Tara Scott

Twenty-six years ago, a little girl disappeared from the summer camp at Forestlands Lake in Upstate New York. A year later, Willa Dunn and Lee Chandler were summering with their families at the lake. Just as they were in the middle of realizing there might be more to their friendship, a tragedy strikes Willa’s family, tearing them apart. Today, Willa is a popular young adult novelist whose ghost stories have captivated the hearts and minds of kids and adults alike. She hasn’t been back to Forestlands Lake in 25 years, but her family’s old cabin feels like the perfect place […]

Olivia Santini is the main reason why the Evergreen Resort and Spa didn’t fold under its previous manager. Understandably, that’s left her surprised and frustrated that she didn’t get the promotion from assistant manager that she’d applied for. But even a new boss isn’t going to keep her down on the first snowfall of the season, and Olivia is ready to revel in her excitement while she walks her dog, Walter, before heading in to work. Olivia gets to enjoy more than just the magic of fresh snow, though, when she bumps into the beautiful, charming Hayley Boyd, and they […]

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics, by Olivia Waite, is a gentle, lushly written story of sapphic love, which romance readers are sure to enjoy. It’s 1816 and Lucy Muchelney’s life as she knew it is officially over. It’s been six months since her father died and not only has her best friend and long-time lover gone and married a man, but her brother, Stephen, is now thinking of marrying Lucy off too. Stephen doesn’t care that she wants to continue her father’s legacy of creating star catalogues because he knows that, as a woman, she won’t get taken seriously as […]

At the age of 100, Nora Lindstrom is nearing the end of her life thanks to advanced small cell lung cancer. She has a lot to be proud of after a decades-long career as a physicist who worked tirelessly to end childhood leukemia. A few things are haunting Nora’s last days, however, including how she had to walk away from her grand-niece Diana without explanation when Diana was a young child. Nora is still living in her own home, but her rapid decline in health signals that it’s time for her to get some help and put a power of […]

After helping the police catch a serial killer in On a LARP, Sidonie “Sid” Rubin and her best friends are on lockdown. Despite how impressive the group’s actions were, their parents were not pleased, and all but one of the five teens have been grounded for their senior year of high school. Yes, the whole year, and yes, that even includes stepping off school property to pick up lunch. That means the fearless friends have to suffer the ignominy of cafeteria lunches with the rest of the student body. Sid’s friend Vikram finds a loophole for our loveable “geek lesbionic brainiac” […]

Theodosia Sullivan has the perfect life. She has a great relationship with her dad, she runs their surf shop in Hanalei Bay, has plenty of close friends in town, and gets all the no-strings sex she wants from tourists who are thrilled to be in Hawaii and away from their homes on the mainland. Best of all is Kini, her closest friend and confidante who also happens to be the best damn baker going, and owner of Queen’s Sweet Shop. Theo isn’t interested in “the one” or anything resembling a long-term relationship, but she loves it when other people fall […]

The year is 2513. Humanity lives with the consequences of everything we in the twenty-first century have done to the Earth. The oceans have risen and parts of them are dead. The air often isn’t safe. Our species has only survived because it’s managed to take to life on ships. There’s a split between the people who live in naval colonies on the North Atlantic Archipelago and everyone else, namely pirates, mercenaries, or the drifters who trawl for plastics and other things they can trade for supplies. Resources are scarce, so whoever controls the underwater mines controls everything. At the […]

Maine’s wilderness is part of Devin Savary’s DNA, bringing her joy in a way that nothing else can. She loves her isolated cabin without electricity or running water, and ice skating her way to work in the winter. Devin is also one of the best guides in the state for hiking, hunting, camping, or fishing trips, any time of year. She knows that the only way to survive harsh winter conditions is to respect them and be prepared, which is why she prefers to plan the excursions she’s hired to lead. Devin isn’t happy when she’s brought in at the […]

There are dozens of new books to choose from each month if you’re a fan of f/f or m/m romance, never mind the m/f romance that’s been booming for decades. But what if you want to read a “happily ever after” or “happy for now” story that includes a trans person? Or someone who is asexual and/or aromantic? Those are much harder to find, especially if you want stories that don’t fling themselves (sometimes willfully, it seems) into the pitfalls of stereotypes and damaging, or even triggering, representation. Queerly Loving (Volume 1) is a short story collection that gives happy […]