★Adler, Sarah. Finders Keepers. Berkley. Jun. 2025. 400p. ISBN 9780593817421. pap. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Nina Hunnicutt—newly single, unemployed, and frustrated with her love life and career prospects—is staying with her parents in small-town Maryland while she figures out her next steps. Complicating matters, Quentin Bell, her one-time next-door neighbor and former best friend, is also back for the summer after ending things with his fiancée. Nina and Quentin haven’t spoken for 17 years, ever since a they spent a disastrous night searching for an eccentric local seltzer mogul’s hidden treasure, an event that abruptly destroyed both their friendship and Nina’s budding crush on Quentin. Now Quentin wants to keep searching for the treasure, which has never been found. They renew their search, and Nina is determined to focus on the hunt for the treasure and get back to her old life, but as they find their way back to their friendship and the feelings that have been under the surface all along, she begins to wonder if her old life, or a life with Quentin, is what she truly wants. VERDICT Adler (Happy Medium) mixes witty banter and well-drawn characters with her signature heart and humor to bring Nina and Quentin’s story to a satisfying resolution in her best novel to date.—Whitney Kramer

Hubscher, Libby. Heart Marks the Spot. Berkley. Jul. 2025. 384p. ISBN 9780593547243. pap. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

A long and traumatic family history of treasure hunting hasn’t put Stella Moore off the trail of a long-lost motherlode that includes the infamous and possibly cursed Elephant’s Heart Diamond. Instead, it has brought her and her friends to hunt in the wilds of Iceland for the next part of the clue. Huck Sullivan has also traveled to Iceland, trying find his writing mojo after a failed book, a terrible confrontation with his father, and a subsequent bout of writer’s block. When Stella and Huck meet in an Icelandic bar, it seems as if fate has brought them together. Huck helps interpret a poem that leads Stella to the treasure, and Huck’s writing inspiration returns. However, after an intimate night together, Stella wakes to find Huck gone without a word. More than a year later, she’s still nursing the hurt Huck caused, amplified by the recent release of his newest book about a treasure hunter. Huck has regretted leaving Stella ever since that fateful night and hopes to join her crew’s latest hunt to repair the damage he has done. VERDICT Hubscher (Play for Me) returns with a tale destined to be enjoyed on a beach with its mismatched but charming duo.—Kellie Tilton