“If you kill a witch who delivers a prophecy, it won’t come to be.”
As a child, Cori delivered a prophecy that foretold all witches practicing dark magic would lose their power on a future winter solstice. When she spoke the words aloud, it put a target on her back—and tied her fate to a ticking clock.
After a decade of hiding and pushing away her magic, Cori moves to the idyllic town of Farley, Maine. She has one goal: keep her head down while counting down the days until the prophecy comes to pass. But the town—and the people that live there—are not what she expected.
When Cori meets Adrian Huxley, a local Water Elemental witch, her secret is no longer safe. The closer she gets to him, the harder it is to suppress her magic. When a visitor from the past makes her question the real reason she was sent into hiding—and the loyalty of the family she swore to protect—she realizes her life is not the only one in danger.
For fans of Spells for Forgetting and A Discovery of Witches comes a cozy, ethereal story about a witch who must face the dark truths of her past—risking everything she loves and everything she has worked for.
“What did I do?” I point to myself, my hand full of icing. “What did I do? Look at what he did.” I point to my crushed house. “He ruined my house.”
“You two,” she hisses at us, “go and clean yourselves up.” She points to the side where the bathroom is.
“But, Mom,” I whine, sounding like a teenager all over again.
“Now.” She uses her mother voice, and I glare at him and storm off to the side where the sign for the toilet is.
I push open the door and walk to the side, grabbing a paper towel, and wipe off the icing from my hand before I turn the water on. I add soap to my hand and the door slams open from behind me, and I look into the mirror and see him coming in, a scowl on his face.
“Seriously,” he hisses, and I shake the water off my hands and turn it off before grabbing the paper towel and wiping them dry before turning around and facing him.
“Seriously,” I hiss back at him, “you did that on purpose.” I step closer to him, making me toe to toe with him.
“Why the fuck would I do that on purpose?” He looks down at me, his eyes narrow.
“Because you suck.” I push his chest back. “Because I was going to win.” I push him again. “Because you want to piss me off.” I’m about to push him again when he grabs my wrists in his hands and then turns me, so my back is against the door. He drops my hands but only to grab my hips, and then his mouth is on mine. One of my hands flies to his jaw while the other cups the back of his head. His tongue slides into my mouth and I tilt my head to the side as the hand holding his jaw now wraps around his shoulder. He picks me up and my legs wrap around his waist. The kiss is hungry and wild, both of us trying to take it even deeper. I know nothing good can come from this. I also know I will throat punch anyone who comes in and tries to stop us.
Seven years. That’s how long Della and Jared have been together. College sweethearts turned cohabiting couple, she’s been patiently waiting for the proposal that never comes. For Jared, living together is enough. For Della… it’s not.
Then one night, she overhears him telling his friends the unthinkable—Della isn’t his “marriage ideal.” He’s still holding out for someone better.
Horrified to realize she’s just a placeholder, Della packs up and walks away—quietly, decisively—while he’s at work. With the help of her best friend Liana, she starts rebuilding her confidence, one bold step at a time.
Enter Axel. Steady, certain, and utterly sure about her from the start, Axel doesn’t need years to figure it out—he knows she’s the one.
Now Jared’s panicking. But Della’s done waiting for someone to choose her. She’s already found the man who sees her worth… and she’s not looking back.
A heartfelt, addictive romance about knowing when to walk away, rediscovering your spark, and finding the love you were meant for.
❤️𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 ✔️Millionaire Romance ✔️Second Chance With a Twist ✔️Slow Burn ✔️He Falls First ✔️Workplace Romance ✔️Possessive Alpha Hero Love Triangle
❤️Review Della has been living with her boyfriend for the last seven years until she overhears a conversation that confirms how he really feels about her. She has now ended their relationship but doesn’t believe she is ready for another one even though Axel seems perfect in every way.
After his military career ended he opened his own security company. He has always believed that when he sees the woman he is destined to be with he will feel it and from the moment he saw Della he knew she was the one. He will be patient and understanding until she realizes she is meant to be his wife as well.
After everything that Delia has been through I enjoyed seeing her find a man who treats her as she deserves and from the moment that Axel saw her he was all in and would do anything for her.
She loved him first. He disappeared out of her life. Now he’s a star hockey player in need of an image rebuild, and she is the only PR genius who can help him.
I’d based my career in hockey on true talent and strength, but the life of a public figure comes with illusions and temptations, and somehow, I lost myself to those temptations. Over the years I’d learned to thrive from the attention, and the press seemed to thrive from me, especially after I got arrested.
Suspended from the team and with my reputation on the line for good this time, my agent decides to hire some PR genius to spend time with me and rehabilitate my public persona. With rumours building, I reluctantly agree, and that is when Emma Hart walks into the room. It’s been fifteen years since I last laid eyes on her, yet she pretends she doesn’t know me.
She quickly and quietly makes it clear to me that I shouldn’t get my hopes up because there will never be anything between us. According to her she is happily involved with someone else. Emma’s confident she can fix my image and dives right in navigating the scandal hungry media. While I love that she is coming to my rescue, the difficult side of me continues to push her, but she seems unfazed.
While things begin looking better for me, things start spiraling out of control for Emma. Her so called happy private life isn’t as perfect as she’s made it out to be.
I should have known better than to comfort her.
I should have known better than to kiss her.
This whole thing was about fixing my image, not about rewriting the story of us.
USA Today Bestselling Author S.L. Sterling was born and raised in southern Ontario. She now lives in Northern Ontario Canada and is married to her best friend and soul mate and their two dogs.
An avid reader all her life, S.L. Sterling dreamt of becoming an author. She decided to give writing a try after one of her favorite authors launched a course on how to write your novel. This course gave her the push she needed to put pen to paper and her debut novel “It Was Always You” was born.
When S.L. Sterling isn’t writing or plotting her next novel she can be found curled up with a cup of coffee, blanket and the newest romance novel from one of her favorite authors.
In her spare time, she enjoys camping, hiking, sunny destinations, spending quality time with family and friends and of course reading.
I thought I’d be miserable planning my ex’s wedding, but a rugged cowboy turned distiller knows just how to relieve the pressure.
After fleeing back home to Huckleberry Springs, Montana, I become the new event planner for my family’s guest ranch. But the first event to plan is my cousin’s wedding to my cheating ex. If I don’t, my uncle won’t sign over his share of the ranch and forever mettle in our lives. So I take one for the team.
One night when I buckle under the stress, I also get a little—a lot—drunk. Saving me from myself is one of the cowboys that used to work for my dad. Durban Hennessy is now part owner in the local distillery, and he doesn’t do drama, distractions, or hot messes that just threw up on his boots. Still, he brings me to his place so I can sober up in private.
Durban’s providing wet bar service throughout the wedding festivities. The distiller with a superiority complex and I cross paths too often, but when he finds me in a store room, spiraling during the groom’s family dinner, he relieves the pressure in the hottest way possible.
So we strike a bargain. He’ll help me relax in the steamiest way possible, and he can repair his ego after getting dumped by his long distance relationship. When impromptu hookups turn into sleepovers that include intimate pillow talk, I know I’m in trouble. Because our whiskey bargain ends when the wedding does.
Things heat up on and off the track when the first female driver in Formula International history goes head-to-head with one of the sport’s biggest names. Formula Dreams is a high-speed enemies-to-lovers standalone romance.
Francesca Accardi is rewriting the record books at Titans Racing. With the first female team owner in her corner and the weight of history on her shoulders, she knows the only way to silence doubters is to win. Every lap. Every race.
Ronan Barnes dominates on Sunday and dares the world to judge him on Monday. Arrogant, electric, relentless, he has no time for niceties—or for the rookie who refuses to yield. Forced together for press tours and charity laps, their sniping becomes a spark neither can shake. But rival teams don’t tolerate distractions, sponsors spook fast, and one misstep could cost Francesca her seat and Ronan his shot at the championship.
When Ronan’s private life—and his mother’s addiction—become an issue he can no longer avoid, Francesca is there as his emotional support. Compassion cracks his armor. He defends her in the paddock; she stands beside him when it matters. Enemies become allies. Allies become something no rule book can define.
With a title on the line, they must choose: her hard-won seat, his crown, or a future together—if they dare cross the line.
Haunted by past battles and sadness following Lucas’ departure, Alex is thrust back into the fray when a brutal murder threatens to unravel the very fabric of their world. Teaming up with old allies, and the Other Tabard’s Inn’s charming bartender Finn, she navigates a web of shifters, fae, and witches, all while grappling with the darkness growing within her.
As the death toll mounts and the sinister machinations of the Hidden Village reveal themselves, will Alex be able to save her friends without succumbing to her vampiric heritage? Will she allow Finn’s kindness to mend her fractured heart? Perhaps most importantly of all, will she ever find out how Argo, her snarky corgi roomie from hell, fixes his gourmet meals?
Prepare for a tale that tests the limits of love, loyalty and the strength to stand in the light, even as darkness encroaches.
A white-out blizzard wasn’t on my New Orleans bucket list, but crashing my getaway Jeep on rebel turf definitely tops the bad-idea charts.
Silvan “Venom” Mercer Combat medic. Enforcer. The silent savage who patches bullet wounds by day and breaks bones by night. I’ve had a crush on the man for as long as I can remember, but he has no idea who I am.
He found me shivering beside twisted metal in nothing but flamingo pajamas and fuzzy slippers, both of which are useless against twenty degrees and his open hostility.
You see, I’m Willow, daughter of Reign’s rival president, and I think I’m about to start a war when Venom slings me over his shoulder, muttering about frostbite and damn politics, before dragging us to a cabin on the back acres of Savage land.
Now I’m stuck with the enemy who looks way too good in flannel, smells like sin on a cold winter day and when I finally peel my eyes off him I notice something else.
There’s only one way out. There’s only one shower. And one bed big enough for exactly one grumpy sinner and one sunshine-girl.
Outside, the storm howls and it won’t be long before my father’s men come hunting for me. Inside, Venom keeps my body against his, swearing I’m untouchable…while his steady hands and rough whispers say otherwise.
I’m the enemy princess he can never claim. He’s the tattooed medic with rough hands and soft lips who’ll spill blood to keep me safe.
Can I trust my thawing heart—and my life—to the biker who calls me “angel” through gritted teeth.
Or will the blizzard outside be kinder than the war we spark when dawn breaks?
❤️ 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 ✔️A Forbidden Love ✔️Grumpy/Sunshine ✔️Forced-proximity ✔️MC romance with lethal “touch-her-and-die” vows ✔️Age Gap ✔️Instalove ✔️Daughter of the Enemy ✔️One Bed ✔️Snowed in
❤️Review Willow has always known that her father was not a good man but seeing what he is now into becomes the breaking point. She is determined to expose him however her plan to escape and share what she knows takes a detour during a blizzard when she is rescued by Venom, a member of a rival MC.
Venom knows who Willow is and has been denying his feelings for her for a while. When he finds her in danger he takes her back to his cabin and the one thing he does know is that he is never going to let her go and he will eliminate anyone who means her harm.
Venom and Willow take us on an action-packed adventure as he shows how protective he is when it comes to her and she shows how strong she really is and the love between them is undeniable.
She writes thrillers for a living, but nothing could prepare her for the one she’s living now.
By day, Michelle Holdcraft is the quiet woman-next-door in small-town Indiana. But by night, she’s D. Valentine, a bestselling thriller author with a mind for murder and secrets.
Her real life?
Completely ordinary. Until one unplanned trip to visit her estranged father in Iron Falls, Massachusetts, flips everything upside down.
She wakes to a gunshot only to find her father’s body in a pool of blood on the first floor and flames engulfing the walls. She barely escapes the burning house. Fleeing barefoot into the snow, Michelle becomes the only witness to a crime that no one in Iron Falls wants solved. Especially the sheriff.
Hiding in the snowy pines as she watches her father’s home burn, Michelle doesn’t know what to do, until a mysterious man appears, offering to help her—to save her life.
Michelle has never met Fletch—surely, she would remember this handsome and dangerous man if she had. However, Fletch knew her father and knows a lot about her, including her alter ego and her mother’s mysterious death.
With limited options, Michelle accepts Fletch’s help. It isn’t until she sees the large tattoo across his wide shoulder blades that she is shaken to the core. Michelle has seen that exact tattoo before—on her father.
Fletch might be her only ally… but he is hiding something. Her life has become one of her thrillers. But this time, the story’s out of her hands—and the ending might just kill her.
This time, the heroine doesn’t get to write the final page.
Michelle is used to crafting entertaining suspense fiction however she never expected it to impact her real life. When she decided to visit her father she never expected the secrets that would be revealed when she can’t rely on the people she should be able to trust and a stranger who comes to her rescue might be her only lifeline.
Fletch has his reasons for being there when Michelle needs him the most be is also a man with secrets. He is determined to keep her safe until those responsible are held accountable however developing feelings for her wasn’t part of the plan.
Michelle and Fletch take us on an action-packed adventure with so many twists and turns. Just when you think you have the insight to know what is coming next hold on and the sparks between these two as face the ongoing threats only escalates as they become closer.
Meet Aleatha Romig:
Aleatha Romig is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author who lives in Indiana. She grew up in Mishawaka, graduated from Indiana University, and is currently living south of Indianapolis. Together with her high-school sweetheart and husband of over thirty years, they’ve raised three children. Before she became a full-time author, she worked days as a dental hygienist and spent her nights writing. Now, when she’s not imagining mind-blowing twists and turns or her new lighter side, she likes to spend her time with her family and friends. Her pastimes include reading and creating heroes/anti-heroes who haunt your dreams!
After Scrooge has his revelatory night, ever wonder if he continues to turn over a new holly leaf, or if he goes back to his miserly ways?
I’ve been thinking about this question ever since a gorgeous red-headed angel saved me from a heart attack with a kiss and a whispered plea.
Of course, I am not certain whether any of it really happened. The redhead. The kiss. The whisper. Maybe it was all a dream. A visionary warning to change my life before it was too late.
As the CEO millionaire of a major department store in downtown Chicago, believing the holidays are about ribbons and bows; packages, boxes, and bags, and comes from a store has been my upbringing. However, I’ve decided to heed this cautionary tale in search of that something more in the season.
Only, I don’t know exactly how to move from selfish to elf-ish.
When that glorious redhead visits me in the hospital, a plan starts to form. I accept her request for a date to her younger brother’s holiday wedding, setting off a string of unexpected events and emotions.
She becomes my reason for the fa-la-la season.
And maybe perhaps, she’ll see I’m a little bit more than a grinch in a penthouse, but an elf longing to be taken down from the shelf.
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This November, L.B. Dunbar continues the seasonal tradition with another holiday hottie coming your way, only this time, HE needs the saving, and SHE’s with the fire department.
When I wake up next to my best friend’s brother after a night of bottom shelf tequila and a sizzling one night stand, I do my best to pretend the whole thing never happened.
Until six weeks later, when two pink lines derail my every plan.
Not only is Graham Astor the brother to my three closest friends and the boy I secretly crushed on for years as a teenager, but he’s also a single dad and a grieving widower.
With a new career on my horizon, I don’t have time for complicated or messy—everything Graham and this news brings—and yet, when he expresses how much he wants this, I can’t deny how much I do too.
Even if that means I might wind up heartbroken later.
Navigating this new reality and everything that comes along with it quickly becomes a test of my willpower and self-control as he continues to say all the right things and shows up for me, even when I don’t ask him to. The more time we spend together, the harder it is to keep my feelings out of it.
Especially when I move in with him, and the memory of his hot breath on my neck and the weight of his body on mine haunts me, reminding me of the blazing chemistry we shared.
I tell myself I won’t fall in love with Graham—not again—I swear, I won’t.
But then he looks at me the way he does, or he talks to my belly, telling our growing baby how lucky he is to be their dad, or I watch how incredible he is with his daughter, and it’s impossible not to.
It’s impossible not to picture what our life could be like together, in love and as a family.
But then I think about how the truth of our beautiful little surprise, and all the history we share, will come out eventually.
What if the fantasy in my head is as close as I’ll ever get to being loved by him?
I’ve always wanted to be a firefighter, and I never thought I would become a father, but it turns out—I’m both.
And while being a firefighter was the only career I ever wanted—being a father has become my greatest destiny in this world.
Now I need to do everything I can to protect my son, even if that means going back to my hometown. I won’t let my son down, no matter what, and I will do my duty as a fireman.
Hopefully, I can do it without everything else burning down around me.
Spencer
I never expected to see Kade again—my high school crush and my biggest heartache in adolescence.
I’m not the same person I once was. I’m stronger now. I won’t allow myself to be invisible.
I love being a teacher, and nothing will stop me from being the best one I can be. But Kade coming back into town with his adorable young son in tow—makes it a challenge.
All I can hope is to get through this school year without going back to that unsure, terrified kid.
I have to remember who I am—and when that fear comes back, threatening my newfound confidence—I hope I’ll find the courage to burn it down to the ground and come back stronger than ever.
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