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I came from nothing and became known as the Reaper. The most feared CIA assassin in the business. Then I retired, faked my death, and now spend my time running my casino. But there’s one part of my past I can’t let go—the tiny female assassin who’s vowed to kill me. We were mentored by the same man, a man we both considered a father, but there’s nothing brotherly about what I feel for Lark. Now, we’re enemies and she won’t rest until I’m dead. I won’t rest until she’s mine.

It began with the sound of laughter—faint, familiar, and entirely out of place. Tiara Water paused on the cobbled path outside her grandson’s school, the morning sun warming her back, unaware that within minutes her world would tilt. A whisper carried on the breeze led her to a truth buried beneath decades of marriage: her husband, Wally, and her half-sister, Sarah, bound together by a secret love. In the quiet corners of their home, behind the locked door of an old safe, lay the proof—letters, photographs, a life she was never meant to see.

Lucy Collins thought her marriage was unshakeable. But in the stillness of a Sydney high-rise, the arrival of Sandra Sparks—a mesmerizing woman who draws every gaze—starts to unravel everything she believed to be true. Michael, her scholarly husband, seems to despise Sandra. Yet beneath his cool exterior lies a tension Lucy can't ignore. When a sudden elevator mishap makes Michael instinctively reach for Sandra instead of his own family, Lucy’s world tilts. Trust falters. Doubt creeps in. And the illusion of a perfect life begins to fracture.

What if the life you were meant to live belonged to someone else? When Shirley Grayson returns to her rightful place in the elite Grayson family after a lifetime spent in obscurity, she steps into a world of marble halls, velvet lies, and smiles sharpened like knives. But beneath her calm façade lies a mind sharper than anyone expects—and a past that refuses to stay buried. With enemies disguised as siblings and allies lurking in unlikely corners, Shirley must navigate a gilded battlefield where every word is a weapon.

Code blue in the ER. That's how I end up in his hospital. In my brother's best friend's care. Dr. Blake Morrison starred in every fantasy I’ve had since sixteen. Now he’s the only one who believes something’s truly wrong with me—the only one who can save me. But with each passing day, each failed diagnosis, I see him changing. The brilliant, controlled doctor is becoming something else. Something darker. More possessive.

Hot-headed. Stubborn. Absolutely no impulse control. That's who I am, according to my brothers and business partners. We run one of the top companies in the country, and we're growing fast. When I start interviewing for a key position, my brothers firmly advise me against hiring Kinley. Of course, I hire her anyway, and not just because she's insanely gorgeous.

My name’s Kimberley. I’m twenty-five. I have epilepsy, a seizure alert dog named Muffin, and a job I love as a senior housekeeper in one of London’s top hotels. I’m used to being invisible. Overlooked. Safe. But that was before Jennifer Clifton checked in. She’s rich, powerful, terrifyingly calm — and she asks for me by name. She offers me my dream job, working in her exclusive hotel in the Scottish Highlands. It’s more money than I ever imagined.

Clara Bloom never expected her cozy café of forgotten trinkets and handwritten story tags to become the scene of a mystery. But when a brooch linked to a high-profile theft ends up on her shelf, so does Detective Eli Mercer: all logic, no small talk, and completely immune to the café’s whimsical charm…or so he thinks.

You’ve seen the headlines. The rockets. The cars. The Twitter chaos. The $290 million election bet. But you haven’t seen this. Most books about Elon Musk tell you what he did. This one tells you why. And the answer is far stranger, far darker, and far more human than anything you’ve read before. It starts in a bedroom in Pretoria, South Africa, where a small boy sat reading an encyclopedia for the third time while his father’s unpredictable mood filled the house below.

Doctor Eugene Wallace was looking forward to a quiet summer between semesters, until the Army came calling. Gene's life was going great. He'd finally been granted tenure, was regularly asked to peer review work done by other geneticists, and no parents had yelled at him about their adult children failing the previous semester. Had to count those small wins. But everything changes when two men from the Army pay him a visit with wild claims that there are cisgender men who can get pregnant. They brought the scans to prove it, and the number of men they claim are like that doesn't make sense.

In the winter hush of Prague, museum restorer Clara discovers a disassembled clock and a diary from 1923 signed by a vanished clockmaker, Emil Svoboda. Inside its brass heart lies a mechanism that can steal an hour—or return it. Drawn by curiosity and haunted compassion, Clara restores the device and unwittingly opens a bridge through time, allowing Emil to cross for a single minute each midnight. What begins as an encounter between history and repair becomes a meditation on love, ethics, and the fragile machinery of forgiveness.

In modern-day London, Alexander Harrington, a young architect bound by family duty, enters an arranged marriage with Eleanor Sinclair, a fiercely independent journalist. Initially strangers united only by a business deal, they navigate familial pressures and a hidden debt that ties their families together. Through shared moments—cooking mishaps and art gallery visits—their guarded hearts begin to open, sparking an unexpected connection. A misunderstanding fueled by jealousy tests their fragile trust, but a rain-soaked confession cements their bond.

A lush jungle teeming with danger. Savage dinosaurs seeking blood. A fallen princess intent on vengeance. A mysterious, end-of-floor celebration for the top crawlers, dubbed “The Butcher’s Masquerade”. The sixth floor. The Hunting Grounds. As the remaining crawlers battle for their lives, a new, terrible threat looms. Outside, tourists are finally allowed to enter the game, and they are here and ready to hunt. Among them is Vrah, a famed and veteran hunter, intent on collecting the biggest trophy of her career.

A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way. A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the head of a friend.

When an EMP strike plunges the country into chaos, off-grid homesteader May Bloom must survive a collapsing world and find her missing sister before it's too late. As panic spreads and systems fail, May’s quiet town becomes ground zero for a disaster no one saw coming.

Seventeen-year-old Craig Blackmore is a first generation child of Golf Alpha One-One-Seven, AKA Greenacres, the heavy gravity and magic starved world that humanity chose as its first colony. Eighteen years after the Vorsook war ended, young Craig is newly orphaned, a fugitive from trouble, and bound for Earth to take a legacy spot at College Arcane. With a scant hope of leaving his troubles behind him, Craig begins life on the home world at the same school his mother once attended. The same school that produced the most powerful witch ever—Declan O'Carroll—the Steward.

Just when the past seemed long buried, it returns with a knock. Nathan Miller — a composed and thoughtful literature professor — finds himself forced to confront the memories he’s spent years trying to forget. Ava Reynolds reappears without warning, bringing with her the echoes of a love that once fell apart — and the reasons never spoken aloud. Caught between a picture-perfect fiancée and a former lover bearing long-held secrets, Nathan is swept into a storm of emotions he can't quite name.

When Dr. Hannah Sparks receives an emergency call in the middle of the night, she’s prepared to save a life—but not to confront her husband’s mistress on the operating table. As betrayal cuts deeper than any scalpel, Hannah must balance the duty of her profession with the wreckage of her personal life. Trapped between a crumbling marriage and public scandal, she’s forced to operate on the very woman who shattered her world. With secrets unraveling and emotions flaring, Hannah faces an impossible choice: heal the broken or break free herself.

No one believes she deserves to be a rider. Except for him. But he may be her greatest threat of all. Zaydah has dreamed her whole life of becoming a rider of the creatures in the sky. In a kingdom always at war, there’s no greater honor than joining their ranks. She and her best friend, Brev, have trained every day for the last ten years to earn their place and follow in their fathers’ footsteps. In the Black Mountains, where the military sprawls over its hilltop base, not everyone remembers their fathers as heroes. The king has forbidden their last names to be spoken aloud.

A concert pianist built on discipline and silence meets the one truth she can’t outplay: a tremor in her right hand and the unfinished songs of a life lived for perfection. In luminous, breath-held chapters, The Distance Between Heartbeats follows a return from burnout to belonging—through a recording studio’s red light, a doctor’s gentle orders to rest, the memory of a lover who taught her to “slow the pauses,” and the terrifying grace of stepping back onstage without guarantees.