Slow Burn

When a Detective falls into a paralyzing trance, he discovers he's trapped in his own mind with only his broken past to help him escape his coma and clear the smoke. Every step taken is a step down memory lane as the Detective races against a clock he can't see, a woman he doesn't remember and a past stuffed so deep it may actually kill him if uncovered. Journey through the mind and past of the Detective as he takes on a case with a unique victim: Himself.

It's never easy getting home for the holidays, but especially this year for two strangers whose paths keep crossing on their way from Miami to New York. After their plane is rerouted to Chicago due to an intense and growing storm, Drake and Lulu become unlikely partners in an attempt to get home. But there's just one problem (on top of all the forces of nature seemingly against them), Drake is a bit of a perfectionist prude, and Lulu gets by in life by making adult content. Will their clashing personalities and perceptions of each other make it through to New York, or, more immediately, the night they're forced to spend together in a one-bedroom hotel?

**Yet Again**\ *Synopsis* Emma’s life isn’t falling apart because of one terrible event. It’s unraveling because of a thousand tiny ones. Every day, her partner, Mark, leaves behind the same forgotten things: a kitchen cabinet left open, socks beside the hamper instead of inside it, the bathroom light glowing long after he’s gone. To anyone else, they’re meaningless oversights. To Emma, each one is another tally mark in a count she can no longer stop. Raised in a military household where order meant safety and control meant love, Emma has spent her entire life believing that everything has a place. As the small disruptions multiply, so does the relentless counting inside her mind. She fights to silence it, convincing herself that tomorrow will be different. Yet again, it isn’t. As cherished memories of the man she loves battle against the growing obsession consuming her, Emma begins to lose the ability to separate inconvenience from betrayal, accident from intention. The ordinary routines of home become psychological minefields, and the line between devotion and destruction grows thinner with every count. *Yet Again* is a psychological thriller that explores obsessive-compulsive disorder, trauma, and the devastating consequences of invisible mental illness. It asks a haunting question: How many seemingly insignificant moments can a person endure before one ordinary morning changes everything?

Jasper Van Terra and her team of superpowered criminals seek revenge on the governor of city-planet Kronos.

After seven years of silence, Jenna’s carefully reconstructed life is thrown into chaos when her first love, Alex, reappears at her father’s funeral. Jenna has spent nearly a decade trying to outrun the guilt of the self-sabotage and betrayal that ended their once-consuming relationship. Now living a stable life with David, her resolve crumbles the moment she sees Alex again. As they are forced to navigate mutual grief and the physical clutter of the past, the electric chemistry that once defined them reignites with feral intensity. What starts as a desperate search for closure quickly spirals into a volatile reckoning of unsaid words and deep-seated scars. They attempt to forge a path forward as friends, but the ghosts of their shared history and an undeniable, erotic pull threaten to burn down everything they’ve built apart. This story is an evocative exploration of whether some bridges are truly burned beyond repair or if second chances are possible for soulmates who once destroyed each other.

When President James Michael Kincaid begins challenging the foundations of that system, a conflict unfolds far beyond public view. Political ambition, intelligence operations, organized crime, journalism, and private influence converge on Dallas in November 1963, where one of the most consequential weekends in American history changes the nation forever. Yet the assassination is only the beginning. As official investigations compete with independent journalists searching for answers, the battle shifts from discovering what happened to deciding what history will remember. Witnesses disappear. Records vanish. Evidence is scattered. Competing accounts slowly fall silent until only one version of events remains. Spanning nearly four decades, *The Canon* explores the relationship between power, memory, and history itself. It asks not only how history can be shaped, but how entire generations come to accept a single version of the past when every alternative has quietly disappeared. In the end, *The Canon* is not simply the story of an assassination. It is the story of how history is written—and how easily it can be forgotten.

Kelly and her tactical team are Briefed in Lies and are sent out to hunt and dangerous cryptid but soon discover the suits lied to them. Confused she soon discovers they are being hunted by a Skin Walker. Will Kelly be able to keep herself and her team alive? Find out by reading Briefed in Lies.

Maya Sterling arrives on the set of Aurelia's Wake with nothing but a vintage leather kit, a five-year-old betrayal she refuses to think about before noon, and an eye for color no synthetic palette can replicate. She's hired to fix a failing alien look — and within a day, she's caught the attention of Julian Vane, the reclusive, magnetic lead actor who tells her, quietly, that her chemistry is the only real thing on the set.\ That attention comes at a cost. Senior artist Julie Anderson — bubbly to the stars, venomous to everyone else — sees Maya as a threat to fourteen years of seniority, and she's not above sabotage to prove it. As Maya is promoted over her, threatened, and finally attacked in the one place she thought was safe — her own formulas — she has to rebuild what was destroyed from memory, in the dark, alone, with everything riding oHired to fix a failing alien look, a color specialist finds forbidden chemistry — and a rival determined to destroy her.n getting it exactly right.\ Underneath the industrial tension of a film set at war with itself, something slower and more dangerous is building between Maya and Julian: unspoken, entirely professional, and impossible to stop.⁶

For nearly two decades, the quiet town of Ashcroft has lived beneath the shadow of an unsolved series of murders. Four women have disappeared over the years, each found with chilling similarities that leave investigators searching for a killer the media dubs **The Finger Man**. Despite every lead, the murderer remains invisible, hidden behind the ordinary face of a close-knit community. Veteran Detective Nathan Robinson has spent years chasing the case that has come to define his career. As forensic evidence, forgotten records, and long-buried memories begin to align, Robinson uncovers an unsettling possibility: the killer is not an outsider preying on the town, but someone its residents know, trust, and respect. Daniel Mercer is Ashcroft's beloved jeweler, a meticulous craftsman admired for repairing treasured family heirlooms, restoring antique watches, and quietly helping neighbors without expecting recognition. Behind that carefully maintained life, however, Daniel has spent nineteen years living inside a carefully constructed delusion. Unable to accept that his fiancée, Grace Whitmore, left town after their wedding was abruptly canceled, Daniel convinces himself that she has merely been delayed. Their apartment remains untouched, groceries are purchased for two, anniversaries are quietly observed, and every day becomes another act of waiting for a future that will never arrive. As Robinson closes in on the truth, Grace returns to Ashcroft after nearly two decades, hoping only to understand the unanswered questions she left behind. Instead, she discovers that the man she once loved has become the very killer whose crimes have haunted the town. Faced with the unimaginable collision of memory and reality, Grace must reconcile the kind, gentle man she knew with the murderer he became. The investigation reveals that Daniel's victims were never random. Each represented another desperate attempt to preserve the impossible life he refused to surrender, driven by a mind fractured by grief, obsession, and years of untreated mental illness. When Robinson finally uncovers the truth hidden inside the apartment Daniel has preserved like a shrine to a wedding day that never came, the carefully maintained illusion collapses, forcing Daniel to confront reality for the first time in nearly twenty years. Following his arrest, Ashcroft struggles to reconcile the trusted neighbor they believed they knew with the man responsible for unimaginable violence. Robinson reaches the end of a distinguished career understanding that solving a crime and understanding it are rarely the same thing. Grace visits the women whose lives were stolen, says goodbye to the town that shaped her past, and finally chooses to move forward rather than remain imprisoned by memory. Part psychological thriller and part emotional character study, *The Finger Man* explores the fragile boundary between love and obsession, the devastating consequences of unresolved grief, and the enduring truth that while the past can shape us, it does not have to define the future.

Investigative journalist Mara Reynolds has built her career on uncovering the truth, but she's about to discover that her own life is built on lies. When Mara interviews billionaire tech entrepreneur Elijah Williams about his revolutionary energy project, the Prometheus Initiative, she's drawn to his charisma and vision. As their professional relationship evolves into something more intimate, Mara begins experiencing disturbing fragments of memories she can't explain—nightmares about guns, blood, and a murder she witnessed as a child. But every time Mara gets close to remembering the truth, something pulls her back. Therapy sessions with Dr. Catherine Reeves seem to help at first, but soon Mara realizes she's been manipulated in ways she never imagined. The "random" mugging that traumatized her wasn't random at all. Her mother's early-onset dementia may not be natural. And the gaps in her own memory aren't accidents—they're erasures. As Mara digs deeper, she uncovers a horrifying conspiracy: twelve years ago, she witnessed the murder of Elijah's parents by his younger brother David. To protect his family's reputation and his brother from prosecution, Elijah hired a pioneering neurologist to erase Mara's memories. But this wasn't a one-time intervention—Elijah has been manipulating her memories for over a decade, erasing and rewriting her reality every time she gets too close to the truth. The Prometheus Initiative isn't just about clean energy. It's a cover for something far more sinister: a facility where Elijah has perfected the technology to manipulate human memories on a massive scale. Mara is just one of seventeen victims whose lives have been systematically erased and rewritten. Now, as fragments of her true past surface, Mara must race against time to expose Elijah before he can erase her again—permanently. But with her best friend compromised, her mother's mind destroyed, and powerful forces aligned against her, Mara faces an impossible question: How do you fight someone who can rewrite your reality with the touch of a button?

When James Johnson collapses in a New York clinic, he is rushed to the hospital with failing organs and no one at his side. April Gennings, a quiet woman waiting for her own appointment, becomes the only person who stays with him when the nurses ask for help. As James declines, April remains through every fall, every failed attempt to stand, every spike of the monitor, and every breath that grows thinner. Annabelle, James’s self‑absorbed partner, arrives only to clash with April in the hallway, furious that a stranger has taken the place she abandoned. James’s condition worsens until the early morning when his breathing stops and the monitor flatlines. April stands beside him as the nurses call the time of death. At the reading of the will, Annabelle learns she has been left a single dollar. April receives everything: James’s Fifth Avenue penthouse, his businesses, and his thirty‑five‑million‑dollar portfolio. A video message reveals James’s final truth — that April showed him the only real kindness he had ever known. A sealed letter, prepared during his last legal session in the hospital, confirms his choices and protects her right to walk away from all of it. April visits the penthouse he once lived in, walks through the rooms he left behind, and returns home with the envelope still unopened. When she finally reads the letter, she learns James dissolved his engagement plans, removed Annabelle from every document, and ensured she would never have to work again. The book ends with April alone in her apartment, the letter on the counter, and the weight of a life she never asked to inherit.

Twenty-five kids hold the genetic blueprint for immortality, and the government will do anything to get it. Trapped on an island in a neon cage on Sebaceous Island, they face deadly external threats and a vicious internal power struggle. Marco, the leader, fights desperately to lead them, but the greatest danger is Johar, jealous of power, a threat lurking from within. Yet, the ultimate prize is Hibis—the youngest, whose cells possess the most sought-after power of all. If the government captures even one of them, they will mass-produce a weapon capable of wiping out the rest of the underground.

Mira enters the basin with Shaw, Spike, and Spirit to extract a man whose reckless attempts to manipulate the forest’s conduit layers have triggered a spreading strain. What begins as a controlled withdrawal turns into a dangerous descent as the Gorge pushes deeper into the conduits, destabilizing the forest and threatening a collapse that could spread beyond the basin. The team fights through shifting ground, unstable corridors, and rising pressure as they drag him out of the deeper layer. His obsession intensifies, his defiance grows, and his refusal to stop becomes the central danger. When he promises to return and finish what he started, Mira makes the adult, final decision: she ends him. They carry his body out of the forest, complete the extraction, and deliver him to the basin edge. Spirit confirms the conduits will recover. With the threat removed and the forest stabilizing, the team disperses—each going their own way—leaving Mira to walk out alone, carrying the weight of what she had to do.

Deeana has spent her entire life trying to outrun the destiny waiting for her. As the next Chimera Queen, she is destined to unite the Therians and Supernaturals beneath one crown. But becoming Queen comes with an impossible price. The moment she claims her throne, every Alpha will have the right to pursue her, hoping to become the king at her side before the Chimera King claims what fate has promised him. Dorin, the fated Chimera King, is determined to prove he can overcome the dark legacy of the Mad Kings and rule beside Deeana without repeating history. But Malcolm, the Wolf Shifter Alpha, has loved and protected Deeana since they were children. Though fate marked them as mates long ago, he has never demanded her heart, believing love means letting her choose him freely. But a Chimera Queen isn't allowed to follow her heart, like her mother did, who chose love over duty and lost her throne, risking the fragile peace between Therians and Supernaturals. Desperate for a new Queen to restore the balance, every hope rests on Deeana choosing her fated king, even if it means denying her heart. As Deeana steps into the role she has spent her life trying to escape, she must choose between the love that has always been hers and the crown that could save them all.

Copyright 2026 D.M. Jordan. All Rights Reserved. Cover Art by Mohsin Afridi Dr. Aubrey Prentice is a rising psychiatrist with ambitions of writing a groundbreaking self-help book for women trapped in destructive relationships. But her methods are anything but conventional. Rather than observing from a clinical distance, Aubrey immerses herself in the lives of her male patients—crossing ethical boundaries in pursuit of deeper insight. Through intimacy, she believes she has uncovered what drives men, both emotionally and physically. The question is no longer what she has learned—but what it has cost her. At the center of her most dangerous case is Ian Henshaw III: a brooding, powerful millionaire whose influence extends far beyond the therapy room. What began as a professional relationship quickly evolved into something far more entangled—first patient, then lover, and now fiancé. But Ian is not a man who shares. Possessive, commanding, and accustomed to control, he demands absolute loyalty—even as Aubrey’s current marriage remains unresolved. Drawn into his world of wealth and power, Aubrey finds herself facing a chilling realization: the life she has pursued may come at the price of her independence. In a high-stakes collision of ambition, desire, and control, Aubrey must confront the consequences of her choices—and decide whether she is the architect of her own destiny, or merely another piece in Ian Henshaw’s carefully constructed empire.

For eighteen years, the Fae wanted her dead. She never knew why.\ When Aryis crosses the boundary into the human realm, she expects to find safety. Instead, she finds a red-haired man with mismatched eyes who speaks her language and asks too many questions. She finds a tavern full of secrets. And she finds something stirring inside her that she cannot name.\ Something ancient. Something powerful. Something they were right to fear.

A saga following a mercenary who is being hunted by people who keep telling her Celentra must stay frozen. She doesn't know what this means until she meets a cloaked stranger who tells her that she is carrying the soul of a dead Empress from another world. That she must revive this Empress to save a world frozen in time.

When a sniper’s bullet meant for **Adrian Cole** shatters Madison Square Garden, he’s thrust into a deadly conspiracy tied to his employer, **VoxGen**. His best friend’s daughter, **Samantha**, is abducted, and the trail leads Adrian to a hidden VoxGen testing site where experimental compounds have been secretly deployed across New York. The rescue goes wrong, Bob is killed, and Adrian is nearly crushed in the ensuing chaos. VoxGen detonates multiple buildings to erase evidence, framing Adrian as the architect of the mass‑casualty event. He survives but falls into a coma for over two years. When he wakes, the truth has finally surfaced: VoxGen has collapsed, its CEO is dead, and Adrian is cleared. But survival isn’t freedom. With Samantha in his care and the city still reeling, Adrian sues the surviving VoxGen board members—only to discover a shadow operator still pulling strings. Retaliation begins: smear campaigns, drive‑by attacks, and an ambush in a dark alley. Adrian refuses to run. With Donna at his side, he shifts from hunted to hunter, determined to expose the last architect of VoxGen’s empire. **Buried in Silence** is a conspiracy thriller about survival, accountability, and the fight to reclaim a life stolen by corruption.

**Everwind**\ *By Jack Cruse* Kailynn has spent her life believing she is nobody. After the death of her guardians, Kailynn was raised on a remote farm by her guardians brother who treats her more like a burden than family. Every day she dreams of little more than a full meal and a chance at a better life. But when a mysterious noblewoman named Sera Beaufort arrives and reveals that Kailynn's past is built on secrets, everything she thought she knew begins to unravel. Hunted by powerful enemies and haunted by the murder of her closest friend, Kailynn is thrust into a dangerous world of kings, conspiracies, and forgotten legends. As she flees across a fractured island, she discovers she may be the last surviving descendant of the Ash King—the ancient ruler who once united the Empire of Everwind before a dying wizard's curse shattered their dynasty. Now, whispers of her existence are spreading. Some would see her crowned. Others would see her dead. With an infamous bard turning her story into legend and a deadly swordsman sworn to protect her, Kailynn must learn the art of politics, survival, and leadership before those hunting her close the distance. Every ally may hide an agenda. Every kingdom of the old empire holds secrets. And somewhere in the shadows lies the truth about the curse that has haunted her bloodline for centuries. But reclaiming a lost throne may be the easiest challenge she faces. Because the fate of Everwind—and the future of the Ash King line—rests on a young woman who has only just discovered who she truly is. **A sweeping fantasy adventure filled with ancient curses, court intrigue, deadly assassins, found family, and a lost princess destined to change the world.**

Humanity begins not as destiny, but as design. When the Sheb Tu — an ancient, dying extraterrestrial civilization — arrive on the world they call Kai, they seek only one thing: gold, the element required to keep their failing oxygen engines alive. They enslave the conquered Aiji giants and deploy the engineered Dropa to build mines, cities, and a jump‑node network across the planet. But the Aiji revolt, forcing the Sheb Tu to create a new labor force. Enki, the most visionary of the overseers, splices primate DNA with Sheb Tu genetics, producing Adamu and Heeva — the first humans. As the population grows, the Sheb Tu introduce colossal engineered megafauna, the Nephilim, to shape the land and enforce order. Instead, the system destabilizes. Everything changes when Enki breaks the oldest law of his kind and fathers a child with a human woman. Their son, Adapa, is born with unfiltered Sheb Tu intelligence — a being capable of standing beside the “gods,” not beneath them. His existence fractures the hierarchy and triggers a chain of consequences that ripple through the Sheb Tu’s ancient machine. When a Nephilim kills Adapa’s mother, the fragile balance collapses. Fire rains from the sky. Oceans rise. Cities fall. The First Humanity is wiped away in a cataclysm that ends the Age of the Nephilim and empties the world. But Enki refuses to let the idea of humanity die. As the Sheb Tu abandon Kai, he sends a hidden vessel into the mud and ash — a cradle containing the blueprint for a second creation. From the ruins of the first world, a new humanity will one day rise, unaware of the cosmic machinery that shaped them or the civilizations buried beneath their feet.

Sapphyra used to have it all. Great super-genius husband, great job as a superhero. She even got along with her dragon side. Really, nothing could go wrong for her. Until it did. When the world faced a threat she couldn’t punch, she tried to make the ultimate sacrifice so everything and everyone she ever loved could flee. But Wyatt, her husband with plans for his backup plans, wouldn’t allow it. He trapped her inside a digital coma, intent on waking her up when everything settled down. That was 100 years ago. When Sapphyra finally rips herself free from the nightmare, she finally sees the extent of the damage done to her city. Not just her city either. Her body has been twisted, her powers and dragon side locked away behind a Class System—something Wyatt placed inside her. It only gets worse from here. Guy, a charming labrador-energy man she met inside her coma is in the real world, with real feelings she’s returning. Oh and Wyatt? He separated his mind from his body, and now his consciousness follows Sapphyra around the broken city like a bad hangover. He’s less than thrilled to have competition for his wife but without a body, he’s screwed. As if an awkward love triangle and rebuilding a city weren’t enough on her plate, Sapphyra has to deal with a familiar face. Rupert Domingo, the madman who also escaped her digital nightmare now taunts her with all the answers she’s asking for…as long as she plays his game first. Sapphyra will have to navigate her new powers, her growing list of lovers and her grief with Wyatt if she wants to stand any chance of winning Ruperts game and fixing her city once and for all.

Who killed the Kings son? Where is the Princess? Secrets concealed and revealed.

King Ragus Harbeth, ruler of all Estinolla, has died and his queen is now in charge, She has vowed to make the kingdom hers. by any means possible.

When fourteen‑year‑old Mary Ann Hamilton begins noticing strange cracks in her mother’s behavior—late‑night whispers, missing money, a sudden new identity—her quiet Alabama life shatters. Swept into a world of secrets, lies, and a man whose charm hides something far darker, Mary Ann is forced to confront the truth her mother has been hiding.   Some families protect you. Some destroy you. And beneath the rock, the past is waiting to be uncovered.

**THE DAY I STOPPED BEING INVISIBLE** is a contemporary romance about emotional neglect, self-reclamation, and the quiet, radical courage it takes to be fully seen. Thirty-year-old Celia Ortiz has built a life that looks perfectly fine from the outside: a steady job, a comfortable apartment, and a long-term boyfriend who is dependable, successful, and safe. But inside her relationship with Brian Callahan, Celia is slowly disappearing. Brian never yells, never cheats, never makes a scene. His cruelty is quieter than that. He half-listens when she speaks, dismisses her feelings as overreactions, and treats her needs like inconveniences. Over time, Celia learns to ask for less, say less, and want less, convincing herself that stability is love and silence is peace. Then one afternoon on the crowded Newport Beach boardwalk, everything shifts. After enduring another joyless outing filled with Brian’s complaints and indifference, Celia wanders away alone through the farmers’ market, drawn toward the bright fruit stands, salt air, and a version of herself she can almost remember. There, she quite literally collides with Aiden Mitchell, a local surf instructor and boardwalk shop owner whose warmth and attentiveness catch her off guard. When a woman from Aiden’s past confronts him aggressively, he blurts out a desperate request: will Celia pretend to be his girlfriend? On impulse, she says yes. The moment is brief, awkward, and almost absurd. But afterward, Aiden thanks her with a level of sincerity that unsettles her more than the fake-dating stunt itself. He listens when she speaks. He looks at her as though what she says matters. He notices her in a way Brian hasn’t in years. For Celia, that fleeting encounter does not ignite instant romance. It ignites something far more dangerous: recognition. Once Celia has experienced what it feels like to be seen, she can no longer ignore how invisible she has become. When she finally tries to voice her loneliness, Brian dismisses her as insecure and needy, forcing Celia to confront the truth she has avoided for years: she is not asking for too much. She has simply been asking the wrong person. Their breakup is not explosive, but devastating in its calm. Brian is less heartbroken than inconvenienced, and his reaction confirms the deepest ache of all—he never really knew her. Alone for the first time in years, Celia moves into a small beachside apartment and begins the fragile work of rebuilding her life. She pours herself into her career, reconnects with neglected friendships, and starts learning how to occupy space without apologizing for it. Then fate intervenes again: Aiden turns out to live in the same building. What begins as a coincidence slowly deepens into a connection. Unlike the relationship Celia left behind, the one that grows between her and Aiden is patient, tender, and grounded in mutual care. Their intimacy is built in quiet moments rather than grand declarations: shared meals, morning walks along the shore, surf lessons that become unexpected lessons in trust, and long conversations where vulnerability is met not with dismissal, but with kindness. Aiden is steady, whereas Brian was indifferent, attentive, and absent. He asks permission. He checks in. He gives Celia room to choose. And for Celia, that kind of love is both healing and terrifying. Because being truly seen means risking loss. As Celia begins to believe she may finally be worthy of a love that does not require self-erasure, life delivers a personal crisis that cracks her open. Grief stirs the old instincts she thought she was leaving behind—the urge to withdraw, to endure in silence, to disappear before anyone can leave her first. Aiden, burdened by his own wounds and his fear of emotional chaos, struggles to reach her as the distance between them widens. Their relationship is tested not by betrayal, but by the raw vulnerabilities both of them are still learning how to survive. Celia must choose between the false safety of invisibility and the terrifying possibility of remaining present in a love that asks her to be fully known, even in pain. In the end, Celia chooses visibility. She allows herself to grieve out loud. She allows herself to be witnessed in her fear instead of hiding from it. She allows herself to lean on someone rather than disappearing into solitude. In doing so, she breaks the pattern that has defined her adult life. She no longer mistakes silence for strength or emotional absence for safety. She learns that real love is not dramatic or consuming, but steady, attentive, and brave enough to hold the truth. By the novel’s close, Celia stands fully in the space she once abandoned—a woman who no longer shrinks to keep the peace, who no longer confuses being tolerated with being loved, and who finally understands that the greatest transformation is not simply falling in love, but learning to exist fully within it.

**Veronica Rae Lane has spent the last two years running from her past, traveling the country in her built-out mini-bus, "The Beast." Armed with plenty of Ohio grit, her loyal fur babies, and a deep sense of independence, she thought she could handle anything the road threw at her.** **Then, a breakdown in Pinecreek, Minnesota brings her tumbling—quite literally—straight into the hidden, highly dangerous world of the Moon Shadow Pack.** **Suddenly, Veronica finds herself bound to Alpha Storm Maverick Kinkaid, a commanding leader accustomed to absolute obedience. She is thrust into the role of Luna, a position governed by centuries of strict, misogynistic werewolf hierarchy.** **But Veronica doesn't do traditional.** **Refusing to be a silent trophy or submit to outdated pack laws, she becomes the ultimate catalyst for change. As dark secrets, political intrigue, and supernatural threats begin to close in on the Moon Shadow Pack, Veronica and Stormy must navigate a fiery mate bond that defies all the rules.** **This is more than a romance—it is the spark of a revolution. Join Veronica as she fights for love, redefines power, and discovers what a true found family actually looks like.** **Book 1 of a sweeping, multi-part supernatural juggernaut.**   🚌 **Road-Trip Breakdowns & Forced Proximity** 🐺 **Fierce, Non-Traditional Luna & Misogynistic Hierarchy Shakers** 🐾 **Deep-Seated Mate Bonds & Hot Pacing** ✨ **Found Family, Loyal Fur Babies, & Gritty Magic** 📚 **An ongoing, multi-book epic saga**

Beyond the walls, nothing is as they told her.  More than a century after global eruptions plunged the climate-fragile world into chaos, seventeen-year-old Barrett is destined for a Noble life in the coastal stronghold of Nuevo Leben, until Ronan, a dangerously perceptive rogue, shows her evidence that her mother is alive and captive in Old North America. Barrett's perfect future shatters. She must cross a deadly wasteland to find her, guided by the last person she should trust. As they face a forgotten world of hostile tribes, vicious predators, and unexpected allies, Barrett questions everything, including her growing feelings for Ronan and her place in this fractured world. But the further she travels from Nuevo Leben, the more she wonders whether its walls kept the world out, or kept her in.

Nora Bliss moves into a rental on a picture-perfect suburban street in **Harwick, Connecticut**. On her first night, she notices that the upstairs window of the house directly across the street (the **Hargrove residence)** glows at exactly 3am, every night, without fail. The neighbours say the Hargroves are lovely, their daughter Celeste moved to Portland months ago, and that light is just a timer lamp. Nora almost believes them. Then, one night, the silhouette in the window presses a hand against the glass. And waves back.

--- What if everything you thought you knew about sex, love, and intimacy was just the beginning? This book is funny. It is crude. It is psychologically precise and occasionally so direct you will feel personally called out — because you probably should be. We are going to talk about pussies, cocks, scrotums, licking, sucking, and the kind of lovemaking that lasts nine hours and leaves you permanently ruined for anything less. We are also going to talk about childhood wounds, generational trauma, the chakra system, plant medicine, Tantric philosophy, and why so many grown adults are still operating with an eight year old's emotional toolkit. At the center of it all is a love story. A real one. A man named Seymour who was brilliant, quietly charming, and a prisoner of wounds he didn't know he was still carrying. A woman in the middle of her own becoming who thought she was just dating and ended up in the most profound classroom of her life. This book is the map she built from that experience. From the dating field through the blockades and the wounds, through the chakras and the sacred body, all the way to the other side where Tantric lovemaking sessions last twelve hours, orgasm is not a moment but a sustained state, and two people who have actually done the work discover what connection was always supposed to feel like. If you are tired of the same old patterns producing the same old outcomes, this book is for you. So, buckle in buttercup. Let's go for a ride.

Ten years after escaping a life of servitude behind the Veil, Wren is dragged back into the shimmering, cruel world of the fae. Her captor is Fionn, a silver-tongued bastard prince from her past who remembers the magic in her blood better than she does herself. Fionn is crafting a masterpiece of manipulation to usurp the throne, and he needs Wren’s rare, touch-based mind-reading to harvest the secrets of his treacherous brothers. Forced into a secret coven of gifted women, Wren must master forgotten, ancient magic to survive a world where every smile is a snare. Caught between her hatred for the monsters who stole her life and a growing, dangerous desire for the prince who promises to change everything, Wren must decide if she is Fionn’s greatest weapon, his equal partner, or merely the latest sacrifice in his climb to the crown.  *For fans of ACOTAR and The Cruel Prince.*

Sportswriter Bish Weatherly writes the story of Harry "Cotton" Purcell, the most talented ball player who never made the majors, and Grace, the wife who followed him across Prohibition-era America. Spring 1922, Indianapolis. Bish has been in love with Grace since he before he introduced her to Harry years earlier. Now, with Harry at spring training and Grace pregnant and alone in a new city, Bish positions himself as the reliable friend—helping her find housing, buying gifts, being there when Harry isn't. Harry, son of ruined Alabama aristocracy, hits like Babe Ruth but can't control his "surly disposition." Each success fuels his conviction he deserves the major leagues; each setback confirms he's been cheated. As his career spirals through brilliant performances and self-destructive collapses, Bish documents it all on the pages of the newspaper while growing dangerously close to Grace. The crisis comes in Nashville, 1925. Harry is hitting .357 alongside Lou Gehrig. Gehrig goes to the Yankees. Harry doesn't. When Grace—exhausted and desperate—finally offers Bish the love he's claimed to want for years, he discovers things about himself that he didn't want to know. Decades later, Bish lives on, telling himself he did the right thing—until writing the story reveals he was never the man he pretended to be. *The Great Gatsby* meets *Remains of the Day*, set in 1920s minor league baseball.

In a world of gaslit opulence and rigid etiquette, Blythe is a haunting anomaly—a brilliant spiritualist whose soul is trapped between life and death within an automaton body. Her only link to the living is Tarn “Madcap” Carrigan, a sorcerer-alchemist extraordinaire whose penchant for scandal is always one bad day away from another fatal mystery. With otherworldly secrets and new magic to discover, Blythe and Tarn are bound by an inseparable partnership.

"King of this, King of that, All I know is he'd better come claim his Child!"         Aurora may be pregnant, but at the same time, she may not.   All the palace knows is that she claims she is with child, King Ron's, to be precise.   It doesn't sound possible.   They have never seen the man with their own two eyes.   The existence of a legend like Ron is even questioned: Is he even real?   But Aurora will find him one way or another.   And he will claim his child.

This was not the vacation Rachel had bargained for. 10 years ago when the KPop group Hydra debuted, Park MinJae saw a girl leave her spot in line to help someone. Over the years since then he's seen her on every concert tour, but he's never had the chance to get to know her, until now. 3 years ago Rachel ran away to Korea, after her fiance swapped her for her cousin. Now, on a work vacation, she has to return for her mom's 50th birthday. Upon arrival in Chicago, she discovers her Kpop celebrity crush being mobbed by fans. After assisting with a timely escape, she invites him to go with her planning to give him a normal vacation.  But why does all the attention he's giving her feel like more than just appreciation for rescuing him? As things heat up with her family situation, Rachel tries to keep MinJae out of the drama. But MinJae is Korean, and Koreans are good with drama.

On a fictional Greek island, Anastasia Livanitis solves murders and other crimes with her ghostly sidekicks, and her journalist best friend, Nikos.

“Your lips have a flavor reminiscent of mango.” “Wait, what?! How do you even know that?” “Isn't it obvious?. While you were sleeping, I—”   Dove is fed up with playing the role of the Damsel in Distress. Now that she has the chance to pick a mentor, her dreams feel much closer than ever.   Yet, she’s at a loss for words when the very essence of the night, draped in blue, suddenly decides to choose her.