Release Day! Falling for Peachtree Bluff ~ My Thoughts #FallingForPeachtreeBluff

Happy Release Day!

Congratulations Kristy

on the release today of

Falling for Peachtree Bluff!

Falling for Peachtree Bluff by Kristy Woodson Harvey

(Peachtree Bluff #5)

Contemporary Romance, Autumn, 320 pages

Published September 15, 2026 by Gallery Books

Welcome to Peachtree a sweet, cozy small town where family is everything. The “go-to for elevated beach reads,” (People), Kristy Woodson Harvey, returns just in time for pumpkin spice season.

The air is crisper, the water is calmer, but, when it comes to the Murphy family, nothing is ever quite as simple as it seems.

Youngest sister Emerson is busy planning her dream wedding to Kyle. But her difficulty expanding her family is overshadowing her joy. Pregnant middle sister Sloane and her husband Adam’s dream house has turned into a nightmare. Everything is over time, over budget, and Sloane is over it. Eldest sister Caroline, as always, is there to swoop in and get her sisters’ lives under control. Until her focus is more than a little shifted by Emerson’s hunky costar who manages to sweep her right off her feet—just as her not-quite-ex-husband decides it’s high time he begged Caroline for a second chance.

Matriarch Ansley and her new husband Jack have finally hit their stride. But when a scandal that would affect every single Peachtree Bluff citizen comes to light—and it seems like Jack just might be at the center of it—Ansley questions whether he is actually the man she thought he was.

Through it all, these women must rely on their powerful family bonds, and the quirky characters and small-town charm of the place that, no matter what, always calls them home.

    

My thoughts about Falling for Peachtree Bluff ~~

(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first line.)

First lines—"As humans, we are wired to forget. Flight delays, bad restaurants, even childbirth. We go back. Play on a gentler repeat. Because somewhere in the murky gray matter of our brains, the memory softens."

Oh my gosh, I had forgotten how much I love the Peachtree Bluff community and all of the wonderful people who are a part of that place. Until I opened the pages of Falling for Peachtree Bluff and started reading, I didn't realize how much I needed to revisit everything and everyone. And fall is my very favorite season, so this story was perfect! Everything fall!

For the Murphy family life goes on, a life full of love and laughs, but also with a good share of ups and downs. As they power through it all, family is always there for support. 

I have loved all of Kristy's stories and this one is excellent. Falling for Peachtree Bluff is the perfect read for everyone right now—a story full of family, love, resilience.... and fall. It doesn't get any better than that, right? I highly recommend it!

I received an ARC of Falling for Peachtree Bluff and this is my honest opinion.

Read my thoughts about 

book 1, book 2, book 3, and book 4. 

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About the author

Kristy Woodson Harvey is the New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of eleven novels including A Happier Life, The Summer of Songbirds, and The Peachtree Bluff Series. Many of her books have been optioned or are in development for television and film and have received numerous accolades, including Good Morning America’s Buzz Pick, Southern Living’s Most Anticipated Reads, Katie Couric’s Featured Books, and Joanna Garcia Swisher’s The Happy Place Read. Kristy is the winner of the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and a finalist for the Southern Book Prize.

A Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s school of journalism, her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Southern Living, Parade, Traditional Home, USA TODAY, and many more. She also holds a master’s in English, with a concentration in multicultural and transnational literature.

Kristy is the cocreator and cohost of the weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction with fellow New York Times Bestselling authors Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry. She is also the co-founder of the interiors site Design Chic, with her mom, Beth Woodson.

She lives on the North Carolina coast with her husband, son, and dog, Salt, where she is (always!) working on her next novel. ~ Goodreads

Connect with Kristy

Website | Facebook | Goodreads | Twitter | Instagram

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? September 14, 2026 #IMWAYR

 

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are! 

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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. 

Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

The Mrs. Astor: A Gilded Age Novel of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor

by Deanna Lynn Sletten

eARC for review

Pub date ~ October 6

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab

print from my TBR shelf for a challenge

This one could take me awhile. Have you read it?

Published October 2020

The Color Purple

(The Color Purple Collection #1)

by Alice Walker

audio-book from my TBR collection for a challenge

Published June 1982

 

What I recently finished

The Novelists

(The Seaside Saga #28)

Joanne DeMaio

e-book for review

Published September 2, 2026

The Backside of Hades

(Deadwood Undertaker #4)

by Ann Charles & Sam Lucky

e-book from my TBR collection for a challenge

Published September 2022

What I am going to read next

(this is always subject to change)

 😊

Dark Current Redemption

(Sutherlin Files #4)

by Ashley Farley

eARC for review

Pub date ~ October 6

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Release Day! The Wish List Trip by Kerry Lonsdale & Orly Konig ~ My Thoughts #TheWishListTrip #Bookouture

Happy Release Day!

Congrats Kerry & Orly

on the release today of

The Wish List Trip!

The Wish List Trip by Kerry Lonsdale & Orly Konig

Friendship Fiction, Travel, 331 pages

Published September 8, 2026 by Bookouture

The Wish List Trip is an unputdownable story of sisterhood, self-discovery and how not to smuggle your friend’s ashes through French border control… Addictive, escapist and bittersweet, perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Emily Giffin and Jojo Moyes.

Dear Holly and Anna,

I knew it would take drastic measures to bring you together, so, ta da, one drastic measure! I’m sorry I died. And I know you guys haven’t spoken in five years. But here’s the over fourteen days, you are going to scatter my ashes in every place we vacationed together in our twenties.

I wish I could have fixed your friendship before I passed away. But dying comes with one perk—you can’t say no to me now.

You’re going to have the best time. I’ve planned rum cocktails in Cabo and café hopping in Paris. And along the way, I’ll keep sending you letters. Because there’s a secret I wasn’t brave enough to share when I was alive… and if I know the three of us, I suspect we’ve all been hiding something from each other.

The times we spent together were the best days of my life. Nobody made me laugh like you did, Anna. And Holly, promise you’ll let your hair down one last time for me.

I hope by the end of this trip, there’s nothing left we’re afraid to say...

xo, Zoe

My thoughts about The Wish List Trip ~~

(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first line.)

First line—"Hello gals! I can't believe we're all together again. The three of us!"

This was such a beautiful story of friendship and rediscovery. I was totally captivated by this book and loved every minute of it. Two friends embark on a trip at the request of the third friend who is no longer with them. Will this trip mend fences or will that tie be broken forever?

I could relate parts of this book to myself and my friends. Not that we've traveled all over like Holly, Anna and Zoe did, but more of just recognizing the bonds that we have with each other. One of our friends has passed away, like Zoe did in this story, but we still get together regularly, to honor her and the friendships that she inspired. 

This is my first time reading anything by Orly Konig. And of course I love everything Kerry Lonsdale writes. I think I have just found a new author to read because this collaboration by these two authors is amazing. Writing in general seems like it would be challenging enough but then to write with another person? That takes it to whole other level and that process just is mind-blowing to me.

This amazing, creative duo has another book coming out in early 2027 and I am so excited to see what they create for us then. 

The Wish List Trip is a spectacular, unforgettable story and one I highly recommend!

I received an eARC of The Wish List Trip and this is my honest opinion.

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About the authors

Kerry Lonsdale is the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Amazon Charts & #1 Kindle bestselling author of standalone and series-based emotionally charged domestic drama with over twenty-seven foreign language translations. She lives in Northern California with her husband, college-aged kids, and two cats.

Hang out with Kerry inside her private Facebook group, Kerry's Tiki Lounge Connect with her in Instagram: @kerrylonsdale Get her latest books news right in your inbox: Kerry's newsletter

Connect with Kerry

Website | Facebook | Goodreads | Twitter | Instagram

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After years of pushing the creativity boundary in corporate communications, Orly Konig made the switch to fiction. She is the author of The Distance Home, Carousel Beach, The Arrangements, and with her best friend and co-author -- The Wish Trip List (coming September 8, 2026). She also writes about living an unapologetically imperfect life on Substack. She’s a co-founder and past president of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association.

Connect with Orly

Website | Facebook | Goodreads | Instagram

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? September 7, 2026 #IMWAYR

   

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are! 

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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. 

Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

The Backside of Hades

(Deadwood Undertaker #4)

by Ann Charles & Sam Lucky

e-book from my TBR collection for a challenge

Published September 2022

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab

print from my TBR shelf for a challenge

Published October 2020

The Color Purple

(The Color Purple Collection #1)

by Alice Walker

audio-book from my TBR collection for a challenge

Published June 1982

 

What I recently finished

Falling for Peachtree Bluff

(Peachtree Bluff #5)

by Kristy Woodson Harvey

print ARC for review

Pub date ~ September 15

What I am going to read next

(this is always subject to change)

 😊

The Novelists

(The Seaside Saga #28)

Joanne DeMaio

e-book for review

Published September 2, 2026

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Book Blitz! The Last Summerville by Annabelle Lewis ~ Excerpt & #Giveaway! #TheLastSummerville

The Last Summerville by Annabelle Lewis
Publication date: September 1st 2026
Genres: Adult, Psychological Thriller, Romance, Suspense, Thriller

Twenty-two-year-old Georgia Parker already carries more regret than most people twice her age. Practically an orphan, she’s reeling from the death of her grandmother, Mimi—the one person who made her feel safe from the chaos of her mother’s world. Alone in Carson City, Nevada, Georgia is determined to start over, to stand on her own. Yet Mimi’s final words echo in her mind: Take risks. Trust people again. Be brave.

Then Heath Summerville steps into her life—charming, magnetic, protective, and so perfectly attuned to her needs it feels like fate. But the closer Georgia gets, the more she feels the pull of something she can’t name—something just beneath the surface of his charm.

Strange silences. Half-truths. High-society circles and an ancestral house that feels more like a trap than a refuge.

Lies are waiting to unravel. And by the time Georgia sees the truth, it might already be too late.

Goodreads | Amazon

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CHAPTER 1

“Get me out of this godforsaken town and back to civilization,” Vicky grumbled.

Georgia, behind the wheel, glanced at her mom, Vicky, who was shakily applying lipstick while looking in a handheld compact mirror. Vicky clicked it shut, then pulled down the passenger visor, only to find the old car devoid of a larger mirror. She swatted it back up, then garbled a sound of exasperation before diving back into her purse in search of something else.

Georgia didn’t see the lure of Las Vegas like her mother did. It was one of many differences between them. “No!” she suddenly exclaimed when Vicky put a cigarette to her lips, intending to light it. “Not in the car.”

“Why are you such an old damn scold, Georgia?” Vicky scowled. “You’re twenty-two years old, for fuck’s sake. Your holier-than-thou bullshit has gotten worse. Every time I see you.”

Vicky shook her head, then turned to stare out the window. Georgia swallowed back the words she wanted to throw in her mom’s face.

Not today. Not after all they’d been through.

They spent the rest of the drive to the Carson City airport in awkward silence. Georgia pulled to the curb at the departures area and then walked to the back of the Ford Bronco to help retrieve the bags. Vicky took them, mumbled goodbye, and walked away without a hug.

“Goodbye, Mom,” Georgia called loudly as she shivered in the cold, standing next to the back of her Mimi’s Bronco. She watched Vicky drag her bag, her head bowed, her eyes already on her phone. She didn’t turn to give Georgia one last look of goodbye, nor acknowledge Georgia’s use of the tender moniker of “mom,” rather than the usual “Vicky.” It hurt. But why Georgia expected Vicky to suddenly become maternal was the bigger question. And neither of them had made falsely loving or empty promises to keep in touch.

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About the author

Annabelle Lewis—a pseudonym for the author—lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Regrettably? Perhaps. She still believes she’s a Texan even though the math no longer supports that. Nor her birthplace. Nor her residence. No offense, Minnesota. You’ve got your good points too, but only about six months of the year.

In her youth, Annabelle was a complete failure. Ask anyone who knew her. Any of her teachers and family would tell you this. High school graduation was a sad day for all when Annabelle walked proudly off the high school stage, her thoughts consumed with boys, beer, and after-parties, and later into the arms of her parents. Her father’s laughter and singular remark? “I didn’t think you’d make it. Get a job at the post office, they have a good retirement plan.”

A high bar and words to live by, but Annabelle wanted more. She needed to flunk out of college too. But damn, she sure did have a good time. Trivial arrest records not-withstanding, it was a growth period for our girl. And if you look closely, you’ll see a bit of what was to come when she majored in criminal justice. Her lifelong aspiration was to become a judge. Hmm.

For better or worse, Annabelle didn’t graduate from college but did find gainful employment and a fulfilling career. This path ended when she became a mom. Married to her wonderful George, who to this day can hardly remember an actual proposal, Annabelle finally became a mother. She didn’t have a clue how hard she would need to work to keep those self-imposed requirements of Downey-fresh, iron-pressed sheets, home-baked meals, and mom-of-the-year awards arriving. She composed a small self-affirmation song and made her children sing it to her for money. She was a very good mom.

After clearing the largest hurdles of motherhood and regrettably, begrudgingly, and not-without-tears, launching her children onto the world, she looked around and realized she had a lot to say. Picking up a laptop, she got to work.

Annabelle spends her days continuing to tackle the challenges of motherhood, for both her humans and canines. She also writes. And reads. And cleans. And cooks. And bakes. And cleans again. She also supports her husband, George, in an administrative capacity for their small business. She’s in charge of payroll and cuts George’s checks. This leads to no marital acrimony.

In the beginning, with the blank page staring at her and possibly in a hostile mood after being literally mauled by a dog and by the world in general, she had an idea. What if she could wield a force of good upon unsuspecting evil-doers? What if she had the resources to get the job done without dealing with committee and anyone else’s whiney-ass opinions?

It was gold. It took off. Annabelle sat down and began to write and couldn’t stop. To date, having written over a million words in the Carrows Family Chronicles and her second series on the Boston Clairvoyants, several items have become quite clear. Annabelle had a lot to say. Annabelle really enjoys writing. And although she hates all things technology, she begrudgingly pounds her head on her desk daily as obstacles are thrown in her path. Almost a hero.

Since entering her world of make-believe, she has rebelled against all intrusion of real-world responsibilities. Her house is a mess, but she tries. Her family is fed, but more often than not, on takeout. She vows to shower every day, but no, it’s a vow she’ll never keep. Her friends are neglected, but not in her heart.

Read her mordacious blog! Read her books! Follow her on social platforms! Sign up for her newsletter! These are all good things. What are you waiting for? Jump into bed with Annabelle. She’s having a swell time. You should join her. theannabellelewis.com annabellelewisauthor@gmail.com IG and Twitter: alewisauthor

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