**You have to break some rules to write your own story . . .Rival bookshop ownersEnemies-to-loversSmall-town settingGrumpy-sunshineForced proximityDon't miss this utterly charming, spicy, enemies-to-lovers rom-com from Jackie Ashenden!_______________________________________When Kate, a fledgling bookseller, decides to open a bookshop that celebrates ...

Love is born on a large farm in Hinckley, Ohio where she spends the first year of her life. She lives the next ten years with a family who resides a few miles from the place of her birth. The first year is tough for the filly. She gets into one scrape after another at her new home. Her saving grace is her love for a small child, She becomes an accomplished and well traveled youth horse.

Anna Nesmith has it all… Until one sleet-filled winter day, she doesn’t.When an investigator begins asking Anna questions, her great marriage, dream job, and ordered world begin to crash like Jenga blocks.Frank Caburn is man to the bone and manufactures testosterone like Frito Lay does chips, which seems not to impress Anna one whit as she picks through the rubble of her shattered life. Attracted to Anna, Caburn determines to make her his own, but how to te...

He was only supposed to give her dating lessons. And maybe a little kissing practice…It's been five years since Charlotte Tam had to endure a public proposal at a baseball game—literally the stuff of her nightmares—and realized her ex never really knew her. She hasn’t dated since, afraid that no man will understand her cranky, introverted, coffee-obsessed self, but she wants to try again. Her friend suggests she ask a guy to ease her into the dating game and give h...

A grumpy/sunshine rom-com!When small-town engineer Amy Sharpe inherits a house in Toronto, she decides it’s the perfect opportunity to start over and go back to school. Away from the family that takes her for granted, away from the ex who expected so much and gave little in return.The new Amy enjoys wandering around the city and frequenting bubble tea shops, German beer halls, dim sum restaurants, and coffee bars serving Japanese pastries. She has a roommat...

From the bestselling creators of the Ladybug Girl series comes a picture book about the misadventures of two very different dogs who become unlikely friends.Elvis, the bulldog, just wants a little peace and quiet.Romeo, the doodle, really wants to make new friends, and play at the dog park.When they first meet, it seems Elvis and Romeo have nothing in common. But little by little, these polar-opposite pooches may just become the closest of canines.

A Thanksgiving rom-com with lots of food and interfering family!Advertising executive Nick Wong enjoys living in Toronto. He loves late nights partying and taking women back to his penthouse. And so it is with great reluctance that he returns to his boring hometown of Mosquito Bay for Thanksgiving.This year, however, is even worse than usual. His parents and grandparents, frustrated with the lack of weddings in the family, have invited blind dates for him a...

Better Than the Movies meets Olivia Rodrigo's Sour in a new YA romance novel from Something More author, Jackie Khalilieh.Seventeen-year-old Jamie Taher-Foster has big plans for senior year. She's made a list of things and places in Toronto she and her boyfriend of three years, Ben Cameron, need to check off before graduating. And the biggest plan of all: a very special night for the two of them at the upcoming Winter Formal. But then Ben...

Sox finds himself in an alien world the night he is born. His mother is there with him and he quickly adapts. His Mom answers all his questions about his new environment. She explains things, and reassures him. Everything is a new experience for Sox.Little Emma is his best friend.Emma is living with her grandmother until her mother returns home from deployment Not used to living in a rural area she is very lonely and feels like a duck out of water. Little Sox brightens up her...

We were, finally, on the trail again. At the first river crossing, I noticed that the current was unusually calm. Even the water level was lower than usual. I climbed down a very steep bank and was focused on my footing. It had escaped my attention that there was not an exit on the opposite side. Instead, there was a steep cliff. I was extremely nervous walking in the middle of the river. I felt trapped! I scanned the landscape for a way out, and that is when I first saw them. High on the ...

This issue of Fiction Vortex is full of people who make bad decisions. Warning: don't mistake the characters in these stories for good role models. There's a guy who sabotages the future of his family's legacy out of spite, a woman who tells the world the apocalypse is coming, a man who signs his life away, and a married couple that thinks time travel can save them from their grief.FICTION VORTEX:Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction...

A Bundle of Joy for Every Woman Whose Heart Longs to be a Mommy Ten million people each year suffer—often in private shame and pain—because they’ve been told that they can never conceive children of their own as a couple (literally billions of dollars are spent each year on fertility cures); or because they’ve been conditioned to believe that it’s normal to struggle through a painful and difficult pregnancy; or because they fear whether they have what it takes to be affirming, joyful paren...