STARDEW VALLEY meets STUDIO GHIBLI in a charming cozy fantasy about healing, redemption, and the subtle magic of simple living. Perfect for fans of Can't Spell Treason Without Tea and The Spellshop. Welcome home, weary traveler. When Oaklin Nettlewood accidentally joined an evil world-ending cult, mind control magic forced them to do unspeakable things. Years later, the realm's heroes have finally saved the day, defeated the villain, and shattered the last remnants of the Continue Reading
Review: Game of Rogues by Julie Anne Long
Game of Rogues by Julie Anne LongThe Palace of Rogues #9Historical Romance June 2, 2026 by Avon Review by Melanie Julie Anne Long’s The Palace of Rogues series has delivered one banger after another and the latest entry is no different. One of the reasons I love this series more than her Pennyroyal Green series is because even though the other series features two actual families, this series gives us a true sense of home and found family within the walls of the Grand Palace on the Continue Reading
New Releases- Week of June 1-5, 2026
Contemporary Romance/Romantic Suspense:Father Material (London Calling Book 3) by Alexis HallAMZ * BN * K * GP The One Who Saw Her: Boone (Callahan Legacy Book 1) by Marina AdairAMZ * BN * K * GP For the Bride: A Novel by Becca GrischowAMZ * BN * K * GP Room Serviced by Roxie NoirAMZ * BN * K * GP The Open Era by Edward SchmitAMZ * BN * K * GP Fake Out Make Out: the steamy espionage thriller of the summer! by Kate WilliamsAMZ * BN * K * GP Just Playing for Keeps (Hockey Ever After Book 2) Continue Reading
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Two strangers find themselves stranded at sea together in this epic new love story by bestselling author Beth O’Leary.What if you were lost at sea…with your one-night stand?Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no intentions of seeing each other again. Zeke is only in town for the weekend to buy back his late father’s houseboat. Lexi has no time for dating when she needs to help take care of her best friend's daughter.Going back home with a stranger seems like a perfect Continue Reading
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From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her part–even if it breaks his heart.Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
Retro Review: Shacking Up by Helena Hunting
Review originally posted on May 31, 2017 by Mandi. Shacking Up by Helena HuntingReleased: May 30, 2017Contemporary RomanceSwerve Two years ago I read Pucked by Helena Hunting and I liked it a lot – it really made me laugh. I think I read the follow-up to that book but have not tried her again until now. While Pucked is very over-the-top silly (I think the heroine puts a cape of the hero’s peen…if I remember correctly) Shacking Up is more sweet and low-key, with Continue Reading
Release Blitz for Low Blow by A.D. Justice
Title: Low BlowSeries: No Safe Corner #1 Author: A.D. Justice Genre: Romantic SuspenseTropes: Protective Alpha Boxer, Fearless HeroineBuried Past, Corrupt Power, Slow BurnRelease Date: May 28, 2026 BLURB She rebuilt herself from nothing.He never expected to be the one she'd have to fight hardest to resist.Andi Morgan clawed her way out of a past designed to destroy her — foster care, silence, survival — and built something no one could take away: a youth center, a career, a life that Continue Reading
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“I cannot recommend this series enough.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Ali HazelwoodCharlotte Holmes’s brilliant deductive skills are tested by a murder at sea—a case that threatens to reveal her secret identity as Sherlock Holmes—in this intriguing Victorian mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of A Study in Scarlet Women.After feigning her own death in Cornwall to escape from Moriarty’s perilous attention, Charlotte Holmes goes into hiding. But then she receives a tempting Continue Reading