The Boy in the Deleted Photos

Five friends. One summer. Seventeen hundred miles of asphalt, headwind, and hard truth. When Maya, Darius, Lexi, Connor, and Tomás agree to bike from the Oregon coast to Chicago before the summer ends, they tell themselves it's an adventure — one last beautiful, reckless thing before real life swallows them whole. They map the route on a Tuesday night, fueled by pizza and nostalgia and the quiet terror of knowing that September will scatter them across four different states. But roads have a way of stripping you down. By Kansas, the blisters aren't just on their hands. Old secrets are surfacing — about the night junior year that nobody talks about, about the friendship that was never quite a friendship, about the dream Tomás buried so his father wouldn't have to. Maya is riding toward something she hasn't told anyone. Darius is riding away from something he can't outrun. And Lexi — golden, fearless Lexi — is beginning to wonder if the person she's performed for seventeen years is someone she ever actually chose to be. Mile by mile, the group fractures, reforms, and fractures again — held together by nothing more than muscle memory and the stubborn belief that crossing the finish line together still means something. The Edge of Seventeen Miles is a stunning, propulsive coming-of-age story about the friendships we carry like luggage, the fears we disguise as courage, and the terrifying, gorgeous moment when the road ahead finally becomes longer than the road behind.

A love letter hidden in grief. A disappearance that was never what it seemed. When Daniel Voss returns home after his wife's funeral, he finds an envelope on the kitchen table. His name, in Elena's handwriting. And a request: make yourself a cup of tea first. What unfolds across four pages of her best stationery is everything Elena never said — nine years of silences, sacrifices, and secrets she carried alone. A diagnosis she hid to protect him from worry. A dream career in Geneva she quietly surrendered. And, at last, the devastating truth: Elena didn't die. She disappeared. On purpose. To protect him from a legal threat neither of them could outrun together. As Daniel pieces together the hidden architecture of his marriage — the illness managed in secret, the document signed without his knowledge, the enemy who turned her love into leverage — he is left with a choice that cuts deeper than grief: honor the last thing she asked of him, or follow the only thread that leads her back. She Was Never Gone is a deeply emotional story about the cost of protecting the people we love most. About the silences we mistake for strength. About what it means to truly see someone — and what it takes to tell them so. Perfect for readers of Jojo Moyes, Liane Moriarty, and Lisa Jewell.

The lights went out. So did everything else. When a catastrophic blackout swallows the town whole, seventeen-year-old [protagonist] loses more than electricity — they lose their father, the engineer who saw it coming and left behind only a worn notebook filled with cryptic diagrams and desperate theories. Now the town is fracturing. Neighbors trade token rations like sacred relics. Distrust prowls the darkened streets. And the adults who should have answers are running out of time to find them. With nothing but a dead man's notebook and a stubborn refusal to give up, [protagonist] does the one thing no one else will — starts asking the dangerous questions. What really caused the blackout? And who has something to hide? After the Blackout is a gripping story of grief, survival, and the terrifying courage it takes to lead when the world goes dark. As [protagonist] decodes their father's final message and builds an unlikely alliance of neighbors, skeptics, and survivors, they discover that restoring power is the easy part. Rebuilding trust — that's what might break them. Part mystery, part survival thriller, part coming-of-age story — this is a book about what holds us together when everything falls apart. For fans of The Power and Station Eleven — readers who love high-stakes storytelling with a beating human heart at its center. The darkness doesn't get to write our story. We do.

The Last Library In the city of New Echelon, books are ash and memory is a crime. Harper has learned to survive by keeping her head down — processing IDs at a government checkpoint, following the rules, never asking questions. But when a forbidden book surfaces in a forgotten alley, followed by a cryptic bookmark laced with symbols she shouldn't be able to read, the carefully constructed walls of her obedience begin to crack. Hunted by enforcers, surrounded by surveillance, and haunted by the disappearance of those who dared to ask too much, Harper is drawn into an underground resistance — a ragged band of rebels who believe the last remaining library holds the power to unravel the regime's greatest lie. But knowledge is the most dangerous contraband of all. And in a world designed to silence, speaking the truth might cost everything. The Last Library is a gripping dystopian thriller about the power of stories to outlast tyranny — and the courage it takes to carry a flame when the whole world is built to extinguish it.