A heart-warming festive novella from bestselling author Amy Briggs.Can flamingos help him win the heart of the new girl in town?Since the deaths of her parents, Samantha hasn't been too keen on the holiday season. Her favourite Christmas traditions now just remind her of all she's lost, and she's left going through the motions for the sake of her sister and her family.But when she runs right into the solid chest of single dad Jason, she suddenly fee...

Cedarwood Hollow’s annual Viking Festival promises epic costumes, spirited reenactments, and more mead than you can shake a broadsword at. But when a beloved performer is killed mid-battle with what was supposed to be a replica sword, the celebration turns deadly. The killer disappears into the sea of costumed festivalgoers—leaving the entire town under suspicion.Bestselling mystery writer Emma Prescott wasn’t planning to investigate another murder. But after witnessing the crime f...

Alex Ward, an award-winning chef, and owner of several restaurants has a special gift for his daughter. Over the summer break, instead of working in one of his restaurants, they’re going to turn a snooty French bakery into a donut shop together. An adventure with his daughter takes an unexpected turn when they meet the feisty pastry chef, Gabby. Beautiful and stubborn, with just enough sweetness, Alex can’t get enough of Gabby, and sets in motion a plan to keep her and the donut shop....

Riley Maxwell spends her days working from her New York City apartment, designing websites and copywriting for clients around the world. Most of her exposure to people outside of her home base is her visits to the local Chinese takeout place down the street. Satisfied with her life of solitude, Riley’s summer gets turned upside-down when a wealthy client passes away, leaving her a beach house in Port Henry, New York, one of the wealthiest shore towns on the East Coast.When the Grea...

Love in the MidwestTwo stories of love and redemption. They never expected to come into each other’s lives, but then fate stepped in.Jacinda Brennan wants nothing more than to flip the house she inherited and get back to her life in the city. Flynn Healy, the confirmed bachelor of his small town, is more than happy to fix houses by day, while working on his own at night.A jaded city girl and a rugged contractor…what could go wrong?Sparks will fly when opposi...

Bestselling authors Heidi McLaughlin, L.P. Dover, Cindi Madsen, R.J. Prescott, and Amy Briggs invite you to celebrate the holidays in small-town Friendship, Massachusetts, where a mysterious newcomer decides to play matchmaker for five lucky couples.Snowflake Lane Inn by L.P. DoverThe owner of a picturesque inn gets a holiday surprise when a well-known fashion designer comes to stay and re-designs his future.Runaway Christmas...

Everything about him tells her to stay away, yet she can't seem to get the vampire out of her mind.For Roman, humans are the bane of his existence always having to follow their rules. In all his years, he's never needed one, until now.For Fiona, vampires are off limits, evil members of society, until the one known as Roman crosses her path and shows her he's no different than her.

A curse that burns. A killer who watches. A love too close to the flame.Bastien Durand has spent two centuries belonging to no faction and beholden to no court in New Orleans' hidden world. His neutrality has kept him alive. But when vampire bodies begin appearing across the city, intact and carved with the symbols of a bloodline destroyed over a century ago, his careful balance shatters overnight.The dead are not random. Someone is settling an old debt in ...

A cursed man. A haunted city. A love that defies lifetimes.When fallen angel Bastien Durand walks the rain-soaked streets of New Orleans, he carries more than just the weight of his past—he carries the memory of a love that has haunted him for over a century. Working as a supernatural investigator in the French Quarter, he's learned to live with ghosts, both literal and otherwise.But when ancient magic begins stirring in th...

A relic that rewrites truth.An existential threat.And a love that might not be real at all.

Amy Briggs and Heidi McLaughlin present Book 4 in the Bourbon Street Shadows series.

Decades of theory, research, and practice have singled out sense of belonging (in its many derivative forms) as a pivotal component of healthy development: psychologically, socially, culturally, academically. The human need for belonging, and therefore its essential nature, have been well established across multiple arenas. Despite growth in this field, answers to the barriers to belonging among marginalized groups and contexts remain especially elusive. For decades, this work was anchored...