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She ran away to find herself. He came back to remind her of her duty. Ten years ago, Princess Genevieve vanished into the night, leaving behind her crown, her kingdom, and the only boy she ever loved. Now known as "Holly," she’s built a quiet, happy life running a Christmas tree farm. But when a black town car rolls up her dirt driveway just days before Christmas, her past finally catches up with her. Captain Leo Sterling has spent a decade trying to redeem his honor. As the guard who "lost" the Princess, he was stripped of his rank and pride. Now, he has one final mission: bring Her ...

She was the diamond of the London season. He was the exile the world forgot. Lady Clara St. James has everything a society beauty could want: impeccable breeding, a throng of admirers, and a terrifying secret. To save her family from financial ruin, she has been sold into a proxy marriage to a man she has never met—a disgraced second son banished to the wilds of Jamaica. Clara expects a monster. Instead, she finds a man who has traded his cravats for linen shirts and his manners for a machete. Sebastian Thorne has spent ten years building an empire of sugar and spice to forget the scandal...

The tarnish on Renni's lamp? A perfect match for his mood. Centuries of cabin fever have left this genie more than a little cynical. Sure, there have been "moments" – like that Roman legionnaire who accidentally dropped him into a wine barrel (Roman wine: surprisingly potent, even for a genie). But brief, boozy escapes aren't exactly freedom. Now, a new "master" has rubbed his lamp, and Renni's about to discover that wishes aren't just for granting anymore. They're for breaking. And maybe, just maybe, for finding a way out of his brassy prison for good. But what happens when the one thing...

Ten years ago, Trace Harder walked away from the largest ranch in the county with nothing but the clothes on his back and the crushing weight of his father’s reputation. He was the son who refused to be a crook, and the town never let him forget it. Now, his father is dead, and Trace has been pulled back to the one place he swore he’d never see again. But the Broken Bow Ranch isn't how he left it. It’s being run by Cassian Miller, the daughter of the man his father drove into ruin over a fraudulent water rights deal. In a final, manipulative stroke of guilt, Trace’s father hired ...

She has twelve days to fall in love for the cameras. The problem? The only man she wants is the one holding the lens. Katherine "Kat" O’Malley is drowning. To her one million followers, she is Kiki Hart, the bubbly, confident dating coach who can find romance in a grocery store aisle. In reality, she’s single, broke, and one rent payment away from eviction. Her last-ditch effort to save her career? The Twelve Dates of February: a live-streamed gauntlet where she must go on twelve blind dates in twelve days, culminating in a Valentine’s Day reveal of "The One." Enter Jack Mercer. ...

RUTHLESS. FREE-SPIRITED. AND SHARING A SHEEPDOG. Corporate shark Graham Sterling broke up with pet sitter Willa Maeve a year ago after a catastrophic betrayal. Now, their only connection is a highly specific, $500-a-week joint custody agreement for their neurotic, beloved Old English Sheepdog: Chairman Fluffington. Graham thrives on rigid schedules and spreadsheets; Willa believes in dog yoga and letting him share her take-out. Their weekly handoffs are fueled by hostility and passive-aggressive notes about Chairman’s diet and emotional state. They are sworn enemies in co-parenting... ...

The System doesn't make mistakes. Until them. In a world where the Timer on your wrist dictates exactly when you will meet your soulmate, Sloane Mercer is a ghost. Her timer has read 00:00:00 since birth—a "Null" pitied by society and ignored by the algorithm. She assumes she is broken. Kieran Hart is an anomaly of a different kind. Since the death of his assigned mate years ago, his timer hasn't stopped; it has been counting up. When Sloane and Kieran accidentally touch in a crowded subway station, the impossible happens. Sloane’s dead timer wakes up, racing forward. Kieran’s ...

A perfectionist. A cynic. And the night that wouldn't end. Maya Vance has a plan for everything. But on New Year’s Eve, her perfectly scripted life is about to go off the rails. Her wealthy family is secretly bankrupt, her mother is one drink away from a meltdown, and Maya is the only one holding the facade together. Her goal: Survive the night without the truth coming out. She fails. The clock strikes midnight. The party implodes. And then… she wakes up. It’s 8:00 AM. December 31st. Again. Trapped in a time loop, Maya tries to fix the unfixable—saving the party, hiding the debt, ...

Harrison Shaw, a burnt-out tech philanthropist dedicated to affordable housing, traded his boardroom for a barstool in Myrtle Beach, using the alias Cole Miller. He found peace in the simple, manual rhythm of pouring drinks—and falling for Clara, the fiercely independent owner of The Salty Sweet bakery. Wary of outsiders but drawn to Cole’s quiet charm, Clara reluctantly partners with the surprisingly skilled bartender. Their honest, self-made life is everything Harrison never knew he needed, until a hostile takeover and the vengeful arrival of his ex-girlfriend expose his colossal lie....

Celeste "Celie" Dupree inherited two things from her grandmother: a small, perpetually drafty storefront in Louisiana, and a family curse. The shop is The Bayou Bouffant, Celie's hair salon. The curse? She can see and talk to ghosts. Celie and her spectral salon crew—a glamorous 1920s flapper, a nosey 1950s housewife, and a grumpy Civil War soldier—are used to trading local gossip and historical secrets. But when Celie's bitter rival, Evangeline "Evie" Thibodeaux, is found dead behind the Bayou Bouffant, the gossip turns deadly. The lead investigator, Detective Miles Corbin, is a ...

Silas Thorne has everything money can buy. A ruthless industrialist with an empire built from nothing, he has conquered the world of business. Now, he's set his sights on the final frontier: high society. To gain acceptance, he purchases the magnificent Hawthorne Manor, a historic mansion he plans to use as his gilded stage. But the house comes with a keeper. Elara Vance, the disgraced daughter of the former owner, now serves as a maid in the very home she was born in. She despises the cold man who has bought her family's legacy, yet she agrees to help him navigate the treacherous waters of...

Eighteen-year-old Thomas lives a lie. Secretly the son of Henry VIII and Katherine Parr, he toils on a forgotten farm, a royal truth hidden from the world. But the court beckons, a stage where his half-sister, Queen Elizabeth I, reigns supreme. Driven by ambition and a yearning for purpose, Thomas arrives, his identity veiled, to seek a place as an ambassador. Elizabeth knows his secret, her shrewd eyes missing nothing. She grants his request, but with a condition: his lineage must remain a whisper, a shadow. His first posting: the vibrant, dangerous lands of India. There, he finds Layla, a...

Eleanor of Ashton is a country girl, a free spirit who’d rather be on her family’s farm than at Queen Elizabeth’s court. But her parents insist, so she arrives at the royal palace, finding a world of shallow women, cunning men, and a suffocating pretense she despises. Among them is Lord Robert, a charming and ambitious second son, a favorite of the Queen. He accepts Elizabeth’s lavish gifts not for status, but to maintain his independence from his estranged brother. When Eleanor and Robert meet, their secret romance is an escape from the court’s cruel games. But their love is a ...

In the quiet town of Oakhaven, Logan is not just a lawyer; he is a man forged from its very soil. While his peers chase the glittering promise of big-city law, Logan's courtroom is a world away—a place where justice is not for sale and every voice, no matter how small, deserves to be heard. His clients aren't titans of industry, but the overlooked, the marginalized, and the forgotten. As he fights for them with an unwavering integrity, Logan builds a reputation not on flashy victories, but on an enduring trust. But as his principles are tested by a case that threatens to unravel the very ...

She hired him to play a part. He’s risking everything to be real. Journalist Clara Morgan deals in facts, but her life has become a lie. After her fiancé cheated on her weeks before their wedding, she can’t face the pitying looks or the empty chair at social events. Her solution? The Stand-In Agency. For a steep hourly rate, she hires a companion who checks all the boxes: handsome, charming, and emotionally unavailable. Julian Foster is an actor whose life was derailed by a tragedy he can’t outrun. Acting is the only way he can survive the guilt of the car accident that took his ...

Just as baker Elara “Ellie” Stone has secured the Maple Leaf Bakehouse’s future, a new threat arrives that jeopardizes her family’s entire legacy. When her friend, Lorraine "Lori" Hayes, a local historical society employee, is attacked and the complete collection of priceless family recipes is stolen, Ellie realizes the crime is deeply personal.The prime suspect is Vivian Sterling, a rival baker from The Heritage Hearth, who claims the recipes—including the centuries-old Smuggler’s Shortbread—belong to her family, citing a cryptic journal as proof. To stop Vivian and prove the...

Elara “Ellie” Stone, a perfectionist baker, thought inheriting her great-aunt’s Vermont farmhouse and the historic Maple Leaf Bakehouse was a sweet deal. She quickly discovered the truth was much more bitter: the bakery is drowning in debt to the ruthless local creditor, Gideon Pike, and her farmhouse is a decaying antique hoard. Things go from bad to dough-worse when her kind neighbor, Martha Caldwell, turns up dead—the priceless Governor’s Gingerbread recipe clutched in their hand. The only clue Ellie can find is the recipe itself, which is missing its crucial, seasonal ...

Media mogul Pierce Covington never forgot the family that destroyed his father and cost him his inheritance. Now, armed with billions, he’s focused on a single, ruthless objective: systematic revenge. Nothing—and no one—will stop him from tearing their empire apart. Audrey Ashworth is his new personal assistant—efficient, alluring, and dangerously good at her job. What Pierce doesn't know is that Audrey is the daughter of the man he’s determined to ruin. She took the job to gather intelligence, to neutralize his war machine before it fires. Trapped in the forced intimacy of his ...

She’s chasing a dream. He’s chasing a deadline. One viral misunderstanding is about to ruin—or save—them both. Cleo Wilder is a chaotic travel vlogger with a dying phone battery and a dream to fund an expedition for a lost species. Reid Davenport is a rigid corporate lawyer with a failing family firm and an engagement ring burning a hole in his pocket—leftover from the ex who just dumped him. When they clash over the last power outlet at the airport, disaster strikes. Reid drops the ring. Cleo screams "YES!" to a business call. And the internet? The internet thinks it’s the ...

The town of Havenwood is a place of quiet fear. A local rumor of a clown cult—menacing pranksters in garish makeup—has escalated into widespread panic. As a joke, a group of friends, including Liam and his father, decide to film a satirical PSA about the "clown menace." They have no idea they're walking into a deadly ambush. Mistaking them for the real cult, a fearful mob led by Sheriff Thompson storms their filming location and kills every single person inside. Liam, arriving late, witnesses the massacre and recognizes the faces of the killers, but the police—led by the sheriff—...