NATIONAL BESTSELLER • To save his family’s failing funeral home—and his own chance at a queer love story—a reluctant clairvoyant must embrace the gift he long ignored in this poignant and warmhearted debut.
“For top-notch drama, this year’s medal goes to Rules for Ghosting. . . . Here, actual ghosts haunt the quiet and tender moments, and it’s the scenes at family holidays that leave you rattled and gasping.”—The New York Times Book Review (“One of the Best Romance Novels of 2024”)
Ezra Friedman sees ghosts, which made growing up in a funeral home complicated. It might have been easier if his grandfather’s ghost didn’t give him scathing looks of disapproval as he went through a second, HRT-induced puberty, or if he didn’t have the pressure of all those relatives—living and dead—judging every choice he makes. It’s no wonder that Ezra runs as far away from the family business as humanly possible.
But when the floor of his dream job drops out from under him and his mother uses the family Passover seder to tell everyone she’s running off with the rabbi’s wife, Ezra finds himself back in the thick of it. With his parents’ marriage imploding and the Friedman Family Memorial Chapel on the brink of financial ruin, Ezra agrees to step into his mother’s shoes and help out . . . which means long days surrounded by ghosts that no one else can see.
And then there’s his unfortunate crush on Jonathan, the handsome funeral home volunteer . . . who just happens to live downstairs from Ezra’s new apartment . . . and the appearance of the ghost of Jonathan’s gone-too-soon husband, Ben, who is breaking every spectral rule that Ezra knows.
Because Ben can speak. He can move. And as Ezra tries to keep his family together and his heart from getting broken, he realizes that there’s more than one way to be haunted—and more than one way to become a ghost.
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One heart can burn the way to freedom…
Everyone knows you don’t mess with the empire. Our tyrannical overlords rule our conquered kingdom with an iron fist. Even after they killed my parents and left me orphaned and ostracized, I’ve swallowed my resentment. I survive by keeping my head down, scavenging the scraps my neighbors discard.
But when I see the empire’s soldiers destroying my mother’s last sculpture in the town square, years of bottled rage boil over.
I never expect my sudden act of defiance to spark a full-out rebellion. Now I’m at odds with the empire’s entire army with nothing but my wits and sheer stubbornness on my side. Well, that and three incredible men I’m guarding my heart from, because they can’t possibly want a nobody like me… can they?
No one thinks I stand a chance, but I’m done with cowering. I’ll lead my country to freedom–or die trying.
*Heart of Defiance is a short standalone reverse harem romantasy novel set in the fantasy world of the Abandoned Realms, about a century before the events in the Rites of Possession and Royal Spares series. No prior knowledge of the world is required!*
Heart of Defiance: An Abandoned Realms Novel (The Royal Spares) by Eva Chase- FREE for a limited time.
In this Gilded Age gothic homage to “Gaslight” starring Ingrid Bergman, a wealthy young newlywed in early 20th century New York is isolated within her opulent, yet ominously empty mansion by the charismatic and controlling new husband plotting to undermine her sanity…
“A gothic mystery as full of twists and turns as a Victorian staircase. I couldn’t put it down!” —Lisa Jackson, #1 New York Times bestselling author
1908, Long Island: For Millie Turner, the young and beautiful wife of a powerful New York stockbroker, Rose Briar Hall—a gleaming edifice of white marble on the North Shore—is more than a home. Every lavish detail speaks of Charles Turner’s status and wealth, and its stylish interior is testament to Millie’s sophistication. All that’s left is to prove her worthiness to be his bride. What better way than to throw a grand party for New York’s social elite?
After painstaking planning, the night of the event arrives and all is perfection—until Millie wakes to a cold, eerily quiet house, and a gray cloud where her memory should be. Can it be true that she has been in and out of consciousness for weeks, ever since the party took a terrifying turn? Millie recalls nothing. But her friends have shunned her, and it soon becomes clear that if she can’t find out what really happened that night, much more than her reputation will be at risk . . .
As the house that promised so much happiness begins to feel more like a prison, Millie wonders whether a woman alone, even a wealthy one, can ever be entirely safe. And if she succeeds in finding the truth, will it bring relief, or shake her marriage, and her life, to the core?
Secrets of Rose Briar Hall by Kelsey James – $2.99 for a limited time.
Her perfect man wasn’t supposed to be a male escort.
Vicar Eveline Shaw has always dreamed of finding ‘the one’, but her job keeps getting in the way. Only one person has ever made her soul sing – a perfect stranger who walked away without a second glance.
Jack Newton has a talent few men have, but his job’s a dirty secret, and as his bank account gets bigger, his heart gets smaller. He left his one chance at happiness at a bar and didn’t look back.
Dragged back to Somerset after a family crisis, Jack discovers his dream woman living in Foxbrooke. But Eveline wants forever, and he’s an escort with no plans to stick around.
As the sparks flying between them ignite into an explosive affair, Jack’s past catches up with him. Now he has to choose: keep running, or risk everything for love?
An Unholy Affair is a wickedly funny, super-steamy, standalone romantic comedy. No cheating, no cliffhanger – just pure, fiery chemistry and a heavenly happy ending!
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Fate brings together a ballet teacher and a hockey player in this big-hearted novel about second chances and taking risks by the bestselling author Entertainment Weekly calls the “master of witty banter.”
Once upon a time teenage Aurora Evans met a hockey player at the Mall of America. He was from Canada. And soon, he was the perfect fake boyfriend, a get-out-of-jail-free card for all kinds of sticky situations. I can’t go to prom. I’m going to be visiting my boyfriend in Canada. He was just what she needed to cover her social awkwardness. He never had to know. It wasn’t like she was ever going to see him again…
Years later, Aurora is teaching kids’ dance classes and battling panic and eating disorders—souvenirs from her failed ballet career—when pro hockey player Mike Martin walks in with his daughter. Mike’s honesty about his struggles with widowhood helps Aurora confront some of her own demons, and the two forge an unlikely friendship. There’s just one problem: Mike is the boy she spent years pretending was her “Canadian boyfriend.”
The longer she keeps her secret, the more she knows it will shatter the trust between them. But to have the life she wants, she needs to tackle the most important thing of all—believing in herself.
Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday – $1.99 for a limited time.
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