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Having solved the two murders that somehow fell in her path, Beatrice Hyde-Clare is on the lookout for a third. Through a absurd quirk of stupid fate, the shy spinster has fallen in love with the thoroughly unattainable Duke of Kesgrave and is desperate for something, anything, to occupy her mind. A dead body would do nicely.

New York Times Bestseller “This is a devastating book, heartbreaking in how familiar and relatable each story is—yet there’s power and solidarity in it, too.” — Shondaland Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad...

When I fell in love with my best friend’s little sister, we were just kids. Not that it mattered. Charlotte was my forever. I knew it then and I know it now. But everything fell apart that summer before college. I tried to fight for us, but it was impossible, not with our goals pulling us apart, and her silence. Now she’s back in our small town to care for her sister, and I’m not about to squander an opportunity to win her back. But even though she’s moved into my guest room, she keeps avoiding me. It’s maddening.

Geneviève (Vivi) Dubois, a métisse, half-Lao/half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage in Vientiane where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. With only a distant memory of being torn from her mother’s arms at age four, she is determined to uncover what happened to her parents and locate her missing twin brother. But where to start? Orphanage and government officials refuse to reveal her origins. She leaves her strict, Catholic upbringing behind and emerges into the deeply divided world of 1931 French colonial Laos.

Does real love, great love, still exist? Or have online texting, sexting and ghosting ruined romance forever? Cupid, about to be kicked upstairs for lack of work, has one last chance to prove that love is alive and well. His targets? Two strangers who have sworn off romance. Eve, a once-famous ballerina now happily running her family farm in Vermont, was too busy dancing to be swept away by passion. Evan, a sought-after San Francisco anthologist, prefers all his passions without strings. When they meet, the sparks are otherworldly….

Julia Riley thinks she’s happy. The executive director of Boston’s Fledger Foundation, she and her wife, Carrie, are raising three children, one from Julia’s first marriage…but being content is not the same as being happy. Katie Brennan is the popular host of a network television morning show. She has two children and a husband who plays major-league baseball. Rumors of her husband’s infidelity are troubling. When the two women collaborate on a fundraising program for a new diversity center, they immediately strike up a friendship.

Everything the Vampire Council had hoped to keep hidden is slowly being unraveled. Devon Trelane requires documented proof to tear it all down and declare war against House Venizi. The mission is clear. Locate the secret lab where Venizi is creating Magic Poppy, the addictive potion that makes vampires go mad. For centuries, Sergi has been bodyguard and cadre in service to House Trelane, more specifically, to Devon Trelane. But, as an ancient, time is catching up to him.

Snowed in with the Gargoyles is a cozy monster story with lots of spice, fated mates, and size difference issues. You’ll love it if you enjoy romance in which the heroine doesn’t have to choose between her heroes and stories where spice is the plot.

I feared that using my magic would bring me closer to the faerie realm I tried so desperately to escape. I was right. I made a promise to a faerie, and they’ve come to deliver. A powerful talisman has disappeared, and without it, the faeries in this realm are losing their magic. Getting involved wasn't on my plan, but if I refuse to help the faeries find the talisman, I’ll die.

Ten years ago, teenagers Shauna and Eli Eaton disappeared. They were never found. That’s about to change. On her way home from Hemlock Cove, Stormy Morgan finds two teenagers in the middle of the road. They can’t possibly be the same teenagers, though. Can they? Turns out they are, but they haven’t aged a day.

Stormy Morgan is getting her life back together one step at a time. That includes reconnecting with her lost love Hunter Ryan and fixing the credit problems she found herself mired in thanks to some poor decisions while traveling. She’s also a witch, and that adjustment proves harder to make than she envisioned. Stormy is a strong woman determined to make the best of a bad situation. Her hellcat powers are starting to take over, though.

When ghosts start appearing all over town, my witch friend Isabel and I are pulled in to help the necromancers exorcise the wayward spirits. With the dead refusing to stay dead, it's easier said than done. And there's something worse hiding on the wrong side of the grave. As an old adversary puts a dangerous plan in motion, I’m forced to learn more about the magic I stole from Faerie's darkest corner. But every step brings me closer to the veil, and if I’m not careful, I’ll be ripped away from the people I love and trapped in Death forever.

Beatrice, Duchess of Kesgrave, will not do the bidding of Hell and Fury Hawes. It does not matter how difficult it is to find new murder mysteries to investigate, especially ones where the victim was stabbed with a chisel. She absolutely refuses to lift a finger to help him figure out who killed one of his associates.

I’m Ivy Lane, and if I never see another faerie again, it’ll be too soon. Twenty years after the faeries came and destroyed the world as we knew it, I use my specialist skills to keep rogue faeries in line and ensure humans and their magically gifted neighbours can coexist (relatively) peacefully. Nobody knows those skills came from the darkest corner of Faerie itself.

From USA Today best-selling author Dakota Davies comes an all new small town suspense romance featuring a divorced flight attendant and the irritating single dad firefighter living next door.

The hulking teddy bear I met at a Christmas party last month is a bodyguard—a scorching hot single one—but I know better than to think he’d be interested in a curvy single mom like me. It doesn’t matter that I can’t stop thinking about him. My only priority now is getting my life back on track after my ex. Even though said ex is determined to make things miserable for me… and when he crosses a line, suddenly I need a bodyguard. Luckily, I know a guy. And he’s more than willing to whisk me away to safety.

Revisit Five Island Cove at Christmastime! Join the women in the cove as they come together for an unforgettable holiday getaway, and new ideals to what it means to be a mother, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend. As Christmas approaches, the close-knit group of friends—Robin, Alice, AJ, Kelli, and Eloise—decide to take a break from their usual routines and rent a luxurious, sprawling house on Rocky Ridge. With breathtaking views and all the comforts they could wish for, it’s the perfect place to escape the hustle and bustle of their everyday lives.

The boy from the club seemed nice. He was supposed to give me my first kiss, but instead, I’m in a dark alley, and he and his friends have knives. They rip my clothes, and two of them hold me down as the other undoes his trousers. I’m sobbing, and pleading, and wishing there was someone, anyone to help. Then a tall man with a deep voice, commands, “Stop.” Moments later, I’m covered with their blood, and shaking. My saviour wraps me in his warm suit jacket, and helps me up.

With the enigmatic and arrogant Mage Lord pressuring me to join his team and a dark movement in the magical underworld threatening to ignite a war between the half-faeries and other supernaturals, I have my work cut out. Especially when a serum that's deadly to half-faeries finds its way onto the market, luring in its victims with the promise of immortality. To find the source of the lies, I have to go undercover to a dangerous magical contest where half-faeries compete for glory. Problem is, to get in, I have to pretend to be one of them.

Book 2 in the Alchemiya universe sees Lady Cherry Plumtree fall in love. Accidentally and most inconveniently pregnant, the still-single Cherry leaves the Golden City for Karlstejn, a land where alchemy is forbidden and no one will know her real reason for travel. Lady Bekah Ratna and the family 's handsome valet, Hadley, accompany her on her journey. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of local intrigue. Alchemists still exist in Karlstejn, whether the king outlaws them or not.