The 9 Best Books Of July Are Pure Magic

Honor has the perfect life with her husband Tom and daughter Chloe. She becomes obsessed with having another baby, and then a shocking event changes everything. Years later, Tom’s decision affects the family once again. This sweeping love story has a twist that will leave you shocked.

A sequel to the hit “The Woman in Cabin 10,” this novel follows Lo Blacklock to another getaway gone wrong, this time in a luxury Swiss hotel. An interview with the reclusive billionaire-owner sets Lo off on a race across Europe, leading to life-or-death peril.

On Halloween night, Jet, the daughter of a wealthy Vermont family, is attacked at home and left for dead. Doctors advise the young woman will die from her head injury within the week. Before she goes, she is going to solve her own murder, even if it’s the last thing she does. Now everyone is a suspect.

Nazi-fighting witches is not a book we saw coming, but here we are. During World War II, Lydia uses her skills to track down magical relics before Hitler’s army can. After her coven suffers a violent attack, a magical, destructive book is Lydia’s best weapon. With the help of a handsome art historian, Lydia must search Europe before the book before it falls into the wrong hands.

In this multi-generational horror saga, three women fight a dangerous force. Minerva has heard stories of witches from her great-grandmother since she was a child, and her life’s work is researching a horror novelist and her mysterious book. Through her study, she realizes the novel was based on a true story of an otherworldly, missing roommate. She then realizes these malignant forces are still at work in her college campus. But it also sounds like her Nana’s stories, too. Can she find the source of this terror before she’s the next victim?

Through her famous brother, widowed Lauren meets Ben, a handsome, also famous, actor. A sexy night leads to more than she bargained for and now this small-town girl needs to deal with rumors, fame and her daughter, all as things get complicated with Ben.

In this cozy, magical romance, Sera runs an enchanted inn in Britain, and if her quirky guests aren’t already a lot, she has recently lost her powers through her misadventures (was it resurrecting her dead aunt or that talking fox she hangs out with?). Enter Luke, a magical, cold historian who doesn’t want to get involved with Sera’s shenanigans. Surprisingly both of them, he agrees to help her get her magic back and slowly, becomes part of her wacky world.

In 1972, a couple set sail, dreaming of traveling the world on their boat. A year in, a whale has knocked a hole into the boat, and it sinks. In this true story, the couple must fight for survival, testing their strength, their limits, but also their marriage.

Alice has been estranged from her billionaire Rhode Island family but returns home to pay her respects when her father dies. He has other plans, though as he has left a game his children need to complete in exchange for their inheritance. Alice and her siblings must spend a week together and complete the tasks, if the Storms can weather this wild ride.