Jake Foster fell hard for Dani Minelli when she was a teenager and he was old enough to know better. She was too young, he was too aware of it, and he kept his distance through sheer willpower and a lot of cold showers. Some lines you just don’t cross, no matter how much you want to. 🌨️

Now Dani’s back in Pine Harbour, all grown up and making no secret of what she wants—which is Jake, specifically, with no ambiguity about it whatsoever. She’s done waiting for him to stop being noble. She’s done pretending she doesn’t notice him noticing her. She came back for a reason, and that reason has a name. 💕

Jake’s running out of excuses. The age gap that once felt like a canyon now feels like a speed bump. She’s a woman who knows her own mind, and the look in her eyes when she sees him makes it increasingly difficult to remember why he’s been keeping his hands to himself all these years. 🔥

Pine Harbour winters are long and cold, and there’s only so much a man can resist when the snowstorm rolls in and the woman he’s loved from a distance is suddenly very, very close. Sometimes the timing that felt wrong for years starts feeling exactly right, and all those careful walls come down in a single night. ❄️

What makes this sweet: Zoe York’s small town romance follows Jake Foster who fell for Dani Minelli when she was too young to pursue, keeping careful distance for years—now she’s back in Pine Harbour as a grown woman making her feelings unmistakably clear, and Jake is finally running out of reasons to keep the woman he’s always loved at arm’s length through a Pine Harbour snowstorm.

After catching her husband on tape with another woman, Dawson Everly ditches Nashville and everything that came with it—the marriage, the humiliation, the carefully constructed life that turned out to be built on lies. Starkford, Mississippi promises a clean slate. New town, new job, zero complications. That plan lasts approximately five minutes. 🍹

Patrick Butler is smoldering, broody, and exactly the kind of trouble Dawson promised herself she was done with. He’s also her landlord, which makes avoiding him essentially impossible. He has rules—no strings, no drama, no exceptions—rules he’s apparently never needed to reconsider until a sharp-tongued literature professor moved into his guesthouse and started making him question all of them. 😏

She’s brilliant and guarded, carrying wounds she hasn’t finished healing. He’s bad news with genuinely good instincts he rarely admits to. Together they’re a disaster waiting to happen, which somehow makes the chemistry between them worse—or better, depending on how you look at it. Every conversation ends in either sparks or arguments, sometimes both simultaneously. 🔥

Starkford has strong cocktails, stronger opinions, and absolutely no shortage of people willing to watch these two circle each other and make terrible decisions. When the heat between them finally starts to simmer past the point of ignoring, denying it might turn out to be the biggest pour choice of all. 🥃

What makes this fun: P.J. DeVere’s romantic comedy follows Dawson Everly ditching Nashville after catching her cheating husband on tape, landing in Starkford Mississippi ready for zero complications—until she meets Patrick Butler, her smoldering bartender landlord whose strict no-strings rules start crumbling when the sharp-tongued literature professor in his guesthouse checks every box he should avoid, making denial their biggest pour choice yet.

Kira Fairwood is a fox shifter navigating a world built by wolves and run by wolves, working for wolves who barely tolerate her presence. The job isn’t just income—it’s strategy. Her unborn niece is half werewolf, and Kira’s determined to make sure that heritage opens doors instead of closing them when the time comes. 🦊

Her current assignment: take down a hot alpha werewolf named Thom who’s allegedly using his bar as cover for murdering human women. Straightforward enough, except that when Kira digs deeper, the evidence stops adding up. Thom isn’t the killer. He’s being framed by someone who clearly knows how to manipulate a werewolf investigation from the inside. 🍺

Now the actual murderer has figured out that someone is hunting them—and has decided to start hunting back. Kira is caught between following orders that point at the wrong target and trusting instincts that could get her fired, or worse. In a wolf’s world, a fox who goes off-script doesn’t get second chances. 🌕

Keeping her family safe means making impossible choices about loyalty, obedience, and exactly how far outside the rules she’s willing to go when the rules themselves are being weaponized against the truth. Being the bane of the werewolves was always part of the job description—she just didn’t expect it to feel quite this personal. ⚠️

What makes this gripping: Aimee Easterling’s contemporary fantasy follows fox shifter Kira Fairwood working for werewolves to secure her unborn niece’s future, assigned to take down alpha Thom suspected of murdering human women through his bar—but Kira discovers Thom is being framed, and when the true murderer begins hunting the hunters, she must decide how far outside the rules she’ll go when following orders means protecting the wrong person.

Ten years ago, Kandra Sullivan turned down Noah Lockhart’s proposal and walked out of Cross Creek chasing dreams he wasn’t part of. She left him on one knee holding a ring she never even looked at. She went to become a photographer. She became a model instead. And when the man she trusted discarded her the moment she needed him most, she had nowhere left to go but home. 💔

Now she’s back—broke, pregnant, and pulling pints at the only bar in town. Cross Creek has a population of 2,500 and a very long memory, which means running into Noah isn’t a possibility so much as a daily inevitability. His three meddling brothers don’t help. Neither does the fact that Roy’s bar keeps throwing them together like the universe has opinions about their unfinished business. 🍺

Noah spent a decade telling himself he hates her. He’s gotten pretty convincing at it, too. But there’s a difference between telling yourself something and actually believing it, and watching Kandra walk back into Cross Creek looking like she’s been through hell has a way of blurring that line considerably. 😔

She shattered him once and he’s never quite finished putting himself back together. The piece she took with her is still missing—and she’s standing right there behind the bar every single night, making it impossible to pretend otherwise. Some hearts don’t fully heal; they just learn to function around the missing parts until the person who took them comes home. ❤️

What makes this emotional: Kelly Collins’s second chance romance follows Kandra Sullivan returning to Cross Creek broke and pregnant after rejecting Noah Lockhart’s proposal a decade ago and chasing dreams that fell apart—with 2,500 residents, three meddling brothers, and one bar constantly throwing them together, Noah’s decade of convincing himself he hates her starts crumbling when she’s standing right there every night still holding the piece of his heart she took when she left.

One accidental text message. One wrong number. One connection she didn’t see coming with someone she can’t stand in real life—because she doesn’t know it’s him yet. Callan Jackson is rude, arrogant, and genuinely convinced the world orbits around him. Spoiler: it doesn’t. Especially not hers. 📱

She used to be famous before everything came crashing down in the spectacular way only celebrity disasters can. Now she’s rebuilding quietly, and the last thing she needs is complications—which is exactly when she accidentally texts the wrong number and lands in a conversation that somehow becomes the best part of her day. 🌟

Her secret texter gets her in ways nobody else does. She confides things she’s never said out loud. She feels close to him in a way that’s becoming very inconvenient for someone who swore off emotional entanglements. She wants every piece of him. There’s just one problem she hasn’t figured out yet. 😬

The man on the other end of those texts is Callan. The same Callan she can’t stand. The same Callan who has no idea the woman he’s been texting is the girl he treats like an inconvenience every time they’re in the same room. When the truth comes out—and it will—he’s not going to want her anymore. Or at least that’s what she’s terrified of. 💔

What makes this addictive: Misti Murphy’s humorous fiction follows a fallen celebrity rebuilding her life who accidentally texts the wrong number, finding an unexpected emotional connection with her secret texter—not realizing he’s Callan Jackson, the rude arrogant man she can’t stand in person, setting up an inevitable collision between the person who gets her completely and the person who doesn’t know she exists in the best possible way.

One night. That’s all it was supposed to be. Mr. Sexy in a Suit was perfect for exactly that—temporary, uncomplicated, forgotten by morning. Except she didn’t quite make it to forgotten, because he walked through the door on the first day of school and turned out to be her new boss. 😳

He recognizes her immediately. He also immediately accuses her of stealing something valuable from him the morning she walk-of-shamed out of his apartment. When bullying her into a confession doesn’t work, he decides to make her professional life a living nightmare instead—apparently convinced that misery is a better persuasion tactic than evidence. 😤

This is her school. These are her students. And the only thing she’s planning to return is payback, delivered with precision and absolutely zero remorse. She didn’t steal anything, and she’s not going to be intimidated by a man in an expensive suit who apparently forgot what consent to a one-night stand actually means. 💪

The problem—the genuinely inconvenient, deeply irritating problem—is that she wanted him before she hated him. And somewhere between the pranks and the accusations and the escalating warfare, something that feels uncomfortably like feelings keeps surfacing despite her best efforts to suppress it. Falling in love with the enemy was not part of the plan. 🔥

What makes this entertaining: Kristen Granata’s new adult romance follows a woman whose perfect one-night stand walks through the door as her new boss on the first day of school—he accuses her of theft, she retaliates with payback, and their escalating warfare of pranks and professional sabotage becomes increasingly complicated by the inconvenient truth that she wanted him before she hated him and might be falling for the enemy despite everything.

When Kate, a fledgling bookseller with big dreams and limited capital, decides to open a bookshop that celebrates the kinds of genre fiction she loves to read—popular romance, cozy mysteries, and fun escapist stories that literary snobs dismiss—she’s surprised to find that not everyone in the small town is as excited as she is about bringing accessible entertainment to the community. Some people apparently have very strong opinions about what counts as “real” literature. 📚

Least excited of all? Sebastian, owner of the highbrow bookshop across the road who stocks only literary fiction, obscure poetry, and pretentious philosophical treatises. He has rules for absolutely everything in his life: the kind of books he sells (nothing with happy endings), the clothes he wears (always impeccably tailored), and the people he dates (no one local because small-town relationships get messy). His bookshop is his kingdom, and Kate’s populist approach to bookselling offends his sensibilities. 👔

When the pair find themselves reluctantly working together on the town’s annual literary festival—forced into collaboration by well-meaning organizers who think their rivalry is “charming”—their growing attraction becomes harder and harder to ignore despite their philosophical differences about books. Professional rivalry aside, proximity breeds familiarity and sparks neither expected. 💕

Just one steamy kiss during a late-night festival planning session can’t mean anything, can it? It was probably just the wine and the tension and the proximity of working closely together for weeks. Except the kiss felt like everything Kate’s favorite romance novels promised—fireworks, butterflies, the whole clichéd package Sebastian would dismiss as unrealistic drivel. 🔥

Now they’re stuck navigating attraction while their bookshops battle for customers, while the whole town watches their every interaction with gleeful speculation, and while Sebastian’s carefully constructed rules about dating locals start crumbling one by one. Sometimes the best love stories happen between people who should be enemies, especially when they’re both book people at heart. 📖

What makes this delightful: Jackie Ashenden’s romantic comedy follows fledgling bookseller Kate opening a shop celebrating popular genre fiction, clashing with Sebastian’s highbrow bookshop across the road—when forced to work together on the town’s literary festival, their growing attraction becomes harder to ignore despite professional rivalry, and one steamy kiss makes Sebastian’s rules about dating locals crumble when they’re both book people at heart.

She never meant to start a war between the fae and dragon communities that could tear apart the fragile peace maintained for centuries. But this dragon shifter is more than willing to finish it once threats emerge that endanger everyone she loves and everything she’s built in her quiet Oklahoma City life. 🐉

As a dragon shifter with broken magic that hasn’t worked properly since a childhood trauma she doesn’t fully remember, Kira Everleigh would rather keep to her cozy bookstore selling first editions and drink her tea in peace surrounded by familiar stories. But when her aunt disappears without explanation under suspicious circumstances, Kira is thrown headlong into a dangerous world of deadly secrets and supernatural threats she’s spent years avoiding, including a mysterious half-fae assassin who may be willing to help her—for a price she might not want to pay. 📚

From the midnight streets of Oklahoma City where magic hides in plain sight to the remote mountain home of the dragon enclave where ancient traditions clash with modern realities, Kira must somehow survive shadow magic that wants to consume her, fae politics that make no sense to outsiders, dragon family reunions that dredge up painful memories, and the grudging assistance of her grumpy gargoyle roommate Ruskin who complains constantly but secretly cares deeply. All while navigating her growing bond with Drayce, the lethal winged assassin she’s come to love despite every rational reason not to trust someone trained to kill. 💕

There are no easy answers along the way when dealing with centuries-old conflicts and deeply buried family secrets, but dragons don’t like to lose battles or competitions of any kind. So when the fae queen’s plotting threatens to destroy not only Kira’s chosen family but the hard-won peace between the human and magical communities that keeps everyone safe, it’s up to Kira to find a way to stop the coming war—even if it ends up costing her everything including her life, her magic, and the love she’s only just found. ⚔️

What makes this magical: Kenley Davidson’s complete series follows dragon shifter Kira Everleigh with broken magic who’d rather keep to her bookstore drinking tea until her aunt disappears, throwing her into deadly secrets including a mysterious half-fae assassin willing to help—navigating midnight Oklahoma City streets to mountain dragon enclaves with her grumpy gargoyle roommate, she must stop the fae queen’s plotting threatening her chosen family and the peace between magical communities.

It grows faster than fire consuming dry timber. It kills faster than any disease humanity has encountered. And it cannot be stopped by any known method, barrier, or defense. From 4-million-copy bestselling author Mike Kraus comes an explosive new thriller series that asks: what if the apocalypse isn’t loud explosions or dramatic battles, but something quiet, creeping, and utterly unstoppable? 🌑

In the rugged Colorado Rockies far from civilization where cell service is spotty at best, three generations—grandfather Charlie with his old-school survival skills, father Steven with his modern preparedness mindset, and teenage grandson Jack just learning to appreciate nature—are on their yearly camping trip when they receive a mysterious text message from home warning of a strange catastrophe unfolding. With communications going down nationwide and half of the country standing between them and their Virginia farm, every mile becomes a battle for survival and a desperate race to get home before the world is swallowed by the mysterious new threat that seems to defy explanation. 🏔️

Meanwhile, at their family farm in rural Virginia, Stacey Winters, her college-age daughter Grace, her mother Caroline who remembers harder times, and her sister-in-law Lindsey struggle to prepare for the nightmare sweeping toward them like a dark tide across the map. As society unravels block by block and neighbor turns against neighbor, they must protect their home and somehow fortify against an enemy that cannot be explained through science, reasoned with through diplomacy, or stopped through conventional weapons. 🏡

With each passing hour, the threat grows farther across the landscape, faster than anyone predicted, and deadlier in ways that challenge everything they understand about reality. The Winters family split across a dying nation must race against time, against chaos, and against something that shouldn’t exist—all while wondering if they’ll ever see each other again in a world where the growing dark is consuming everything in its path. ⚠️

What makes this chilling: Mike Kraus and Aiden Cross’s technothriller follows three generations camping in Colorado Rockies receiving mysterious texts warning of strange catastrophe, racing home through half the country as communications fail—while Stacey Winters and family at their Virginia farm prepare for the nightmare sweeping toward them, fortifying against an enemy that grows faster than fire, kills faster than disease, and cannot be stopped or explained.

The last time she babysat, something terrible happened that she’s spent years trying to forget. This time, things will be different—she’s older, wiser, more careful. She won’t make the same mistakes that led to consequences she can barely let herself remember. 👶

She tries not to think about what she’s done very often because the memories threaten to consume her. Sometimes she gets flashbacks that make her hands shake and her vision tunnel, but she pushes them away with practiced efficiency. Better to just try and move past it, to build a new life where that person doesn’t exist anymore, where no one knows what she’s capable of when pushed. 💭

That’s why she jumps at the opportunity to babysit for Adam Gibson, the handsome heir to a substantial family fortune who needs someone trustworthy and available immediately. It’s a second chance she doesn’t deserve, a new beginning in a beautiful home with a sweet child and a father who looks at her like she’s someone worth knowing. The past can stay buried if she’s careful. 🏡

But just days into her new position that feels almost too good to be true, she receives a text. A text that reveals her past isn’t quite as buried as she’d hoped, that someone knows exactly what happened and what she did to cover it up. If she doesn’t pay up—substantial amounts that would drain her savings—the world will know her secret and everything will come crashing down. 📱

She can’t lose this job because she needs it for more than just money—it’s her lifeline to normalcy, her proof that she’s not the monster lurking beneath the surface. In fact, she’d do just about anything not to lose this position, this family, this life she’s carefully constructed. The blackmailer might think they know her from what they’ve uncovered about her past. They don’t really know her. They don’t know how far she’ll go to keep the truth from coming out, what lines she’s willing to cross again to protect her secrets. ⚠️

What makes this twisted: Jack Dane’s domestic thriller follows a woman haunted by something terrible that happened the last time she babysat, jumping at the chance to babysit for handsome heir Adam Gibson as a second chance—but days into her new position, she receives a text revealing her buried past isn’t buried, forcing her to pay up or lose everything, showing the blackmailer how far she’ll go to keep the truth from coming out.

Scarlett Fontaine is a true Hollywood legend whose name still evokes glamour decades later—a singer whose voice captivated millions, an actress who commanded the screen, and a beloved fashion icon whose style influenced generations. But Scarlett dies tragically at just thirty-six years old in circumstances that shocked the world, leaving behind no children to carry on her legacy. Or so the official story goes that’s been repeated in biographies and documentaries for years. 🌟

Gwen Hollingsworth is the curator at a museum dedicated to preserving Scarlett’s life and legacy for future generations. She’s also sole heir to Scarlett’s substantial fortune as a descendant of the star through complicated family connections. But all is not well in Gwen’s carefully organized world. She’s dealing with a messy marital separation that’s draining her emotionally and struggling to move forward when her life feels frozen in place. 🏛️

So when Peter Miller, a respected biographer and photojournalist whose work on Hollywood history is renowned, comes to the museum with shocking claims about Scarlett that contradict everything in the official archives—a life of exile in remote Alaska, a baby born in secret and hidden from the world—Gwen’s whole carefully constructed understanding is turned upside down. Again. Just when she thought she had her life figured out, even the past proves unstable. 📸

Determined to uncover the truth about Scarlett’s hidden years and what really happened in Alaska, Gwen and Peter set out together on a research trip that should be purely professional. But soon they find themselves on a path toward something far deeper and more meaningful than either of them ever expected or planned for when they started this investigation. Sometimes discovering the truth about someone else’s secret love story helps you recognize the possibility of your own. The journey to Alaska changes everything about how Gwen understands both Scarlett’s life and her own capacity for love. 💕

What makes this moving: Julianne MacLean’s story follows museum curator Gwen Hollingsworth dedicated to Hollywood legend Scarlett Fontaine who died tragically at thirty-six leaving no children—when biographer Peter Miller arrives with shocking claims about Scarlett’s life of exile in Alaska and a baby born in secret, Gwen’s world turns upside down, and their journey to uncover the truth leads to something deeper and more meaningful than either expected.