A Brutal Murder. A Missing Scientist. A Deadly Pursuit. Aarhus, Denmark. When anthropology student Anna Kiehl vanishes during her evening run in the local forest, no one notices immediately—single mothers running at dusk don’t always check in with anyone, and her absence isn’t alarming until hours have passed. But the next morning, her body is found naked, throat slit with surgical precision, a bouquet of poisonous hemlock placed ceremonially on her chest like a macabre offering. The city is horrified by the staging, the deliberate symbolism, the ritualistic elements that suggest this wasn’t random violence but calculated murder. 🌲
Lieutenant Detective Daniel Trokic of the East Jutland Police takes the case, but the deeper he digs, the more unsettling the details become. Anna’s young son has gone mute since his mother’s death, unable or unwilling to speak about what he might know. Her apartment has been wiped clean with professional thoroughness that suggests someone knew exactly what they were looking for and how to eliminate traces. And in her mailbox lies a book written by a renowned neurochemist researching antidepressants—who vanished without a trace eight weeks earlier. Are the two cases connected, or is this coincidence? 💀
As Trokic races to uncover the truth, one thing becomes terrifyingly clear: Anna carried a secret someone was willing to kill for, information dangerous enough to warrant murder staged to send a message. And that person won’t hesitate to kill again to protect whatever Anna discovered or knew. The poisonous hemlock isn’t just staging—it’s a warning to anyone else who might know what Anna knew. ⚠️
Inger Wolf launches the Lieutenant Detective Daniel Trokic series with Scandinavian noir that combines ritualistic murder, missing scientists, and pharmaceutical conspiracy. The Danish setting provides both atmospheric backdrop and cultural context, while Trokic must navigate between the ritualistic elements suggesting occult involvement and the pharmaceutical research suggesting corporate malfeasance. The mute child adds emotional stakes—he may hold crucial information but trauma has silenced him, leaving Trokic to solve the murder without his only witness’s testimony. 🔍
What makes this essential: A Danish crime thriller launching Lieutenant Detective Daniel Trokic series where anthropology student Anna Kiehl is found murdered with poisonous hemlock, her apartment wiped clean, her son mute, and a missing neurochemist’s book in her mailbox—forcing Trokic to uncover what secret Anna carried that someone killed to protect and will kill again to keep buried.
Dominant. Mercenary. Navy SEAL. I had one job on the Teams: Predict the unpredictable. See what no one else saw. Analyze enemy movements, assess threat levels, anticipate attacks before they materialized. Then execute with deadly force when prediction became action. Calculating the enemy’s moves, including the ones they hadn’t thought of yet, was my specialty—the skill that kept my team alive through operations that should have killed us all. I did it for the Navy for years, and now I was private sector, utilizing my analytical skills at Alpha Elite Security where the missions were different but the stakes remained lethal. I had a hundred percent mission success rate…until her. 🎯
Make no mistake, I saw the blonde coming from a mile away. I predicted her every move with the same precision I used to predict enemy insurgents—the way she’d approach, the angle she’d use, the words she’d deploy. But this time, I wasn’t going to stop it or neutralize the threat. I was going to do something much worse: I was going to let it happen, let her get close, let those predictions play out while I watched with full awareness of where this was heading. Because some threats you don’t eliminate—some you capture. 💪
Code name: Delta. Mission: Dominate. Sybil Bartel launches The Alpha Elite Series with military romance featuring a former Navy SEAL whose analytical superpowers make him dangerous in combat and devastating in romance. The “predict the unpredictable” skill set that saved his team in war zones translates to reading the blonde’s intentions before she acts on them, creating power dynamic where he’s always three moves ahead even as he lets her think she’s in control. This is alpha male territory where dominance isn’t just personality trait but professional competency—the same skills that made him elite operator make him formidable romantic pursuer. 🔥
The military romance elements combine with private security work, giving readers both the SEAL background and contemporary action through Alpha Elite missions. Delta’s hundred percent success rate meeting its first challenge in “her” suggests the blonde represents something he can’t fully predict or control despite his abilities, forcing adaptation in someone whose survival has always depended on perfect calculation. This is romance for readers who want their heroes actually skilled rather than just cocky, their military backgrounds relevant to the plot, and their “dominate” descriptor earned through competence rather than just attitude. ⚡
What makes this essential: A military romance launching Alpha Elite Series where former Navy SEAL Delta—specialist in predicting the unpredictable with hundred percent mission success rate—sees the blonde coming, predicts her every move, but lets it happen anyway because some threats you don’t eliminate, you dominate, launching Code name Delta’s most dangerous mission yet.
A hilarious Christmas tale that is sure to get everyone laughing! Santa’s Lost Reindeer is a humorous story that follows a frazzled Santa through a search for his missing reindeer in the days leading up to Christmas Eve. How can Christmas be saved when Santa’s in so much trouble with his best reindeer missing? He needs help on the double! The stakes are high—no reindeer means no sleigh flight, no presents delivered, disappointed children worldwide, and Santa’s reputation in ruins. 🎅
The book was a passion project for author Rachel Hilz, mom of two special needs children. It was written and illustrated with her autistic kids in mind, designed to be accessible and engaging for children who might struggle with traditional storytelling formats. The humor is broad and visual, the language is clear and repetitive in ways that help comprehension, and the illustrations support the text for readers who benefit from picture cues. It has now become the source of much laughter and joy for them, proving that books created with specific needs in mind often work beautifully for all children. 🦌
The search for Santa’s missing reindeer takes readers through various locations and scenarios, each more absurd than the last, as Santa gets increasingly desperate to locate his essential team before the biggest night of the year. The repetitive structure (“Where could they be?”) provides comfort for readers who like predictability while the escalating absurdity keeps the story entertaining. This is Christmas reading that prioritizes fun over moral lessons, laughter over sentimentality. 🎄
Rachel Hilz has created children’s Christmas literature that works for neurotypical kids and those with special needs, demonstrating that inclusive design benefits everyone. The broad humor appeals across age ranges and ability levels, the illustrations are clear and supportive, and the story’s rhythm makes it perfect for read-alouds where participation is encouraged. Santa’s Lost Reindeer proves that books written with love for specific children can spread joy to families everywhere. ❄️
What makes this essential: A hilarious children’s Christmas book where frazzled Santa searches for his missing reindeer before the big night, written and illustrated by Rachel Hilz as a passion project for her autistic children—delivering accessible humor, clear language, supportive illustrations, and laughter that works for special needs kids and neurotypical children alike.
Southern Magic (Sweet Tea Witch Mysteries Book 1)
It only takes a second for life to go to heck-in-a-hand-basket! In less than twenty-four hours Pepper Dunn loses her job, her boyfriend, and her home in a catastrophic cascade of bad news that feels almost supernaturally orchestrated. It’s the worst day of her life, the kind where you wonder what cosmic force you offended to deserve this level of comprehensive disaster. But when Pepper discovers she’s a witch and has inherited the most important store in the magical town of Magnolia Cove, Alabama, she’s as happy as a pig in mud—finally, something good after everything falling apart. 🔮
Too bad the shop is a familiar pet store and Pepper doesn’t like animals—not even a teensy bit. She’s never been an animal person, finds pets messy and demanding, would rather interact with literally anything other than creatures that shed, need feeding, and make noise. Determined to sell the shop and get the heck out of town with whatever money it brings, Pepper’s plans go haywire when a local storeowner winds up dead and Pepper gets accused of murder. Suddenly her exit strategy becomes survival strategy as she’s the prime suspect in a magical town where justice might be swifter and stranger than in the regular world. 🐾
Thrust into a magical mystery, Pepper teams up with a mysterious private detective and a cat so traumatized by witnessing the murder that she’s not talking—and that cat could hold the key to Pepper’s innocence if Pepper can figure out how to communicate with a familiar who’s suffering from PTSD. Now Pepper must avoid trouble, solve the mystery, and placate her new grandmother who keeps a strict ten p.m. curfew that’s enforced by the talking end of her shotgun. Sounds like a simple day in the life—as if. 🕵️
Amy Boyles launches the Sweet Tea Witch Mysteries with Southern charm and magical mayhem, where Pepper must solve the murder or become the next victim while learning to love the animals she’s suddenly in charge of. This is cozy witch mystery for readers who want their protagonists reluctant rather than eager, their magical towns dripping with Alabama atmosphere, and their familiars traumatized witnesses who hold crucial clues if only they could be coaxed into sharing what they saw. ✨
What makes this essential: A Southern witch cozy mystery launching Sweet Tea Witch Mysteries where Pepper Dunn loses everything in 24 hours, inherits a familiar pet store in magical Magnolia Cove despite hating animals, then gets accused of murder—forcing her to team with a detective and traumatized cat witness while her shotgun-wielding grandmother enforces strict curfew.
My name is Logan Carpino, Senior Vice President of Andopolis Global, and my online dating nightmare from hell just humiliated me in front of my entire company during what was supposed to be a professional presentation. She stood up, called out my dating profile lies, and made me look like a fool in front of colleagues and clients. Most men would cut their losses, block her number, and pretend the whole disaster never happened. Joke’s on her—she caught my eye in ways that go beyond the humiliation and public callout. 💼
Little does she know, I live my personal life like I do my professional one. When I want something, I’m relentless in pursuing it until I get exactly what I aimed for. Persistent to the point where some people find it charming and others find it overwhelming. Some even call me ruthless, which I don’t particularly dispute because ruthlessness gets results. Mediocre doesn’t get you to where I am in life—Senior VP at a global corporation by my early thirties, commanding rooms full of powerful people, closing deals that others can’t. That same intensity applies to my personal pursuits. 🎯
Demetria Benjamin… You have my attention in ways that terrify and excite me simultaneously. The woman who humiliated me publicly has become the woman I can’t stop thinking about, and I’m about to show her what happens when Logan Carpino decides he wants something. This is a forced proximity and enemies-to-lovers romance about a tale of online dating that goes from bad to delicious, where public humiliation becomes the beginning of obsession rather than the end of interaction. ❤️
Brynne Asher launches The Carpino Series with family saga fiction that examines what happens when a relentless corporate VP fixates on the woman who called him out. Logan’s intensity in business translating to intensity in pursuit creates the kind of romance where “no” is heard as “convince me,” and where the line between persistent and problematic gets tested. This is contemporary romance for readers who want their alpha males unapologetic about what they want, their enemies-to-lovers built on genuine conflict rather than misunderstanding, and their forced proximity creating situations where characters can’t escape the attraction they’re trying to deny. 💕
What makes this essential: A forced-proximity enemies-to-lovers romance launching The Carpino Series where Senior VP Logan Carpino’s online dating nightmare Demetria Benjamin humiliates him publicly, but instead of walking away, his relentless professional intensity focuses on winning the woman who called him out—turning bad first impression deliciously complicated.
Tag along for the misadventures of Bertie Wooster and his genius manservant Jeeves in this humorous collection of ten classic stories that established one of literature’s greatest comedic partnerships. The fun begins when Bertram “Bertie” Wooster hires a wonderful new valet in “Jeeves Takes Charge”—a decision that will save Bertie from countless disasters over the years. Jeeves proves himself to be quite handy in all sorts of dilemmas, including the delicate situation when Bertie’s fiancée asks him to destroy his uncle’s scandalous memoirs that would embarrass the family if published. 🎩
In “The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy,” Bertie’s forgetful friend cannot remember his beloved’s surname or address after a whirlwind courtship, which leads to a problematic engagement where he’s committed to marrying a woman he literally cannot locate. Jeeves must devise a solution that preserves Biffy’s honor while acknowledging the absurdity of the situation. In “Without the Option,” Bertie accidentally gets his friend Sippy thrown in jail through a series of misunderstandings, then must pose as Sippy on a visit to the horrible Pringle family to maintain the charade—a deception that spirals into increasingly complicated territory. 🍸
But no matter the trouble—whether it’s unwanted engagements, mistaken identities, angry relatives, or social disasters of Bertie’s own making—Jeeves is always there to offer a clever solution that yields hilarious results. P.G. Wodehouse’s classic humor shines through Bertie’s hapless narration and Jeeves’s unflappable competence, creating comedy that has entertained readers for nearly a century. This is British humor at its finest: sophisticated yet silly, genteel yet absurd, featuring an upper-class twit who needs rescuing from himself and the genius servant who makes it look effortless. 📚
The ten stories showcase Wodehouse’s masterful comic timing, his ability to construct elaborate misunderstandings that resolve perfectly, and his creation of characters so vivid they’ve become archetypes. Bertie’s voice—cheerful, befuddled, perpetually optimistic despite evidence he should know better—contrasts beautifully with Jeeves’s measured brilliance. This is comfort reading that proves classic doesn’t mean dated when the humor is this well-crafted. 😄
What makes this essential: P.G. Wodehouse’s classic humor collection featuring Bertie Wooster and genius valet Jeeves across ten stories including “Jeeves Takes Charge,” “The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy,” and “Without the Option”—delivering elaborate misunderstandings, unwanted engagements, and social disasters resolved by Jeeves’s unflappable brilliance and hilarious solutions.
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