He knew his service was considered heroic, but she was about to show him what true heroism—and even love—really looks like. What started as an adventure soon became hell. Piper Johnson’s thrilled to spend time in Timor-Leste with her best friend, a Peace Corps volunteer doing important work, until civil unrest erupts throughout the countryside including an attack at the orphanage the women were visiting. With the aid of a SEAL team sent to extract the government employee, Piper flees with the only other known survivors—three young orphan girls she refuses to abandon. 💔
Piper wasn’t able to save her friend who died in the attack, but she’ll be damned if she leaves the girls to the mercy of child traffickers in the country’s impoverished capital. However, taking them with her to the States requires something drastic, something crazy, something she can’t do alone—like getting married to someone she barely knows. What started as a mission soon becomes fate. Since nearly dying on a previous op, Beckett “Ace” Morgan has no time for regrets because life is far too short. So when he learns the brave, beautiful, selfless woman he’s rescued has a better chance of getting three orphans out of the country if she’s married, he doesn’t hesitate to propose. Susan Stoker delivers military romance about instant marriages and real heroism. 💕
What makes this essential: Military romance where Piper Johnson’s adventure in Timor-Leste with her Peace Corps volunteer best friend becomes hell when civil unrest erupts and an attack at the orphanage they’re visiting kills her friend, forcing Piper to flee with SEAL team extraction and three young orphan girls she refuses to abandon to child traffickers—taking them to the States requires something drastic like marriage, and SEAL Beckett “Ace” Morgan, who nearly died on a previous op and has no time for regrets, doesn’t hesitate when learning the brave, selfless woman he rescued needs a husband to save the orphans.
For over three hundred years, Arden’s very existence has been hidden from the world. Until one night when the latest assassination attempt fails and the third Killian blade makes its appearance, revealing her location. A powerful witch with little knowledge of her heritage or the prophecies surrounding her birth, Arden’s first step on the path of destiny is The Abbey—a place of sanctuary and power that exists between realms. It’s a haven in a sea of unknowns and where she hopes to find an ally who can explain what’s happening. 🔮
An Elven prince, a Fae lord, the First Vampire, a warlock, and the King of Dragons make up the Imperium Cadre, one of the most powerful cadres in existence with abilities that span millennia. Owning and managing The Abbey for over a thousand years, they’re not known for taking in strays or getting involved in prophecies. But Lord Theron’s life debt to Arden paves her entry into the formidable sphere of their protection whether they like it or not. As the sweeping winds of change blow through both realms, Arden and the cadre will navigate the path of destiny together, learning to trust each other. Secrets are revealed, heritage found, and alliances forged and lost. Stella Brie launches The Killian Blade Series with urban fantasy reverse harem romance about prophecies and powerful cadres. ✨
What makes this essential: An urban fantasy reverse harem romance launching The Killian Blade Series where Arden’s existence has been hidden for over three hundred years—until the latest assassination attempt fails and the third Killian blade appears, revealing her location as a powerful witch with little knowledge of her heritage, forcing her to seek sanctuary at The Abbey where the Imperium Cadre (an Elven prince, Fae lord, First Vampire, warlock, and King of Dragons) have managed the place for over a thousand years, not known for taking in strays but Lord Theron’s life debt paves her entry into their protection as they navigate destiny together.
She has survived inhuman horrors. They will protect her at all costs. But can they save her from the monsters within them? For years, the monsters who killed my family have held me in a cage, treating me worse than an animal. Brutalized and half-starved, barely clinging to my humanity. Only kept alive so they can steal my blood for its magical properties I don’t understand. Until one evening when four eerily gorgeous men break me out of my prison in a violent rescue I never expected. 🐺
They offer me a safe haven under their protection in their secluded compound. A soft bed after years on cold stone, delicious food after starvation, and all I need to heal my broken body. I’m not used to this kindness from anyone, or the desires their smoldering eyes and strong hands stir in my body and my heart in ways I didn’t think were still possible. But these fearsome men aren’t really men in the traditional sense. Like my captors, they’re fae who can shift into wolves—massive, powerful creatures. A curse gripping the faerie realm turns them wild under the full moon, and only my blood can cure their rage and keep them from losing their minds completely. 🌕
As long as I’m a prize more than a person, how can I trust their kindness? I’ve survived this long without giving up. Somehow this damaged human girl will hold her own among the savage wolves. Eva Chase launches Bound to the Fae with paranormal werewolves and shifters romance about survival and trust. ✨
What makes this essential: A paranormal werewolves and shifters romance launching Bound to the Fae where for years the monsters who killed her family held her caged, brutalized and half-starved, only alive so they can steal her blood—until four eerily gorgeous men break her out, offering safe haven with soft bed, delicious food, and healing, stirring desires with smoldering eyes and strong hands, but these fearsome men are fae who shift into wolves, cursed to turn wild under the full moon with only her blood curing their rage, making her wonder how she can trust their kindness when she’s a prize more than a person as this damaged human girl holds her own among savage wolves.
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None of the Nonsense, All of the Flavor. Prepare delicious meals with this no-frills, all-flavor recipe collection from Jessica Secrest, the wildly popular home chef known for her hostile humor and affordable recipes that don’t require fancy ingredients or techniques you learned at culinary school. Her long-awaited debut cookbook has an array of mouthwatering meals that focus on low-effort ingredients and techniques—think pre-shredded cheese (because who has time to shred), tater tots galore (frozen food is your friend), and your handy-dandy slow cooker that does the work while you do literally anything else—so you’ll have an endless source of recipes to feed your family without wasting time or money on ingredients nobody’s heard of. 🍔
Jessica’s signature style is present throughout each page, loudly guiding you in the kitchen with the kind of direct instructions that don’t sugarcoat anything, and reminding you that tasty cooking doesn’t always need to be done with a smile or patience or pretending you enjoy the process. Sometimes you just need to feed people food they’ll actually eat, and this cookbook delivers exactly that with zero apologies. Recipes include comfort food classics that actually work: The BEST Baked Mac and Cheese, Taco Potato Tot Casserole, Egg Roll in a Bowl, Cowboy BBQ Burgers, Teriyaki Pork, Fried Pickle Quesadillas, Sloppy Joe Fries, and Slow Cooker Spinach Artichoke Dip. 🧀
Jessica Secrest delivers comfort food cooking for people who want their families fed without pretending to be Martha Stewart, proving that hostile humor and aggressive deliciousness can coexist in the same cookbook. This is cooking for real people with real budgets and real limited patience for recipes that require seventeen specialty ingredients and three hours of active cooking time. Just make the food, feed your people, and move on with your life. 🍟
What makes this essential: Jessica Secrest’s debut comfort food cookbook—the wildly popular home chef known for hostile humor and affordable recipes—delivering no-frills, all-flavor mouthwatering meals focusing on low-effort ingredients like pre-shredded cheese, tater tots galore, and handy-dandy slow cookers, with signature style loudly guiding you through recipes including The BEST Baked Mac and Cheese, Taco Potato Tot Casserole, Cowboy BBQ Burgers, and Fried Pickle Quesadillas, reminding you that tasty cooking doesn’t need smiles and proving aggressive deliciousness feeds families without pretending to be Martha Stewart.
In this powerful memoir of survival and healing, Elizabeth Smart empowers readers to navigate life’s detours, embrace resilience, and find healing and purpose after adversity that fundamentally changes the trajectory you thought your life would take. In *Detours*, Elizabeth Smart explores how trauma can derail one’s path in life—taking you from where you thought you were going to someplace you never imagined—and shares her struggles with captivity that lasted nine months, reintegration into normal life after unimaginable trauma, and resilience that she had to build from nothing when everything felt impossible. 💪
Using the metaphor of life as a road with expected destinations and unexpected turns, Smart introduces four key “Rest Stops” for navigating life’s detours when the map you had no longer applies: grieving lost paths and the future you thought you’d have, embracing change even when it feels forced upon you, seeking connections with others who understand trauma, and redefining destinations when the place you were heading no longer exists or no longer feels possible to reach. Through themes of hope that refuses to die, community that holds you when you can’t stand alone, and self-discovery that happens in the darkest places, she inspires readers to find strength in their own journeys toward healing even when the road seems impossible to travel. 🌟
Elizabeth Smart delivers motivational self-help that doesn’t minimize trauma or pretend recovery follows a straight line, instead offering the hard-won wisdom of someone who survived the unthinkable and found ways to keep living anyway. This is not a book about “everything happens for a reason” or toxic positivity—it’s about acknowledging that terrible things derail our lives, and we can either stay stuck at the detour sign or find a new route forward even if it’s not the route we wanted. 🛤️
What makes this essential: Elizabeth Smart’s motivational self-help memoir empowering readers to navigate life’s detours, embrace resilience, and find healing and purpose after adversity—exploring how trauma derails one’s path, sharing her struggles with nine-month captivity, reintegration, and building resilience, using the metaphor of life as a road to introduce four key “Rest Stops” for navigating detours: grieving lost paths, embracing change, seeking connections, and redefining destinations, through themes of hope, community, and self-discovery without minimizing trauma or pretending recovery follows a straight line.
A Mafia insider and authentic Hollywood tough guy reveals the explosive secrets he’s learned and kept for decades in this shocking tell-all that unveils the hidden worlds of film and organized crime—from who shot JFK and murdered Jimmy Hoffa to the truth about Marilyn Monroe’s death that contradicts everything the public has been told. Foreword by Steve Schirripa, star of *The Sopranos*, *Blue Bloods*, and *Under the Boardwalk*. The Kennedys, Marilyn, the Vatican, Vegas, *The Godfather*, the Mob, and more unfold in this insider account. 🎬
During a cursed childhood in a Manhattan neighborhood teeming with Italian immigrants where survival meant learning the rules of the street young, Gianni Russo fended for himself at an early age after family circumstances forced independence on him. It was a quality of self-sufficiency and street smarts that didn’t go unnoticed by Frank Costello—father figure, mentor, and legendary crime boss who saw potential in the young Gianni. Thanks to Costello’s patronage and protection, Gianni was only twelve when his luck would change for a lifetime, opening doors that would have remained forever closed to a kid from his circumstances. All of it charmed and thrilling beyond what any child could imagine. With this access came Hollywood glamor, Vegas high-rollers and risk-takers, political conspiracies at the highest levels, sex with the most famous women in the world, murder both sanctioned and unsanctioned, shadow governments operating behind the scenes, and secrets that powerful people would kill to protect. 💰
The stories Gianni Russo could tell about decades in the intersection of Mob and Hollywood—and now he does in this bombshell confessional. This is the inside account of the Sicilian Mafia and Cosa Nostra from someone who was there, what really transpired in those Mulberry Street clubs behind closed doors, and who whacked whom—including how mobster Tony Spilotro and his brother really died (contrary to the *Casino* version), finally revealed for the first time with details only an insider would know. This is Gianni as buddy of Frank Sinatra and intimate friend (and more) with Marilyn Monroe. What’s the cover-up behind her death, JFK’s assassination, and Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance? It’s all here along with the clandestine role of the pope as the sacred boss of bosses, the glory days and downfall of Las Vegas when the Mob ran the casinos, and the colorful behind-the-scenes tales of Gianni’s role in the greatest movie ever made, *The Godfather*. Gianni Russo and Michael Benson deliver biography and memoir of criminals revealing secrets Hollywood and the Mob wanted buried forever. 🎰
What makes this essential: Gianni Russo’s biography and memoir—Mafia insider and authentic Hollywood tough guy—revealing explosive secrets kept for decades, unveiling hidden worlds of film and organized crime from who shot JFK and murdered Jimmy Hoffa to Marilyn Monroe’s death, covering his cursed Manhattan childhood fending for himself until Frank Costello (legendary crime boss) became father figure and mentor at age twelve, opening doors to Hollywood glamor, Vegas risk-takers, political conspiracies, sex, murder, shadow governments, and secrets, with inside account of Sicilian Mafia, what transpired in Mulberry Street clubs, who whacked whom including Tony Spilotro’s real death, Gianni’s friendships with Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe, the Vatican’s clandestine role, Vegas glory days, and behind-the-scenes tales of *The Godfather*.