Sail away with these incredible seafaring reads!
SEA OF CHARMS by Sarah Beth Durst
9781250400673 | 7/28/26
Betrayed by love, Marin lives and works as a supply runner, sailing from island to island, delivering an array of goods with Perri the sea serpent and Ree the sailor shrub as her crew. On one of her routine trips to the capital, Alyssium, Marin finds a revolution underway—and a friend in the line of fire. What starts as a rescue evolves into a deal: Marin will keep Dax on as a member of her crew if he pretends to be her boyfriend at the End-of-Harvest Festival back home. But against her better judgment, Marin finds herself intrigued by his stubbornness, his passion for stories, his charming smile—and realizes that perhaps she isn’t saving him. Maybe it’s the other way around.
SEA OF CHARMS is a cozy fantasy romance about finding your crew, your family, and moreover, finding yourself.
THE SHIPPERS by Katherine Center
9781250408051 |5/19/26
When Josephine Clark faints at the altar at the moment she’s about to get married, the wedding is naturally called off. JoJo comes to the stark realization that she is making a huge mistake and this decision is backed up by the sudden appearance of her estranged childhood friend, Cooper Watts.
Cooper had been boycotting her wedding, but now he rescues her from the disapproving eyes of everyone at the venue. But she and Cooper haven’t spoken in years and he’s been living a life away in London. JoJo has been hurt by his mysterious disappearance, but now, he is her savior, much as he always was during the years of their childhood. But there is no time for Jo to lick her wounds over her abandoned wedding: her own sister is planning a destination wedding—on a cruise ship no less—and the entire old neighborhood is invited, including Cooper.
Her sister is determined to find a romantic match for Jo, on this ship-full of eligible (and not so eligible) men. But is the man she has her eyes on really the one she should be with? And what mysteries is Cooper hiding, to explain his four year absence? Has true love been in front of her this whole time? Or will stormy seas and and misunderstandings capsize her chance at happiness? No one does summer romance quite like Katherine Center and THE SHIPPERS will set readers on a course for true love and delicious escape.
IN DEEP WATER: A TRUE STORY OF SHARKS, SURVIVAL, AND COURAGE by Michael J. Tougias
9781250406224 | 6/23/26
October, 8, 2022.
Three friends are fishing for red snapper when their boat, tied to an oil rig, begins taking on water and sinks 25 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly, the three men find themselves in a struggle for their lives. Their vessel succumbs to the building seas so quickly that the fisherman are unable send out a radio Mayday call, and their cell phones have no reception. They only have time to don their life jackets and hold onto a cooler as they are swept further out to sea.
They vow to stay together no matter what. Suffering from hypothermia and severe stings from giant jelly fish, the men stay together as night closes in. Each man is lost in his own thoughts—thoughts of mistakes made that led to their predicament, thoughts of family, and thoughts of what might lurk in the ocean beneath. When dawn comes, the three men struggle to stay afloat as they realize they are now surrounded by circling sharks as they succumb to fatigue.
IN DEEP WATER is an hour by hour account of a desperate and determined struggle for survival, as well as the Coast Guard’s all-out effort to find the missing men. Based on interviews with the three survivors and the crew of the Jayhawk helicopter who rescue them, IN DEEP WATER is a white-knuckle tale of bravery and brotherhood and a battle against the ocean’s deadliest predators.
IF I GO DOWN WITH THIS SHIP by Colby Wilkens
9781250292940 | 8/4/26
Laszlo Morgenstern has watched his friends fall in love while he’s been off globetrotting. After being hurt a decade ago, he’s terrified of opening himself up to heartbreak again. Forced to return home after struggling to write his latest book, his sister Louise drags him aboard a replica of the renowned pirate ship She Deceitful that sank in 1718, and he can finally see all the pieces of his book knitting together.
Overcome with wonder, he’s drawn to the Captain’s cabin where he finds a blue wool coat. Curious, he pulls it on, only to travel 300 years in the past—this time with a knife to his throat at the hands of the handsome Captain Silas Night.
On a ship crawling with pirates and far from his own time, Laszlo must work for his place amongst them. Soon he’s surprised to not only make a few friends, but to find himself growing increasingly attracted to the stoic magnetism of Silas. Laszlo thinks the jacket might be his way home, but as he and the captain fall for each other, he must choose between returning alone but in one piece to his time, more heartbroken than before he arrived, or to stay with the love of his life, knowing how, when, and where it all ends.
IF I GO DOWN WITH THIS SHIP by Colby Wilkens is a daring adventure rom com about taking a chance on love to defy impossible odds.
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