Some secrets should be left buried. Rose Briggs had always been content to fade into the background, obedient, overlooked, and resigned to living a small life. Yet when Marco swept her into his arms, she dared to hope for more: love, passion, a future that was finally hers. But hope can be dangerous. When the […]

When a church lady falls in love, she falls hard. Sometimes she lands on her knees. Miss Budge does as she moves quietly and powerfully through her daily life in Old Cloverdale, where F. Scott Fitzgerald once courted Zelda, and two miles away Nat King Cole was born. Fitzgerald wrote about love. Nat Cole sang […]

They spiked her drink. They stole her memory. They don’t get to keep her voice. Hannah Kollman has spent her life playing the perfect girl, high grades, no drama, and never speaking up when it matters most. It’s safer that way. Safer than ending up like her mom. But one night shatters everything. One drink […]

If you could escape the life your parents chose for you, would you do it? Horse racing isn’t for nice girls like Alex. She’s been told again and again: stick to horse shows, stick to riding lessons, stick to the relative safety of the suburban equestrian center where she has been a working student since […]

In feudal Japan, power decides fate, and honour is never enough. When her father dies, Aratani Kanda is stripped of her future and sent to serve a ruthless general as part of a political bargain, becoming his concubine. Trapped in a world of samurai hierarchy, ambition, and quiet cruelty, she must learn to survive without […]

One group chat. Four soup-loving women. And a dating bet no one expected to work. When Lydia, a Texan with a serious chili obsession, replies to a stranger’s post about hot and sour soup, she doesn’t expect it to spark a global friendship. But soon she’s trading recipes, and secrets, with Clara, a fiery journalist […]

This summer, the past comes back with a heartbeat she can’t ignore. Renee Clarke doesn’t believe in happily-ever-afters, not after growing up with a mother who made marriage look disposable. Planning her sister’s beach wedding is fine, as long as Renee keeps her own heart firmly off the guest list. He left town searching for […]

A creepy inn. Missing men. When only her new employee believes her, can she foil a pagan plot before she ends up dead? The Scottish Highlands. Dessie McKendrick is obsessed. Ten years after her husband disappeared during their honeymoon, the determined B&B owner never left the village where he was last seen. And after her […]