Cassie Broun’s life is about to change forever—and not just because her eyesight is failing. A historian and ancestry website owner who has long been curious about her lost Scottish bloodline, Cassie begins researching the Broun clan and discovers something that defies rational explanation: a Claddagh ring that serves as a doorway into medieval Scotland. On the other side of that doorway, Chieftain Logan MacLomain has been betrothed since birth to a Broun lass he has never met, convinced the ancient tie between their clans is long past. When Cassie stumbles into a skirmish on the borders of his land, every noble intention he possesses is immediately put to the test. He knows desiring her is wrong. He seeks her out anyway. Sky Purington opens the MacLomain: Later Years series with the time travel romance that Simply Romance Reviews called impossible to put down “hook, line and sinker.” 💕

Everything changes when war ravages a nearby village and a young king’s fate is placed at risk—Scotland’s future hanging in the balance as four MacLomain warriors band together and the denied love between Cassie and Logan finally forces its hand. Purington writes immersive medieval Scotland with the “vivid imagery” and protective alpha hero energy that has made her one of the genre’s most trusted names. “Purington writes some of the best time-travel romances going,” noted AngelAj. 🔍

Purington is an award-winning, 4-time RONE nominee, and bestselling author of over 70 novels. The MacLomain: Later Years series runs four books. Can stand alone but is best enjoyed after The MacLomain Series Books 1–4. Contains adult content. ⭐

Why this charms: She traveled through a magical ring to medieval Scotland, he’s been betrothed to a Broun woman his whole life, and Scotland’s future may depend on what they do next.

It’s 1931 and men are desperate for work. In the blazing Nevada desert, a lucky few get selected to build something that has never been attempted before: the Hoover Dam, a sixty-story concrete wall taming the mighty Colorado River to create the largest man-made lake in the world. Engineer David Conroy works closely with legendary chief engineer Frank Crowe, racing against asphyxiation inside mile-long diversion tunnels pumped full of gasoline fumes in 120-degree heat. His brother Pete runs a scaling crew that dangles from slender cables over the thousand-foot walls of Black Canyon. Back in Idaho, David’s wife faces a troubled teenage son and opportunistic brothers-in-law while wondering if her husband will ever come home. Jerry Borrowman delivers the historical novel built around one of America’s greatest engineering feats—and the very real human cost of building it. 📚

Borrowman writes with the meticulous historical research and genuine compassion for his characters that has earned him multiple national awards. The novel paints the early 1930s with unflinching honesty—the casual discrimination against minority workers, the class tensions between engineers and laborers, the physical danger that killed workers regularly on a job officially listed as killing none. Meridian Magazine called it “a superb portrayal of the values and prejudices of the early twentieth century.” 🔍

Borrowman is the bestselling, award-winning author of Compassionate Soldier, winner of the 2018 Indies Gold Award, and Three Against Hitler, a George Washington National Award Winner. Life and Death at Hoover Dam is a standalone novel. ⭐

Why this matters: The men who dangled from ropes over Black Canyon in 120-degree heat to build America’s greatest dam—and the families who waited back home to find out if they’d survived.

A young girl is found tortured and mutilated at an abandoned County Durham train station, and retired army captain Sarah Stone is persuaded to join a specialized police unit dedicated to catching serial killers. Her new partner is DI Richard Flesch—the country’s leading expert on psychopaths. The reason he knows so much about psychopaths is that he used to be one. He is the Chester-le-Street Cannibal. Richard’s three words to describe Sarah: brave, unrelenting, haunted. Sarah’s three words to describe Richard: intelligent, focused, cannibal. How is she supposed to focus on catching monsters when she is forced to work with one? Iain Rob Wright opens the Flesch & Stone series with the British crime horror novel that reviewers are calling his most gripping work yet. 🔍

Wright builds the central dynamic with real craft—the specific tension of a by-the-book investigator partnered with a man whose expertise comes entirely from the inside, and whose restraint cannot be guaranteed. The criminal investigation is legitimately compelling, the mystery twists arrive at the right moments, and the ending delivers a surprise that reviewers describe as both unexpected and entirely inevitable in hindsight. J.A. Konrath called Wright “an author who scares the hell out of me.” 💙

Wright is a prolific British horror author and previous Kindle All-Star whose catalog spans apocalyptic fiction, creature horror, and crime thriller. The Flesch & Stone series runs two books. ⭐

Why this grips you: Her partner is the country’s leading serial killer expert because he is one—and she has to trust him enough to catch the next one.

Mitch Kearns is well past his glory days as a Special Forces combat tracker—these days he teaches the FBI how to pursue fugitives on the run, which suits him fine. Fresh out of a class, he runs straight into Dev Leitner, the daughter of his former black-ops mentor. She’s in possession of something that a ruthless military contractor called the Aeneid Corporation will kill to bury: classified plans to launch a terrorist attack on American soil. In a matter of hours, Mitch and Dev are being hunted through the Arizona desert by trained mercenaries, and his combat tracking skills—the ability to read human movement, anticipate a pursuer’s next step, and navigate any terrain under pressure—become the only thing standing between them and a mass casualty event. JT Sawyer opens the Mitch Kearns Combat Tracker series with the action thriller that survivalist fans have been calling an instant classic since its release. 🔍

Sawyer writes under a pen name but is a real-life survival instructor who has taught the military special operations community, DHS, US Marshals, and the FAA. The authentic tactical and wilderness survival details distinguish the series from standard action thriller fare—they feel real because they are. The romantic tension between Mitch and Dev builds naturally across the series without overshadowing the action. 💙

Sawyer has appeared on the Travel Channel, Fox News, and Discovery, and consulted on the film Into the Wild. The Mitch Kearns series runs seven books. ⭐

Why this grips you: A retired combat tracker, the daughter of his dead mentor, classified plans for a terrorist attack, and trained killers hunting them through the Arizona desert.

When you get up in the morning, the last thing you expect is to see a murdered bloke hanging outside your window. But when you’re squatting in your parents’ old house in Hobart, Tasmania—the house where they were killed seven years ago, which nobody has touched since—you also can’t afford the attention of the cops. Hi. My name is Pet. It’s not my real name, but it’s the only one you’re getting. Because I’m a pet now. A human pet: belonging to the two Behindkind fae and the pouty vampire who just moved into my house to investigate the murder. One of the fae, Zero, is icily powerful and believes in keeping his distance. Zero’s steward, Athelas, is more approachable but no less dangerous. The vampire JinYeong refuses to speak English. They have named me Pet, and they’re staying whether I like it or not. W.R. Gingell opens the City Between series with the Tasmanian urban fantasy that has built one of the most passionate word-of-mouth readerships in the genre. ✨

The specific pleasure of the series is the found-family dynamic—the deeply dysfunctional supernatural household that slowly becomes something warmer—and Pet’s voice, which is drily hilarious while somehow also being genuinely mysterious. The Tasmanian setting is one of the most original in urban fantasy, and the Between itself—the liminal space between the human world and the Behindkind—is built with real imagination. Clean; no explicit content. 🔍

Gingell is a Tasmanian author who lives in a refurbished 1970s Bedford Bus. The City Between series runs 13 books. ⭐

Why this captivates: A girl squatting in her murdered parents’ house gets adopted as a human pet by two fae and a vampire investigating a body outside her window—in Hobart, Tasmania.

Akira Malone believes in the scientific method, evolution, and Einstein’s theory of relativity. She also believes in ghosts—not because she wants to, but because she can see them and communicate with them, which makes denial rather difficult. She prefers to think of her ability as a genetic quirk and the spirits she encounters as leftover electromagnetic energy. Dangerous electromagnetic energy, since spirits have a tendency to cause accidents. Zane Latimer believes in telepathy, precognition, and auras—and that playing Halo with your employees is an excellent management technique. He also thinks Akira might be able to help his family contact lost loved ones, which is why she’s been recruited to work at his company in the small Florida town of Tassamara. What Akira doesn’t know yet is that Tassamara has secrets of its own. Sarah Wynde opens the Tassamara series with the warmly original paranormal romance that readers describe as impossible to put down. 💕

The novel is lighter in tone than most paranormal romance—warm and witty rather than dark and brooding—but the emotional stakes are real, the world-building is thoughtful, and Zane’s voice is one of the most charming romantic leads the genre has produced in years. The ghosts Akira encounters are genuinely dangerous rather than merely spooky, which gives the mystery its teeth. Novel Truths called it “a fresh, lively love story.” 🔍

Wynde graduated from Wesleyan University and spent years as a technical writer before turning to fiction. The Tassamara series runs four books. ⭐

Why this charms: A scientist who explains ghosts as electromagnetic energy takes a job in a small Florida town—and discovers both the town and her new boss are considerably more than advertised.

An infant is left on the doorstep of Saint Michael’s Orphanage in the winter of 1936 with only an engraved medallion to mark his identity. Marvin Saint Michael grows up under the watchful gaze of nuns and priests who are anything but loving—learning early to keep his head down, obey, and never question authority, because the repercussions are severe. When Marvin is fourteen, a girl named Eva Murphy arrives at the orphanage after a tragic accident takes her parents. She is unlike anyone he has ever met and he is immediately drawn to her, instinctively certain that his life is about to change. Amy Fillion delivers the multi-generational family drama that spans decades—following Marvin and Eva’s intertwined lives forward through joy, loss, choice, and the particular cruelty and grace of time. 💙

Fillion writes with the emotional patience and deep compassion for her characters that distinguishes the best of multi-generational family fiction—the kind of story where readers report “crying so hard” at one particular moment and immediately recommending the book to everyone they know. The novel’s title captures the precise quality she renders so well: the funny, unexpected turns a life takes when you’re busy making other plans. 🔍

Fillion is a New Hampshire author and prolific writer of both adult and children’s fiction who has now published over 20 novels. This Funny Life is a standalone novel and available on audiobook through Tantor Media. ⭐

Why this moves you: A boy abandoned at an orphanage in 1936, the girl who arrived and changed everything, and a lifetime of love, loss, and the turns no one could have predicted—for $1.99.

Torie Bergstrom hasn’t been back to Georgia since she was ten. She was happy to arrange a job for her best friend at one of her family’s resort properties on Jekyll Island—until she learns that Lisbeth has drowned. Torie knows immediately that something is wrong: Lisbeth was terrified of water and would never have gone swimming by choice. She goes to the hotel under an alias, desperate to find answers. When she meets Joe Abbott and his daughter rescuing baby turtles on the beach, she finds a tentative ally—though his possible connection to her friend’s death casts a shadow she can’t dismiss. As Torie digs deeper, she discovers unsettling threads connecting Lisbeth’s death to the mysterious circumstances surrounding her own mother’s death two decades earlier. And a killer is watching her every move. Colleen Coble delivers the standalone coastal romantic suspense that her loyal readership describes as one of her very best. 🔍

Coble builds the Jekyll Island setting with immersive coastal detail—the barrier island atmosphere, the sea turtle rescue operations, the historic resort backdrop—and structures the mystery so that the red herrings arrive at just the right intervals. Reviewers describe it as “part psychological thriller, part romantic suspense, part mystery, all riveting.” Contains a subtle faith thread. 💙

Coble is the USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of over 85 books with 6 million copies in print. A Stranger’s Game is a standalone novel. ⭐

Why this grips you: Her best friend drowned at a resort she arranged the job for—but Lisbeth was terrified of water, and the killer knows Torie is asking questions—for $2.99.

Sometimes broken hearts need whiskey. Sometimes they need music. Other times, only a night with a stranger will soothe the pain. On the night Aubrey and Isaac met at a country bar, they tried all three. No last names, no details—just one hour to forget, and then they would never see each other again. She believed that. Five years later, a bizarre twist of fate lands Aubrey in need of exactly the kind of help only one person can give. And that person is Isaac. She does not want to be attracted to him. She does not want her heart to skip a beat when she sees him. She really does not want him to look at her the way he keeps looking at her. But this time, they don’t have the option of parting ways when the sun comes up. Jennifer Millikin delivers the second-chance romance that a TikTok video with over 14 million views sent to the top of the bestseller charts—and which has since been optioned for film and television. 💕

What makes Our Finest Hour more than its premise is the specific emotional weight Millikin brings to both Aubrey and Isaac—the discovery that what felt like a one-night escape was actually the beginning of something neither of them was ready for. The novel is a two-time Readers’ Favorite Gold Star Award recipient and reviewers consistently call it “emotionally riveting” and “unputdownable.” 🔍

Millikin is an Amazon Charts bestselling author of 14 novels from the Arizona desert. The Time Series runs three books, each a standalone. This book contains mature content. ⭐

Why this hooks you: One anonymous hour at a bar, no last names, and a plan to never see each other again—until fate made that plan completely impossible—for $2.99.

Law professor Boady Sanden doesn’t expect much when he agrees to look into the case of Elijah Matthews for the Innocence Project. Elijah, who believes himself a prophet, has been locked in a psychiatric hospital for four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. The more Boady reviews the file, the more alarmed he becomes—because the threads lead back to the shooting death of his colleague and friend Ben Pruitt, a murder that happened four years ago in Boady’s own home. Ben’s daughter Emma has been living with Boady and his wife Dee ever since that night. Now fourteen and growing increasingly distant, Emma soon makes a choice that takes her far from the safety of her godparents. Desperate to bring her home and free an innocent man, Boady must take on both simultaneously. Allen Eskens delivers the dual Kirkus and Publishers Weekly starred-review legal thriller his longtime readers have been waiting for. 🔍

Eskens practiced criminal law for 25 years, and the procedural authenticity earned him the complete trust of reviewers and readers who describe his work as “a first-rate legal thriller.” The dual-mission structure—legal and personal—creates the precise compression that makes his thrillers feel relentless. William Kent Krueger called him “one of our best crime writers at the top of his game,” and Publishers Weekly praised “superior turns of phrase and fully realized characters.” 💙

Eskens is the USA Today bestselling author of The Life We Bury, published in 26 languages. Saving Emma is a standalone with connections to his wider universe. ⭐

Why this grips you: An Innocence Project case that connects to a murder in his own home, and the girl he’s been raising who is about to run—he has to save both—for $1.99.