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A Laurelville college dropout and aspiring model, Sonja swore off men and dating apps, and especially men on dating apps…until she met Jonas.

A straight-A student and prospective counselor, Jonas had no time for dating and women…until he met Sonja.

They spent three hundred hours, ninety days, three months, in the talking phase—and now they’re finally ready to meet in person.

A first date at their local favorite café Out of This World sounds perfect—but when Sonja shows up at the decided time and day, she finds Jonas missing from the café. Did they get their wires crossed? Was it a different location? Or worse…did he just not show up?

Little does she know, Jonas is experiencing a similar fate at his local Laurelville café.

The two assume they’ve been stood up, and although it may be the trend of the times, it hurts nonetheless. However, a quick video call turns their despair into confusion. As Jonas shows he is indeed in the café, so does Sonja…so who’s in the wrong? If it’s the same time, date and place…what’s different?

Are there forces beyond their understanding lurking in their universe, wreaking havoc on their dating life? And are they the only ones affected?

Chloe Cameron’s Guide to Accidentally Dating a Rockstar

Chloe Cameron lived every fangirl’s dream the night she went back to Luke Waters’ hotel room. A one-night-stand with a world-famous rockstar is the one wild thing she’s ever done—the one juicy story she can tell when she and her friends are gossiping. But that one-night-stand turns her world upside down when she ends up in a pharmacy parking lot, three weeks later, with a positive pregnancy test in her hands.

When Chloe finally manages to tell Luke about the baby she’s more than surprised to hear that he wants to be in the baby’s life. The next thing she knows, she’s following him and his band on tour so the two of them can get to know each other and figure out this soon-to-be-parents thing together. And to do that, they both agree that they need to ignore the undeniable chemistry between them.

Everyone says it’s a bad idea, says she’s going to get her heart broken. History would indicate the same, but Chloe is determined to prove them wrong—she can totally be platonic co-parents with Luke. If she doesn’t give him her heart, then he can’t break it.

As the weeks go by though, it may be harder than Chloe thinks to keep herself from falling for the handsome, sexy, and surprisingly thoughtful Luke Waters, who wears his heart on his tattooed sleeve.

A toe-curling drama and romance wrapped up with witty banter, Chloe Cameron’s Guide to Accidentally Dating a Rockstar will make you laugh, weep, gasp and keep turning the pages until there are none left!

Finding Love

Loved bingeing Firefly Lane? How about And Just Like That? Then Finding Love is for you!

Best Friends Kate and Sam have practically grown up as sisters their entire lives. Kate’s parents are like Sam’s parents, Sam’s problems and joys and troubles are like Kate’s own. So when Kate’s mother is put in a medically induced coma after what was supposed to be a routine operation, both their lives take an unexpected turn.

Except you never know if love is lurking just round the corner…Even if it’s at a hospital.

Slowly but surely Kate starts growing closer to Henry, a kind, friendly and handsome nurse. But they both have their own pasts to work through and their own mental barriers to cross.

Meanwhile Sam is locked in outright warfare with Arty, the cheeky car park attendant. Determined to be the bane of his existence, she is surprised when she finds his number left on her car.

As Sam watches Kate go through the stressful situation, she’s sure there’s something else under the surface; something else that her friend is hiding. And it might just be someone from Kate’s past threatening to ruin it all.

For fans of Cecelia Ahern’s P.S. I Love You and Sophie Kinsella’s grand romances, comes a heartwarming, domestic tale of love, loss and familial bonds that go deeper than blood.

Eternally Single, Rosa Álvarez

Eternally Single, Rosa Álvarez brings to you all the beloved tropes of the hottest romance novels: The Spanish Love Deception, The Kiss Quotient, It Happened One Summer and more!

Debut author Neerja Pawar has infused her novel with all the love, banter and men written by women she wishes to see in the real world…

Rosa Álvarez leads two lives.

One is deceptively normal. A respectable physiotherapist living in Los Angeles: the city of fish tacos and famous bigwigs. She works hard at her job, loves living the single life, and has a trip home to Mexico at the very top of her priority list.

The other is her mother’s worst nightmare.

For one, the first is a lie. She does love her job, but its uniqueness would put any good chick flick to shame. She hasn’t been on a date in five years, at least, not any good ones. And she will do anything to avoid a trip to her sleepy hometown.

But when a notorious man from her past shows up in LA, Rosa’s secret life starts unravelling. There’s also the matter of the really annoying actor (who just so happens to be annoyingly good-looking) she keeps bumping into whom she cannot seem to shake off.

As her lies pile up, will Rosa be able to keep her two worlds separate? Or will her mother’s flying chancla find her first?

A Case For Mistletoe

Some secrets don’t stay buried when the roads are closed and the past comes knocking. Coming home was never part of the plan—falling in love again was the real risk.

Pranika Mehra is driving home from New York for Christmas for the first time in years, armed with a small suitcase and a secret she never planned on bringing back with her. But when a brutal snowstorm strands her on the edge of her hometown, she finds herself dependent on the last person she ever wanted to see again—the local mechanic who once broke her heart.

Stuck in a town she fled and face-to-face with a past she never resolved, Pranika braces herself for disappointment. Old wounds resurface, unspoken words hang heavy, and the secret she’s been carrying threatens to unravel everything.

As the twelve days of Christmas unfold, snow-covered streets and forced proximity blur the line between what was and what could be. In a place where everyone remembers who she used to be, Pranika must decide whether she’s willing to confront the girl she left behind—and the love she never truly let go of.

Will she choose the comfort of the life she built in the city? Or risk her heart on a second chance she never saw coming?

After

Cinderella in a banana suit at a Comic Convention? Jack reverting to a life of scamming dates instead of giants from beanstalks? Will Sleeping Beauty with POTS find her prince charming?

This novella is the perfect fit for someone who is tired of the same old fairy tales with the same old boring endings.

From working in the non-profit sector to interacting in college dorms. From going on coffee dates like normal people to participating in Renaissance Faires and dealing with disorders, these stories truly explore it all.

Your favourite fairy tales are reimagined with a modern twist where the hero and heroines solve twenty-first-century problems simply yet beautifully.

Happily Ever After gets a twist in the After by Hope Bolinger, author of multiple books that will always make you think beyond your daily perception of life.

Amaranthine

For fans of the classic Little Women and the iconic Enola Holmes comes Amaranthine, a young adult novel that will leave a lasting impression on any woman who’s thought she deserves more!

Amaranthine leads a solitary life deep in the woods with her mother Margaret and her beloved horse Faith, away from the kingdom of Elynasia. While Margaret has done her best to keep Amaranthine content, Amaranthine can’t help but feel there’s something missing. She’s meant for more.

But with her mother refusing to let her venture out into the world, how is Amaranthine supposed to find her destiny?

She decides she’s going to make it instead! Two unlikely friends, one handsome stranger, and a determination to find her true self lead Amaranthine on the journey of a lifetime to discover her future—and her past.

Lovers of fierce female leads and friendships, ready your steed for the adventure of a lifetime!

Black Cat

Who knew immortal beings came in all shapes—and species? How does one adjust to a world where immortals walk among us? And how hard will Hugo fall when the extraordinary collides with his ordinary life?

Hugo thought he was doing a simple good deed when he picked up a stray cat off the side of the road. A warm bed, regular meals, nothing more. But when he wakes up the next morning to find a beautiful stranger standing in his tiny apartment, his entire understanding of reality is thrown off balance.

As Hugo struggles to wrap his head around his new, impossible situation named Basil—he’s forced to confront a truth even more unsettling: the stranger is charming, dangerous, and impossible to resist. With every moment spent together, the line between curiosity and desire begins to blur as they explore this “new normal”.

Hugo and Basil are falling head over heels for each other and they are loving every moment of it—Basil is ready to go all the way for Hugo. Their college life is more than what Hugo could have ever dreamed of. But as they start to explore this life together, cracks soon begin to appear as their different personalities steer them into different directions.

Will they find their way back to each other?

Famous In Love

Dating a K-pop idol is a sweet kind of chaos — all glitter, secrecy, and missed flights wrapped in late-night confessions.

It means loving someone whose life belongs to schedules and spotlights, where dates happen backstage, kisses are stolen between performances, and privacy is a luxury. Yet behind the perfect smiles are people who hoard snacks, make impulsive confessions, and fall in love just as messily as anyone else.

In Famous in Love, secret dressing-room romances, loophole proposals, and chaotic meet-cutes unfold across the industry—from idols hiding relationships from managers to long-distance fiancés navigating exhaustion, fame, and longing. Some love stories begin with shared fandom obsessions, others with midnight convenience-store encounters, but all are shaped by one truth: love in the spotlight is fragile, funny, and fiercely protected.

Because loving a K-pop idol isn’t just about glamour.

It’s about choosing each other through distance, scandal, and silence — again and again, until the stage lights fade and what remains is simply love.

Fated To Love Him

Is It Love or Is It Fate?

Kathryn Hughes thought she knew ordinary—a steady job at a bookstore and occasionally overprotective parents. But one fateful night changes everything. A terrible incident propels her into an ancient werewolf prophecy, shattering her mundane existence.

Now, Kathryn finds herself at the mercy of Alexander Bennet—her unexpected guardian. A Werewolf guardian.

As danger looms and secrets unravel, Kathryn has a choice in front of her—embrace the extraordinary or lose herself to the madness of it all. But one thing is for sure; she must trust Alexander to protect her life and her heart. But can she trust him with the truth of who she’s becoming?

For A Lark: A Novel

From Debut Author, Seth Goodman, comes a tragic tale of love, helplessness and desire. A new age story of a young and innocent girl breaking through molds to find her place in this world.

Melody “Lark” Larkness is trying to run from her past. Working at Scottsdale’s most exclusive Gentlemen’s Club—Starlight—feels like a step toward stability. But when the new floor manager’s dangerous obsession puts her in his sights, she realizes nowhere is truly safe.

Romeo Mendes has always played it safe. A food service manager with a long-distance girlfriend and a
predictable life, he isn’t looking for complications. But when Lark’s world collides with his, he can’t turn away. The friendship they build is a risk he shouldn’t take—but one he can’t resist.

When violence erupts, Lark disappears, forcing her to confront the ghosts of her past alone. Romeo is left to pick up the pieces, torn between returning to the life he knows and chasing something he never expected.

If their paths cross again, will love be enough to bridge the distance, or will the past pull them apart for good?

Freeing Madame X

Escape has never felt like an option. Until him.

For years, she has lived under the control of Dave Compton—the arrogant, possessive son of the man who owns the town as surely as he owns its people. To Dave, she is obedience personified, a body to claim and a will to break.

Until…

Raphael is the magnetic artist who has it all, fame, charm, money—everything except her. An artist who sees more than what Shanaya’s been reduced to. With him, she begins to imagine a life beyond survival. A self beyond submission—showered with passionate love.

Desire, for the first time, feels like a choice rather than a demand. Lust takes the centre stage as they are both drawn to each other, knowing very well about the risks involved.

But Dave is not a man who releases what he believes belongs to him. As control tightens and lines are drawn, she is forced to confront what freedom truly costs—and whether she’s brave enough to take what is rightfully hers. Between possession and passion, fear and ecstasy—a reckoning awaits.

Will Madame X finally claim her own pleasure?

Or will Dave refuse to let her go?

Ishqiya

A woman as intoxicating as the flower she’s named after.

A man on a journey to put his loved one to rest.

A life-changing train ride during the Bombay monsoons.

Indians believe size matters. We do everything big—from our bhaturas and jalebis, to our statues and stadiums. So why should our love be any different?

Ishqiya is a collection of eight bold and heartwarming stories about love, lust, and everything in between.

My Littlest Russian Doll

Winnie knows what love is.
But is it really “true” love or is she just fooling herself?

Winnie Star is an eccentric and an offbeat incarnation of her parent’s hippie era.

But after her parent’s divorce and grandmother’s death, Winnie is on the verge of dropping out of college and embracing her life as it comes. At the same time, she can’t get enough of her boyfriend, Jasper. But when Jasper questions Winnie’s life choices, it sends her down a spiral and she finally decides to reign it in, and starts a jewellery business.

Soon the jewellery business is a success and she couldn’t be more in love with Jasper. That is until a certain dinner party makes Winnie feel left out of Jasper’s life and think that he’s hiding something from her. Is there really something Jasper is hiding? Will Winnie unravel Jasper’s secret? Will the business finally give her some direction? Or has fate something even bigger in store for her?

M.Q. Ngyuen’s My Littlest Russian Doll is a tale of love, resilience and self-discovery, that makes you question the true meaning of being loved, and finding your identity and purpose in a relationship.

Sin and Seduction

Sofia’s salvation does not arrive in shining armor. Instead, it comes cloaked in shadows—dangerous, forbidden, and everything she has been warned against.

Sofia Russo, the cherished daughter of Don Russo, is on the brink of a marriage she never chose—one forged from obligation rather than love. And let’s make one thing clear. Russos and di Salvos are always out for each other’s blood. Trapped by duty and convinced there is no escape, she walks toward the altar with a growing sense of dread, her future narrowing with every step.

But fate has other plans—named Damiano di Salvo. Born of darkness and destined to be her enemy, Damiano upends everything Sofia thought she knew about loyalty, power, and desire.

So when Damiano and Sofia decide to work together—they are playing with the devil himself, blurring the lines between duty and temptation. What begins as trouble soon teeters on the edge of something far more perilous.

Will they destroy each other as fate intended?

Or will they surrender to the intoxicating pull of sin, changing the course of their lives forever?

Sunburn

Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp.

It’s the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she’s always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn’t appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.

Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah.

But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. But only one can offer her real happiness.

An atmospheric sapphic love story and coming-of-age novel with the intensity of Megan Nolan’s Acts of Desperation, the long hot summer of André Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name and the female friendships of Anna Hope’s Expectation.