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Billy “Panty Dropper” Comfort carries a nickname that makes him cringe even as he understands exactly how he earned it. Growing up with the last name Comfort in their small town meant inheriting a legacy whether he wanted it or not. The older generation of Comfort men were known throughout the community for three things: hard work that built the family business, boozing that destroyed relationships, and tragedy that followed them like a shadow. Some believed the latter was due to a curse dooming every male in their bloodline to lose his true love tragically. Billy rejected superstition—he believed their fates were in their own hands, determined by choices rather than destiny. 💔
With his father’s passing, Billy and his brothers became the new generation of Comfort men. They were also known for three things, though the list had evolved: fighting, flirting, and another F word Billy would never use in mixed company. His oldest brother was the fighter who settled disputes with his fists, his baby brother was the flirt who charmed everyone effortlessly, and that left Billy occupying the third category. He’d earned the nickname Panty Dropper by the time he was legally allowed to drink, and the reputation followed him everywhere in their tight-knit community. 🍺
The nickname never bothered him much—it was just who he was, the role he’d accepted in the family dynamic and town hierarchy. Until the day he laid eyes on a woman who made him want to be a better man, someone worthy of more than a crude nickname and casual hookups. She looked at him like he might be capable of something beyond his reputation, and for the first time in years, Billy wondered if he could become the person reflected in her eyes rather than the one everyone expected. 💕
The only question was whether she would see the real him beneath the nickname and reputation, or would his past behavior and the supposed curse be too much baggage even for fate to overcome? Could a man known as Panty Dropper convince someone he’s ready for forever, or does a nickname like that doom you to remain exactly what people call you? ⚠️
What makes this charming: Melanie Shawn’s romantic comedy follows Billy “Panty Dropper” Comfort, part of a new generation of Comfort men known for fighting, flirting, and another F word—Billy earned his nickname by legal drinking age and never minded until he meets a woman who makes him want to be better, forcing him to prove he’s more than his reputation despite his past and the family curse.
Cora Gilbert hates her power to detect missing things with every fiber of her being. Constantly overpowered by her strange ability to locate other people’s lost items—keys, wallets, pets, anything misplaced—the lonely adoptee worries she’ll never have a normal life. The gift feels more like a curse, an unwanted connection to the universe’s lost and found department that she never asked to manage. But even she didn’t expect her ability to bring her to the site of a murdered corpse at Blackwell Lake. 💔
After the police find no clues to the culprit despite extensive investigation and forensic work that yields frustratingly little evidence, Cora allows the victim’s fiancé to persuade her to help him dig up evidence the authorities missed. He’s desperate, grief-stricken, and convinced that Cora’s unique ability might reveal something conventional investigation cannot. She’s reluctant but sympathetic—after all, she understands what it means to lose someone and have no answers. 🔍
But when she discovers the handsome, seemingly heartbroken man is not what he seems—his grief performance hiding darker motivations and connections to the victim that don’t match his story—the sensitive tracker fears the only thing her talent will lead her to is her own unmarked grave. She’s gotten herself involved in something far more dangerous than a simple murder investigation. The closer she gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes that someone very dangerous wants certain secrets to stay buried with the victim. 💀
Will Cora dowse her way towards answers that might finally give her purpose and meaning for her unwanted ability, or will her gift lead her directly into the hands of a madman who’s killed once and won’t hesitate to kill again? Her power to find missing things has always felt like a burden—now it might be the only thing keeping her alive long enough to expose a killer who’s very good at making problems disappear permanently. ⚠️
What makes this gripping: A.M. Caplan’s paranormal thriller follows lonely adoptee Cora Gilbert who hates her power to detect missing things until it leads her to a murdered corpse at Blackwell Lake—when police find no clues, the victim’s fiancé persuades her to help, but discovering he’s not what he seems makes Cora fear her gift will lead her to her own unmarked grave.
Recently widowed Leta Parker desperately needs a change of scenery after years of soulless corporate hustle in Atlanta left her feeling empty and disconnected from everything that once brought joy. Pursuing her lifelong dream of retiring to the Cotswolds—a vision she and her late husband had shared—she crosses an ocean to start her life over in the English countryside. She arrives with her talking dog and cat companions, Dickens and Christie, who provide both conversation and comfort in ways only she can hear. 🐕
But she’s barely begun making new friends in the charming village and settling into her cottage when she stumbles across her housekeeper’s body during what should have been a routine morning. The discovery shatters the idyllic peace she’d traveled thousands of miles to find. With several villagers immediately pegged for the crime based on gossip and old grudges rather than evidence, Leta teams up with a retired English teacher and her sharp-as-a-tack octogenarian mother to track the killer before the trail goes cold. 💔
As the not-so-friendly local policewoman elbows them out of the investigation—territorial about her jurisdiction and dismissive of “amateur sleuths”—and scandalous rumors plague the tight-knit community where everyone knows everyone’s business, it’s left to the ladies and their pets to sleuth for the truth. Dickens and Christie prove surprisingly helpful investigators, noticing things humans overlook and providing Leta with insights she wouldn’t have otherwise. 🔍
Can Leta, Dickens, and Christie sniff out the culprit before the cute little Cotswolds town loses more than its charm? Before another body drops and the village’s carefully maintained veneer of peaceful English country life shatters completely? Leta came here to escape death and find new purpose—she didn’t expect her new purpose would involve solving murders with the help of her talking pets. But someone killed her housekeeper, and Leta refuses to let them get away with destroying the peace she sacrificed everything to find. 🌟
What makes this delightful: Kathy Manos Penn’s cozy mystery follows recently widowed Leta Parker who crosses an ocean pursuing her lifelong dream of retiring to the Cotswolds with talking dog and cat companions Dickens and Christie, barely making new friends before stumbling across her housekeeper’s body—teaming with a retired teacher and octogenarian mother to sleuth for truth before the charming village loses more than its charm.
The only thing worse than a Bridezilla for a client is a dead one, and Max Walters has the misfortune of experiencing both. A talented bridal consultant with big dreams of expanding her business beyond her idyllic seaside town, Max suddenly finds her carefully constructed life shattered by murder. What once seemed like a peaceful haven where nothing truly terrible ever happened is now revealed as a maze of secrets and lies lurking beneath the surface of neighborly smiles. 💍
When her closest friend is wrongfully accused of the crime based on circumstantial evidence that doesn’t tell the whole story, Max knows she must take matters into her own hands to clear his name. She can’t stand by and watch someone innocent get destroyed by a justice system more interested in closing cases than finding truth. As she untangles the clues hidden in wedding plans, vendor contracts, and guest lists, she catches the watchful eye of the enigmatic Detective Cruz. 🔍
Is his concern for her safety genuine, or does he have a hidden agenda that involves keeping her from discovering something he doesn’t want exposed? Max can’t tell if he’s protecting her from danger or protecting the investigation from amateur interference. Every conversation with him leaves her more confused about his motivations. 💔
As Max stitches together a tapestry of suspects and motives—jealous ex-girlfriends, business rivals, family members with inheritance concerns—she closes in on the real killer. The wedding industry’s facade of romance and perfection hides darker realities: financial desperation, bitter rivalries, and secrets people will kill to protect. Will she be able to tie up the loose threads before the killer realizes she’s onto them and decides that Max needs to be silenced permanently? Her talent for creating perfect weddings might be exactly what’s needed to catch a murderer who thought they’d committed the perfect crime. ⚠️
What makes this engaging: Karen Sue Walker’s cozy mystery follows talented bridal consultant Max Walters whose idyllic seaside town is shattered by murder when a Bridezilla client dies and her closest friend is wrongfully accused—forcing Max to take matters into her own hands, catching enigmatic Detective Cruz’s watchful eye while stitching together a tapestry of suspects before the killer realizes she’s onto them.
She doesn’t remember who she is, where she came from, or why she arrived on the Peninsula with nothing but confusion and a strange hunger she can’t explain. Victoria’s new college life feels foreign in every possible way—the campus, the classes, the students who seem to navigate social situations effortlessly while she struggles to understand basic interactions. Everything feels wrong except for the inexplicable connection to her brooding professor, Toby, who stirs something primal and familiar deep within her that she can’t name or understand. 💔
Toby never believed in second chances, especially not for Victoria who died in his arms months ago. He watched her life slip away, mourned her loss, and tried desperately to move forward. Now she’s back, alive and breathing but with no memory of their past or the dangerous supernatural world she once belonged to. Every time he looks at her, he sees the ghost of the woman he loved and the stranger who’s replaced her. 🐺
As Victoria’s appetite grows beyond normal hunger and her teeth sharpen in ways that terrify her, fragments of another life flicker at the edges of her mind like half-remembered dreams. She’s drawn to both an exclusive club owned by the charming Carter Jag and the mysterious woods where a wolf watches over her nightly. But these attractions pull her between two rival shifter clans with centuries of bad blood: the wealthy, powerful jaguars who rule the area through money and influence, and the secretive wolf pack bound by loyalty and ancient blood oaths. 🌙
With the full moon approaching and her transformation imminent, Victoria must uncover the truth about her murder before history repeats itself and she dies again—this time permanently. Because in this world of supernatural politics and forbidden love where alliances shift like shadows, some secrets are worth killing for repeatedly, and some bonds transcend even death itself. The question is whether Victoria will remember who killed her before the killer strikes again. ⚠️
What makes this captivating: Stacy Claflin’s paranormal romance follows Victoria who arrives on the Peninsula with no memories and a strange hunger, her new college life foreign except for her connection to brooding professor Toby who watched her die in his arms—as her appetite grows and teeth sharpen, she’s pulled between rival jaguar and wolf shifter clans while racing to uncover her murder before the full moon transformation and history repeats itself.
Natalie Keane is one of Hollywood’s top leading ladies, commanding millions per picture and walking red carpets during awards season. But she’s paid a steep price for her fame that goes beyond just privacy and normalcy. Eight years ago, she was stalked by someone who made her life a living nightmare, and the ensuing media frenzy when the stalker was caught almost broke her completely. Tabloids dissected every terrifying moment, turning her trauma into entertainment for millions. 🎬
Now a new threat has emerged—disturbing messages, escalating contact, someone watching her movements too closely. Natalie agrees to extra security because ignoring danger isn’t an option, but she wants to keep it completely under wraps. The last thing she needs is another tabloid spectacle, especially during awards season when every aspect of her life already faces intense scrutiny. A bodyguard shadowing her everywhere would signal vulnerability and fear, inviting exactly the media attention she’s desperate to avoid. 💫
Taylor Vaughn has made a successful career as a bodyguard to the stars, protecting celebrities through everything from overzealous fans to genuine threats. But an injury three months ago has kept her sidelined, jeopardizing her future in the job she loves and the reputation she’s built. When an opportunity arises to work for Natalie Keane, Taylor jumps at the chance—even before knowing the assignment details. Getting back to work means everything to her recovery, both physical and professional. 💪
From the moment they meet, Natalie knows this arrangement could work perfectly: Taylor masquerading as her girlfriend provides the perfect cover story. A romantic relationship explains constant proximity without raising security concerns. The media loves a romance angle, especially during awards season. But as circumstances push the two women closer together—red carpet appearances, intimate moments for cameras, sharing space constantly—the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur dangerously. What started as professional protection evolves into something neither of them planned for, and maintaining the pretense becomes increasingly difficult when real feelings develop. The cover story might be fake, but the attraction is devastatingly real. 💕
What makes this captivating: Rachel Lacey’s LGBTQ+ romance follows Hollywood leading lady Natalie Keane who’s paid a steep price for fame including a stalker eight years ago, now facing new threats during awards season and hiring bodyguard Taylor Vaughn to masquerade as her girlfriend—the perfect cover story until circumstances blur the lines between fantasy and reality as real feelings develop.
Navigating family dynamics, friendships, or romantic relationships can feel impossible when you’re overwhelmed, sensitive, or stuck in patterns that no longer serve you. You know something needs to change, but every relationship advice book seems to assume you have unlimited emotional energy and crystal-clear boundaries already established. That’s not reality for most people struggling with difficult relationships that shape their daily lives. 💔
A practical and gentle guide from KC Davis, beloved therapist and bestselling author of How to Keep House While Drowning, offers a framework specifically designed for those who feel overwhelmed by relationship decisions. Just as her bestseller helped readers rethink their relationship with their homes and domestic responsibilities, Who Deserves Your Love provides clarity for navigating the complicated human connections defining your existence—family who demand your time, friends who drain your energy, romantic partners who need more than you can give. 💕
This is emphatically not a book about cutting people off or burning bridges for minor offenses. Rather, it’s about choosing connection and self-respect simultaneously, understanding that love can be unconditional while relationships shouldn’t be, and developing the skills to make difficult decisions about who deserves access to your life. Davis guides readers with practical tools rather than vague platitudes about “setting boundaries” without explaining how. 🌟
Inside you’ll find the Relationship Decision Tree—Davis’s step-by-step tool for evaluating any relationship systematically, scripts for setting boundaries without guilt or extensive justification, diagrams illustrating complex relationship dynamics, and short chapters specifically designed with ADHD and mental health challenges in mind. The book acknowledges that processing lengthy chapters while emotionally overwhelmed is nearly impossible, so information is delivered in manageable chunks. Davis explains why love can be unconditional but relationships shouldn’t be, how to distinguish between temporary conflicts and fundamental incompatibility, and when to invest in repair versus when to walk away. This is relationship guidance that meets you where you are—exhausted, confused, and desperately needing practical help rather than judgment about why you haven’t “just set boundaries” already. ⚠️
What makes this essential: Therapist KC Davis’s practical guide helps overwhelmed, sensitive, or stuck readers navigate difficult relationships through the Relationship Decision Tree and boundary-setting scripts, explaining why love can be unconditional while relationships shouldn’t be—designed with short chapters and diagrams for ADHD and mental health challenges, focusing on choosing connection and self-respect simultaneously rather than just cutting people off.
It all began with a midwife’s secret buried so deep that two families have suffered bitter tragedy for generations without understanding why. A secret that once uncovered could finally free both families from the injustice and grief binding them together in ways neither comprehends. But secrets this old don’t surrender easily, and the truth may be more devastating than the lies that replaced it. 💔
1969. On New Year’s Eve, while the wealthy Hiltons of Yew Tree Manor prepare to host the party of the season—champagne flowing, guests arriving in elegant attire, music drifting through grand rooms—their little girl Alice disappears without a trace. One moment she’s playing, the next she’s vanished as if the earth swallowed her whole. Suspicion immediately falls on Bobby James, a young farmhand and the last person to see Alice before she vanished into the night. Bobby protests his innocence desperately, but without evidence to support his claims, he is sent away in disgrace. Alice is never found. The Hiltons never recover. 🏰
Present day. Architect Willow James arrives to work on a development at Yew Tree Manor, unaware that the land holds a secret connecting her family to the tragedy that destroyed the Hiltons decades ago. As she begins excavating both literally and figuratively, digging into the property’s history while preparing it for development, she uncovers a web of injustice stretching back further than Alice’s disappearance. Documents that don’t match official records. Stories that contradict accepted history. Evidence of systematic coverups protecting powerful people. 🔍
When another child goes missing in circumstances eerily similar to Alice’s disappearance, Willow knows the only way to stop history from repeating itself is to right a terrible wrong committed generations ago. Does the key to the present lie buried even deeper in the past, in the forgotten history of an innocent midwife accused by a powerful family of shocking betrayal? The midwife who delivered babies, kept secrets, and knew truths that certain people would kill to keep hidden? Willow must unravel decades of lies before another family suffers the same fate as the Hiltons and her own family—before the past claims another innocent victim. ⚠️
What makes this gripping: Emily Gunnis’s historical mystery follows architect Willow James working on Yew Tree Manor development where little Alice Hilton disappeared on New Year’s Eve 1969 with suspicion falling on farmhand Bobby James, discovering the land holds secrets connecting her family to the tragedy—when another child goes missing, Willow must uncover an innocent midwife’s forgotten history to stop the past from repeating.
In one second, everything disappeared. Her past vanished. Her memories erased. Her future became uncertain. The only certainty she has from the last three years is that her older brother is dead, and she is the only eyewitness to whatever happened. But she can’t remember anything about the incident, about him, about her own life during that entire period. It’s like someone reached into her mind and deleted entire chapters of her existence. 💔
In order to protect the legal case surrounding her brother’s death, the lawyers demand that no one give her any information about her life during those missing years. She must remember on her own, naturally, without contamination from outside sources. Every memory must be genuine or the entire case could collapse. Her only help comes from her brother’s best friend and world-renowned investigative reporter, Spencer Cross—someone she should know but doesn’t, someone who looks at her with familiarity she can’t reciprocate. 🔍
Spencer has no idea how many nights she’s spent dreaming of his name and his body next to hers, images surfacing from somewhere deep in her subconscious. Are these real memories trying to break through, or fantasies her traumatized mind created? Now they’re a team working together with one goal: recover her memories and retrace her past before the case falls apart. But each day they spend together, he’s looking at her as more than his friend’s little sister, and she finds it harder to want her old life back. 💕
Instead she’s wishing for a new one—with him. His kiss feels like home even though she can’t remember their history. His arms make her feel safe in ways she can’t explain. She never wants this to end, this cocoon they’ve created while investigating her past. As her memories return piece by painful piece, forcing her to face a future she didn’t choose, everything falls apart. Especially when she finds an engagement ring hidden in her apartment. She has no idea who gave it to her or what it means about the life she can’t remember. She asked Spencer to help her remember, but now she wishes desperately she could forget. ⚠️
What makes this intense: Corinne Michaels’s romantic suspense follows a woman who lost three years of memories including her brother’s death she witnessed, forbidden by lawyers from receiving information so she must remember naturally with help from his best friend Spencer Cross—world-renowned reporter she’s dreamed about—until returning memories reveal an engagement ring and a past she wishes she could forget.
Magic just isn’t Everleigh Clarkson’s thing, and she’s made peace with that disappointing reality. She’s half-elf and half-fae, and it shows in all the wrong ways—her magic stunted, her abilities barely functional, her supernatural heritage more burden than blessing. Then again, it isn’t unusual for most supernatural half-breeds to struggle with powers that don’t quite work properly. But that’s okay. Who needs magic when you live in a city as exciting as Las Vegas, where neon lights and endless entertainment provide their own kind of magic? 🎰
Magic, however, seems to have other plans entirely. Not only have Everleigh’s parents gone missing under circumstances that make no sense, but a secret group of vigilante supernaturals is threatening all of Las Vegas with destruction—and they want to use Everleigh specifically to accomplish their goals. Why her? She’s nobody special, just another magically deficient half-breed trying to live a normal life in an abnormal city. 💫
Because Everleigh isn’t some magically stunted half-breed after all, it turns out. Everleigh is a wizard—a rare, powerful being whose abilities were dormant rather than absent. The vigilantes know what she is even if she didn’t, and they’re willing to destroy everything she loves to harness her awakening power for their cause. But saving her parents will require more than just embracing the magic she once rejected and learning to wield abilities she never knew existed. ✨
It will mean enlisting the help of an estranged childhood friend, Aithan Nomos—who also happens to be an elven prince. A really handsome, really annoying elven prince who left her life years ago without explanation and now expects her to trust him with her newly discovered powers and her family’s safety. But if Everleigh can learn her craft quickly enough—and if she and Aithan can go five consecutive minutes without driving each other absolutely crazy with their constant bickering—they might just save her parents and her city after all. Assuming the vigilantes don’t kill them first, and assuming Everleigh doesn’t accidentally blow up half of Vegas while learning to control magic that’s been building up inside her for decades. 🔥
What makes this enchanting: Brittany Fichter’s urban fantasy follows half-elf, half-fae Everleigh Clarkson whose magic never worked until her parents go missing and vigilante supernaturals threaten Las Vegas wanting to use her—because she’s not a magically stunted half-breed but a powerful wizard who must enlist handsome, annoying elven prince Aithan Nomos to learn her craft and save everyone before they drive each other crazy.
Determined to put her painful past behind her and start fresh somewhere nobody knows her history, FBI Special Agent Bailey Flynn welcomes her assignment to a Major Crimes task force in Washington, D.C. The position represents everything she’s worked toward—high-profile cases, elite colleagues, important work making a real difference. She and her search and rescue dog Ludwig can finally make a fresh start a thousand miles north of her hometown of Belle Harbor, Florida, far from the memories haunting every familiar street. 🐕
But as Bailey settles into her new life in D.C., unpacking boxes in an unfamiliar apartment and learning the rhythms of a different city, a vicious predator is stalking the quiet coastal community she left behind. The killer is preparing to take another life in Belle Harbor—a life that was once near and dear to Bailey’s heart, someone from the past she’s desperately trying to escape. The distance she created between herself and home won’t protect the people she cares about from a murderer who’s been watching, planning, waiting for the perfect moment. 💔
When a disturbing call summons her back to South Florida with news that makes her blood run cold, Bailey must come to terms with the past she fled while tracking down a sadistic serial killer who is determined to destroy her future. The killer isn’t just targeting random victims—this is personal, calculated, designed to hurt Bailey in ways that go far beyond professional. Every victim connects to her somehow, every crime scene contains messages only she would understand. 🔍
Bailey must navigate the complicated emotional terrain of returning home where everyone knows her history and her pain, while Ludwig helps search for clues the killer leaves specifically for them to find. The predator is playing a twisted game where Bailey is both investigator and target, where solving the case means confronting everything she ran from, and where failure means losing the people who matter most. The only way to protect her future is to face her past head-on—before the killer claims another victim close to her heart. ⚠️
What makes this chilling: Melinda Woodhall’s serial killer thriller follows FBI Special Agent Bailey Flynn starting fresh with her search dog Ludwig in Washington D.C.’s Major Crimes task force, a thousand miles from hometown Belle Harbor—until a disturbing call summons her back where a vicious predator is stalking someone dear to her, forcing Bailey to confront her painful past while tracking a sadistic killer determined to destroy her future.
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