Elle Demont is the youngest child and only daughter of Earl Sevrin Demont, and her future has been arranged with the kingdom of Pry-Ree to secure borders and stabilize two realms. She accepts the match. Then her cousin—the ruthless prince of Comoros—decides to overturn her family’s fortunes entirely, and the careful future Elle agreed to collapses into something far more dangerous. 🏰
Jeff Wheeler, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Muirwood and Kingfountain series, sets this standalone novella during the era of the Legends of Muirwood and uses it to demonstrate exactly what makes that world so compelling. The magic system—built around Leerings, majestic abbeys, and the mysterious power of the Medium—is introduced with the confidence of an author who has spent years inside it, and new readers will find it immediately accessible without any prior knowledge of the series. ✨
As a standalone, In the Twilight Kingdom delivers a complete emotional arc: a young woman stripped of her arranged future and forced to find her own path through betrayal and political violence. Wheeler keeps the pacing tight and the stakes personal, grounding the high fantasy elements in Elle’s specific situation rather than sweeping world-historical events. The triumph she earns feels genuinely hard-won. For existing fans of the Muirwood universe, it’s a rich addition to beloved mythology. 🌙
Captivating epic fantasy standalone—a woman’s triumph over darkness in a world of Leerings, abbeys, and treacherous royalty—In the Twilight Kingdom is a perfect entry point to Jeff Wheeler’s beloved universe. FREE today on Amazon.
Dr. Alastair Stone is a British mage who teaches occult studies at Stanford by day and handles the supernatural problems nobody else will touch by night. He’s charming, sharp, and considerably more dangerous than he looks—which is exactly the kind of protagonist who anchors a long-running urban fantasy series. This box set collects the first four books of R.L. King’s Amazon-bestselling Alastair Stone Chronicles, making it the ideal starting point for new readers and an exceptional value for anyone already converted. 🎩
King builds Alastair’s world with the attention to character that distinguishes urban fantasy that lasts from urban fantasy that doesn’t. The supernatural cases that drive each book are inventive and twisty, but the real pull is Alastair himself—his relationships, his history, his particular brand of wry British competence in the face of genuinely dangerous situations. The overarching mythology develops across the four volumes in ways that reward continued reading without punishing readers who are just getting started. 🔮
Four complete novels in a single free package is an exceptional way to discover whether a series is worth committing to—and the Alastair Stone Chronicles consistently earns that commitment. The plotting is tight, the supernatural world-building is layered and consistent, and Alastair’s voice is distinctive enough to carry dozens of books without wearing out its welcome. This is one of the better urban fantasy series running, and this box set is the right place to start. 🌙
Essential urban fantasy box set—four complete novels featuring a smart, charming British mage and a supernatural world that keeps getting richer—Alastair Stone Chronicles is a series worth bingeing. FREE today on Amazon.
Laura Carlyle left high society behind for committee meetings and quiet cups of tea in her genteel corner of Kensington—a perfectly managed retirement, until Rebecca Farrell arrives convinced her husband didn’t simply drop dead. Laura’s late husband was an ex-civil servant with far too many secrets, and his legacy is a finely tuned ability to spot a lie. Rebecca’s grief has the unmistakable shape of someone telling the truth. 🫖
Into this draws Sebastian Silver—silver-haired, sharp-suited, and carrying information about Harry Farrell that he has no obvious reason to possess. Whether Silver can be trusted is the book’s central tension, and Jack Gatland plays it well, giving him enough charm and opacity to be genuinely ambiguous rather than a simple red herring. The Kensington setting, all drawing rooms and candlelit crypts, is the ideal container for a murder mystery that keeps its considerable menace perfectly pressed and respectable-looking. 🔎
The discovery of a mysterious cabal of killers operating beneath the polished surface of Laura’s neighborhood gives the series its overarching threat, and Gatland introduces it with enough restraint that the full scope emerges gradually rather than arriving in a single info-dump. Laura herself is a protagonist worth following across many books—sharp, experienced, and in possession of a late husband’s contact book that turns out to be a remarkable asset. The cozy atmosphere never dulls the genuine danger. 🗝️
Charming cozy mystery with a nosy Kensington widow, a conman who knows too much, and a murder that opens onto something much darker—Silver and The Sunday Cypher is a terrifically elegant series opener. FREE today on Amazon.
You’ve Been Pooping All Wrong
Harvard gastroenterologist Dr. Trisha Pasricha opens with a comparison that lands: nobody would expect you to have great teeth if nobody ever showed you a toothbrush. Yet somehow the fundamentals of digestive health—one of the most basic functions of the human body—remain completely unaddressed in mainstream health education. The result is a remarkable number of high-functioning people quietly suffering from problems that are entirely fixable. 💩
Pasricha brings genuine scientific depth to a subject that most medical writers either avoid entirely or address with excessive delicacy. The brain-gut-microbiome connection is the conceptual spine of the book—explaining why stress causes constipation, why anxiety sends you sprinting for the bathroom before public speaking, and how your lifestyle shapes the microbial ecosystem that shapes you in return. The neuroscience and enteric biology are rendered accessibly without being dumbed down. 🔬
The practical framework Pasricha offers—the three P’s of a perfect poop—is evidence-based and actionable, covering posture, timing, diet, and the psychological dimensions of what she memorably calls poophoria. The tone throughout is riotously funny without undercutting the legitimate medical content; she’s clearly a doctor who has spent years having the conversation that everyone needs and nobody initiates. For IBS sufferers, chronic constipation patients, or simply anyone curious about their own digestive health, this is a genuinely useful book. 🧬
Essential gut health guide from a Harvard gastroenterologist—funny, scientifically rigorous, and genuinely life-improving—You’ve Been Pooping All Wrong is a new release worth reading.
Kate Bowler was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer in her thirties, which gives her arguments about happiness and suffering a grounding that the genre rarely has. Her central distinction is precise and important: happiness, in the cultural sense, is something you optimize, manufacture, and chase—and it collapses when life doesn’t cooperate. Joy is something else entirely. It doesn’t require the bad things to be resolved first. ☀️
Bowler draws on a decade of living with serious illness and a career studying America’s prosperity gospel and wellness culture to diagnose why so many people busy optimizing their happiness are missing actual joy. The happiness industry, she argues, promises that the right habits and the right mindset will deliver a life that feels good—a promise that leaves people alone with their grief when it inevitably doesn’t work. Joy arrives differently: at the edge of expectation, when life interrupts your scripts. 💛
Joyful, Anyway offers concrete practices for what Bowler calls putting yourself in the way of joy—loosening control, introducing novelty, choosing charity, staying open to the moments that pull you back into life even when you didn’t plan for them. The writing is honest, tender, and occasionally devastating. This isn’t a book that tells you to think positively. It’s a book that takes seriously everything that makes thinking positively feel impossible, and finds something true on the other side. 🌿
Unforgettable exploration of joy from a writer who has earned every word—Joyful, Anyway is bracingly honest, genuinely moving, and a new release that stands apart from the happiness shelf entirely.
No foreign leader met with as many sitting American presidents as Queen Elizabeth II—thirteen in total, across seventy years of a reign that witnessed the full arc of the US-UK relationship from the Suez Crisis to Brexit. Veteran political reporter Susan Page goes behind the ceremonial image to reveal a skilled strategist who, following Winston Churchill’s advice to stay close to the Americans, played an unexpected and largely hidden role in shaping that relationship. 👑
Page’s access and research surface remarkable specific stories: the genuine and surprising bond between Elizabeth and Barack Obama, each ranking the other among the most impressive leaders of their lifetimes; her influential Cold War friendship with Ronald Reagan, built on a shared love of horses and complicated by conflict with Margaret Thatcher; Richard Nixon seeking the Queen’s help during Watergate and even angling to make her a relative; and the reality of the Trump relationship, going beyond rumor to examine the surprising complexity of his pursuit of her approval. 🇺🇸
The book also traces how the presidency shaped Elizabeth—the almost paternal guidance of Truman and Eisenhower as she assumed the crown after her father’s death, and the distance from Lyndon Johnson, the only sitting president who declined to meet her. Page analyzes the reach and limits of the soft power Elizabeth wielded with real rigor, and the result is both a diplomatic history and a portrait of a woman who was routinely underestimated and consistently more consequential than anyone admitted. 🌍
Captivating royal biography revealing Queen Elizabeth II’s hidden hand in seventy years of US-UK history—The Queen and Her Presidents is a new release that reads like the best kind of insider account.