Six years ago, D.C. homicide detective Sam Holland spent one unforgettable night with a powerful political insider — and then never heard from him again. She assumed he’d blown her off. She was wrong. When their paths cross again, the attraction is immediate and the complications are considerable: Nick Cappuano is now a U.S. Senator, Sam is the lead detective on a high-profile murder case, and someone wants both of them dead. 🔍

Marie Force is one of romantic suspense’s most commercially successful authors, and the Fatal series is the engine that built her readership — a long-running D.C.-set saga that marries genuine procedural plotting with an emotionally intense central romance. Sam Holland is the kind of heroine the genre does best: tough, funny, professionally formidable, and completely undone by the one person she didn’t see coming. 💼

The box set format collects the first three novels and a novella, which means this is an extraordinary entry point into a series with a massive, devoted fanbase. Force writes the murder investigations with enough procedural credibility to satisfy thriller readers, while keeping the romance front and center for readers who want their suspense with genuine emotional stakes. 🌃

What makes this essential: Three complete novels and a novella from one of romantic suspense’s biggest names — following D.C. detective Sam Holland and Senator Nick Cappuano through murder investigations, political intrigue, and a second-chance romance where every case brings them closer and puts them in greater danger. Free today and an extraordinary value for anyone who hasn’t yet discovered why this series has millions of devoted readers.

Camilla Stewart arrives in the tiny beach town of Pajaro Bay with no gas, no plan, a stolen child in her passenger seat, and a key to an abandoned cottage she has no business holding. The child is her ex-fiancé’s eight-year-old son, left behind when his father disappeared after cleaning out her accounts. The cottage turns out to be charming. The town turns out to have secrets. The local cop turns out to be handsome and very interested in what exactly she’s doing there. 🌊

Barbara Cool Lee builds her Pajaro Bay series on the kind of small-town warmth that clean romance does best — quirky neighbors who appoint themselves your personal recovery committee, a community with history and personality, and a heroine who arrives broken and leaves, eventually, with something worth keeping. The mystery element — a killer somehow connected to Camilla, the boy, and the cottage — gives the novel enough plot momentum to keep the pages turning between the character beats. 🏡

The combination of cozy mystery and wholesome romance is well-balanced here: enough danger to create genuine stakes, enough warmth to make the resolution satisfying rather than merely procedural. For readers who want their romance free of explicit content and their mysteries free of graphic violence, Pajaro Bay is the series they’ve been looking for. 🌸

Why this delights from page one: A warm, charming clean romance about a woman who runs out of gas in a beach town, inherits a mysterious cottage, and discovers that starting over is considerably more complicated — and more wonderful — than she’d planned. Free today and a perfect series opener for fans of Debbie Macomber who want their small-town fiction cozy, character-rich, and guaranteed to leave them reaching for book two.

Arwen Forester is a socially awkward introvert with exceptional skills in tracking, archery, foraging, and — crucially — pickling. None of these pay particularly well. When her father’s farm falls behind on taxes, she takes the only job available: hunt down a half-dragon criminal with the power to incinerate people who irritate him. All she has to do is tag him with a tracking device. How hard could it be? The answer, as it turns out, is very. 🏹

Lindsay Buroker is one of indie fantasy’s most prolific and beloved authors, with a gift for protagonists who are competent in unusual ways and perpetually placed in situations where their particular competencies are just barely sufficient. Arwen is a genuinely fresh urban fantasy heroine — her introversion and self-sufficiency are character strengths rather than quirks to be overcome, and the half-dragon target turns out to be considerably more complicated than a simple bounty. 🐉

The Tracking Trouble series has all the ingredients Buroker readers love: brisk pacing, dry humor, a gradually deepening mythology, and a romance that develops slowly enough to feel earned. For new readers, this is an excellent entry point into an author who has built one of the most loyal audiences in the genre. 🌟

What makes this irresistible: A fast, funny urban fantasy about an expert tracker with a pickling hobby, a desperate financial situation, and a new gig hunting a half-dragon who can incinerate her at will. Free today — perfect for fans of Ilona Andrews and Patricia Briggs who want their fantasy heroines resourceful, their heroes complicated, and their magic systems genuinely inventive.

Real estate agent Kate Parker has a system. Order, routine, clear professional boundaries — and a temporary moratorium on men after being burned one too many times. Then she signs a new client: Adam King, wealthy investor, self-proclaimed bachelor, and a man who treats “she has a strict no-dating-clients rule” as an opening position rather than a firm boundary. Her summer of sensible decisions is not going according to plan. 🏡

Jamie Arras writes romantic comedy with the timing the genre demands — the push-pull between Kate’s careful self-protection and Adam’s cheerful determination to dismantle it is executed with real wit, and the opposites-attract dynamic is given enough friction to feel genuine rather than convenient. Adam’s willingness to pursue her is matched by Kate’s genuine reasons for resistance, which is what separates good rom-com from the kind that asks you to root for someone ignoring a clear no. 💼

The eventual betrayal — public and significant — gives the novel a third-act emotional gut-punch that earns its resolution, and Arras brings the two characters back together in a way that requires both of them to grow rather than just one. For fans of the enemies-to-lovers workplace romance, this delivers the formula with enough personality to feel fresh. 😄

Why this charms from page one: A witty, fast-moving romantic comedy about a by-the-book real estate agent, a wealthy investor who has decided her rules are more of a suggestion, and a summer that goes completely sideways in the best possible way. Free today — perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Helen Hoang who want their rom-com sharp, their banter crackling, and their happy endings properly earned.

Ruby Hutchinson is a bestselling author whose novel is hitting every list going — which should be thrilling, and would be, if her publisher hadn’t decided that the final stop on her worldwide book tour will be Crumbleton: her quirky hometown on the hill, the place she left years ago and has been successfully avoiding ever since. She has exactly one signing to survive and then she can escape. Her past, as it turns out, has other ideas. 📚

Beth Rain builds her romantic comedy on a premise that rom-com does particularly well — the reluctant homecoming, where everything the protagonist fled is still exactly where she left it, waiting with infinite patience. Crumbleton is the kind of fictional small town that earns its adjective: specific enough to feel inhabited, warm enough to make the reader understand why Ruby is the only one who can’t see what she left behind. ☕

The celebrity-author angle gives the novel a layer of comic friction that small-town romance doesn’t always have — Ruby’s carefully constructed public persona colliding with a community that knew her before any of it is a gift for character-based humor, and Rain uses it well. The romance develops against a backdrop of genuine stakes about what kind of life Ruby actually wants. 🌿

What makes this irresistible: A warm, funny romantic comedy about a bestselling author forced to return to the quirky hometown she escaped — and the past that refuses to stay conveniently in the rearview mirror. Free today — perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan and Mhairi McFarlane who want their romantic comedy set somewhere charming, built on genuine character warmth, and impossible to put down in a single sitting.

The Rushmore Inn is a bed and breakfast hidden in the hills of West Virginia — remote, oddly decorated in presidential memorabilia, run by an eccentric proprietor who seems very eager for guests to check in and very uninterested in helping them check out. When the official event hotel for a national Iron Woman triathlon overbooks, competitor Maria ends up there against her better judgment. She should have trusted her better judgment. 🏚️

J.A. Konrath is one of horror thriller’s most reliable architects of pure dread, and Endurance earns its reputation as one of the genre’s more genuinely disturbing entries. The setup is deceptively simple — a locked-room horror scenario in a location that feels wrong from the first paragraph — and Konrath builds the tension with methodical precision before unleashing what the Rushmore Inn actually contains. This is not a novel for the faint of heart. 😱

The Iron Woman setting gives the novel an unusual protagonist type for horror — physically formidable women trained for endurance rather than the genre’s traditional victims — which Konrath uses to subvert expectations in ways that make the horror more rather than less effective. The question isn’t whether Maria can fight back; it’s whether fighting back is even possible against what she finds inside. 🔒

Why this terrifies from page one: A relentlessly disturbing horror thriller set in the world’s most dangerous bed and breakfast — featuring a remote West Virginia location, a locked door with no exit, and secrets that no guest has survived long enough to share. Free today — perfect for fans of Thomas Harris and Blake Crouch who want their horror fiction genuinely unsettling, expertly plotted, and impossible to read after dark.

When bookshop owner Sarah Smith is offered a six-month job exchange with her Parisian friend Sophie, she says yes without hesitation — because what kind of romantic turns down Paris? She imagines literature-filled days, snow falling on the Eiffel Tower, and regular reunions with her globe-trotting journalist boyfriend Ridge. The reality involves rude customers, suspicious coworkers, and a relationship that has quietly degraded into a long-distance game of phone tag. 🗼

Rebecca Raisin writes the kind of warmly escapist women’s fiction that earns its reputation through character rather than setting — Paris is gorgeous backdrop, but it’s Sarah’s fish-out-of-water navigation of a foreign workplace, a foreign city, and a relationship that isn’t quite working the way she’d hoped that gives the novel its emotional substance. The bookshop setting is richly rendered without becoming precious. 📖

The Christmas backdrop adds seasonal warmth to what is fundamentally a story about a woman deciding what she actually wants from her life and whether the people in it are willing to show up for her in return. Raisin handles the romance and the professional chaos with equal lightness, and the result is the kind of novel that disappears in a long afternoon. ☕

Why this delights from page one: A warm, witty women’s fiction novel about a bookshop owner who trades small-town England for a Parisian bookshop and discovers that city of light has a few surprises in store. Perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan and Debbie Macomber who want their escapist fiction set somewhere gorgeous, built on genuine character warmth, and guaranteed to leave them smiling.

Truman Capote became a literary star in his teens and never quite recovered from it. The man who gave the world Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood — two works that essentially invented their own genres — spent the second half of his life dismantling everything he’d built, trading his desk for dinner parties and his discipline for addiction. Gerald Clarke’s definitive biography, published four years after Capote’s death, is the account that finally made sense of both the genius and the wreckage. ✍️

Clarke’s access was extraordinary — hundreds of hours of interviews with Capote himself and the people closest to him, conducted over years — and the result is a portrait of unusual intimacy and depth. The social world Capote inhabited at his peak is rendered in full, glittering detail: the parties, the famous friends, the notorious Black and White Ball, the slow erosion of all of it as his behavior became impossible to overlook or forgive. 🖤

What distinguishes this biography from lesser celebrity profiles is Clarke’s unflinching commitment to the complexity of his subject. Capote was brilliant and destructive, charming and cruel, a genuine literary artist who made choices that mystified everyone who loved him. Clarke doesn’t resolve the contradiction — he illuminates it, which is the more honest and more useful thing to do. 📚

What makes this essential: The definitive biography of one of American literature’s most dazzling and self-destructive figures — built on hundreds of hours of interviews and told with the kind of intimate, unflinching detail that only the best literary biography achieves. At $2.99, it’s an extraordinary bargain for anyone fascinated by genius, ambition, and the complicated human cost of both.

British Intelligence operative Paul Chavasse has a new assignment: get himself sent to prison. It sounds straightforward enough — a clandestine organization called The Bureau has been springing convicts with military precision, and the next target is likely Harry Youngblood, a disgruntled associate who could lead Chavasse straight to the mysterious figure known only as the Baron. All he has to do is get close to Youngblood, follow him out, and unmask the man running the operation. Then stay alive. 🔒

Jack Higgins was one of the defining voices of mid-century British espionage fiction, and the Paul Chavasse series represents some of his most propulsive work — tightly plotted, economically written, and built on the kind of escalating complications that make airport thrillers feel essential rather than disposable. Chavasse is a protagonist worth following: competent without being invincible, and placed consistently in situations where competence is not quite enough. 🕵️

The prison infiltration setup gives the novel an unusual shape for a spy thriller — the first act is effectively a prison drama, which puts Chavasse’s tradecraft under different pressure than a standard field operation. Higgins uses the constraint well, and the transition from prison to pursuit lands with genuine momentum. At $1.99, this is an exceptional entry point into a classic series. 🌑

Why this grips from page one: A taut, expertly plotted British espionage thriller featuring an operative who gets himself imprisoned to crack a mysterious jailbreak organization — and discovers the Baron’s operation is considerably more dangerous than anyone anticipated. Perfect for fans of Alistair MacLean and Hammond Innes who want their spy fiction lean, fast-moving, and built on the kind of cold-blooded tradecraft that defined the genre’s golden era.

Bob Proctor built his reputation as one of the personal development world’s most systematic thinkers — the man who could take the abstract territory of mindset and potential and turn it into a practical, step-by-step method that actually produces results. Born Rich is his foundational argument: that success isn’t about acquiring what you don’t have, but about recognizing and rearranging what’s already there. 💡

Proctor’s core insight is that most people are operating well below their actual capacity — not because of external circumstances but because of internal programming that was installed long before they had any say in the matter. The book works systematically through the mental and financial patterns that keep people stuck, offering concrete tools for identifying and shifting them. His prose has the quality of a skilled teacher: clear, logical, and building toward conclusions that feel both inevitable and genuinely useful. 💰

For readers who have bounced off more abstract manifestation-focused self-help, Proctor’s approach offers something more grounded — the emphasis is on understanding how your thinking actually works rather than simply willing different outcomes into existence. The financial applications are specific enough to be actionable, and the mindset work is practical rather than merely inspirational. 🌟

What makes this essential: A practical, systematic personal development guide from one of the field’s most respected teachers — built on the insight that your greatest untapped resource is the potential already inside you. At $3.99, it’s an accessible entry point into Proctor’s approach for anyone ready to stop wondering why their results don’t match their ambitions and start doing something specific about it.

Night Vale is a small desert town somewhere in the American Southwest where angels are real but not legally acknowledged, the Dog Park must never be entered or even looked at directly, and a mysterious man in a tan jacket carrying a deerskin suitcase has been handing out slips of paper marked “KING CITY” — and no one who meets him can remember anything about him afterward. Pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro has one of those papers stuck to her hand and is determined to figure out why. 🌵

Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor built one of the most devoted podcast audiences in history with Welcome to Night Vale, and the novel translates the show’s singular atmosphere into long-form fiction with impressive ease. The humor is bone-dry, the horror is casual, and the emotional core — two women navigating grief, identity, and a town that operates on its own completely inexplicable logic — is surprisingly affecting. 👁️

For listeners already familiar with Night Vale, the novel deepens the world in ways the episodic format couldn’t; for newcomers, it works perfectly as a standalone introduction to a universe unlike anything else in contemporary fiction. The dual protagonist structure gives the narrative two distinct emotional registers that Fink and Cranor balance with real skill. 🌙

Why this captivates from page one: A gloriously weird, surprisingly moving novel set in a desert town where the surreal is mundane and the mundane is occasionally terrifying — featuring two women, two mysteries, and a man in a tan jacket that nobody can quite remember. Perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams who want their absurdist fiction warm, funny, and genuinely impossible to predict.