Two Russian intelligence agents stumble upon a nightmare scenario that could reshape the Korean Peninsula forever: a missing nuclear weapon, secretly planted in an American city by North Korean operatives years ago, ticking away like a geopolitical time bomb. The discovery sets off a desperate race against time as the agents realize this isn’t an isolated threat—it’s part of a coordinated strategy that’s been decades in the making 💣Meanwhile, beneath the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea, another nuclear weapon inches closer to Seoul through a secret tunnel system the North Koreans have been constructing in absolute secrecy. The tunnels represent years of patient, methodical preparation for an invasion that most intelligence agencies dismissed as impossible. But North Korea’s new military dictator didn’t rise to power by honoring the status quo or respecting international norms—he rose by promising reunification at any cost 🚇

As diplomatic channels collapse and military posturing escalates into actual troop movements, the dictator launches an all-out invasion of South Korea with overwhelming force. The question that hangs over the entire conflict isn’t just about military superiority or strategic positioning—it’s existential: Will Seoul or Pyongyang emerge as the capital of a united Korea? The Russian agents find themselves caught between their duty to their own country and the horrifying realization that millions of lives hang in the balance ⚔️

Ted Halstead crafts a military thriller that rips scenarios from today’s headlines and projects them into a terrifyingly plausible near-future conflict. The Russian Agents series launches with a geopolitical nightmare where Cold War-style espionage collides with modern nuclear brinksmanship, tunnel warfare meets urban combat, and two agents with limited resources must navigate a crisis that could trigger World War III. This is military fiction grounded in real-world tensions, technical accuracy, and the kind of strategic complexity that keeps defense analysts awake at night 🌍

What makes this essential: A geopolitical military thriller featuring Russian agents discovering North Korean nuclear weapons hidden in American cities and tunnels beneath the DMZ as a new dictator launches total war for Korean reunification. Perfect for readers who love Tom Clancy-style techno-thrillers, military strategy, Cold War espionage updated for modern conflicts, and scenarios that feel one news cycle away from reality. First in The Russian Agents series. 🔥

Love at first sight. That’s exactly what it was when Rip Myers walked up to me in kindergarten with his gap-toothed smile and asked if I wanted to be friends. From that moment forward, we became inseparable best friends—the kind who finish each other’s sentences, who know each other’s secrets, who can communicate with just a look across a crowded room. Rip was my person, my constant, the one I knew would always be there 💕Years pass, and childhood friendship deepens into something more intense, at least for me. I finally work up the courage to tell Rip the truth: I’m in love with him. I’ve been in love with him for years, maybe since that first day in kindergarten when he chose me. But his response shatters me—he tells me he treasures our friendship too much to risk it on something as uncertain as romance. That statement might as well be a knife to my heart, twisting with every word 💔

I want desperately to hold out hope that he’ll change his mind, that he’ll wake up one morning and realize what we could be together. Instead, I watch him move on—dating other women, building a life that doesn’t include me as anything more than his best friend. The only choice I have is to pretend that watching him with someone else doesn’t absolutely slay me, to smile and be supportive while my heart breaks a little more each day 😢

So when another man comes into my life—someone kind, someone available, someone who actually wants me—I say yes. Yes to dating, yes to a relationship, yes eventually to marriage. I say yes to the man I love. But here’s the devastating truth: he isn’t the man I’ve been in love with nearly my entire life. Kelly Elliott delivers a friends-to-lovers romance where timing is everything and saying yes to the wrong person might be the only way to protect yourself from the one who could destroy you 💍

Why this grips from page one: A friends-to-lovers romance where kindergarten best friends become inseparable—until her confession of love gets rejected and she watches him move on while agreeing to marry someone else. Perfect for readers who love childhood friends pining, unrequited love that might not stay unrequited, second-chance romance, and Southern settings where matters of the heart run deep. First in the Southern Bride series. 🌟

“I was afraid of the dark until I became it.” As the daughter of a powerful magical family, power didn’t just flow through my veins—it consumed me, defined me, demanded expression. The desire to control others, to manipulate their thoughts and bend their will to mine, lived in my blood like an inherited disease, handed down from generations of witches who believed humans existed to be subtly ruled by those with supernatural gifts 🔮My family expected me to follow in their footsteps, to use my considerable abilities the same way they did: subtly dominating humans, orchestrating events from the shadows, treating ordinary people as chess pieces in games only we could see. But I wanted desperately to be free of my family’s dark world, to escape the legacy of their crimes and murders, the casual cruelty they justified as maintaining the natural order. I wanted to be more than what they made me, to be different than what centuries of tradition demanded 💫

Enter Boaz, a vampire of immense power and even greater mystery. He saved me from my parents’ suffocating grip when I thought escape was impossible, offered me a way out of a life I never chose. He promised me the world—freedom, power on my own terms, a chance to define myself beyond my bloodline. Seductive and bewitching in ways that had nothing to do with supernatural compulsion, I found myself craving him with an intensity that frightened me. His power called to mine. His strength made me feel safe for the first time in my life 🌙

But as the old saying goes, the devil’s in the details. And even Lucifer was once an angel before his fall. What I’m learning too late is that rescue can be just another form of capture, that promises of freedom might come with chains I can’t see, and that the vampire who saved me from one dark destiny might be leading me toward something far worse. Raven Steele crafts a paranormal romance where witch meets vampire, salvation becomes seduction, and the line between being rescued and being claimed grows dangerously thin. Sometimes becoming the darkness is the only way to survive it 🖤

What makes this compelling: A paranormal vampire romance where a witch escaping her family’s dark legacy gets rescued by a powerful vampire who promises freedom—but even devils were once angels. Perfect for readers who love witches with morally complex powers, vampire saviors with hidden agendas, dark romance with bite, and heroines discovering that becoming the darkness might be their only choice. First in the Devil Series. 🔥

AJ is a maintenance tech at Sol Vista care facility, and he’s perfectly content with that simple fact. His life follows a predictable, comfortable rhythm: visiting with his ma who lives at the facility, grabbing a burger at Fatty’s when the craving hits, surfing the Shifting Sea when he needs to clear his head, and staying in flow—that cyberpunk zen state where everything just works and complications stay far away. It’s a quiet life, maybe even a boring one, but it’s his 🌊Then everything changes when a new resident moves into Sol Vista, and AJ’s carefully maintained flow gets not just disrupted but absolutely shattered. What starts as routine care facility maintenance work somehow spirals into a nightmare scenario where AJ finds himself on the run from an interplanetary assassin—the kind of professional killer who doesn’t miss and doesn’t stop. His simple life has been replaced by a desperate chase across multiple worlds 🚀

To save his own life and protect the people he cares about, AJ needs to track down a legendary hacker known only as Destroyer of Worlds—a digital ghost whose reputation for chaos precedes them across star systems. But finding a hacker who’s made invisibility their specialty proves nearly as dangerous as the assassin pursuing him. And then there’s his new girlfriend, the laid-back Territorian skater girl he thought he knew 💻

Turns out, she’s NOT the chill, easygoing person she pretended to be. The skater aesthetic? A cover. The relaxed vibe? Carefully constructed fiction. AJ’s girlfriend has secrets that explain why an interplanetary assassin wants her dead, and those secrets have now painted a target on AJ’s back too. FX Holden delivers cyberpunk science fiction where a maintenance tech’s quiet life explodes into interplanetary intrigue, where staying in flow becomes impossible, and where sometimes the person you’re dating is the most dangerous mystery of all 🎮

Why this deserves your attention: A cyberpunk sci-fi thriller where a maintenance tech’s quiet life surfing digital seas gets destroyed when his new girlfriend attracts an interplanetary assassin and he must find the Destroyer of Worlds hacker to survive. Perfect for readers who love reluctant heroes, cyberpunk worlds with personality, romantic relationships built on lies, and ordinary people caught in extraordinary conspiracies. First in the Coruscant series. ⚡

1908, Siberia: A tiny comet tears through Earth’s atmosphere and detonates above the Tunguska region, instantly incinerating thousands of square acres of mostly desolate wilderness. The explosion reverberates for hundreds of miles, the brilliant flash of the comet visible halfway across the globe. Scientists later calculate that had this cosmic projectile arrived just a few hours earlier, hitting a populated European city instead of remote Siberia, millions would have perished in an instant. It was humanity’s warning shot from the universe ☄️Fast forward a century, and another comet—this one hundreds of times bigger and exponentially more powerful than the Tunguska object—encounters a black hole in the depths of space. The gravitational interaction pushes this planet-killer onto a new trajectory, one with a terrifyingly precise destination: Earth. Unlike the Tunguska event, there will be no remote impact zone, no lucky timing that spares civilization. This comet represents an extinction-level threat 🌍

A small, diverse group of humans discovers the comet’s existence and makes a fateful decision: they’ll keep it secret from the rest of the world. This clandestine group—which calls itself the Inner Circle—includes the President of the United States, a former astronaut with hands-on space experience, and a middle school science teacher whose unique perspective proves invaluable. They have twelve years before impact, which sounds like plenty of time until you realize the scope of what they’re attempting 🚀

Those twelve years must be spent not only figuring out how to avert this cosmic catastrophe—whether through deflection, destruction, or some solution not yet imagined—but also making contingency plans for the very real possibility that they’ll fail. What happens to humanity if the comet can’t be stopped? How do you prepare for potential extinction without causing global panic? Kevin George weaves together hard science fiction, political thriller, and human drama in a four-book collection where the clock is always ticking and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Every second matters when you’re trying to save the world 💫

What makes this essential: A four-book sci-fi collection where a secret Inner Circle discovers a comet hundreds of times larger than the Tunguska event heading straight for Earth—giving them twelve years to avert extinction or prepare for apocalypse. Perfect for readers who love hard science fiction, extinction-level threats, conspiracy of silence scenarios, and stories balancing technical problem-solving with human drama. Complete Comet Clement series. 🌟

Before I even met Donovan Decker, I knew his shoe size. You see, I’d been rushing through the airport after a few days away, and in my haste to escape the terminal chaos, I grabbed the wrong suitcase from the baggage carousel. It wasn’t until I got home and unzipped it that I discovered my mistake—expensive leather shoes, impeccably tailored clothes, and a luggage tag with a phone number. Clearly, Mister Big Spender and I had identical black suitcases and equally poor attention to detail ✈️I dialed the number hoping this wealthy stranger might have my bag, and a deep, velvety voice answered that made my knees slightly weak. As luck would have it, he did have my suitcase. We arranged to meet at a coffee shop to exchange our accidentally swapped luggage, and when Donovan Decker walked in, I realized it wasn’t just his voice that was devastatingly attractive. The man was absolutely gorgeous—and we had an immediate, undeniable spark that crackled between us from the first moment ☕

He got me to sheepishly admit that I’d snooped through his belongings (those seven-hundred-dollar shoes were hard to miss), and then somehow convinced me to let him buy me coffee as penance for my nosiness. Coffee led to dinner, dinner led to dessert, and dessert led to spending an entire weekend together that I’ll never forget. Donovan wasn’t just handsome with a panty-dropping voice—he was funny, smart, surprisingly down to earth despite clearly having money, and he did my laundry while I slept, which might be the sexiest thing any man has ever done 💕

So how did I repay this perfect man for his kindness? I waited until he was in the shower, then ghosted him completely. My life was too complicated for someone so great, and I convinced myself it was better to disappear than explain why I couldn’t let this go anywhere. In the months that followed, I thought about Donovan constantly, but New York has eight million people—what were the chances I’d ever run into him again? Turns out, the universe has a twisted sense of humor, because a year later I encounter him under the worst possible circumstances: I’ve just started dating his boss. Vi Keeland delivers her signature blend of chemistry, comedy, and complications in a romance where second chances collide with impossible timing 😱

Why this deserves your attention: A contemporary romance featuring swapped luggage, instant chemistry, a ghosting regret that lasts a year, and the mortifying discovery that the perfect man you disappeared on is now your new boyfriend’s boss. Perfect for readers who love witty banter, sizzling attraction, second-chance romance, and heroines making spectacularly awkward choices. 🔥

The world has gone dark. A massive EMP attack cripples the West Coast, and civilization collapses overnight in a cascade of failing infrastructure, dead communications, and spreading chaos. No power, no phones, no order. Within hours, cities transform from bustling centers of commerce into dangerous battlegrounds where the only law is survival. Claire’s singular focus amid this catastrophe is finding her sister Lydia before it’s too late, before the window for safe travel closes completely ⚡With violence erupting at every corner and society’s thin veneer of civility evaporating in real time, Claire is forced into an alliance with the last person she ever expected to rely on: her ex-husband. The divorce left wounds that haven’t healed, resentments that haven’t faded, but in a world without rules where danger lurks in every shadow, personal grudges become luxuries neither can afford. Trust between them is fragile at best, but they need each other’s skills to survive the journey ahead 🌍

Meanwhile, miles away in the remote wilderness that has ironically become safer than any city, Lydia awakens in the wreckage of a plane crash—alone, injured, and pregnant. But this isn’t just any pregnancy. Lydia is a surrogate carrying a child for one of the country’s most powerful and ruthless families, people with resources even in a post-apocalyptic world and a vested interest in recovering their genetic investment. They want her back, and whether she arrives alive is negotiable. The baby she’s carrying has just made her a target 🛩️

Grace Hamilton crafts a dual-narrative survival thriller where two sisters must navigate vastly different but equally deadly landscapes. Armed with only the survival skills their father taught them—lessons that seemed paranoid before the EMP but prove invaluable now—Claire and Lydia fight toward the same destination: their family’s old homestead, the one place that might offer safety in a world gone mad. Claire must cross a lawless country with an ex-husband she can’t fully trust. Lydia must survive wilderness, injuries, pregnancy complications, and pursuers who have no intention of letting her go. The road to each other is treacherous, but it’s the only one worth taking 🏔️

What makes this compelling: A post-apocalyptic thriller featuring sisters separated by an EMP attack—one fighting through collapsed civilization with her ex-husband, the other surviving a plane crash while pregnant with a powerful family’s child and hunted. Perfect for readers who love dual narratives, survival against impossible odds, and family bonds tested by catastrophe. First in Survivors of the New Dawn series. 🔥

I went to Paris to become a chef, to master French technique and transform myself from the invisible kitchen maid at the Lyons estate into a culinary professional with real credentials. I came back with a degree from a prestigious culinary school, a killer wardrobe that reflects my newfound confidence, and absolutely no intention of falling for my grumpy, gorgeous boss. Once upon a time, I was background scenery in this mansion—the girl nobody noticed. Now I’m returning with skills, style, and a whole new presence, even if I am still inexplicably a virgin at my age 👨‍🍳Guess who finally notices me? My childhood crush—Lucas’s younger brother, who’s suddenly very interested now that I’ve returned looking completely different. And then there’s Lucas Lyons himself, my actual boss, who is much older, much grumpier, and watching this development with visible displeasure. As CEO of the family empire, Lucas is accustomed to controlling everything in his precisely ordered world, including employees who are far too young for him to be thinking about the way he clearly is. Employees like me 💼

His brother’s romantic interest in me throws a wrench into Lucas’s carefully laid plans for the company, his family dynamics, and his perfectly predictable life where everything follows the script he’s written. But I see the way Lucas looks at me when he thinks I’m not watching—like he’s fighting against something he desperately doesn’t want to feel, battling desire and propriety and his own ironclad self-control. The more time we spend together, trapped in proximity by work and family obligations, the harder it becomes to ignore how much I like him. Not the childhood crush. The grumpy boss who’s trying to keep me from getting involved with his brother 😍

Nicole French delivers a forbidden romance that explores the tension between what we want and what we think we should want. I came back to chase a culinary dream, to establish my career and prove I’m more than the invisible help. But the grumpy boss trying to manage his brother’s romantic life and maintain professional boundaries? He might be the real fairytale after all—the complicated, age-gap, completely inappropriate relationship that makes absolutely no sense except for the fact that we can’t seem to stay away from each other. Sometimes the wrong person turns out to be exactly right 🔥

Why this deserves your attention: A billionaire romance featuring a chef returning from Paris transformed, catching the eye of her childhood crush and his much older, grumpier brother—her actual boss who’s trying to control everything while losing control of his feelings. Perfect for readers who love age-gap romance, grumpy/sunshine dynamics, forbidden workplace attraction, and heroines coming into their power. 💕

Since its original publication, more than a million people have relied on The Birth Partner as their essential guide to supporting a woman through labor, birth, and the early postpartum period. Partners, spouses, relatives, friends, doulas, nurses, midwives, and childbirth educators have all turned to Penny Simkin’s clear, authoritative, and warm-hearted guidance to help them provide the best possible care during one of life’s most significant experiences 👶For this fully revised sixth edition, birthing expert and practicing midwife Melissa Cheyney, PhD, joins Penny to create a better-than-ever resource that’s completely up-to-date with current medical knowledge, hospital protocols, home-birth practices, and an expanded understanding of how parents’ cultural backgrounds shape their ideal birth plans. The updates reflect not just advances in obstetric medicine but also evolving perspectives on patient autonomy, informed consent, and the recognition that there’s no single “right” way to give birth 🏥

The book remains the definitive manual to have at hand during labor and birth itself, providing thorough, practical information on every aspect of the experience: recognizing when labor has begun and what to do in those early stages, understanding the phases of normal labor and how to help the mother through each step, navigating decisions about epidurals and other pain medications, understanding when and why Pitocin or natural methods might be used to induce or speed labor, mastering non-drug techniques for easing pain, preparing for the possibility of cesarean birth and complications that might require it, and supporting early breastfeeding and newborn care 💕

What sets this guide apart is its combination of medical accuracy with practical, hands-on advice delivered in accessible language. It doesn’t just explain what happens during childbirth—it equips birth partners with specific techniques, positions, massage methods, breathing patterns, and emotional support strategies they can actually use in the moment. The book acknowledges that birth rarely follows a script, preparing partners to adapt to unexpected developments while maintaining their essential role as advocate and support person. Whether you’re a first-time dad terrified of doing something wrong, an experienced doula expanding your knowledge, or a friend who wants to be genuinely helpful rather than just present, this comprehensive guide provides the tools you need 🌟

What makes this essential: The definitive childbirth companion guide used by over a million people—sixth edition fully updated with current medical practices, cultural considerations, and practical techniques for supporting women through labor, birth, and postpartum. Perfect for partners, doulas, family members, and anyone wanting to provide informed, compassionate support during childbirth. 📚