Light in the Ruins: 6 Unforgettable Literary Fiction Reads

29 Aug 2025

Light in the Ruins: 6 Unforgettable Literary Fiction Reads

These stories navigate the hidden landscapes of the heart. Each novel reveals love, loss, and longing through intricate and unforgettable storytelling. A collection for those who crave literary journeys of emotional discovery.

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I Wish You Love: Alice’s Story (Tuckaway Bay Book 5)

by Madeleine Jaimes

Release Date: August 26, 2025

For over a decade, Alice McBain has lived in the shadows of someone else’s ambition, someone else’s marriage, someone else’s definition of love. She’s ready to stop waiting for the perfect time. But when she finally steps into the truth, everything around her begins to fall apart.

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It Happened to Us

by Ann Smith

Release Date: August 21, 2025

She saved my life before I even knew my name. Now I remember everything—including the wreckage I left behind. But I’m not the same man who ran from his past. She made me believe in second chances, and I’ll do anything to earn mine… even if it means walking away from everything I used to be.

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Up in Flames

by Dana Lockhart

Release Date: August 23, 2025

Words dance across the page like fire dancing in your eyes—bonfires, infernos, cinders, and light. Up in Flames features contemporary poetry with original illustrations that spark and ignite emotion like wildfires burning long into the night. Explore five great hearths of emotion: despair, fury, doubt, passion, and hope.

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Women, Seated

by Zhang Yueran

Release Date: August 12, 2025

Enter the world of an elite Chinese couple: a life of luxury, wealth, and around-the-clock service, which includes their trusted nanny, Yu Ling. Slipping in and out of the shadows, meticulous in her care of their only son, she has served the family for years and knows their secrets. But little do they suspect that Yu Ling has secrets of her own.

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The Grand Paloma Resort

by Cleyvis Natera

Release Date: August 12, 2025

Laura is a local Dominican woman who, through sheer hard work, has risen through the ranks to become manager at the Grand Paloma Resort. Her idea to pair a “platinum” guest with their own resort employee to attend to their every whim has been wildly successful, and she’s just weeks away from a promotion that could blaze a path for her off the resort and toward a life of opportunity. If only her younger sister, Elena—whom she’s looked after since the death of their mother—could get with the program.

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The Friendship List

by Beth Miller

Release Date: August 18, 2025

Wiping away her tears, Kay looks at her old photos of friends who have come and gone through life’s big moments. But then there’s Rose, her one constant through everything. Now Rose is missing. Does the key to finding her lie in their past?

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