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🎄 FOUR CHRISTMAS COZY MYSTERIES IN ONE BOXED SET! 🎄
Snuggle up with murder this holiday season in a laugh-out-loud, page-turning collection from New York Times, USA TODAY & Wall Street Journal bestseller Addison Moore and USA TODAY bestseller Bellamy Bloom!
IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE MURDER. ☃️
This cozy Christmas collection includes FOUR stand-alone holiday whodunits packed with mystery, mayhem, and mistletoe—perfect for fans of festive vibes and frosted crime scenes. Grab this cozy mystery boxed set and snuggle up to FOUR chilling tales with a side of homicide! 🔪🎁
WHAT YOU’LL GET: ✨ Hilarious amateur sleuths 🎅 Christmas chaos with a criminal twist 💕 A dash of romance, a sprinkle of snark, and heaping helpings of seasonal sass 🔍 Page-turning mysteries that will keep you guessing ’til the last gift is unwrapped
Books Included:
- Santa Claws Calamity (Country Cottage Mysteries 3)
- The Holidays can be Murder (Brambleberry Bay Murder Club 4)
- Gingerbread and Deadly Dread (Murder in the Mix 4)
- Menopause and Mistletoe of Glimmerspell (Hot Flash Homicides 3)
What makes this special: Addison Moore has built a devoted following with her signature blend of humor and mystery across multiple bestselling series, while Bellamy Bloom brings sharp wit and clever plotting to the cozy genre. This boxed set is perfect for fans of Jana DeLeon, Joanne Fluke, or anyone who loves their holiday festivities with a side of murder. If you’re looking for lighthearted mysteries that capture the chaos of the Christmas season without taking themselves too seriously, this collection delivers four complete standalone stories—ideal for binge-reading by the fire with hot cocoa in hand. 🎄☕
No one knows how new members are selected to the board of Hale Banking and Holding. But there are rumors of a sordid rite of initiation. 😈
Whispers how one woman and nine men disappear into a boardroom.
This time, that woman will be me. The Hale family owns everything—the eighth largest bank in the world, everyone in our town, even the mortgage on my parents’ mansion. And now Royce Hale wants to own me. 💎
He is charming. Seductive. Ruthless. But above all, he’s the prince of lies. My body may tighten with white-hot desire under his penetrating gaze, but I refuse to enjoy it. 🔥
I’ll make a deal with the devil to save my family and sell myself to the Hales. But Royce will never own my heart. 💔
Why this one stands out: Nikki Sloane has become a powerhouse in dark romance, known for her morally complex characters and high-stakes power dynamics. Her “Filthy Rich Americans” series has captivated readers who crave intense, taboo storylines with emotional depth. Perfect for fans of Penelope Douglas, S.T. Abby, or anyone who loves a ruthless alpha hero and a heroine who refuses to break. If you’re drawn to secret societies, forbidden desire, and romance that walks the line between dangerous and irresistible, Sloane delivers with her trademark intensity and steam. 🖤
Jon is the most powerful psychic Reader in the country–and unanchored, which is rather a problem. The bigger problem? Finding an anchor. 🔮 And Jon doesn’t think his must-have list is too crazy. It’s just rather hard for a man to have:
- the patience of a saint (for when Jon kills electronics, ’cause that’s a daily thing) ⚡
- the ability to keep up with his schedule (the cases are crazy, not going to lie) 📅
- the protect instincts of a superhero 🦸
- muscles (this one’s more of a want, honestly) 💪
You can see why Jon’s kinda given up on getting an anchor as that’s a tall order. At least, until Donovan Havili entered the room.
Holy beejeezus, his dream anchor is real?! 😍
What caught my attention: AJ Sherwood has carved out a devoted niche writing LGBTQ+ paranormal mysteries with heart, humor, and genuinely engaging procedural elements. Her Jon’s Mysteries series combines psychic abilities with authentic detective work and a slow-burn romance that feels earned. Perfect for fans of Jordan L. Hawk’s Whyborne & Griffin series or Charlie Adhara’s Big Bad Wolf books. If you’re looking for paranormal mysteries with queer representation that doesn’t sacrifice the mystery for the romance (or vice versa), and you enjoy characters with witty internal monologues and real chemistry, this series starter is a delightful find. 🌈🔍
An Amazon top 100 series 🏆
I wanted him. He wanted to ruin me. 💔
It was the blood I noticed first. Running down the neck of the man on the ferry. 🩸 Then his bruised knuckles, dark eyes, and arrogant smirk. The handcuffs came last. ⛓️
No one else paid him attention, but I couldn’t look away. Or deny my instant lust. 🔥
I had no idea he was being imprisoned on the remote, dark Scottish island I knew well. Or that he’d been kidnapped, not arrested.
I went from that naïve girl on the boat, dreaming of stolen kisses, to the one who held the key to his prison cell. 🔑
When heat turns to hate, all that’s left is ruin.
Why I’m including this: Jolie Vines has quickly become a go-to name for readers who crave atmospheric romantic suspense with morally gray characters and high emotional stakes. Her Dark Island Scots series delivers brooding anti-heroes, remote Scottish settings dripping with tension, and heroines who hold their own against dangerous men. Perfect for fans of Natasha Knight, Zoe Blake, or anyone who loves the dark romance edge of captive/captor dynamics with genuine suspense woven throughout. If you want romance that feels dangerous, settings that isolate and intensify, and chemistry that crackles with threat and desire, Vines delivers in spades. 🏴🖤
LOVE IS A DAGGER. BETRAYAL IS WORSE. 💔
After dying in a devastating car crash, Levi wakes up twelve years in the past, back at the moment he walked out on the love of his life. His marriage to Sloane is shattered by betrayal, and his family left in ruins. But now, with the knowledge of everything he’s lost and everything that’s coming, he’s been given one impossible gift: a second chance. ⏰✨
This time, Levi will do anything to make things right. To prove to Sloane that he sees her now, and show her that she was always the one for him – even if he has to spend the rest of his life proving it. 💍
As the world quietly begins to crumble, Levi and Sloane must confront the wreckage of their past while fighting to protect their children and each other. Through heartbreak, healing, and the slow rekindling of a once-shattered love, they’ll discover that survival isn’t just about enduring the end…it’s about choosing one another, again and again. 💕
One More Chance is a raw, emotional second-chance, marriage-in-crisis, dark contemporary romance told entirely from a flawed but redeemable male POV. It’s a story of love tested to its breaking point from lies, guilt, and the fragile path to forgiveness when passion collides with pain and defies the Star-Crossed Lovers’ Fate.
If you love introspective male leads, gritty emotional tension, and romances that hurt before they heal, this story will stay with you long after the final page. HEA guaranteed. ❤️🩹
Here’s the deal: Reno R. Mist brings something increasingly rare to romance—a male POV that feels genuinely introspective and accountable rather than just brooding. This series combines the second-chance trope with time travel stakes and apocalyptic tension, creating urgency that forces characters to reckon with their mistakes in real time. Perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover’s emotional depth, Rebecca Yarros’s intensity, or anyone who appreciates romance that doesn’t shy away from the messy work of redemption. If you want a male protagonist who truly has to earn his way back and a love story that understands forgiveness is a process, not a moment, this delivers with heart and heat. 🔥💫
A Layer of Lies (Pressed for Justice: Book 1)
Murder, mayhem, and mouthwatering paninis… 🥖🔪 what more could a small town serve up?
Anna Beth Sinclair thought opening a panini shop in her sleepy hometown of Cane Creek, Georgia, would be a fresh start — one filled with crusty bread, melty cheese, and a side of redemption. 🧀✨
With a carefully planned menu, a shoestring budget, and a staff still finding their footing, she’s determined to make it work. But just days before opening, a shocking discovery outside her shop puts her at the center of attention for all the wrong reasons. 😱
Tensions are rising, the questions are piling up, and suddenly, Anna Beth finds herself entangled in a mystery and way outside her comfort zone. 🔍
Now, with an infuriatingly charming cop on her case, Anna Beth has no choice but to start looking for answers herself. Because in a small town like Cane Creek, everyone has a story… and someone isn’t telling the truth. 🤫
Can she press on for clues and serve up justice? Find out in this exciting Culinary Cozy Mystery! ⚖️
Why I’m including this: Emma Ainsley brings fresh energy to the culinary cozy subgenre with a protagonist who’s genuinely starting over rather than inheriting a business or returning home wealthy. The panini shop setting is both specific and delicious (you’ll want to eat while reading), and Anna Beth feels like a real person navigating actual financial stress alongside murder investigation. Perfect for fans of Joanne Fluke’s Hannah Swensen series, Diane Mott Davidson’s culinary mysteries, or anyone who loves small-town Georgia charm with a side of homicide. If you’re drawn to amateur sleuths with actual stakes in their community, food descriptions that make you hungry, and the “charming cop” trope done well, this series starter is a tasty find. 🍴💕
LAKE STARLIGHT BUZZ WHEEL PRESS RELEASE: Rumor around town is a certain matriarch of the Bailey family is having a BIG BIRTHDAY! 🎂🎉
It’s even spurred a few of the Bailey kids to return home to celebrate with their beloved great-grandmother, Dori. In fact, now that there are twenty-six Bailey great-grandchildren the event is going to be overflowing with laughter and love. 💕👨👩👧👦
Also… I heard that Piper & Rayne have been speaking to some of the kids (i.e. Calista, Maverick, Easton, Brinley and Palmer) and so we’re getting some special POV’s. I can’t wait to report my findings the day after the party! 📝✨
The appeal: Piper Rayne (a husband-and-wife writing duo) has built one of the most beloved interconnected family series in contemporary romance with The Baileys—a sprawling, multi-generational saga set in Lake Starlight that readers return to again and again like visiting old friends. This novella offers the perfect entry point or reunion with the family, centering on matriarch Dori’s milestone birthday and bringing together characters from across the series. Perfect for fans of Susan Mallery’s Happily Inc series, Debbie Macomber’s family sagas, or anyone who loves romance series where the town and extended family feel as important as the couples. If you’re drawn to stories that celebrate family bonds, small-town warmth, and the kind of multi-POV storytelling that lets you check in with favorite characters, this birthday celebration delivers all the feels. 🎈❤️
This New York Times–bestselling author’s account of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin offers a “vivid portrait not just of Owens but of ’30s Germany and America” (Sports Illustrated). 🏃♂️🥇
At the 1936 Olympics, against a backdrop of swastikas and goose-stepping storm troopers, an African American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four gold medals, single-handedly falsifying Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy.
The story of Jesse Owens at the Berlin games is that of an athletic performance that transcends sports. It is also the intimate and complex tale of one remarkable man’s courage. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Owens family, previously unpublished interviews, and archival research, Jeremy Schaap transports us to Germany and tells the dramatic tale of Owens and his fellow athletes at the contest dubbed the Nazi Olympics.
With incisive reporting and rich storytelling, Schaap reveals what really happened over those tense, exhilarating weeks in a “snappy and dramatic” work of sports history (Publishers Weekly).
“A remarkable job of tackling a complex subject and bringing it to life.” —John Feinstein
What caught my attention: Jeremy Schaap, an award-winning ESPN journalist and son of legendary sportswriter Dick Schaap, brings both journalistic rigor and narrative flair to this crucial moment in sports and world history. His access to the Owens family and previously untapped sources gives this account an intimacy and authority that sets it apart from other tellings of this iconic story. Perfect for fans of Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, David Maraniss’s Rome 1960, or anyone interested in how sports intersect with politics, racism, and resistance. This isn’t just sports history—it’s American history, told through the lens of one man’s extraordinary courage in the face of both Nazi ideology and American segregation. Schaap doesn’t simplify or sanitize; he shows us the full complexity of Owens’s triumph and the world that both celebrated and failed him. Essential reading.
From the author of the “wrenching and exhilarating” All Things Cease to Appear comes a gripping literary thriller about a man reckoning with the mysterious death of his former roommate (Wall Street Journal). 📸
Julian Ladd and Rye Adler cross paths as photography students in the exclusive Brodsky Workshop. When Rye needs a roommate, Julian moves in, and a quiet, compulsive envy takes root, assuring, at least in his own mind, that he will never achieve Rye’s certain success. Both men are fascinated with their beautiful and talented classmate, Magda, whose captivating images of her Polish neighborhood set her apart, and each will come to know her intimately – a woman neither can possess and only one can love. 💔
Twenty years later, long after their paths diverge, Rye is at the top of his field, famous for his photographs of celebrities and far removed from the downtrodden and disenfranchised subjects who’d secured his reputation as the eye of his generation. When Magda reenters his life, asking for help only he can give, Rye finds himself in a broken landscape of street people and addicts, forcing him to reckon with the artist he once was, until his search for a missing boy becomes his own desperate fight to survive. 🔍
Months later, when Julian discovers Rye’s obituary, the paper makes it sound like a suicide. Despite himself, Julian attends the funeral, where there is no casket and no body. This sudden reentry into a world he thought he left behind forces Julian to question not only Rye’s death, but the very foundations of his life. ⚰️
What makes this special: Elizabeth Brundage has established herself as a master of psychological literary fiction that blends literary craft with genuine suspense. Her debut, All Things Cease to Appear, earned widespread critical acclaim for its atmospheric tension and complex character work, and The Vanishing Point builds on that reputation with a structure that moves fluidly through time and perspective. Perfect for fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, Hanya Yanagihara’s exploration of toxic friendships, or anyone drawn to stories about artistic ambition, envy, and the way the past refuses to stay buried. Brundage writes literary fiction that doesn’t sacrifice plot for prose—you get both in equal measure, along with penetrating insight into how jealousy and obsession can shape entire lives. 📚✨
“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising account, Hannah Carlson turns the pocket inside out and out tumble pocket watches, coins, pistols, and a riveting centuries-long social and political history.” ―Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States
Pockets “showcases the best features of cultural history: a lively combination of visual, literary and documentary evidence. As sumptuously illustrated as it is learned … this highly inventive and original book demands a pocket sequel.” ―Jane Kamensky, Wall Street Journal
Who gets pockets, and why? 👖
It’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? And why are the pockets on women’s clothes often too small to fit phones, if they even open at all? In her captivating book, Hannah Carlson, a lecturer in dress history at the Rhode Island School of Design, reveals the issues of gender politics, security, sexuality, power, and privilege tucked inside our pockets. 🔐
Throughout the medieval era in Europe, the purse was an almost universal dress feature. But when tailors stitched the first pockets into men’s trousers five hundred years ago, it ignited controversy and introduced a range of social issues that we continue to wrestle with today, from concealed pistols to gender inequality. See: #GiveMePocketsOrGiveMeDeath. ✊
Filled with incredible images, this microhistory of the humble pocket uncovers what pockets tell us about ourselves: How is it that putting your hands in your pockets can be seen as a sign of laziness, arrogance, confidence, or perversion? Walt Whitman’s author photograph, hand in pocket, for Leaves of Grass seemed like an affront to middle-class respectability. When W.E.B. Du Bois posed for a portrait, his pocketed hands signaled defiant coolness. 📸
And what else might be hiding in the history of our pockets? (There’s a reason that the contents of Abraham Lincoln’s pockets are the most popular exhibit at the Library of Congress.) Thinking about the future, Carlson asks whether we will still want pockets when our clothes contain “smart” textiles that incorporate our IDs and credit cards. 🔮
Why this one stands out: Hannah Carlson brings rigorous academic credentials (she lectures at RISD) and makes dress history accessible, fascinating, and deeply relevant to contemporary gender politics. This is microhistory at its best—taking a seemingly mundane object and revealing how it reflects power structures, social norms, and cultural evolution. Perfect for fans of Mary Beard’s accessible scholarship, Jill Lepore’s cultural histories, or anyone who’s ever raged about fake pockets. Carlson’s book is gorgeously illustrated, impeccably researched, and addresses a feminist issue that resonates immediately with modern readers while tracing its roots back centuries. It’s the kind of book that changes how you look at everyday objects and makes you realize that fashion is always political. 👗✨
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Bottom line: Anna Napawan offers an evidence-based approach to happiness that moves beyond generic positivity and into the practical tools of cognitive behavioral therapy. CBT is one of the most researched and effective therapeutic methods for changing thought patterns, and this workbook makes those techniques accessible without requiring a therapist. Perfect for readers who appreciate The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, Feeling Good by David Burns, or anyone looking for structured, actionable exercises rather than abstract self-help philosophy. At this price point, it’s an incredibly affordable alternative to therapy sessions while still providing real, research-backed methods for reframing negative thinking and building sustainable happiness habits. If you’re ready to do the work and want a guided process, this workbook delivers. 🧠💙
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