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Finally arriving at the magical spring that might cure his curse, Arc is astonished to find it is a hot spring! Deciding to give his weary bones a rest, he and Ponta dive right in--only to encounter something entirely unexpected. Meanwhile, Princess Yuriarna challenges Prince Sekt's underhanded bid to take control of the Kingdom. With royalty facing off against royalty, who will emerge victorious?

Just outside Mydworth, hidden by the river's curve, stands Chilton House - home and weekend refuge to a famous modern artist and his bohemian circle from London. Their visits bring laughter, music, and whispers of scandal to the countryside. Then one summer night, a celebration turns dark. When tragedy follows, Kat and Harry are drawn into a maze of jealousy and dangerous secrets - where art and ambition can prove a deadly mix.

The Girl from My Last Class is a tender coming-of-age story about a quiet boy who meets a new classmate one September morning—and spends the next several years learning how a brief friendship can echo for a lifetime. When Emily Carter moves away, Daniel thinks the story is over. Instead, her laughter, small kindnesses, and simple courage become the compass he carries through secondary school and beyond. Told with luminous simplicity and heartfelt warmth, this short novel captures first crushes, last days of childhood, and the way memory can turn ordinary moments into something eternal.

For all that Jason knows, life is amazing. But he's about to learn that all his new power, wealth, and influence comes at a price. Riding high on success, he and his team are looking to the future, preparing themselves for the challenges to come. Nothing, however, could have prepared him for the lessons his enemies have to teach. When magic is involved, the stakes can be even greater than life and death. While Jason’s personal enemies make plans, the greater foes plaguing his new home have been pushed to the brink.

Rooms That Remember Light is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on memory, tenderness, and the quiet rituals that keep us alive through the night. In a nameless city hotel, a solitary night clerk tends the lost and found—not just of objects, but of human moments. Each chapter unfolds through a single forgotten item: a brass key, a disposable camera, a child’s red sock, a cracked snow globe. As he records these fragments, he begins to uncover something luminous beneath the ordinary—the way grief softens into gentleness, and how even the smallest acts of care can restore what time tried to erase.

Behind the gilded walls of a Sydney mansion, Clare Bertrand moves through a world where desire blurs into danger and every glance carries a cost. Entangled in a charged connection with Louis Grayson—a man whose love borders on obsession—she struggles to hold onto the delicate balance of her reality. As gifts from childhood friend William Fortune begin to reveal a darker intent, Clare finds herself caught in a web of secrets that threaten to repeat a past she barely understands. Her violin, once an escape, now plays a mournful score of longing and fate.

A Garden Made of Time is a lyrical fable about a valley where time is soil and a solitary Gardener plants “hourseeds” so the world can keep its rhythm. When a woman arrives by a river that carries centuries, pleading to recover a year she has somehow lost, the Gardener offers a lesson: hours can be tended—but never owned. Together they walk sundial paths, watch hourglass trees send sand upward, and visit an orchard where moments frozen at their sweetest slowly turn cruel.

Julian Remington, the eldest of nine siblings, is on the fast track to senior partnership at Remington Family Law, the renowned Los Angeles firm founded by his grandfather and now run by his father. As an attorney to some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Julian is a sought-after guest at all the A-list parties and considered one of the most eligible bachelors in town. And he plans to stay that way.

In a museum by the sea, rooms breathe with salt and light. Called back to restore a fragile collection, an art conservator begins to mend not only varnish and glass, but the quiet fractures of a life paused mid-gesture. Each gallery carries a different weather—letters that taste of brine, photographs haloed by time, objects that refuse to forget. As tides lean against the windows and shadows arrive a moment late, she discovers that preservation isn’t the return of what was lost; it is the slow acceptance of what remains.

Love is in the air in wartime England—but so is murder. Crofter’s Green is abuzz with excitement. Seven young couples are preparing to say their vows at a Valentine's Day celebration—an event made even more thrilling by the expected arrival of a very important (and very secret) guest: the most famous woman in the world.

As the first female team owner in Major League Baseball, Reese Remington has spent her entire life preparing for this role. With a sharp mind and years of experience working behind the scenes, she’s more than qualified. But the public only sees a woman in a man’s world—not the person who’s earned their place on the field. Under constant scrutiny and pressure to prove herself, Reese can’t afford distractions.

What if a town could remember what you forgot? Fairchance, Pennsylvania was always quiet—a sleepy town where the days blurred and the past stayed buried. But when Wayne Clark receives a mysterious letter with no return address and a hauntingly familiar message, the stillness begins to tremble. As memories long-lost begin to surface, Wayne and childhood friend Lucille are pulled into a journey through forgotten summers, hidden tunnels, and a town that seems to breathe with memory itself.

Becker James is having a spectacularly bad season. Once a top draft pick, he’s now riding the bench in the minors, one failed save away from being cut. The highlight of his week? A lonely hour on a barstool at Sports Balls, Denver’s queerest watering hole—and Forest, the bartender with flannel sleeves, a gruff voice, and a beard that stars in Beck’s dreams.

Set in small town Montana, this romance series follows the six siblings of the Eden family as they each find love.

I hate Dante Moretti. He is cold, calculating and vicious. It’s no secret that he wiped out his former fiancée and her entire family on the eve of their wedding. He’s the kind of evil that makes even devils cry. But that’s not why I hate him. I hate him because he has taken the only thing I have left in this miserable world – my freedom. He has chained me to him because of a debt that I don’t owe. I just have the misfortune to share the bloodline of the man who does. And now I’m trapped in his gilded cage and the only thing I have left to do is run. And I try. I really do.

Having awakened a ground-breaking Celestial-rarity skill at the climax of his fight against the Eldritch Avatar, Orodan's problems have suddenly grown bigger. Otherworldly attention. The champions of various worlds come seeking to capture him for their own factions. Worst of all, his tendency to directly tell everyone about the time loops draws dangerous attention. That of those related to it.

‘My baby’s been taken,’ I sob into the phone. Blood is everywhere. My fiancé, Alex, is slumped beside the birthing pool, his head gashed open. The baby? Gone. I cradle my empty stomach, my empty arms. And then Alex looks at me — not with love, but with blame. This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. The move. The fresh start. The antenatal classes. The new friends. But nothing about this feels right. And as the sirens wail closer, I realize something terrible — someone planned this. Someone in our new life wanted our baby.

Mirrors of Indigo is a chilling, atmospheric gothic horror novel that blends psychological suspense with supernatural mystery. When artist Isobel Ashcroft inherits the eerie Ashcroft Manor after the death of a reclusive aunt, she enters a world haunted by mirrors that don't just reflect—but reveal. Each glass pane becomes a doorway to alternate realities, twisted selves, and long-buried family secrets.

When a reservation snafu strands hyper-organized marketer Sophie Caldwell in a honeymoon suite with barefoot travel photographer Liam Reyes, survival looks like painter’s tape down the middle and zero small talk. Then Isla Paradiso kicks off Wedding Week, the resort is overbooked, and a cheerful concierge lists them as “the happy couple.” To keep the room—and maybe enjoy a few perks—they agree to fake an engagement until the crowds thin. Couples’ massages become “research,” sunset cruises double as “content,” and one staged kiss short-circuits their boundaries.

Ultrarunner Andy Glaze has spent years moving through landscapes that test the limits of the human body—hundred-mile races, multi-day marathons, mountains and deserts that demanded everything. But the toughest endurance challenge Andy faced wasn’t found in any of those miles, it was in rebuilding a life shattered by addiction, institutional abuse, and a childhood full of chaos. This is the unfiltered story of how a kid fell hard but got back up even harder.