She built a machine to replace human touch. She didn’t expect her test subject to replace the machine.Sloane Lin prefers circuits to people. People are messy, loud, and unpredictable. Machines are safe. As a brilliant but touch-starved engineer, Sloane has spent the last year developing "Project Hestia"—a haptic feedback suit designed to simulate the comfort of a hug without the terrifying vulnerability of asking for one.There’s just one problem: She needs ...

Some spells are meant to protect. Others just leave a mess.Eight years ago, hearth witch Wren Ashford fled Briar Hollow, leaving behind the woman she loved. To make the heartbreak easier, she cast a secret memory-softening charm on Sloane Blackwood, erasing Sloane's courageous decision to choose Wren over her family’s legacy.Now, Wren is broke, back in town, and living right next door to her fiercely competent and terrifyingly beautiful ex. Sloane remembers...

An inherited house. A frustratingly handsome contractor. A six-month renovation that's about to tear down all her walls.Elara Lane does not do chaos. As a Brooklyn editor, she survives on color-coded spreadsheets, noise-canceling headphones, and keeping everyone at a safe distance. But when she inherits a rambling Victorian house in the aggressively charming town of Woodhaven, Vermont, her perfectly ordered life gets flipped upside down. Her plan is simple: get in, fix it up, and s...

My father left me a crumbling Victorian money pit. Then he sent his best friend to fix it.I have no money, no job, and a house that’s actively trying to kill me. When I fall through the rotting kitchen floor, I expect to die there. Instead, I’m pulled out by Ford Callahan.He’s twenty years older than me. He’s a rugged, silver-templed contractor with hands rough from work and a voice that commands obedience. He’s also the man my absent father hired to save t...

Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. But there is nothing safe about the way she makes her feel.Thirty-six-year-old Elena Voss runs her private shooting range the same way she ran her life as a Marine designated marksman: with absolute, uncompromising control. She doesn't do drama, she doesn't do ego, and she absolutely does not do relationships. The emotional walls she built after a devastating loss fifteen years ago are entirely bulletproof.At twenty-eight, Master-cla...

He’s the noise she can’t stand. She’s the quiet he didn’t know he needed.Clara Vance lives for order. As the head librarian of the Sterling Athenaeum, she ensures that every book, every archive, and every breath taken in her sanctuary is perfectly controlled. Silence isn’t just a rule; it’s a lifestyle.Then the renovation starts.Knox isn’t just a contractor; he’s a one-man chaos engine. He’s loud, he’s covered in plaster dust, and he seems to take p...

Four friends. One snowed-in cabin. Three years of hidden desires.Maya loves her husband, Julian, but for ten years she's harbored a secret, guilty attraction to his best friend, Leo. What Maya doesn't know is that Julian has a secret of his own: he wants nothing more than to watch Leo take his wife.When Sloane, Leo's brilliant and beautiful wife, orchestrates a couples' retreat at an isolated, glass-walled mountain cabin, the storm outside is nothing compar...

A disgraced city girl. A grumpy mountain man. And a blizzard that changes everything.Sloane Mercer is a professional fixer. Or she was, until a PR scandal torched her career, her engagement, and her reputation. Now, she’s driving into the heart of a blizzard to sell her estranged grandmother’s cabin and scrape together enough cash to start over.She has a plan: Sign the papers. Sell the cabin. Get back to civilization.She didn’t plan on crashing her ...

Lena Hart’s life is held together by color-coded binders and sheer organizational spite. As a high-achieving event producer, she is used to managing everyone else's chaos. But when her apartment building is suddenly condemned, giving her just ten days to vacate, she is forced to accept a suspiciously cheap room in an apartment shared by two very different men.Beckett Shaw is a charming, chaotic food photographer and Lena's former college crush. He fills the apartment with warmth, e...

66 million years in the making. One storm to ruin it all.Dr. Elena Vance has one goal: secure the fossil that will save her tenure and salvage her family name. She doesn’t have time for heatstroke, flash floods, or the rugged, infuriatingly attractive field tech standing between her and her discovery.Silas Thorne doesn’t trust academics. They’re sloppy, ambitious, and usually gone by the first frost. He’s spent twelve years hiding in the Montana badlands, b...

Three years. Millions of views. One stolen video that changes everything.Ava (streaming as Vexed) is watching her channel die. Her partner, Nico (Nyx), has been the silent backbone of her production—and her life—for three years. Then Dane (Rook) drops into their lobby. He's a massive streamer, the internet's charismatic boyfriend, and exactly the collaboration they need to save their livelihood. But the undeniable, electric chemistry they share on-camera is nothing compared to the ...

He demands absolute order. She is a walking hurricane of fairy lights and iced coffee. When a sudden crisis traps them in his indie bookstore, the only thing they can’t organize is the explosive heat between them.Noah Running an independent bookstore means I like quiet, order, and things exactly where they belong. I don't like chaos. I definitely don't like fairy lights, iced coffee cups left on my counters, or sunshine-infused content creators acting like my shop is their...