PAM JENOFF is the NYT bestselling author of Code Name Sapphire, The Woman With The Blue Star, The Lost Girls of Paris, The Orphan’s Tale, The Kommandant’s Girl, The Diplomat’s Wife, The Ambassador’s Daughter, The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach, The Winter Guest, The Things We Cherished, Almost Home, and A Hidden Affair.

She attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge University in England. Upon receiving her master’s in history from Cambridge, she accepted an appointment as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army. Following her work at the Pentagon, Pam moved to the State Department. In 1996 she was assigned to the U.S. Consulate in Krakow, Poland. It was during this period that Pam developed her expertise in Polish-Jewish relations and the Holocaust. Pam left the Foreign Service in 1998 to attend law school and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. She now teaches law school at Rutgers.

A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman’s quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this riveting novel of love and survival.

London, 1953. Louise discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is marked with the name of a department store in Paris, and she is certain she has seen the necklace before when she worked with the Red Cross in Nazi-occupied Europe —and that it holds the key to the mysterious death of her friend during the war…

Following the trail of clues to Paris, Louise seeks help from her former boss, with whom she shares a romantic history. The necklace leads them to discover the dark history of Lévitan—a once-glamorous department store that served as a Nazi prison, and Helaine, a woman who was imprisoned there, torn apart from her husband when the Germans invaded France.

Louise races to find the connection between the necklace, the department store and the death of her friend, but nothing is as it seems, and there are forces determined to keep the truth buried forever.

MARIE BENEDICT is a lawyer with more than ten years' experience as a litigator at two of the country's premier law firms. She found her calling unearthing the hidden historical stories of women. She is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Mitford Affair, Her Hidden Genius, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, The Only Woman in the Room, Lady Clementine, Carnegie's Maid, The Other Einstein, and the novella, Agent 355. With Victoria Christopher Murray, she co-wrote the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian and The First Ladies.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie―a thrilling story of the five greatest women writers of the Golden Age of Mystery and their bid to solve a real-life murder.

London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment.

May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods. What is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized murder, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation, discovering they’re stronger together…

Want to dine at the famous Caffe Piccolo on Valentine’s Day💖and listen to some Carolina Beach Music? We’ll make that reservation for you! Bring your gal pals, book club friends, or that special someone to hear about the stories behind the hits in Dr. Rick Simmons’ newest book, Carolina Beach Music.

From the author of “The Hidden History of the Grand Strand” comes a book reminiscing on soulful songs about the beach, parties, a special love, dancing or just relaxing in the sun- an honorable tribute to the music and artists of the classics that defined generations.

Just as the dances of beach music have their twists and turns, so, too, do the stories behind the hits. Carolina beach music has long been a mainstay of culture in the Southeast. Yet until the late 1960s, you needed an impressive collection of 45s if you wanted to hear those songs in your home or at a party. But beginning with Atlantic Records’ Beach Beat in 1967, that music slowly became available on albums from Bell, Warner Bros., Ripete and other labels. Through interviews and firsthand accounts, author Rick Simmons examines the stories behind those classic albums, the people who created them and the artists and songs that contributed to the phenomenon known as Carolina beach music.

DR. RICK SIMMONS was previously the George K. Anding endowed professor and director of honors at Louisiana Tech University. He is the author of more than 130 published works, including 8 books, his previous works for Arcadia Publishing, The History Press include Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Years and Carolina Beach Music from the ’60s to the ’80s: The New Wave, as well as Defending South Carolina’s Coast: The Civil War from Georgetown to Little River and Hidden History of the Grand Strand. He currently lives in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, and teaches at the Georgetown School of Arts and Sciences.

JENNIFER COBURN is the author of Cradles of the Reich, a historical novel about the strength of women's friendship and the connections that can be forged during even the most harrowing of times. She has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir, We'll Always Have Paris, as well as six contemporary women's novels. Additionally, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies. Jennifer lives in San Diego.

From the author of Cradles of the Reich comes a poignant and inspiring tale for fans of The Forest of Vanishing Stars and The German Wife about resistance, friendship, and the dangers of propaganda, based on the real story of the Nazi "show camp" Theresienstadt.

Childhood friends meet again as adults during the making of the Nazi propaganda film Hitler Gives a City to the Jews. Hannah is a Jewish prisoner, and her former friend Hilde is now working for the German Ministry of Propaganda. When the two face off, they discover who they truly are - and who they are meant to become.

JENNIFER MOORMAN is the bestselling author of the Mystic Water Series, The Baker’s Man, and The Magic All Around. Born and raised in southern Georgia, she is a foodie, a self-taught baker, and has a travel bag ready for her next adventure. She can always be won over with chocolate, unicorns, or rainbows. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Josephine Reynolds buys her family’s ancestral home, a Craftsman bungalow in disrepair and foreclosure. Josephine can’t believe her luck when she finds the home’s original door in a salvage yard- but when she installs the door and steps through it, Josephine is transported into 1927, where she meets her great-grandmother immersed in the vibrant Jazz Age. Her grandmother’s life was tragically cut short in a speakeasy raid just a week after their fateful meeting.

Josephine has a chilling revelation—her own existence is vanishing—and she must race against time to rewrite history. Josephine is desperate to not only save her grandmother, but to save her own future too…

JENNI L. WALSH is a USA Today bestselling author of over twelve books. Her passion lies in transporting readers to another world, be it in historical or contemporary settings. She is a proud member of the Tall Poppy writers, a graduate of Villanova University, and lives in the Philadelphia suburbs. Jenni has written historical novels Becoming Bonnie, Side by Side, A Betting Woman, The Call of the Wrens, Unsinkable, and the forthcoming Ace, Marvel, Spy. She also writes books for children.

Trailblazer, superstar, activist, and spy: Alice Marble is an American icon. For fans of The Boys in the Boat and Fast Girls- comes a page-turning historical novel.

"A smashing success!” — Billie Jean King

At seventeen, Alice Marble has no formal tennis skills and no coach. With steadfast determination and one sacrifice after another, Alice plays her heart out on the courts of the rich and famous, at national tournaments, and—the greatest of them all—at Wimbledon, rising to be one of the top-ranked players in the world.

But then her world falls apart. With the outbreak of war with Germany, Alice’s tennis career and life comes to a screeching halt. Alice is given the chance to fight back when the US Army sends her a request: Under the guise of playing in tennis exhibition games in Switzerland, she would be a spy for them. Alice aches for nothing more than to avenge what the war has taken from her and prove herself against this new opponent. But what awaits her might be her greatest challenge yet…

FIONA DAVIS is the New York Times bestselling author of seven historical fiction novels set in iconic New York City buildings, including The Spectacular, The Magnolia Palace, The Address, and The Lions of Fifth Avenue, which was a Good Morning America book club pick. Her articles have appeared in publications like The Wall Street Journal and the Oprah magazine. She first came to New York as an actress, but fell in love with writing after getting a master's degree at Columbia Journalism School. She currently lives in Manhattan.

An utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back.

Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. But after an unbearable tragedy strikes, Charlotte knows her future will never be the same...

New York City, 1978: Nineteen-year-old Annie Jenkins is thrilled when she lands an opportunity to work for iconic former Vogue fashion editor Diana Vreeland, who’s in the midst of organizing the famous Met Gala, hosted at the museum and known across the city as the “party of the year.” Though Annie soon realizes she’ll have her work cut out for her, scrambling to meet Diana’s capricious demands and exacting standards.

Meanwhile, Charlotte, now leading a quiet life as the associate curator of the Met’s celebrated Department of Egyptian Art, wants little to do with the upcoming gala. She’s consumed with her research on Hathorkare—a rare female pharaoh dismissed by most other Egyptologists as unimportant. That is, until the night of the gala. When one of the Egyptian art collection’s most valuable artifacts goes missing . . . and there are signs Hathorkare’s legendary curse might be reawakening.

SIGNE PIKE was born in Ithaca, NY, and graduated from Cornell University. She worked as an acquisitions editor at Random House and then Penguin before leaving to write her first book, a travel memoir entitled Faery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World. In 2018 she published her debut novel, The Lost Queen, which became a bestselling series, and is currently in development for television by an Emmy award-winning production company. Pike has researched and written about Celtic history for over a decade. Her non-fiction has been published by Salon, Charleston City Paper, Book Riot and NPR.org.

For fans of Philippa Gregory, Ken Follett, and Outlander comes a legend-steeped story of the real King Arthur and his contemporaries. A saga that transports the reader to a vivid world of meticulously researched early medieval Scottish history. Even the Loch Ness monster makes an appearance in this kaleidoscopic epic with deep roots in both history and myth.

This sweeping historical fiction saga breathes new life into the story of Camelot, it is truly Philippa Gregory meets Game of Thrones. A Litchfield Books staff favorite author for years, Signe Pike writes a fantastic book. Full of adventure, forbidden romance, and incredibly well researched, The Lost Queen series is worth sitting down and devouring in one sitting. You will be completely captivated by the ancient Scottish landscape, Pike brings life to a forgotten time.

Signe’s novels tell the story of the tragically forgotten historical queen of 6th-century Scotland, —twin sister of the man who inspired the legendary character of Merlin. Pike continues her chronicle of the swirling intrigue and bloody confrontations among the kingdoms of the Arthurian period. It is 580 C.E.; Languoreth, Queen of Strathclyde, has just been reunited with the daughter she’s believed dead for years. Once the truth of the events surrounding her daughter’s disappearance emerges, long-awaited justice will be served. Languoreth’s husband insists she stay at home to monitor the troublesome Christian monk. To top it off, she has renounced her affair with the warrior Maelgwn Pendragon: “I am a woman of the Old Way, married to a Christian. Adultery is not tolerated. Should we be discovered, our people would lose an irreplicable advocate.” Meanwhile, Artúr mac Aedan (Arthur) must answer a call from his father to assume his destiny among the Scots. (Kirkus Reviews)

Those who have read The Lost Queen (2018) and The Forgotten Kingdom (2020) will be right at home.

A deeply researched, sweeping, and utterly compelling tale of magic, betrayal, battle, and destiny, The Shadowed Land is this winter's can't-miss historical epic."
—New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel

Ladies, get out your pearls for this exciting event- “Pearls are always appropriate.”- Jackie Kennedy.

DAWN TRIPP is the bestselling author of the biographical novels Jackie and Georgia, finalist for the New England Book Award and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. She is also the author of three previous novels: Game of Secrets, Moon Tide, and The Season of Open Water, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Her poetry and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Conjunctions, and NPR, among others. She is a graduate of Harvard and lives in Massachusetts with her family.

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In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention.

The world has divided my life into three:
Life with Jack
Life with Onassis
Life as a woman who goes to work because she wants to.
My life is all of these things, and it is none of these things.
They continue to miss what’s right in front of them. I love books.
I love the sea. I love horses. Children. Art. Ideas. History.
Beauty. Because beauty blows us open to wonder.
Even the beauty that breaks your heart.

Jackie is the story of a woman who forged a legacy out of grief and shaped history even as she was living it—a deeply private person with a nuanced, formidable intellect. It is the story of a love affair, a complicated marriage, and the fracturing of identity that comes in the wake of unthinkable violence. This spare, exquisite novel is a window into the world of a woman who led many different lives.

NOELLE SALAZAR was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, where she's been a Navy recruit, a medical assistant, an NFL cheerleader, and always a storyteller. As a novelist, she has done extensive research into the Women Airforce Service Pilots, interviewing vets and visiting the training facility. Noelle lives in Bothell, Washington with her family. Her debut, The Flight Girls, was a USA Today and international bestseller. It was followed by the critically acclaimed Angels of the Resistance and The Roaring Days of Zora Lily.

For fans of Kate Quinn and Beatriz Williams, this sweeping story follows a fearless nurse who must leave love behind when duty calls her back to the front...

Somewhere in the Pacific, 1943. Kate is a nurse who bravely flies back and forth from the front to rescue wounded soldiers, amid long days, harsh conditions and often dangerous weather, but an injury results in her reassignment to the comfort of the English countryside. Love has never been part of her plan, but despite herself, she falls for an officer with three bullet wounds, startling blue eyes and a wicked sense of humor. For the first time, Kate sees a future far from the horrors of war and hate. But before she can pursue it, a secret from her past calls her to duty, and she'll have to travel back into danger one more time to rescue a part of herself she'd left behind. But will she make it back? And will that future still be waiting for her if she does?

SARAH LOUDIN THOMAS grew up on a 100-acre farm in French Creek, WV, the seventh generation to live there. Sarah is the director of Jan Karon’s Mitford Museum in Hudson, NC. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Coastal Carolina University and is the author of the acclaimed novels The Right Kind of Fool–winner of the 2021 Selah Book of the Year–and Miracle in a Dry Season–winner of the 2015 Inspy Award. Sarah has also been a finalist for the Christy Award, ACFW Carol Award and the Christian Book of the Year Award. She and her husband live in western North Carolina.

Seven years ago, a hidden betrayal scattered three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore Estate. Now, when Biltmore Industries master weaver Lorna Blankenship is commissioned to create an original design for Cornelia Vanderbilt's 1924 wedding, she panics knowing she doesn't have the creativity needed. But there's an elusive artisan in the Blue Ridge Mountains who could save her--if only she can find her. To track the mysterious weaver down, Lorna sees no other way but to seek out the relationships she abandoned in shame. As she pulls at each tangled thread from her old life, Lorna is forced to confront the wounds and regrets of long ago. She'll have to risk the job that shapes her identity as well as the hope of friendship-and love-restored.

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KAREN WHITE is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 34 books, including the Tradd Street series, The Last Night in London, Dreams of Falling, The Night the Lights Went Out, Flight Patterns, The Sound of Glass, and A Long Time Gone. She is the coauthor of The Lost Summers of Newport, All the Ways We Said Goodbye, The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband near Atlanta, Georgia.

BEATRIZ WILLIAMS is the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of Our Woman in Moscow, The Summer Wives, Her Last Flight, The Golden Hour, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, A Hundred Summers, and several other works of historical fiction, including four novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA in Finance from Columbia University. Beatriz’s books have won numerous awards, have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and appear regularly in bestseller lists around the world. Born in Seattle, Washington, Beatriz now lives near the Connecticut shore with her husband and four children,

LAUREN WILLIG is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty works of historical fiction, including Band of Sisters, The Summer Country, The English Wife, the RITA Award-winning Pink Carnation series, and four novels co-written with Beatriz Williams and Karen White. An alumna of Yale University, she has a graduate degree in history from Harvard and a JD from Harvard Law School. She lives in New York City with her husband, and two young children.

An over the top, funny, cozy mystery with a wee bit of romance- where three female mystery writers try to solve a murder in a scottish castle...BUT each woman has a reason to hate the murder victim...

Brett Saffron Presley, literary superstar, who‘s always after a bit of a skirt, is found dead somewhere in the vastness of the castle the night of the big celebration. It may appear that a castle guest has done him in, but chief inspector Euan McIntosh is suspicious of our lady novelists- Cassie Pringle, a Southern mom of six who pens cozy mysteries, Kat deNoir, a sexy erotica author and Emma Endicott, a blue blood from New England whose specialty is historical fiction- based on some bizarre circumstances in the locked room castle study. The Nancy Drew squad refused to leave the inspector a trail of breadcrumbs as they were quite scared to have an opinion. He wouldn’t have far to look to grasp the reasons why the chambers’s glittering torches that illuminated the bare body donning an erotic piece of women’s clothing was face down in a puddle of blood and would prove no chance of natural death.

🎉INSTANT 2024 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, From the author of We Begin at the End

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“[I] may never have loved a book as much.”–Jenna Bush Hager on All the Colors of the Dark

The Boston Globe's #1 Thriller/Mystery of 2024 So Far

One of The Washington Post's Best Books of Summer

"Kept me frantically turning the pages and somehow made me cry at the end . . . Brava!"-Kristin Hannah, author of The Women

CHRIS WHITAKER is the award-winning author of Tall Oaks, All the Wicked Girls, and the New York Times bestseller We Begin at the End. Chris lives in the UK.

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges--Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another. A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope.

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NANCY NAIGLE is a USA Today bestselling author who whips up small-town love stories with a dash of suspense and a whole lot of heart. She began her popular contemporary romance series Adams Grove while juggling a successful career in finance and life on a seventy-six-acre farm. Several of her novels have been adapted into Hallmark films.

LINDSAY GIBSON is a debut author whose passion is to write and share romance that connects readers with characters whom they can relate to, smile within her stories and feel encouraged by the love that changes their lives, their relationships and their faith.

Chestnut Ridge by Nancy Naigle: In the enchanting mountain town of Chestnut Ridge, Sheila's world begins to transform, and she finds the sense of belonging she never knew she needed. Meanwhile, Tucker, the town's reliable fire captain, is gathering volunteers to help a family who has just lost their home to a devastating fire weeks before Christmas. Sheila offers her helping hand, and as the town rallies to support the family in their time of need, sparks of love begin to flicker between her and Tucker.

The Christmas Promise by Lindsay Gibson: A buyer for an art gallery buys a painting on a whim, but in order to save her job she has to go to the town where the painting is set, in coastal New England, and find out more about the history of the artist. However, when she accidentally uncovers a decades old family secret connected to a missing ruby ring, she feels connected to the town and the family mystery surrounding the artist of the painting. A heartwarming holiday story that's perfect for fans of RaeAnne Thayne, Denise Hunter, and Debbie Macomber.

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HAZEL GAYNOR & HEATHER WEBB are bestselling authors and beloved writing partners. They have collaborated on several historical fiction titles such as; Last Christmas in Paris (2017), Meet Me in Monaco (2019), and Three Words for Goodbye (2021). Their works have won countless awards and gone on to hit the bestsellers lists. Hazel & Heather have joined forces again for a fourth collaboration at William Morrow, Christmas with the Queen.

HAZEL GAYNOR is an award-winning New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author known for her deeply moving historical novels which explore the defining events of the 20th century. She lives in Ireland with her family and is traveling to the USA for some special events for this brand new book, ours being one of them!

HEATHER WEBB is the USA Today and international bestselling author of ten historical novels, including her most recent  Queens of London, & The Next Ship Home. Heather lives in New England with her family and two mischievous cats.

❄️🎄👑‘Tis the season! The Crown meets When Harry Met Sally in the latest heartwarming historical romance from Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, which opens 70 years ago in the Queen’s first year on the throne, Christmas 1952.👑🎄❄️

December 1952. As the young Queen Elizabeth II prepares to deliver the first of her traditional Christmas Messages, dedicated staff work behind the scenes to prepare for festive celebrations at the Sandringham Estate. Among the hard workers are Jack Devereaux and Olive Carter – old friends who are about to be reunited.

Over the course of five years, while Olive works as a royal correspondent and Jack is a chef in the Queen’s household, their paths will cross time and time again. But as the two grow closer, their relationship is threatened by a secret that Olivia is afraid to reveal.

December 1957. As the nation eagerly awaits the Queen’s first televised Christmas speech, there is one final gift for the Christmas season to deliver…

ANNE BYRN is a food writer and author. She loves baking biscuits and chocolate cake, slicing garden tomatoes on a sandwich, and listening to a good story. She loves dogs, her hometown of Nashville, traveling to new places, and reading. She enjoys writing cookbooks that tell stories-the kind of book you can read like a novel if you want to—never even setting foot in the kitchen. Her new book, Baking in the American South, is filled with untold stories. She hopes to make you hungry enough to want to heat the oven, crack the eggs, and start cooking.

Experience mouthwatering Southern baking! One of the world's richest culinary traditions comes to life through this essential cookbook from bestselling author Anne Byrn. With 200 recipes from 14 states and more than 150 photos, Baking in the American South has the biscuits, cornbread, cakes, and rolls that will help you bake like a Southerner, even if you aren't. This fascinating dive into the history of the south—features stories and beautifully photographed recipes from pre-Civil War times to today's Southern kitchens. It's about the places, the people, the products and the culture of the moment that influenced what people baked. It's about African-American women and the monumental contributions they have made to the art of Southern baking, about home cooks and how they've kept traditions alive wherever they settle by baking family recipes each year for holidays and celebrations, and about the pastry chefs who have thoughtfully reimagined how the South bakes.

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Come on in and meet bestselling local author Caleb Wygal on the publication day of his brand new book MYRTLE BEACH BURNS🔥🔥🔥! MYRTLE BEACH BURNS is book #7 in Caleb’s Myrtle Beach Murder Mystery Series. The entire series will be sold in store, and Caleb will be autographing and meeting customers.

CALEB WYGAL is author of the award-winning and critically acclaimed novel, Death on the Boardwalk: Book 1 of the Myrtle Beach Mystery Series. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers and Southeastern Writers Association, moonlights as a Mystery Novel Writing instructor for Coastal Carolina University, and the author of eight other novels. He lives in Myrtle Beach with his family.

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KIMBERLY BROCK is the bestselling author of The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Townsend Prize for Fiction and spent weeks on the Indie Bestseller List, and The River Witch, recipient of the Georgia Author of the Year Award. She is the founder of Tinderbox Writers Workshop and has served as a guest lecturer for many regional and national writing workshops including at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. A native of North Georgia, she now lives near Atlanta.

Inspired by the little-known history of Cumberland Island, The Fabled Earth is a sweeping story of family lore and the power of finding your own voice as Southern mythology and personal reckoning collide with a changing world.

1932. Cumberland Island off the coast of Southern Georgia is a strange place to encounter the opulence of the Gilded Age, but the last vestiges of the famed philanthropic Carnegie family still take up brief seasonal residence in their grand mansions there. This year’s party at Plum Orchard is a lively group: young men from some of America’s finest families come to experience the area’s hunting beside a local guide; a beautiful debutante expecting to be engaged by the week’s end, and a promising female artist who believes she has meaningful ties to her wealthy hosts. But when temptations arise and passions flare, an evening of revelry and storytelling goes horribly awry…

1959. Reclusive painter Cleo Woodbine has lived alone for decades on Kingdom Come, a tiny strip of land once occupied by the servants for the great houses on nearby Cumberland. When she is visited by the man who saved her life nearly thirty years earlier, a tempest is unleashed as the stories of the past gather and begin to regain their strength. Frances Flood is a folklorist come to Cumberland Island seeking the source of a legend – and also information about her mother, who was among the guests at a long-ago hunting party. Audrey Howell, briefly a newlywed and now newly widowed, is running a local inn. When she develops an eerie double exposure photograph, some believe she’s raised a ghost–someone who hasn’t been seen since that fateful night in 1932.

As a once-in-a-century storm threatens the natural landscape and shifting tides reveal what Cumberland Island has hidden all along, two timelines and the perspectives of three women intersect to illuminate the life-changing power of finding the truth.

BRENDA NOVAK is the New York Times Bestselling Author of over 85 books. Writing was the last profession she expected to undertake. Brenda admits she learned how to write by reading what others have written. She says the best advice for any would-be author is to continue to read. Brenda and her husband live in Sacramento CA and are the proud parents of five children. Brenda spends a lot of her time raising money for diabetes research, her youngest son has diabetes, and Brenda is determined to help him and others like him.

She left her hometown following a scandal—but family loyalty is dragging her back… Despite their strained relationship, when Gia Rossi’s sister, Margot, begs her to come home to Wakefield, Iowa, to help with their ailing mother, Gia knows she has no choice. After her rebellious and at-times tumultuous teen years, Gia left town with little reason to look back. But now it’s Gia’s turn to help, even if it means opening old wounds.

As expected, Gia’s homecoming is far from welcome. There’s the Banned Books Club she started after the PTA overzealously slashed the high school reading list, which is right where she left it. But there is also Mr. Hart, her former favorite teacher. The one who prompted Gia to leave behind a very conflicted town the minute she turned eighteen. The one person she hoped never to see again…

When Margot leaves town without explanation, Gia sees the cracks in her sister’s “perfect” life for the first time, but as the town, including members of the book club, takes sides between Gia and Mr. Hart, everything gets harder. Fortunately, she learns that by standing up for the truth, she finds love and a future in the town she thought had rejected her.

MADELINE MARTIN is a New York Times, USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, and internationally bestselling author of historical fiction and historical romance with books that have been translated into over twenty-five different languages.She is a die-hard history lover who will happily lose herself in research any day, attributing her fascination with history to having spent most of her childhood as an Army brat in Germany. She lives in Florida with her family.

From the author of the New York Times Bestseller, The Last Bookshop in London.

In Nottingham, England, widow Emma Taylor finds herself in desperate need of a job. She and her beloved daughter, Olivia, have always managed just fine on their own, but with the legal restrictions prohibiting widows with children from most employment opportunities, she's left with only one option: persuading the manageress at Boots' Booklover's Library to take a chance on her with a job.

When the threat of war in England becomes a reality, Olivia must be evacuated to the countryside. In the wake of being separated from her daughter, Emma seeks solace in the unlikely friendships she forms with her neighbors and coworkers, and a renewed sense of purpose through the recommendations she provides to the library's quirky regulars. But the job doesn't come without its difficulties. Books are mysteriously misshelved and disappearing, and the work at the lending library forces her to confront the memories of her late father and the bookstore they once owned together before a terrible accident.

As the Blitz intensifies in Nottingham and Emma fights to reunite with her daughter, she must learn to depend on her community and the power of literature more than ever to find hope in the darkest of times.

Praise: "A spectacularly well-researched and well-plotted tale of World War II, motherhood, and the solace we find in books, The Booklover’s Library is filled with characters you'll root for, drama that will bring you to tears, and the kind of emotional journey that will earn this novel a permanent place in your own booklover's library. I loved every page."
–Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Daughter

TRACEY ENERSON WOOD loves discovering amazing women whose stories have been lost to history, and bringing them to life for today’s readers. While working as a Registered Nurse, starting her own Interior Design company, raising two children, and bouncing around the world as a military wife, she indulged in her writing passion. She has authored screenplays, magazine columns and articles, web content, and other non-fiction, and written and directed plays of all lengths. “Katharine, The Wright Sister” is her fourth novel.

She helped her brothers soar… but was the flight worth the fall?

Wilbur and Orville Wright, both unsuited to college and disinclined to leave home, jumped on the popular new fad of bicycle riding and opened a shop in Dayton, Ohio. Repairing and selling soon led to tinkering and building as the brothers offered improved models to their eager customers. Amid their success, a new dream began to take shape. Engineers across the world were puzzling over how to build a powered flying machine—and Wilbur and Orville wanted in on the challenge. But their younger sister, Katharine, knew they couldn’t do it without her. As her brothers obsessed over blueprints and risked life and limb testing new models on the sandy beaches of North Carolina, Katharine became the mastermind behind the scenes of their inventions. She sourced materials, managed communications, and kept Wilbur and Orville focused on their goal—even when it seemed hopeless. And in 1903, the Wright brothers made the first controlled, sustained flight of humankind.

What followed was the kind of fame and fortune the Wrights had never imagined. The siblings traveled the world to demonstrate their invention, trained other pilots, and built new machines that could fly higher and farther. But at the height of their success, tragedy wrenched the Wright family apart… and forced Katharine to make an impossible choice that would haunt her for the rest of her life…

Join us for TWO amazing authors who have written about South Carolina History. Come hear about the Lucas family of South Carolina and the history of rice cultivation in the south & Ghosts and Legends of Georgetown County.

DAVID HENRY LUCAS is a descendent of the famous “Lucas” family of Charleston, SC. In “The Rice Kings” saga, David has taken on the challenge of romanticizing the history of his forbears, starting in the year 1754, which chronicles the early life and training of Jonathan Lucas, a fourth great grandfather, who invented the rice mill. This invention allowed the South Carolina Lowcountry to become incredibly wealthy and produced a golden era for the region. Now onto book four he has created a series of historical novels that is intended to relate the saga of the rise and fall of the Old South. David currently resides in Mount Pleasant, SC.

The Rice Kings- Rice Reigns: In the heart of South Carolina, where the tides of fortune rise and fall with the rhythm of the rice industry, the Lucas family’s continuing legacy is forged.

Jonathan Lucas I's groundbreaking inventions set the stage for an empire, but it is his descendants who must navigate the complexities of a growing dynasty. As Charleston flourishes, the Lucas Family faces political upheaval, economic challenges, and the realities of life in the Antebellum South. From the lush rice fields of the Lowcountry to the bustling streets of New York and London, Benjamine’s journey inspires readers with his dedication to the medical profession and his romance with Melita Tiller. The family's influence extends from Charleston to London, expanding their operations and navigating the complexities of the British Empire. Through their trials and triumphs, the Lucases remain bound by the enduring strength of family and the relentless pursuit of progress. "The Rice Kings: Rice Reigns" is a compelling saga of ambition, innovation, and the indomitable spirit that defines a family and shapes a nation.

ELIZABETH HUNTSINGER is a South Carolina native whose mother’s family came to the state in the 1600s and whose father immigrated there from Scotland. Her first home in Georgetown County was a 1948-vintage 40-foot mahogany Chris Craft boat anchored in the Waccamaw River. Now a landlubber, she lives in a neighborhood built on the site of one of the area’s many rice plantations. She is famous for leading her Ghosts of Georgetown Lantern Tours.

Georgetown Mysteries and Legends: Wouldn’t you like to read about unsolved mysteries and legends from the past, that happened right here in our Georgetown County? Included in this story collection are stories about a treasure buried along the Sampit River during the Civil War; the pirate Drunken Jack; Tom Yawkey and his beloved Cat Island; the mysterious fire that destroyed Kensington Park; the Pawleys Island Pavilion; George Trenholm and the lost money from the Confederate treasury; the Sea View Inn on Pawleys Island, Magnolia Beach and more…Popular folklorist, storyteller, and tour guide Elizabeth Huntsinger is at her best in this collection of nineteen tales from that most mysterious and haunted of places, Georgetown County.

*Elizabeth will be hosting a Ghosts of Georgetown Lantern Tour the night of September 6th in Georgetown. If you are interested in attending you can sign up for this tour with Elizabeth at our event.

Prepublication Event🎉We have the special privilege from the author and publisher to host T.I. Lowe the week before the release of her book. Attend this event to be the FIRST readers of Lowcountry Lost!

T.I. LOWE is an ordinary South Carolina country girl who loves to tell extraordinary stories. She is the #1 international bestselling author of nearly twenty published novels, including her recent bestselling and critically acclaimed novel, Under the Magnolias, and her debut breakout, Lulu's Café. Fans of Delia Owens and Nicholas Sparks will enjoy Lowe's novels brimming with Southern charm and coastal vibes. Perfect for beach reads and book clubs!

From the author of the breakout Southern fiction bestseller Under the Magnolias comes a story of loss and abandonment, forgiveness, and the beauty of undying love.

Avalee Elvis prides herself with being able to fix just about anything. . . except her past. Unable to put the puzzle of her life together, she pours heart and soul into making neglected places whole again. As the owner of Lowcountry Lost, Avalee spends her days in hot-pink Carhartt overalls and a tool belt reclaiming Lowcountry properties. Avalee’s latest project takes her to tiny Somewhere, South Carolina, a long-abandoned town. She ignores its ghostly folklore but can’t miss the shock of hearing the familiar voice of the man she never wanted to see again, that materializes on the job site.

Rowan Murray is a structural engineer hired by investors to oversee the redevelopment of the quaint downtown Avalee is bringing back to life. Once upon a time, he was also the man who knew Avalee better than anyone else—or so he thought. Six years ago, neither of them was prepared for the tragedy they would face together or what would happen in its wake. But as they work together to complete the rehabbing of Somewhere, both begin to wonder if it’s not too late for a restoration of their own.

REA FREY is an award-winning author of several nonfiction books and the novels Not Her Daughter, Because You’re Mine, Until I Find You, and The Other Year. She is also the founder and CEO of Writeway, which teaches writers about the business of publishing—not just the craft. She lives in Nashville.

Ben and Harper have had a rough start to their marriage. After a surprise late-stage cancer diagnosis, Ben comes up with one final wish for his wife: he wants Harper to find a new partner before he dies.

Harper is resistant to this wacky plan. If she can’t have Ben, then she doesn’t want anyone. Finally, he lets it drop, but not before the New York Times sends a journalist to do a feature story about Ben’s life...and his idea.

When Harper opens the door, she is stunned to find the one man who got away. Or, the man she spent one perfect week with a decade ago and never saw again: Liam Hale. Suddenly, Harper is faced with her ultimate what-if: What if Harper had ended up with Liam instead of Ben? What if she’d pursued life as an artist instead of teaching? What if it had all turned out differently? After making a wish, Harper wakes up to find herself in a parallel universe...where her what-ifs become a reality. Is the grass really greener, or is she standing right where she should be, even as she inevitably faces the pain of losing the one she loves?

FRANCES MAYES is the author of the now-classic Under the Tuscan Sun, which was a New York Times bestseller for more than two and a half years and became a Touchstone blockbuster movie starring Diane Lane. She is also the author of Swan and Women in Sunlight. Her books have been translated into more than fifty languages. Born and raised in the south, most of her books have a southern connection.

A great marriage is an elusive thing, and only a few know the secret to making one.

Dara Willcox, in New York for a weekend, meets Austin Clarke at an art gallery. If love at first sight can happen, it happens to them. But, these two vivid, ambitious people are on different courses—he’s British, working temporarily in New York. She’s from North Carolina, set on law school. They don’t care. They will make their lives together happen.

After their engagement party, Austin hears unsettling news from London that wrecks their plans. Dara abruptly cancels the wedding. She refuses to reveal the reason, not even to her best friends or her parents or grandmother, disrupting their family tradition of openness. As everyone knows, Lee and Rich have a great marriage, and Charlotte, her grandmother, had a colossal one, to the late Senator Mann.

While Dara escapes to California and Indigo Island, South Carolina, Austin, back in London, faces a major tragedy, the consequences of which are life-altering. But it’s Lee, Dara’s mother, whose impulsive visit to London alters their fate…

RHONDA MCKNIGHT is the author of 28 books. She has also written several award-winning bestsellers, including An Inconvenient Friend and The Thing About Home (2023). She is the winner of the 2015 Emma Award for Inspirational Romance of the Year for her title, Unbreak My Heart. She has been nominated thrice for the African American Literary Award. She writes inspirational book club fiction and Christian romance stories about complex characters in crisis. Her goal is to touch the heart of women with the themes of faith, forgiveness, and hope. Originally from a small coastal town in New Jersey, she writes from the comfort of her South Carolina home.

A cryptic message from their grandmother reunites two estranged sisters at the site of the family’s eighty-six-year-old restaurant…

Mariah never pretended her marriage was perfect but that didn’t mean she ever suspected her husband of ten years would not only ask for a divorce but steal the business she built for them.

Sabrina has been self-destructing for years, maybe since she was born, but certainly since the death of her long-time boyfriend. Barely scraping by and living in her van, she’s struggling to figure out what’s next for her, when all she’s ever wanted to do is bake cakes like her mother did.

When Mariah and Sabrina’s grandmother sends them a cryptic text message summoning them to Georgetown, South Carolina, both assume their ailing grandfather’s health has declined. Instead, the estranged sisters are faced with their grandmother’s undeniable request—save the family’s eighty-six-year-old restaurant. Through letters written by their great-great-grandmother, the sisters learn a heartbreaking yet powerful story of struggle and survival. As the whole truth about Tabitha’s complicated past unfolds, the sisters are inspired by her ability to forge her own way in Charleston, a beautiful and prosperous city that was also rife with oppression under Jim Crow. Told in a dual timeline that alternates between the 1920s and present-day Charleston, SC, Bitter and Sweet is an emotional story about love, one family’s perseverance, and the bonds of family and heritage.

MELISSA FERGUSON is the bestselling author of Meet Me in the Margins, The Dating Charade, and The Cul-de-Sac War. She lives in Tennessee with her husband and children in their growing farmhouse lifestyle (Check out her lifestyle blog on social media -@our_friendly_farmhouse) and writes heartwarming romantic comedies that have been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, Travel + Leisure, Woman’s World, and BuzzFeed. Her favorite hobby is taking friends and acquaintances and turning them into characters in her books without their knowledge. She is confident you should read all her novels, starting with this one.

He crossed an ocean, and it still wasn’t enough to escape his lifelong nemesis. Now he has to work with her.

Successful screenwriter Finn Masters just landed his dream job writing for one of Hollywood’s highest-rated, longest-running sitcoms. The only downside? It will put him back in proximity of the show’s universally adored, optimistic, altruistic star, Lavender Rhodes, who has been inadvertently ruining his life since they were school chums in England. But she doesn’t even know she destroyed his acting career and wrecked his relationship with the love of his life.

He’s not about to let this woman yank yet another dream out from under his feet. In fact, he realizes he’s been given the ideal opportunity to plot his payback: spinning her character in shocking new directions. What could go wrong? Only everything. As Finn’s not-so-brilliant plot backfires one scene after the next, catching him in the blasts, he’s forced to think about this impossible, infuriating… and maybe even lovable woman in an entirely new light…

MINDY FRIDDLE is the author of The Garden Ange, a SIBA bestselling author, two time winner of the South Carolina Fiction Prize, and named a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Mindy earned her MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson. She has worked as a newspaper reporter, a columnist and book reviewer and taught journalism at Furman University. She lives on gorgeous Edisto Island in South Carolina.

Janelle Wolf longs to be the woman she once was—an adored wife, a loving mother, a career woman, a force in her community—before a car accident steals her memories, ruins her reputation, and upends her life. As Janelle’s memories are coaxed to the surface, the ugly truth behind her accident is revealed, and what she learns will unravel her marriage, disrupt her family, and turn her small southern town upside down.

Written with wry humor, this diabolically entertaining tale of deception, temptation, and love is filled with dark twists, exploring what happens when the transgressions of the past come back with a vengeance.

ELIZA KNIGHT is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling author. Her love of history began as a young girl when she traipsed the halls of Versailles and ran through the fields in Southern France. She is most known for her historical fiction work: The Mayfair Bookshop, Starring Adele Astaire, Can’t We Be Friends, and co-author of Ribbons of Scarlet.

For fans of The Crown and Remarkably Bright Creatures comes an endearing new novel…

A reigning queen… Elizabeth wasn’t born to be queen. When her uncle abdicates the throne, and her father steps in as king, everything in Elizabeth’s life and her future path changes. But there is one thing that never wavers, and that is her endearing love of her Corgis—especially the new puppy Susan, who is gifted to her for her eighteenth birthday. Susan, a member of the royal household, is by her side during Elizabeth’s WWII service, falling in love with Philip and getting married, the death of her father King George VI, her accession to the throne, the birth of her first child, and the early struggles with running a country.

A loyal servant… Hanna Penwyck has grown up with her family in service to the crown. A little bit awkward, and often feeling alone, she has a connection with nature, animals— and the young princesses at Windsor. Her job is to maintain the health and wellness of the queen’s most prized companion—she is the Keeper of the Queens Corgis.

A faithful companion… From the moment Susan became Elizabeth’s, she knew what her duty as a royal dog was. To remind Elizabeth that she is more than just a queen, she is a human, and that the key to life is not just duty and honor, but connection, family, and unconditional and enduring love. Through Susan we gain a dog’s eye view of royal life, human relationships, and the heartwarming bond between a queen and her beloved companion.

BEATRIZ WILLIAMS is the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of Our Woman in Moscow, The Summer Wives, Her Last Flight, The Golden Hour, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, A Hundred Summers, and several other works of historical fiction, including four novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig.

New England, 2022- Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son Sam had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning leaving him fighting for his life. Now, in a search for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her own all-consuming summer romance fourteen years earlier with Monk Adams—now one of the world’s most beloved singer-songwriters—a fairytale cut short by an agonizing betrayal…

Cairo, 1951- Hannah Ainsworth has forged a respectable new life for herself—marriage to a wealthy British diplomat, a coveted posting in glamorous Cairo, Egypt. But a fateful encounter with the enigmatic manager of a hotel bristling with spies leads to a passionate affair that will reawaken Hannah’s longing for everything she once lost. As revolution simmers in the Egyptian streets, a pregnant Hannah finds herself snared into a game of intrigue between two men…and an act of sacrifice that will echo down the generations…