The 30 Best Beach Reads to Add to Your Summer Reading List

If book characters could meet IRL, we have a feeling Lea Geller's protagonist Bells Walker would be BFFs with Lady Whistledown from "Bridgerton." With two kids and a baby on the way, Bells and her husband uproot their city lifestyle for something a little more rustic out in the Hudson Valley.

With lots of time on her hands, Bells starts a blog under the pseudonym County Duchess where she dishes about mom life and, of course, delivers the piping-hot town gossip. "The Truth and Other Hidden Things" ($15) explores exactly that: the truth and other hidden things — or people.