04 Sep 2025
Literary Novels That Capture the Soul of a Place
These novels weave history and modernity into seamless narratives. They explore how memory, culture, and heritage shape identity today. Each story strikes a balance between timeless themes and contemporary resonance. Ideal for readers who love layered, reflective fiction.
The Last Hunt (The Last Series Book 1)
by Christian Sebastian
Release Date: July 29, 2025
A hunting tale that’s really about life’s bigger pursuits. Dying Silas climbs Montana’s mountains with young Eli, wrestling with 78 years of choices while teaching the boy about patience, loss, and inherited dreams. A work of literary fiction, it explores how we learn from our mistakes, our elders, and the obsessions we can’t escape.
Last Verse of the Sword
by Livia Huntingdon-Jones
Release Date: August 15, 2025
In a Japan torn between ancient tradition and modern warfare, a young woman with the heart of a samurai is forbidden to fight. Refusing to be sidelined, she raises an army of women for a last stand. As her world burns, she must make a final, tragic choice to protect her family’s honor in a war she cannot win.
Writers and Other Dreamers
by S. Cunliffe
Release Date: August 13, 2025
When women are ambitious, the world can be a dangerous place—but is it worth taking the risk? Should you trust your dreams and ambitions to strangers who appear to be wealthy investors or Hollywood producers? Find out what happens to Jinni, Noi, and Glenda when they follow their dreams and take big risks with their futures.
Child of a Swan
by David Burnett
Release Date: August 1, 2025
Lyssa was born into a family of writers, and her father plans for Lyssa to join them. But Lyssa—the child who would rather decipher a math puzzle than unravel an anagram, prove a geometric theorem than pen a short story, and master nonparametric statistics than devise plot twists for a novel—is destined to be a writer. Conflict is inevitable.
The Duke’s Bluestocking (The Untamed Nobles 4)
by Sally Forbes
Release Date: August 24, 2025
Lady Scarlett Bradford treasures her independence more than any ballroom or title could offer. Brilliant, sharp-tongued, and quietly devoted to her poetry, she has no wish to wed, least of all the reserved heir to a dukedom. But when her father demands she honor their arrangement to Lord Simon Hayes, she braces herself for a cold, loveless union.
The Secret Orphanage
by Barbara Josselsohn
Release Date: August 15, 2025
Heartbroken by the loss of her husband, Celina knows she should flee the dangers of occupied France and return to the safety of America. But she can’t bear to sell his childhood home in the countryside without seeing it in person first. She’s shocked to find the large stone house full of happy, smiling children. Brave innocent boys and girls who hide upstairs each night…
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