In this steamy age-gap, forbidden-love cowboy romance for fans of Lyla Sage, Bailey Hanna, and Elsie Silver, a veterinarian is snowed in on a remote mountain ranch in Montana with the one man she definitely should not be fantasizing about…her ex-boyfriend’s sexy, brooding father.I’ve always done what was expected of me. Layla Birch, the good girl.Forced to grow up too fast. To take care of everything myself. I had a plan. Only, I didn’t count on hi...

She plays by the rules. He breaks every single one.At twenty-seven, Audrey Brooks has her life mapped out down to fifteen-minute blocks on a color-coded calendar. As a senior brand strategist at a top boutique agency, she believes in structure, verified data, and zero risks. Predictability is safe, and predictability gets promotions.Then twenty-two-year-old Milo Bennett walks into her conference room.Carrying an iced matcha, wearing an oversized jac...

The September/October 2026 issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction by Ken Liu, Natalia Theodoridou, Luna Hou, Seanan McGuire, Emily Y. Teng, and P. H. Low; essays by Wil Wheaton, Mari Ness, Luke Elliott and James Bailey, and Kristiana Willsey; poetry by Kailee Pedersen, Rebecca Uhlman, Angela Liu, and Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe; interviews with Ken Liu and Emily Y. Teng by Caroline M. Yoachim; Galen Dara’s Fluid as the cover; and an editor...

The math said they were incompatible. The algorithm output ninety-nine point nine percent. Now they have four weeks to fake a romance—without falling for real.Valerie Hayes rules the product architecture at MatchPoint Software with ironclad logic, immaculate spreadsheets, and zero room for error. To her, heartbreak is simply the result of unoptimized parameters, and romance is a chaotic system waiting to be tamed. She has spent three years developing a flagship mat...

Analyzes archaeological braids, providing identification methods, datasets, and practical guidance for textile researchers.The work on which this book is based arose from the author’s interest in braided textiles and their apparent scarcity in archaeological records. The need for guidance aimed at archaeologists and others to assist them in visually identifying braids correctly was evident. Equally important was to gather details from publications on found braids t...

In the next installment of this New York Times bestselling early chapter book series, Eva and her friends celebrate the winter holiday, Moonfest!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help ...

A bloody barbaric blast from the creative team behind Maniac of New York!From beyond the limits of time and space comes a warrior whose quest against evil brings his strong arm and battle axe to earth—where he’s swiftly arrested and thrown in prison. Ignorant of English, short-tempered, violent, and with no allies other than his cheese sandwich-grilling cellmate and his cynical public defender, the barbarian must find a way to escape his cage before his gr...

She needed a bailout to save her family legacy. He needed her pristine name to secure an empire. Neither expected the fake engagement to feel so dangerously real.Genevieve Frost is a heartbeat away from total ruin. Behind the polished facade of Manhattan’s elite heiress lies a catastrophic secret: her late father built his empire on debt, and the vultures are circling. Her only lifeline is a six-hundred-million-dollar deal with the most lethal venture capitalist in...

The entire globe was witness to The Flash – a blinding strobe of light that penetrated even through solid walls. Post-Flash, the world became aware of individuals with strange abilities and biology, outside the norm of homo sapiens. These individuals were labeled metahumans, or metas.People fear what metas can do, especially when some metas use their gifts in criminal or terroristic ways. Other metas, choosing to serve society, became known as Protectors; they stand against metas w...

In the 1920s a group of previously unconnected writers and artists settled on the remote island of Tahiti, thousands of miles from home. Tahiti was the only South Pacific island at that time to have an artistic community. Why?The introductory chapters of Guys like Gauguin show how the image of Tahiti as a paradise island was created by artists and writers following the visit of Captain Cook and other explorers in the 1760s, and then how this image was rein...

Mr. Darcy's younger sister searches for her own happily-ever-after...The year is 1814, and it's springtime at Pemberley. Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy have married. But now a new romance is in the air, along with high fashion, elegant manners, scandal, deception, and the wonderful hope of a true and lasting love.Shy Georgiana Darcy has been content to remain unmarried, living with her brother and his new bride. But Elizabeth and Darcy's fairy-tale love reminds Georgiana ...

One Mountain. One Older Cowboy. And One Line They Should Never Cross.‘If you haven't picked this one up, I can't recommend it enough’ 5* Reader Review–What happens when you’re snowed in with the one man you should never want?I’ve always been the good girl with a plan. Until Colton Wilder—the cowboy nearly twice my age and my ex-boyfriend’s father—turned my world upside down.As the snow falls and the ...