I was finally confessing to my best friend how I—a divorced, single mom just dipping my toes back into dating—had fallen for Foster…again. The kicker? I never told her about the first time.

Foster Montgomery. Her hot, younger brother.

Once upon a time, we had a thing—if you could even call it that. Back in high school, Foster made sure we stayed a secret, sneaking around like I was some shameful mistake he didn’t want the world to see. It stung—every whispered promise, every stolen moment that never saw the light of day. I told myself it didn’t matter, that I was fine with it. But deep down? I didn’t want more—I couldn’t. I was older, and telling people was never an option. But damn, I really liked him, and it hurt more than I let on.

Well, not anymore.

Years later, I finally got the perfect opportunity to turn the tables. If revenge just so happened to come wrapped in sweaty nights, toe-curling kisses, and a little naked yoga in my living room, well, I wasn’t complaining. And honestly? It was the best kind of payback.

Fate always finds a way

After aging out of foster care, Moira moved to the small mountain town to start a new life. She discovered a secret that turned her life upside down when she laid eyes on the mad Alpha.

Rendered partially insane by the absence of his mate, Danners struggled to survive long enough to fulfill his duty as future Alpha to the pack. A necessary trip for groceries drives the recluse into town, where he catches the scent of his fated mate.

Her presence brings sanity, hope, and a bid for war as others covet what’s rightfully his.

Riding the Santa Fe Trail is a difficult and lonely profession…especially for a girl named George.

Georgianna Walton’s father sat her on the back of a horse the moment she could sit up straight. Ever since, they have traveled together from one side of the country to the other with no place to call home. With no mother to guide her, George has learned everything she knows from her father, Harry, but she wants nothing more than to settle down and have a place to call home.

Elijah Mitchell is traveling to Santa Fe to take up a position as a doctor. However, when Harry has an accident on the trail, Eli cannot leave him alone on the prairie. While he ministers to the cantankerous old man, his mother begins to teach George all the things her own mother could not.

She is a wild woman from the west…he is a very proper doctor from back east—can they form the unlikeliest of partnerships out in the wild, untamed Kansas prairie?

Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is deemed “acceptable” in published works have shifted over the centuries, and from culture to culture.

Banned Books explores why some of the world’s most important literary classics and seminal non-fiction titles were once deemed too controversial for the public to read – whether for challenging racial or sexual norms, satirizing public figures, or simply being deemed unfit for young readers. From the banning of All Quiet on the Western Front and the repeated suppression of On the Origin of the Species, to 1984, Fahrenheit 45, Catcher in the Rye and Huckleberry Fin, this must-have volume examines the astonishing role that some banned books have played in changing history.

Packed with eye-opening insights into the history of the written word, and the political and social climate during the period of suppression or censorship, this is a must-read for anyone interested in literature; creative writing; politics; history or the law.

Widely acclaimed as “the Cheese Queen,” Ricki Carroll has guided thousands of home cheese makers and inspired the burgeoning popularity of artisanal cheese making with her classic book, Home Cheese Making, first published in 1982, with over 400,000 copies in print.

The completely updated fourth edition features 35 new cheese recipes, color photography of step-by-step techniques, and new profiles of contemporary cheese makers. The additions to this comprehensive volume reflect the broader selection of cheeses available in specialty food stores and groceries, including burrata, stracchino, Brillat-Savarin, D’Affinois, Cambrales, Drunk Gouda, Pecorino Pepato, goat milk’s gouda, and more. Companion recipes are included for cheese plate condiments and classic cheese dishes. For cheese lovers wanting to make their own, Ricki Carroll’s expert advice is the key to success.

When Evie Walker goes home to spend time with her dying father, she discovers that his creaky old house in Hope’s Fort, Colorado, is not the only legacy she stands to inherit. Hidden behind the old basement door is a secret and magical storeroom, a place where wondrous treasures from myth and legend are kept safe until they are needed again. The magic of the storeroom prevents access to any who are not intended to use the items. But just because it has never been done does not mean it cannot be done.

And there are certainly those who will give anything to find a way in.

Evie must guard the storeroom against ancient and malicious forces, protecting the past and the future even as the present unravels around them. Old heroes and notorious villains alike will rise to fight on her side or to undermine her most desperate gambits. At stake is the fate of the world, and the prevention of nothing less than the apocalypse.