When festive chaos meets quiet ambition, love just might light the way...Callie Bloom runs Wick & Wonder, Pinehill's coziest candle shop, where Christmas comes with glitter bombs, peppermint lattes, and one very mischievous puppy. She's all about comfort, chaos, and community-and this year, she's determined to win the town's Twelve Days of Christmas decorating contest, even if it means going a little overboard on tinsel.Sora Ishikawa was supposed to be on a break. ...

Beauty. Betrayal. A love that defies centuries.Cursed by the Shogun and transformed into a water dragon by the sea god Ryujin, Hanzo Ikeda has guarded the hidden lake for over a century, forgotten, feared, and alone. Bound by magic and grief, his humanity fades with each passing year… until she arrives.Asuka, the Shogun's youngest daughter, is destined for a marriage of politics and power. But when she strays too close to the forbidden waters, she awakens the creature whisp...

Charlotte "Charlie" Saxon returns to Whispering Willow Horse Ranch in Jackson, Wyoming, to take over the ranch from her later father. She's met with a neighbor hell-bent on taking the ranch from her, convinced that "a woman like you is too soft to handle these boys" and can't run the ranch. Little does the neighbor know that Charlie is not one to back down from a fight. Besides, she has the best ranch foreman a woman in her position ever needed, Jake McAuley, a man fifteen years her senior...

Two weeks. One cabin. No way to be alone with herself.Burned out and unable to write a word that matters, novelist Lana Brooks escapes to a remote cabin above Oregon's Echo Lake for two weeks of silence and solitude. No deadlines. No distractions. Just her, a blank journal, and the chance to remember who she used to be.But the rental company double-booked the cabin - and the man already living there isn't going anywhere.Ren Mori is a wildlife photog...

Two weeks. One cabin. No way to be alone with herself.Burned out and unable to write a word that matters, novelist Lana Brooks escapes to a remote cabin above Oregon's Echo Lake for two weeks of silence and solitude. No deadlines. No distractions. Just her, a blank journal, and the chance to remember who she used to be.But the rental company double-booked the cabin - and the man already living there isn't going anywhere.Ren Mori is a wildlife photog...

In a land of falling blossoms and rising steel, one woman's fate is rewritten by the edge of a sword—and the quiet heart of a warrior.Helena Montclair never imagined her father's final diplomatic journey would end in blood. Or that she, a stranger to sword and soil, would be the only one left alive.Rescued by samurai and taken to a mountain village untouched by time, Helena is placed under the watchful care of Mariko—wise elder, healer, and widow to a great warrior. But not...

When a motorcycle accident lands Victor Roman in the care of Rose Pepper, he's unprepared for the fierce, no-nonsense nurse who refuses to be swayed by his bad-boy charm. But Victor is harboring a secret: he's Viktor Romanov, one of the last living descendants of the Russian royal family, hiding from a dangerous past that refuses to let him go.Rose is determined to keep her distance, focused on her patients, and uninterested in romance. Yet Victor's sharp mind, unexpected vulnerabi...

In a quiet Tokyo house with paper-thin walls, one woman finds healing-not by choosing, but by being chosen.After her life and creativity unravel in one painful year, novelist Harper Quinn escapes to Tokyo for a seasonal stay in a quiet co-living house. Nestled in a narrow back street, the house promises stillness, structure, and the one thing Harper needs most: a blank page.But what she finds is heat behind the silence.Koji, the resident chef, flirts like it's a dar...

In the heart of small-town Texas, where the stars shine bright and gossip spreads faster than wildfire, Savannah Taylor is back with a bang! Fresh from a divorce and armed with determination, she's ready to carve out a new life for herself and her daughter, Lily. But little does she know fate has a quirky plan in store for her.Enter Jackson Hayes, the dashing oil baron with a heart of gold and a truck that turns heads. Their first encounter? Let's just say it involves Savannah's ca...

They should have died on a cold Vancouver night. Instead, they became the first casualties of a war no one sees coming.When a precision hit meant for Casey Powell nearly kills STARR agent Mitch Steed, the two men are pulled into a conspiracy that reaches far beyond the botched assassination. Wilde, a traitor Casey once trusted, rises from the dead with a plan to collapse nations, weaponize fear, and recruit the one person Casey can't afford to lose. Mitch survives the attack, but c...

Strait McCardle thought he was done. A ghost left behind by a war no one admits happened. But when STARR pulls him out of retirement for one last mission, he discovers the battlefield and the enemy have changed.Mariam Carteras was the asset who vanished. She was a brilliant neurochemist embedded too deep in a biotech front tied to Ashfall, the weaponized belief system that nearly broke STARR apart. Finding her should have been simple. Bringing her home will take everything....

In the small town of Oakridge, Texas, widowed architect Nathan Shepard returns with his young son, Ethan, seeking solace after the loss of his wife. Struggling with his own grief, Nathan is also faced with Ethan's silent pain, the boy retreating into himself as he mourns his mother.When Nathan hires kind-hearted nanny Olivia "Liv" Bennett, her warmth and patience begin to break through Ethan's walls, bringing laughter and light back into their home. As Liv helps Ethan navigate his ...