Kate McDermott is the quintessential good girl — dutiful daughter to a powerful Supreme Court Justice with political aspirations, careful to avoid scandal, determined to please. When she decides to write an article about BDSM in popular culture, she tells herself it’s just research. Nothing personal. The carefully worded agreement she drafts will keep everything strictly professional with the Dominant she plans to interview. 📝

Then Master D walks into the interview and Kate is mortified. He’s gorgeous. He’s also Drake Morgan — billionaire neurosurgeon, bass player, philanthropist — and the son of her father’s best and oldest friend. S.E. Lund sets up the collision with precision: Kate needs professional distance, Drake is determined to keep his kinky life separate from his surgical career, and neither of them counted on chemistry this overwhelming. 🔥

Drake doesn’t do girlfriends, doesn’t do sleepovers, and certainly doesn’t do breakfast the morning after. Everything in his well-ordered life is separate and under firm control. Then Kate screws it all up. Nothing is neat anymore, nothing is under control, and Drake is absolutely smitten. The carefully constructed walls between his different worlds are about to come crashing down. 💕

What makes this irresistible: A good girl writing about BDSM for research purposes interviews a Dominant who turns out to be her father’s best friend’s son — contemporary romance with genuine heat, a billionaire neurosurgeon who’s secretly Master D, and chemistry that obliterates every carefully written agreement between them.

Charlie Parker is an accountant and partner in an Albuquerque private investigation firm, which means she’s usually dealing with numbers rather than missing Rolex watches. When her old school friend Stacy shows up begging for help locating the watch before her husband finds out, Charlie reluctantly agrees. The complication? Stacy had been seeing another man — Gary Detweiller — and he’s the one she suspects stole it. 🐕

Connie Shelton introduces her long-running series with a deceptively simple setup. Charlie and her sidekick dog Rusty retrieve the missing watch, and all should be well. Three days later, Detweiller is murdered. All eyes turn to Stacy as the prime suspect, and once again she’s begging Charlie for help — this time to prove her innocence. 🔍

As Charlie digs deeper, she discovers Detweiller’s life was considerably more complicated than anyone realized, with plenty of people holding grievances against him. Before she can pinpoint the killer, her own life is in danger. Shelton writes cozy mystery with a southwestern setting and a heroine whose day job gives her investigative skills without making her law enforcement. 😰

Why this grips from page one: An accountant helps her friend recover a stolen Rolex from her secret boyfriend — then he turns up murdered and the friend becomes the prime suspect. Cozy mystery with an Albuquerque PI firm, a loyal dog sidekick, and a heroine whose detective work puts her own life at risk.

The year is 2465, two hundred years since the shift drive opened the stars to humanity and launched the First Interstellar Expansion Era. What followed was a deadly race for the limited resources of navigable space, and now tensions between human nations are threatening to boil over into open hostility. The powder keg is primed. Someone just needs to light the match. 🚀

D.J. Holmes introduces Commander James Somerville of the Royal Space Navy — exiled from London, banished to the survey ship HMS Drake, and about to make a discovery that will change his fortunes and throw Britain into a deadly war with its closest rival. Somerville has only his wits and the courage of his crew to see him through challenges unlike anything he’s faced before. ⭐

Holmes writes military space opera with attention to naval tradition and the geopolitical maneuvering that makes interstellar conflict feel grounded and strategic rather than just laser battles in the void. The setup is clean: an exiled officer, a survey mission, and a discovery that ignites a war. 💥

What makes this special: An exiled Royal Space Navy commander on a survey ship makes a discovery that throws Britain into war with its closest rival in 2465 — space fleet science fiction with military precision, geopolitical stakes, and a protagonist whose exile becomes the catalyst for interstellar conflict.

What’s the best way to forget an unfaithful husband? Become a spy for British Intelligence, obviously. Fiona Figg is desperate to get out of London and determined to help the war effort, which makes volunteering to go undercover at Ravenswick Abbey the perfect escape from thinking about Andrew, her philandering husband. 🕵️

Kelly Oliver writes historical cozy mystery with genuine wit and a gift for period detail. At Ravenswick, a charming South African war correspondent named Fredrick Fredricks — what sort of name is that anyway? — has tongues wagging. His friends insist he’s a crack huntsman. The War Office is convinced he’s a traitor. Fiona thinks he’s a pompous prig. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. 🔍

Too bad Fiona doesn’t own a Wolseley pith helmet, because she’s going to need all the help she can get. At Ravenswick a murderer is prowling, and it’s not just the big-game hunter who’s ready to pounce. Oliver balances the espionage with the cozy mystery mechanics beautifully, and Fiona is a heroine worth spending time with. 😰

What makes this irresistible: A woman escaping her unfaithful husband volunteers as a spy for British Intelligence and lands at Ravenswick Abbey investigating a South African war correspondent — historical cozy mystery with espionage, wit, a pompous prig named Fredrick Fredricks, and a murder that complicates everything.

Henrietta Hewitt runs an antique store in Hearts Grove, Washington, which means she spends her days surrounded by unusual items — many with stories, some with secrets. It’s the kind of work that keeps life interesting without being particularly dangerous. Then a missing girl gets mixed up with a prized antique, and suddenly everything turns deadly. 🕰️

Danielle Collins writes small-town cozy mystery with warmth and a protagonist whose profession gives her natural access to the kind of objects that carry secrets. The mystery of the antique box becomes entangled with the disappearance in ways that put Henrietta directly in the path of danger. Solving the puzzle means keeping everyone safe — including herself. 🔍

This boxed set collects the first three books in the series, giving excellent value for readers ready to commit to Hearts Grove and its secrets. Collins delivers the comfort of a small-town setting with genuine stakes and mysteries that feel grounded rather than contrived. 💛

Why I’m including this: An antique store owner in small-town Washington investigates when a missing girl becomes connected to a mysterious antique box — cozy mystery boxed set collecting the first three Hearts Grove books, with a heroine whose profession leads her straight into secrets people would rather keep buried.

Meet Scotland’s fearless new amateur sleuth, Lady Poppy Proudfoot: dog lover, fashion expert, and… about to solve her first murder?

Scotland, 1924: When Lady Poppy Proudfoot arrives in the Highlands for a midsummer party, she’s anticipating a lovely stroll around the grounds… not gasps from guests when they hear a body has been found by the loch!

Despite everyone denying knowing the man, they all seem certain it’s a tragic accident. Poppy is convinced it’s murder, and decides to hunt for clues. But when the police arrive, grumpy Inspector MacKenzie dismisses her, insisting a crime scene is no place for a Lady. The nerve!

With the help of her trusted Labrador, Major, Poppy begins to unpick the case. The victim had links to the country house that Poppy’s hosts are desperately trying to hide… Was the killer Freddy the footman, who was seen meeting the dead man by the loch? Or the American actress who’s not all that she seems? And what does all of this have to do with a missing diamond bracelet?

All Thomas Weaver wanted was death. What he got was time travel.

He died in 2016. He woke up in 1976.

And now there’s a killer in homeroom.

Thomas Weaver was done with life. But instead of peace, he got a second chance. Back in his teenage body with a lifetime of regret and knowledge, he’s determined to fix his past.

That means confronting old demons, mending broken bonds, and dealing with a future serial killer who just passed him a note in class.

It’s a different world now, Winter Bishop. Get used to it. Or die.

For the three years since the Reveal, when monsters rose from the shadows, I’ve been just another human trying to maintain normalcy in a world where life is short and brutal. Coexisting with werewolves, zombies, and vampires—each alarmingly true to their myths—isn’t easy.

Now I’ve been summoned by Ariel Skinner, the charismatic king of the vampires, who holds my missing brother’s life in his hands. To save him, I must do everything Ariel says. His quicksilver gaze and the way he makes my body hum should scare me, but the wildfire chemistry is just too hot.

I should have known that Ariel would want more.

Because there’s a greater cataclysm to come, and it will make everything worse. To help stop it, Ariel needs me. And whatever fresh hell arises, with every beat of my disastrously mortal heart, I need him.

Who knew life could get so…weird? Selene’s best friend is dead, and now she finds herself raising a precocious teen, Allie—though she never even wanted to be a mom. To top it off, they’re living in her deceased friend’s house in a small town that’s one enchanted forest away from belonging in a fairy tale.

Then Allie spills a shocking secret that leaves Selene questioning reality. And maybe her sanity. Suddenly she’s plunged into a bizarre world of moonlit revelries, mystical neighbors, and alluring dangers. But untangling the truth of her new home only brings more peril. Caught up with a mysteriously seductive man who makes her heart palpitate (and spine tingle), she encounters strangers with blood-soaked pasts and bona fide skeletons in their closets.

The deeper Selene spirals into this twisted realm, the more she realizes all is not as it seems. And with temptations too sweet to resist, one wrong move could be her last.