TBR Saturday

So we often have friends releasing new books. And we love to recommend them. Here’s our book recommendations. We try to get it done every Saturday but we are busy so we may have missed a few.

1. The Space Between: An Angsty, Love After Loss Spicy Adult Romance (Hope Runs Deep, A Multi-Author Charity Collection Benefiting Kerr County, Texas)                          Some stories don’t begin with a spark. They begin in the wreckage.
   
   Blakelyn Walker came to Juniper Falls with nothing but a new job and the hope that silence could save her.
   
   Gruene Cavanaugh has spent six years surviving the same river that took everything from him—his wife, his daughter, and the man he used to be.
   
   They’re neighbors. Strangers.
   Two broken hearts pressed too close together on the edge of the same water.
   
   She isn’t looking for love.
   He doesn’t believe he deserves it.
   But something lives in the space between grief and want… between what’s safe… and what still hurts.
   
   And sometimes, the most unexpected love stories are the ones written from the scars.
   
   The Space Between is an angsty, love after loss adult romance. Those with sensitivities to loss of life, domestic abuse (mental/physical/intimate), mental anguish, questioning self-worth, and self-sabotage should proceed with caution.
   
   Hope Runs Deep: A Multi-Author Charity Collection Benefiting Kerr County, Texas
   A collection of romance, romantasy, and mystery stories where every page gives back. For 90 days, (from the date of publication) participating authors are donating at least 50% of royalties to the Kerr County Flood Fund to help victims rebuild after the July 2025 floods.
2. How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow by Bonnie Quinn                                                                                  A campy, cozy horror novel about a manager of a haunted campground just trying to get through the season, perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix, Rachel Harrison, and Welcome to Night Vale.
   
   I am a campground manager. I don’t have a list of rules because I’m trying to ruin your fun…I’m trying to keep you from doing small, simple things that could result in your horrific and most agonizing demise.
   
   Goat Valley Campground has killed generations of Kate’s family. The land is old, passed down through generations, but the campground’s reputation doesn’t just draw campers year after year. Creatures from folklore and horror have made Goat Valley not just their home, but their hunting ground.
   
   As campground manager, Kate has rules to protect her campers—if the man with the skull cup offers you a drink, accept it or you will die a gruesome death; don’t buy ice from the children with no wagon; and of course, never ever follow the lights. Still, not every camper follows the rules…which means not every camper survives their stay.
   
   Soon decapitated and exsanguinated campers are the least of Kate’s worries; one of the most dangerous inhabitants of the campground is determined to claim the land for himself. Meanwhile, something in the land is shifting, the tides are turning, and the curse that hunts members of her bloodline begins to close in…
3. Tears of the Wolf (Wrath and Weeping Book 1) by Elizabeth Wheatley                                                                  After the murder of her child, Brynn of the Istovari wants nothing more than to escape the shackles of her birthright. As a sorceress and the last of a once-great bloodline, many still seek to use her for their own schemes. Brynn will do anything for the chance at freedom, even if it means marrying an upstart warrior from the far north.
   
   Cenric needs a wife—but not just any wife—a sorceress. Having recently reclaimed his inheritance after a youth spent across the sea, a sorceress will bring security and legitimacy in his estranged homeland.
   
   A marriage gives both Brynn and Cenric what they want—for now.
   
   In the far northern reaches lies a land ruled by pride and strict codes of honor. As Brynn and Cenric struggle to navigate the aftermath of their hasty union, they soon realize that rival factions within the kingdom are on the verge of war once again.
   
   Alone, they will be destroyed by the coming storm. Together, they might stand a chance.
   
   A bold new Fantasy Romance from author Elisabeth Wheatley.
4. Sugar, Spice, and Magical Midlife (Midlife Menace Book 1) by Tara West                                                                                                                                A pinch of desperation.                                                                A tablespoon of desire.                                                                 A cup of madness.                                                                          A recipe for disaster.
   
   Mm. Do you smell that? It’s the warm, gooey cinnamon from my oven-hot rolls. I make the best baked goods in all of New Mexico, perhaps the whole world, in my so-very-humble opinion, using a secret family recipe, and a little forbidden magic. My bakery has been booming ever since I got rid of that big bag of moldy beans, aka the world’s most grotesque farting and armpit-sniffing ex-husband.
   
   My life is finally on track. My autistic preteen son is thriving despite his unpredictable magic. My bumbling apprentice and her disappearing pygmy dragon only manage to set the place on fire a few times a month.
   
   And then he walks into my life. A tall, tanned, virile shifter, who, after one steamy night, makes me believe in a whole new kind of magic. There’s just one problem—he’s an outlaw, accused of a crime he says he didn’t commit.
   
   Am I stupid enough to believe him? Possibly. Am I reckless enough to follow him to the ends of the earth to prove his innocence? Definitely. Especially when the succubus he claims framed him might be the same demon who killed my parents.
   
   Five reasons my life sucks.
   1. My farty-breath ex-husband refuses to be a good father.
   2. A troll shut down my bakery.
   3. Gnomes stole my v!br@tor.
   4. A succubus is trying to possess me.
   5. My shifter boyfriend is going to be hung for a crime he didn’t commit.
   
   BONUS SHORT STORY
   Bob’z Big Adventure!
   The Goddess has gifted the nannies of the gnome tribe Fungi-Toes with the object of their desires, and this one doesn’t need batteries. But the bucks of the nest are unhappy, and they will stop at nothing to rid their nest of BOB, the purple menace. But when they discover a dryad living inside the wand, they’re tasked with a perilous quest to deliver it to the park of many trees. Are they brave and strong enough to deliver the dryad to safety while battling their nemeses, the dreaded feral cats?
5. Hush: A Paranormal Suspense Novel By Raven Lee            Alicia Watts has never feared things that go bump in the night. She knows actual terror, and it has nothing to do with the bogeyman. If it weren’t for her sister, Bailey, Alicia would have been the victim of the “monster” known as the system. So when Bailey ends up in a mental institution after being found delusional and roaming the streets, Alicia doesn’t hesitate to rush to her side.
   
   The doctor doesn’t sugarcoat it. Bailey has suffered a severe mental breakdown. She’ll talk to no one, but she’s far from mute. Every waking moment is spent singing the children’s lullaby Hush, Little Baby. Not even their horrid past explains Bailey’s extreme psychosis.
   
   As Alicia searches for answers, she experiences strange events in Bailey’s home… events that make her question everything. What happened to Bailey? Was her sister living a double life? And the one that toys with her head the most … maybe there are things that go bump in the night?          

   

Come By Next Saturday for some more suggestions!