Set off on an adventure to new worlds this week! This selection of new science fiction and fantasy books will surely please! Science Fiction fans should be excited about the latest from bestselling authors Dwain Worrell, Travis Bagwell, Anna Hackett, and more. If Fantasy is what your library needs, you’ll be able to pick up the latest from Brogan Thomas, Mike Mannion, Lola Glass, and more. Enjoy your new science fiction and fantasy books. Happy reading!
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New Young Adult Books to Read | March 3
Are you an avid reader of Young Adult books? This week you are in luck! With all of these new novels, you’re bound to find a new favorite book to add to your reading list. This week includes new novels from bestselling authors Jerry Collins, B. E Wakeford, Jessahme Wren, and more. Enjoy your new young adult books. Happy reading!
New Business and Finance Books to Read | March 3
Looking for some new business and finance books for your library? There are so many new releases this week that you’re bound to find a new favorite. You can pick up new books from Neal Schaffer, Bill Gurley, and Lloyd Blankfein. Enjoy your new business and finance books. Happy reading!
The Discipline Advantage: Business Books That Deliver
These business books focus on execution, not inspiration. From mastering productivity to understanding AI disruption and leadership psychology, each title offers frameworks built for real-world results. Perfect for readers who want strategy over slogans.
Human Again: In the AI Age
by J.D. Macpherson
Release Date: December 3, 2025
A fast, reflective narrative nonfiction book about identity, burnout, and the strange experience of talking to a machine in the middle of the night. Part memoir, part cultural commentary, and part “what the hell is happening to us?”, learn how to leverage AI without losing yourself in the process.
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Financial Growth For Teens
by Riley Profit
Release Date: February 9, 2026
Maybe you’re worried this will be too basic, not fit your life, or just repeat the same stuff you’ve heard before. Here’s the truth: Financial Growth for Teens is designed for real teens—whether you have a steady gig, only get birthday money, or have zero family support. The examples and tools flex to your situation, no matter your income or background.
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The Limit Does Not Exist
by Shoshanna Raven
Release Date: February 15, 2026
If you’ve ever felt both too much and not enough for the life you truly want, the problem isn’t you. It’s the formula you were given. Most women are shown a version of success that looks polished, practical, and completely confident. But most of us are much more textured than that.
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Trust Builders: The Key to Thriving Communities
by Amy Holloway
Release Date: -
Featuring interviews with 31 leaders from across America, Trust Builders explores how trust is intentionally built, repaired, and sustained, and how it unlocks transformative change in communities of all sizes. Inside, readers will discover a tactical playbook for strengthening trust and accelerating progress, along with an assessment to identify their own trust-building strengths.
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A Giant Leap
by Robert Wachter
Release Date: -
In A Giant Leap, physician and thought leader Robert Wachter navigates between hype and skepticism to make a compelling case for AI’s power to transform healthcare. He argues that, in a system buckling under the weight of bureaucratic pressures, soaring costs, and clinician burnout, AI doesn’t need to be perfect—it only needs to be better.
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The Secret Language of Work
by Erin McGoff
Release Date: -
We’ve all been there: you’re sweating, sitting in front of your laptop, and the interviewer on the screen says, “Tell me about yourself.” You freeze. Is that even a question? What are they expecting from you? What do you say? If that paragraph made your heart beat a little faster, TikTok star, career educator, and “the internet’s big sister” Erin McGoff is here to help.
Buy on AmazonAfter the Applause: 6 Biographies and Memoirs
These biographies and memoirs focus on the cost behind achievement. Through candid reflection and emotional honesty, they explore ambition, sacrifice, and the unseen labor of building a life. A compelling read for fans of grounded, revealing nonfiction.
Eagle 12
by Lamar D. Vine
Release Date: February 8, 2026
Inspired by true events, in 1991, a desperate twenty-one-year-old throws the ultimate Hail Mary: the shortest Army enlistment he can find, chasing benefits and escape from a crumbling life back home—divorce, fatherhood, endless money drains. He lands in steamy Panama on Military Police Investigator duty in the humid aftermath of Operation Just Cause.
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Traversal
by Maria Popova
Release Date: -
In Traversal, Maria Popova illuminates our various instruments of reckoning with the bewilderment of being alive—our telescopes and our treatises, our postulates and our poems—through the intertwined lives, loves, and legacies of visionaries both celebrated and sidelined by history.
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Remember the Times
by Teddy Riley
Release Date: -
Since the early ’80s, Teddy Riley has revolutionized the music industry, from his creation of New Jack Swing to his work in R&B, hip-hop, gospel, soul, and pop that forever changed the industry. His profound influence still resonates today, and he has been inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame, awarded the Soul Train Legend Award, and given his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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We the Women
by Norah O'Donnell
Release Date: February 24, 2026
Over a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning journalist Norah O’Donnell has made it her mission to shed light on untold women’s stories. Now, in honor of America’s 250th birthday, O’Donnell focuses that passion on the American heroines who helped change the course of history.
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A World Appears
by Michael Pollan
Release Date: February 24, 2026
When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: it feels like something to be us. Yet the fact that we have subjective experience of the world remains one of nature’s greatest mysteries.
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You Better Believe I'm Gonna Talk About It
by Lisa Rinna
Release Date: February 24, 2026
For decades, Lisa Rinna has been captivating audiences—whether as a soap opera icon, reality TV powerhouse, fearless social media provocateur or slaying in haute couture down the catwalks of Paris. But even though she’s always said it like she means it, there’s still so much more to the woman whose lips launched a thousand memes.
Buy on AmazonFault Lines Beneath the Surface: Literary Fiction
In these literary fiction stories, tension simmers beneath everyday routines. Family loyalty, ambition, memory, and regret collide in narratives that move with restraint and impact. A compelling pick for readers who prefer emotional depth over spectacle.
The Client Book: A Catalog of Hungers
by Isa Brevine
Release Date: February 10, 2026
Aura catalogs the secret hungers of the elite, offering a mirror to their desires to shield her own shattered past. But when genuine connection breaches her fortress of control, the observer becomes the observed. She is the curator of other people’s cages, but does she hold the key to her own?
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Welcome Darkness (Life's Tree Spins On...)
by Aubrey E Drummond
Release Date: February 9, 2026
Welcome Darkness, Unlike Nothing (my first book in this new series) carries no emotional buffer. It steps directly into the rawness of mourning, the shadows of despair, and the fragile moments of light that still manage to break through. These poems honor the life I shared with my wife and the journey of learning to write again without her.
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Kin
by Tayari Jones
Release Date: -
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives.
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Gone Off The Preacher’s Daughter
by Thee Tasha Marie
Release Date: January 25, 2026
Princess was raised to be polished and poised—groomed to play her part in her father’s crooked game of power, image, and control. But when the truth starts cracking through the surface, and old debts need settling, she ends up in the grasp of a man built from everything her world tried to keep out.
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Where the Wildflowers Grow
by Terah Shelton Harris
Release Date: February 17, 2026
Leigh is the last of the Wildes. She knows this because she watched them all die. Grief never truly fades, and even as the tragedy haunts her, Leigh carries on, because survival is in her blood. So, when the transport bus taking her to prison careens off the road, killing everyone onboard except her, she does what's in her nature. She survives.
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Little One
by Olivia Muenter
Release Date: February 3, 2026
From the outside, Catharine West’s childhood sounds idyllic—balmy days spent running barefoot through the gardens, plucking ripe tomatoes straight from the vine as sunlight warmed her skin. Her parents built a life that was simple and community-focused, an ethos that soon attracted others in need of a change.
Buy on AmazonChemistry That Complicates Everything: Romance Reads
These Romance novels explore what happens when falling in love means risking everything. From guarded single parents to morally gray antiheroes, each story balances vulnerability with desire. A must-read list for fans of emotional, high-stakes romance fiction.
Dead or Alive
by Kylie Kent
Release Date: February 24, 2026
Love is a weakness. You either kill it or it will kill you. I’ve been in love once, and that’s what I did. I killed it. I’ve managed to avoid the weakness throughout my entire life. And then I saw her. A ghost from my past, very much alive and right in front of me. When she tries to flee from my grasp, I hold tighter. Because dead or alive, Evie is mine.
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Law Maker (Aristocrats of London Book 1)
by Susie Tate
Release Date: February 24, 2026
Shy teacher Clara secretly crushes on gorgeous billionaire single dad Lord Rafe Sterling, but always avoids him. When he forces a meeting, he's obsessed. How can a woman so scared be so fierce when defending his son? But Clara's hiding secrets. And Rafe's arrogance may put her in danger. Opposites attract, billionaire, age-gap, single dad romance.
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The Real Ones
by J Rose Black
Release Date: February 12, 2026
Losing a bet brings All-American shortstop Ella Reddington face-to-face with the man who broke her heart. At a singles' event. On Valentine's Day... When a chaotic “cupid” gets involved, pushing Maddox "Mick" McBride and Ella back into each other's orbit—sparks ignite, truths surface, and Maddox realizes he’s been fighting the wrong battles all year. A second-chance romance.
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Just For the Cameras
by Meghan Quinn
Release Date: February 3, 2026
Graydon St. John doesn't do drama―or public appearances. The brooding defensive end for the San Francisco Foghorns prefers silence, solitude, and avoiding headlines. But when a league-wide PR scandal forces him into a media stunt at the city zoo, he's suddenly face-to-face with squawking birds, nosy fans, and the zookeeper who seems to hate his guts on sight.
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His Temporary Fiancée
by Nadia Lee
Release Date: February 19, 2026
Josh Huxley is a powerhouse attorney with a devastating smile, a ruthless legal mind, and a secret that keeps him up at night: he's terrified he inherited his sociopathic mother's darkest traits. To keep his family from worrying, he dates a revolving door of women he'll never love—and keeps the one woman who silences his demons at a careful arm's length.
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King of Damnation (Kings of Las Vegas Book 5)
by Tammy Andresen
Release Date: -
My Bratva father has promised me to the devil. To escape hell, on the morning of my wedding, I stowaway on a private jet. That was my first mistake. Because it turns out, the jet belongs to the Duke of Grandmont. As enigmatic as he is powerful, Win might be the only man I’ve ever met who can make me cower. But it gets worse.
Buy on AmazonWhere Trust Goes to Die: Mystery and Thriller Picks
These Mystery and Thriller books center on betrayal, the kind that reshapes families, partnerships, and entire communities. As trust erodes, survival becomes a personal calculation. A gripping choice for readers who prefer tension over spectacle.
Death in Driftless Hollow
by Ben Tor
Release Date: February 17, 2026
Stranded in a blizzard deep in the Wisconsin woods, six strangers fight to survive the cold, the darkness, and each other. What begins as a desperate struggle for shelter becomes a chilling descent into betrayal, violence, and psychological unraveling.
Buy on Amazon
Don't Stop the Presses
by Mike Stetz
Release Date: January 14, 2026
In the new novel “Don’t Stop the Presses,” San Diego author Mike Stetz puts a new spin on the tragic job losses facing today’s journalists. Ben Roberts doesn’t take his layoff sitting down. He fights back. Canned from the fictional San Diego Sun, Roberts hatches a plan to take over the newsroom, hold editors hostage, and produce his own newspaper.
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Jack London and Murder on Nob Hill
by Ray M. Schultze
Release Date: December 1, 2025
San Francisco, 1898: a city of fortunes won and lives discarded. When struggling writer Jack London witnesses the execution-style murder of a young girl on patrician Nob Hill, his hunt for answers draws him into a conspiracy stretching from the back alleys of Chinatown to the highest levels of society.
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Burt vs Them
by P. A. Fielding
Release Date: January 13, 2026
Fee, plagued by mental health issues and recovering from a failed suicide attempt, finds comfort in his new West Highland Terrier puppy, Burt. But even with Burt at his side and his therapist, Sandra, doing her best to pull him out of the depths of depression, he still hears voices—voices he is certain are not his own thoughts. Paranoia sets in…
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Untouchable (Special Agent Constant Marlowe)
by Jeffery Deaver
Release Date: February 17, 2026
Special Agent Constant Marlowe is passing through the charming college town of Prescott, Illinois, when a chance encounter with a terrified student stops her in her tracks. Kathleen Delaine thought she was doing the right thing when she demanded an inquiry into traumatic brain injuries among the university’s football team.
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The Crossroads (A Joe Pickett Novel Book 26)
by C.J. Box
Release Date: -
Marybeth Pickett gets the call she has always dreaded: her husband Joe is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. Joe was found in his pickup at Antler Creek Junction, a crossroads connecting three ranches. Each road leads to a dangerous family. Each family has a different bone to pick with the local game warden.
Buy on AmazonThe Buzziest Books of February | 2026
February lingers in the space between winter and warmth, a month shaped by connection, courage, and the quiet thaw before spring. It’s a season of heartbeats and hard truths, of love in all its forms: romantic, messy, enduring, and self-made. Where January whispered about beginnings, February leans into feeling into vulnerability, longing, and the bold act of caring deeply. These are stories of passion and partnership, of resilience in the cold, and of choosing tenderness anyway. Because sometimes the bravest thing we can do is open the door just a little wider. 💕
The Umbrella Protocol
by C. Chase Harwood
Release Date: February 3, 2026
From the bestselling author of Bastion Saturn comes a relentless technothriller about weaponized climate tech, corrupted faith, love, betrayal, and how easily one system can end the world.
Diary of a Throwaway Kid
by Shannon Tessari
Release Date: February 3, 2026
Diary of a Throwaway Kid is a poignant story told through the eyes of a young girl navigating the foster care system. Shuffled from home to home, she never feels wanted, never feels like she belongs. With each failed placement, she leaves with her life packed in a garbage bag - just another throwaway kid.
Our Fallen Woman
by Steven Habbi
Release Date: January 9, 2026
Our Fallen Woman is a fiercely human historical epic spanning decades and continents. Set between 1880 and 1925, it follows Erin Kelly and Padraig “Paddy” McCann from famine-haunted Ireland, through London’s tenements, to the opportunities of Prohibition-era New York. Opportunity has a cost, and when betrayal strikes, Erin does not wait to be saved.
The Adventures of Casey, Kendall, and The Stucco Beings
by Zemo Trevathan
Release Date: January 30, 2026
Casey navigates the Real World by infusing it with private games and encounters with Other Beings. When Kendall, the new kid at school, gets involved, they embark together on a journey of friendship, discovery, and imagination.
Cruel to Be Kind (A Bad Choices Novel Book 2)
by Joseph Souza
Release Date: January 27, 2026
Gwynn’s life fell apart the night Tom caught her in bed with Detective Peters—the lead investigator on a string of murders she secretly committed. Now Tom knows everything: that his wife is a serial killer, and he holds all the evidence to prove it. If Gwynn refuses to return to their toxic marriage, he’s prepared to turn her in to the police.
A Land of Mist and Loss (The Dandelion Chronicles Book 4)
by A.S.R. Gelpi
Release Date: February 10, 2026
Kharis was meant to break her curse and save her sister. Instead, she wakes without memories and only one truth: she must go north. Her challenge? She's magically bound to a man who refuses to go. This is a high-fantasy tale with intrigue, escalating danger, and high stakes in a land where love is costly and fate shows no mercy.
Dark Hearts: Of Hunger and Hate (The Hollow Waltz)
by Gaelan Wort
Release Date: February 9, 2026
A sensual Gothic horror tale of ruinous desire set in Restoration-era France. Julietta, bound to her unseen mistress yet drawn to an alluring Marquis, steps into a world of lust, treachery, and peril. Dark Hearts: Of Hunger and Hate descends into doomed devotion, despair, and the monsters – mortal and otherwise – who haunt us.
The Procrastination Solution
by Bobby L. Butler
Release Date: November 16, 2025
Stuck staring at your to-do list, but can’t make yourself start? This isn’t laziness—it’s your brain’s wiring. Discover 107+ proven strategies to overcome perfectionism, decision fatigue, and overwhelm. Get implementation tools, not just theory, plus your unique procrastination type and targeted solutions that actually work for real life.
King (King of the Mafia Book 1)
by Ivy Davis
Release Date: February 17, 2026
Sold at auction, I was saved from one fate only to be bound to another. Nikolai Volkov, head of the Russian mafia, saves me. He claims protection, but his world reeks of death. Yet my body betrays me with every touch. I’m torn between fear and desire. Can I ever love the man who is pulling me further into the darkness?
Son of Osivirius
by Cathryn deVries
Release Date: February 17, 2026
When colony pilot Jayden crash-lands in rebel territory, he thinks only of escape and reward, but all that changes when he mind-links with a Masu, the giant flying cats indigenous to Osivirius. Now his unwanted attraction to both the rebels' simple life and his rescuer’s sister, Nettle, makes him question which side he should be fighting for.
Death in Driftless Hollow
by Ben Tor
Release Date: February 17, 2026
Stranded in a blizzard deep in the Wisconsin woods, six strangers fight to survive the cold, the darkness, and each other. What begins as a desperate struggle for shelter becomes a chilling descent into betrayal, violence, and psychological unraveling.
Don't Stop the Presses
by Mike Stetz
Release Date: January 14, 2026
In the new novel “Don’t Stop the Presses,” San Diego author Mike Stetz puts a new spin on the tragic job losses facing today’s journalists. Ben Roberts doesn’t take his layoff sitting down. He fights back. Canned from the fictional San Diego Sun, Roberts hatches a plan to take over the newsroom, hold editors hostage, and produce his own newspaper.
Dead or Alive
by Kylie Kent
Release Date: February 24, 2026
Love is a weakness. You either kill it or it will kill you. I’ve been in love once, and that’s what I did. I killed it. I’ve managed to avoid the weakness throughout my entire life. And then I saw her. A ghost from my past, very much alive and right in front of me. When she tries to flee from my grasp, I hold tighter. Because dead or alive, Evie is mine.
Law Maker (Aristocrats of London Book 1)
by Susie Tate
Release Date: January 1, 2025
Shy teacher Clara secretly crushes on gorgeous billionaire single dad Lord Rafe Sterling, but always avoids him. When he forces a meeting, he's obsessed. How can a woman so scared be so fierce when defending his son? But Clara's hiding secrets. And Rafe's arrogance may put her in danger. Opposites attract, billionaire, age-gap, single dad romance.
The Client Book: A Catalog of Hungers
by Isa Brevine
Release Date: February 10, 2026
Aura catalogs the secret hungers of the elite, offering a mirror to their desires to shield her own shattered past. But when genuine connection breaches her fortress of control, the observer becomes the observed. She is the curator of other people’s cages, but does she hold the key to her own?
Welcome Darkness (Life's Tree Spins On...)
by Aubrey E Drummond
Release Date: February 9, 2026
Welcome Darkness, Unlike Nothing (my first book in this new series) carries no emotional buffer. It steps directly into the rawness of mourning, the shadows of despair, and the fragile moments of light that still manage to break through. These poems honor the life I shared with my wife and the journey of learning to write again without her.
Eagle 12
by Lamar D. Vine
Release Date: February 8, 2026
Inspired by true events, in 1991, a desperate twenty-one-year-old throws the ultimate Hail Mary: the shortest Army enlistment he can find, chasing benefits and escape from a crumbling life back home—divorce, fatherhood, endless money drains. He lands in steamy Panama on Military Police Investigator duty in the humid aftermath of Operation Just Cause.
Interview with J Rose Black, Author of The Real Ones
What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write this book?
I was originally supposed to write a short story for a sports romance anthology—which was canceled. It was intended to be a short, second-chance romance where the FMC lost a bet and had to participate in a flag football game where she was bound to face her ex-boyfriend...and then they’d get a steamy shower scene. I wanted it to be in my Chasing Victory world; that was really all that it took to get “inspired,” but once the anthology was canceled, I had room to let the characters tell more of their story...their meet-cute was particularly sweet and fun. And then it took a serious turn. It became so much more, with a really gentle love story between the MMC and FMC, and external obstacles (more than anything) to them being together.
If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of your book, what would they be? (Meant to be fun. Skip if you need to!)
I’m glad you asked... Ella Reddington: “4U” by Danielle Bradbery Maddox “Mick” McBride: “Lifeline” by Bad Wolves And although he’s a secondary character (he also had 2 cameos in Chasing Headlines), I think it’s only right to share Beaux Seager’s “Real One” by Smash Into Pieces. The song is more of an anthem for him (if you read the book, you’ll understand). The song doesn’t have the same meaning as the book title, but the lyrics (and the vibe) capture the essence of how the character appears in the story.
What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?
I do love some sports romances, but I also enjoy mysteries and historical Regency romances. Don’t think that doesn’t mean I don’t love science fiction and fantasy... I grew up on a rather diverse reading diet and still read a wide variety today. As for writing, at the top of my Clifton strengths is “Ideation,” so it’s not easy to stick to one genre there, either. I’m sitting on a complete, hardboiled detective mystery novel and have 2 of 3 romantic science fiction novels (in a series) drafted, with a couple of romantasy ideas in various stages of completion. It’s not great for running an author business, but the writer is always entertained.
What books are on your TBR pile right now?
Oh dear, I have quite a few. Home Field Advantage by Jenn McMahon, Heathen & Honeysuckle by Sarah A. Bailey, Desperate Pucker by Sarah Smith, and Dare You by Ilsa Madden-Mills.
What scene in your book was your favorite to write?
The greenhouse scene was my favorite by far. It was charged with emotion and tension, but underneath it all was this nurturing element, Maddox’s quiet acceptance of Ella and his desire to protect her. In the short read, the scene was just going to be small flashbacks, but the drive to write the full interaction was strong. Once the deadline was called off, I basically started the book all over again—and then had to sew the timelines together. I will also say that the football sequences also demanded to be written. I could not get them to leave me alone, either.
Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)
Aside from Spotify playlists, I drink a lot of coffee and have noise-canceling headphones. My kids are getting older and understand the words, “Mama’s busy right now.” But they still open the door and can’t help but lay on me for some reason... My favorite mug is the iconic one from “Castle” (Nathan Fillion) that says, “You should be writing.” (Even the mug has attitude around here.)
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
I’ve always been partial to Churchill, having studied poli sci and British Parliamentary history in undergrad. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?
Ultimately, I’d like for them to remember where the title came from. If nothing else, I’d like for them to remember that... It’s a reference to the “Found Family” theme/trope. Seager raises the question: who will be there when things are at their worst? And who can depend on you?