Wendy Catalano thought she’d found safety in her second marriage—a fresh start with her four children and a new husband who seemed like salvation from her troubled past. Then the unthinkable happens: her ex-husband murders them all. But death isn’t the end for Wendy. A mysterious family heirloom, the Fortuna Coin, sends her spiraling backward through time to the very beginning of her relationship with the man who would eventually destroy everything she loved. She’s been given an impossible gift—the chance to rewrite history and save her family from their bloody fate. 🕰️

There’s just one problem: Wendy doesn’t know she’s reliving her life. The memories of what’s to come arrive only as fleeting glimpses, disconnected fragments of a future she can’t quite grasp. She’s trapped in a psychological maze where present danger feels immediate and real while her knowledge of the horrific ending remains frustratingly out of reach. Every choice she makes ripples forward, but without full awareness of what she’s preventing, how can she make the right decisions? The ex-husband who will one day become a killer is right now just a charming man she’s falling for. The warning signs are there—but will she see them in time? ⚠️

Karen Ann Hopkins delivers a haunting exploration of domestic abuse that goes beyond the typical thriller formula. This isn’t just about escaping a dangerous man—it’s about the insidious nature of how abuse begins, how it normalizes itself, how victims get trapped in patterns they can’t see until it’s too late. The time-travel element isn’t a gimmick but a profound meditation on second chances: if you could go back knowing what you know now, would you really do things differently? Or would the same psychological dynamics pull you back into the same deadly patterns? 💔

The Fortuna Coin forces us to confront uncomfortable questions about personal agency, the cyclical nature of abuse, and whether knowledge of the future is enough to change our fundamental choices. Hopkins crafts a breathless narrative that surprises at every turn, leaving readers questioning everything they thought they understood about fate, free will, and survival. This is psychological suspense that understands the real horror isn’t supernatural—it’s the way abusive relationships trap us in cycles we can’t break even when we desperately want to. 👻

What makes this essential: A psychological thriller that uses supernatural elements to explore the terrifying reality of domestic violence, examining how abuse traps its victims in cycles that feel impossible to break even when you know how the story ends.

Christine White has been running on autopilot since her military husband died two years ago. As a single mom in Chicago, she’s thrown herself into her copywriting career with the kind of desperate focus that keeps the bills paid but has slowly eroded everything else that matters. Her four-year-old son needs a mother who’s present, not just someone who makes sure dinner happens. She’s functioning, surviving, getting through each day—but she’s forgotten how to actually live. When Christine’s best friend insists she spend Christmas in Vermont to get her life back on track, Christine initially resists. Vermont means slowing down, facing emotions she’s been avoiding, dealing with the grief she’s buried under deadlines and daycare schedules. But Vermont also means snow-covered mountains, small-town charm, and the possibility of rediscovering what really matters. 🎄

Bachelor professor John Steadman has made peace with his single status. Between his academic work and time with friends, his life feels full enough—or at least that’s what he tells himself. He’s given up on finding “the one” after enough disappointing dates and near-misses. Then one snowy day close to Christmas, a beautiful woman from Chicago nearly runs him off the road during a blizzard. She’s got a kid in the car, she’s clearly lost, and she’s about to slide into a ditch. John and his trusty golden retriever do what any decent person would do: help drag them out and steer them toward their destination. What begins as simple roadside assistance becomes something unexpected when John realizes he wants this woman and her son to stay in Vermont—for more than just the holidays. ❄️

Ginny Baird crafts a heartwarming holiday romance that understands the complexity of moving forward after loss. Christine isn’t magically healed by Christmas magic or a handsome professor—her journey back to emotional wholeness is gradual, realistic, and deeply moving. The romance with John develops naturally from mutual attraction to genuine connection, with her son serving not as an obstacle but as the bridge that helps two wounded souls recognize what they’re missing. Baird doesn’t shy away from the complications of dating as a single parent or the guilt that comes with opening your heart to someone new after losing your spouse. 💕

The Vermont setting provides more than picturesque backdrop—it’s a character itself, representing the slower pace and deeper connections Christine has lost in her Chicago hustle. The Christmas element feels organic rather than forced, a season that emphasizes themes of renewal, hope, and family redefinition. This is comfort reading with emotional depth, a romance that acknowledges grief while celebrating the courage it takes to love again. 🎅

What makes this essential: A tender holiday romance that treats grief and single parenthood with realistic sensitivity while delivering the warmth and hope readers crave during Christmas season, proving that second chances at love require both vulnerability and courage.

The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force thought they were tracking a potential terrorist cell deep in the Catskill Mountains. Routine investigation, standard protocol—send a field team from the Albany office to assess the situation, gather evidence, and report back. They expected to find maybe some militia types, perhaps a training camp, definitely something within the normal parameters of domestic terrorism threats. What they found instead was something far more terrifying than any human enemy. In the dense forests of upstate New York, the JTTF team discovers they’ve stumbled onto territory that doesn’t belong to terrorists—it belongs to something ancient, powerful, and furiously protective of its home. ⛰️

With more questions than answers, the JTTF team gathers their evidence and prepares to leave the forest when all hell breaks loose. What started as a routine investigation quickly turns into a desperate battle against a foe that operates by rules they don’t understand. The Genoskwa—creatures from Native American legend that white America dismissed as mythology—are very real, very intelligent, and very angry. They’ve been hiding in these mountains for generations, and they’re not about to let some federal agents with guns and radios drive them out. Nobody fights harder than when they’re defending their home—that’s what the agents learn as their intel-gathering mission becomes an all-out war in terrain where the FBI has every disadvantage. 🌲

Add the burning desire for vengeance to territorial defense, and the battle escalates into something primal and unforgiving. Heath Stallcup delivers action-adventure that blends cryptozoology, Indigenous folklore, and military-style tactical combat into something genuinely original. This isn’t your typical “Bigfoot story”—Genoskwa are portrayed as sentient beings with culture, motivation, and legitimate grievances against human encroachment. Stallcup respects the Native American origins of the legend while crafting a tense thriller that questions who the real intruders are. 🐾

The JTTF agents aren’t mindless government drones—they’re professionals doing their jobs who suddenly find themselves in a fight they never trained for against an opponent who has home-field advantage and generations of reasons to hate humans. The action sequences are brutal and visceral, capturing the confusion and terror of combat in unfamiliar territory against an enemy that shouldn’t exist. But beneath the violence runs a deeper current: this is a story about colonization, about what happens when you build your civilization on someone else’s land, about vengeance that’s been simmering for centuries finally boiling over. 🔥

What makes this essential: A cryptozoological thriller that elevates Bigfoot mythology into serious action-adventure by grounding the creatures in Native American folklore and asking uncomfortable questions about who really has the right to call these mountains home.

Three Christmas romances featuring alpha bosses, fake engagements, and enough holiday shenanigans to make Santa blush—this is festive romance that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Logan Chance delivers exactly what the genre promises: charming, sexy, fun holiday love stories where successful men meet their matches in women who won’t be pushed around. Each novella in this collection stands alone but shares DNA: strong-willed heroines, dominant but ultimately decent heroes, workplace dynamics that sizzle, and Christmas settings that amplify the romance without drowning it in sugar cookies. 🎅

**North** features North Caspian, who owns an exclusive boutique catering to the celebrity babies of Hollywood—because even infant children of the rich and famous need designer everything. He’s a Scrooge of a boss, successful and driven but utterly lacking in Christmas spirit. Enter Holly Winterbourne, his new employee whose name alone suggests she was destined for a holiday romance. She’s immediately intrigued by her grumpy, gorgeous boss who treats Christmas like a personal affront. The setup is classic—workaholic alpha male meets sunshine employee who chips away at his icy exterior. Chance writes this with tongue firmly in cheek, leaning into the absurdity of a store for celebrity babies while delivering genuine chemistry. THIS BOOK IS FUN, and Chance wants you to know it. 🎄

**Everest** introduces Ginger Darling, who absolutely hates her tyrannical boss Meredith Taylor. In a moment of inspired revenge, Ginger decides Meredith needs to get laid—specifically by the handsome stranger Ginger met in the elevator this morning. He’s perfect: good-looking and willing to help stuff Meredith’s stockings. There’s just one problem: Everest Snow has his own agenda, and dating Ginger’s boss actually helps him achieve it. But why can’t he stop thinking about his little matchmaker instead? And why is he going along with her ridiculous schemes when he should be making his move on her under the mistletoe? This one plays with the matchmaker-falls-for-her-own-project trope while adding holiday chaos and genuine heat. 🎁

**Graham** brings us Graham Steele, owner of the Mountain Goat Resort, and Zoe, who would love nothing more than to get her handmade soaps into every guest room. She never expected her big pitch meeting to come the morning after a night of incredible anonymous hotel sex. And she definitely never expected to discover her one-night stand is the resort owner himself—or that his counter-proposal involves a fake engagement to help seal the deal. This hits all the forced-proximity, fake-relationship beats while adding the pressure of business negotiations and holiday tourism season. Logan Chance writes contemporary romance that knows exactly what it is: escapist fantasy with hot guys, strong women, holiday settings, and guaranteed happy endings. 💍

What makes this essential: Three holiday romances that embrace alpha-boss tropes without apology, delivering workplace chemistry, fake relationships, and Christmas magic wrapped in sexy, fun packages that prioritize entertainment over realism.

How much would you risk to protect your child? That’s the question at the heart of Patricia Keelyn’s emotionally charged romance that explores the terrifying intersection of love, law, and maternal instinct. A year after her husband’s death, Maura Anderson’s adopted three-year-old daughter Katie is everything—her reason for breathing, her purpose, her whole world. Maura would do anything to keep Katie safe. So when she discovers that Katie’s adoption might not be legal and the court threatens to take her daughter away, Maura does what any mother would do: she runs. The law may not recognize Katie as truly hers, but biology and paperwork mean nothing compared to the bond between mother and child. 👩‍👧

The small town of Wyattville, Washington seems like the perfect place to disappear—a quiet community where strangers can blend in, start fresh, build a life far from court orders and social workers. Maura changes their names, finds work, enrolls Katie in preschool, and tries to create normalcy in their hidden existence. Then she meets Alan Parks, and everything gets complicated. He’s kind, attractive, clearly interested—and he’s also the town sheriff, a man who sees law enforcement in strict black-and-white terms. Getting involved with Alan is the worst possible idea. He represents everything Maura is running from: order, rules, legal systems that could tear Katie from her arms. 👮

But the attraction between them is undeniable, and Alan is determined to win over the beautiful woman full of secrets who keeps him at arm’s length. Maura walks a tightrope of deception, drawn to the one man who could destroy everything. Every conversation with Alan is a minefield—what can she reveal? How much truth is safe? She’s falling for him even as she’s terrified he’ll discover why she’s really in Wyattville. Alan, meanwhile, knows something’s wrong. His cop instincts tell him Maura is hiding something significant, and the more he cares about her, the more determined he becomes to uncover the truth. 💔

When he finally discovers what Maura’s been running from, the conflict isn’t just about law versus love—it’s about what justice actually means. Is Maura a criminal kidnapper, or is she a mother protecting her child from a broken system? Can Alan reconcile his duty to uphold the law with his love for a woman who broke it for the best possible reason? Patricia Keelyn crafts a romance that tackles genuinely difficult moral questions while delivering the emotional stakes readers crave. When truth finally emerges, both Maura’s daughter and her heart are at risk. ⚖️

What makes this essential: A contemporary romance that grapples with the moral complexity of adoption law, asking whether breaking unjust rules to protect your child makes you a criminal or a hero, and whether love can survive when truth threatens everything.

The revengeful hunter becomes the hunted, and Tampa Detective Kate Alexander is in a dangerous chase to capture a killer who’s always three steps ahead. 🔪

A call to the kidnapping scene of a teenage girl rips at Kate’s heart in ways that blur the line between professional detective and traumatized human being. The case hits too close to home, dredging up demons Kate thought she’d buried under years of police work and emotional compartmentalization. But the real nightmare begins when the judge who set the kidnapper free on a technicality becomes the next target. Suddenly this isn’t just about one crime—it’s about revenge, and someone’s systematically working through a list. ⚖️

How is a seemingly isolated double homicide at a cheap motel on the wrong side of Tampa connected to the kidnapping? The crime scenes couldn’t be more different—one brutal and personal, the other cold and calculated—but Kate’s instincts tell her they’re linked by something darker than coincidence. Detective Alexander’s investigation focuses on tracking a psychotic and deranged killer who understands the justice system well enough to exploit its failures and is willing to become judge, jury, and executioner. 😱

In a cat and mouse game where the rules keep changing and the killer seems to anticipate Kate’s every move, she pursues the suspect as he seeks revenge against the judge who let him fall through the cracks of the system. But facing her own demons from past cases that haunt her dreams, Detective Alexander makes choices that place her own family in peril, sacrificing her personal safety and their security as she tracks the cunning criminal in a race against time. She must bring justice to the victim of the murder before the killer completes his revenge list. 💀

The emotional stakes escalate as Kate realizes this case is testing not just her detective skills but her ability to protect what matters most while pursuing someone who has nothing left to lose. The killer’s getting bolder, the timeline’s getting shorter, and Kate’s running out of moves. 🔥

Here’s what you’re getting: Mike Roche launches the Detective Kate Alexander series with a heart-pumping emotional thriller featuring a Tampa detective pursuing a revenge-driven killer, personal demons colliding with professional duty, and discovering that sometimes evil evades justice until someone forces it to answer—perfect for readers who love their detective fiction with genuine emotional stakes.

As Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s special envoy to Europe in World War II, Anna Rosenberg went where the president couldn’t go, wielding power few women have ever held. 🌟

She was among the first Allied women to enter a liberated concentration camp, witnessing horrors that would haunt her for the rest of her life. She stood in the Eagle’s Nest, Hitler’s mountain retreat, just days after its capture, a symbolic victory that few civilians experienced. She guided the direction of the G.I. Bill of Rights that would transform American society and the Manhattan Project that would end the war. Though Anna Rosenberg emerged from modest immigrant beginnings with only a high school education and no Ivy League credentials, she became the real power behind national policies critical to America winning the war and prospering afterward. Astonishingly, her story remains largely forgotten by history. 💪

With a disarming mix of charm that could win over skeptics and Tammany-hewn toughness that could intimidate congressmen, Rosenberg began her career in public relations in 1920s Manhattan when women in business were rare curiosities. She became friends with Eleanor Roosevelt, who recognized Anna’s brilliance and recommended her to FDR, who was then running for Governor of New York. As FDR’s unofficial adviser throughout his presidency, Rosenberg soon wielded enormous influence that was no less potent for being subtle and behind-the-scenes. Roosevelt dubbed her “my Mrs. Fix-It,” which was his way of saying she solved problems nobody else could touch. 🎯

Her extraordinary career continued after FDR’s death, proving her power wasn’t dependent on one man’s patronage. By 1950, she was tapped to become the assistant secretary of defense—the highest position ever held by a woman in the US military—prompting Senator Joe McCarthy to wage an unsuccessful smear campaign against her in his desperate attempt to discredit anyone who threatened his power. McCarthy lost. Anna won. In 1962, she organized John F. Kennedy’s infamous birthday gala, sitting beside him while Marilyn Monroe sang, orchestrating an event that would become legendary in American history. 🔥

Christopher C. Gorham uncovers the untold story of a woman who shaped modern America from the shadows, wielding power without ever seeking the spotlight, proving that influence doesn’t require a title and genius doesn’t require a degree. ⚡

Why this matters: Christopher C. Gorham delivers biography of Anna Rosenberg, the immigrant woman with a high school education who became FDR’s fixer, guided WWII policy, survived McCarthy’s attacks, and shaped America—essential reading for those who want to know about the women history forgot but shouldn’t have.

A kidnapping, a shooting, a baby on the way, and three lives hanging in the balance while Abby tries to figure out what the hell happened in her kitchen. 👶

After suffering a personal tragedy that left her emotionally shattered and questioning everything, Abby Sullivan buys a seaside mansion in Holiday Bay, packs up her life in San Francisco without looking back, and moves to a town where nobody knows her past. What she thought she needed was alone time to heal in peace. What she ended up with was adoption by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus who decided she was his human whether she liked it or not, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia who became family, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos who thinks he’s a lapdog. 🐱

Abby thought she needed solitude. Instead she got an inn she never knew she wanted, a cat she couldn’t seem to convince to leave no matter how many times she tried, and a new family she’d never be able to live without even when they drive her completely insane. Sometimes the universe knows better than you do what you actually need. 💕

In book 33 of the series, Georgia not only has a secret that only Abby knows about and that’s causing considerable stress for everyone involved, but Georgia is kidnapped directly from the kitchen she’s using to film her cooking special for her growing online audience. One minute she’s demonstrating how to properly sauté mushrooms, the next minute she’s gone. No witnesses. No demands. No ransom note. No one knows who took her, where she was taken, or why anyone would target a cooking show host. 😱

As Abby races against time to find Georgia before something terrible happens, she’s juggling a pregnant friend about to give birth, managing the inn during peak season, dealing with Rufus’s opinions on everything, and trying to solve a kidnapping that makes less sense the more she investigates. Someone wanted Georgia specifically, and Abby’s terrified it has everything to do with that secret nobody else knows. 🔍

What makes this work: Kathi Daley continues the Inn at Holiday Bay series with book 33 featuring a kidnapping from the kitchen, a pregnant woman’s timing being terrible, found family racing to rescue one of their own, and Abby discovering that some secrets are dangerous enough to kill for—perfect for readers who love their cozy mysteries with animal companions and genuine emotional stakes.

As a prepper, Grayson Rowan was prepared for almost anything—anything except being totally alone when the apocalypse finally arrives. 💥

While he sat back and watched the United States rattle swords with Korea in increasingly aggressive posturing, play chicken with Russia over territorial disputes, and strong-arm China in trade wars that kept escalating, he felt confident that if the lights went out due to EMP, cyber attack, or nuclear exchange, he and his family would be ready and safe at their homestead. They had everything they needed: food stores, water filtration, weapons, medical supplies, solar power, seeds for planting. The supplies were ready. The plans were solid. The only problem? His family isn’t home when it happens. 😱

What Grayson wasn’t prepared for was his family being scattered when civilization collapses overnight. Olivia Rowan is with her sisters Gabby and Emma on a girls-only trip to Myrtle Beach, enjoying cocktails and beach time and sisterly bonding, completely unprepared for the nightmare that’s about to unfold. When chaos erupts and there’s no gas available at any price, their journey home becomes a walking nightmare filled with predators taking advantage of lawless roads, danger lurking at every abandoned vehicle, and the terrifying realization that society’s thin veneer of civility evaporated in about six hours. 🔥

And apparently, Olivia hadn’t learned a single thing her husband tried to teach her about survival, self-defense, or threat assessment. All those prepping lessons Grayson insisted on? She ignored them because she thought he was being paranoid. Now paranoia looks like wisdom and her lack of preparation might get them all killed. 💀

Back at the homestead, Grayson faces a different crisis as neighbors who mocked his prepping suddenly remember he has supplies and start getting desperate. When your neighbors run out of water and turn on each other within days, what will you do? Defend your family’s resources or help people who called you crazy right up until they needed what you had? The moral calculus of survival gets complicated fast when children are starving and good people are making terrible choices. ⚖️

Here’s what you’re getting: L.L. Akers launches The SHTF Series with post-apocalyptic survival featuring a prepared family separated when disaster strikes, a wife learning prepping lessons the hard way while walking home through chaos, and a husband defending the homestead—perfect for readers who love their survival fiction with family dynamics and genuine stakes about what happens when everything collapses.

If Shatter Me and Divergent had a morally gray baby raised by ghosts in a dystopian nightmare—it would be Avidian, and that baby would see dead people. 👻

This is a spicy, binge-worthy romantasy set in a dystopian world where Kat Sinclair is forced to solve a murder using her rare ability to see the dead, and the charming stranger offering her a way out might be hiding the most dangerous secret of all. I can see the dead. They tell me their secrets. But this time, their secrets might get me killed before I can escape the family that owns me. 💀

My name is Kat Sinclair, and the Volkov family owns me in ways that go beyond employment or servitude—they own my body, my abilities, my future. People like me, born with special abilities that manifest in adolescence, are called Avids. We’re valuable property in a world where powers mean profit. But my gift to communicate with the dead doesn’t spare me from the brutal demands of Marco Volkov, the ruthless family patriarch who keeps me in line with the ever-present threat of violence and the reality of scars I’ve already earned from testing his limits. 😱

When a grisly double murder involving a family nephew and a cook who knew too much shakes the household, leaving bodies that tell stories the Volkovs don’t want heard, I’m forced to uncover the truth using the dead as my witnesses. The whispers of the dead reveal more than I bargained for, unearthing secrets about corruption, betrayal, and conspiracies that could destroy the Volkovs—and definitely me if they discover what I know. The dead are chatty about family secrets, and this family has built their empire on secrets worth killing to protect. 🔥

But I met a charming stranger who might be able to help me escape this nightmare, offering hope when I thought I’d lost it forever. Except he doesn’t know about my gift that makes me valuable and trapped, my scars that tell stories I don’t speak aloud, or the dark past I can’t escape no matter how fast I run. In his eyes though, I see something I thought I’d lost long ago—hope that maybe I could be more than the Volkovs’ property. But in this world, hope is dangerous, strangers have agendas, and trust gets you killed. ⚡

What makes this addictive: Ashley O’Donovan delivers dystopian romantasy featuring a protagonist who sees the dead and is owned by dangerous people, murder investigation using ghost witnesses, a mysterious stranger offering salvation, and discovering that some secrets are worth dying for—perfect for readers who love their dystopian fiction spicy, morally complicated, and binge-worthy.