These Literary Fiction stories confront uncomfortable truths with clarity and depth. From fractured relationships and shattered certainties to the challenge of rebuilding lives from the ruins of heartbreak, each novel explores the emotional cost of loss and the resilience it takes to move forward. Ideal for readers who appreciate fiction that grapples with identity, belonging, and the quiet bravery found in starting over.
Past Rock Bottom
by Janet McNulty
Release Date: April 28, 2026
A ghost of a man and a woman on the run find unexpected redemption through the fearless compassion of a young girl. Some falls leave you broken—but together, they might just rebuild.
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What She Left Behind
by LNora
Release Date: April 11, 2026
In the early 2000s, Baltimore, ambition, love, and loyalty shaped intertwined lives chasing more. But as secrets surface and relationships fracture, each must confront who they are and what they’re willing to leave behind. A powerful story of identity, friendship, and self-discovery.
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Liberty Landing
by Gail Vida Hamburg
Release Date: April 28, 2026
A sweeping polyphonic, mosaic novel, Liberty Landing narrates the American experience of the twenty-first century through a chorus of lives in a Midwestern town. About family and fracture, love and loss, belonging and exile, it reveals the American Experiment, not as a fixed promise, but as a continuing moral test.
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As Far as She Knew: A Novel
by Diana Awad
Release Date: April 1, 2026
For twenty-three years, Amira Abadi believed she had a strong, loving marriage. But when her husband, Ali, dies suddenly, that certainty shatters with the discovery of a house she never knew existed. As whispers of betrayal spread through their tight-knit Arab American community, Amira refuses to let others define her husband’s legacy—or her path forward.
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If Walls Could Talk (The Dunmara Series Book 1)
by Jean Grainger
Release Date: April 22, 2026
Orla can’t believe the bombshell her husband of thirty years has just dropped. The future she imagined is gone, and she’s forced to redefine her entire life while grappling with something from her past that doesn’t quite add up.
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Maybe It’s Fate
by Heidi McLaughlin
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In a moving story of love and loss, a corporate consultant leaves her life behind to care for her dying friend’s children—and finds hope with the small-town coach who steps up to the plate with her. From the author of The Art of Starting Over comes a heartfelt portrait of what it means to build a family, as a young woman navigates grief, guardianship, and the bittersweet gift of falling in love.
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