Procrastination is not laziness.It is often a short-term escape from discomfort — fear, shame, boredom, uncertainty, perfectionism, resentment, exhaustion, or the quiet dread of being judged.For years, Eva Clark tried everything: planners, apps, habit trackers, time blocking, routines, motivational videos, punishments, rewards, and fresh notebooks that felt like a new life. They worked for a few days. Then the same pattern returned: an open documen...

The Quarter Life Crisis Guide is a clear grounded and deeply reassuring look at one of the most misunderstood phases of modern life. In a world where traditional paths have disappeared but expectations remain many people in their twenties and early thirties find themselves feeling lost uncertain and quietly overwhelmed. This book reframes that experience not as failure but as a natural and necessary stage of identity development.Drawing from psychology and real lif...

**“Packed full of emotion. . . . An influential read with a powerful message.”—BooklistWhether goose or swan, I have wings. And I'll fly.**Gus's life is about one thing—swimming. And he knows that the only coach in town who can get him to the Olympics is Coach Marks. So it seems like a simple plan: convince Coach Marks to train him, and everything from there on in is just hard work. Gus has never been afraid of hard work.But there are a few complications. F...

A Season To Remember is an anthology of four short stories for Christmas by established romantic fiction authors Susanne Bellamy, Elizabeth Ellen Carter, Noelle Clark and Eva Scott. The tales are set in different periods, starting in the early 1800s and ending in the future of 2525. Three Ships by Elizabeth Ellen Carter is set in 1806 of the Devon Coast. Laura Winter lives on St Joseph's Rock, a tidal island that is home to a lighthouse that protects Ashton-on-Sea. On a late November day a...

This Christmas, chill out and cuddle up with these enchanting holiday stories..."Funny, tender, and occasionally wacky, this trio of short romantic comedies gets the holidays off to a lively start as three heroines find love in unexpected ways. Plumley's lighthearted sense of fun, sassy dialog, and likable characters make for an appealing holiday collection." —Library JournalMistletoe and HollyAccountant Holly Aldridge scrupulously plans everything in her life—until ...

A short Christmas story of three courses.Love is in the air in Tippermere as Lottie dreams of a white Christmas with no trimmings – other than her hot and hunky eventer, Rory. But things are never quite that simple on the Tipping House Estate.Festive fervour takes over and it isn’t all seasonal peace and goodwill as expectations rise and it soon escalates from cosy dinner for two, to all the trimmings for ten!With missing turkeys, loose horses, troublesome terriers ...

Gil Stone had never heard of Morris Pointe until the morning he received a call from his boss. He was about to get his shot at managing a restaurant in a big time hotel, but it was in Arkansas. Two days later, he arrived in Hot Springs. On his second day of work, he met Lauren Williams, the hotel's manager, and nothing was ever the same again. After their initial attraction, they chose to be friends. They shared a place of employment and knew if they shared anything else, it could lead to ...

Ex-FBI agent Ally Riley's life was in chaos. She lost the job she loved, her mother was in jail for attempted murder and her sister was on the run for an actual murder, but she couldn't be bothered with any of those things because they all brought her what she had been searching for her entire adult life, her sister Tessa. With Tessa came a complication she didn't need though, a complication in the form of Tess's brother-in-law, tall, handsome, built like a god, with the most intense blue ...

Trey Thomas and Tori Tanner – TNT – had been best friends since the second day of second grade. Tori was a little chubby and a lot shy at eight years old and found herself constantly being reintroduced to kids she'd been in class with for both kindergarten and first grade. Trey, a new student, was extremely short and skinny and all mouth and white blonde hair so it was no surprise when he wound up the object of a bully attack on his second day. No one was more surprised than Tori when she ...

A stellar group of romance authors lights up the holidays with six festive novels to put you in the Christmas spirit.Charming and dashing, sexy and funny, these six Christmas stories bring couples together around the holidays. From romance stalwarts like Raine Cantrell, Sherrill Bodine, Tiffany White, Katherine Kingsley, and Anita Mills, these gorgeous tales cross time and place to get to the human heart at the center of the season, reminding every reader that the ...

Hartford is full of small-town Christmas traditions and Gaby Bryant puts herself in the center of all of them. She loves Christmas and she loves things that stay the same. She spends most of the season engaged in one project after another, all intended to squeeze joy and beauty into the holiday. The fact that her friend Owen only reluctantly joins her preparations somehow adds to her fun.But this year Owen has a project of his own. He wants to convince Gaby that not all change is b...

Candle's Christmas Chair is a sweet traditional novella set in late Georgian England.A young Viscount, new to his title, comes to buy an invalid chair for his mother, and finds the woman who has been haunting his dreams for three years. He quickly realises that, whatever causes her to flee his courtship three years ago, it wasn't what he'd been told at the time. Now he has until she finishes the chair for his mother to convince her to marry him.A carriage-maker's daughter, ...