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Successful, but writer’s blocked author Bronte Parker just needs some holiday peace and quiet to jumpstart her brutal writer’s block. Hence her rental at a quaint cottage on quiet and remote Jonathon Island. So what’s the deal with the double booking? And worse…the sudden Santa can’t leave—not with a record breaking blizzard overtaking the island. Suddenly her world is all about eggnog, Christmas movies and decking the halls with all type of distractions.

Author Jennifer Alsever delivers an addictive story about a teen grieving over her parent's tragic death who becomes entangled with a mysterious forest teeming with urban legends of strange disappearances and witchcraft. Ember Trouve used to be alive, driven to become a musician and on a path to college. That was before her parents died. One day, after venturing into the fabled Trinity Forest, she goes missing. Now, Ember must confront the truth behind her parents' death - or lose herself to the forest forever.

Still recovering from her troubled past, Farris is no stranger to change. But when the military transfers her father across the country to an experimental aircraft squadron, settling in to a new life is the least of her problems. As a series of apparent computer glitches threaten the security of the fleet and the blame falls on her father, she decides to put her computer skills to use, digging up the truth. Soon she's drawn into the perilous world of a hacker who is determined to ground the fleet - at any cost.

Thomas Smucker moved to West Kootenai for a fresh start. Without his overbearing, legalistic father to make decisions for him, he's finally free to become his own man. However, within weeks of settling in Montana, Thomas's five-year-old niece is placed in his care. Thomas' dreams of recreating a new life for himself are dashed, and he's forced to confront the past he desperately wanted to escape.

Tanyth Harris has found a new home in Stow on the Wold, a small English market town, but she hasn't outrun her past. When the bad dreams start up again, Tanyth starts to suspect an unearthly reason for them. When she meets Aiden Williams, she recognizes him as her lover from her nightmares.

Eliza Quinn is running—from grief, from memories, from a hometown that holds too much pain. When her mother's illness pulls her back to charming Jonathon Island, she tells herself it's temporary. Help with the family. Don't get attached. Don't stay. Then she meets Oliver Sullivan. The brooding bookstore owner hasn't smiled since his wife died. His shop is failing. His heart is frozen.

Lyla Taylor has built a social media empire around her Ruby Rose brand. Yet, one wrong post causes her carefully constructed world to collapse. With no other options, Lyla agrees to a six-week reset in rural Montana in what she believes will be a high-end spa. Lyla couldn't have been more wrong. When her first night on the Milner farm is interrupted by unwelcome guests of the raccoon variety, Lyla is ready to throw in the towel and head back to civilization.

Triumphant at last, Ember has fought her way back from the evil witch's curse and reclaimed her identity, her sense of self. Now she must stop Xintra from hurting the boy she loves, even as she uncovers the truth behind her mother's dark, twisted past. Rejoicing in her power over the human race, Xintra is closer than ever to achieving her father's dream - a dream she sacrificed her own life to realize. But when key members of her team defy her, she must scramble to enact her plan before obedience gives way to anarchy.

Oshun has everything a young pop star could ever want - fame, fortune, and beauty to spare. But there's something dark inside of her, rising like the tide, fighting to be heard. Something that terrifies her. Because once she lets it out, she knows there's no going back. Ember is drowning. Fighting for consciousness, struggling to make sense of the strange dreams she's been having - prophecies of murder, deception, and blackmail. Maddie is barely staying afloat with her best friend Ember still missing, presumed dead. Then she learns a pop star may be involved in Ember's disappearance....

Sure, I hate how everyone was over the moon about her TikTok fame. And I suppose I got a little bit carried away with vengeance when she tried to ruin my life. But seriously, when my friend gave me that leather journal, I’d never had so much power in my life. It was intoxicating. Who wouldn’t have done what I did to Eva? Now everyone thinks that just because she vanished in the forest after a party, that I killed her. That the blood on the jackets is proof. Or the text messages. The slightly weird thing I had with Eva's dad. The fire.

In a time of pandemics and disease, the ailing world finds itself on its knees, desperate for the cure promised by leading geneticist Dr. Lucien Sabara. With his simple EVE-0 treatment, he seemingly offers an answer to the world's prayers. Though as Gabrielle and Chris learn, the geneticist's true agenda is to play God over humankind, forcing women to require medical intervention to conceive, allowing Lucien to edit unborn embryos in order to create a better race, a more equal race, a more evolved race.

When a team of scientists discovers the deadly consequences of a human gene they dub “the evolution gene", they quickly realize that the human race is on the brink of extinction. As pandemic after pandemic ravages the world, symptomatic of the looming eradication of all humankind, this team heads to the Amazon for one last chance to save humanity.

Julia and Charley may come from two completely different worlds, but they’ve been called the same names all their lives. Psycho. Liar. Witch. It’s the price of being a supernaturally gifted female in sexist, narrow-minded 1971. Until they’re invited to join the Stanford Research Institute. There, a team of scientists are conducting experiments on people like them - people with the ability to tell the future, read minds, move objects without lifting a finger. At first, the institute seems like a safe haven.

She’s back. For her 17th birthday, crack high school journalist/sleuth Adriana Hofstetter is taken to the magic castle, a mansion of magic, where she, BFF Billy, and mom Margaret delight in the feats of prestidigitation, from amazing card tricks, to solid rings that magically connect and disconnect seemingly at will, to birds that appear out of nowhere. It’s a world that’s baffling and bewildering, and which people of all ages flock to be fooled and confounded by mysterious illusions. And she thinks it would make a great story for her high school newspaper.

Kathy, whose brain is over-saturated with Victorian novels, falls for Wyatt, the boy with all the verbs. It's your classic case of a shy gal running screaming from love.

Jen is anxious about the police force getting new recruits. Although new blood is definitely needed in Denver's war on crime, she isn't sure she can trust the new people if things go wrong. Brad, the new join that's been paired with her, seems all right. It isn't until she is shot that Jen can really tell; but along with proving himself, Brad turns out to be more than he seems. Much more. And Jen has never felt more challenged or turned on.

Kyra can't believe that things can get any worse. The first guest has arrived at the Sunset Beach Resort, and they aren't even open for business. Someone's hacked the resort's website. She has to make things work for their guest - it's not his fault. She also has to make sure to stomp on the feelings she's having for him. He's going to be gone in a few days, and she has too much work to do to prepare for the resort's opening.

Henry and Rex von Kamp are both billionaires with the genetic ability to shift into werewolves under the full moon. They need a strong, healthy mate to give them an heir. Will plump and inexperienced Melissa be able to give them the heir they both desperately want?

Daisy Decker didn't plan to lose her hit home renovation show to her conniving co-host, but never mind…she has a plan to reboot her career. Step one, find herself a cute little house on the world's most adorable island. Step two, film herself giving the house a total "Decker" remodel and use it to restart her YouTube channel. What she never factored in? That Hunter Barrett--the man who stole her heart and then ghosted her--would be standing between her and her dream project.

Copywriter and songwriter wannabe Sadie Hudson vowed never to return to Jonathon Island…but when her grandmother needs her—and she’s the only one left to help—she’ll return, because she’ll do anything for family. Even if it means facing the tragedy that haunts her, the accident that took her sister’s life. Look away, and don’t get involved…what’s a guy going to do? Asher Quinn has noticed his elderly neighbor’s new arrival, but he’s not interested in anything but solitude for reasons he’ll tell no one. And then a tree comes down on the house and he can’t live with himself if he doesn’t help.