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This Week’s Five Favorite Indie eBooks

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April 9, 2026 at 12:15 PM

Just like the flowers beginning to pop, this week’s five favorite indie eBooks burst onto the scene with colorful characters and storylines you will be buzzing about all season long.

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Trouble's Turn to Lose: A Carolina Tale

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Trouble’s Turn to Lose by Susan M. Boyer

Life on Sullivan’s Island is as close to perfect as Hadley Cooper has ever had it, sunrise bike rides, quiet cases, and a romance with SLED agent Cash Reynolds finally clicking into place. Their one ironclad rule is simple: never work the same case. When a wealthy Charleston socialite turns up dead and Cash charges the housekeeper with murder, Hadley’s heart overrides her head and that rule dissolves like confetti in a hurricane. Now she is untangling blue bloods with deadly secrets, a scheming ex-monster-in-law, and the greatest unknown country singer in Nashville. To find justice, Hadley risks her heart, her life, and possibly her grip on reality. For readers, watching her do it inside Trouble’s Turn to Lose is the most fun you will have with a mystery this season!

What People Are Saying: “This book made me so happy! Really! It is full of drama, family secrets, romance, and spirits. Also murderous intent and misunderstandings. And new friends and hilarity. Sign me up for the next Talbot family holiday dinner.” – Pat D, B&N Reviewer

The Summer King

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The Summer King by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Caden, the Prince, is the most dangerous being in the mortal world. Cold, heartless, and driven by a singular, consuming desire for revenge. Brighton Jussier knows exactly what Caden is capable of and wants nothing to do with him. Until he leaves her absolutely no choice. Forced into an uneasy alliance, she discovers a man beneath the ice whose touch burns with forbidden heat and whose past carries wounds that mirror her own. Someone out there wants to drag Caden back to his darkest self, and the threat is powerful enough to tear the entire world apart at the seams. The Summer King offers readers the three novellas in one, complete saga proving some romances are simply too epic for anything less than forever!

What People Are Saying: “I absolutely loved the story of Caden and Brighton and of course I needed more Tink in my life!” – Loyalsspicybooknook, B&N Reviewer

Simon Says... Believe

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Simon Says… Believe by Dale Mayer

Detective Kate Morgan barely has the holiday decorations packed away before a grim crime scene pulls her back into the darkness, a ribbon-wrapped body and a greeting card with one haunting word: Believe. Then a second victim surfaces and Kate finds herself asking whether Vancouver is facing a killer with a twisted sense of festive spirit or something far more calculated. Her partner Simon stands firmly by her side, balancing her investigations with his architectural rehab projects and the peculiar psychic visions that nobody quite knows what to do with. But when those visions and unsettling rumors begin threatening Simon’s real estate business, the line between Kate’s case and his world starts to blur in deeply unsettling ways. Dark holiday twists, psychic intrigue, and a detective who never backs down make Simon Says… Believe the kind of mystery that keeps you second-guessing every single clue until the very last page!

What People Are Saying: “I love this series and it just gets better. The relationship between these two has grown with each story.” – Read All About It, B&N Reviewer

The Ship Who Dared

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The Ship Who Dared by Mercedes Lackey, Veronica Giguere

Brainship Tia and her Brawn Alex need a budget upgrade and a military prototype singularity drive seems like the perfect solution. The drive works beautifully at first, right up until it drops them into orbit around a research station whose corporate backers quietly packed up and abandoned the scientists inside. Tia and Alex pull off the rescue and receive their reward from Central Worlds, a long, dull, dangerously underpaid courier route that somehow keeps erupting into full blown crisis after crisis. Science fiction fans who love found family and rogue technology will feel right at home inside The Ship Who Dared! 

What People Are Saying: Every random jump brings fresh chaos and the partnership between Brain and Brawn crackles with the kind of chemistry that made this series legendary in the first place.

Stout Of My League: A Fake Dating Romantic Comedy

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Stout of My League by Gia Stevens

Nora Callahan is building a plus-one app while bartending to pay the bills, and Miles Kayson, hopeless romantic and walking first-date disaster, wants desperately to use it to win his dream girl. One small rescue later, his entire family is convinced she is his soulmate and suddenly they are striking a deal; fake girlfriend in exchange for his help, strictly business, zero feelings. Then the practice dates start and the spicy lessons follow and standing too close and kissing too long starts feeling far less fake than either of them planned. Miles is sweet, earnest, and dangerously good at proving that nice guys absolutely do it better, and that is the most inconvenient discovery she has ever made. Gia Stevens writes romantic comedy with a laugh out loud wit and a swoony heart that sneaks up on you when you least expect it. Stout of My League is the kind of romcom that has you grinning from the very first page to the very last!

What People Are Saying: “I’m actually obsessed with this one—this book was so good. I loved every single moment and genuinely did not want to put it down.” – achapterinmystory, B&N Reviewer

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