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Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of A Very Inconvenient Scandal

Frankie Attleboro returns home to Cape Cod with thrilling news. She’s met the love of her life, and they’re getting married with a baby on the way. That’s the moment her widowed father makes his own jaw-dropping announcement. At 60, he’s getting married as well, to Frankie’s best friend, Ariel, who is also pregnant, and due soon. As Frankie and Ariel struggle to adjust to their new relationship, Ariel’s estranged mother, Carlotta, returns after a decade-long absence. She claims to be a changed woman. But is she really? And where has she been all these years? Frankie is suspicious, and as Carlotta’s unpredictable behavior intensifies, Frankie must untangle the threads of the past to protect Ariel’s future --- and her own.

Week of November 3, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of November 3rd include THE MIGHTY RED, a stunning novel from Louise Erdrich that tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives; CHER: The Memoir, Part One, an intimate account that follows Cher's extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono --- and reveals the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous but eventually drove them apart; Jacquelyn Mitchard's A VERY INCONVENIENT SCANDAL, a page-turning family drama that explores the emotional consequences of loyalty, deception and jealousy; RENTAL HOUSE, a sharp-witted, insightful novel from Weike Wang about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations. and the paperback original THE PERFECT HOSTS by Heather Gudenkauf, a gripping thriller in which a couple’s gender reveal party turns deadly, and everyone is a suspect.