Coming to Blackwell Falls to find her missing sister means living with the three men at the top of the suspect list—the notorious Kings of Aventine who she hates and can’t afford to trust. Sadie Hunt launches Aventine University with polyamory romance where forced proximity creates impossible chemistry with Rock’s soft touch and nurturing kindness, Oscar’s artistic soul expressed through his piercings and inked skin, and Neo the savage street fighter who rules them all as King of Kings. 🔥Each man wants her despite their mutual hatred, creating dangerous attraction where trust could prove fatal—Rock tries to fool her with kind blue eyes and the care she secretly craves, brooding Oscar takes pictures when she’s not looking while tempting her with honeyed words, and Neo the bully wants her as intensely as he hates her. Hunt explores the razor’s edge between desire and suspicion when falling for three gorgeous men might mean becoming the next victim. 💋
The author delivers dark academia romance where every interaction carries dual meaning and pleasure mixes with danger in equal measure. She arrived ready for anything except the way these three men who might have hurt her sister are breaking down her defenses, forcing her to decide whether they’ll be her saviors or her destroyers. Hunt crafts reverse harem tension where solving the mystery of her sister’s disappearance means risking her heart—and possibly her life—with the primary suspects. ⚔️
What makes this special: Polyamory romance launching Aventine University where searching for her missing sister forces the heroine to live with prime suspects Rock, Oscar, and Neo—the notorious Kings of Aventine whose dangerous attraction and mutual hatred create impossible chemistry as she falls for three gorgeous men who might be saviors or destroyers.
Ally Hastings is sweet and innocent and nothing like him, and he’s never been more obsessed with anyone in his life—she’s never had a guy’s hands on her before, barely even been kissed, and hearing those words from her pretty lips only intensifies his dangerous fixation. Skyla Summers launches Playing Favorites with forbidden alpha male romance where the narrator wants to corrupt Ally and do things he shouldn’t, catching the way she looks at him that proves she wants it too despite knowing they’re playing with fire. 🔥The only complication threatening to turn everything weird is that their parents just started dating and are already serious about a future together, meaning if they say “I do,” the forbidden attraction becomes a family disaster. Summers explores how desire ignores convenient boundaries and appropriate timing, delivering chemistry that burns hotter precisely because it’s so wrong. The author captures obsession’s dangerous edge when corruption and innocence collide. 💕
This first Playing Favorites installment examines the tension between want and wisdom when mutual attraction faces potential step-sibling complications. Summers writes alpha male intensity without apology, giving readers a narrator who knows exactly what he wants and isn’t pretending otherwise—even when what he wants could complicate every family gathering for the rest of their lives if their parents actually get married. The forbidden element amplifies every stolen glance and accidental touch. 💋
Why I’m including this: Forbidden alpha male romance launching Playing Favorites where obsession with sweet, innocent Ally Hastings who’s barely been kissed becomes dangerously complicated when their parents start seriously dating, creating chemistry that burns hotter because mutual desire could turn weird real fast if their parents say “I do.”
Juliette Good is literally a good witch—her name says so—but she has an unfortunate habit of ending up in the wrong place at the wrong time, like when she makes a nostalgic wish in Charm Cove’s fountain and seconds later the town’s ancient beloved balsam tree bursts into flames. Lucy May launches This Good Witch Mystery with paranormal cozy where being a witness makes Juliette a suspect, and suddenly wishes cast in the fountain are being granted instantly whenever she’s nearby while the entire Maine town argues about winter road maintenance. 🔮The only other person present when the tree caught fire is Donovan Wick—a handsome, charming warlock who just moved back to town and who Juliette might be falling for despite the terrible timing. May tangles the magical and mundane delightfully, with witches and warlocks hunting whoever cast the spell that harmed the tree while regular residents remain disgruntled about icy roads and fender benders. The author creates whimsical mystery where supernatural investigation collides with small-town drama. ✨
May delivers cozy mystery that celebrates the chaos of magical life in a Maine coastal town where even good witches can’t avoid trouble, romance blooms during supernatural investigations, and proving your innocence means solving a magical crime while the whole community watches. The first This Good Witch Mystery establishes Charm Cove as a place where fountain wishes come true, ancient trees matter, and being aptly named doesn’t protect you from suspicion when magic goes wrong. 🌳
What makes this essential: Paranormal cozy mystery launching This Good Witch Mystery where Juliette Good makes a wish in Charm Cove’s fountain seconds before the ancient balsam tree burns, making her a suspect while wishes start granting instantly whenever she’s near and she falls for warlock Donovan Wick amid magical investigations and mundane road complaints.
Apocalypse Redux – Book One
The worst thing about the end of the world is we did it to ourselves—Isaac Thoma lived to see the last handful of survivors defeat the demonic champion, becoming the last and most powerful human alone on a blighted Earth with his past in ashes, but what if he could go back? Jakob H. Greif delivers LitRPG time regression where Isaac is hurled back with one chance to change everything, to warn humanity of their impending doom before shortsightedness and lust for power render them extinct. ⚔️Isaac has one chance to stop the [System] before it quantifies the world and sets humanity on the path to self-destruction, facing malign deities, demonic hordes, and the unstoppable march of human greed that doomed civilization the first time. Greif explores whether foreknowledge can prevent an apocalypse that’s already happened when the real enemy isn’t demons but humanity’s own worst impulses. The author examines how power corrupts even in systems designed to help people survive. 🌍
The LitRPG adventure asks whether one man armed with knowledge of every mistake humanity will make can alter the course of history when those mistakes stem from fundamental human nature—the shortsightedness, the power-lust, the greed that made the apocalypse inevitable. Greif delivers time regression stakes where preventing the end of the world requires changing not just events but human nature itself, with Isaac fighting against destiny armed only with bitter experience and desperate hope. ⏰
What makes this essential: LitRPG time regression where Isaac Thoma, the last human survivor who watched humanity defeat the demonic champion on a blighted Earth, gets hurled back in time with one chance to prevent the apocalypse by stopping the [System] before shortsightedness and power-lust render humanity extinct despite facing human greed, demonic hordes, and malign deities.
One moment beautiful daughter Layla, her face flushed from the sun and curls still wet from the ocean, was waiting in line for strawberry ice cream—the next she was gone, and two years later her mother sits in dimly lit candlelight feeling the crushing weight of absence while her marriage crumbles and ten-year-old son Gale changes in ways she can’t quite understand. Gregg Dunnett delivers psychological thriller devastation where the police found nothing and the killer seemingly vanished into thin air, leaving a family destroyed by unanswered questions. 👻Gale has become more secretive since his sister’s murder, staring past his mother at something she can’t see in ways that fill her with unease—they were so close, is this just grief or something else? Then one morning as she butters his toast, Gale tells her something that stops her in her tracks: “I know who killed Layla.” When she asks how, he puts his hand on her arm with his serious little boy expression and says, “She told me.” Dunnett explores the nightmare territory where grief meets the impossible. 💔
The author transforms parental devastation into supernatural mystery, asking whether a child’s impossible knowledge could finally bring justice or just more heartbreak to a family already shattered beyond recognition. Dunnett captures how tragedy changes everyone it touches in fundamental ways, blurring lines between hope and delusion, between desperate belief and dangerous fantasy. The psychological thriller examines what happens when the only witness to a murder is the victim herself speaking through her grieving younger brother. 🕯️
What makes this special: Psychological thriller where two years after daughter Layla’s murder while waiting for strawberry ice cream, her mother’s crumbling marriage and secretive ten-year-old son Gale who stares at things she can’t see takes a supernatural turn when he announces he knows who killed his sister because she told him.
Two action-packed novels from USA Today bestselling and Carol Award-winning authors deliver K-9 crime-stoppers solving the toughest cases with their brave canine partners. In “Seek and Find,” reporter Madison Coles wants to write an exposé on crime in Desert Valley, Arizona, but the residents and police are tight-lipped—even when Madison is attacked, rookie K-9 officer James Harrison is the only one who helps her, and the more her life is threatened, the more focused she becomes on finding the truth and the closer she gets to James. 🐕Dana Mentink asks whether James can help Madison without them both ending up in the obituary pages as danger escalates. In “Honor and Defend,” Lynette Eason delivers Christian suspense where Lee Earnshaw, framed for a crime he didn’t commit, is two weeks out of prison when an ex-con tries to kill him and his former love, K-9 rookie cop Ellen Foxcroft. Lee knows he must be the intended target, but is the shooter settling a score or does Lee have something he wants? ⚖️
As Lee and Ellen investigate the case, they find themselves in a killer’s crosshairs while navigating the complicated feelings of reunited former lovers working together. Both Mentink and Eason blend faith, romance, and suspense with courageous canine partners who provide both investigative power and emotional support to their handlers. The collection proves that K-9 units add unique dimensions to Christian romantic suspense where second chances at love come with deadly complications. 🙏
Why I’m including this: Two-in-one Christian suspense collection from USA Today bestselling authors featuring K-9 crime-stoppers—”Seek and Find” where rookie officer James Harrison helps threatened reporter Madison Coles expose Desert Valley crime, and “Honor and Defend” where ex-con Lee Earnshaw and former love K-9 cop Ellen Foxcroft face a killer two weeks after his prison release.
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