Mallory’s Hot Summer Four 2024 Recommendations


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Mallory’s Hot Summer Four 2024 Recommendations

One of the best parts about summer to me is…reading outside! Here are some new books to put on your TBR list!

Mallory’s Hot Summer Four 2024

  1. Butcher & Blackbird
  2. A Touch of Darkness
  3. Divorced: The Beginning of the End
  4. A Fate Inked in Blood

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Every serial killer needs a friend. Every game must have a winner. When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country. But as their friendship develops into something more, the restless ghosts left in their wake …

Persephone is the Goddess of Spring by title only. The truth is, since she was a little girl, flowers have shriveled at her touch. After moving to New Athens, she hopes to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. After a chance encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead and the terms are impossible:

Mallory Brooke was supposed to get married on the largest cruise ship in the world . . . that is, until her future husband was kicked off the boat, leaving Mallory stranded seven nights at sea with both families. Hilarity ensues along with plenty of drama in this vulnerable true story that has been seven years in the making.

“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”

– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king—while also fighting her growing desire for his fiery son—in the first book of a Norse-inspired fantasy romance …

“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”

– John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent


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