Fran Clark’s grandmother has passed away and she’s assigned the task of going through Gram’s personal items, deciding what to keep and discard—as she’s going through desks and drawers, she comes across a key that opens Gram’s trunk filled with quilts made by generations of Clark women, the key she’d always loved as a child. Jane O’Brien delivers time travel romance where filled with nostalgia, Fran spreads the quilts across the room and while shedding tears for her grandmother’s loss, she suddenly finds herself transported to 1875, not even sure how she got there—scared and alone, she must find a way to fit into this new world. 🧵As Fran struggles to find her way back to her own time period, she learns of a new way of living in the post Civil War era, one of hard work with very little time for relaxation and lacking any modern amenities—but as she begins to adjust, she discovers a different side to herself, finding strength and self-confidence she didn’t know she had, and learning that two different men find her beautiful, something she’d never thought about herself before. O’Brien explores what happens when grief and nostalgia become literal time travel, examining how modern women discover unexpected capabilities when forced to survive in simpler but harder times. ⏰
When the time has come to make a decision to stay or leave, she is torn—if she stays she will have a contented and fulfilled life, but she’ll be living a lie and risks hurting those she’s grown to love who love her; if she goes, she’ll be back with her family but facing modern life’s pressures alone with no one to love. O’Brien asks whether Fran can find a way back to her own time and whether she even wants to, delivering time travel romance where the hardest journey isn’t through time but deciding which life you actually want to live. 💕
Why I’m including this: Time travel romance where Fran Clark going through her deceased grandmother’s items finds a childhood-favorite key opening Gram’s trunk filled with generations of Clark women’s quilts—spreading them across the room while crying, she’s suddenly transported to 1875, scared and alone, struggling to find her way back while learning post Civil War hard work without modern amenities, discovering strength, self-confidence, and two men who find her beautiful, eventually torn between staying for a contented fulfilled life built on lies or returning to modern family pressures alone without love.
Dragons are a myth and heroes are a reality—six hundred years ago, humans retreated underground with Elders saying our sins were why, and ever since, the battle between Heaven and Hell has raged on Earth’s surface with only becoming truly righteous able to save us. A.H. Hadley launches The Ruins Of Men with dystopian science fiction where it was a lie: stories of dragons willing to devour us and wild men who will torture us keep the population in line, with hunters always returning wounded proving how God does not consider us ready yet—except it was all a lie. 🐉They’ve beaten the narrator down until the only option left is death—sacrificed to the dragons, she expects monsters from legends but instead learns the truth: dragons are people, massive, strange, dangerous people. Hadley explores what happens when your entire worldview built on religious lies shatters upon meeting the “monsters” you were taught to fear, discovering they’re not monsters at all but another species humanity has demonized to maintain control. Her only hope is to push aside everything she’s been taught and learn to embrace who she really is: a daughter, a woman, not just a healer but also a warrior. ⚔️
She was chained out to die but will survive—one way or another, she will find a way to stop all the lies. The author delivers dystopian science fiction where religious oppression underground meets dragon truth above ground, proving that sometimes the monsters are the people who’ve been lying to you for six hundred years. Hadley writes a heroine who must unlearn indoctrination while learning to fight, transforming from sacrificial victim to warrior determined to expose the conspiracy that’s kept humanity enslaved. The first Ruins Of Men novel establishes a world where myth and reality have been deliberately inverted. 💪
What makes this essential: Dystopian science fiction launching The Ruins Of Men where six hundred years ago humans retreated underground with Elders claiming sins caused it and only becoming righteous saves us from Earth’s surface battle between Heaven and Hell—except dragons willing to devour us and wild men torturing us are lies keeping the population in line, and when she’s beaten down until death is the only option and sacrificed to dragons, she expects monsters but learns dragons are massive strange dangerous people, discovering she must embrace being not just healer but warrior to survive and stop all the lies.
Four brothers, one vintage spaceship, and a set of secret coordinates that lead to the most valuable mineral in the galaxy—what could possibly go wrong? Toby Neighbors launches McCoy Chronicles with galactic empire science fiction where Easy McCoy is a Special Forces Commando at the end of a thirty-year career, Kitt McCoy is a commercial pilot facing mandatory retirement due to age, Big Candy McCoy is a professional gambler with enemies, and Hutch McCoy is a computer engineer who just found a secret that could change their lives forever. 🚀Chasing down a dream is never easy, but when all the elements needed for a grand adventure come together, the McCoy brothers go all in to pursue a treasure that could make them all rich beyond their wildest dreams—but they’ll have to pool their resources and talents, learn how to get along, and deal with a government blockade if they’re going to have any chance of reaching the Quarzite Crystal mines in the Harpazo system. Neighbors explores what happens when sibling rivalry meets treasure hunt in space, examining whether brothers who’ve drifted apart through wildly different careers can work together long enough to get rich. ✨
First they’ll need to run the blockade through contested space and hope they can make their way through an asteroid field without getting killed or killing each other—along the way, they’re bound to run into trouble since the brothers were raised to be men of principle, but a lifetime in different careers has caused the siblings to drift apart. Neighbors delivers galactic empire science fiction where family dysfunction meets space adventure, proving that the real treasure hunt is learning whether you can trust your brothers when millions are on the line. The first McCoy Chronicles establishes four very different men who must become a team or lose everything. 💎
Why I’m including this: Galactic empire science fiction launching McCoy Chronicles where four brothers—Easy a Special Forces Commando ending thirty years, Kitt a commercial pilot facing mandatory retirement, Big Candy a professional gambler with enemies, and Hutch a computer engineer with a life-changing secret—get secret coordinates to the galaxy’s most valuable mineral, pooling resources and talents to pursue Quarzite Crystal mines in the Harpazo system, needing to learn to get along, run government blockades through contested space, and navigate asteroid fields without getting killed or killing each other as lifetime in different careers has caused drift and trouble is guaranteed.
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The human “oddities” in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised, but Alida is something else—the real thing, traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies. Dean Koontz delivers coming of age fiction where Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum’s golden ticket until she’s rescued by two compassionate strangers, Franklin and Loretta Fairchild, who see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl in need of a loving touch and a family. 🎪With the openhearted couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds the family she never had, yet despite everyone’s overwhelming generosity and acceptance, she knows she is still a very different kind of girl—her dreams bear that out, vivid, unsettling, and threatening dreams that Alida fears are also warnings that it’s the Fairchilds who may need rescue from a bad, bad world. Koontz explores what happens when the rescued becomes the rescuer, examining how being different can be burden and blessing when the family who saved you might need your particular gifts to survive. 💫
Alida will do anything to help those she now holds nearest and dearest, empowered with a purpose to vanquish evil, and she will not fail her family—Koontz delivers coming of age fiction where a girl exploited for being unusual discovers that her differences might be exactly what’s needed to protect the people who first saw her as human rather than attraction. The author balances Depression-era atmosphere with supernatural elements, creating a story where love transforms the exploited into the protector and acceptance gives purpose to power. ✨
Why I’m including this: Coming of age fiction where Alida, the real thing among Museum of the Strange’s human “oddities” traveling Depression-era America as the exploited golden ticket, gets rescued by compassionate strangers Franklin and Loretta Fairchild who see a gifted well-read girl needing family—with their openhearted family, she finds belonging despite knowing her vivid unsettling warning dreams suggest the Fairchilds may need rescue from evil as she’s empowered to vanquish it and protect those she holds dearest.
Niki McKnight puts the ‘tea’ in team with eight tales of magic, mayhem, and midlife empowerment—welcome back to Gretna Green, where the tea is hot even when it’s coffee, the dragons are hotter, and the cosy-fantasy chaos never ends. Linzi Day delivers humorous fantasy where readers join Niki and her irrepressible team at the Recorder’s Office as they uncover secrets, meet a dragonet, and commit the occasional righteous murder with plenty of laughter, loyalty, and a splash of uisge beatha for shock. 🐉From ancient graveyards to modern royal birthdays, Gretna Green has never been busier—this full-length collection of novellas and short stories weaves through the series, starting after Ties that Bond and continuing after Market Forces. Day explores midlife magic where administrative work at the Recorder’s Office involves far more than paperwork, proving that bureaucracy becomes adventure when you’re dealing with dragons, ancient secrets, and the occasional need for righteous violence to set things right. ☕
The author balances cozy fantasy charm with genuinely chaotic stakes, creating a world where tea (or coffee) fixes some problems while magic, friendship, and strategic murder handle the rest. Day writes middle-aged heroines who’ve earned their power and aren’t afraid to use it, delivering humor that comes from competence rather than bumbling and fantasy that celebrates women who’ve lived long enough to know when rules need breaking. The Cozy Chaos Collection proves that midlife is when the real magic begins. ✨
What makes this special: Humorous fantasy collection where Niki McKnight puts the ‘tea’ in team with eight tales of magic, mayhem, and midlife empowerment in Gretna Green—the tea is hot even when it’s coffee, the dragons are hotter, and cosy-fantasy chaos never ends as Niki’s irrepressible Recorder’s Office team uncovers secrets, meets a dragonet, and commits occasional righteous murder with laughter, loyalty, and uisge beatha for shock from ancient graveyards to royal birthdays.
He doesn’t give a damn what people say about him—successful and confident as one of San Diego’s youngest CEOs, but when his womanizer rep costs him a major business deal, he’s got a problem. Layla Hagen continues The Sterling Brothers with alpha male romance where one of his brothers suggests a fake girlfriend (ridiculous), then he spots the perfect opportunity at a bar, overhearing a stunning blonde getting utterly humiliated by her ex who casually informs her he dumped her to marry someone else—what an idiot, so she looks like she needs rescuing. 💼He sits at their table and kisses her like he’s done it a million times, and after the jerk bails, he makes her a deal: be his fake date for one business dinner, and Phoebe agrees. Hagen explores what happens when a rescue kiss leads to a fake relationship that was supposed to be simple, except the dinner turns into a weekend at a beach house with one bedroom, too much wine, and one unforgettable night that Phoebe tries to pretend didn’t happen the next morning. 🔥
The author delivers alpha male romance where fake dating your rescue becomes complicated when the chemistry you staged for an audience turns real in private, proving that some kisses you can’t take back and some nights change everything no matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise. Hagen writes a CEO who’s used to controlling outcomes discovering that you can’t control attraction, and a woman humiliated by her ex finding empowerment through a fake relationship that feels more real than anything she had before. The third Sterling Brothers novel asks what happens when pretending leads to truth. 💕
Why I’m including this: Alpha male romance continuing The Sterling Brothers where a successful confident San Diego CEO whose womanizer rep costs him a major business deal overhears a stunning blonde getting humiliated by her ex at a bar—he rescues her with a kiss like he’s done it a million times, proposing she be his fake date for one business dinner, but when Phoebe agrees, the simple plan turns into a beach house weekend with one bedroom, too much wine, one unforgettable night she tries pretending didn’t happen.