The plan: A month in Sweden to jump-start her photojournalism career and follow her wanderlust dreams. Not in the plan: The hot, grumpy, disgraced hockey player living across the hall. Armed with her camera and an around-the-world ticket, she arrives in Stockholm ready to satisfy her wanderlust and build her dream career as a photojournalist. Everything is falling into place exactly as she envisioned. 📷
Then she meets Niklas, her moody neighbor with questionable manners, a fresh gash over his eye, and an attitude that should turn her off completely. But it doesn’t. The attraction is immediate, intense, and completely inconvenient. She thought she knew exactly where her life was heading when she left everything behind, but Niklas makes her question everything. 🏒
As the clock ticks down on her month in Stockholm, she’s faced with an impossible choice between two different paths. What happens when your heart wants two contradictory things—the freedom to roam the world and the connection that makes you want to stay? Between capturing Sweden’s beauty through her lens and getting tangled up with a complicated, damaged hockey player who’s fighting his own demons, she discovers that the best adventures are often the ones you never planned for. ✈️
Why this scores: International romance set in stunning Stockholm, a brooding fallen hockey star with secrets, wanderlust versus staying put for love, and the discovery that sometimes the heart wants what the carefully made plans don’t include.
Three perfect lives are about to implode when tragedy forces old friends to confront who they’ve become. Three estranged friends seem content in their picture-perfect existences—until unexpected tragedy strikes, threatening to destroy everything they hold dear and forcing them to reconnect after years apart. On the surface, they’ve achieved everything they wanted. 🦋
Liz, an ambitious headhunter in London, is beholden to nobody and fiercely determined to keep it that way, building walls around her heart. Emily, a homebody with a countryside cottage, appears happy surrounded by her family and crafts, content with her quiet life. Chrissy, a writer turned realtor, is seemingly living the American dream in sunny California with her perfect family. But are their lives as idyllic as they appear? 🏡
When a long-forgotten schoolfriend unexpectedly takes her own life, the three women reunite at the funeral—and just as they reconnect, their carefully constructed lives begin to shatter. Liz discovers a betrayal threatening to end her relationship, Emily is presented with an incredible opportunity she dare not pass up, and Chrissy’s seemingly perfect son is arrested. The friends are forced to re-examine who they really are and make life-altering decisions that will pull them in directions they never imagined, discovering whether their renewed friendship can survive the truth. 💔
What makes this powerful: Three women, three crumbling perfect lives, the rekindling of old friendships through crisis, and the discovery that sometimes you need to fall apart before you can become who you’re meant to be.
Prepare yourself for the kickoff of the biggest comic event in Marvel history with this special preview that sets the stage for Secret Wars. This Free Comic Book Day exclusive gives readers their first glimpse into Marvel’s ambitious crossover event that will reshape the entire Marvel Universe in ways no one expects. The multiverse is collapsing, realities are colliding, and everything you know is about to change. 💥
Jonathan Hickman delivers the opening salvo of what promises to be an epic tale of cosmic destruction and rebirth, featuring your favorite Marvel heroes facing impossible choices as their worlds literally crash into each other. This zero issue provides essential context and shocking revelations that set the stage for the massive storyline to follow. ⚡
From the creative team behind Marvel’s most ambitious crossover comes the preview issue that comic fans have been waiting for—the beginning of Secret Wars. Whether you’re a longtime Marvel devotee or curious about jumping into the biggest event in comic history, this special edition provides the perfect entry point into a story that will have massive implications for the entire Marvel Universe. Free Comic Book Day has never been bigger. 🦸
What makes this essential: The kickoff to Marvel’s most ambitious crossover event, multiverse-shattering action from acclaimed writer Jonathan Hickman, and your first look at the cataclysm that reshapes everything in the Marvel Universe.
The Last Post: The Knocknashee Series – Book 7 (The Knocknashee Story)
The Last Post—the final book in the acclaimed Knocknashee Series. As the dark clouds of war finally begin to break over Europe, Grace Fitzgerald and Richard Lewis glimpse the possibility of a future together after years of turmoil and separation. Their hard-won love has withstood so much already—distance, danger, and the relentless machinery of war threatening to tear them apart forever. 💔
Now, as the Allies launch their final assault on the European continent, determined to rid the world of Nazi terror at whatever cost, Grace must say goodbye once again. Richard has a dual mission that will take him into the heart of the invasion: to witness and report on the campaign that will decide the world’s fate, and to fulfill a promise to find someone who vanished without a trace during the chaos of war. His journalistic duty and personal quest intertwine as history unfolds around him. 📰
But in Richard’s absence, Grace faces her own reckoning. Drawn back to confront an old adversary from her past, she must fight one final battle on Irish soil while Richard fights his on the continent. As both face their greatest challenges, the question becomes: will their love survive not just the war that has defined their generation, but the ghosts that haunt them both? In this powerful conclusion to the Knocknashee Series, love, loyalty, and courage are tested as the world stands on the brink of peace—or further devastation. 🇮🇪
What makes this unforgettable: The powerful conclusion to the Knocknashee Series, WWII’s final days through Irish eyes, a journalist’s dual mission during D-Day aftermath, separated lovers fighting their own battles, and the question of whether love can survive war and the past.
A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead—while nearby, a vault sits with its door ajar, filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband Roarke, who misspent his youth in Ireland as a scrappy thief, recognizes at least two stolen pieces among the hoard. The crime scene suggests a burglar caught in the act, but only one item seems to be missing from the collection. 💎
Then it’s revealed that the vault actually belonged to the victim’s late father, and no one in the household even knew it existed until a recent remodeling project exposed it. To protect the family name and business, they explain to Eve, they’d been looking for a way to return the ill-gotten gains anonymously and avoid police involvement. But now the police are all over their elegant house with a bigger, bloodier mystery to solve than stolen art. 🔍
By all accounts, Nathan Barrister was a good man—a generous employer, devoted husband and father. But his father clearly had secrets, and now it’s up to Eve and her team to determine if those secrets got Nathan killed. Was it a crime of passion, an act of revenge for his father’s sins, or something else entirely? As Eve digs into the Barrister family’s hidden history, she uncovers a web of deception spanning decades. The question becomes: which secret was worth killing for? 🕵️
What makes this riveting: J.D. Robb’s bestselling In Death series continues, Eve Dallas investigating a billionaire’s murder tied to his father’s stolen art collection, Roarke’s criminal past proving useful, and secrets spanning generations that lead to deadly consequences.
On a beautiful autumn night, screams rang out through the forest. A young woman was found brutally murdered. And the string of mysteries that followed became an unimaginable nightmare for the small town of Sweetwater Falls. After losing the love of her life and leaving her career with the FBI behind, Spenser Song answered a job posting and moved to this seemingly idyllic town to start over as sheriff. Starting over wasn’t easy, especially with the many dark mysteries from her past shadowing her every move. 🍂
As sheriff of Sweetwater, she’s had to unravel tragic crimes that shatter the town’s peaceful facade. When a young woman is found dead in the woods with scant clues surrounding her body, Spenser is thrust into a mystery that will shock everyone to the core. The investigation reveals layers of secrets beneath Sweetwater Falls’ picturesque surface—secrets people have killed to protect. 🔍
With help from her semi-grumpy landlord Ryker Makawi, a man with his own trust issues and tragic past, the two become enveloped in volatile mysteries full of twisted conspiracies. As Spenser digs deeper, she discovers that this murder connects to a web of corruption reaching into the highest levels of the community. With danger closing in and her own demons resurfacing, Spenser must solve the case before the killer strikes again—or before her past finally catches up with her. 🌲
What makes this gripping: Book 17 in the Sweetwater Falls Mystery series, former FBI agent turned small-town sheriff with a tragic past, brutal murder in seemingly idyllic setting, complicated partnership with damaged landlord, and twisted conspiracies beneath the town’s perfect surface.