Faultlines & Full Hearts: 6 Literary Fiction Reads

25 Jul 2025

Faultlines & Full Hearts: 6 Literary Fiction Reads

These novels peer into the quiet corners of human experience: divorce, diaspora, reinvention, and quiet rebellion. Through rich prose and unflinching truth, they show what it means to keep going when everything changes. Perfect for lovers of layered, luminous storytelling.

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Diaries of a Borderline

by Blue Evergarden

Release Date: March 6, 2025

A visceral, lyrical poetry memoir exploring grief, healing, and reclaiming your life after being shattered. Each page reaches into the silence we carry and names it—honest, tender, and unforgettable.

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Country Storm (Cordova Series Book 3)

by Marcella DiPaolo

Release Date: July 20, 2025

Shea Malone was asked to become the new prosecuting attorney for the town of Cordova in Missouri for Judge Harry Singleton. For Shea, that means packing up her two nieces, nephew, and her friends and moving everything they own to a town five hours away. She travels ahead to either find a place for them to move into or get one built.

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The Secret Library of Hanna Reeves

by Christine Nolfi

Release Date: June 24, 2025

Cautious Claire Shelton, employee at a Maine antique shop, is surprised when she’s recruited to catalog the treasures of reclusive Hanna Reeves, sole descendant of the state’s most colorful shipbuilders and industrialists. Hanna’s retreat from society years ago is just one of many mysteries behind the walls of Rose Hill, her fabled estate.

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Woman on the Verge

by Kim Hooper

Release Date: July 1, 2025

A sexy, propulsive meditation on modern motherhood, tracking the lives of three women as they struggle to define themselves in the face of new obligations and heightened expectations. Some women, with their perfect children and pricey athleisure, make motherhood look easy. But not Nicole. She never wanted to be a stay-at-home parent—losing her job left her no choice. Now, between her toddlers’ demands, husband’s distance, and father’s deteriorating health, she’s pulled in every direction except her own.

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A Mother’s Love

by Danielle Steel

Release Date: June 24, 2025

On the occasion of her daughter Valerie’s wedding and her upcoming fiftieth birthday, bestselling author Halley Holbrook finds herself reflecting. Raising twins, Valerie and Olivia, is her proudest accomplishment. Halley has been able to give them the loving and safe home she never had, having survived a childhood so traumatic she’s never talked about it with her girls. Long ago, Halley decided to live in the sunlight of the present, not the dark shadows of the past.

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Falling for You Again

by Kerry Lonsdale

Release Date: July 8, 2025

Fate reunites a young woman with her ex-husband in a delightful and inspiring novel about family, old loves, and marriage on a dare by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale. Furniture artisan Meli Hynes still abides by her uncle’s truism: the only lasting love story is the one between artists and their creations. Having already given marriage a shot—for all of twenty-four hours during a Las Vegas fling—Meli made her choice. The wood-crafting shop that is her family legacy will always come first.

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