Superman shorts, a dash of Hollywood, and a BIG secret to keep—what could possibly go wrong? What’s worse than a cheating ex-boyfriend? Imagine your life’s drama becoming the town’s juiciest headline in the local blog, dissected by every gossip in town over morning coffee. I leave work one evening to find my ex-boyfriend standing in front of my car, refusing to move. I tell him it’s over and order him to get out of my way, but he turns belligerent and threatens to make a scene. 💔

Then, out of the dark night, a guy wearing only Superman boxer shorts sprints to my rescue like some fever dream come to life. This isn’t just any guy—it’s action-hero Rhett Wilder, a blockbuster celebrity. I’m fangirl crushing here. Rhett is… WOW!!! Just wow. Six-pack abs, chiseled jawline, and those eyes that launched a thousand movie posters. I can’t believe he’s here, in Comfort of all places, running around half-naked saving damsels in distress. 🦸

But of course, nothing in small-town Comfort stays secret for long. Between nosy neighbors, the local gossip blog, and my ex-boyfriend’s wounded ego, I’m suddenly at the center of a media circus I never asked for. And Rhett? He’s got his own reasons for being in this tiny town, reasons that involve a very big secret we both need to keep. Between dodging paparazzi, managing small-town drama, and trying not to fall for my superhero rescuer, life in Comfort just got infinitely more complicated. 📰

What makes this hilarious: Action-hero celebrity in Superman boxers rescuing woman from ex-boyfriend, small-town gossip blog making life’s drama public entertainment, Hollywood star hiding out in tiny town Comfort, fangirl crush becoming real-life romance, and BIG secret threatening to blow up their unconventional connection.

The last thing Lindy Coats wants is a divorce, but deep down she knows there has to be more to her twenty-year marriage than laundry and loneliness. In an act of desperation, she leaves her workaholic husband a note, pulls her teenage daughter out of school in Pittsburgh, and moves to their summer cottage on the shores of Lake Michigan. Sometimes running away is the only way to stop running on empty. 💔

Adam Coats can barely grasp the contents of the note in his hands. His wife has left him—that’s what it says. And it says so many other heartbreaking things about how they barely see one another, or talk, or touch. How she’s been laid off from her job for six weeks and Adam hadn’t even noticed. Worst of all, it’s all true. When had wanting to be a good business owner and provider for his family turned into this nightmare? Adam knows he must earn Lindy back. There has to be a way. 📝

In the town of Blueberry Beach, Michigan, Lindy’s new neighbors—a lonely single dad, a crotchety business owner, and a young mother with terrible secrets and a son fighting leukemia—begin to help Lindy discover how to infuse joy back into her life and heal her soul. She’s even inspired to start her own business, finding purpose she’d lost somewhere between doing Adam’s laundry and waiting for him to come home. But when Adam shows up, determined to reconcile, Lindy must decide between her bright new future or the value of yesterday’s treasures. Can a marriage survive when both people have changed? 🌅

What makes this moving: Wife leaving twenty-year marriage after being invisible to workaholic husband, desperate note explaining laundry and loneliness, moving to Lake Michigan summer cottage with teenage daughter, husband discovering he hadn’t noticed wife’s layoff for six weeks, Blueberry Beach neighbors helping heal her soul, and decision between bright new future or yesterday’s treasures.

A killer with a white picket fence. Suburbia—a great place for a man with secrets to hide while investing in some solid real estate. The biggest drawback? Neighbors. In this case, a neighbor with sexy curves and a bright smile who bakes cookies and waves cheerfully over the fence. Good thing she’s not his type. Single moms with annoying exes are on the do-not-date list for very good reasons. Stay away, Calvin tells himself. Just stay away. 🏡

Calvin wants to keep his distance; it’s just not happening. He can’t help but find himself drawn to the chaos next door—the laughter, the scraped knees, the casseroles that appear on his doorstep, the whole messy domestic situation he’s spent his entire life avoiding. And when danger threatens his carefully constructed suburban lifestyle, this assassin doesn’t hesitate to act. He’s eliminated targets in seventeen countries, so protecting one nosy neighbor and her kid should be simple. 🔪

Killing people is easy—Calvin’s had decades of practice. Domestication, on the other hand, is completely uncharted territory. Between PTA meetings, backyard barbecues, and explaining why there are bloodstains on his work clothes, Calvin discovers that the deadliest mission of his career might be figuring out how to become the man next door. Turns out, falling for a single mom is far more dangerous than any assignment he’s ever accepted. 💕

What makes this deliciously dark: Professional assassin hiding in suburbia with white picket fence, sexy single-mom neighbor on his do-not-date list, drawn to chaos and domestic life he’s always avoided, protecting her when danger threatens, and discovering domestication is harder than killing people after decades as elite assassin.

She’s looking for a fresh start, but with eerie noises in the night and murder most foul, can she keep from going down for a crime she didn’t commit? Skye Brigid O’Shea is desperate for an escape from her old life. Losing big in a nasty divorce and taking the fall for a patient’s death ended her nursing career. When the stressed-out thirty-two-year-old jumps at the chance to move to Ireland after inheriting her grandmother’s B&B, she thinks her luck is finally changing. 🍀

But the nosy American quickly lands back in hot water when she investigates unearthly howls echoing through the night and discovers the disagreeable local she argued with earlier stone-cold dead in the bog. Named as the prime suspect by the dogged constable who seems convinced she’s guilty, Skye finds herself relying on the constable’s surprisingly helpful wife and the cryptic clues from her gran’s talking black cat to clear her name. Yes, talking. As in, the cat speaks. Out loud. 🐱

When her ancestor’s diary points to a supernatural culprit straight out of Irish mythology, Skye isn’t sure if she’s cracked the case or lost her mind entirely. Can this novice detective overcome a rival pub owner with a grudge, a determined policeman convinced of her guilt, and a thick web of ancient myths involving banshees and bog bodies to stay out of the slammer? Between running a B&B, deciphering cryptic feline advice, and navigating centuries-old Irish supernatural politics, Skye’s fresh start is turning into a paranormal nightmare. 👻

What makes this enchanting: Disgraced nurse inheriting Irish B&B after nasty divorce, investigating eerie howls leads to discovering murdered local in bog, grandmother’s talking black cat providing cryptic clues, ancestor’s diary pointing to supernatural banshee culprit, and American novice detective navigating Irish mythology to prove her innocence.

Discovering new worlds—what could be better? What was supposed to be a six-month cruise of discovery had turned into a glorified babysitting adventure for a bunch of civilians. Leave it to the Imperial Navy to ruin a good thing. Petty Officer Tanner just wanted to finish the patrol and get back to normal duties, far away from annoying scientists and their endless questions. That, and as far away from the enticing Miss Nora Johnson as possible, because fraternization between crew and civilians is strictly forbidden. 🚀

All that changed when the ISS Intrepid was threatened with destruction during what should have been routine exploration. Petty Officer Eric Tanner quickly became the only thing standing between these clueless civilians and instant death. When the ship crash-lands on a strange new world with hostile indigenous life forms and no immediate hope of rescue, survival becomes the only mission that matters. ⚡

Now Tanner must keep these civilians alive until they’re rescued—heaven knows they weren’t going to do it on their own. Between fending off alien predators, rationing dwindling supplies, maintaining order among panicking scientists, and trying to ignore his growing feelings for the one woman he absolutely cannot have, Tanner discovers that commanding a survival mission is infinitely more complicated than following orders. In the Taurian Empire, discovering new worlds is supposed to be exciting. Nobody mentioned it would also be deadly. 🌌

What makes this gripping: Six-month discovery cruise turned glorified babysitting mission, ISS Intrepid threatened with destruction during exploration, crash-landing on hostile alien world, Petty Officer protecting clueless civilians until rescue, forbidden attraction to civilian Miss Nora Johnson, and survival mission proving deadlier than any military operation.

A priest of Cloud Serpent, Akachi is a temple-trained sorcerer tasked with bringing peace to the rebellious Dirts of the outer ring. He’s spent years studying the sacred texts, mastering the arts of smoke and stone, preparing for his mission to serve the gods and maintain order in a rigidly hierarchical society where your birth determines your destiny. Simple enough—until nothing goes according to plan. 🐉

Drawn into a dark and violent world of assassins, banished gods, and street sorcerers operating outside the temple’s control, Akachi battles the spreading influence of Mother Death, the Destroyer of Worlds. What should have been a straightforward peacekeeping mission becomes a descent into the city’s underbelly, where the rules he learned in the temple don’t apply and the gods he serves may not be as benevolent as he believed. The Dirts aren’t just rebelling—they’re fighting for survival against forces even the temple doesn’t fully understand. ⚔️

The gods are once again at war, and Akachi finds himself caught in the crossfire between divine powers, street-level sorcery, and political machinations that threaten to tear the City of Sacrifice apart. Between navigating deadly assassins, confronting banished deities, and questioning everything the temple taught him, Akachi must decide whether bringing peace means enforcing the old order or embracing the chaos of change. In a city where gods walk among mortals and sorcery flows like smoke, the line between savior and destroyer grows dangerously thin. 💀

What makes this dark: Temple-trained sorcerer tasked with subduing rebellious lower classes, drawn into violent world of assassins and banished gods, battling Mother Death the Destroyer of Worlds, gods at war again, street sorcerers challenging temple authority, and priest questioning sacred order in City of Sacrifice.

Land—whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city—is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything we do, every structure we build, every life we live. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing—and have done—with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet. 🌍

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World examines in depth how we acquire land, how we steward it, how and why we fight over it, and finally, how we can, and on occasion do, come to share it. From ancient property disputes to modern real estate empires, from indigenous land rights to suburban sprawl, Winchester traces humanity’s complex relationship with the earth beneath our feet. 🏔️

Ultimately, Winchester confronts the essential question: who actually owns the world’s land—and why does it matter? Through compelling storytelling and meticulous research, he reveals how land ownership has shaped civilizations, sparked wars, created wealth and poverty, and continues to define power dynamics in the modern world. This is the story of our planet’s surface and humanity’s relentless drive to possess, control, and profit from every inch of it. 🗺️

What makes this essential: Bestselling author Simon Winchester’s investigation of land ownership throughout history, how acquiring and fighting over land shaped the modern world, from ancient disputes to contemporary real estate, and the fundamental question of who owns Earth’s surface and why it matters.

The last place I want to be is on stage at the exclusive bachelorette auction with all of Manhattan society watching. My anxiety level goes full-on code red the moment the bidding starts. Up first? My nemesis, Gabriel Rothburn—self-made billionaire tech tycoon who’s made tormenting me his personal hobby. Next? My ex, whose name doesn’t even deserve mention. And then my crush joins the fray: Alexander Hunt, Gabe’s best friend and the man who’s occupied my fantasies for years. 💰

How high will the bidding go? Higher than anyone expected, apparently, because I’m suddenly the center of a bidding war between three powerful men who can’t seem to agree on anything except that they want me. The tension is electric, the stakes are astronomical, and the entire Manhattan elite is watching this drama unfold in real time. 🔥

What will my protective best friend do when he discovers I’ve been sold off to two possessive billionaires? And more importantly, how am I supposed to navigate being caught between my nemesis who won’t leave me alone, my ex who wants a second chance, and my crush who’s finally noticing me—all while Manhattan society gossips about every move I make? This auction just became infinitely more complicated than I bargained for. 💎

What makes this delicious: Bachelorette auction at exclusive Manhattan society event, bidding war between nemesis billionaire tech tycoon and longtime crush, ex joining the competition, protective best friend discovering she’s been “sold” to two possessive billionaires, and why-choose romance with high society drama.

Some recipes call for sugar and spice. Ours calls for solving a murder. My grandmother taught me that magic is like baking: it’s all about intention. As a fire witch, I pour my heart into every loaf of bread, every comfort scone, infusing them with warmth and love. Opening a bakery with my coven sisters was supposed to be the culmination of that dream—a place where our kitchen magic could shine and bring joy to our community. 🔥

But during renovations, we didn’t just find asbestos behind the walls; we found a skeleton clutching a scorched spellbook. A spellbook that hums with a power that recognizes my own, practically begging me to uncover its secrets. This wasn’t just any skeleton—it was a kitchen witch, just like me, and she was murdered decades ago. Now her magic is calling out to mine, demanding justice. 📖

With the help of my earth-witch and chaos-witch sisters, and our magically-inclined cat, I have to follow a trail of decades-old crumbs. Between deciphering sentient recipes that rearrange themselves on the page and dodging the town’s charmingly frustrating fire marshal who’s getting a little too curious about our “unusual” renovation discoveries, I’m starting to realize that the most dangerous secrets are the ones hidden in plain sight—and someone in town wants them to stay buried. 🐱

What makes this enchanting: Fire witch baker opening coven bakery discovers skeleton of murdered kitchen witch, scorched spellbook with sentient recipes recognizing her magic, investigating decades-old cold case with earth-witch and chaos-witch sisters plus magical cat, and charmingly frustrating fire marshal complicating everything.

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Alice Jansen collects her treasures—the keepsakes, figurines, and mementos that help her make sense of her fragile family and give meaning to her life. But the next day her heart is broken, and the final treasure, a precious gift from her father, is lost. Two years later, Alice answers a phone call from a stranger and runs away to New York, trying to forget her last golden summer at the orchard on the banks of the Hudson. 💔

Tom Raven can’t understand why he keeps losing so many of the things and people that really matter to him, but he knows for certain that something important is missing from his life. One day, he remembers a forgotten letter buried in his past and makes a phone call that changes everything. Then he leaves Sevenstones, the only place that feels like home, for a strange city where answers might finally be found. 🏡

Gripping and beautifully written, this story follows a family and a house over fifty years and three generations—of their beginning and their ending, and of finding the treasures that symbolize the most important memories in our lives. Between Alice’s teenage heartbreak and Tom’s search for what he’s lost, their stories intertwine across decades, revealing how the objects we keep connect us to the people we’ve loved and the moments that shaped us. 📿

What makes this moving: Multigenerational family saga spanning fifty years, teenage girl collecting treasures to make sense of fragile family before heartbreak, man searching for what he’s lost across decades, Hudson River orchard and historic house Sevenstones, and exploration of how keepsakes connect us to our most important memories.

When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim Julie Stender and her landlady Esther de Laurenti, who’s a bit too fond of drink and hosts raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. The connection grows more sinister when they discover what Esther’s been writing. 🔍

Esther also turns out to be a budding novelist—and when Julie turns up as a murder victim in the still-unfinished mystery she’s writing, the link between fiction and real life grows both more urgent and more dangerous. Is Esther predicting murders or committing them? Is her manuscript a confession wrapped in fiction, or is someone using her unpublished novel as a blueprint for killing? 📖

But Esther’s role in this twisted scenario is not quite as clear as it first seems. Is she the culprit or just another victim, trapped in a twisted game of vengeance orchestrated by someone else? Anette and Jeppe must dig more deeply into the two women’s pasts to discover the identity of the brutal puppet-master pulling the strings. As the lines between fiction and reality blur, the detectives race to prevent the next chapter from being written in blood. 🇩🇰

What makes this chilling: Copenhagen detectives investigating brutal murder with intricate face carving, victim appearing in landlady’s unfinished mystery novel, drunk novelist hosting wild artist parties becoming prime suspect, fiction and reality dangerously intertwined, and question of whether she’s killer or puppet in someone else’s twisted game.