A devoted husband plants a carpet of forget-me-nots in memory of his wife Gloria, who recently passed away after years battling chronic dementia. In her will, she left a substantial portion of her estate to Susan—a woman claiming to be her long-lost illegitimate daughter. But Gloria’s adult sons aren’t convinced, and they have good reason to be suspicious. Was their mother mentally competent when she changed her will, or was she manipulated during her vulnerable final years? 🔍Boston private investigator Mark Kane is hired to uncover the truth about Susan’s identity and Gloria’s state of mind when she made these life-altering decisions. What begins as a straightforward inheritance investigation quickly spirals into something far darker when a murder rocks the family. As suspects multiply and motives blur, Kane finds himself navigating a moral minefield where duty to his client collides with questions of legal ethics and personal conscience. The case hits uncomfortably close to home—literally—when he realizes the killer might be someone within the grieving family itself. 💔

Kane’s longtime companion Lucy provides crucial support as he untangles the web of deception, but even her sharp instincts may not be enough to prevent financial ruin—or worse—for Greg’s sons. This isn’t your typical whodunit where the detective remains emotionally detached. Kane must confront his own values while determining whether justice means protecting his clients’ inheritance or honoring a dead woman’s final wishes, even if those wishes were obtained through deception. The forget-me-nots Greg planted were meant as a tribute to eternal love, but they may end up marking the spot where family loyalty died. 🌸

The beauty of this mystery lies in its moral complexity—there are no easy answers, no clear-cut villains, and no simple resolution. Kane can’t just solve the case and walk away; he has to live with the consequences of what he uncovers. Every revelation about Susan’s true identity and Gloria’s mental state forces him to reconsider what he owes to whom. And when murder enters the picture, the stakes escalate from a family squabble over money to something that could destroy everyone involved. 🕵️

What makes this essential: A Boston PI confronts the gray areas between legal obligation and moral duty when an inheritance case turns deadly and all the suspects are family members.

Meet Noel, the gorgeous grumpy workaholic on track to become the youngest partner in his accounting firm’s history. He sees the world in black and white—debits, credits, balance sheets, and rigid rules that keep everything in perfect order. But when a doe-eyed new hire named Candy starts wasting company time chatting with colleagues and decorating her cubicle with fairy lights, Noel suddenly sees red. Someone needs to teach this woman about professional boundaries and workplace efficiency, and he’s just the man to do it. 📊Enter Candy, the eternal optimist who’s determined to prove to herself and her skeptical family that she can thrive in a new city on her own terms. A hopeless romantic who believes even the dreariest office environment can use a little sparkle and human connection, she’s not about to let some uptight number-cruncher dim her shine. Sure, her coworker is ridiculously handsome with those intense eyes and that perfectly tailored suit, but he’s also the most exasperating person she’s ever met. Why does he have to critique every little thing she does? And why does his rare smile make her heart do somersaults? 💕

She’s sweet, he’s sour. She’s spontaneous, he’s structured. She brings cupcakes to team meetings; he brings spreadsheets with color-coded priority rankings. But these two opposites definitely attract, and the tension crackling between them during budget reviews and coffee breaks isn’t just professional disagreement—it’s something far more dangerous. Tempers will flare during heated debates about proper filing systems and appropriate break room etiquette, but those arguments keep ending with lingering glances and accidental touches that leave them both shaken. 🔥

The real question is whether they can fight the fire between them without getting burned. Noel’s carefully constructed five-year plan doesn’t include falling for a woman who represents everything chaotic he’s tried to avoid. Candy’s dream of finding genuine love doesn’t include a man who makes her feel like she needs to be fixed. But the heart wants what it wants, and sometimes the person who drives you craziest is the one who understands you best. As office politics heat up and their undeniable chemistry becomes impossible to ignore, they’ll both have to decide what matters more—sticking to their principles or taking a risk on something real. 💘

Why this will steal your heart: A perfectly balanced grumpy/sunshine rom-com where an uptight accounting firm partner clashes with an irrepressibly optimistic new hire, proving that sometimes the person who annoys you most is exactly who you need.

Mitch Herron’s business is death, and business is very, very good. As an assassin without equal, he’s the ghost that governments call when diplomatic solutions fail and military action is too messy. His latest contract should be straightforward—eliminate a high-value target and disappear like smoke. But this job is about to go catastrophically wrong in ways Herron never anticipated, because the fanatics he’s hunting aren’t just dangerous terrorists with a twisted ideology. They’re something far worse. 💀Hell-bent on “cleansing” the planet of what they see as humanity’s corruption, these extremists have developed the most lethal bioweapon in human history—a contagion so deadly it makes Ebola look like the common cold. When they ambush Herron during the mission, they don’t kill him. Instead, they do something infinitely more sinister: they infect him with the Omega Strain and turn him into a walking time bomb. Herron now carries the pathogen that could trigger a global extinction event, and the clock is ticking down to zero. ⏰

With only days before the fanatics activate the virus in his system and use him to spread their apocalyptic plague, Herron faces an impossible choice. He can’t go to a hospital—the contamination protocols would quarantine him while the real threat escapes. He can’t trust his usual government contacts—this conspiracy reaches higher than he imagined, and someone on the inside helped the terrorists get their hands on a weaponized supervirus in the first place. His only option is to hunt down the fanatics himself, find the cure or kill switch they must have developed, and stop their attack before he becomes Patient Zero in humanity’s last pandemic. 🦠

But here’s the terrifying reality: Herron might already be too late. The symptoms are starting, his body is breaking down, and every person he comes into contact with could become the next vector for a contagion designed to spread faster than any response can contain it. He’s racing against his own biology while tracking down zealots who are willing to die for their cause and who have nothing left to lose. In a world where one infected person can doom millions, Herron has to stay alive long enough to save everyone—even though staying alive might be the most dangerous thing he can do. 🌍

Why this grips from page one: A deadly assassin becomes an unwilling bioweapon when fanatics infect him with humanity’s most lethal contagion, forcing him to hunt down the cure while racing against his own deteriorating body—and the clock.

Kendra Larkin’s life was seemingly perfect—loving family, promising career, and the kind of carefree confidence that comes from never having faced real tragedy. But during what should have been an exhilarating rappelling adventure, everything changes in a split second. A catastrophic accident leaves her broken and dying on Dr. Adam Chamberlain’s operating table, her life slipping away while he fights desperately to save her. What happens next will alter her existence in ways she never imagined possible. 👼In the space between life and death, Kendra meets Rhyan, her devastatingly handsome guardian angel who offers her an impossible bargain. She can return to her life, but there’s a price: she must save the soul of Dr. Adam Chamberlain, the surgeon who operated on her and who also happens to be her soul mate. The catch? Adam has completely rejected God, and his guardian demon is actively working to claim him for Hell. If Kendra succeeds in her mission, she keeps her life. If she fails, she loses not just her existence but her eternal soul. No pressure. 😇

But even with Rhyan’s supernatural guidance and protection, this mission proves nearly impossible. Adam’s bitterness runs deep, rooted in personal tragedy that has convinced him there’s no divine plan, no loving God, and certainly no such thing as souls worth saving. As Kendra works to break through his walls of cynicism and anger, she finds herself caught in an agonizing dilemma: she’s falling in love with Rhyan, the beautiful angel who saved her and who understands her in ways no mortal ever could. Yet she’s also drawn to Adam with a magnetic attraction she can’t deny—the undeniable pull of two souls meant to be together. How can she choose between heavenly devotion and earthly passion when both men hold pieces of her heart? 💔

The situation spirals from complicated to catastrophic when Adam’s guardian demon escalates his schemes, determined to claim not just Adam’s soul but Kendra’s as well. Every attempt she makes to reach Adam, every moment of connection they share, gives the demon more ammunition to use against them both. With Rhyan watching helplessly and Adam unwittingly walking toward damnation, Kendra realizes she’s fighting a battle on multiple fronts—against demonic forces, against Adam’s stubborn disbelief, and against her own confused heart. Will she find a way to overcome the evil conspiring against her, or will Adam’s guardian demon win both their souls and make Kendra his puppet in Hell? ⚡

What makes this irresistible: A woman caught between life and death must save her soul mate doctor from damnation while torn between her love for the angel who rescued her and the earthly man she’s destined to be with—all while a guardian demon schemes to claim them both.

Logan Willis thought his world had ended when he lost his job and discovered his wife’s infidelity in the same brutal day. Sitting in a hotel room nursing his grief and anger, he turns on the TV expecting mindless distraction—but what he sees makes his personal crisis seem laughably insignificant. Radio telescopes have detected mysterious signals from inside our solar system, and whatever is sending them is hurtling toward Earth at over 500 miles per second. The media is calling it first contact with alien intelligence. But Logan’s conspiracy-theorist brother-in-law Richard has a different, far more terrifying theory. 🌌Richard has been warning anyone who would listen about the end times, and everyone—including Logan—has dismissed him as crazy. But this time, his warnings don’t sound so crazy at all. Because this isn’t alien communication. It’s a dead star, a rogue stellar remnant that’s been ejected from its original system and is now on a collision course with our solar neighborhood. It won’t hit Earth directly—that would be too merciful. Instead, its gravitational influence will shift Earth’s orbit just enough to push us farther from the Sun, triggering a new ice age that will make the planet virtually uninhabitable. This summer will be our last warm season. By next winter, civilization as we know it will be frozen solid. ❄️

The news breaks like a slow-motion apocalypse. At first, there’s denial, then panic, then the terrifying realization that governments and scientists can’t stop this. You can’t negotiate with orbital mechanics or pray away the laws of physics. While the media frantically interviews experts who explain the science in increasingly desperate terms, Logan faces a more immediate question: what do you do when you have maybe six months before everything ends? Reconcile with his cheating wife? Flee to the equator where temperatures might remain survivable? Join Richard’s survivalist compound and prepare to weather the coming ice age underground? 🌍

As society begins its inexorable collapse—supply chains breaking down, governments imposing martial law, neighbors turning on each other in the scramble for resources—Logan must make impossible choices about who to trust and who to save. Richard’s “crazy” preparations suddenly look like the only rational response to an irrational situation. But survival won’t just require stockpiles of food and fuel; it will demand a fundamental transformation in how humans live, work, and cooperate when the world they’ve known is literally freezing to death around them. The question isn’t whether life can continue on a planet hurtling toward permanent winter—it’s whether humanity deserves to survive what’s coming. 🔥

Why this hits hard: When a dead star shifts Earth’s orbit and triggers an unstoppable ice age, a man dealing with personal crisis must navigate society’s collapse and join his “crazy” survivalist brother-in-law to prepare for humanity’s last summer before eternal winter arrives.

In the dawning of summer, the rugged landscape of rural Alaska provides both breathtaking beauty and unforgiving challenge. Headstrong Bunny O’Kelly arrives on the sprawling expanses of Buck Miller’s remote horse ranch with fiery ambition burning in her chest and a singular determination: she’s going to make a name for herself in this wilderness, prove she belongs here despite everyone who doubts her. Against the backdrop of wild horses running free and unchecked wilderness stretching to the horizon, she embarks on a grueling journey to demonstrate her worth 🐴Bunny isn’t just trying to prove she can handle ranch work—she’s fighting to establish herself as a capable, valuable ranch hand in a world that fundamentally doesn’t want her there. This is a man’s domain, and every day she faces skepticism, condescension, and outright hostility from those who believe women have no place working alongside men in such demanding conditions. But Bunny refuses to be intimidated or dismissed. She’ll outwork, outsmart, and outlast anyone who underestimates her 🏔️

Then everything changes when Bunny stumbles upon the shattered remnants of Katie Miller’s life—evidence that transforms the ranch from her path to success into something far more sinister. Katie’s death was ruled a fatal accident years ago, a tragic mishap that everyone accepted and moved past. But now, with fresh eyes and mounting suspicions, the “accident” whispers of hidden truths and deliberately cloaked motives. The more Bunny investigates, the more she realizes Katie’s death wasn’t what it seemed 🔍

As Bunny delves deeper into what really happened to Katie Miller, she uncovers a sinister layer to the tragedy that certain people desperately want to keep buried. She finds herself caught in an increasingly dangerous game where her quest for justice could completely unravel the fabric of her newfound haven on the ranch—the place she’s worked so hard to belong, the community she’s fighting to join. But remaining silent, accepting the official story and moving on, would enshrine a killer’s freedom and betray Katie’s memory. Catherine Matthews delivers women’s action-adventure where proving yourself as a ranch hand becomes secondary to exposing murder, where Alaska’s tundra hides secrets darker than its winters, and where seeking justice might cost Bunny everything she came here to build 💪

Why this deserves your attention: Women’s adventure fiction where a headstrong woman proving herself on an Alaskan horse ranch stumbles upon evidence that a “fatal accident” was actually murder—and investigating could destroy her newfound haven. Perfect for readers who love strong female protagonists, wilderness settings, women fighting for respect in male-dominated worlds, cold cases heating up, and heroines choosing justice over silence. 🌟

The longest-living Avatar in this beloved world’s history, Kyoshi’s legacy is complicated and contradictory in ways that make her endlessly fascinating. She established the brave and universally respected Kyoshi Warriors, an elite fighting force of women who would defend their homeland and uphold justice for generations to come. But she also founded the secretive Dai Li, an organization that would eventually lead to the corruption, decline, and ultimate fall of her own nation—a tragic irony that haunts her memory centuries later ⚔️This is the first of two novels based on Avatar Kyoshi in the Chronicles of the Avatar series, filling in the gaps of her story that fans have wondered about for years. The Rise of Kyoshi maps her incredible journey from a girl of genuinely humble origins—overlooked, underestimated, dismissed by nearly everyone around her—to becoming the merciless pursuer of justice who is still simultaneously feared and admired centuries after she took on the Avatar mantle 🌍

Kyoshi’s path to becoming the Avatar was unlike any other in the cycle. She didn’t grow up knowing her destiny or training from childhood for the responsibilities ahead. Instead, she lived in obscurity, serving others, invisible to those who should have recognized her potential. The revelation of her identity comes late and shockingly, forcing her to rapidly develop the skills and wisdom that other Avatars spent lifetimes cultivating 💫

F.C. Yee explores how Kyoshi evolved from that powerless girl into one of the most formidable and uncompromising Avatars the world has ever known. Her approach to justice became legendary—she wasn’t interested in half-measures, political compromises, or letting the guilty escape consequences. This unflinching commitment to accountability made her both a hero to those she protected and a terrifying figure to those who crossed her. The Rise of Kyoshi reveals the experiences, betrayals, and hard-won lessons that forged her into someone who would reshape the world through sheer determination and an iron will that refused to bend 🔥

What makes this essential: Avatar: The Last Airbender expanded universe following Kyoshi’s journey from humble origins to becoming the longest-living, most feared and admired Avatar—founder of both Kyoshi Warriors and the corrupt Dai Li. Perfect for fans of the animated series, readers who love powerful female protagonists, complex morality, martial arts action, and origin stories showing how heroes are forged through adversity. First in Chronicles of the Avatar. ✨

Two rival writers. One prestigious publishing contract coveted by both. A bargain fueled by hearts, desire, and way too much fae wine. They say never bargain with the fae—it’s the first rule any sensible person learns. They also say don’t get drunk on fae wine, because it has a tendency to make you agree to things you’d never consider sober. Yet romance author Edwina Danforth has managed a spectacular blunder involving both on her very first visit to the infamous faelands 🍷Now she’s trapped in a magic-fueled bet she barely remembers making with a man she’d be infinitely happier to forget. The terms of this absurd wager? Whoever can bed the most lovers during their month-long dueling book tour wins a coveted publishing contract that could make or break their literary careers. It’s outrageous, inappropriate, and exactly the kind of chaos fae magic creates when humans get careless 📚

The win should theoretically be easy for Edwina. After all, she’s built her reputation penning scintillating tales of whirlwind romance, passionate encounters, and bedroom scenes that make readers fan themselves. There’s just one rather significant problem: her vivid imagination vastly exceeds her actual bedroom experience. She writes convincingly about seduction she’s never experienced, passion she’s only imagined, and techniques she’s researched rather than practiced. But when failure means plummeting her promising career back into complete obscurity, losing this ridiculous bet isn’t an option 💕

Her handsome fae rival, William Haywood, poses an even greater challenge than the bet itself. Not only are his looks as aggravatingly perfect as his well-documented track record behind closed doors, but he has his own compelling reasons for playing to win, and he absolutely won’t go down without a fight. Unless, of course, it’s a different kind of going down—in that case, he’s entirely fair game and quite skilled at it, thank you very much 😏

Tessonja Odette delivers gaslamp fantasy where Edwina and William clash in an escalating rivalry of romance, seduction, and one-upmanship across their book tour. They’re competing to see who can rack up the most conquests, but somewhere between the flirting and the actual attraction neither expected, things get complicated. What happens when their carefully chosen objects of desire turn out to be each other? When the person you’re supposed to defeat becomes the only person you actually want? 🔥

Why this grips from page one: A gaslamp fantasy romance where rival writers trapped in a fae-wine-fueled bet must bed the most lovers during their book tour for a publishing contract—but their objects of desire turn out to be each other. Perfect for readers who love fae bargains with consequences, enemies-to-lovers romance, Victorian-era settings with magic, sexually charged banter, and protagonists discovering that winning might mean losing what matters most. Fae Flings and Corset Strings series. ✨

The Stranger Times is a weekly newspaper dedicated to covering the weird and the wonderful—though let’s be honest, it’s mostly just the weird. Bigfoot sightings, alien abductions, ghost hauntings, conspiracy theories that would make your uncle at Thanksgiving look sane. It positions itself as the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable, the paper of record for everything mainstream journalism dismisses as nonsense. At least, that’s their marketing pitch 📰The reality of The Stranger Times is rather less auspicious than the advertising suggests. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered, and spectacularly foul-mouthed husk of a man who harbors nothing but contempt for the publication he ostensibly edits. He sees the paper as a joke, the stories as garbage, and his job as penance for past mistakes he’s trying to drown in whiskey. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits and oddballs, each with their own damage, each barely holding it together 🍺

And as for the assistant editor position? Well, that particular job is a revolving door that spins so fast it’s practically a centrifuge. It has just revolved once again to reveal Hannah Willis, the latest unfortunate soul to take on this cursed role. Hannah has serious problems of her own—the kind that made this terrible job at this dysfunctional newspaper seem like her best available option, which tells you everything you need to know about where her life has landed 😅

When tragedy strikes during Hannah’s chaotic first week on the job, The Stranger Times finds itself forced to do some actual serious investigating for once. What they discover leads to a shocking realization that fundamentally changes everything: some of the stories they’d previously dismissed as complete nonsense, the tales they’d published with tongue firmly in cheek, are in fact terrifyingly real. The supernatural isn’t just tabloid fodder—it’s actual fact 🔍

C.K. McDonnell delivers humorous fantasy where a dysfunctional newspaper staff discovers that the paranormal phenomena they’ve been satirizing for years is genuine, and they’re now face-to-face with darker forces than they could ever have imagined. Suddenly this ragtag group of cynics and drunks are the only ones who know the truth, and they’re spectacularly unqualified to deal with it. Welcome to The Stranger Times, where the weird just got real 👻

What makes this essential: A humorous fantasy where a dysfunctional paranormal tabloid’s cynical staff discovers their “nonsense” stories are terrifyingly real—facing darker forces than imagined while barely functioning as humans. Perfect for readers who love urban fantasy with comedy, misfit found families, cynical protagonists forced into heroism, British humor, and newspapers investigating actual supernatural phenomena. First in The Stranger Times series. 🌟