*Winner of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award.**Perfect for fans of upmarket mysteries by Elly Griffiths and Louise Penny.*The water was its own country — and for the first time in seven years, it was healing.Architect Cole Walker has come back to the Glass Lodge at Octopus Cove — the Hood Canal resort he designed, and the closest thing he has to home — for a summer of long days on the trails with his beagle Murphy, quiet dives befo...

For fans of Louise Penny's Three Pines — a literary mystery — atmospheric and character-driven — rooted in place, loyalty, and what it costs to belong.Cole Walker came to Hood Canal to build something: a glass and cedar lodge perched above a deep glacial fjord, where giant octopus hunt in the cold depths and orcas pass close enough to hear. He didn't plan to stay. But five summers later, the Lodge has become home — and the people who built it have become his.

For fans of Louise Penny's Three Pines — a literary mystery — atmospheric and character-driven — rooted in place, loyalty, and what it costs to belong.Hood Canal is the only fjord in the contiguous United States—a deep glacial arm of the Pacific beneath Washington's Olympic Mountains, where octopus drift through cold, dark water and orcas pass close enough to hear. The light off the surface changes everything it touches.Cole Walker was an architect who had stopped feeling h...

WaylonI’m a music manager. I’ve taken the smallest artists and made them soar into superstardom. I’m good at what I do, and I never fail.Except with him. I let him down, and that doesn’t sit right with me.No. I’ll track Justin St. James down and find a way to make him happy and settled.No matter what it takes.JustinI’m so tired of being Justin St. James. Of people invading my space and acting like they own me. Like I owe them for my fame....

I crossed a line I never should have crossed… and now I don’t want to go back.When my best friend’s grown son texts me looking for help, I figure it’s because his dad is out of town.Turns out he has something specific in mind. Something I never could’ve seen coming.Quinn wants me to teach him about sex, every raw and sensual thing. He is desperate to improve, and trusts me to show him the way. I mean, I have the experience, but I need to say no. I try to.

Winner of the 2024 Kobo Originals Holiday Rom-Com Writing Contest!----------American magazine writer Zora Dunn has gladly accepted a plum assignment in the Polar Bear Capital of the World. Spending Christmas working in Northern Manitoba may not sound like the perfect holiday for some, but it's exactly what she needs to get her head back in the game after the sudden death of her beloved father. Armed with climate change research, swaddled in thermal...

Heart of the Sea: An Others Bonus StoryIn the world of the Others, affairs of the heart are no less complicated. Even when talented witch, Jenny Ferguson, gets caught in a questionable situation with a current friend and former lover by her fiancé no less, she might need more than magic to save her wedding day.

Simon and Elizabeth are sent by the Council to 1912 England to make sure scientist Niels Bohr survives long enough to attend a secret meeting. But as tensions in Europe rise and the makings of World War loom on the horizon, they're not the only ones concerned with Bohr's meeting. And not everyone wants him to make it.Keeping Bohr alive is hard enough, but when he books passage to cross the Atlantic, their task might just be impossible. Forced to follow him onto the ship, they must ...

While studying toward his doctorate at a remote Jamaican marine station, Peter Case is swept into a world of intrigue when tragedy strikes during a routine collection dive. His diving buddy subsequently dies, but Case refuses to accept the official cause of death. Naively attempting to uncover the truth, he stumbles deep into a world of deceit and violence.Case is drawn further and further into extraordinary circumstances, inadvertently disrupting a covert CIA surveillance operatio...

A compelling memoir about opting for adventure instead of motherhood, and the lifelong outcomes of that choice.Instead captures Maria Coffey’s adventurous life through her biggest decisions along the way, including the decision not to have children. It’s a vivid travelogue, a love story, and a personal commentary on the risks and rewards of choosing unconventional paths.After two traumatic experiences during her twenties – a near-drowning in Morocc...

With his New York Times bestselling Doc Ford novels, author Randy Wayne White has been hailed as “the best new writer since Carl Hiaasen” (Denver Post). But decades ago, under the pen name Randy Striker, he was already delivering non-stop thrills with ex–Navy SEAL Dusky MacMorgan, who is about to go to war in a most lethal battleground.MacMorgan is living the good life on his stilt house a mile off Fleming Key. The skies are as blue as the sea, an...

A heady story about a life-changing summer romance, perfect for fans of A Theatre for Dreamers and Sorrow & Bliss'A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.' Leslie JamisonOur narrator is twenty-four years old when she and her mother arrive in the tiny coastal town of Sailors Beach. Their holiday, she hopes, will be a pause between her life as a student and whatever ...