The Baroness’ Choices of New Books Publishing This Week
2024, Week 16’s New Books
My choices for this week include Sweet Romance, Young Adult Fairytale, and Folklore Adaptations.
We are officially in the middle of April! How’s your reading going? We are doing fairly well over here I think. There are so many fantastic books coming out that we keep having to shuffle them around.
Jen has a review for one of these books but it won’t come out until next week. Be on the lookout for it.
Here are my choices for New Books Publishing Week 16 of 2024!
A Lighthouse Snapshot by Jennifer Faye
Turner Family of Bluestar Island #4
Publication Date: April 15, 2024
Genre: Sweet Romance
With Spring Fling the next event on Bluestar’s busy calendar, the residents decide to use it to play another round of matchmaking. Travel blogger Elaine “Lainey” Devereaux is led to the island by a cryptic entry in her late mother’s journal. With the weight of grief driving Lainey onward, she searches for a long-buried secret but before she can uncover the truth there’s a tragic accident.
Graphic artist Jack Turner is on top of the world as he anticipates a big promotion and a move to the Big Apple. He’s minding his own business when the most beautiful woman rushes into the roadway, right in front of his cart. With no time to stop, the collision leaves both of them stunned. As circumstances conspire to draw them together, they soon find themselves helping each other to come to terms with the past while exploring an unexpected love.
Includes a recipe for Elegant Whoopie Pies!
Deep Is the Fen by Lili Wilkinson
Publication Date: April 16, 2024
Genre: Young Adult Fairytale and Folklore Adaptation
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Get lost in the newest fantasy from the author of A Hunger of Thorns, on a beguiling journey behind the closed doors of a sinister secret society. Featuring a steamy enemies-to-lovers romance and a fight for the witching world that will get your heart racing.
Merry doesn’t need a happily-ever-after. Her life in the charming, idyllic town of Candlecott is fine just as it is. Simple, happy, and with absolutely no magic. Magic only ever leads to trouble.
But Merry’s best friend, Teddy, is joining the Toadmen—a secret society who specialize in backward thinking and suspiciously supernatural traditions—and Merry is determined to stop him. Even if it means teaming up with the person she hates most: her academic archnemesis, Caraway Boswell, an ice-cold snob who hides his true face under a glamour.
An ancient Toad ritual is being held in the sinister Deeping Fen, and if Merry doesn’t rescue Teddy before it’s finished, she’ll lose him forever. But the Toadmen have been keeping dangerous secrets, and so has Caraway. The farther Merry travels into Deeping Fen’s foul waters, the more she wonders if she’s truly come to save her friend . . . or if she’s walking straight into a trap.
There’s nothing the Toadmen love more than a damsel in distress.
A Beautiful Hope by Leialoha Humpherys
Hope Ever After #7
Publication Date: April 17, 2024
Genre: Young Adult Fairytale and Folklore Adaptation
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Can one find hope after losing everything?
Honor Payne wants nothing more than to feel happy again. After losing her family, business, and even her home, she moves to Twilight Kingdom in desperate search of a happiness potion. But the alchemist’s work comes at a steep price, and Honor works day and night in the hopes of affording a potion, convinced that it is the one thing to bring her happiness back.
That is… until she meets Ace Stark, the queen’s brother and a wise leader, who seems to quite literally bump into her at every turn. When Ace offers her work at a local orphanage for a handsome sum, she can’t refuse. After all, the money will help her pay for the potion she deeply desires. But working alongside Ace begins to show her that maybe… she was looking for happiness in the wrong places. When disaster strikes the kingdom, and it seems that Honor has lost everything again, will she sacrifice her dreams of getting a potion for something–or someone–more valuable?
“A Beautiful Hope,” a retelling of the Ugly Duckling, is a standalone novella, complete with tropes like grumpy/sunshine, he falls first, and star-crossed lovers. It is part of the “Hope Ever After” series, a collection of twenty hopeful and uplifting fairy tale retellings. Each book is written by a different author so it can be enjoyed in any order. The proceeds from this series are donated to the O.U.R. (Operation Underground Railroad) to rescue children from exploitation and trafficking.
Well, that’s it for the New Books Releasing Week 16 of 2024
Drop a comment if you like one of the books above or if you have one to recommend.
Thank you for stopping by,
Happy Reading!
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