Unlike her sister who ran away with a duke’s son and disgraced herself for life in a scandal that still echoes through society ballrooms, Beth Campbell has always been the careful one—the daughter who follows rules, guards her reputation, makes sensible choices that won’t bring shame to her family. Until she passionately kissed a stranger who saved her life in a lover’s lane, throwing caution aside in a moment of overwhelming gratitude and attraction. This kiss threatened to ruin her reputation if anyone discovered it, and the dashing Beth vows she will not let passion rule her ever again the way it ruled her sister. Even though she strives to never see him again, their paths will cross shortly after in ways she can’t avoid. Will she be able to stay true to her word when they meet again? 💋
The one thing Gerard didn’t expect when he rescued an attractive young woman who was being mugged in a lover’s lane was a burning kiss in return that stirred feelings he thought had died with his wife years ago. He had not felt such tension for years after having mourned his late wife for a long time, closing himself off from possibility of new attachment because grief felt safer than risking his heart again. When fate intervenes and Beth comes back into his life through social circumstances neither can control, Gerard knows he needs to do everything in his power to keep her despite the obstacles. Will this undeniable desire end up destroying his life once again, or can he risk opening his heart to someone who’s sworn off passion? 🌹
Emily Honeyfield delivers historical Regency romance examining the tension between propriety and passion, where both protagonists have reasons to avoid romantic entanglement but chemistry that won’t be denied. Beth’s determination not to repeat her sister’s mistakes clashes with attraction that makes her understand why her sister risked everything. Gerard’s grief-protected heart meets someone who makes him want to live again rather than just exist in memories. This is Noble Hearts and Hidden Desires territory where society’s rules conflict with what the heart wants, and where one impulsive kiss in a lover’s lane sets in motion romance that challenges both characters’ vows to remain safe and controlled. 💕
The rescue-leads-to-kiss trope gets complicated by Beth’s family scandal making her hypersensitive to reputation risk, while Gerard’s widower status adds layer of guilt to his attraction—is he betraying his late wife’s memory by feeling alive again? The forced proximity when fate brings them together creates situations where resisting attraction requires constant vigilance that eventually exhausts even the most determined hearts. ✨
What makes this essential: A Regency romance where careful Beth Campbell passionately kisses the stranger who rescued her, threatening her reputation and making her vow to avoid passion—but when widower Gerard reenters her life, they must decide if undeniable desire will destroy them or if hearts can risk opening again despite family scandal and grief.
Five years ago, after a bad breakup that left her questioning everything about her life in Wales, Cerys Davies swapped familiar shores for a fresh start in an enchanting village in the South Downs. So Cerys throws herself into her newfound community with determination to build something meaningful, opening a quaint craft shop-tea room that becomes gathering place for locals and helping launch the village’s first festive craft fair that brings seasonal cheer and tourism revenue. She’s created a life she loves, surrounded by friends and purpose. 🎄
But she’s soon tangled in a web of emotions she didn’t plan for. She’s fallen head over heels for Lovely Sam, the dishy owner of the local pub who’s kind and charming and everything Cerys didn’t know she needed, within the first ten minutes of meeting him. The attraction was instant and devastating. It’s too bad he’s firmly in the clutches of Awful Belinda, a woman who treats Sam like property and the village like her personal kingdom. For five long years, Cerys has held a candle for Lovely Sam while watching him waste his affection on someone who doesn’t deserve him. 💔
But she won’t let unrequited love get her down or make her bitter. As her fifth Christmas in Padcock approaches, there’s a magic in the air that feels different from previous years—a sense that change is coming whether anyone’s ready for it. Could this be the year that Cerys’s wishes finally come true, that Lovely Sam sees what’s been right in front of him all along? This Christmas might just be the one she’s been waiting for, filled with the joy of love and fresh starts that make five years of patient longing worthwhile. ✨
Kirsty Ferry launches the Padcock Village series with clean and wholesome romance celebrating small-town community, patient love, and the magic of Christmas wishes coming true. Cerys’s five-year torch-carrying demonstrates that sometimes the best love stories require time and maturity—the relationship she wanted at first meeting might not have worked, but five years of friendship and personal growth create foundation for lasting love. The craft shop-tea room and festive fair ground the story in tangible community building, showing Cerys created meaningful life while waiting for romantic happiness. 💕
What makes this essential: A clean Christmas romance launching Padcock Village series where Cerys Davies builds a new life in South Downs after bad breakup, opening a craft shop-tea room and falling for pub owner Lovely Sam—but he’s with Awful Belinda, leaving Cerys to carry a torch for five years until this Christmas brings magic and the fresh start she’s been waiting for.
Some fairies ruin everything with their misguided attempts at helpfulness. Eva never doubted her place in her happy little world—born second to a former woodcutters-turned-wealthy merchants’ family, all she ever wanted was to care for her siblings and to play the harp with skill that brought joy to everyone who heard. Unfortunately, when her fairy godfather’s gift-giving goes awry in spectacular fashion, Eva receives an unusual talent that’s more curse than blessing, getting her abducted and betrothed to a loathsome duke with giant plans for the kingdom that involve using Eva’s unwanted gift for his own purposes. 🧚
Jack never ventured far from his mother’s farm, content with simple life and honest work. But when Eva’s fairy godfather, in a desperate attempt to fix his goddaughter’s plight and undo the damage his gift caused, forces Jack to take some magic beans and responsibility for saving Eva, Jack finds himself in as much danger as the girl he came to rescue. The magic beans grow into the unnatural beanstalk of the title—a plant that shouldn’t exist, reaching heights that defy nature, leading to places that exist outside normal geography. And climbing it means confronting the duke and his giant ambitions. 🌱
In this retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk, follow Jack and Eva as they attempt to outsmart the duke whose plans threaten the entire kingdom, save themselves and the realm from giant-sized catastrophe, and just possibly find their own happily ever after as well. Brittany Fichter reimagines the classic fairy tale by making Eva an active participant rather than prize to be won, giving the fairy godfather’s “gifts” consequences that drive the plot, and turning the duke into villain with plans more complex than simple greed. 👑
The unnatural beanstalk becomes symbol of how magical intervention—even well-intentioned—can create problems that require courage and cooperation to solve. Jack’s journey from farm boy to hero and Eva’s transformation from harpist to someone who weaponizes her unwanted gift create partnership where both contribute to their rescue. This is fairy tale retelling for readers who want their Jack and the Beanstalk with agency for female characters, consequences for magical meddling, and romance that develops through shared adventure rather than love at first sight. ✨
What makes this essential: A Jack and the Beanstalk retelling where Eva’s fairy godfather’s gift goes wrong, getting her betrothed to a loathsome duke, forcing farm boy Jack to climb an unnatural beanstalk with magic beans to save her—launching partnership to outsmart giant plans, save the kingdom, and possibly find their own happily ever after through shared courage.
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Isla Thorne had a rough start in life—orphaned young, she spent her formative years in a group home where she met her best friend Eden Galloway, the one person who made institutional living bearable. At sixteen, they decide to run away to LA together, planning their escape down to the last detail, dreaming of freedom and new identities in a city where nobody knows their histories. But Eden never makes it. She vanishes somewhere between the group home and their meeting point, disappearing without explanation and leaving Isla to face Los Angeles alone. 🏚️
It’s been ten years since Eden vanished, and Isla’s determined to find her after a decade of dead ends and unanswered questions. She begins at the last place Eden visited before disappearing: the Corrigan mansion in Virginia. Eden had claimed to have unfinished business there, mentioning the family in ways that suggested connection Isla didn’t fully understand. Posing as an aspiring journalist researching wealthy Virginia families, Isla insinuates herself into the Corrigan home and begins searching for the truth about what Eden’s business was and why it might have gotten her killed—or driven underground. 🔍
The more she digs, the more Isla discovers Eden isn’t who she thought she was. The girl she knew in the group home had secrets, connections to wealth and power that she never disclosed, possibly a entire identity that was fabricated. Was Eden even a victim, or did she plan this disappearance all along? Desperate for answers and to keep her own identity hidden while living among the Corrigans, Isla finds an ally in one of the Corrigan sons. But as she wades deeper into this power-hungry family’s secrets and lies, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a bloodline that’s more lethal than loyal. 💀
Yasmin Angoe delivers domestic thriller that examines class, privilege, and the secrets wealthy families keep behind mansion walls. Isla’s investigation transforms as she realizes her missing friend might have been playing a longer game than simple escape from the group home. This is suspense for readers who want their protagonists driven by loyalty even when that loyalty might be misplaced, their wealthy families genuinely dangerous rather than just dysfunctional, and their mysteries revealing that sometimes the person you thought you knew best was a stranger all along. ⚠️
What makes this essential: A domestic thriller where Isla Thorne searches for best friend Eden Galloway who vanished ten years ago en route to LA, infiltrating the Virginia Corrigan mansion posing as journalist—only to discover Eden had secrets, unfinished business with this lethal wealthy family, and possibly planned her own disappearance all along.
She stopped begging for his love. Will he start fighting for hers? Mia Winter spent six years unconditionally loving her husband Aiden, working hard to fit into his world which didn’t make room for her, accommodating his family’s expectations and his career demands while her own identity got smaller and smaller. She bent, compromised, waited for him to notice her sacrifices and reciprocate the devotion she poured into their marriage. But unconditional love without reciprocation isn’t a relationship—it’s slow erasure. 💔
Aiden let the weight of family expectations blind him to the woman who gave him her whole heart. He took Mia’s presence for granted, assumed her love was permanent regardless of how little effort he invested, and made a terrible mistake—one his wife witnessed with her own eyes, shattering whatever remained of her hope that things might improve. This Christmas, Mia is done holding onto nothing, which is what she feels her marriage has become. Under the tree, she puts only one gift for her husband: divorce papers, wrapped very nicely with a bow and everything. 🎄
She leaves him, taking her broken heart and her dignity (plus a chunk of his fortune that she’s legally entitled to after six years of emotional labor) with her. Aiden knows he’s lost the woman who was his reason for living—and if he doesn’t fight for her now, he’ll lose her forever. He wants a second chance, but Mia’s love isn’t unconditional anymore. If he wants her back, he’ll have to prove he’s the man she—and their future—deserve, not just promise to change but actually demonstrate transformation through actions rather than words. ✨
Maya Alden delivers marriage-in-crisis romance about a wife who stops begging for scraps of affection and demands her worth. This isn’t about Mia forgiving easily or Aiden making grand gestures that paper over fundamental problems—it’s about whether someone who took love for granted can actually transform into a partner who cherishes it. The Christmas setting amplifies the stakes: holiday season emphasizing what family should be versus what theirs became, divorce papers as the anti-Christmas gift forcing Aiden to confront what he’s lost. This is second-chance romance for readers who want their groveling earned, their heroines who’ve found self-worth unwilling to settle for less, and their happy endings contingent on genuine change rather than temporary remorse. 💕
What makes this essential: A marriage-in-crisis Christmas romance where Mia Winter stops begging for husband Aiden’s love after six years of unconditional devotion, leaving divorce papers under the tree and taking her dignity—forcing him to prove through transformation rather than promises that he deserves a second chance with a woman whose love is no longer unconditional.
He’s famous for heartbreak ballads that millions stream on repeat. She’s famous for ignoring him completely, which might be his biggest heartbreak of all. When Noah Byrne’s career implodes in a very public scandal involving leaked photos, angry exes, and tabloid accusations that may or may not be true, the grumpy Scottish rock star retreats to the only place no one would think to look—his sleepy hometown that he left behind years ago for fame and fortune. The plan is simple: hide out from paparazzi, avoid social media, and wait for the storm to pass while the publicists handle damage control. 🎸
He books the last room at the local inn owned by Skye Kerrigan, his first love and the only woman who has ever walked away from him when he was still unknown and full of dreams. Skye has no time for rock gods with wounded egos showing up expecting special treatment. The inn is hanging by a thread financially, she’s fighting to keep her family’s legacy alive through sheer determination and maxed-out credit, and she doesn’t have energy to coddle a celebrity hiding from consequences of his own making. ❄️
Noah offers a deal that might save them both: he’ll play for the town’s Christmas charity concert—guaranteed to sell out and raise significant money—if she gives him a place to hide out from the media circus. It’s transactional, practical, exactly the kind of arrangement that lets them interact without acknowledging the history still crackling between them. And when the spotlight comes calling again with record label offers and sold-out arena tours, Skye must decide if her first love is really worth an encore, or if letting him go the first time was the right choice all along. 🎄
Tricia O’Malley delivers stand-alone small-town Scottish Christmas romance with second chances, forced proximity in an inn where they can’t avoid each other, and grumpy/sunshine banter between rock star who writes heartbreak songs and the innkeeper who refuses to be charmed. The matchmaking book club adds community involvement, the Christmas charity concert provides high-stakes performance pressure, and the guaranteed happily-ever-after promises that fame and hometown roots can coexist if Noah proves he’s worth the risk. This is holiday romance for readers who want their Scottish settings atmospheric, their rock stars humbled, and their second chances contingent on growth rather than nostalgia. 💕
What makes this essential: A small-town Scottish Christmas romance where grumpy rock star Noah Byrne hides from scandal in his hometown inn owned by first love Skye Kerrigan, offering to play the charity concert if she’ll shelter him—launching forced-proximity second chances with matchmaking book clubs, grumpy/sunshine banter, and the question of whether fame-damaged hearts deserve encores.