Author: Lawrence Hebb

Military Thrillers

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What hooked me: MI6 needs the best for a high-risk rescue operation—a missing agent kidnapped and taken two hundred miles into hostile territory with no support. The Army doesn’t want this team because they’re too much trouble, but MI6 does because they’re the best at what they do.

The setup of a “do or die mission” where failure isn’t an option and the stakes involve extracting an agent from interrogation creates immediate tension. The first book in the high-octane Scorpion One series promises the kind of military thriller where unconventional operators handle impossible missions conventional forces can’t touch.

Perfect for: Military thriller fans who want their special ops teams too dangerous for regular army but perfect for impossible missions, or readers who love rescue operations deep in hostile territory.

Author: Rachel Harris

Romantic Comedy

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What drew me in: Sherry Robicheaux meets a mysterious man backstage at a Vegas country music concert and embraces what happens in Vegas staying there. Country superstar Tyler Blue just wants anonymity for a weekend. The next morning, they wake up with fuzzy memories and rings on their fingers.

The New York Times bestseller’s appeal is the collision of small-town spunky waitress with purple-streaked hair and country music superstar maintaining a public image ruse. Convincing Sherry to play wife in her small town of Magnolia Springs creates complications when Tyler must remember his first love will always be music and the road is no place for a down-home girl.

Perfect for: Romantic comedy fans who want their Vegas wedding mishaps with genuine emotional stakes, or readers who love when fake marriages in small towns become inconveniently real.

Author: Cristin Harber

Military Romance

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Why I’m intrigued: After protecting classified intelligence, military psychologist Mia Kensington is on a cross-country road trip with Colby Winters, a former Navy SEAL who has a single objective: recover a document important to national security. When Titan’s safe houses are compromised, Colby stashes Mia at his home, exposing his secret—he’s the adoptive father of an orphaned baby girl.

The collision of by-any-means-necessary survival with unexpected vulnerability (single dad with baby) creates depth beyond typical military romance. When Mia lands in a sadistic cartel king’s hands and Colby races through a firestorm of bullets to save her, the stakes become genuinely life-or-death for the woman he can’t live without.

Perfect for: Military romance fans who want their Navy SEALs with secret single dad complications, or readers who love when protect-the-asset missions become genuine love stories.

Author: Rhiannon Hargadon

Action & Adventure Fantasy

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What caught my attention: Anne was a reckless royal who vanished after brutal betrayal on her wedding night. Years later she returns as Blackbeard, a terror of the seas hunting down the men who destroyed her one by one. Vengeance collars her with brutal bargains and dark promises, and when she captures Lieutenant Robb Maynard—loyal to her enemy—intending to trade him for leverage, she finds herself in dangerous games of secrets and seduction.

The premise of a vanished princess becoming a pirate legend creates immediate intrigue. The complication that her captive looks at her like she’s still a woman worth loving, forcing Anne to decide if love is worth the risk when she knows better than to believe in anything but pain, adds emotional depth to the vengeance tale.

Perfect for: Pirate fantasy fans who want their female captains driven by revenge with enemies-to-lovers complications, or readers who love when the greatest threat isn’t a blade but unexpected feelings.

Author: Marc Alan Edelheit

Sword & Sorcery Fantasy

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What hooked me: One of history’s greatest mysteries—the Ninth Imperial Legion that disappeared around 122 AD in Britannia—gets a fantasy twist. Badly outnumbered and surrounded by hostile Celts, Senior Centurion Karus leads his men to safety when the unthinkable happens: the Ninth is transported to a strange place far from the Britannia they knew.

What appears to be divine deliverance becomes something more sinister as they uncover a world being overrun by terrible evil. A young woman abandoned in a dungeon may be key to salvation or instrument of destruction for the Ninth. The collision of Roman military discipline with fantasy world threats creates unique sword and sorcery.

Perfect for: Historical fantasy fans who want their lost legions in magical worlds, or readers fascinated by what would happen if Rome’s most disciplined soldiers faced supernatural evil.

Author: Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

Action & Adventure Romance

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What drew me in: Abel “Riggs” LeBlanc, former Green Beret and President of Kings of Retribution MC Louisiana Chapter, runs his club with military precision. Dedicating years to mercenary missions and his club left no time for family until Luna. A call from the Montana chapter has Riggs protecting Luna from another MC, and when his eyes fall on the striking woman with violet eyes, she alters his life forever.

Luna grew up in the system unable to hear, making survival terrifying and isolating. Just when her future doesn’t look grim, trusting the wrong man nearly costs her life. The collision of military-trained MC president with deaf woman who’s survived the unimaginable creates both protection romance and genuine disability representation.

Perfect for: MC romance fans who want their biker presidents with military backgrounds protecting heroines with real challenges, or readers who appreciate disability representation in romance.

Author: Mousumi Sarkar

African American Women’s Fiction

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Why I’m including this: A critical companion to Chinua Achebe’s groundbreaking novel illuminating its cultural, historical, and literary depths. With focused chapters on themes, characters, postcolonial critique, and Igbo way of life, this provides students, scholars, and literature lovers with deeper appreciation.

It’s not just exploration of Achebe’s text but a guide to understanding Africa’s encounter with empire, tradition, and transformation. For anyone studying Things Fall Apart or wanting to understand its significance in postcolonial literature, this offers academic framework and cultural context that enriches the reading experience.

Perfect for: Students and scholars of African literature wanting comprehensive analysis of Achebe’s masterpiece, or book clubs reading Things Fall Apart who want deeper cultural and historical understanding.

Author: Jessica Rosenberg

Cozy Paranormal Women’s Fiction Story

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What caught my attention: After fifteen years caring for her mother through mysterious illness, Melly accepts a job at a retro diner in small town Portney where the meatloaf is legendary. A freak accident gives her the magical ability to hear people’s thoughts (fears, joys, secret kidnapping plans) and mysterious government agents ask probing questions about an unsettling pendant her mother left behind.

The collision of midlife fresh start with suddenly acquiring mind-reading powers creates cozy chaos. Thanks to local witches taking her under their wing, Melly discovers reading minds isn’t the curse she thinks and true friendship comes in surprising shapes. The detail about closer to 40 than 30, lost purpose, and needing direction makes this midlife magical realism.

Perfect for: Cozy paranormal fans who want their midlife heroines discovering magic while dealing with real grief and purpose loss, or readers who think legendary meatloaf should come with unexpected powers.

Author: K.M. Gillis

Best Friend Hockey Holiday Romance

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Why it caught my attention: Beth Michaels wants a fresh start away from being known as NHL superstar Ben Michaels’ little sister, but a housing mishap forces her to move in with Ben’s best friend and teammate, the broody goalie Foster James. Foster has one rule he finds impossible to follow: don’t fall for your best friend’s sister.

After years of being alone, resisting the sweet and funny Beth may be the toughest challenge Foster has faced. The goal was keeping their relationship under wraps, but plans tangle during holidays. The collision of someone seeking independence with someone finally finding connection creates hockey romance with genuine emotional stakes beyond just the forbidden element.

Perfect for: Hockey romance fans who want their goalies broody and their heroines escaping family shadows, or readers who love when best friend’s sister rules get broken during Christmas chaos.

Author: Dante King

Arthurian Fantasy

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What hooked me: After years in the Imperial Expeditionary Force, blacksmith Jol Rivers has a mysterious magical power hidden within the items he forges—one that could defeat forces threatening the Second Empire. A beautiful mage invites him to the Lyceum where he can develop this power, but little does he know he has his own knowledge to impart: forbidden talents that bind other students to him.

The setup of someone discovering latent magical abilities while having forbidden knowledge to teach creates interesting power dynamics. Hidden powers in forged items, ancient academy, and forbidden fruits all suggest this is academy fantasy with adult edge exploring both magical education and more intimate connections.

Perfect for: Mage academy fans who want their magical schools for adults with intimate complications, or readers who love when the new student has unexpected knowledge that binds others to him.

Author: Miles Cameron

Action & Adventure Fantasy

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What drew me in: Twenty-eight florins a month is huge price to pay for a man to stand between you and the Wild, but nowhere near enough when a wyvern’s jaws snap shut on your helmet. The Red Knight—blessed with birth, training, and devil’s luck—hires his mercenary company to protect an Abbess and her nunnery from the monster preying on them. It’s just another job until it becomes a war.

Miles Cameron weaves epic fantasy with gritty mercenary reality where leading men against smart, deadly creatures of the Wild takes everything. The collision of for-profit mercenary work with genuine existential threat to civilization creates morally complex fantasy where the hero is trying to turn a profit while the stakes escalate to survival of humanity.

Perfect for: Epic fantasy fans who want their mercenaries morally gray and their monsters genuinely threatening, or readers who love when simple protection jobs escalate into civilization-ending warfare.

Author: Tricia O’Malley

Romantic Comedy

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Why I’m intrigued: When Paige discovers her yoga studio owner boyfriend has invited bendy yoga instructors into their bed, she decides to namaste away. A new job as retreat coordinator at Tranquila Inn on a tropical beach seems like perfect fresh start, except Jack Byron who manages the failing resort didn’t want to train someone new and she immediately gets under his skin.

Despite misgivings, Jack finds himself admiring her grit and passion—particularly when the arriving guests are her ex-boyfriend and his group of mistresses. Caught in growing attraction while scrambling to prove she can run this retreat without shoving her ex off a cliff, then a hurricane swerves toward the island forcing them together. The escalating complications from professional tension to ex-boyfriend chaos to natural disaster create perfect rom-com chaos.

Perfect for: Romantic comedy fans who want their tropical fresh starts complicated by exes and hurricanes, or readers who love when managing a retreat becomes excuse for forced proximity with reluctant boss.

Author: Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland

Contemporary Romance

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What caught my attention: A fender bender leads to arguing with a drop-dead gorgeous jerk in an expensive car. Eventually police come and they go separate ways. Then he walks in as the interviewer for the job she’s excited about. Whoops. She didn’t get the position, but she really needs it—anything to get back to working with kids—so she goes back to beg Hollis LaCroix for a chance.

The collision of terrible first impression with desperate need for the job creates immediate tension. The detail that Hollis is as intimidating as he is devastatingly handsome suggests this explores power dynamics between someone who holds her professional future in his hands while both remember their contentious first meeting.

Perfect for: Contemporary romance fans who want their workplace power dynamics starting from mutual antagonism, or readers who love when begging for a second chance leads to unexpected attraction.