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Palm Meridian

Palm Meridian
  • Author(s): Grace Flahive
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Future, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2067

It’s 2067 at Palm Meridian Retirement Resort, Florida, and the last day of Hannah’s life. Tomorrow, as the sun burns the dew off the lawns, she’ll close her eyes for the very last time. But she won’t be going...

People We Meet on Vacation

People We Meet on Vacation
  • Author(s): Emily Henry
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One of OprahMag.com’s “27 of 2021’s Most Anticipated Romance Novels That Help Renew Your Faith in Love”, PopSugar’s “42 Books Everyone Will Be Talking about in 2021” and Marie Claire’s “2021 Book Releases to Pre-order and thank yourself later”!...

Say Hello to My Little Friend

Say Hello to My Little Friend
  • Author(s): Jennine Capó Crucet
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man’s attempt to capitalize on his mother’s murky legacy – a story steeped in Miami’s marvelous and sinister magic. Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes – you...

Silent City: A Pete Fernandez Mystery Book 1

Silent City: A Pete Fernandez Mystery Book 1
  • Author(s): Alex Segura
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

“The new George Pelecanos is here.” — Son of Spade Pete Fernandez is a mess. He’s on the brink of being fired from his middle-management newspaper job. His fiancée has up and left him. Now, after the sudden death...

Sister, Sister

Sister, Sister
  • Author(s): Suzanne Fortin
  • Location(s): Brighton, Amelia Island
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alice: Beautiful, kind, manipulative, liar. Clare: Intelligent, loyal, paranoid, jealous. Clare thinks Alice is a manipulative liar who is trying to steal her life. Alice thinks Clare is jealous of her long-lost return and place in their family. One...

Skinny Dip

Skinny Dip
  • Author(s): Carl Hiaasen
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1990s

Set in south Florida in the 1990s, Skinny Dip is a fun and funny tale about a woman, Joey, who is thrown off a cruise ship by her loser husband, Chaz. Joey survives by hanging onto a drifting bale...

Smuggler’s Bride

Smuggler’s Bride
  • Author(s): Darlene Marshall
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid-19th century

Julia Cooper has a secret that could cost her her life. She’s really Lady Julia Anne Sanders Delerue, and she’s investigating who’s using Delerue-Sanders Shipping to smuggle contraband into frontier Florida. But when her disguise as a cleaning woman...

Snowbirds

Snowbirds
  • Author(s): Crissa-Jean Chappell
  • Location(s): Sarasota, Florida
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): contemporary

Every year, Lucy waits eagerly for the arrival of the “snowbirds,” the Old Order Amish who come trundling into Florida on buses from the north, bringing Lucy’s best friend Alice, with whom she’s spent every winter she can remember....

Somebody’s Daughter: A Novel

Somebody’s Daughter: A Novel
  • Author(s): Rochelle Weinstein
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From USA Today bestselling author Rochelle B. Weinstein comes an emotional novel for mothers, daughters, and anyone who has ever felt imperfect. Emma and Bobby Ross enjoy a charmed life on the shores of Miami Beach. They are a...

Souls in Exile

Souls in Exile
  • Author(s): Nick Padron
  • Location(s): Havana, Florida Keys, Haiti, Miami, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A collection of short fiction in which settings are another character and numerous, the Florida Keys, northern Haiti, Havana, New York, and others.

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