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Monarch by Sophie Lark

November 6, 2024November 1, 2024 melanie

“Because there it is, in black and white, captured forever on film.... how desperatelyI want her.” In a desperate bid to get out of town, twenty-seven-year-old virgin and bookstore nerd Elena Zelenska becomes the world's most unlikely mail-order bride. Her gamble pays off when she's swept off her feet by Lorne Ronson, handsome single father… Continue reading Monarch by Sophie Lark

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Swift and Saddled by Lyla Sage

November 4, 2024November 1, 2024 melanie

“If you like who you are, why is it so hard to believe other people do too?” The last thing Ada Hart needs is a man to take care of her. Not anymore. After failing out of her interior design program and the disaster that was her short-lived marriage, Ada clawed her way up from… Continue reading Swift and Saddled by Lyla Sage

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The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

November 1, 2024October 28, 2024 melanie

“Never mix vodka and witchcraft.” Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride” scented candle on hand, she isn’t worried it will… Continue reading The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

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Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

October 30, 2024October 24, 2024 melanie

“The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.” For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children,… Continue reading Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

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The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

October 28, 2024October 24, 2024 melanie

“Being a girl is the best, because no one ever believes you’d do something bad. People think you’ll do nothing, which means you can do anything." In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer… Continue reading The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

October 23, 2024October 21, 2024 melanie

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.… Continue reading Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

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Five Brothers by Penelope Douglas

October 21, 2024October 10, 2024 melanie

“Everyone is our type when they’re naked!” On the other side of town, in the dark glades, under the rain...Macon is the oldest. Thirty-one. Ex-Marine. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him smile.Army is twenty-eight. A single dad with the most beautiful green eyes. He has no idea who he is, if not a Jaeger… Continue reading Five Brothers by Penelope Douglas

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Older by Jennifer Hartmann

October 18, 2024October 10, 2024 melanie

"Falling for you has been the easiest thing I've ever done. Everything else? Painful. Torturous. Difficult beyond belief. But loving you? Effortless." Bruised and abused, and victim to a loveless household, I shimmered with new life the moment he found me drowning my sorrows in a lake beneath the stars.A chance encounter. An unspoken connection.I… Continue reading Older by Jennifer Hartmann

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A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab

October 16, 2024October 10, 2024 melanie

“I gave him my life, but you cannot ask me to stop living.” Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through… Continue reading A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab

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Accidentally Amy by Lynn Painter

October 14, 2024October 10, 2024 melanie

Isabella Shay is usually a very honest person. But when she’s running late for her first day at her dream job and the barista yells for “Amy” three times with no answer, she does the unthinkable. Izzy takes that PSL. It’s the exact drink she ordered and paid for, only way further ahead in the… Continue reading Accidentally Amy by Lynn Painter

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