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She lost her leg in combat. He's losing everything he's built. Together, they'll discover that the strongest foundations are built on second chances. Former Army combat engineer Kendra Martinez swore she'd never return to Pine Ridge,Colorado—or face Dustin Carter, the man whose heart she broke eleven years ago. But when her father's health crisis brings her home, she discovers that Dustin's construction company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and he's struggling to raise his seven-year-old twins alone after losing his wife to cancer. Kendra knows she can save Carter & Sons Construction. ...

She told him it meant nothing. She's spent fifteen years wishing she could take it back. Maya Sterling has one last perfect summer before everything changes. In two weeks, she'll leave for boarding school and the prestigious future everyone expects of her. She doesn't have time for complications. She definitely doesn't have time to fall in love with her best friend. But Jake Patterson has other plans. He has eight days to show Maya that what's between them is real—eight days of stolen kisses, midnight beach walks, and a connection so intense it terrifies them both. When Jake tells Maya he...

She saw her death in his eyes. She loved him anyway. Lirien has the gift of foresight—and it's shown her nothing but loneliness. Until a dying stranger arrives in her village, and one touch reveals a future she never imagined: love, passion, and a daughter who will change the world. The price? Her own life. Aldric is the last of the dragon princes, slowly dying from twenty years of suppressed fire. He came to Thornhaven expecting death. He found Lirien instead—a woman who sees past every wall and makes him want to live again. They have nine months. Nine months of fierce love and ...

He vanished without a word. Five years later, he's back—and the secret she's been keeping just walked into the room. She never expected to see him again. Five years ago, Alexander Vale disappeared from Ella Marshall's life without explanation, leaving her heartbroken and pregnant. Now she's built a new life—running her grandmother's mountain lodge and raising their son alone. Then a winter storm rolls in. And so does Alex. He claims he left to protect her from dangerous enemies. He says he never stopped loving her. And when he sees the four-year-old boy with his gray eyes, everything ...

He broke her heart and disappeared. Now he's back for Christmas—and about to discover the daughter he never knew existed. Ten years ago, Ryan Mitchell left Pine Haven the night before college, breaking every promise he made to Mia Thornton—including the one to return. Now his father's heart attack forces him home to the small Colorado town he swore he'd never see again. Mia never left. She couldn't. She was pregnant. While Ryan was chasing dreams in Denver, Mia built a life, a thriving Christmas tree farm, and raised their daughter Holly alone. She's built walls around her heart that no...

She bought a condemned building sight unseen. He thought her dreams were impractical. Together, they'll build something that lasts. She came to Pine Ridge with nothing but hope—and a building everyone said couldn't be saved. Widow Clara Whitfield has spent every penny of her late husband's insurance on a condemned building in a Colorado mountain town she's never visited. Her dream? A lending library where the community can gather. The reality? Rotting floors, a collapsed ceiling, and a carpenter who thinks she's foolish for trying. He stopped believing in dreams the day his father died. ...

Writing one book is hard. Writing a series? That’s where most authors get stuck. Whether you’re on book one or book five, building a fiction series that keeps readers coming back — and keeps you from burning out — takes more than momentum. It takes strategy. In How to Write a Fiction Series That Sells, author coach and blurb expert Janice Lam gives you a practical, no-fluff guide to planning, pacing, and sustaining a series that works. You’ll learn how to: Map a series arc readers will follow to the end Avoid mid-series burnout and plot fatigue Create cliffhangers that convert —...

A prophet marked for sacrifice. A storm-wielding warrior haunted by what he’s done. Together, they might save a child destined to change the world. Lyralei Dreamweaver has spent weeks waking from the same relentless prophecy: a child wreathed in golden fire, a storm that devours the sky… and Lyralei dissolving into light. She knows what it means—she’s going to die, and soon. The Sanctuary is finally becoming a home for the fragment bearers—until Kael Stormwright, a dangerous new Stormcaller, turns their fragile peace into a battlefield of secrets and suspicion. He’s powerful ...

She quit her life to come home. He never stopped waiting. Can fifteen years of distance be bridged in one summer? Maya Sterling is drowning in a life she never wanted. As a marketing lawyer in Boston, she's successful, miserable, and so lonely she's forgotten what it feels like to belong. When a fifteen-year-old pact brings her back to her coastal hometown—and the time capsule she buried with her five best friends—she tells herself it's just a visit. Jake Patterson never left. He runs the family surf shop, walks his golden retriever Cooper on the same beach where he fell for Maya, and ...

She came to Pine Ridge to hide. He taught her it was safe to be found. Emma Sullivan fled Denver with nothing but fear and a desperate need to start over. Her ex-boyfriend's obsessive behavior drove her to the small mountain town of Pine Ridge, where she hoped to disappear into a quiet life as a third-grade teacher. The last thing she needs is another man complicating her carefully constructed peace. Mike Carter has spent years being the reliable one—the younger brother who shows up, fixes problems, and never asks for anything in return. When he volunteers to help with a school birdhouse ...

He betrayed everything he knew. She's the blade sent to silence him. Order spy Sorin Matthias made his choice—defection over duty, truth over comfortable lies. Now he's the most wanted man in three realms, hunted by the organization that trained him and the secrets he carries. Vera Nightwhisper has never failed an assassination. Cold, lethal, and utterly alone, she's the Order's perfect weapon—until her newly awakened Crown fragment refuses to let her kill. Every strike meant for Sorin's heart transforms into healing magic, binding her to the man she's supposed to destroy. Forced into ...

She condemned him to exile. He waited five years to prove her wrong. Knight-Commander Naeris Starborn has spent ten years as the Order's perfect weapon—obedient, deadly, and utterly loyal. But when she discovers an ancient artifact in a ruined fortress, everything she believed shatters along with her silver magic. The relic awakening inside her is a fragment of the legendary Crown of Unity, destroyed a thousand years ago to "protect" the realms. And the Order that raised her? They're the ones who broke it. Now hunted by the very organization she served, Naeris has nowhere to turn—except...

Before the love that saved him, there was the war that broke him. A powerful Civil War prequel to the Frontier Hearts historical romance series. Before Elijah Reynolds becomes the man capable of deep love, devotion, and sacrifice, he must first survive a war that nearly destroys him. In 1859, Elijah is a Tennessee farm boy with a close-knit family and a simple dream of life on the land. When tragedy steals everything he loves and the Civil War drags him into its blood-soaked grasp, Elijah is forged into a soldier—and then shattered by what he becomes. From the battlefields of Shiloh and ...

When the world shut down, love found a way. Brittney never expected a pandemic to change her life—or that helping a stranger at the grocery store would lead to the love of her life. Stuck in lockdown in neighboring apartments, she and Atticus fall for each other from their balconies, six feet apart. Through handwritten notes slipped under doors, late-night phone calls, and sunset conversations across the divide, they build something real in the midst of chaos. But when isolation ends and the real world crashes back in, can a relationship built on distance survive proximity? From balcony ...

She was the Order's perfect archivist. He was the fae prince sent as a political hostage. Their love was forbidden. Their research was treason. Their separation was inevitable. Naeris Starborn has spent her entire life following the rules. As a Junior Archivist at the prestigious Celestial Citadel, she's on track for promotion, respect, and everything she's ever worked toward. Until the night she catches Prince Dain Evernight breaking into the forbidden archives. She should report him. Arrest him. Do her duty to the Order that raised her. Instead, she lets him go. And returns the next night...

One rental scam. Two strangers. Four hundred square feet of pure chaos. ER nurse Lila Chen and struggling musician Evan Brooks have nothing in common except one thing: they've both been scammed by the same fake landlord. Desperate and broke, they reluctantly agree to share a cramped studio apartment in Queens—temporarily, of course. The rules are simple: stay out of each other's way, no romance, and definitely no falling in love. But forced proximity has a way of breaking even the strictest rules. Between coffee wars, passive-aggressive notes, and stolen glances across their tiny ...

A love that transcends time - can a modern woman leave everything behind for a Lakota warrior from the 18th century? Cursed as a werewolf. Banished from his tribe. Transported to present day America. Towering skyscrapers loomed. Roaring engines echoed. White Eagle met kind eyes - the chief's daughter, Lori. But as shadowy government agents closed in seeking to unravel the secrets of his curse, White Eagle found himself torn between two worlds and two loves. Memories of Little Feather battled against the allure of Lori's gentle touch. As the agents' nets tightened, White Eagle knew his time ...

Morrigan has spent centuries as the Keeper of the Veil, the guardian between realms, her power unmatched and her heart untouched. She does not bend. She does not falter. And she never allows trespassers to cross the Veil. Until him. Riven steps through the barrier that no fae should be able to breach, his presence igniting something dark and forbidden in the magic she was sworn to protect. His power is ancient, his name one she has only heard whispered in the oldest of myths—an exiled prince, cast out for the danger he posed. He shouldn’t be here. He shouldn’t be possible. And yet, ...