**Stella seems to have her whole life ahead of her:** she has just graduated with a dual masters in Psychology and Criminal Justice—the perfect foundation for her dream of becoming a criminal profiler—she is engaged to the man of her dreams after a whirlwind romance that felt like fate, and she is moving to the East Coast with him as she prepares for the wedding and searches for that dream job. She is unbelievably excited for her life together with Chris, imagining dinner parties, career success, and building a future. Until she meets his family. 💍

**Stella, from a humble Midwestern upbringing, never felt comfortable around money,** and she hates the world Chris comes from with a visceral intensity she didn’t expect. She is in shock at the culture clash as she gets to know his elitist family and friends, all of whom look down on her with barely concealed contempt—the girl who doesn’t know which fork to use, who didn’t attend the right schools, who doesn’t belong. Isolated and demeaned at every family gathering, Stella wonders if she can live a life in such hostile surroundings where every interaction feels like a test she’s designed to fail. **When they move into the guest house on his estate, things only get worse.** 🏰

Between navigating a family that treats her like an intruder, discovering that Chris’s world operates by rules she never learned, questioning whether love is enough when you’re drowning in hostility, and realizing that the man she married might not be who she thought, Stella’s dream life becomes a psychological nightmare. The whirlwind romance that swept her off her feet might have been hiding something far darker. And the guest house on the estate? It might not be temporary housing—it might be a cage. When psychology meets criminal justice in your own life, can you profile your way out before it’s too late? 🔍

What makes this gripping: Stella graduating with dual masters in Psychology and Criminal Justice engaged after whirlwind romance, moving to East Coast preparing for wedding searching for dream profiler job, from humble Midwestern upbringing never comfortable around money hating Chris’s elitist world, isolated and demeaned by family looking down on her, and moving into guest house on his estate making things only worse.

**Witchcraft, dark secrets, and demons. No one is safe in White Haven.** Avery, one of the five White Haven witches, practices her magic alone in deliberate isolation and spends her days working in her bookshop surrounded by ancient texts, refusing to join the coven despite repeated invitations. She has her reasons for staying separate—reasons she doesn’t discuss with anyone. However, days away from Litha, the summer solstice when magic peaks, **a deceased customer bequeaths her a rune-covered box and an intriguing letter that reveals the witches are missing a vital part of their history.** The news shatters her organized life completely. 🔮

**Five ancient family grimoires are hidden in the town, and within their pages lies a secret** powerful enough to change everything—or destroy them all. The grimoires were separated for a reason, hidden by ancestors who knew that some knowledge is too dangerous to keep together. Unable to resist a mystery (and cursed with the kind of curiosity that has gotten witches killed for centuries), Avery is determined to find them, consequences be damned. However, **the tarot cards predict danger,** and when another witch—the sexy but annoying Alex Bonneville who seems to take pleasure in contradicting everything she says—shares the same premonition, they know that an unknown enemy is determined to stop them using any means necessary. 🃏

Between searching for grimoires that don’t want to be found, working alongside Alex despite their combustible chemistry, deciphering runes that reveal dark family secrets, and facing an enemy who’s been waiting centuries for the grimoires to resurface, Avery discovers that **practicing magic alone was safer but finding the truth might be worth dying for.** The summer solstice is coming, magic is rising, and in White Haven, buried secrets never stay buried for long. Sometimes they claw their way to the surface and drag everyone down with them. 🌙

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**Ryan Kaine is on the run…** A seemingly routine operation—the kind he’s executed dozens of times without incident—ends in tragedy when eighty-three civilians are killed in an aircraft explosion that lights up the sky and dominates every news channel. Kaine, a highly decorated former Royal Marine with a service record most soldiers would envy, becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt that mobilizes every law enforcement agency in Britain. The police want him on terrorism charges that could put him away for life, and **a sinister organization wants him dead** before he can talk about what really happened. ✈️

In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, **Kaine is forced to rely on two women he barely knows**—a country veterinarian who treats his wounds without asking too many questions, and an IT expert with a dark secret of her own who can navigate digital systems the government thinks are secure. Kaine must battle his overwhelming guilt over the deaths of eighty-three innocent people, life-threatening injuries that slow him down when every second counts, and his strong moral code that says running makes him look guilty as he hunts for the people who turned him into a mass-murderer and framed him perfectly. 🏃

**Using his skill in combat, gut instincts, and new-found allies,** can Kaine uncover the truth and find redemption before the net closes? Between evading capture by authorities who shoot first, tracking the conspiracy that orchestrated the explosion, protecting the two women helping him who’ve become targets themselves, and fighting the guilt that threatens to destroy him faster than any bullet, Kaine discovers that sometimes the hardest mission isn’t surviving—it’s living with what you’re accused of doing. The clock is ticking, the country wants his head, and the real terrorists are still out there. 💥

What makes this pulse-pounding: Ryan Kaine on the run when routine operation ends in tragedy with eighty-three civilians killed in aircraft explosion, highly decorated former Royal Marine becoming nationwide manhunt target, police wanting him on terrorism charges and sinister organization wanting him dead, forced to rely on two women barely knows including country veterinarian and IT expert with dark secret, and using combat skills and gut instincts uncovering truth before net closes.

**A mysterious letter from the past, gut-punching muffins, and funky-smelling clues…** Tilly is finally settling into her new cottage in the quaint beach town of Belle Harbor where the ocean breeze smells like salt and second chances, and her new bakery partnership is starting to feel real—flour-dusted aprons, early morning baking sessions, and the satisfaction of creating something delicious. Life is good. Life is simple. Life is about to get complicated. 🧁

Then **Fiona convinces her to rummage through her uncle’s antique shop for décor,** and they stumble on something far better than beach treasures or vintage picture frames: evidence tied to a long-unsolved mystery that the town thought was buried forever. When **a distillery owner turns up dead** shortly after they start asking questions, Tilly and Fiona dig into Belle Harbor’s oldest family feud—the kind where everyone knows the history but nobody talks about it—and uncover lies, sabotage, and revenge that still stinks decades later like a bad batch of moonshine. 🔍

**Can Tilly follow the trail in time to keep her new friend from being blamed for murder?** Between baking muffins that somehow become evidence, decoding mysterious letters that reveal family secrets, investigating a feud that’s festered for generations, and navigating a small town where everyone’s connected and nobody’s innocent, Tilly discovers that sometimes the sweetest towns hide the bitterest secrets. And sometimes gut-punching muffins aren’t a baking mistake—they’re a clue. The funky smell? That’s not just old antiques. That’s the scent of decades-old revenge coming home to roost. 🕵️

What makes this delightful: Mysterious letter from past with gut-punching muffins and funky-smelling clues, Tilly settling into new Belle Harbor cottage with bakery partnership starting to feel real, Fiona convincing her to rummage through uncle’s antique shop stumbling on evidence tied to long-unsolved mystery, distillery owner turning up dead, and digging into Belle Harbor’s oldest family feud uncovering lies sabotage and revenge stinking decades later.

To secure the well-being of her beloved family facing financial ruin, **Melody Settrington agrees to marry Charles Cavendish, the elderly Earl of Edgington, despite her reservations** about marrying a man old enough to be her grandfather. However, the innocent young beauty has no idea what her new husband will demand of her once they are legally wed—the contract she signed in desperation contains clauses she never imagined. **It isn’t long however, before Melody discovers that the widowed earl had a purpose in choosing her for his bride,** the daughter of an impoverished country baron with no connections, no protectors, and nowhere to run. 💔

**Impotent and childless, Charles is in desperate need of an heir,** in addition to someone he can force into going along with the heinous scheme he has concocted to secure his family line. Gavin Montrose, son of the wealthy Duke of Rutherford, is as charming as he is handsome—everything young women dream of and precisely the man Charles needs for his plan. However, unbeknownst to him, **he is also the man Charles Cavendish has selected to father his heir.** Abducted from the grounds of his family’s country estate in broad daylight, he awakens to find himself in the midst of a nightmare he can’t escape. 😱

Assuming that he has been abducted for ransom by criminals who’ll release him when his family pays, Gavin is stunned to learn of his mysterious abductor’s true purpose—something far more personal and disturbing. **To gain his freedom and protect his family from harm, he must father a child he will never meet, with a woman whose name he will never know and whose face he will never see.** Between Melody’s desperate sacrifice to save her family, Charles’s twisted scheme to secure an heir, and Gavin’s imprisonment forcing an impossible choice, three lives collide in a dark Regency tale where duty, honor, and desire war against each other with devastating consequences. 🌹

What makes this dark: Melody Settrington agreeing to marry elderly Earl of Edgington Charles Cavendish despite reservations to secure beloved family’s well-being, innocent beauty having no idea what husband will demand once legally wed, discovering widowed earl had purpose choosing her as impoverished baron’s daughter, impotent and childless Charles needing heir selecting Gavin Montrose to father it, and Gavin abducted learning he must father child never meeting with woman whose name and face he’ll never know.

Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, **journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss.** Leaving behind his beloved wife Helen, he heads north to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands—a story censored by the U.S. government because admitting enemy occupation of American soil would devastate national morale. John believes the American people deserve to know the truth, even if the truth is terrifying. While John is accompanying a crew on a bombing run, his plane is shot down over the island of Attu, scattering survivors across hostile terrain. ✈️

**He survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving wilderness, known as “the birthplace of winds.”** There, John must battle the elements where temperatures plummet and visibility disappears in minutes, starvation as rations run out and hunting proves nearly impossible, and his own remorse over leaving Helen behind while evading discovery by the Japanese forces that patrol the island. Between finding shelter in a landscape that offers none, rationing whatever food he can scavenge, and moving constantly to avoid capture, John fights for survival in conditions that kill even prepared men. Every day alive is a small miracle. 🌬️

**Alone at home, Helen struggles with the burden of her husband’s disappearance.** Caught in extraordinary circumstances in this new world of the missing—where wives become widows without bodies, where hope battles reality, where waiting becomes its own form of torture—she is forced to reimagine who she is and what she is capable of doing. Somehow, **she must find John and bring him home,** a quest that takes her into the farthest reaches of the war, beyond the safety of everything she knows. Between defying military bureaucracy, traveling to a war zone as a civilian woman, navigating the Aleutian wilderness, and refusing to accept that John is gone, Helen discovers that love demands the impossible. And sometimes, impossibly, delivers it. 💙

What makes this powerful: Journalist John Easley determined to find meaning after brother’s death investigating censored Japanese invasion of Alaska, plane shot down over Attu surviving to find himself in harsh unforgiving wilderness known as birthplace of winds, battling elements and starvation while evading Japanese discovery, wife Helen struggling with husband’s disappearance forced to reimagine herself, and quest to find John taking her into farthest war reaches beyond everything safe.

**Jase Foster can’t believe his bad luck.** He’s been paired with the she-devil herself for his best friend’s wedding: Emily Klein of the miles-long legs and killer smile who broke his heart years ago and never looked back. She may be sin in a bridesmaid dress that should be illegal, but there’s no way he’s falling for her again. Once was enough to learn that lesson—Emily Klein is beautiful, brilliant, and absolutely toxic for his sanity. They can barely stand each other, exchanging barbs at every wedding event. 💔

But given how many of their friends are getting married (seriously, what’s in the water?), **they’ll just have to play nice—at least when they’re in company.** Once they’re alone, more than just gloves come off as Jase and Emily discover their chemistry is combustible in ways that have nothing to do with hatred. The banter that felt hostile in public becomes charged with something else entirely in private. The accidental touches start feeling less accidental. And the line between enemies and something far more dangerous starts blurring beyond recognition. 🔥

Between surviving endless wedding festivities, maintaining their hostile façade for friends, sneaking away for encounters that definitely violate the “play nice” agreement, and pretending the sexual tension isn’t about to detonate, **Jase and Emily discover there may be something to this enemies-to-lovers thing after all.** The question isn’t whether they have chemistry—that’s been obvious since the first time they tried to kill each other with looks across the rehearsal dinner. The question is whether two people who’ve perfected the art of driving each other crazy can figure out that maybe, just maybe, that’s because they’re actually crazy about each other. May the best man win? In this game, everybody might. 💕

What makes this sizzling: Jase Foster paired with she-devil Emily Klein of miles-long legs and killer smile for best friend’s wedding, barely standing each other but having to play nice when in company, gloves and more coming off when alone discovering chemistry is combustible, and realizing there may be something to this enemies-to-lovers thing after all.

Say YES to the SHEET PAN! **Vegetable-forward cooking never tasted so good!** YES, it’s easy—it’s the one-pot meal, reinvented for people who hate doing dishes and love eating delicious food. Along with a sharp knife, a wooden spoon, and a reliable oven, the sheet pan is all you need to get a great dinner (or lunch, breakfast, or dessert) on the table without destroying your kitchen. No complicated techniques. No elaborate prep. No mountain of pots and pans to wash. Just pure, simple cooking that actually works. 🥘

**YES, it’s delicious:** The sheet pan uses three techniques—roasting, baking, and broiling—that intensify flavors and create textures you can’t achieve any other way. Roasting caramelizes vegetables, concentrating their natural sugars. Broiling creates crispy, charred edges. Baking melds flavors together. It’s pure satisfaction, without the sweat and without sacrificing taste for convenience. And YES! **Soup in a sheet pan!** Plus Sheet Pan Chili that actually works, No-Boil Mac and Cheese that’ll make you question everything you thought you knew about pasta, Spicy Thai Green Curry Potpie, not to mention grain bowls and banh mi, risotto that requires zero stirring, tacos where everything roasts together, chilaquiles and savory slab pies, breakfast streusel and a Rustic Pear Galette. 🍲

**It’s pure creativity on a sheet pan** that proves vegetarian cooking is anything but boring. Between discovering you can make soup without a pot, risotto without standing at the stove, and desserts without special pans, Raquel Pelzel transforms the humble baking sheet into the most versatile tool in your kitchen. 100 surprising recipes that reimagine what’s possible when you think outside the pot. For anyone who wants delicious vegetarian meals without the hassle, this is your new cooking bible. 🌱

What makes this essential: Sheet pan vegetable-forward cooking tasting so good, one-pot meal reinvented using roasting baking and broiling intensifying flavors, soup in sheet pan plus No-Boil Mac and Cheese and Spicy Thai Green Curry Potpie, grain bowls and banh mi and risotto and tacos and chilaquiles, and 100 surprising recipes proving pure creativity on sheet pan.

**Thoroughly revised and updated for a new generation, the essential guide for men and women to help them weather the turmoil of divorce and build rich, rewarding lives.** There is nothing easy about the breakup of a marriage—from coping with loss and failure that feels like death without an actual death, to dealing with the uncertainty of the future when everything you planned has evaporated, to navigating the shame and judgment that society still attaches to divorce. In this intelligent and insightful book, **Abigail Trafford charts this emotional journey,** identifying the common phases in the evolution from marriage to separation to divorce and eventually to a new life that might feel impossible right now but is waiting on the other side. 💔

Based upon her personal experience, extensive research, and interviews with hundreds of divorced men and women, **Trafford offers individuals a better understanding of their own experiences and the message that they are not alone in their pain and confusion.** You’re not crazy. You’re not broken. You’re in “Crazy Time”—the disorienting period where nothing makes sense and you question every decision you’ve ever made. *Crazy Time* is also an investment in the future—Trafford reveals the telltale signs of a marriage in crisis (before it’s too late), discusses what determines whether a relationship will survive over time, and maps the path from devastation to rebuilding. 🌱

**This revised edition includes the most up-to-date research on the effects of divorce in adults’ and children’s lives,** addresses the special challenges of becoming single again in the age of the Internet (dating apps, social media stalking, and digital boundaries), and broadens the experience of divorce to include the breakup of all committed relationships, not just legal marriages. For anyone who has divorced or is considering taking that step, *Crazy Time* offers a sense of hope and confidence that this transition is not only an ending but can also be a valuable beginning—a chance to discover who you are when you’re not half of a couple anymore. ✨

What makes this compassionate: Thoroughly revised essential guide helping weather divorce turmoil and build rich rewarding lives, Abigail Trafford charting emotional journey identifying common phases from marriage to new life, offering better understanding with message you’re not alone in pain and confusion, revised edition including up-to-date research and Internet age challenges, and hope that transition is not only ending but valuable beginning.

Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia, living a quiet, ordinary life. **Twenty-six years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year-old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky.** An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday and smuggled halfway around the world. She cannot believe the woman who raised her—a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago—crossed international lines to steal a toddler. The accusation feels like an insult to the only mother she’s ever known. 🌏

**On April 3rd, 1990, Jack and Molly Went’s daughter Sammy disappeared from inside their Kentucky home.** Already estranged since the girl’s birth, the couple drifted further apart as time passed like ships in fog, each dealing with grief in incompatible ways. Jack did his best to raise and protect his other daughter and son while Molly found solace in her faith. **The Church of the Light Within, a Pentecostal fundamentalist group who handle poisonous snakes as part of their worship, provided that faith.** Without Sammy, the Wents eventually fell apart completely—the center could not hold. 🐍

Now, **with proof that she and Sammy are in fact the same person,** Kim travels to America to reunite with a family she never knew she had and to solve the mystery of her abduction—a mystery that will take her deep into the dark heart of religious fanaticism where she must fight for her life against those determined to save her soul. Between meeting siblings who thought she was dead, investigating a kidnapping her “mother” never explained, confronting the snake-handling church that Molly joined after Sammy disappeared, and discovering that some people believe salvation requires violence, Kim learns that finding out who you were might destroy who you’ve become. 💀

What makes this chilling: Photography teacher Kimberly Leamy in Melbourne with two-year-old Sammy Went vanishing from Kentucky home twenty-six years earlier, American accountant convinced Kim was that kidnapped child, Jack and Molly Went’s daughter disappearing April 3rd 1990 with couple drifting apart, Molly finding solace in Church of the Light Within handling poisonous snakes, and Kim with proof she’s Sammy traveling to America solving abduction mystery taking her into dark religious fanaticism heart.