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Elizabeth O'Roark has revealed the gorgeous cover for My Favorite Lost Cause! Releasing: August 28, 2025 My stepbrother’s estate is fading fast. My resistance to him is fading faster. When my marriage hits rock bottom, I escape to South Carolina to help my charming disaster of a stepbrother, Charlie—aka "the douchiest man in Manhattan"—fix up the decaying Southern mansion he's just inherited. But the house has other ideas. Doors slam, voices whisper, and something—or someone—wants us to be more than reluctant roommates. An old journal confirms it: Charlie and I seem to be mirroring every step of a love story that took place a century ago. A doomed one. With every soft moment and stolen glance, it gets harder to imagine ending up with anyone else. But all I’ve ever wanted is a family, and that won’t be happening with a man who once said he’d rather be murdered than father a child. Our story was written long before we came to this house. But do we still hav...

Review of Shake Off the Ghosts by Michaela Wright When Corinne, an international housesitter (something I'd never heard of before, but am intrigued by now) arrives at her new gig in Scotland, she's not pleased to find her employer is nowhere to be found. Unfortunately, the only person in residence is apparently the owner of the castle, Bran (Branson), who isn't any more thrilled to meet her than she is to meet him. She agrees, even though he's pretty reluctant, to stay and help him get the castle in working condition so he can claim his rightful due. However, things are not all as they seem. There seems to be a ghost in residence, the man she came to Scotland in hopes of being with is turning out to be less than she had hoped, and she just might be falling for the grumpy owner of the castle. What's a poor housesitter to do? I thought Shake off the Ghosts was a nice little read. I didn't like it as much as I liked Writing Mr. Right, but I still enjoyed ...