The Edge of Belonging by Amanda Cox: Cox’s debut novel celebrates the worth of every human life and showcases the beauty of a family built not by blood relation but by choice. A homeless man, Harvey, finds an abandoned newborn on the side of the highway. Hoping to spare her a future lost in the foster care system, he decides to raise the baby girl by himself in the woods. A local pastor and his elderly widowed neighbor disrupt Harvey’s plans as they form an unbreakable bond with Harvey and “his” baby.

If I Were You by Lynn Austin: Audrey and Eve become fast friends as children on an estate near London. They grow up and grow apart until the onset of World War II rekindles their friendship. Audrey plans to move to the United States with her American husband after the war. But when he’s killed, she opts to stay in familiar surroundings in England. Seeing a way out of poverty, Eve assumes Audrey’s identity and moves to America, duping Audrey’s in-laws into thinking she’s their dead son’s wife.

The Fifth Avenue Story Society by Rachel Hauck: Five seemingly random people receive an anonymous invitation to a story society in a New York library: a widower yearning to write his love story, a cosmetics heiress who recently broke off her engagement, an executive assistant frustrated by her stalled career, a divorced dad unable to see his children, and a college professor struggling with grief while facing a huge deadline. Who invited them? What are they supposed to do?