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Susan Minot, author of Don't Be a Stranger

Ivy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty years her junior, a musician newly released from prison on a minor drug charge, Ansel’s beguiling good looks and quiet intensity instantly seduce her. Despite the gulf between their ages and experience, the physical chemistry between them is overpowering. Over the heady weeks and months that follow, Ivy finds her life bifurcated by his presence. On the surface she is a responsible mother, managing the demands of friends, an ex-husband and home. But emotionally, psychologically and sexually, she is consumed by desire and increasingly alive only in the stolen moments-out-of-time, with Ansel in her bed.

Week of October 27, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of October 27th include BLOOD MOON, a sexy thriller from Sandra Brown in which an unruly detective and an ambitious TV show producer work against the clock to prevent another young woman from disappearing before the next blood moon --- while trying to resist the attraction between them; Mike Lupica's HOT PROPERTY, the 52nd installment in Robert B. Parker's beloved series starring the iconic Spenser, who investigates a case that hits dangerously close to home; DON'T BE A STRANGER, a mesmerizing novel from Susan Minot that tells the story of a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life; and AN INSIGNIFICANT CASE by Phillip Margolin, a brilliant stand-alone legal thriller in the tradition of John Grisham, which Kate Ayers praised in her Bookreporter review: “We all know that sex trafficking takes a toll on lives every day, so spotlighting it in this novel while writing such a readable story is a commendable feat for Phillip Margolin.”