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In the aftermath of a tragic demise before her 20th birthday, Violet finds herself thrust into an enigmatic realm of the unknown. A chance encounter with space Vikings in the grand hall offers her a tantalizing opportunity: to return home, but at what cost? Choosing to grasp the lifeline offered, Violet awakens in a world far removed from familiarity, where billowing steam and towering mushrooms dominate the landscape. Navigating this surreal terrain becomes her new reality, a precarious balance between the mysterious and the bizarre.

Jace Tanner, who owns a top sports management agency in Dallas, longs to reconnect with the brother he was separated from when they were small children. He hires an investigator to locate Eli after his adopted parents pass on. Upon learning that Eli serves as the medical director of a hospital in the small town of Hawthorne, Texas, Jace decides to reach out, meeting Eli on his wedding day.

Autumn Sutherland, a dedicated nurse, catches her doctor husband cheating on her with a colleague. Heartbroken, she divorces him and returns to her hometown for a fresh start. Once in Hawthorne, she accepts a position as Director of Nursing at the soon to open Hogan Health Hospital—Triple H—hoping to find new purpose in both her professional and personal life. Former ER physician and new medical director Eli Carson grew up in foster care. While a brilliant doctor, Eli is shy and socially awkward, having skipped several grades throughout his education.

Hartford Cove was supposed to be a safe haven. Instead, Rowe discovered a family legacy steeped in magic and wolf shifters. The hallucinations she grew up with weren’t tricks of her broken mind. Her toaster is fully functional–thank you very much–and the real world is more wonderful and horrifying than she ever imagined. Too bad, in Rowe’s life, all good things come to an end. A single act of violence sends Tris and her fleeing, afraid for their lives. But one door closing allows another door to open, and while in hiding, long-held feelings ignite, giving Rowe a second chance at happiness.

After a lifetime of war, Commander Trenzent has left behind the bloody battlefields of the Bel'Tan galaxy and traveled to Earth in the hopes of finding his bondmate. He can only pray that the one woman in the universe who can save his battered soul can look past his scarred exterior to the man within. Unfortunately for Tren, his potential bride is terrified of men thanks to years of abuse at the hands of her father and won't be easy to seduce.

Welcome to Hawthorne, Texas, a place where many former citizens return, drawn to their hometown’s slower pace and family values, finding lasting love and happiness.

When Rowe Branning sets off with her faithful wolfhound, Tris, on a quest to visit a grandmother she hasn't seen in fifteen years, her arrival in Hartford Cove is far less welcoming than she hoped for. Her reason for coming is put into question, and the way the sheriff looks at her makes her feel like prey even as she's drawn to him. Then ghosts from her past return in the flesh, making Rowe question what she remembers of her last visit to this hidden town, when she watched her mother and her best friend be brutally mauled by a monster out of nightmares.

The butterflies pick up their pace. I like that Andy isn’t trying to be coy. Like, he’s making it pretty clear that he’s into me. And I’m into that. Emma Bishop is ready for a fresh start. She's in high school now, after all, so there's no room for last year’s drama to follow her. She's older and wiser, more confident, and determined to make this her best year yet. In what might be the most exciting development of her life, Emma finally has a boyfriend. Andy is cute and nice and really likes her– what could go wrong? As it turns out, everything.

When two women, from two different backgrounds, meet while hiking on the iconic Appalachian Trail, the only solution is to fall in love. Obviously. But when a science-driven psychologist, nurtured in the Appalachian Mountains by her wise half-Cherokee grandmother, encounters a remarkable woman with the rare gift of communicating with spirits, their connection challenges the psychologist to reevaluate the disregarded lessons of her upbringing. Walk with Payne and Jennifer as they discover more than they planned for, in this low angst, easy to follow, twisty tale of two women falling in love.

Seventeen-year-old Thomas Walker thought he was a normal teen belonging to a normal family until he learns his bloodline carries powerful magic and a sacred mission to protect humanity: exorcize any and all demons.