Rebecca Armitage, author of The Heir Apparent

It’s New Year’s Day in Australia, and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out nicely. She’s in the second year of her medical residency, she lives on a beautiful farm with her two best friends, Finn and Jack, and she’s about to finally become more than friendly with Jack --- when a helicopter abruptly lands. Out steps her grandmother’s right-hand man, with the tragic news that her father and older brother have been killed in a skiing accident. Lexi’s grandmother happens to be the Queen of England, and Lexi must now accept the reality that she is suddenly next in line for the throne --- a role she has publicly disavowed. Returning to London as the heir apparent Princess Alexandrina, Lexi is greeted by a skeptical public not ready to forgive her defection, a grieving sister-in-law harboring an explosive secret, and a scheming uncle determined to claim the throne himself.

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A Sea Glass Christmas by Davis Bunn

In the ultimate Christmas comfort read for fans of Nicholas Sparks and Karen Kingsbury, a bracing Christmas on North Carolina’s Outer Banks opens the door to a second chance at love.

Some places never leave you.

Two days before his 21st birthday, Brody Reames left the Outer Banks to fulfill his dream of sailing. For years, it’s been a liberating, wayfarer’s life, crewing on ocean-bound vessels and joining cross-Atlantic races. He knew leaving his hometown wouldn’t be forever, but to mend a disillusioned heart in Fortunate Harbor, it was for the best. Still, he never expected that a family upheaval and his loving mother’s plea would call him back. With Christmas nearing, Brody is coming home again --- to a crisp chill in the air and a warm former flame.

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Week of December 29, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of December 29th include BEAUTIFUL UGLY by Alice Feeney, a deliciously dark thriller about marriage...and revenge; Minette Walters' THE PLAYERS, a gripping historical tale of espionage, treason and surprising alliances set against the backdrop of the Bloody Assizes --- the trials that would determine the fate of over a thousand treasonous rebels; TILT, a heart-racing debut from Emma Pattee, set over the course of a single day, about a woman facing the unimaginable, determined to find safety; and the paperback original RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, CALLIE KINGMAN by Allie Frank and Asha Youmans, a witty, celebratory novel about a hard-fought comeback in which a blindsided soon-to-be divorcée rediscovers herself.

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Week of December 15, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of December 15th include THE #1 LAWYER by James Patterson and Nancy Allen, which has this intriguing premise: Biloxi’s best criminal defense attorney has never lost a case. Then his client’s beautiful wife is murdered, and America’s #1 lawyer suddenly becomes its #1 suspect; THE FORGER'S REQUIEM, a gripping literary thriller from Bradford Morrow that brings readers inside the world of expert forgery, rivalrous fury and generations of dark family secrets, with Mary Shelley’s voice and life woven throughout; Matt Cain's BECOMING TED, a vibrant, joyful, universally relatable story about kindness, self-acceptance and blooming at any age; and the paperback original A CURSE OF ASHES, the breathtaking conclusion to Sariah Wilson's epic Eye of the Goddess trilogy.

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