Single and sexy schoolteacher Nadia Carson spent the better part of the last decade searching for Mr. Right, and all she had to show for it was a trail of bad decisions, a drained bank account, and one hallucination—after waking up alone on New Year’s Day hungover and haunted by the sighting of the ghost of exes past, Nadia decided it was time to make some changes. Melanie Shawn continues Firefly Island: Southern Nights with small town romance where her pursuit to find love had driven her to the point where she was actually “seeing” her ex like a mirage in the desert, needing to give up everything that contributed to her delusion—she was going cold turkey with no more booze and no more boys, taking a break from the relationship rat race on a dick detox, a carnal knowledge cleanse. 💔The only man who could possibly tempt her to break her resolution is the man who inspired her to create it—single dad and MMA champion Callum Knight never got over his first love, with time, distance, and even an engagement to someone else never changing the feelings he had for the girl he met on the pier and gave his Big League chewing gum to. Shawn explores what happens when your resolution to avoid men is tested by the one man you made the resolution because of, examining how a decade-old heartbreak still shapes current choices when the person who broke your heart returns to your life. 🥊
After getting his heart broken, Callum spent ten years with blinders on, only looking to the future, until he got a call that forced him to face his past—when he returned to his hometown to become the legal guardian of his thirteen-year-old half-sister, Callum’s past kept showing up in surprising places like his son’s first-grade teacher. The author delivers small town romance where dick detoxes are immediately tested by MMA champions with custody complications, proving that sometimes the universe has terrible timing when it comes to personal growth resolutions. The fourth Firefly Island: Southern Nights novel asks whether you can avoid your first love when his kid is in your classroom. 💕
What makes this special: Small town romance continuing Firefly Island: Southern Nights where single sexy schoolteacher Nadia Carson spent a decade searching for Mr. Right with only bad decisions, a drained bank account, and hallucinations to show for it—waking up alone on New Year’s Day hungover and haunted by ghost of exes past, she decides to go cold turkey with no more booze or boys, taking a break from the relationship rat race on a dick detox—except the only man who could tempt her to break her resolution is the man who inspired it: single dad MMA champion Callum Knight who never got over his first love, returning to his hometown as legal guardian of his thirteen-year-old half-sister with his past showing up in surprising places like his son’s first-grade teacher.
A crashed wedding, a scorned vampire, and a necromancer’s fury—Damian Vesik is no hero, at least not according to the magical community that turns a blind eye to his battles against evil, so he chalks it up as one more thankless mission when he’s forced to stop his vampire sister from murdering her ex’s entire bridal party. Eric Asher launches Vesik with werewolves and shifters suspense where infiltrating the ceremony to protect the innocent, Damian uncovers something more sinister than a massacre, and with the help of his berserker fairy friend, he’ll need to prevent an unholy union between ancient demons and the walking dead. 🧛Damian has one chance to stop his sister and ruin the wedding before one hell of an afterparty dooms the world—Asher explores what happens when family drama involves vampiric murder plots and demonic wedding guests, examining how being the magical community’s unappreciated hero means stopping both your sister’s revenge and the apocalypse in a single evening. The author balances sibling dynamics with supernatural stakes, creating tension where protecting the bridal party is just the opening move in preventing something exponentially worse. 💀
The first Vesik novel delivers werewolves and shifters suspense where necromancers crash weddings for the right reasons, proving that sometimes the most thankless job is saving people who don’t even know you exist from threats they don’t believe in. Asher writes a protagonist whose magical battles go unrecognized by the community he protects, making wedding-crashing to prevent murder just another day’s work—except this particular wedding threatens to unite ancient demons with the undead, which would definitely ruin more than just the reception. The berserker fairy friend adds unexpected humor to apocalyptic stakes. ⚡
Why I’m including this: Werewolves and shifters suspense launching Vesik where Damian Vesik is no hero according to the magical community turning a blind eye to his battles against evil—chalking it up as one more thankless mission, he’s forced to stop his vampire sister from murdering her ex’s entire bridal party, but infiltrating the ceremony to protect the innocent uncovers something more sinister than a massacre as with his berserker fairy friend’s help he must prevent an unholy union between ancient demons and the walking dead, having one chance to stop his sister and ruin the wedding before one hell of an afterparty dooms the world.
Pavel Rostin has taken too many chances—once a promising physicist, he abandoned science for finance and risked everything on a speculative venture, careless and rogue as he gambled with his personal relationships. D. R. Bell launches The Counterpoint Trilogy with conspiracy thriller where as Pavel tries to pick up the pieces of his life, a call from Russia informs him that his father is dead, and when Pavel follows his father’s footsteps trying to solve the mystery of his death, he turns up some inexplicable clues that draw him deeper and deeper into his family’s past and his country’s future. 🔍From starving 1941 Leningrad to free-wheeling Moscow of the mid-1990s to bubbly 2006 Wall Street, Pavel uncovers a web of money, murder, revenge and evidence of a plot involving the world’s superpowers—the choices of right and wrong don’t look as clear cut as in newspaper headlines, but is he just a pawn in someone else’s game? Bell explores how personal history intersects with geopolitical conspiracy, examining whether solving your father’s mysterious death means uncovering secrets that span generations and continents. 🌍
The author delivers conspiracy thriller where a former physicist’s investigation connects World War II Leningrad siege to contemporary Wall Street, proving that some mysteries have roots deeper than one lifetime and branches that reach into the highest levels of global power. Bell writes a protagonist whose financial risk-taking prepared him for nothing like the stakes of his father’s past, creating tension where family history becomes international conspiracy. The first Counterpoint Trilogy novel establishes that Pavel’s investigation connects decades of history into one dangerous present. ⚡
What makes this compelling: Conspiracy thriller launching The Counterpoint Trilogy where Pavel Rostin, once a promising physicist who abandoned science for finance and risked everything on speculative ventures while gambling with personal relationships, tries picking up life’s pieces when a call from Russia informs him his father is dead—following his father’s footsteps to solve the mystery, he turns up inexplicable clues drawing him deeper into his family’s past and country’s future from starving 1941 Leningrad to free-wheeling mid-1990s Moscow to bubbly 2006 Wall Street, uncovering a web of money, murder, revenge, and evidence of a plot involving the world’s superpowers where right and wrong don’t look clear cut, asking if he’s just a pawn in someone else’s game.
The Return of Little Big Man: A Novel
Jack Crabb is now 112 years old, and he isn’t done spinning yarns—in this sequel to Berger’s beloved novel Little Big Man, one of literature’s wiliest survivors continues his breathtaking tall tales of the Old West. Thomas Berger delivers Native American literature where Crabb claims to have witnessed most of the great historical events of the western frontier: hiding behind a wagon after a drunken Doc Holliday provokes the shootout at the OK Corral, joining Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley on tour with their international Wild West show, even taking tea with Queen Victoria when she came out of seclusion after a quarter century. 🤠No matter where Crabb lays his hat, he keeps his wizened, wry, and sharp commentary at the ready—The Return of Little Big Man is a sidesplitting novel of surprising emotional depth. Berger explores how a centenarian storyteller can make you believe the most outrageous tales while simultaneously questioning everything he says, examining the American West through the eyes of someone who claims to have been everywhere and done everything. 📖
The author delivers sequel that proves Jack Crabb’s survival skills extend beyond physical danger to narrative longevity, creating a character whose tall tales feel both impossible and oddly plausible given the wild nature of frontier history. Berger balances humor with historical detail, making Crabb’s presence at every major Western event seem like cosmic coincidence or elaborate fabrication—and the ambiguity is part of the charm. The novel asks whether truth matters when the story is this good. 🌵
Why I’m including this: Native American literature sequel where 112-year-old Jack Crabb continues breathtaking Old West tall tales from Berger’s beloved Little Big Man—Crabb claims witnessing most great western frontier historical events including hiding behind a wagon after drunken Doc Holliday provokes the OK Corral shootout, joining Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley’s international Wild West show tour, and taking tea with Queen Victoria coming out of seclusion after a quarter century, keeping wizened wry sharp commentary ready wherever he lays his hat in this sidesplitting novel of surprising emotional depth.
While many Americans despair of the current state of US politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay—yet when we examine the past, we find that the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy, from the earliest days of the republic to the present. Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman deliver practical politics analysis where in Four Threats, they explore five moments in history when democracy in the US was under siege: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate, with these episodes risking profound—even fatal—damage to the American democratic experiment. 🇺🇸From this history, four distinct characteristics of disruption emerge—political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power, alone or in combination, have threatened the survival of the republic, but it has survived so far. Mettler and Lieberman examine what is unique and alarming about the present moment in American politics: all four conditions exist simultaneously, with this convergence marking the contemporary era as a grave moment for democracy. ⚖️
By revisiting how earlier generations of Americans faced threats to the principles enshrined in the Constitution, we can see the promise and the peril that have led us to today and chart a path toward repairing and renewing democracy. The authors deliver political analysis that’s both historical and urgent, proving that understanding past crises provides the only roadmap for navigating present dangers. Mettler and Lieberman argue that American democracy has always been fragile and that recognizing the patterns of its vulnerabilities is the first step toward protecting it. 📚
What makes this essential: Practical politics analysis where Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman explore five moments when US democracy was under siege—the 1790s, Civil War, Gilded Age, Depression, and Watergate—revealing four distinct disruption characteristics: political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power that threatened the republic’s survival but it has survived so far, with what’s unique and alarming about the present being all four conditions existing simultaneously, marking the contemporary era as a grave moment for democracy requiring us to revisit how earlier generations faced threats to chart a path toward repairing and renewing democracy.
Kidnapped and locked behind walls for being the last in a line of legendary healers, Tera must hide that she hasn’t yet come into her healing powers—then, just as she is about to escape, she catches the eye of the High Lord of the Kadar. Dana Marton launches Hardstorm Saga with epic fantasy romance where born into a much gentler world, Tera has to fight to survive in a land of savage warlords and their cruel concubines, and when ancient prophecies begin to come to pass, the question becomes whether she can save the realm and awaken the High Lord’s heart. 👑Marton explores what happens when someone kidnapped for abilities they don’t yet possess must fake competence while planning escape, examining how Tera’s gentle upbringing becomes both handicap and hidden strength in a brutal warrior culture. The author balances the immediate danger of discovery—if anyone learns she’s not actually a healer yet, her value disappears—with the longer-term stakes of ancient prophecies suggesting she’s destined for something far greater than survival. 💫
The first Hardstorm Saga novel delivers epic fantasy romance where a reluctant concubine must navigate savage court politics, hide her incomplete powers, and somehow fulfill prophecies she doesn’t understand while capturing the attention of the one man powerful enough to either protect or destroy her. Marton writes a heroine thrown into circumstances far beyond her experience who must learn to be ruthless without losing her essential gentleness, proving that sometimes the greatest power is pretending you already have it. ⚔️
Why I’m including this: Epic fantasy romance launching Hardstorm Saga where Tera kidnapped and locked behind walls for being the last in a line of legendary healers must hide that she hasn’t yet come into her healing powers—just as she’s about to escape, she catches the eye of the High Lord of the Kadar, and born into a much gentler world, she must fight to survive in a land of savage warlords and cruel concubines as ancient prophecies begin to pass, asking whether she can save the realm and awaken the High Lord’s heart.
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