𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤.

📚The Hollows Trilogy 🖊Jodie King 🤩Hollow Hellion As the old saying goes, “Run away to the circus,” and it seems that is exactly what I have done. Except, this isn’t just any circus—it’s Oddity Carnival, reputed to be the most horrifying spectacle in the States. It turns out, I wasn’t just running away from terror—I was unwittingly walking straight back into its chilling embrace. Attempting to adjust to my new life of madness, I find myself plunged into a waking nightmare: Hellion, the ringleader of The Hollow’s. With eyes like swirling vortexes and tattoos that seem to writhe and pulse across his skin, he ensnares me in his twisted web, his sinister obsession fixating on his broken dolly. Hellion seeks to shatter me, to break me down through pain and suffering for his own sick pleasure. But what he fails to realize is that pain is not foreign to me—it’s my home. As he delves deeper into his depraved games, he’ll come to understand that I am not so easily broken. I am a mosaic of splintered fragments and intricate puzzle pieces, a complex enigma that even Hellion, with all his distorted needs, may struggle to grasp or comprehend. Once a sadist’s cravings collide with a masochist’s submissive desires, the world around us dissolves into a mist of forbidden darkness and insatiable bliss, where boundaries blur and inhibitions fade into oblivion. As evil as this carnival may be, where illusions intertwine with shadows, the essence of who we are remains incomparable, defying the delirium that surrounds us. But, beneath our facade of face paints and behind our veils of secrecy, lie haunting truths that have the power to reshape the very fabric of our deranged reality. 🤩Hollow Wrath “The loudest threats come from those who speak—but true terror lives in the silence of a man who doesn’t.” - Aurelia “Because death would be mercy. And I’d rather have you live—tethered to me until you forget you ever wanted to be anything but mine.” - Wrath I thought I‘d met monsters. I thought I had faced true horror. I thought I had felt real darkness. But nothing—nothing—could have prepared me for Oddity Carnival & Cirque. Almost two years locked away in a cage, and now I’ve been pulled into a world where madness knows no bounds—a place where the performers wear their brokenness like a proud mask, and the tightrope between reality and nightmare is razor-thin. Then there’s Hollow Wrath. A brother of The Hollows. The moment I lock eyes with him, something inside me shifts—an unsettling force. His gaze, red, coiled, and unblinking, snakes around my spine like cold fingers. His tattoos spiralling, alive and hungry, writhe across his skin. But Wrath is far from alive. He’s a shadow of a man. A deranged, muted sadist whose soul was devoured long ago. He doesn’t just crave death—he is the very definition of it. And now… his fixation is set on me. Dead or alive. I’m his Little Corpse. But he’s wrong if he thinks I’m just another victim. I’ve got unfinished business—demons of my own that I plan to chase. They tell me I should fear him, but the truth is... the only person I truly fear is myself.

📚Castle Hill Academy Series 🖊Emma Scott 🤩Little Pieces of Light “The love I felt for Emery could not be measured or formulated into an equation. It wasn’t a finite particle but an infinite wave that rippled out into forever.” After meeting at ten, a lonely genius and a kind-hearted girl promised to stay in touch. But Xander’s letters never reached Emery, leaving them both feeling betrayed and heartbroken. Seven years later, Xander returns to Castle Hill and crosses paths with the girl he never forgot. The academy’s rowing team offers a diversion from caring for his ailing father—but can it distract him from her? Emery Wallace is popular and wealthy, yet beneath her flawless exterior she is crumbling under her father's high expectations. He controls her life with an iron grip, while her mother disappears into alcohol, drowning in grief over losing her eldest son. When their worlds collide again, neither can ignore the magnetic pull that ignited the moment they met. While Xander finds solace in logic and certainty, Emery reveals the humanity in our universe, showing him that, like light, we exist as both particles and waves—individual yet infinite, broken yet whole. Xander and Emery must battle forces determined to keep them apart. As Xander’s orderly life unravels and Emery’s future slips away, can their light find each other and endure?

📚Darkest Dance Series 🖊Jagger Cole 🤩Dance of Devils First he saved my life. Then he claimed my soul. They say he has the heart of the Devil and the body of a god. Kir Nikolayev, the brutal, dark king of New York’s underworld, is infinitely dangerous. Impossibly beautiful. Twenty years older than me. I’m the girl with nothing but a gift for ballet and the secrets I keep. Like that I’m living out of my car. That I take my clothes off for money. That I’m chased by the ghosts of my past, and they’re quickly closing in. But after a night of blood and violence, I wake up to silk sheets, dark devil eyes, and a voice like sin and smoke telling me I’m his now. His to protect. His to unravel. His to own. They say when you dance with the devil, he’ll lead you into flames. But no one ever warns you… How good it feels to burn. 🤩Dance of Defiance A night meant for violence and vengeance turns into something far more twisted and deviant… I was raised to be brutal. Hard. Tough. Unmerciful. In the Bratva, men don’t crave other men. Good thing I’m straight. And if I say that enough times, six inches from the mirror, it usually sounds true. That is, until I go into the woods looking for monsters, and find something far harder to escape from. Val Bancroft is chaos and carnage wrapped in electrified sin. Provocative and defiant. Lethally, disarmingly beautiful. A violent, unhinged corruption to my own brand of carefully controlled darkness. I tell myself I’m not gay. That our families want to kill each other. That my place as my father’s heir, with a woman chosen for me at my side, has already been carved in stone. But he dismantles me, piece by bloody piece, until even my demons bow to him. He’s an unstoppable force. I’m an immovable object. And when we slam together, we’ll find beautiful wreckage—or vicious goddamn ruin. 🤩Dance of Thorns I’m forced to marry my dead best friend’s fiancé. Most people call me a freak. Damaged goods. Addict. The outcast daughter of the Marchetti crime family. A black sheep with a dark soul. But then one night, I fall into a darker one. Bane Antonov, the cold, villainously beautiful crown prince of the Antonov Bratva. A man covered in scars and ink. A man who was supposed to marry my now dead and buried best friend. The night we crash together, we talk each other off the literal edge. I should’ve jumped. Because somehow, Bane knows my every dark secret. Every scar. Every inky black desire. He’s a villain and a monster. The thing is, I might be, too. There are things I don’t remember. Like why he hates me. Why I crave his venomous touch and poisonous lips anyway. Now, he has me locked in his cage with his ring on my finger. We’re in a war, ‘til death do us part. But we'll see who falls first. And it’s a Long Way Down. 🤩Dance of Monsters I made a huge mistake. I’ve always been the good girl and the dutiful mafia daughter. So when my devil of a father is in trouble, I ask the help of a worse one. Vaughn Bancroft is a demon in a three-piece suit. A monster with the body of a god and the mind of a villain. The first time we cross paths, he tells me to run away and never look back. I should have listened. Because taking his help means entering his world of power, control, and deviant games, and giving him my body and soul. I thought I could handle his brutal touch. I thought I could weather his storm. But I never accounted for the monster waking something monstrous inside of me. Something that refuses to go back to sleep. Something that craves his darkness. Something that may destroy everything I am.

📖That's Not My Name 🖊Megan Lally She thought she had her life back. She was wrong. It was a mistake to trust him. Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there―or who she is. A passing officer takes her to the police station, and not long after, a frantic man arrives. He's been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos. He is her father. Her name is Mary. Or so he says. When Lola slammed the car door and stormed off into the night, Drew thought they just needed some time to cool off. Except Lola disappeared, and the sheriff, his friends, and the whole town are convinced Drew murdered his girlfriend. Forget proving his innocence, he needs to find her before it's too late. The longer Lola is missing, the fewer leads there are to follow…and the more danger they both are in.

📚King of Scars Series 🖊Leigh Bardugo 🤩King of Scars Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war—and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha Squaller, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried—and some wounds aren’t meant to heal. 🤩Rule of Wolves Face your demons... or feed them.The dashing young king, Nikolai Lantsov, has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war--and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, Nikolai must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha general, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren't meant to stay buried--and some wounds aren't meant to heal.

📖The Caretaker 🖊Marcus Kliewer EXCITING OPPORTUNITY: Caretaker urgently needed. Three days of work. Competitive pay. Serious applicants ONLY. Macy Mullins can’t say why the job posting grabbed her attention—it had the pull of a fisherman’s lure, barbed hook and all—vaguely ominous. But after an endless string of failed job interviews, she's not exactly in the position to be picky. She has rent to pay, groceries to buy, and a younger sister to provide for. Besides, it’s only three days’ work… Three days, cooped up in a stranger’s house, surrounded by Oregon Coast wilderness. What starts as a peculiar side gig soon becomes a waking nightmare. An incomprehensible evil may dwell on this property—and Macy Mullins might just be the only thing standing between it, and the rest of humanity. Follow the Rites... Follow the Rites... Follow the Rites...

📚 Kings of Mafia Series 🖊Michelle Heard 🤩Forceful God I was born into the Cosa Nostra, so I should be used to the blood, violence, and constant threat of death, right? Wrong. Every time one of the men I love gets hurt, another piece of me fractures beyond repair. But the moment I see the man who owns my heart fall, it annihilates me. The fear of losing Christiano forces me to the edge of my sanity. I shut down and push him as far away as possible, convinced distance is the only way to keep myself from unraveling. Christiano is as cold and merciless as his father, raised to rule the Cosa Nostra with an iron fist. Obsession runs just as deep as power in his bloodline, so no matter what I say, he won't let me go. Refusing to marry him doesn't drive him away. It changes him, making him an unforgiving and ruthless man who will use force to keep me exactly where he wants me. I hide my weakness behind lies, but they only seem to feed the darkness in him. Like the predator he is, he watches me, waits for me, corners me. Every explosive encounter strips away my resolve until there's almost nothing left. The threat of the five families being torn apart is the only thing that finally makes me give in to his advances, but as I say my vows to Christiano, I know it's only a matter of time before he realizes I'm not the perfect mafia princess he thinks I am. 🤩Possessive Enemy Head of the Torrisi family and a Cosa Nostra Capo. A brutal and powerful man who rules his world with violence and absolute control. And I’m supposed to make him want me. Turns out my father thinks he can use Georgi to get to Atanas Petkov, our family’s sworn enemy. If Atanas continues to grow in power with Georgi’s help, it will mean the end of my father’s reign of terror, and I’m the bait meant to make one of the most dangerous men in New York lower his guard. Do I have a choice? No. Hours later, Georgi Torrisi is chained in my father’s basement while the man I helped betray is beaten and tortured. My already messed-up life takes a turn for the worse because I didn’t expect the guilt. I didn’t expect the way his eyes still burn when he looks at me. And I definitely didn’t expect myself to unlock the chains and set him free. The moment Georgi walks out of that basement, he turns into a violent monster that’s out for revenge. Once the hallways of my family home are painted red, he takes my daughter and me with him. There’s no running. No hiding. And now all I can do is pray I survive being at the mercy of the man I betrayed. 🤩Vicious Devil At the lowest point in my life, I walk into the busiest club, hoping to get a job. Somehow, I end up on stage, being told to strip, and before I can even decide if I’m desperate enough, a terrifying man orders me to leave. I do my best to ignore my fear as I follow him to his office, not knowing it’s about to cost me everything. Turns out I’m more desperate than I thought, and I swallow my pride and beg. But Adriano Rizzo doesn’t offer me employment. Nope, he makes me a deal that’s hard to refuse. I tell myself I can handle whatever he demands of me. Boy, am I wrong. Hidden in the fine print, I didn’t bother to read, is a clause I never saw coming. Marry him. Or I walk away with nothing and end up back on the streets. While I’m still trying to decide, he changes the rules, and before I know it, I’m saying my vows to a man I barely know. To make matters worse, just as we leave the church, he pulls out a gun and empties it into some poor soul. Right in front of me! That’s when I learn the truth… Adriano Rizzo isn’t just some heartless, filthy-rich club owner. He’s a boss in the Cosa Nostra, and I’ve just married into a world that’s violent, ruthless, and deadly.

📖Every Summer After 🖊Carley Fortune They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.

📚A Court of Thorns and Roses Series 🖊Sarah J. Maas 🤩A Court of Thorns and Roses When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world. At least, he’s not a beast all the time. As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she’s been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever. 🤩A Court of Mist and Fury Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people. As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin. While Feyre navigates a dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms. She might just be the key to stopping it, but only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future-and the future of a world in turmoil. 🤩A Court of Wings and Ruin Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear. As war bears down upon them all, Feyre endeavors to take her place amongst the High Fae of the land, balancing her struggle to master her powers-both magical and political-and her love for her court and family. Amidst these struggles, Feyre and Rhysand must decide whom to trust amongst the cunning and lethal High Lords, and hunt for allies in unexpected places. 🤩A Court of Frost and Starlight Feyre, Rhysand, and their friends are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly altered world beyond, recovering from the war that changed everything. But Winter Solstice is finally approaching, and with it, the joy of a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, her concern for those dearest to her deepens. They have more wounds than she anticipated-scars that will have a far-reaching impact on the future of their court.

📖Picking Daisies on Sundays 🖊Liana Cincotti Daniella Daisy Maria wanted love. It’s all she hoped for when watching endless rom-coms every Friday night. What she hadn't hoped for was to find it in her childhood best friend Levi. It was the hand-trembling, heart-thumping kind of love that wasn't supposed to happen when you saw your best friend. But it all ended when he didn’t feel the same way and she vowed to never see him again. Four years later and one night in a crowded bar in the West Village, there he was, just as perfect as ever. Maybe it was the lighting or the way his hair curled above his brow, but she couldn’t say no when he asked her to be his fake girlfriend for his sister’s wedding. Another chance at being his friend and mending her immature mistake? How was she supposed to say no? The weight of possible rejection from her dream grad school quickly became the least of her problems. With old, resurfacing feelings at every staged, romantic interaction and stolen glance, she struggles to find confidence. She couldn't help but think that maybe she should’ve said no to protect her heart for a second time.

📖Claimed 🖊Asher Cade Everyone saw a liability. One man saw someone worth saving. Lawson Monroe turned recklessness into survival long ago. If the world insists on treating him like a liability, he might as well become one on purpose. Parties, scandals, public humiliation. It all keeps attention away from the sensory strain and emotional exhaustion threatening to consume him beneath the surface. Callum Perry is supposed to contain the damage during a mandatory sequester at a remote coastal estate. Instead, he becomes the first person Lawson cannot manipulate into distance. Callum understands utility better than intimacy. He built his career cleaning up the disasters of wealthy families while never allowing himself to need anything from them in return. Lawson unsettles that balance immediately. Beneath the sharp remarks and calculated rebellion sits a man constantly bracing for rejection, and Callum finds himself responding with structure rather than discipline. He creates routines Lawson starts relying on. Steps closer during moments that should push him away. Gives grounding where the rest of the world only offered judgment. The connection between them shifts into something consuming, built through quiet trust and restraint stretched dangerously thin. Then the family empire turns vicious. A data breach gives Lawson’s parents the opportunity to protect their company by sacrificing their son, and suddenly the assignment becomes personal. Callum can preserve his reputation and walk away clean, or he can destroy the life he built to save the man who taught him that devotion means more than survival ever will.

📚Colter Creek Series 🖊Lacey Day 🤩High Ridge Ranch Cowboys I left Colter Creek with a secret growing in my belly. Now I’m back—with a five-year-old who looks exactly like Clint Parrish. One reckless night. One cowboy I never forgot. One man who has no idea he’s a father. But Clint isn’t the only High Ridge Ranch cowboy pulling me in… Sawyer is the quiet one. Gentle. Steady. He looks at my son like he already belongs to him. Reid is sunshine in worn boots. All charm, all heat, and impossible to resist. I was only supposed to sell my grandfather’s house and leave. Not fall into their lives—and watch my son fall in love. Secrets are unraveling. The ranch is in trouble. And the three cowboys I should run from are the only men I trust. I came here to say goodbye. But now I don’t think they’ll ever let me leave. 🤩Willow Ranch Cowboys Falling for the three cowboys next door was not the plan. I built a quiet life in Colter Creek. Just me, my bees… and my little honey stand. There’s just one problem. My neighbors… Jesse Murphy is sunshine in worn boots—a single dad to twins who’ve already decided I belong in their family. Wyatt Tucker is the town veterinarian. Calm. Steady. The kind of man who sees straight through my walls. And Marshall Holt… the quiet, brooding rancher who watches me like I’m something he might never let go. I learned a long time ago how to stand on my own. But storms are rolling into the valley. Trouble is coming for Willow Ranch. And the three cowboys next door seem determined to protect me—whether I’m ready to let them or not. 🤩Ironwood Ranch Cowboys My bosses are the three most powerful brothers in Colter Creek. And I’m trying to keep my distance… but they won’t let me. Working at Ironwood Ranch was supposed to be temporary. Fix the books. Keep my head down. Leave when it’s done. Simple. Until Silas starts watching me like I belong under his control. Until Cody gets too close… and doesn’t pull back. Until Duke kisses me like breaking the rules doesn’t matter. They run this town. And I should know better than to get involved. But the lines are already blurring. One night turns into something more. One mistake turns into three. And suddenly… walking away isn’t so easy. In this town, everyone is watching. Waiting for me to slip. Waiting for this to fall apart. I’ve spent my whole life knowing when to leave. But these three cowboys… They’re the only place that’s ever felt like home.

📚Gnarly Pines Duet 🖊M.T. Addams 🤩Axe to Grind They’re axe wielding, flannel-wearing psychopaths… and I can’t get enough of them. As the daughter of an infamous hitman—living in the shadows meant survival. But when trouble finds and chases me up into the mountains of Pennsylvania, into the arms of my dad’s best friend and his three roommates, I quickly learn what darkness truly is. These four men are meant to protect me, instead I’m drowning in their sins. Between playing Rhett and Santiago’s murderous games to accepting Wes’s possessive stake over my body, I know I’m in trouble. Yet, it’s the undeniable, insidious whisper of a forbidden desire constantly taunting me and Leader that confirms I’m willing to sink into an unholy level of depravity to sate the hunger simmering in my veins. Falling into sin is easy. Staying alive to enjoy it is another. With the trouble that brought me here not far behind, I have to make an impossible Return to the shadows to protect the men I’m falling for or stay and fight—knowing that if I fail, I lose everything.

📖Graves 🖊Katelyn Taylor Zayden I thought I had everything I could possibly desire. Until I set my eyes on her. My angel. Too pure for this world, too pure for me. She’s all mine. No matter the cost. No matter the lives that stand in my way. She has always been mine. She just doesn’t know it yet. Dominic My brother has lost it, more so than ever before. I couldn’t figure out what had changed at first. One look at her though, and it all made sense. He gave me one job, protect his girl, a girl he’s never even spoken to. I held true to my promise and then some. I didn’t mean to kiss her, to touch her. One thing is for sure, though. I’m not losing her, even if I have to go through my brother to have her.

📚The Renegades Series 🖊Rebecca Yarros 🤩 Wilder He’s Paxton Wilder. Twenty-two-year-old, tattooed, smoking-hot leader of the Renegades. Five time X Games medalist. The world is his playground—especially this year—and for the next nine months I’m stuck as his tutor on the Study at Sea program. He’s too busy staging worldwide stunts for his documentary to get to class. But if I can’t get him to take academics seriously, I’ll lose my scholarship…if I don’t lose my heart first. Six unlikely friends on a nine-month cruise with the Study at Sea program will learn that chemistry is more than a subject and the best lessons aren’t taught in the classroom…but in the heart. 🤩Nova The only heart he wants is the one he already broke... He's Landon Rhodes. The Renegade they call Nova. Sinfully gorgeous, broody, tatted-up, professional snowboarder. Four-time X Games medalist— Full-time heartbreaker. They say a girl broke him once— That's why he's so reckless, so driven, so careless with his conquests. But I'm that girl. They can call me his curse all they want. He and I both know the truth— He's the one who destroyed me, And I'm not the sucker who will let that happen again. 🤩Rebel She'll defy his every expectation. She’s Penna Carstairs. The Renegade they call Rebel. FMX-treme Magazine’s sexiest female athlete of the year. There’s no rule in extreme sports she hasn’t broken, No gender barrier she hasn’t demolished. She’s the woman I met in a bar in Vegas. The woman I illegally BASE jumped for. The woman I spent one insane, incredible night with. But now I’m screwed. Or rather…not screwed. Because the woman I can’t get out of my head is the one woman I can never touch again. I’m Dr. Cruz Delgado—the youngest professor on this campus, And Penelope Carstairs just walked into my class.

📖Rules for the Summer 🖊Meghan Quinn He clicked "yes" on a dare. She bought a failing candy shop. Now they're neighbors for the summer―and neither is ready for what comes next. Renley Gossage has one shot to prove she's more than Cape Meril's favorite cautionary tale: restore her favorite candy shop before the town writes her off like they did her father. No help, no shortcuts, and definitely no rich men wielding engagement rings and making things messy. Theo Williams never planned on ending up in Cape Meril. A drunken game of truth or dare turned into a botched online engagement, and now he's across the ocean, escaping his father's control with nothing but designer shoes, misplaced confidence, and a rental next door to Renley. She's practical, stubborn, and covered in paint. He's posh, persistent, and willing to use a sander if it means earning her trust. Between collapsing drywall, gossiping neighbors, and the chaotic schemes of Renley's aunt, their forced proximity turns into something dangerously close to real. But Renley's future depends on standing on her own two feet, and Theo's past isn't done with him yet. By the time the candy shop doors open, they'll have to decide if this is just a summer fling―or the happily ever after neither of them saw coming.

📚Cold Hearts series 🖊Michelle Love 🤩Heart of the Wolf Some people believed true love lasted forever. Forever didn’t exist, and Brielle accepted long ago that she was destined to spend this life alone. Forgotten in a place where she was unwanted and underappreciated. The only thing she was certain of was that her one chance at happiness now only existed in her dreams. When the visions of a blonde Dane she saw years ago came to call on her. Visions of a forbidden foreigner beckoning her to join him. After collapsing in the woods, he visited her one final time, ferrying her to Heaven, Hell, or Valhalla. It didn’t matter which. At least she wouldn’t have to be alone anymore. 🤩Heart of the Panther The daughter of an English farmer—plagued by vivid dreams and sinister voices—might be the one blessed by Freyja to protect a Viking clan on the brink of war with the gods. Consumed with grief, Elara struggles to move forward, doing her best to care for her father. Her brother, Edmund, died years ago, and now with her mother gone, it is just the two of them. For years, Elara’s dreams foreshadowed the future, something she firmly ignored. Until now. Now, it begs for attention, showing her visions of ash and smoke and a man who terrifies and thrills her. Then, there are the voices—disembodied, haunting, and taunting. The unseen whispers call to her, beckoning towards something foreboding. A mysterious woman appears, and Elara isn’t sure whether it’s a dream or reality when the shimmering figure grants her a boon to keep the voices at bay. A massive black panther, dripping with shadow. When the dreams of ash and smoke turn real, Elara finds her father at the mercy of a hulking warrior, their village under attack. Driven by instinct, Elara flings herself between the man and her father, offering him anything to keep her father safe. To her surprise, the warrior accepted her offer. Except what he wants isn't silver. What he wants is a war prize. What he wants is her.

📚The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy 🖊Brynne Weaver 🤩Harvest Season It’s time to reap what you sow. Cape Carnage is blooming with secrets, and they’re ready to harvest. But every time Nolan Rhodes digs one up, another grows in its place. Harper isn’t who he thought she was. Arthur might be more sinister than he first thought. And Sheriff Yates? The man is everywhere he turns. When true crime fanatics descend on the town looking for answers about the death of their leader, Nolan finds himself at the center of a search and rescue operation for missing people he knows are already dead. Cape Carnage teeters on the brink of chaos. And the harder Nolan tries to keep it together, the closer Harper comes to unraveling. Harper Starling has risked everything to bury her trauma in Cape Carnage. But now that Nolan has unearthed her past, her whole life seems ready to break apart. And who can she trust? The enigmatic man she’s falling in love with? He came to kill her. The serial killer mentor she’s vowed to protect? He’s become an unpredictable menace. The woman in the mirror? She might be the most dangerous of all. Loyalties are tested. Bonds are bent to a breaking point. And love? That might be the deadliest trap of all.

📖The Magic of Ordinary Days 🖊Ann Howard Creel Olivia Dunne, a studious minister's daughter who dreams of being an archaeologist, never thought that the drama of World War II would affect her quiet life in Denver. An exhilarating flirtation reshapes her life, though, and she finds herself banished to a rural Colorado outpost, married to a man she hardly knows. Overwhelmed by loneliness, Olivia tentatively tries to establish a new life, finding much-needed friendship and solace in two Japanese American sisters who are living at a nearby internment camp. When Olivia unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a crime and is faced with betrayal, she finally confronts her own desires. Beautifully written and filled with memorable characters, Creel's novel is a powerful exploration of the nature of trust and love.

📚Emerald Lake Series 🖊 Elsie Silver 🤩Fever Dream Professional bull rider Emmett Bush is not looking for love. He’s looking for a paycheck to save his family’s farm from bankruptcy. So, when he agrees to be the leading man on a hot new reality dating show, Romance Ranch, he’s already decided it’s all one big performance. Until Julia Silva walks onto his property. Smart, snarky, beautiful, and off-limits in more ways than one. As the location consultant on set and the little sister of his most bitter professional rival, she’s the last woman who should pique his interest. Julia has been warned about Emmett. She knows better than to fall for his cocky swagger, broad shoulders, and smoldering good looks. Plus, she’s sworn off relationships. But as Julia and Emmett work together, mutual distaste grows into an unexpected connection and then… something more. Soon, they find themselves searching for excuses to spend time together and out of reach of the cameras. Knowing glances. Stolen kisses. Secret rendezvous. Still, Emmett signed up to play the role of an eligible bachelor searching for the one. His family’s land and legacy depend on him completing the show. The problem is, he’s already fallen in love. Just not with a contestant.