Where the Heart Hesitates: Literary Fiction That Feels Like Truth
02 Nov 2025
Where the Heart Hesitates: Literary Fiction That Feels Like Truth
These stories don’t offer easy answers, only honest ones. They dwell in uncertainty, heartbreak, and grace, finding meaning in the mess of being human. For readers who value emotional truth above all.
Marianne (Warleigh Hall Press Jane Austen Series)
by Alice McVeigh
Release Date: October 22, 2025
Marianne returns to town, newly wealthy and besieged by admirers, despite her resolve to remain single. When her sister Margaret finds herself on trial, Marianne needs every friend she has—including the charismatic Henry Crawford and John Willoughby himself.
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The Never Not Yes
by Jonathan Epps
Release Date: October 7, 2025
As America falls into chaos, two violent powers rise. In the midst of this, a young man, Antonio Hobbes, loses everything he loves—until forbidden love sets him on a dangerous path. Cast out, he joins a band of survivors clinging to hope. As war erupts and old powers return, saying “yes” to love and humanity may be the most dangerous “yes” of all.
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The Mob: Shio Cuppacio (Put it on the Mob Book 7)
by Lisa Austin
Release Date: October 29, 2025
Shio Cuppacio was sure of that. And with the Cuppacio family’s merger with the Rinaldi Mob in Jagoda Bay nearly complete, all eyes are on him because it’s his turn to fulfill the mob’s one requirement of finding a wife. Unlike his cousins, Ezio, Metavello, and Renello, Shio is quiet, logical, and deeply devoted to God. The thinker and doer in his family, Shio is not a man of noise or ego. Restraint and discipline have kept his nose clean since childhood, and now, as a grown man, Shio considers himself a master of self-control. But when a favor for Don Demise pulls Shio into a situation he never saw coming, Shio’s daily checklists and future plans are challenged.
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Cannon (A King Family Saga Book 3)
by N’Dia Rae
Release Date: October 9, 2025
Cannon Price came from nothing. The son Tessa King was forced to give away, he grew up fighting for every scrap of respect he ever got. Framed by the crew he once called family, he did five brutal years in prison and came out colder, harder, and hell-bent on payback.
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Windburn (Crow’s Coven Book 1)
by Milena McKay
Release Date: October 31, 2025
Rhiannon Crowhart, the renegade second sister of the notorious family, returns to Dragons Island and its sleepy town of Crow’s Nest in a flurry of storms and scandal. Her homecoming is not hospitable, as the townspeople and her own sisters are keen to hold onto old grudges. Not that Rhiannon requires their welcome. She left twenty-two years ago and has never looked back–until now. After all, she hated everything about the island, the town, and the old Atelier she recently inherited.
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Sleigh Bells in Park City (Christmas in the Canyons Book 1)
by Hope Holloway and Cecelia Scott
Release Date: October 24, 2025
A romantic holiday series filled with Christmas charm, second chances, and the magic of the Utah mountains. Come home to Snowberry Lodge, where the cocoa is always hot, the snow never stops falling, and love is just a sleigh ride away.
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