A relic from the past. A foe beyond human limits. And a danger older than history itself. An innocent discovery on a Montana ranch sets off a series of events that could very well change the world, if it doesn’t end it first. Professor Delaney McPhearson’s life is turned upside down when her best friend, archaeologist Drew Masters, is found dead. Before she can process that heartbreaking loss, she is viciously attacked in her home by a man with inhuman fighting abilities. 🔍Former Navy SEAL and head of security for a global think tank, Jake Rogan, drops everything when he hears his brother has gone missing. There seem to be no clues, no information about his whereabouts—he’s just vanished. But Jake won’t rest until he finds him. As Laney and Jake join forces, they learn that the fates of their loved ones are intertwined and that the danger stalking them revolves around an eccentric archaeologist’s controversial work on Göbekli Tepe and the search for an ancient source of power. 😱

Why I’m including this: Professor Delaney McPhearson’s best friend archaeologist Drew Masters is found dead, then she’s viciously attacked by a man with inhuman fighting abilities. Former Navy SEAL Jake Rogan’s brother has vanished without clues. As Laney and Jake join forces, they learn their loved ones’ fates are intertwined and the danger revolves around controversial work on Göbekli Tepe and an ancient source of power.

I am the first Horseman of the Apocalypse. Once, my brothers and I brought the world to its knees. Now they are dead—or worse. And I am alone. Until she appears. A fragile human, kneeling at my feet. Begging for my favor. I could devour her. I am the monster of legend—the thing that stalks the night. But I don’t want her blood. I have endured centuries of loneliness. I will endure no longer. She will be mine. Forever. 🖤Stasia Black delivers fairy tale fantasy where first Horsemen of the Apocalypse who brought the world to its knees now stand alone after brothers died or worse until fragile humans kneel at feet begging for favor. The monster of legend who stalks the night has endured centuries of loneliness and will endure no longer—she will be his forever. 😱

Why I’m including this: The first Horseman of the Apocalypse once brought the world to its knees with his brothers. Now they are dead or worse and he is alone. Until she appears—a fragile human kneeling at his feet begging for his favor. The monster of legend who stalks the night has endured centuries of loneliness. He will endure no longer. She will be his forever.

Noah hadn’t been the same since the day Brianna died. As a Delta Force operative turned private security entrepreneur, he prided himself on his ability to make any situation work to his advantage. But this was one hurdle he couldn’t clear. Then he caught an intruder in his house, only to learn his long-dead love was still alive. Betrayal and loyalty warred inside him. Treachery and danger threatened them. But when she revealed the entire story, he knew he had a second chance with the only woman he’d ever loved—and he wouldn’t lose her again. 💔But the danger wasn’t over. More than distance kept them apart for three years. Can they survive the wicked games when an unknown enemy holds all the cards? A.D. Justice delivers military romance where Delta Force operatives turned private security entrepreneurs catch intruders discovering long-dead loves still alive creating betrayal and loyalty wars. 😱

Why I’m including this: Delta Force operative turned private security entrepreneur Noah hadn’t been the same since Brianna died. Then he caught an intruder in his house only to learn his long-dead love was still alive. Betrayal and loyalty warred inside him as treachery and danger threatened them. When she revealed the entire story, he knew he had a second chance—and he wouldn’t lose her again. But an unknown enemy holds all the cards.

Pretty please with spaghetti on top? Andy Buckland has always dreamed of being a chef. But after a live studio audience is stricken with food poisoning during her debut cooking show, she finds herself blacklisted in the culinary community. The only job open to her is working in her family’s southern pasta shop, and, to make matters worse, her first assignment is serving baked ziti to her former lover and his spoiled bride-to-be at their engagement party! 🍝But a broken heart and a bruised ego are the least of Andy’s troubles when she discovers a dead body at the party with the words “welcome home” written in flour next to it. Is it a warning? A threat? Or a frame-up job? Andy is determined to find out. With the help of her over-the-top Italian family, Andy will prove that she has what it takes to not only cook the best dish in town but also catch a killer, too! 😱

Why I’m including this: Andy Buckland’s debut cooking show audience gets food poisoning, blacklisting her from the culinary community. Working in her family’s southern pasta shop, her first assignment is serving baked ziti to her former lover and his spoiled bride-to-be at their engagement party. When she discovers a dead body with “welcome home” written in flour next to it, Andy’s determined to catch a killer with her over-the-top Italian family’s help.

The defendant has everything any person could want: fame, riches, a mansion on the shores of Lake Washington. So why would he murder some nameless drifter in a parking garage under the booming downtown of Seattle’s most affluent suburb? His lawyers argue he wouldn’t, and therefore he didn’t. But the admittedly grainy surveillance video seems to say otherwise. ⚖️Homicide D.A. David Brunelle encounters new friends, old flames, and a relentless defense attorney as he tries to hold a killer responsible. But how can he convince the jury the killer committed the crime when he has to admit there’s a complete lack of motive? Stephen Penner delivers legal thriller where defendants with fame, riches, and Lake Washington mansions murder nameless drifters creating grainy surveillance videos saying otherwise despite lawyers arguing wouldn’t and didn’t. 😱

Why I’m including this: The defendant has everything: fame, riches, a mansion on Lake Washington. So why would he murder some nameless drifter in a parking garage under Seattle’s most affluent suburb? His lawyers argue he wouldn’t, and therefore he didn’t. But the grainy surveillance video seems to say otherwise. Homicide D.A. David Brunelle must convince the jury despite admitting there’s a complete lack of motive.

It started with a water leak and spiraled into spy-level chaos—though in her defense, she wasn’t trying to spy on Owen. She was just curious about the handsome, tool-belt-wearing guy with the easy smile and perfectly scruffy face who moved into the townhome next door. But when a water line breaks and the wall between her kitchen and Owen’s gets demolished, suddenly she’s experiencing next-door-neighboring at an alarmingly close range that makes maintaining professional distance nearly impossible. 🔧

By day, she sits behind a computer screen helping intelligence operatives navigate dangerous missions with calm precision and analytical expertise. Her nights should be equally controlled and predictable, but between Owen’s historical theater restoration project, his investor whom she’s convinced is shady, and her unfortunate inability to act cool around Owen, things are getting complicated fast. Her spy skills apparently don’t translate to handling attraction to the charming contractor next door. 💻

Romance definitely isn’t part of her mission briefing—she’s trained to keep people at a distance for their safety and hers. But Owen keeps making her wonder if maybe, just maybe, she could be both seen and safe at the same time. His genuine warmth and the way he looks at her like she’s fascinating rather than strange challenges every protective wall she’s built around her double life. The proximity forced by home repairs means she can’t avoid him even if she wanted to. 🏠

As their connection deepens despite her best efforts at maintaining boundaries, she finds herself falling for her neighbor in ways that complicate both her professional obligations and personal safety protocols. The question becomes whether she can trust Owen with the truth about her work, or if letting someone past her defenses will endanger them both. Sometimes the most dangerous mission is allowing yourself to be vulnerable with someone who might actually understand. 💕

What makes this essential: A charming romantic comedy about an intelligence operative whose carefully controlled life gets hilariously disrupted when a broken water line forces spy-level proximity with her handsome contractor neighbor, making her wonder if being seen and safe can coexist. 🌟

Working as a maid on a luxury yacht certainly isn’t Urvi’s idea of a dream job, but she needs money fast as a Royal Academy music student who’s been cut off by her family for choosing her passion over medicine. She needs every penny of the exorbitant fee the powerful advertising executive Jack Bailey is willing to pay, even if it means swallowing her pride. So what if she thought Jack was asking her out during all those late-night chats at the bar where she works? So what if she felt a genuine connection between them? 🛥️

Jack and his mega yacht are clearly more out of her league than she realized, and the cold shoulder he’s giving her now makes that abundantly clear. A bit of banter with a barmaid obviously meant nothing to him, reducing her to just another employee on his floating palace. Urvi can’t afford pride if she wants to survive financially, and with the way her diabetes control has been lately, survival is becoming her number one priority rather than a metaphor. 💔

The enemies-to-lovers dynamic simmers beneath the surface as Urvi navigates the humiliation of working for someone she thought saw her as an equal. Every interaction with Jack becomes charged with unspoken tension—the memory of their easy conversations at the bar clashing with his current professional distance. She’s forced to serve someone who once made her laugh, who seemed genuinely interested in her dreams, who now treats her like she’s invisible. 🎵

But proximity on a luxury yacht means they can’t avoid each other no matter how much emotional distance Jack tries to maintain. As Urvi demonstrates her intelligence, resilience, and refusal to be diminished by her circumstances, the walls between employer and employee begin to crack. Her medical condition adds urgency and vulnerability to a situation already complicated by class differences, wounded pride, and an attraction neither can fully suppress despite the power imbalance between them. ⚓

What makes this essential: An enemies-to-lovers romance about a Royal Academy music student forced to work as a maid on the luxury yacht of the advertising executive she thought was interested in her, discovering that pride and survival rarely coexist when diabetes complications make every decision life-or-death. 💕

Elatsoe—Ellie for short—lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups, where the supernatural coexists with the everyday. She possesses a rare gift inherited through her Lipan Apache bloodline: the ability to raise the spirits of dead animals, most importantly her beloved ghost dog Kirby who remains her constant companion even after death. When her cherished cousin dies in what appears to be a car crash, his ghost tells her a chilling truth: he was murdered. 🐕

All signs point to an accident that officials are ready to close, but Ellie knows better than to ignore her cousin’s ghostly testimony. Who killed him and how did he die? With the help of her supportive family, her best friend Jay who grounds her in reality, and guidance from the memory of her great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother Elatsoe, she must track down the killer and unravel the sinister mystery of this creepy town and its dark past that locals would rather keep buried. 🔍

The investigation pulls Ellie deeper into a web of secrets protected by powerful forces who benefit from keeping the truth hidden. The town’s picture-perfect facade conceals something rotten at its core, and the nefarious townsfolk along with a mysterious Doctor will stop at nothing to prevent her from uncovering what really happened. Her unique ability to communicate with animal spirits becomes both her greatest asset and a target painted on her back. 👻

The novel weaves Indigenous magic systems and cultural traditions into a contemporary mystery framework, creating a richly textured world where ancestral knowledge provides both power and responsibility. Ellie’s determination to seek justice for her cousin drives her forward even when facing threats that would make most teenagers flee. Her connection to her heritage through the ghost-raising ability passed down through generations becomes the key to solving a murder that powerful people want forgotten. 🌙

What makes this essential: A supernatural mystery set in an alternate America where a Lipan Apache teen with the power to raise animal spirits—including her ghost dog Kirby—must unmask her cousin’s murderer in a town concealing dark secrets that powerful forces will kill to protect. ⚡

Eila Jacobsen is adrift, reeling from her father’s recent death while still suffering from the earlier loss of her best friend—two devastating blows that have left her unmoored and searching for purpose. When invited to join a research trip to a remote part of Alaska to investigate the dwindling caribou population, she seizes the chance to refocus her life and perhaps find meaning in scientific work that matters. The frozen wilderness seems like the perfect place to bury herself in data and escape her grief. 🦌

But as Eila immerses herself in research, she stumbles across something remarkable concealed in the pages of her father’s journal—a discovery with life-changing possibilities that he apparently abandoned for reasons she can’t fathom. The find raises more questions than answers: Why would her father walk away from research of this magnitude? What was he protecting or hiding? Unable to ignore its potential, Eila ventures deeper into the Alaskan tundra in search of both healing and answers to mysteries her father took to his grave. ❄️

She’s not the only one in need of a new beginning, and she’s not the only one looking for what her father found. Pursued across the vast landscape by others who’ve learned of the discovery and haunted by the secrets her father kept, Eila presses forward into increasingly remote territory. The research trip transforms into something far more personal as she unearths the regrets of those closest to her—understanding for the first time the burdens her father carried and the choices that shaped his life. 🏔️

Through her journey into the Alaskan wilderness, Eila discovers that healing isn’t about escaping grief but confronting it, and that her father’s legacy includes not just his scientific work but the joy and forgiveness that bind families together even after death. The magical realism elements weave through the narrative as the harsh beauty of Alaska becomes a character itself, reflecting Eila’s internal landscape as she transforms from someone fleeing pain into someone embracing connection, purpose, and the possibility of new beginnings. 🌟

What makes this essential: A magical realism journey through remote Alaska where a grieving researcher discovers her father’s abandoned breakthrough in his journal, launching a pursuit across the tundra that unearths family secrets and reveals that healing comes from confronting loss rather than escaping it. 🌌

Harlow promised him she would be there for the best day of his life—never thinking she wouldn’t be the one standing next to him at the altar. But here she is, attending the wedding of the love of her life to another woman, smiling through the pain while pushing back tears that desperately want to fall. This is his day, and she’s determined to fulfill her promise no matter how much it’s breaking her heart. She loves him enough to watch him marry someone else. 💔

Travis believed it was supposed to be the best day of his life, but from the moment he woke up, everything started falling spectacularly apart. The kitchen caught fire during breakfast preparations. The flowers delivered are clearly from a funeral rather than a wedding. His bride-to-be just had a severe allergic reaction and left by ambulance. And then—oh, and then—his ex-girlfriend Harlow walks into the church looking exactly like everything he’s been trying to convince himself he doesn’t still want. 🔥

They say you have to see the signs when they’re right in front of you, but Travis has been willfully ignoring them for months. The universe is practically screaming at him through kitchen fires and funeral flowers and ambulances, but it takes seeing Harlow—beautiful, heartbroken Harlow who came anyway—for him to finally understand what his subconscious has known all along. Some people aren’t meant to be let go, and some mistakes need to be corrected before it’s too late. 💒

The wedding-day disaster becomes a catalyst for Travis to confront what he’s always known but was too afraid to act on: Harlow was always the one, and marrying anyone else would be the biggest mistake of his life. The chaos of the crumbling wedding creates space for truth, second chances, and the realization that sometimes the universe sends unmistakable signs that you’re making a colossal error. Maybe Harlow was always just his to have, if only he’s brave enough to claim her. 💕

What makes this essential: A second-chance Southern romance where everything goes catastrophically wrong on a groom’s wedding day—from kitchen fires to funeral flowers to his bride leaving by ambulance—forcing him to finally see that his ex-girlfriend who showed up anyway was always the one he should be marrying. 🌟