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Hi reader,
Well, we did it again. Yesterday, Friday the seventh, three brand-new books hit the shelf on the same day, because apparently one release at a time is a concept we simply cannot grasp around here. If a busy week got away from you, here is the whole wave in one place, sorted by mood.
If you like a knife behind the smile: Hostile Intent, by Kira Deveraux. A woman who built an empire from a chair nobody thought she would earn, a corporate shark sent to take it apart cleanly, eight weeks in a windowless room, and a secret buried in the company that could end the most powerful man in the city. Book one of a scorching new series. High heat. Now live.
If you want your heart in it: Hidden Truths at Mercy General, by Clara Langford. The small-town hospital romance returns to Cedar Falls, and this time the threat is quieter than a diagnosis: a danger to Mercy itself, an ER doctor who has never told anyone her past, and a paramedic who sees her clearly for the first time in years. Over-40, slow-burn, warm. Now live.
If you like the ground to shift: Bonneville Shadows, by Jessie Clark. Book two of the Utah Shadows thrillers. A young geologist turns up dead on the salt flats, the case closed in nine days, and the only person her family believes is Gillian Jones, the woman who exposed one buried government secret and swore she was done. What she finds under the blinding white is worse than a murder: a machine that can rewrite what a crowd remembers. For readers of Blake Crouch. Reads as a standalone. Now live.
You can grab all three, plus everything else the house has put out this summer, right here: https://www.jlcollinspublishing.com/books
And because we genuinely cannot sit still: three more books arrive Friday, August 21. Two romantasies from Jennie Wren Foster (The Broker's Mask and The Broken Script of the Stars) and a new Jessie Clark paranormal cozy (Feathers and Phantoms, with a crow, an iron key, and a house that has been shut for thirty-five years). More on all three in Monday's and Wednesday's letters.
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📌 One tiny favor: I dropped this week's launch-wave pin on Pinterest. Tap Save so more readers find the August books, it takes two seconds: [PIN URL — paste the live pin link when building in Beehiv] (pinterest.com/jlcollinspublishing)
One quick reply makes my weekend: of the three that just landed, which one did you grab first, the takeover, the hospital, or the salt flats? Hit reply and tell me.
Happy reading,
Lori Collins
Publisher, JL Collins Publishing
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