I'm doing everything right. I show up to work. I go to class. I try to be a good boyfriend. I even keep my temper in check, which, frankly, should qualify me for some kind of award considering the number of assholes I encounter on a daily basis.Do they even make those?If not, they definitely should.But lately, it feels like everyone's poking at me. Not enough to get caught, just enough to see if I'll react. A comment here, a look there, a casual little accu...

Austin wakes to a blaring alarm and a town too quiet to be normal. The same morning keeps snapping back into place, and something he can't name keeps watching from mirrors, windows, and shadows. The more he fights to stay in control, the more his reality frays, and his loved ones become collateral in a game he can't understand. When the day resets again, the question isn't how to escape… it's what it wants him to do.

Hannah is good at keeping order, snacks, songs, and small hands safe, until a new child's first day arrives with a warning that feels more like a demand. But the less special she treats him, the more the child's mother's words echo in her head: Take care of Matthew. As the classroom routine starts to fray, Hannah realizes attention isn't kindness anymore; it's survival.Some promises don't let you go.

You can enter.You just can't leave unchanged.A man finds himself trapped inside a town that rewrites identity. A grieving soul clings to a place that feeds on sorrow. A door opens once, and never truly closes again.In these stories, horror is not the monster outside the walls.It's the moment the walls decide you belong to them.YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO LEAVE is a horror anthology about entrapment, erasure, and the things that keep us long after we beg ...

Jake survived the crash that killed his brother, and now every breath feels like theft. At home, grief curdles into cruelty, and the people who should protect him treat him like the mistake that lived. When a new girl at school sees straight through his silence, she offers something Jake hasn't felt in weeks: a way out. But the harder he reached for relief, the farther away it felt.

Exhausted from another long shift, Nurse Alice only wants to help her patient. But when the hospital's regular elevator is out of service, she's forced to take the old one, a relic that creaks and groans as it carries her into the unknown.And in the back of her mind, she can still hear the warning whispered to her by her patient: Don't get lost.

A city boy, caught in a storm and injured, stumbled upon a cabin deep in the woods. Inside, a peaceful fire burned. A chair rocked back and forth. Safety from the storm… or so it seemed. When Oliver opened the wrong door, the cabin opened back.Some doors should never be opened.

When Phoenix Quinn finds his ex-girlfriend hiding in his boathouse, he’s confused. After all, she’d said she was done with him and, difficult as it had been for him, he’d respected her wishes. Now that she’s back, can he convince her to stick around long enough to find out what sent her running in the first place?When strange men show at Kaylee Kirkpatrick’s job asking questions about her, she knows it’s time to disappear again. She wonders how much longer she can outrun her family...

Lucan St. Claire refuses to take the cursed title of fifteenth Duke of Stourbridge-he wants nothing to do with his heritage, including a magnificent stately home in the English countryside. So when he's forced to return to his family's seat, he takes beautiful new personal assistant Lexie Hamilton with him for some much-needed distraction….Only Lucan has no idea that his temporary assistant isn't quite who she seems…And by the time he finds out it will be too late!

A steamy New York grumpy sunshine romance from bestselling author Victoria Walters Tropes:✈️ Grumpy sunshine✈️ Slow burn✈️ He falls first✈️ Enemies to lovers✈️ Age gap✈️ Reputation redemption✈️ Workplace romance✈️ SpicyCan Freya fix Jake’s reputation without losing her heart?Assistant literary agent Freya Harrison never thought her chance at a big break would look like this: at a ...

Former CIA agent Ash Ryan has finally found a stress-free dream job. But his life turns bitterly painful when he falls desperately in love with Ellery Mayne, the entrancing but clueless subject of his company's security contract. This excerpt from the Mayne Attraction Series reveals the secret life of Ellery as seen through the eyes of a man who adores her but believes he will never meet her.

In The Shocking Conclusion To 'Stripped' …In the final chapter of Adriana Hunter's gripping series, Guilty Pleasures…Abby never expected to find herself in such a difficult situation. In love with two men, she is forced to make a decision: stay with the rugged cowboy Chase Thomas and hope that he can commit, or leave him behind for Jake Myers, the savvy businessman with dark secrets, who promises to love her forever.Abby knows that no matter who she chooses her life...