz does better than almost anyone is the competent-adults romance. Her couples aren’t kids working through insecurity—they’re grown people with careers, opinions, and low tolerance for nonsense, which means the banter carries real weight and the attraction reads as choice rather than helplessness. The mystery plot is tidy and fairly clued, with a satisfying click when the pieces settle.

The atmosphere is a draw in its own right. Krentz builds the moneyed-family-compound setting with an eye for the small tensions—who defers to whom, which conversations stop when someone enters the room—and the suspense grows out of those dynamics rather than being bolted on. Longtime readers know the formula; that’s precisely the appeal.

Why this delivers: it’s a reliably entertaining romantic suspense from a genre architect with a backlist you could read for years, and two dollars is barely a rounding error.

Author: Salman Rushdie

Literary Fiction

Regularly $17.99, Today $2.99

Rushdie’s rock-and-roll novel retells the Orpheus myth through the twentieth century’s music industry, following two Indian musicians who conquer the West and the photographer who loves them both. When Vina Apsara vanishes into an earthquake, Ormus Cama goes looking, and the book becomes an argument about whether art can actually retrieve anything from death.

This is Rushdie in maximalist mode—alternate histories bleeding into the real one, Bombay rendered with enormous tenderness, and prose that piles clause onto clause until the sentences start behaving like guitar solos. Readers who found Midnight’s Children exhilarating will recognize the machinery. Readers who found it exhausting should know this one runs to nearly six hundred pages and does not apologize.

The music writing is the real achievement. Rushdie invents an entire alternate pop canon and writes about it with the specificity of someone who genuinely loves the form, not a literary novelist slumming. U2 liked the book enough to record a song from its lyrics with Rushdie credited as co-writer, which remains one of literature’s stranger crossover footnotes.

Why this endures: it’s an ambitious, sprawling, deeply felt novel about myth, migration, and the music that carries people between worlds, and three dollars for a nine-hundred-page-feeling epic is absurd value.

Author: C.S. Smith

Romantic Suspense

Regularly $4.99, Today $2.49

C.S. Smith launches the Dìleas Security Agency series with the bodyguard setup that romantic suspense readers reach for again and again: a former operator carrying injuries he’d rather not discuss, a client in genuine danger, and a protection detail that requires far more proximity than either of them planned.

Smith takes the wounded-hero element seriously rather than using it as texture. Her lead’s limitations are real and inconvenient, they affect how he does the job, and the recovery arc runs parallel to the romance instead of being cured by it. That restraint gives the emotional payoff more weight than the subgenre usually manages, and it makes the heroine’s role something closer to partnership than rescue.

The suspense plot holds up on its own terms, with escalating threat and enough procedural detail to keep the security work credible. Smith writes the ensemble with clear intent, seeding future installments through the rest of the agency’s operators—the standard series architecture, executed cleanly. Heat level runs steamy without overwhelming the plot.

Why this appeals: it’s a solid, well-constructed opener for readers who like their protection romance with genuine stakes, and two and a half dollars is an easy entry point into a new series.

Author: S.T. Moors

Contemporary Romance

Regularly $2.99, Today $1.49

Second-chance romance usually separates its couple first and reunites them later. S.T. Moors keeps them in the same house, which is a much harder trick and a much more interesting one. The marriage here isn’t over—it’s quietly eroded, running on logistics and habit, until something forces both people to look directly at what they’ve let happen.

The novella length works in the book’s favor. There’s no room for filler, so Moors goes straight at the difficult conversations, and the reconciliation has to be built out of specific admissions rather than a montage. Readers who find marriage-in-trouble stories more affecting than meet-cutes will recognize what’s being attempted: the romance of choosing the same person again, deliberately, with full information. ☕

It’s a short read that asks for some emotional participation. The conflict isn’t villainous—nobody here is a monster, which is exactly why the neglect stings. Moors keeps the tone hopeful without letting the resolution arrive cheaply, and the intimacy that returns feels earned rather than granted by the plot.

Why this resonates: it’s a compact, grown-up story about repair rather than beginnings, and at a dollar and a half it’s a genuinely low-cost afternoon.

Author: Heidi McLaughlin

Contemporary Romance

Regularly $5.99, Today $2.99

Heidi McLaughlin’s Beaumont series built a substantial following around rock-star romance, and this book hands the microphone to the next generation—the kids who grew up in the spotlight and now have to figure out whether the family name is an inheritance or a sentence. It’s a smart pivot that lets longtime readers and newcomers arrive at the same starting line.

McLaughlin writes fame with a clear eye for its irritations: the assumption of access, the difficulty of knowing whether someone likes you or your surname, the impossibility of a private mistake. The romance develops against that pressure, and the conflict grows out of it rather than being imported from elsewhere. The music-industry texture is one of the series’ consistent pleasures.

Series veterans get the additional payoff of seeing beloved characters as parents, which McLaughlin handles with obvious affection. New readers won’t be lost—she’s careful to make this a genuine entry point—though the emotional resonance runs deeper if you’ve spent time in the original books. Heat level sits comfortably steamy.

Why this works: it’s a well-executed generational relaunch of a beloved romance series, and three dollars is a reasonable door fee for a world this deep.

Author: Meghan Quinn

Romantic Comedy

NEW RELEASE

Meghan Quinn has spent more than a decade proving that romantic comedy can be genuinely funny rather than merely light, and her readers show up for the specific thing she does: dialogue that snaps, banter that goes on three beats longer than expected, and heroines who narrate their own poor decisions with full self-awareness.

The title telegraphs the register. This is a book about doing something ill-advised because the story will be worth it later, which is Quinn’s favorite engine—characters talking themselves into situations they know better than to enter, then discovering actual feelings underneath the bit. Her comedy never comes at the cost of the romance; the jokes are how her people flirt.

Quinn’s range across her backlist runs from sweet to extremely explicit, and readers who know her work will settle in immediately with the voice. Newcomers should expect quick chapters, group-chat energy, a friend ensemble worth caring about, and an emotional turn somewhere in the back half that arrives with more force than the opening comedy suggests.

Why this lands: it’s fresh Meghan Quinn, which for rom-com readers is roughly the equivalent of a favorite band announcing a surprise album.

Author: Alina Jacobs

Romantic Comedy

NEW RELEASE

Alina Jacobs writes rom-com at a scale most authors can’t sustain, with interlocking families of impossible brothers, corporate absurdity, and heroines who refuse to be impressed by any of it. The Richmond Brothers reaches its third installment here, and the formula continues to run on high-speed banter and cheerful ridiculousness.

Her signature move is the workplace disaster escalated well past realism—the presentation that goes catastrophically wrong, the fake relationship that immediately requires seventeen additional lies, the family dinner that turns into a hostile negotiation. Jacobs commits to the bit fully, which is why the books work: the comedy is broad on purpose and the emotional beats sneak in underneath it.

Readers who follow her connected universes get the additional pleasure of cameos and callbacks, though each brother’s book stands well enough alone for a drop-in start. Expect quick chapters, a grumpy hero who is entirely undone by the heroine, a large meddling cast, and heat that stays on the steamy side without dominating the page count.

Why this entertains: it’s a brand-new entry in a reliably funny series from one of rom-com’s most prolific voices, arriving fresh for readers who want their romance loud and quick.

Author: Danielle Steel

Women’s Fiction

NEW RELEASE

Danielle Steel has published nearly two hundred books and sold somewhere north of eight hundred million copies, and she still turns out several new novels a year with the same steady craftsmanship that built that audience. Her readers know exactly what they’re getting, and they keep coming back precisely because she delivers it.

The Steel formula centers on women at a turning point—loss, reinvention, a decision that reorders everything after it—handled with a clean, unhurried narrative voice that moves through years rather than lingering in scenes. Glamorous settings, real professional ambition, and family obligation pulling in the opposite direction from personal happiness. The emotional resolution always arrives, but rarely along the route the reader first expects.

What gets undersold about Steel is her discipline. Fifty years into a career, she still structures a plot with total clarity and never wastes a chapter, which is why her books remain so readable in a single sitting. Newcomers will find no barrier to entry, and longtime readers will recognize the reliable comfort of a familiar hand. ❤️

Why this satisfies: it’s a brand-new novel from the most commercially successful living novelist, offering exactly the absorbing, emotionally generous read her audience shows up for.

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