The 11 Best Books Of June Kick Off Beach Read Season Right

Sasha is a busy casting director with no time for romance when a flight to Paris changes her outlook on love. She meets a mysterious man on the plane and desperately tries to track him down, accidentally cc’ing an entire company in an email. With the world summoned, the chase is on to identify her mystery man, but not if she and a handsome detective, who complicates things further, find him first.

Three best friends, one summer in the Midwest, plus a kiss and everything changes in this debut novel. Mina’s trio of friends is rocked by a first crush between two of the girls in her group, feelings are heightened and the situation simmers in this look at teenage girlhood.

Caroline arrives from New York in beachy Greenhead, Massachusetts for sun and fun, but she instantly falls in with a group of locals: Van, a floppy haired kayaker; his ex Bailey; snobby Augusta; and Fran, who has sworn off men. From languid days on the beach to raucous nights in bars, the group welcomely accepts Caroline into the fold, until a pregnancy upends everything. The group is the talk of the town, Caroline is on the outs and the friend group might be torn apart.

Jodie always dreamed of being a housewife to the perfect husband in a perfect home. When she married Roy, a renowned psychologist, and moves into his Beverly Hills home, she think life will be a fairytale. Roy is a distant husband, his friends hate her and his late wife’s shadow looms large. Jodie begins to suspect Roy was controlling his late wife, maybe worse. She can’t go to the police because of her own secrets, so Jodie is going to escape and take matters into her own hands before she’s next.

When Jane finds a lost dog, it leads her to the story of a missing teen. She offers to return the dog to its registered owner at a rundown estate outside of London, but Jane realizes she knows this house, even if the man at the door claims he doesn’t remember her and doesn’t know the teen. Jane must dive into her past and dredge up her own secrets in order to help a young woman in this thriller.

If you liked "Heated Rivalry," you’ll love this sporty romance novel that moves from the ice to the tennis courts. In it, Austin becomes the first gay man to compete in a grand slam and is happy to meet the second ranked player, Diego. Rivalry and flirty banter follow, throwing Austin off his game. As they battle at the US Open, Austin needs to decide if loving Diego is worth the risk.

Book two in the Cape Carnage series picks back up with Nolan and Harper, two killers who are dying to be together. Nolan’s new town isn’t what he pictured and keeping his secrets buried is hard. Harper doesn’t know how much she can trust Nolan, her almost-murderer, and her mentor Arthur is proving to be difficult too. After loyalties are tested, can love conqueror all, ‘til death do them part?

Guinevere and Ennis are feral children of the woods in reality, stars of their mother’s adventure books on the page. After a fire burns their lives to the ground, leaving the children orphaned, Guinevere grows up to make a name for herself on her mother’s reputation. Ennis suddenly returns, making the siblings realize it’s time to find out what happened that fateful night and what was the truth about their mother’s fantasy world.

Beautiful and powerful Aphrodite meets Ares, a hot-tempered warrior prone to conflict. The gods draw them together for the sport of it and a love affair begins. After mortal lifetimes, she begins to question her true purpose and the endgame for the star-crossed pair.

Already on the run from the law, Marion stops for the night in a quiet motel run by a handsome innkeeper, Norm, and his mother. After her shower gets unfortunately stabby, Marion fights back and kills Norm, but now she’s a murderer too in this alternate version of “Psycho.”

Julia’s new gig seems easy enough: chaperone a man in a vegetative state, with AI implanted into his head, across the country. Bernie is trapped in a grotesque reality of his mind with no idea of his own identity, but he must find someone, if he can remember who it is. A constant nightmare offers Bernie clues and soon Julia and Bernie have teamed up and are on the run together, in search of the truth.