Without her consent, Rose Charleston's life has been planned for her. Marrying a man almost double her age doesn't sit well with her. Being told two weeks before the event makes things even worse.Instead of waiting around for the inevitable, she steals out in the middle of the night to answer an advertisement for domestic help in another state. Little did she know what she was letting herself in for.After his wife's death, Preacher Matthew Barnabas is left to care for their two small children. When Rose turns up unannounced, after answering an advertisement he knows nothing about, his life is turned upside down.The preacher will accept Rose into his life because he has no choice, but will he ever let her into his heart?

Janine:I’d picked myself up and regained some of my self-confidence after kicking out my abusive husband. So I was ready to spend my life with the current love of my life, my dog Gabby. Little did I know when I hired this gorgeous muscled carpenter, I was going to be getting much more than I’d bargained for.​Spencer:It was supposed to be just another job for me. I build tiny houses, so I don’t usually spend a long time in one place. Then this gorgeous, curvy redhead took my breath away. Now I just needed to convince her I’d hold her and protect her forever if she'd let me.Paige writes about hot alpha males and beautiful curvy women. Her books have no cheating, no cliffhangers, and always guarantee a happily ever after.

From Hugo Award-winning debut author Suzanne Palmer comes an action-packed sci-fi caper starring Fergus Ferguson, interstellar repo man and professional finder Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder. His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hungry trade boss. He'll slip in, decode the ship's compromised AI security, and get out of town, Sword in hand. Fergus locates both Gilger and the ship in the farthest corner of human-inhabited space, a gas-giant-harvesting colony called Cernee. But Fergus' arrival at the colony is anything but simple. A cable car explosion launches Cernee into civil war, and Fergus must ally with Gilger's enemies to navigate a field of space mines and a small army of hostile mercenaries. What was supposed to be a routine job evolves into negotiating a...

Inventive, empathetic, and strange in all the best ways, The Spinner of Dreams draws from the author's own experiences to create a story that feels timeless and universal. As she did in her debut The Land of Yesterday, K. A. Reynolds thoughtfully explores mental health and crafts an adventure that fits right alongside middle grade classics like The Phantom Tollbooth.Annalise Meriwether—though kind, smart, and curious—is terribly lonely.Cursed at birth by the devious Fate Spinner, Annalise has always lived a solitary life with her loving parents. She does her best to ignore the cruel townsfolk of her desolate town—but the black mark on her hand won't be ignored.Not when the monster living within it, which seems to have an agenda of its own, grows more unpredictable each day. There's only one way for Annalise to rid herself of her curse: to enter the Labyrinth of Fate and Dreams and defeat the Fate Spinner. So despite...

Dustin Graves is grotesquely outnumbered. Agatha Black has completed her Coven of One, splitting her soul across thirteen bodies. One power-hungry witch razing the universe was bad enough. Thirteen of them can only mean total hell.But there may be a way. Hecate, triune goddess of magic, whispers her forbidden secrets, showing Dustin a path too terrible to take: the Apotheosis, a ritual of five bloody blades that will finally grant the darkling mage the arcane might he needs to annihilate the Eldest. The result? Power overwhelming. The price?​Everything he loves.

The youngest sibling of Lord Randall, Lillian is often looked over and forgotten. However, when the new American Duke comes to England, everything changes.Suddenly the duke's twin brother is everywhere, seeing every little detail that Lillian had thought had been hidden.When Lilian and her sister stumble into a spying ring, all bets are off. It may come down to finding just who is saving who!

A delicious mix of East and West, of wonder and irony, The Fox and Dr. Shimamura is a most curious novelThe Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent—to his dismay—to the provinces: he is asked to cure scores of young women afflicted by an epidemic of fox possession. Believing it's all a hoax, he considers the assignment an insulting joke, until he sees a fox moving under the skin of a young beauty... Next he travels to Europe and works with such luminaries as Charcot, Breuer and Freud—whose methods, Dr. Shimamura concludes, are incompatible with Japanese politeness. The ironic parallels between Charcot's theories of female hysteria and ancient Japanese fox myths—when it comes to beautiful, writhing young women—are handled with a...