Pillars of Vices

After years of trying for a baby cost Angie Malone her marriage, she heads home to the small coastal town of West End, Washington, to help run her family’s Italian restaurant. There she meets Lauren Ribido, a bright, determined seventeen-year-old with nobody in her corner, and the two form a bond that changes both their lives. A story about motherhood, second chances, and the families we choose. Our October palate cleanser, so keep the tissues close.

Out of a job and out of an apartment, Julia Barlow retreats to Pemberton, her family’s seventeenth-century estate in rural Massachusetts, to look after her aging grandmother. Then the grandfather clock starts stopping at 3:41 a.m. every night, and a voice begins crying for help outside her bedroom door. Told across two timelines, including a woman accused of witchcraft in 1692, it’s a spooky, secret-soaked October pick. Read it with the lights on.