Author: John A. Heldt
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Time Travel Historical Fiction

Meet a mysterious professor, step into a hidden chamber, and take the time-travel plunge! The opportunity awaits in the first three novels of John A. Heldt’s celebrated American Journey series. ⏰

In book 1, September Sky: When unemployed San Francisco reporter Chuck Townsend and his college-dropout son Justin take a cruise to Mexico in 2016, each hopes to rebuild a relationship after years of estrangement. But they find more than common ground aboard the ship—they meet a mysterious lecturer who touts the possibilities of time travel. 🚢

Within days, Chuck and Justin find themselves in 1900, riding a train to Texas, intent on preventing a distant uncle from being hanged for a crime he didn’t commit. Their quick trip to Galveston becomes long and complicated when they wrangle with business rivals and fall for two beautiful librarians on the eve of a hurricane that will destroy the city. 🌊

Filled with humor, history, romance, and heartbreak, September Sky follows two directionless souls on the adventure of a lifetime as they try to make peace with the past, find new purpose, and grapple with the knowledge of things to come. ⚡

John A. Heldt delivers this celebrated time travel series combining historical accuracy with family drama and romance. Heldt excels at using time travel as a vehicle for exploring relationships, second chances, and the weight of knowing future tragedies. His American Journey series features different characters and time periods across books, but all share meticulous historical research, emotional depth, and the moral complexity of changing history. This three-book collection provides hours of time-traveling adventure perfect for readers who love historical fiction with a twist.

Grab three complete time travel novels free—history, romance, and the ultimate second chance across centuries! 🕰️

Author: Jessica Gadziala
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Romantic Suspense

In the heart of the city, alliances are forged in the shadows and sealed with vows. 💍

Renzo Lombardi, the notoriously ruthless leader of an organized crime family, sees the chance to end the feud with his rivals, the Costa family, demanding a ceasefire in the form of a marriage contract.

Lore Costa, the shy, sweet princess of the Costa family, goes against her family’s wishes and finds herself thrust into a new world when she agrees to marry Renzo—her secret infatuation. 💔

It isn’t long before Lore discovers that the fairytale romance she’d dreamed of is anything but, as Renzo becomes consumed with the demands of his legacy, becoming a ghost haunting the shadows of Lore’s life, leaving her adrift in a sea of loneliness.

By the time Renzo realizes his mistakes and tries to win back the heart of the woman he never knew he needed, whispers of greed and betrayal threaten to tear apart everything they’ve begun to hold dear, testing their fragile bonds amidst the treacherous currents of power and deception… 🔥

Jessica Gadziala launches her Lombardi Family series with this mafia romance featuring an arranged marriage, a ruthless crime boss who neglects his bride, and the painful journey toward real connection. Gadziala specializes in alpha antiheroes, strong heroines who refuse to be doormats, and romantic suspense where family loyalty and love collide. Expect organized crime dynamics, marriage-of-convenience angst, and a hero who has to earn back the heart he never valued until it was almost too late.

Mafia marriage of convenience where she’s his secret obsession—but he doesn’t realize it until she’s slipping away! 💕

Author: Stephen Penner
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Legal Thriller

ARE SOME PEOPLE ABOVE THE LAW? ⚖️

A child is killed by a stray bullet at Seattle’s largest summer festival. The young man who pulled the trigger comes from an old family with power and connections. He’s used to getting away with his mistakes, and his father is one of the city’s richest attorneys.

When homicide prosecutor David Brunelle charges the man with first degree murder, his father’s law firm takes the case and tries to bury Brunelle in a mountain of legal motions and professional attacks. 💼

Brunelle must fight against top-tier attorneys, unscrupulous defense experts, and even personal health challenges to avenge the senseless murder of an innocent child. An acquittal would be proof the system is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful. Brunelle is determined to fight for justice. But can he win? 🔥

STEPHEN PENNER IS AN AMAZON BESTSELLING AUTHOR WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD

Stephen Penner delivers the seventeenth installment in his David Brunelle legal thriller series, tackling the question of whether wealth and connections can buy immunity from consequences. Penner, himself a criminal defense attorney, brings authenticity to courtroom drama and legal maneuvering. His prosecutor protagonist faces the moral complexities of a justice system where resources matter, and this installment pits Brunelle against powerful adversaries who have every advantage except the truth. Expect courtroom theatrics, legal strategy, and a protagonist fighting not just for a conviction but for the integrity of the entire system.

A legal thriller asking whether justice is blind—or just for sale to the highest bidder! ⚖️

Author: Robert James
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Espionage Thrillers

Blood has always flown easy for Ian Kelly. 🔫

He’s spent a double life as part of a secret government program. Plucked from the foster care system at a young age for exhibiting a rare personality profile, trained to kill, then set loose on enemies of the free world.

These days blood is thicker. With two grown kids old enough to be asking too many questions. Raising themselves while Ian travels the globe on official murder business. 💔

But Ian tells himself, just one more mission, because world peace means someone has to kill the killers. His latest assignment has him sent to Dubai to investigate a wealthy playboy who the CIA thinks is dealing weapons.

Back home, his son Brandon has taken his mother’s murder investigation into his own hands. The police chalked it up as an incidental slaying from gangland crossfire. But there’s something odd about the lack of news coverage and haphazard homicide report. 🔍

Ian is deep into his mission when he catches word of his son’s sleuthing, putting him on a clock to eliminate his target and race home before Brandon follows a trail that could lead him to his father’s true identity, or worse, the Cartels. ⚡

Robert James launches his Ian Kelly thriller series with a secret operative facing every parent’s nightmare—his son investigating a case that could expose everything. James creates a protagonist with the Jason Bourne background but the complication of grown children who never knew what Dad really does for a living. This espionage thriller combines international weapons dealing, cartel violence, and the domestic tension of a father whose double life is about to collide with his family. Expect globe-trotting action, government conspiracies, and the desperate race to protect his son from the truth.

Secret operative thriller where Dad’s assassin career is about to be exposed—by his own son! 🔥

Author: Andrea Frazer
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Humorous Amateur Sleuth Mysteries

Lady Amanda Golightly of Belchester Towers is a person in complete contrast to the stereotypical image of one of her breeding. She is short, portly, and embarrassingly forthright. If she wasn’t calling a spade a shovel, it was only because she was calling it ‘trumps’! 🎩

On a visit to a local nursing home where an old business partner of her father’s is residing, she unexpectedly discovers a long-lost friend, Hugo Cholmondley-Crichton-Crump—and stumbles upon murder as well. 💀

Installing Hugo in the more civilised and comfortable surroundings of Belchester Towers, the pair turn to sleuthing after Lady Amanda reports her appalling discovery to the local police inspector and is incensed when he treats her as a silly old biddy with an over-active imagination. 😤

Her outrage prompts her to teach the impertinent young whipper-snapper a lesson, and she and Hugo (Zimmer frame in tow) embark upon their first investigation, only for murder to become a distressingly frequent occurrence… 🔍

Andrea Frazer launches The Belchester Chronicles with this humorous British mystery featuring an aristocratic amateur sleuth who defies every expectation. Frazer creates comedy gold with Lady Amanda—short, round, blunt, and utterly determined to show up the condescending inspector who dismissed her. The pairing of Lady Amanda with Hugo (complete with his Zimmer frame) provides both humor and heart as two older sleuths prove they’re sharper than anyone gives them credit for. Expect British wit, class humor, nursing home mysteries, and bodies that keep inconveniently appearing.

Delightfully British cozy mystery featuring a portly, forthright Lady and her Zimmer-frame-toting sidekick! ☕

Author: Dee MacDonald
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Second Chance Romance

Tess and Simon Sparrow may have a few more grey hairs than they used to, but that doesn’t stop them being swept up in a whirlwind romance and starting over. 💕

Swapping their city lives for an escape to the Cornish countryside, they fall in love with a crumbling hotel and impulsively buy it to renovate as their forever home. But soon the newlyweds have had their first fight (and their second and third…) and building costs are spiralling out of control. 😤

Their families think they’re mad and Tess is starting to agree—she just wants to escape back to civilisation. Doing up the glorious, wisteria-clad property was meant to be a delightful retirement project. But the electrics are faulty, there’s no central heating, and the kitchen ceiling’s fallen in: the dream has become reality and things only get more chaotic when the first guests arrive… 🏨

Mysterious Celia, hapless romantic Dominic, and tarnished, lovelorn actress Titania are all looking for a fresh start. Everyone in this eclectic group has their own reasons for being in Cornwall, but the summer is full of secrets and surprises. 🌟

As plans go awry and truths are revealed, Tess and Simon realise they’ve taken on a bigger challenge than they intended to: can their happily-ever-after survive the chaos or will this end up being the biggest mistake of their lives? 💔

Dee MacDonald delivers a charming romance about second chances at any age, featuring newlyweds who impulsively buy a crumbling Cornish hotel. MacDonald creates feel-good fiction with older protagonists proving it’s never too late for adventure—even if that adventure involves faulty electrics and collapsing ceilings. The eccentric guests add layers to the story as each seeks their own fresh start. Expect British humor, renovation disasters, marriage tensions, and the heartwarming message that love at any age requires work, patience, and a willingness to laugh at the chaos.

Later-in-life romance where newlyweds renovate a crumbling hotel—and discover marriage is the biggest renovation project! 🏰

Author: Elle Gray
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Private Investigator Mysteries

I see you. 👁️

After years of digging into his wife’s death, Paxton has had enough. He left the force and opened his own PI firm. His first case is to help a family navigate their way through a kidnapping. 🔍

As Paxton launches into this case, he finds himself in the sights of a serial killer. But there is more than meets the eye about the kidnapper though. Armed with only three names, he dives headfirst into investigation and uncovers horrors he never expected to encounter. 💀

With the help of FBI agent Blake Wilder, his female friend who specializes in hunting down serial killers, they are determined to stop the man before he kills again. But what is he going to do when he realizes the killer is taunting him—not for the thrill of being chased, but with the intention of recruiting him? 😱

The game has just begun. The danger has never been higher. To save his friend as well as possibly learn the answers to questions about his wife’s death, Paxton will have to do the unimaginable to outlast, outwit, and win. Winning and losing will mean the difference between life and death. ⚡

Elle Gray launches her Pax Arrington Mysteries with a private investigator whose first case puts him in a serial killer’s crosshairs. Gray creates dark thrillers where the line between hunter and hunted blurs, featuring a protagonist haunted by his wife’s unsolved death who discovers his kidnapping case connects to something far more sinister. The partnership with FBI agent Blake Wilder adds both investigative power and personal connection. Expect twisted serial killer psychology, cat-and-mouse games, and the disturbing revelation that the killer doesn’t want to kill Pax—he wants to recruit him.

Private investigator thriller where a serial killer doesn’t want to kill him—he wants to recruit him! 🔥

Author: Steve McHugh
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Vampire Thriller

The hunt for a serial killer leads a vampire agent to uncover a terrifying conspiracy in this dark urban fantasy by the author of the Hellequin Chronicles. 🧛

Vampires and humans live side by side thanks to an uneasy peace maintained by the Assembly. As an Arbiter for the powerful organization, Miles Watson is authorized to act as judge, jury, and executioner for anyone—living or undead—who breaks the law. But now Miles is up against a threat more sinister than anything he’s seen in his centuries as a vampire. 💀

A criminal network in London is offering wealthy humans the chance to become vampires without the Assembly’s consent. When the process goes disastrously wrong, the Boss wants to eliminate any trace of the fiasco. But a rogue enforcer refuses to play along, and trouble quickly escalates out of anyone’s control. 🔥

As Miles sets off searching for the illegal vampires, he finds himself on the trail of a monstrous serial killer. The twisty investigation takes him from London’s deadly underworld to the rural backwaters of the Pacific Northwest—where an even more devious criminal enterprise threatens all of vampire-kind… ⚡

Steve McHugh, known for his terrifying tales of urban fantasy, goes even deeper into the shadows with this noirish vampire thriller. McHugh combines his talent for intricate world-building with suspenseful plotting, creating a universe where vampires and humans coexist under strict laws enforced by Arbiters who serve as judge, jury, and executioner. Miles Watson is a centuries-old vampire dealing with modern problems—illegal vampire creation, serial killers, and conspiracies that threaten the fragile peace. This series masterfully blends noir detective fiction with supernatural elements, featuring a protagonist who’s seen it all but is still shocked by human (and vampire) depravity.

Vampire noir where an immortal Arbiter hunts illegal vampires—and uncovers a conspiracy threatening everyone! 🌙

Author: L.J. Shen
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Enemies-to-Lovers Bodyguard Romance

An addictive standalone about a Hollywood princess who is desperate to self-destruct…and the grumpy bodyguard who saves her. 👑

I landed in hot water with the tabloids one too many times. What can I say? My nipple wanted to come out and say hi to the paparazzi. 😱

After that, my father presented me with an ultimatum—either he cuts off the gravy train and stops paying for my lavish lifestyle or I agree to have a live-in bodyguard. And by bodyguard, I mean a sexy, formidable, out-of-this-world babysitter who just happens to be good at breaking spines. 🔥

Ransom Lockwood, ladies and gentlemen. Now he is forcing me to try all kinds of weird stuff. Stop partying, clean up my act, get a job… 😤

A part of me wants to tell him to get lost. I’m past saving. But the other part? The other part wants to save him. 💔

L.J. Shen delivers an addictive standalone bodyguard romance featuring a Hollywood wild child and the stern bodyguard hired to keep her in line. Shen excels at creating damaged characters who believe they’re beyond redemption—in this case, a Hollywood princess spiraling toward self-destruction and the bodyguard who sees through her act. This isn’t a typical celebrity romance; it’s about addiction, self-worth, and two broken people who might save each other. Expect Shen’s signature angst, a hero who enforces boundaries the heroine desperately needs, and a slow-burn romance where “babysitter” becomes something much more dangerous.

Hollywood wild child meets grumpy bodyguard hired to keep her out of trouble—but who’s really saving whom? ✨

Author: Camille T. Dungy
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Family Sagas

In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. 🌱

When she moved there in 2013 with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise. 🌺

She explores how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it. 🌍

Camille T. Dungy, acclaimed poet and scholar, delivers a powerful memoir that uses her garden as metaphor for larger conversations about diversity, belonging, and environmental justice. Dungy weaves together personal narrative, environmental writing, and social commentary, showing how her struggle to plant the garden she wanted mirrors broader struggles about who belongs in predominantly white spaces and whose knowledge is valued. This beautifully written book connects soil to identity, gardening to resistance, and plants to politics. For readers who love nature writing with depth, memoirs that challenge systems, and prose that reads like poetry.

Why I’m including this: A profound meditation on gardens, race, diversity, and belonging—where planting becomes an act of resistance! 🌿