July 2026 Book Club

July's Book Club, we are going back to two options to pick from and we are reading Indies this month! 

Book 1: From the Stars by Kiki Townley 

If I get lost enough, maybe I can be found.

Stella’s life is a blur of existing for the system, living in a society where souls feel like discarded afterthoughts. At her breaking point, the only option is to abandon her meaningless life to search for something… more.

Seeking nature in a quest for healing, deep within the forest, she discovers a secret village that no one was meant to find. Captured and taken for interrogation, she fears she escaped one prison only to find herself in another.

When presented to the leader, their connection is cosmic. Though Stella is undeniably drawn to him, she tries to defy the stars, desperate to keep the promise she made to herself.

To leave the village and return to a society that no longer serves her, she must pass their trials. But as the world’s secrets unravel, she realizes finding the village was no accident.

Does she go back to the life of lies she knows, or rise to a destiny that she isn’t prepared for?

Fear and fate collide— the only way for Stella to awaken the world from darkness is to first find the light within.

Book 2: The Fiction of Us by Shae Roberts 

Lilah Rayne knows how to write a love story. Living one is another matter entirely.

After her breakup mirrors the novel she wrote under her secret pen name, Lilah retreats to Wattlewood Ridge—a small mountain town where bookstores matter, friendships run deep, and magic hums quietly beneath the surface. Back in her old apartment above Brew & Bloom Café, she plans to regroup, heal, and stay invisible.

Then she meets Lucas Castle.

Quiet, steady, and rebuilding the beloved Inkwell & Ivy bookstore, Lucas feels like someone Lilah already knows—like a story she once imagined and never meant to live. As their connection deepens through shared silences and slow mornings, the town begins returning pieces of Lilah she thought she’d lost.

But when her past threatens to expose everything she’s been hiding, Lilah must decide whether she’s brave enough to be seen. Not as the woman she writes, but as the one who feels.

The Fiction of Us is a slow-burn, small-town romance about second chances, soft magic, and choosing love that doesn’t need to be loud to be real.