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How It Starts: Romances That Catch You Off Guard

Sometimes love begins with a crash into someone’s car, someone’s plans, or someone’s heart. These swoony stories remind us that falling is the best part.

Defending Love

by Aleatha Romig

Release Date: June 23, 2025

“Defending Love has all the ingredients of a romantic thriller. Suspense, intrigue, danger, and spice. The characters were very well developed, and the banter between Dani and Eli was exquisite." - 5-star review

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Pretend I Do

by Misha Bell

Release Date: July 8, 2025

What if the person destined to complete you… has the same name as you?

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A State of Maine

by Clementine Rowe

Release Date: June 22, 2025

What happens when a privileged political heir collides with a convenience clerk who's done waiting for life to change? A State of Maine is a sharply observed literary debut in which two strangers from opposite worlds cross paths in a late-night D.C. gas station—and neither walks away unchanged.

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Hearts Of The North: A Collection of Three Novellas

by Alex Wayland

Release Date: June 16, 2025

Three women in 1970s northern England dared to reach for love. Lizzie challenges the steelworks bosses. Pauline discovers freedom with a dangerous musician. Margaret faces her past when her ex returns. Will they find the courage to fight for love?

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Claimed by the Deputies:

by Kai Lesy

Release Date: July 7, 2025

One moment, I’m alone, fantasizing about the grumpy silver fox next door. Next, my vibrator explodes. Then... He. Shows. Up. Sheriff Lucas Riggs. My next-door neighbor with a hero complex and a jawline made for sin.

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These Summer Storms

by Sarah MacLean

Release Date: July 8, 2025

Alice Storm hasn’t been welcome at her family’s magnificent private island off the Rhode Island coast in five years—not since she was cast out and built her life beyond the Storm name, influence, and untold billions. But the shocking death of her larger-than-life father changes everything.

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The Future of Work: Books Every Modern Leader Should Read

Redefine hustle. These books show you how to build smarter systems, protect your time, and create sustainable success without burnout. Learn how to lead with clarity, communicate with impact, and navigate high-stakes challenges with resilience and confidence.

9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning

by Rick Walker

Release Date: July 5, 2025

If you are a man in your 20s, 30s, 40s, or 50s and know - deep down - that you were built for something you should be doing but are not, well... I wrote 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning just for you. Make sense of the chaos; the mental map you've been missing. You're 9 steps away from 900X meaning.

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Changing the World: Through Small Business Stewardship

by David Grau Sr. JD

Release Date: June 22, 2025

A practical guide for small business owners who want to lead with purpose, build with care, and make a lasting impact. This book teaches and explores how to operationalize good stewardship to create meaningful change. Stewardship isn’t charity or kindness—it is good business.

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How To Do Boring, Tedious, Difficult, but Necessary Things

by Peter Hollins

Release Date: June 30, 2025

Look, anyone can binge Netflix or rewatch cat videos. But scrubbing toilets, sorting taxes, slogging through workouts, or having that uncomfortable conversation? That’s advanced-level adulting. And it’s exactly what separates people who quietly win at life from those who keep circling the drain.

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The Happiness Experiment

by Carl B. Barney

Release Date: July 8, 2025

A near-death experience changed everything for Carl Barney, sparking a groundbreaking idea that would redefine happiness forever. His concept of pre-quests—Happiness Grants given during life instead of through a will—ignited The Happiness Experiment. By sharing his wealth with twenty friends, Carl didn’t just transform their lives; he uncovered a new understanding of joy, fulfillment, and legacy.

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Wealthy and Well-Known

by Rory Vaden and AJ Vaden

Release Date: July 1, 2025

Do you feel called to share your story, inspire others, and make a greater impact in the world? If so, you are what we call a “Mission-Driven Messenger.” The challenge, however, is that we live in a world that’s saturated with information and chock-full of “influencers,” making it nearly impossible to stand out from the crowd. Everyone from students to CEOs are scrambling for likes, views, followers, and the ever-elusive “viral breakthrough.”

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The Strategic Customer Success Manager

by Chad Horenfeldt

Release Date: June 30, 2025

“You need to be more strategic.” Those dreaded words from your manager leave you frustrated and unsure of what to do next. But what if you could stop reacting to problems and instead become a trusted strategic partner who commands respect from both your customers and colleagues? Chad Horenfeldt—who has spent over two decades as a customer success manager (CSM) and building out high-performing customer success teams at Eloqua (Oracle), Kustomer (Meta), and other companies—shares a battle-tested approach to elevate your impact and advance your career.

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Who’s at the Door? Thrillers & Mysteries That Build and Break You

If The Watcher or You kept you up at night, these stories will too. With mounting tension, creepy vibes, and a killer always just one step away, these reads don’t let up.

A Cat's Guide to Danger (Forgotten Village Magical Mysteries Book 3)

by Jacqueline Diamond

Release Date: June 10, 2025

Magic is spilling from an enchanted village into the outside world! Can librarian Chess and her talking cat prevent disaster while solving a murder? A once-scorned orphan, she developed special powers and inherited an ancient library in a hidden sphere. Chess never imagined she’d have to return to her former California home on a dangerous mission: catch a killer and recover a stolen notebook containing the secrets of magic.

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The Woman in Suite 11

by Ruth Ware

Release Date: July 8, 2025

When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel—owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann—arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago.

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Beneath the Grove (Maddie Castle Book 7)

by L.T. Ryan & C.R. Gray

Release Date: July 8, 2025

Maddie Castle has taken on plenty of tough cases as a private investigator, but nothing could prepare her for this. When a desperate mother begs Maddie to find her missing daughter, she expects to track down a runaway. Instead, she uncovers the dark heart of Willow Grove—a secluded community tucked deep in rural Pennsylvania.

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King of Ashes

by S. A. Cosby

Release Date: June 10, 2025

When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family business—together.

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The Pastor's Wife

by LynDee Walker

Release Date: June 16, 2025

“Welcome to Church!” Pastor Tim flashes his brilliant white teeth around the congregation. He doesn’t notice me, but I can see that every woman is hypnotized. Except one. His wife. I watch as worry clouds her violet eyes. She’s hiding something. And I’m going to find out what…

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Death at a Paris Hotel (A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery Book 22)

by Verity Bright

Release Date: June 30, 2025

Newlyweds Lady Swift and Detective Hugh Seldon are honeymooning in the most romantic city on earth. Clifford, her butler, has come along for the trip to make sure everything goes to plan for the happy couple. And Gladstone, the mischievous bulldog, to make sure it doesn’t!

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Quiet Revolutions: Literary Fiction That Transforms

Change isn’t always loud or dramatic. Sometimes it’s the quiet decisions, the small moments of courage or doubt, that ripple through our lives and alter the course of our futures. These stories capture those subtle shifts, the unexpected turns, the inner reckonings, and the gradual transformations that shape who we become.

Indifferent Universe

by Joseph Blackhurst

Release Date: June 24, 2025

An all-knowing A.I. was asked: How did our universe begin, how will it end, and what is the meaning of life? The answer follows the life story of Aldo Go, an artist living in a hilarious alternate universe from our own. The reader watches as Aldo is transformed by the ugliness of the modern-day zeitgeist.

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Making Sense of it: Living for Peace (The Sense of It Book 3)

by Linda DeGree

Release Date: April 29, 2025

Margie has a dilemma. She is certain she loves William, but she has doubts about joining his farming dream. She dreams of teaching, writing, and working for social justice. William believes their faith in God and each other will help them have a strong marriage. Watch as they combine their dreams by welcoming children into their homes.

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The Gathering of Clan McFee

by Karen Baugh MENUHIN

Release Date: July 3, 2025

Spring 1924. Scotland. The ancient halls of Clan McFee’s castle echo with the whispers of history—and now, the stirrings of ambition and rivalry. The old Laird has passed away, leaving no will, no children, and no clear heir. The task of naming a successor falls to Lady Peggie, the widow of the reclusive Laird.

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Smoke on the Wind

by Kelli Estes

Release Date: June 24, 2025

Struggling with the tragic end of her marriage, Keaka Denney is on a bittersweet adventure in Scotland with her son, Colin. She’s joining him on a weeklong hike along the West Highland Way before he enters university in Glasgow. Soon into the journey, Keaka’s disquieting visions begin—a woman from ages past reaching for Colin, a burning cottage, and violence.

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The Master Jeweler

by Weina Dai Randel

Release Date: June 24, 2025

Harbin, China, 1925. Fifteen-year-old Anyu Zhang discovers a priceless Fabergé egg in the snow and returns it to the owner, Isaac Mandelburg, a fugitive and former master jeweler for Russia’s imperial palace. In gratitude, he leaves her his address in Shanghai and a promise of hospitality, forever altering her fate.

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The Retreat

by Eoin Dempsey

Release Date: June 30, 2025

Hiding out in a cave in the Austrian Alps with three others, Monika runs into trouble. Pursued by vengeful forces of the Wehrmacht and the Gestapo, she and her three companions undergo an arduous journey over the mountains to safety in a Catholic monastery outside the town of Hallein, near the German border.

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Interview with Aleatha Romig, Author of Defending Love

What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Defending Love?

Our heroine, Dani Sinclair, first made an appearance in the Sinclair Duet, a story about her brother. I loved her devotion to family, intelligence, and spark. I knew Dani had a story that needed to be told.

If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of Defending Love, what would they be?

I will always love you - Whitney Houston.

What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?

I mostly read thrillers. I love it when an author can surprise me. That is why I have a lot of story and suspense in the romances that I write.

What books are on your TBR pile right now?

The Robin on the Oak Throne, by K.A. Linde, is sitting on my bedside stand. I can't wait to start it!

What scene in your book was your favorite to write?

The scene is when readers learn about Eli's past, his heartbreaking reason for his rules, and his vow to move on with Dani.

Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)

Quite... so I can listen to the voices in my head.

Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?

Each day is a choice. I choose to be happy.

If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?

I'd like them to remember their feelings while reading and hopefully want to experience more.

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Interview with Joseph Blackhurst, Author of Indifferent Universe

What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Indifferent Universe?

I had found myself growing more and more bitter about the state of the artist's experience in the face of social media noise and artificial intelligence. I deeply wished to find a book to help me through my feelings of being an unappreciated artist—but there really wasn't one. So I wrote one.

What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?

I've never been a loyal fan of any particular genre. For fiction, I purposely, exclusively, read literature that is considered canonical/classics (Hemingway, Joyce, Nabokov, Woolf, etc.). Otherwise, I primarily read nonfiction—namely books about writing. The nature of what qualifies as "good" writing is a major theme throughout my novel and is frequently poked fun at.

What books are on your TBR pile right now?

I'm currently reading a grammar textbook and a book about the logging industry in the 1800s. I don't know why.

What scene in your book was your favorite to write?

The ending. It ties up the story of the main character's sister whom the reader comes to realize was the true artist of the story all along.

Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)

The more experienced and disciplined I've become, the more I've shed any sort of external habits. I just sit down and my brain shuts off for an hour and a half. Then I get up for ten minutes and then I do it again.

Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?

Not really. However, I've always had a specific sentence that has guided my writing and inspired my own voice. It very much inspired my entire style. It's from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov: "My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning)." It tells an entire story while deftly combining humor with sadness in a matter-of-fact tone.

If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?

It's a privilege to believe the purpose of art is to heal others. It's a privilege for those who are already successful to tell themselves to feel superior. It is not the experience of 99% of artists. The purpose of art is to heal its creator. Artists' quest for validation more often goes unfulfilled and cannot be the focus of one's life.

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Interview with Jacqueline Diamond, Author of A Cat's Guide to Danger

What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write A Cat’s Guide to Danger?

I love reading cozy mysteries with snarky talking cats and heroines who discover they have superpowers, but I wanted to create my own alternate reality rather than using witches and vampires. On a visit to Prague, I learned about a legendary rabbi who created a magical creature called a golem, and also about a real historical evil queen who expelled the Jewish people from that beautiful city.

I wondered ... what if the leaders all had magical powers? What if they united to shift their town to another realm, with unexpected consequences? Centuries later, along comes an orphan girl who has no idea of her special heritage... Three books into the Forgotten Village Magical Mystery series, I’m still completely absorbed in the story! By the way, I write each book so it can be read on its own.

If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of A Cat’s Guide to Danger, what would they be?

Did you ever hear the Peggy Lee recording of “The Alley Cat Song”? That would suit Kafka! He’s a black tom with attitude to spare.

What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?

My favorite genre to read right now is paranormal cozy mysteries, which is what I’m writing. I’ve also written medical mysteries, romantic comedies, and Regencies.

What books are on your TBR pile right now?

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst, Claws of Justice by Emmie Lyn, Chapter and Curse by Nancy Warren, Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood, and Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks (nonfiction).

What scene in your book was your favorite to write?

It’s the chapter in which my heroine, Chess, and her cat Kafka return to the California town where she grew up, on an urgent mission. They introduce their companion and friend, a handsome detective who grew up in a quaint town infused with magick, to a world of cell phones, Halloween costumes, and TV news.

Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)

I prefer silence while I write. I tend to bite people who interrupt me.

Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?

This above all: To thine own self be true... but remember that your right to swing your fist ends where the next guy’s nose begins.

If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?

How much they loved the characters, and how often they laughed.

Jacqueline Diamond is the author of the new book A Cat’s Guide to Danger

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Interview with Marc B. DeGeorge, Author of Pim's Peculiar Passion

What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Pim's Peculiar Passion?

I enjoy writing quirky stories with lots of heart, and after watching the movie Ice Pirates, I was considering writing a space pirate story. Somehow, that idea morphed into a story about a side character from my Origin Story series, Danny Lecker. I thought she would make a great protagonist for a new series as her backstory as a bounty hunter who hunts down prospective spouses for her clients made for a fun premise.

If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of Pim's Peculiar Passion, what would they be?

Easy! Wannabe - Itzy, IDLE - Tomboy, and aespa - Whiplash.

What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?

I switch between sci-fi and fantasy. I've mostly written sci-fi, but I've started writing fantasy as well.

What books are on your TBR pile right now?

Justin Cronin - The Ferryman, Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty, Provenance - Ann Leckie, and On Impulse - Heather Texle.

What scene in your book was your favorite to write?

It's hard to pick just one, as there are so many scenes I enjoyed, but if I had to pick one, I'd say the final scene.

Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)

I like cats, but I'm allergic! Not sure if this is quirky, but I act out my characters when I'm working on a scene.

Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?

I was never wiser than on the day I was born - Henry David Thoreau.

If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?

That love takes many forms, and we do not choose who we fall in love with.

Marc. B DeGeorge is the author of the new book Pim's Peculiar Passion

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Interview with David Grau, Author of Changing the World

What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Changing the World?

I ask my grandchildren to leave every room or place they walk away from better than they found it. As I pass through my mid-sixties, I feel like that about the world, too... It needs a lot of help… from a lot of good people… and right now. Small business owners are powerful and capable. To that end, this is a book about hope, encouragement, and a strategy to make a real difference. It is all about leaving the world in a better place than we found it.

If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of Changing the World, what would they be?

The main characters in my book are the individual small business owners around the world. Accordingly, Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” has the energy, drama, and defiant hope that mirrors my book’s rallying cry: "Where are the everyday heroes willing to take responsibility? To lead with integrity? To build something that can last?"

This song is bold, it is emotionally urgent, it is intense, and it is fun, all at the same time! Owning a small business is my main character’s superpower. The heroes in my book are those who show up every day to serve employees, customers, suppliers, and the community with courage and care. My book says: The heroes we need aren’t out there someplace; they’re right here. They’re you.

What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?

I wrote three books in my first year of "retirement," so not much time to read. But when I did read a lot, well… I miss Tom Clancy!

What books are on your TBR pile right now?

Mostly non-fiction books that I think I could write better (humbly and respectfully so), or make more meaningful and enjoyable. I have the technical skills, but I really enjoy storytelling and adding some fun learning elements to my writing.

What scene in your book was your favorite to write?

Mine is a non-fiction book, of course, but I created a business teaching scene using Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde! I think creativity in a non-fiction book is more important, not less.

Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)

I always have a cup of tea sitting nearby to get me through the tough spots, and to make the good moments even better!

Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?

"Get it done." I don't believe in procrastination or writer's block. Sit down, write, polish it up, write some more. Tomorrow will come. 500 hours later, a book will be born!

If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?

"Hey, I can make a real difference. I started and now own a small business. I can change the world if I so choose!"

David Grau Sr. is the author of the new book Changing the World

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Interview with Rick Walker, Author of 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning

What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning?

This is an effort to reach the men aged between 25-45 who are in the midst of a meaning crisis.

If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning, what would they be?

Mahler's 5th.

What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?

Religion.

What books are on your TBR pile right now?

Tao Te Ching, Mastery, and Power of Awareness.

What scene in your book was your favorite to write?

Introduction.

Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)

Latte first thing in the morning.

Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?

You must give away what you wish to keep.

If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?

The wisest mind looks into the most distant future for the most valued reward, which can only be purchased with the currency of the present.

Rick Walker is the author of the new book 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning

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