Kazimir and Arabella embark on a honeymoon where the only thing more dangerous than their enemies are their growing feelings for each other in this deliciously wicked and riotously funny second book in the Guides to Villainy and Love romantasy series that's Assistant to the Villa... Kazimir and Arabella embark on a honeymoon where the only thing more dangerous than their enemies are their growing feelings for each other in this deliciously wicked and riotously funny second book in the Guides to Villainy and Love romantasy series that's Assistant to the Villain meets Dreadful.Step Four: Take her on a honeymoon.Step Five: Learn to co‑villain effectively.Step Six: Try not to get possessed by ancient evil.Now bound by marriage and the formidable power of the Heirloom, Dark Lord Kazimir Blackrose and his Dark Lady Arabella are the realm's most feared and chaotic power couple. And after years of scheming, Kazimir is poised to conquer Solandris. But when the Alchemist calls in a debt, Kaz is forced to postpone his reign of terror or face consequences even he can't escape.Arabella declares it the perfect opportunity for the honeymoon she was never promised. But their villainous getaway soon devolves into mayhem involving mass kidnappings, uncomfortable truths about Kazimir's demonic past, and a talented pastry chef with heroic blood who won't stop baking scones.As if that weren't enough, Kazimir's mind is also filling with whispers not his own, while Arabella secretly tries to recover her stolen memories. But the greatest threat may be those three dangerous little words that could shatter their carefully constructed walls...and unleash an evil that destroys them all.This sexy and side‑splittingly funny fantasy romance is perfect for readers who love: villains who stay deliciously wicked (but are catastrophically in love); a powerful heroine carving out her place in the world; touch them and die; plotting world domination; sizzling spice and wickedly amusing banter; dark humor; found family of villains; and a honeymoon phase with assassination attempts. Read more

A gruff ex‑operative. A hiking trail. And a dog.Max Reddy has spent his career as a covert operative doing what he does best: completing missions, avoiding emotions, and treating every human interaction like a tactical operation. It's worked great—until he met Rose Malone in Rock... A gruff ex‑operative. A hiking trail. And a dog.Max Reddy has spent his career as a covert operative doing what he does best: completing missions, avoiding emotions, and treating every human interaction like a tactical operation. It's worked great—until he met Rose Malone in Rocky Start. She stole his wallet and his heart and made him almost human; but he’s still basically a well‑trained robot with minimal social skills.He’s helping her renovate the old cottage in the woods across the river from Rocky Start when days of rain combined with the remnants of a storm flood the town and they are forced to evacuate. The only roads into it are shut for weeks before they can rebuild.Rose suggests that Max finally finish his through‑hike on the Appalachian Trail. Max agrees. What could go wrong?Between dodging someone stalking him from his former life, building fires in the rain, talking people off ledges (literal and metaphorical), and reluctantly learning that humans are more than just “mission parameters”, Max discovers that the hardest trail to navigate isn't the one under his boots—it's the one leading back to his own humanity.Rocky Road: Hiking the Appalachian Trail, one awkward conversation at a time.An excerpt from Bob Mayer and Jenny Crusie's next book, Arresting Anna, is at the end. Read more

Small town secrets, a reluctant psychic, and a cold case that could expose them all.Reluctant psychic Drew Benson can read tarot cards and get impressions from objects—she just never expected to use her gifts to investigate an infamous cold case.Drew Benson has a secret. She gets... Small town secrets, a reluctant psychic, and a cold case that could expose them all.Reluctant psychic Drew Benson can read tarot cards and get impressions from objects—she just never expected to use her gifts to investigate an infamous cold case.Drew Benson has a secret. She gets visions, something she hasn’t tapped into since she was a teenager, when her late aunt, a TV psychic known as Hannah Mystic, became the scapegoat in the unsolved disappearance of a local teenager. Twenty years later, Drew is happy to ignore her gift, focusing instead on keeping the metaphysical shop she inherited from Hannah afloat, wrangling her sole, astrology-obsessed employee, and dodging local rake Foster Banks in her picturesque lakeside hometown.But when Drew's arch-nemesis from high school, now a big city reporter, decides to investigate the cold case from all those years ago, it’s Drew’s ability that could finally make a break in the decades old mystery. With bills piling up, a disapproving mother laying on the guilt, and a local vandal who wants Drew and her witchy store gone, Drew has a lot to lose. But what she stands to gain—finding out what happened to the missing teen, clearing her aunt’s name, and a second chance at belonging—could change everything.In The Mystic and the Missing Girl, Vikki VanSickle seamlessly draws readers into an utterly charming world in this unputdownable, small town mystery. Read more

From the “hottest author on the thriller scene today” (The Real Book Spy), #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr brings the worlds of special operations and CIA paramilitary units into direct collision in the jungles of Vietnam with his explosive new thriller introducing... From the “hottest author on the thriller scene today” (The Real Book Spy), #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr brings the worlds of special operations and CIA paramilitary units into direct collision in the jungles of Vietnam with his explosive new thriller introducing young Navy SEAL Tom Reece, a man torn between the blurred lines and allegiances of the military and the increasingly murky world of intelligence. This is how it all began...1968. A time of division. A time of civil unrest. A time of war.Just before the Tet Offensive, before President Johnson announces he will not run for reelection, before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, as riots and protests rage across the nation, a spy ship is captured by communist forces off the coast of North Korea.The crew thought they had destroyed everything of intelligence value. They were wrong.As a KGB “illegal” elicits information from a high-ranking NSA official, and teams of special operators infiltrating into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam disappear without a trace, an ambitious Soviet advisor launches an ingenious plan that could forever alter the world balance of power.Tom Reece, a SEAL operator attached to the highly classified and shadowy MACV-SOG is about to be thrust into a bloody battle to discover the truth.From the Kremlin to the White House, from the streets of Saigon to the rugged A Shau Valley, along the paths of Ho Chi Minh Trail and into the secret war in Laos, Navy SEAL Tom Reece has an official mission assigned by Military Assistance Command, Vietnam—Studies and Observations Group, but it’s his unofficial mission that might get him killed.From “master novelist” (Ballistic Magazine) Jack Carr comes a fast-paced and brutally realistic thriller, one that will make you question all you thought you knew about Vietnam, pressing “emotional buttons that other writers wouldn’t dare explore” (The Real Book Spy). Read more

She hunts for answers in blood. He protects secrets in fur. Dr. Cecilia Lu is drowning in Detroit's nightmare. The "flu" is transforming people into monsters, and every test, every sleepless night brings her closer to a truth that shouldn't exist. Then Detective Hank Grizz walks ... She hunts for answers in blood. He protects secrets in fur.
Dr. Cecilia Lu is drowning in Detroit's nightmare. The "flu" is transforming people into monsters, and every test, every sleepless night brings her closer to a truth that shouldn't exist. Then Detective Hank Grizz walks in with blood on his hands and a touch that feels like home.
Detective Hank Grizz knows exactly what's turning Detroit inside out. Poison in the water. Shifters going feral. His grizzly clan is dying in shadows while the woman he can't stop thinking about searches for answers that will expose everything. Keeping Cecilia safe means keeping her in the dark—even as every instinct screams she's his.
When Cecilia discovers shifters are real, the conspiracy explodes. Mad scientists want her research. Hank's cover is blown. And the brilliant doctor who trusted him now knows he's been lying about everything—including what she means to him.
She needs the truth. He needs her alive.
Together they'll burn down the lies—if the betrayal doesn't destroy them first. Read more

Inspired by the #tradwifetok phenomenon, a novel in which trad wives with dark personal secrets in a small beach town find themselves embroiled in scandal when one of their husbands goes missing, and their traditional—and not so traditional—lifestyles become a national sensation,... Inspired by the #tradwifetok phenomenon, a novel in which trad wives with dark personal secrets in a small beach town find themselves embroiled in scandal when one of their husbands goes missing, and their traditional—and not so traditional—lifestyles become a national sensation, from the author of Rush Week.
In an idyllic coastal town, life appears picture-perfect—until it’s not. Families are drawn to Crystal Harbor for its more traditional values and gender roles, a step back in time to an era of female submission and patriarchal leadership. But beneath the layers of perfectly coiffed, manicured, and attired wives; freshly baked sourdough; faithful Sunday churchgoers; bake sales; and backyard barbeques, lies a secret lifestyle that’s only revealed when the sun goes down—and a man goes missing. Worse, the disappearance dredges up a dark truth several of them thought they buried years ago, threatening to shatter the community’s carefully maintained façade.
Told from the alternating perspectives of three women at the center of it all, Tradwife is a juicy, drama-packed novel that dives into the controversial, trending social media lifestyle and gender role stereotypes of tradwives, the taboo behind-closed-doors participation in wife-swapping, and what happens when the lies they’ve told themselves inside a gilded cage turn inside out, with the potential to not only destroy their existence, but end them… Read more

Instead of growing closer over the years, sisters‑in‑law Giselle, Kamryn, Chanel, and Taylor are more distant than ever. After almost a decade of marriage, Giselle is still childless, with the pangs of jealousy and feelings of inadequacy mounting each day. Kamryn loves her husban... Instead of growing closer over the years, sisters‑in‑law Giselle, Kamryn, Chanel, and Taylor are more distant than ever.
After almost a decade of marriage, Giselle is still childless, with the pangs of jealousy and feelings of inadequacy mounting each day. Kamryn loves her husband's family, but she and Giselle have never gotten along, and she's tired of always trying to keep the peace. Newly married Chanel is ecstatic to finally have the family she's craved all her life, but the ongoing feud between her two sisters‑in‑law threatens that harmony. Meanwhile, Taylor is still trying to find her place in the family after a tragic and unexpected turn in her relationship.
As everything comes to a head during a weeklong anniversary celebration, the truth could tear them apart forever...or bring them together as the sisters they were meant to be. Read more

HR Update: The position of “adversary to the villain” has been filled. Evie Sage does not recall applying.Evie has always tried to be helpful, loyal, and only mildly involved in treason. But with a dangerous prophecy threatening the very magic of Rennedawn—not to mention the race... HR Update: The position of “adversary to the villain” has been filled. Evie Sage does not recall applying.Evie has always tried to be helpful, loyal, and only mildly involved in treason. But with a dangerous prophecy threatening the very magic of Rennedawn—not to mention the race to claim its necessary artifacts before King Benedict does—things are starting to feel…less like a career path and more like a serious problem.The prophecy won’t stop pointing in Evie’s direction. The Villain’s magic keeps choosing her. And honestly, if you’re going to be accused of evil anyway, you might as well commit.Unfortunately, the more Evie leans into her alleged villain era, the more her boss starts acting like the hero of a completely different story. Trystan is getting closer—closer than is wise, advisable, or even remotely professional—and looking at her like she’s already chosen a side. His.Which is deeply inconvenient, because if Evie can’t save the kingdom’s magic, she might just become its greatest threat.The hilarious fantasy romance series doesn't end at Adversary to the Villain! The thrilling conclusion to the series is coming soon! Read more

Sparks fly as two former college rivals are forced together for a new D&D campaign‑clashing both in and out of the game‑in this fusion of contemporary second‑chance romance and fantasy from the author of Roll for Romance.In college, Reagan Riley and Wesley Locke were constantly a... Sparks fly as two former college rivals are forced together for a new D&D campaign‑clashing both in and out of the game‑in this fusion of contemporary second‑chance romance and fantasy from the author of Roll for Romance.In college, Reagan Riley and Wesley Locke were constantly at each other's throats, competing to be the best in their video game design program‑until Wesley ghosts her after their unexpected hookup, severing their ties for good.Six years later, Reagan has set aside her game design dreams, opting instead to stay close to her family in Connecticut and channel her creative energy into D&D. When her longstanding group falls apart, she and her sister join their local game store's new advanced campaign‑only to find the demanding Dungeon Master at the helm is none other than Wesley. In the game, he is Vadrien, a merciless, power‑hungry vampire lord, and Reagan is Sindra, the sword‑wielding lady knight who will stop at nothing to cut him down.When a game design opportunity opens up in the real world, Reagan and Wesley find themselves doubly pitted against each other. But as their buried spark reignites and Reagan starts to question why Wesley left all those years ago, can they find a way to play nice‑and are they playing for more than just to win? Read more

He’ll protect them both, no matter the cost.Summer Lewis can’t catch a break. An overworked single mom, she’s struggling to make ends meet. The one bright spot is her favorite customer at the diner where she works—the big, tattooed Reese.But the dark spot in Summer’s life threate... He’ll protect them both, no matter the cost.Summer Lewis can’t catch a break. An overworked single mom, she’s struggling to make ends meet. The one bright spot is her favorite customer at the diner where she works—the big, tattooed Reese.But the dark spot in Summer’s life threatens to blot out the sun. Her ex is a member of a notorious motorcycle club, and they refuse to leave her alone.Reese Haven hasn’t been home in almost two decades. Burdened by the weight of his mistakes, he’s convinced he can’t return. Instead, he uses his skills for good—protecting clients through his private security business.When Summer’s dangerous ex shows up, she turns to her friend, Reese. She has no choice but to disappear, and Reese knows exactly where he can take her.Tilikum. His hometown.Reese makes the agonizing decision to return home, bringing a fake family with him. He’ll stick it out until he’s sure they’re safe, then they’ll go their separate ways. He can’t possibly stay.But pretending to be married turns out to be more complicated than either of them anticipate. As tensions mount and lines blur, their relationship begins to feel all too real.And when the threat to Summer and her son returns, Reese will risk everything—even his life—to keep them safe.Author’s note: A big, tattooed hero with resting scary face falls hard for a down-on-her-luck single mom. A story of found family, forgiveness, and redemption, with the heartwarming happily ever after you’ve been waiting for.Peaks and Promises can be read as a stand-alone. Read more

A cozy, seasonal romance-mystery in which a grumpy café owner teams up with a sunshiny pet groomer to solve a murder that's shocked the small town of Labrador Falls. First book in the Dog Park Murders miniseries that's a perfect blend of Only Murders in the Building and The Pumpk... A cozy, seasonal romance-mystery in which a grumpy café owner teams up with a sunshiny pet groomer to solve a murder that's shocked the small town of Labrador Falls. First book in the Dog Park Murders miniseries that's a perfect blend of Only Murders in the Building and The Pumpkin Spice Café.A killer has been unleashed in their small town...Juliette Macintyre has never met a dog she didn't love. For one thing, dogs don't judge, unlike the human residents of Labrador Falls. Most locals look at her with suspicion because her father was once a dirty cop, even though Juliette is upbeat, helpful, and the best pet groomer around. She just needs to prove it...starting with new resident Joel Cunningham, an enigma wrapped in a checked shirt and a scowl.Joel runs the Brewed Awakening café, where the coffee is as smooth as Joel is surly. He doesn't serve pumpkin spice, he doesn't chitchat, and he claims he doesn't like dogs. Yet when Juliette stumbles upon a dead body in the dog park, strangled with one of her custom leashes, Joel becomes an unexpected ally.He has no intention of opening up, to either his cute neighbor or the foster pup she foists on him. But he can't let a biased detective frame Juliette for murder. Whoever killed the widely loathed Maurice Allsop may be desperate enough to strike again. If they can just ignore their chemistry and focus on the clues, Juliette and Joel might be able to solve the case-before somebody else bites the dust...For fans of...

Grumpy/Sunshine Romance
Small-Town Cozy Mystery
Amateur Sleuths
Twisty-Turny Whodunits
Pet Sidekicks
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Deeply romantic, edge‑of‑your‑seat exciting, with a love for horses at its core and handsome surfers as a bonus: for fans of The Summer I Turned Pretty and The One Dollar Horse. 15‑year‑old American, Morgan, has flown over to England to spend a summer by the sea with cousins she'... Deeply romantic, edge‑of‑your‑seat exciting, with a love for horses at its core and handsome surfers as a bonus: for fans of The Summer I Turned Pretty and The One Dollar Horse.
15‑year‑old American, Morgan, has flown over to England to spend a summer by the sea with cousins she's never met.
All anyone knows is that she's recovering from an accident that left her scarred inside and out. That and that her behaviour is reckless, and she has to be rescued from a rip tide when she tries to go swimming alone at night. Being saved by local surfer and heart throb, Cal Hayward, doesn't win her any favour.
Then Morgan gets offered a job as a stablehand. Working with horses might just be the only thing that can save her. Until, that is, the horses desperately need Morgan to save them and Cal is the only one who can help . . .
Stuck on the moors, alone, in the scorching summer heat, Morgan and the horses must confront their greatest fears in order to survive.The perfect clean teen novel! Bursting with romance, adventure, mystery ‑ and horses ‑ it's a compulsive, explosive read. Read more