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A concert pianist built on discipline and silence meets the one truth she can’t outplay: a tremor in her right hand and the unfinished songs of a life lived for perfection. In luminous, breath-held chapters, The Distance Between Heartbeats follows a return from burnout to belonging—through a recording studio’s red light, a doctor’s gentle orders to rest, the memory of a lover who taught her to “slow the pauses,” and the terrifying grace of stepping back onstage without guarantees.

Rooms That Remember Light is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on memory, tenderness, and the quiet rituals that keep us alive through the night. In a nameless city hotel, a solitary night clerk tends the lost and found—not just of objects, but of human moments. Each chapter unfolds through a single forgotten item: a brass key, a disposable camera, a child’s red sock, a cracked snow globe. As he records these fragments, he begins to uncover something luminous beneath the ordinary—the way grief softens into gentleness, and how even the smallest acts of care can restore what time tried to erase.

It's been nearly a millennium since wolves prowled the earth. They're only spoken of as mythical destroyers of life. But one solitary wolf, born a simple, primal beast, is becoming the very monster of legend feared by both humans and otherworldly creatures. A multilimbed shapeshifter, it slaughters anything that threatens it or the pack of allies it has sworn to protect, including Emhreeil; her human friend, Katherine; and a goblin known as Scruffy. All three are grateful for the wolf's guidance but frightened of its growing power.

Childhood’s Eternal Light follows a quiet soul returning to a hometown that no longer fits its old map. In the attic’s dust and a river that remembers every skipped stone, the narrator pieces together a mosaic of first friendships, small betrayals, and the one luminous summer that seemed to last forever. As past and present braid together, ordinary objects—an enamel cup, a scratched vinyl, a kite snagged in a tree—turn into lanterns that guide the way through grief, love, and the long echo of choices we didn’t know we were making.

A Garden Made of Time is a lyrical fable about a valley where time is soil and a solitary Gardener plants “hourseeds” so the world can keep its rhythm. When a woman arrives by a river that carries centuries, pleading to recover a year she has somehow lost, the Gardener offers a lesson: hours can be tended—but never owned. Together they walk sundial paths, watch hourglass trees send sand upward, and visit an orchard where moments frozen at their sweetest slowly turn cruel.

A luminous coming-of-age fantasy about creativity, courage, and the things we leave unfinished, The Library of Forgotten Dreams reminds us that every dream left untended still waits to be reclaimed—and that some stories will not rest until they are told.

Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal - they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.

Becker James is having a spectacularly bad season. Once a top draft pick, he’s now riding the bench in the minors, one failed save away from being cut. The highlight of his week? A lonely hour on a barstool at Sports Balls, Denver’s queerest watering hole—and Forest, the bartender with flannel sleeves, a gruff voice, and a beard that stars in Beck’s dreams.

Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she's going to need all her wits about her to get home again. And that's no easy feat when she has no idea whom to trust.

When a devastating accident blinded her, Sorrow was locked away at the top of a tower in the wilderness, offered up as a sacrifice to the gods. But Sorrow refuses to die quietly. Only she knows a dark magic burns inside her. With her fiercely protective wolf, Pablo, she spends every moment plotting her escape. And yet when she finally breaks free, Sorrow is captured immediately… by the one man she never expected to see again. Long ago, Sorrow and Matthias were inseparable.

He was promised a life of wandering his new home and having adventures, but things got out of hand pretty quickly. He met with kings and gods, fought interdimensional cults, and got in a knife fight with the guy who creates universes. He didn't win. What he'd never done was roam around, having nice, sensible adventures. He hadn't even seen the hometown of his friends, and that had been the first destination on his list.

Marie's always longed to relive her school trip. Reincarnated in an otome game, she'll get her chance! But she's not the only one seizing an opportunity. While Julius is gone, Olivia's enemies drag her to a casino and force her to rack up debts. Leon himself jumps in to save her. Can this would-be high roller bail Olivia out? Or will his ill-advised gamble doom Marie's planned holiday and Olivia's academic career?

In a world where weather remembers, and maps can hum with grief, Maya Ishikawa hears what others cannot—the secret songs of the sky. When a mysterious letter summons her to Marrakech, she is drawn into an ancient fellowship called The Kairograph: menders of the torn fabric between climate and memory.

Choose Hard, Live Easy strips away the syrupy delusions of modern self-help to reveal the raw mechanics of how you can engineer the amazing life you've always wanted.

It's been four years since Jovie betrayed Acker, fracturing their relationship. Her decision to take King Edmond's magic, sparing his life at Acker's request, has sparked a brutal war. The Kenta and Strou forces ally against the Roison and Alaha, with Maile perched dangerously on the edge of their battles.

I hate Dante Moretti. He is cold, calculating and vicious. It’s no secret that he wiped out his former fiancée and her entire family on the eve of their wedding. He’s the kind of evil that makes even devils cry. But that’s not why I hate him. I hate him because he has taken the only thing I have left in this miserable world – my freedom. He has chained me to him because of a debt that I don’t owe. I just have the misfortune to share the bloodline of the man who does. And now I’m trapped in his gilded cage and the only thing I have left to do is run. And I try. I really do.

Would you swipe right… on your Victorian-era husband? Rowan James is a sharp-tongued journalist with zero belief in soulmates—until a viral past-life dating app matches her with a man claiming they were married in 1873. What starts as a snarky exposé becomes something much stranger: a string of dreams, a mysterious locket, a field she swears she remembers, and Elias Hart—the hauntingly familiar man who remembers everything she forgot. Now Rowan must decide: Is Elias a charming fraud, a delusional actor, or the love of a hundred lifetimes?

What if a town could remember what you forgot? Fairchance, Pennsylvania was always quiet—a sleepy town where the days blurred and the past stayed buried. But when Wayne Clark receives a mysterious letter with no return address and a hauntingly familiar message, the stillness begins to tremble. As memories long-lost begin to surface, Wayne and childhood friend Lucille are pulled into a journey through forgotten summers, hidden tunnels, and a town that seems to breathe with memory itself.

Beneath the glittering halls of an empire, a young woman once saved from ruin rises to power as the Emperor’s most feared consort. Betrayed by those she trusted, she weaves a slow, elegant revenge that reaches from the cloister to the throne itself. As princes fall, queens grovel, and whispers of sorcery ripple through the court, she hides a truth more dangerous than treason — a secret identity forged from pain and survival. Yet vengeance is a blade that cuts both ways, testing the limits of her heart, her child, and her soul.

At twenty-one, Eden Sorensen had one last shot at a professional ballet career. During a grueling summer intensive at Metropolitan Ballet Theater, she fell into a passionate secret affair with the company's brilliant principal dancer, Portia Duvall. But when Eden was denied a contract, she left believing Portia had betrayed her to eliminate a rival. Fifteen years later, interim artistic director Portia Duvall is on the brink of divorce, retired from dance, and drowning under the weight of saving Metropolitan Ballet Theater from scandal.