Books Like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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ANCESTRAL SINS
martin Jeremiah
A Irish mystery thriller rooted in the mystery of Michael Collins's death at Béal na Bláth. A village in 1922. The descendants of the men who ambushed Michael Collins. And a reckoning that has waited a century. A fracture in time. Irish historical mystery. Political secrets. Ghosts of Béal na Bláth. And the dead are not finished with the living. Seven solicitors leave a Dublin conference in high spirits. A wrong turn leads them into thick fog—and into a village that should no longer exist. They enter a pub seeking directions. Once inside, they know something is wrong. The year is 1922. The seven discover that they are descendants of the men who ambushed Michael Collins at Béal na Bláth. They did not come here by accident. The past has found them. And it has no intention of letting them leave unchanged. As the fracture in time deepens, the seven are forced to confront the bloodline they inherited and the history they thought was buried. Justice. Guilt. Ancestral reckoning. Some will seek redemption. Some will fight to escape. And not all will return. In the fog of Béal na Bláth, the past isn't dead. It's waiting.
Supernatural
The Things We Keep
Avery Solenne
Some things you keep. Some things were never yours. Eighteen months after her father's death, Margot Whitcomb has one sale standing between his auction house and the end of it. Then the headline lot — a Cartier brooch worth seven figures — comes back flagged as possibly stolen. And her father's initials are on the file. Adrian Keane works for the insurer. He is careful, exacting, impossible to hurry, and the only person alive who can tell Margot what her father actually knew in 2009. He is also required to report every answer to someone else. So they build a rule. He tells her when something exists, even when he can't tell her what it is. It holds for two weeks. What Margot finds in the file is not a crime. It's worse — a decent man with one more question to ask, a payroll due Friday, and a reason to stop. What she finds in Adrian is the first person in a year who refuses to make anything easier than it is. Neither of them can afford this. He would have to disclose it. She would have to explain it to a client whose brooch may not be hers. They do it anyway. A slow-burn, closed-door contemporary romance about two careful people, one unresolved object, and the difference between keeping something and keeping it unchanged.
Contemporary
Forever, Maybe
Emma Baird
What if your greatest love story is also your biggest question mark? Two decades after a chance encounter outside a Glasgow sandwich van sparks an unforgettable romance, Nell and Daniel appear to have it all. But beneath the surface, their marriage is quietly crumbling. This moving marriage fiction explores what happens when love, ambition, and regret collide in midlife.
Women's Fiction
Beneath a Tainted Sky
K.C. Mitchell
A forbidden love. A brutal war. A passion punishable by death. Georgia, 1861. Sophie Johansson has spent her life doing what is expected of her—until the man she loves marches off to war and her parents force her into marriage with a cruel plantation owner old enough to be her father. Trapped in a beautiful house that feels like a prison, Sophie discovers a world of suffering she can no longer ignore. Then she meets Hezekiah, the enslaved man her husband controls: powerful enough to frighten other men, honorable enough to protect those who cannot protect themselves, and gentle enough to awaken every part of Sophie she has been taught to silence. Their connection offers the first honest comfort either has known. Their stolen moments become a refuge. And as forbidden desire deepens into an all-consuming affair, Sophie and Hezekiah dare to imagine something the law, society, and her husband would never allow—a life chosen for themselves. But the Civil War is closing in. Her husband is growing suspicious. One careless glance could expose a love punishable by death. And when their passion creates a secret Sophie cannot hide forever, survival will demand more than deception. It will require courage, sacrifice, and a reckoning that transforms an obedient daughter into a woman determined to reclaim her body, her voice, and her future.
Historical
The Castaway
Stephanie Taylor
Ruby Hudson used to be America’s First Lady. Now she just wants to be left alone with her books and her regrets. After her husband—the President of the United States—dies under mysterious circumstances, Ruby is left with a lifetime of questions, a public still obsessed with her every move, and two grown daughters who think she's lost her mind. So, she runs. Not to a fancy villa or a European spa, but to a pirate-themed island called Shipwreck Key, where she opens a tiny bookshop and tries to disappear. No press. No politics. Just quiet. Until he shows up. Dexter North is too young, too intense, and way too determined to dig up every secret of her late husband's presidency—including the kind that could ruin his legacy... and Ruby’s life. He’s charming in that annoyingly earnest journalist way, and unfortunately, he’s not going anywhere. Then, as if things weren’t complicated enough, the President’s secret mistress arrives. With their twelve-year-old son. And a letter. From her husband. Written before he died. Now Ruby has to decide: does she open the letter and face the truth about the man she thought she knew? Or does she let the past stay buried and try—finally—to start over? On a quirky island full of castaways and second chances, one former First Lady is about to rewrite her own story.
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