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Greta Plank, library director in the small lakeside town of Larkspur, Wisconsin, prefers her rose-tinted glasses extra rosy, thank you very much. It's how she copes with the hard stuff in life . . . like her sister's death and her ex-boyfriend's deception. But Greta's cheery resolve takes a hit when she stumbles upon a dead body on her way home from work. What she assumes is a terrible accident Greta soon learns is something more sinister, and to make matters worse, a new-to-town detective cites her as not only his primary source for the case, but his top suspect.

With her med school internship close at hand, Jaz is finally ready to put her bartending days behind her. She had expected the nerves, as well as getting a little sentimental over leaving the club. What she was not prepared for was the blast from the past that blew into her going away party.

Amy thought she had it all. An amazing best friend, her dream job, and a never-ending supply of beautiful one-night-stands. No complications, no drama, and no questioning of her hard limits. Was she living her best life? Hell yeah, she was…until her best friend blindsided Amy by getting engaged and moving out. Then, an exotic stranger leaves her awestruck, sending all her rules right out the window.

Raven is tired of letting her dreams take the back seat to her unworthy relationships. Armed with a broken heart and steely determination, she heads to New York to pursue becoming what she’s always wanted to be, a world class chef. But when her sexy new boss takes an unexpected interest in her, she may be getting more than she bargained for.

The last thing Lucy needs is another relationship. She has musical dreams that’ll take her far from this small town, and romance would only hold her back. So, she’ll sing at the bar in the hopes of being discovered. But she will not fall for the hot bartender. Or so she told herself… Jason knows Lucy is too good for the losers at the club. Too bad she’s apparently too good for him, too. Whether she’s oblivious to his attraction or actively avoiding him, his odds of winning the sexy singer’s heart aren’t good. No matter how much he longs to try…

As the nation of Riyen tries to recover from a shocking revelation, Anissa finds herself completely isolated from her friends. Struggling with bitterness, guilt, and grief, her passion for justice threatens to turn into a quest for vengeance. But when her true identity comes into question, she will uncover a life-altering truth that will shake the world to its core.

The people of a desert town found a girl’s body in the sacred river. When she started breathing, they thought it was incredible. When that same girl healed a crippled boy, the townspeople thought it was a miracle. When the girl grew up to command the dead to do her bidding, the townspeople knew she was the legendary pharaoh returned. But when Ashira’s divine abilities reveal her to the powerful Alvari Emperor, she must flee her town and find a way to claim her throne and liberate her people.

Leo's life is a living hell. He lost his wife and baby to a monster and blames himself. He's spent years trying to overcome the guilt, but it turns out heavy drinking isn't a solution. When the boss of the Zodiac Warriors orders him to seek help, he ends up spilling his guts in a shrink's office. However, the attractive woman isn't falling for his pity party—and knows he's hiding something.

When Greta overhears the library board president and a member of the treasure-hunting club arguing about a secret discovery, her curiosity is piqued—even more so when one of the women leaves a book with a sequence of strange markings on its pages in the library book return bin. Before Greta can ask about the marginalia, the book's outspoken owner turns up dead.

Is business more important than pleasure? Or is love the true gift of the season? Thanks to finalizing her divorce from her cheating co-worker of a husband, Janie wasn’t much in the holiday spirit. When a chance encounter puts her face-to-face with a hot Viking who's only in town a couple of weeks, she decides she deserves to give herself a present. With a new acquisition in the works, Odin travels to Georgia to verify the details of the sale. And after a run-in with a striking woman, he is even more intrigued by just how hot the south can get.

Kate always had a sweet southern heart and lived the ultimate cliché of a happily ever after when she married her high school sweetheart and started a family where she grew up. But after tragedy left her widowed, she became a shell of a person, only holding it together for her son.

For most of her life, Izzy has been looking forward to fulfilling her mother’s dream of studying abroad in Italy. Going into her senior year, Izzy is counting down the days until she can leave her humdrum life behind, until Alberto, a handsome and mysterious Italian exchange student shows up for his stay with her family. Now life in her hometown doesn’t seem so drab, as Izzy, and everyone else, is immediately charmed by Alberto and his irresistible accent.

Scythia and the team return to the Nationalist Enforcement Bureau Station to face oversight review for the aftermath of their first mission. In an attempt to not anger the powers that be, the team thinks its best to lay low and stay out of trouble.

Librarian Greta Plank is hard at work planning and preparing for Larkspur's Fall Festival and regional tourism showcase which, if successful, will be a boon to the local economy. But disaster strikes and chances of a positive review look slimmer than a periodical's spine when a series of pranks escalates and one of Larkspur's own is found dead the same day the reporter is set to arrive.