COCKTAILS & CONVERSATION - Summer Madness Book Pick Vote 📚 Survey

Cast Your Vote: Which Book Pick Sparks Your Interest the Most?

Here’s your chance to vote for the perfect beach (or backyard) escape read! No sappy fluff here. Just books that make you go "What the heck did I just read?!" All of these choices have been predicted to be THE summer blockbuster book that everyone will be talking about. Award winning? Maybe. Predictable? Never. We’re bringing the weird, the wild, and the why-didn’t-someone-tell-me-about-this-sooner reads. Here are the contenders:

1.Click on the book you want to read the most.

When letters to her missing sister become public, dirty secrets start surfacing . . .

Eden Monroe is losing it. For years, she’s been giving everything to her advice column, where locals come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Eden has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or even abused. And she does her best to guide them in the right direction. Or at least, she did. These days, Eden's life seems to be spiraling out of control. She just lost her job. Her teenage daughters are suddenly acting strange. And her husband is keeping secrets, according to the tracking app she installed on his phone. Now, Eden's done being the bigger person. She's done being reasonable and practical. It's time to take her own advice. Sometimes, enough is enough . . .

Two lifelong friends, Merri (a bold travel influencer) & Toni (a claustrophobic legal asst), finally take that caving vacation. But their adventure begins w tension when an obnoxious fellow caver harasses them & Merri tosses back an insult. As they descend deeper into the Earth, the women realize they’re not alone. Soon, they’re trapped inside a narrow cave, hundreds of feet underground, fighting to stay alive.

24 hrs later, a hospitalized Toni recounts her story of survival to police & discovers her best friend had a much darker side than imagined. Allie’s true motives unravel in shocking ways. Maybe, the brutal attack wasn’t so random after all . . . Who was Merri, really? Why did this man target them? And did Toni leave the danger behind when she escaped the cave?

If you cannot trust your best friend . . . who can you trust?

A beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of churning butter and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of the 1800s. Where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.

My name is Natalie Heller Mills, and I lived the perfect life . . .

My charming farmhouse was artfully cluttered, my husband was a handsome cowboy, and my homemade desserts were pieces of art. So what if there were nannies and producers and industrial-grade ovens behind the scenes? What my followers didn’t know won’t hurt them. And now, I know just one thing for sure. I must escape. By any means possible.