Uplift the Texas literary community by exploring one of the new releases we’ve rounded up for June. Let a Texas author empower you to explore a new genre, relax with a guilty pleasure (minus the guilt), or find the perfect book to kickstart your summer. Lone Star Lit is here to help you elevate your summer reading, Texas-style.
Two wounded souls. One coastal town. A chance to heal together.
After a stunning betrayal, painter Keaton Maxwell finds solace in Driftwood Bay. Layne Larson loses her job, her boyfriend, and her parents, causing her to return to her hometown. She seeks Keaton’s assistance in renovating her inheritance, the Bay Breeze Inn, determined to breathe new life into the B&B and claim a fresh start for herself.
As the renovation progresses, they discover that love can bloom when it’s least expected.
Will the shadows from their pasts pull them apart, or will Keaton and Layne have the courage to embrace the love they’ve found—and the future that awaits them?
When architect Briar Adler lands in Beaumere, South Carolina, she is not just chasing a dream project. She is running. From a life that unraveled faster than she could fix it and from the version of herself she left behind. The crumbling coastal manor is supposed to be a reset. Temporary. Quiet. No feelings required.
Wystan Hargrave wants nothing to do with any of it. He avoids people, avoids the town, and would very much like everyone to leave him alone. Unfortunately for him, Briar does not know how to be quiet, and she definitely does not know how to mind her own business.
This was always going to be temporary. The problem is, Beaumere and one very reluctant man are starting to feel like something she might not want to run from.
In 1986, the quiet town of Bluesummer, Texas, was shattered by the crimes of an elusive serial killer known as The Songbird Strangler.
Four lifelong friends—Hayes Sheridan, Troy Terrell, Greer Collins, and Chantilly “Tilly” Price—planned one last unforgettable summer before college. Only three survived. Tilly became the killer’s fifth victim, and the evidence pointed to one of their own.
Thirty-five years later, Troy sits on death row while attorney Joaquin Ramos takes on his final appeal. What begins as a search for procedural errors soon uncovers evidence that Troy may be innocent—and that the real killer may still be hiding in plain sight.
As Greer begins investigating the past herself, she starts questioning everything she thought she knew, including her role in Troy’s conviction.
Easy Going gives us Leon Hale where he is most at home, on the road.
In a collection drawn from his longtime column for The Houston Post he takes us with him from the Grand Prairie to the Piney Woods to the Lower Rio Grande Valley to the “quiet, thoughtful” countryside of Washington County. This is Texas at its backroads best, a portrait of people and places that remains fresh and unique despite the passage of time.
When a spectacular meltdown launches college party girl Emily Murray thirty years into the future, she wakes up in a life she doesn’t recognize—and engaged to a stranger.
With no way back and a wedding barreling toward her, Emily must navigate a shaky career as a therapist, a competitor at her doorstep, and the unsettling possibility that this future might be hers for good.
Feels Like the First Time is a witty, heartwarming journey of growing up—no matter when it happens.
