What could be more relaxing than snapping open a spine on your summer beach vacation and diving into the pages of your new paperback read? Maybe you're reading about a woman who moves to a small coastal town to start anew where she opens a book shop, flower shop, coffee shop, well some sort of shop and falls in love with the grumpy town lifer that no other woman has been able to reach. OR maybe you're reading about a woman who moves to a small coastal town because she ran away from the secrets of her past only to return home to have those secrets resurface as bodies begin to pile up around her and she must solve the mystery of the killer before she is next on the list.

One of us wants salty air, yearning, and emotionally unavailable men in linen shirts. The other wants abandoned cabins, suspicious locals, and a family vacation where at least three people don't make it home. Are you summer lovin' your beach reads or summer runnin'?

Beyond the Stroke - Erin Hawkins

Every Summer After - Carly Fortune

Just for the Summer - Abby Jimenez

The Five-Star Weekend - Elin Hilderbrand

The Paradise Problem - Christina Lauren

The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han

The Counselors by Jessica Goodman

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

What Comes Before Dawn by Addison Michael

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

Survive the Night by Riley Sager

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones