Twenty-four hours ago, private chef Tessa Byrne didn’t know shifters existed. Now she knows too much — specifically, that a ruthless dragon lord is determined to claim her forever. She flees to Maui, where sunny skies, swaying palms, and a handsome stranger named Kai Llewellyn conspire to play tricks with her heart. Can she trust him and his band of battle-hardened shapeshifters to save her from a gruesome fate? 🐉
Anna Lowe writes shifter romance with genuine stakes and a heroine thrown into a world she didn’t know existed. Kai has two rules: don’t trust a human, and never, ever fall in love with one. He learned both lessons the hard way. But Tessa is different — her emerald eyes mirror the mysterious pendant she wears, and her flaming red hair makes his heart race in ways his inner dragon recognizes immediately. 🔥
Is his dragon just greedy for a new kind of treasure, or is Tessa his destined mate? Lowe balances the paranormal worldbuilding with the romance beautifully, and the Hawaiian setting adds warmth and atmosphere to the dragon shifter dynamics. 💚
What makes this irresistible: A private chef fleeing a ruthless dragon lord lands in Maui and meets a handsome shifter who’s sworn off humans — shifter romance with dragon dynamics, Hawaiian setting, sizzling chemistry, a mysterious pendant, and the question of whether she’s his treasure or his destined mate.
She’d just been promoted to executive director at Morgan Stanley — one of the youngest ever — when she began noticing something wasn’t right in their house. Walls changing shades overnight. Coffee cups appearing in strange places, always full and cold. And her husband Mark’s obsession with perfection growing more disturbing by the day. 😰
Julia Derek writes psychological thriller with genuine unease and a heroine who’s trying to rationalize the irrational. An encounter with Mark’s schizophrenic father makes her question everything she thought she knew about the family. His cryptic warnings about his daughter Rachel — whose supposed suicide a decade ago is shrouded in secrecy — suggest a darkness that goes beyond mental illness. 🌑
As Mark’s behavior grows increasingly erratic, she begins to suspect something far more sinister than schizophrenia is at play. And that it’s the reason Rachel is dead. But before she can do something about it, it’s too late. Derek builds the tension expertly, and the jaw-dropping twist lives up to the promise. 💀
Why this grips from page one: A newly promoted executive notices her husband’s obsession with perfection turning disturbing — and warnings about his dead sister suggest the family’s darkness goes beyond mental illness. Psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist, creeping dread, and a heroine who realizes the truth too late.
Sophia Henley is your typical college freshman — until a lion starts stalking her and fire comes shooting out of her hands to protect her sister. Then a drop-dead gorgeous guy shows up to sweep her away to a magical school where she’ll learn to control her element and bond with a powerful creature called a Familiar. Fire and Water don’t mix, but apparently Sophia doesn’t get a choice. 🔥
Megan Linski and Alicia Rades write academy fantasy with a heroine who doesn’t believe she’s the savior of an ancient tribe or the missing piece of a prophecy that’s more myth than reality. Unfortunately, belief isn’t required — only survival. Sophia is forced to enter the Elemental Cup, where she’ll either earn her place in this society or die trying. The stakes are clear from the beginning. ⚡
The authors balance the magical academy tropes with genuine danger and a protagonist whose skepticism makes her more relatable than the typical chosen-one heroine. The Elemental Cup raises the stakes beyond just passing classes. 💧
What makes this special: A college freshman discovers she’s an elemental when fire shoots from her hands — and is swept off to a magical academy where she must compete in the deadly Elemental Cup. Academy fantasy with elemental magic, Familiar bonds, a prophecy she doesn’t believe in, and competition that could end in death.
The Last Kings of Hollywood
The untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries—Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg—revolutionized American cinema, creating the most iconic films in history while risking everything, redefining friendship, and shaping Hollywood as we know it.
In the summer of 1967, as the old Hollywood studio system was dying, an intense, uncompromising young film school graduate named George Lucas walked onto the Warner Bros backlot for his first day working as an assistant to another up-and-coming, largely-unknown filmmaker, a boisterous father of two called Francis Ford Coppola. At the exact same time, across town on the Universal Studios lot, a film-obsessed twenty-year-old from a peripatetic Jewish family, Steven Spielberg, longed to break free from his apprenticeship for the struggling studio and become a film director in his own right.
Within a year, the three men would become friends. Spielberg, prioritizing security, got his seven-year contract directing television. Lucas and Coppola, hungry for independence, left Hollywood for San Francisco to found an alternative studio, American Zoetrope, and make films without answering to corporate capitalism.
Hiding was safe, being claimed was salvation…
Maisie spends her days wiping spills from diner tables, her head bent low to avoid the penetrating gazes of the alphas who drift through the door. Her bruises have almost faded, and life is looking brighter.
Down the street, construction is nearing its end, and with it, the routine visits from the workers who have made a habit of stopping by for a slice of her homemade pie. Maisie isn’t sure if that’s a good thing or not. She thinks she’ll miss them, but she knows better than to put her trust in any man. Not again.
Wyatt, Elias, Knox, and Hunter have been quietly watching over the skittish omega for longer than she knows, ready to act if the man responsible for her fading bruises ever shows up. They want her. They’ve always wanted her, and will do bad things to anyone who dares lay a hand on her.
When her past unexpectedly resurfaces in the form of her abusive ex-husband, four rugged alphas protect her. They claim her, publicly and unequivocally, as their omega. Then they take her to their rural farmhouse to escape her stubborn ex.
One guest house. One week. One slow-burn disaster waiting to happen.
Dean Whitaker has zero interest in weddings, fairy lights, or the perky woman currently turning his guest house into a scented-candle crime scene.
He’s a divorce attorney. He thrives on prenups, logic, and not getting glitter on his suits.
Poppy Monroe is a wedding planner with a checklist for everything—except how to survive living next door to a hot, brooding, tightly wound lawyer—aka the groom’s brother.
They’re opposites in every way—except for the undeniable chemistry neither of them wants to talk about.
Their mission: survive one week of wedding chaos.
Her vibe: sunshine and glitter pens.
His vibe: whiskey and restraint.
Opposites attract. Then they combust.