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Leighton Vaughn's prestigious fine art atelier--and her life--appear to be settling down after a messy divorce. She prioritizes her daughter, art, and, teaching--that is until gifted Casey Norford joins the close-knit New York academy. Casey didn't receive the artistic education she expected from her degree, but a spot at Atelier Vaughn will remedy that. Even more than the opportunity to study with the famed Leighton Vaughn, Casey wants to give her son a stable childhood that won't resemble her own. She's not sure of the true extent of her artistic talent, but she's keenly aware of her attraction to her instructor, and that attraction appears mutual. Their sticky teacher-student relationship puts the future of the atelier in jeopardy, and Leighton's obsessive ex tracks her down. Will they sacrifice everything to be together?Content advisory: This book contains instances of domestic violence.

Burned-out chef Sy Travino never expected to wind up on a goat farm in rural Vermont, but that's exactly where she lands after leaving the restaurant world to become a cheesemaker. It's a great place to flex her muscles and make a name for herself, though. Too bad the house she bought is practically unlivable. Maddie Barrow can't believe anyone would be dumb enough to buy a house sight unseen, but she's not about to turn down the job of renovating it, especially since her best friend just hired Sy to turn Grumpy Old Goat into the chèvre everyone is talking about. When the estimate on the house exceeds Sy's budget, Maddie puts her to work. It doesn't take long for Sy and Maddie to admit their chemistry is off the charts, but having fun doesn't always lead to forever. Could it be a foundation for love or nothing but a teardown?

Ellie Efron is heartbroken when her best friend suddenly passes away. How can she possibly refuse her friend's last request to take care of her rescue dog, Atlas, so he doesn't end up back at the shelter? Ellie reluctantly agrees but ends up in over her head with the 100-pound, reactive Atlas. Desperate not to let her friend down, she seeks help from an animal behaviorist. For Hayden Brandt, impermanence is the only constant in life. She's already lost everyone important to her. Instead of dwelling on her losses, she focuses on helping animals overcome traumas so they can live their best lives. Content, she spends her evenings with simple pleasures such as a glass of wine, a good book, and the occasional no-strings hook-up. Ellie and Hayden's chemistry is instant, though neither is ready to make any promises. But Atlas knows a thing or two about grief, and he just might find a way to give this busy, hopeless romantic and commitment-phobic vet a roadmap to forever.

Violet Unwin is convinced she is invisible. Overlooked by her adoptive family, her only solace is her uncle's costume shop. By day, she's an assistant no one remembers, but after hours, in the wonder of her imagination, she becomes explorer, warrior, queen. Devastated by news of the shop's imminent closure, Violet finds comfort in an unlikely companion, the ghostly figure of her namesake, the suffragette Vi Unwin. Medical school dropout Phoebe Frink's life is in disarray. She has no idea who she is anymore, what to do about it, or how to tell her parents. Taken under the wing of the infamous drag king Mr. Duke, owner of the struggling Banana Bar, fate steps in when Phoebe seeks Violet's help with costumes for the bar's fundraising Christmas Ball. Phoebe is captivated by beautiful, shy Violet, and for the first time in her life, Violet experiences what it is to be truly seen. But for love to be possible, Violet and Phoebe must take a risk on a future they've never dared to imagine.

Tuesday Johnson spent her career helping the Spokane, WA, community as a probation officer and a search and rescue K9 handler. After suffering a career-ending gunshot wound, all she wants is to heal and spend quiet time with her mother during her last days of battling cancer. Instead, visions of murder disrupt her hopes for peace, and family secrets shake up everything she thought she knew. After twenty-five years of searching, private detective Addie Caine has all but given up hope of finding her brother alive. When the last known sighting brings her to Spokane and a routine search uncovers a decades-old burial ground, the hunt for her brother means pursuing a serial killer. Tuesday and Addie, along with Tuesday's dog, Tripper, struggle to solve a twenty-five-year-old mystery while searching for love and redemption along the way.

It's just another day on the job for state trooper Louisa Linebach. Hundreds of young men go missing from Alaska's Kenai Peninsula every year, so when Lee Stanton and Branden Halifax both disappear within days of each other, Louisa doesn't think much of it. One appears to be a simple suicide, but the other defies all explanation, with the victim's footprints literally vanishing along an abandoned mountain runway. As Louisa and her partner investigate, they encounter alien conspiracy theories, a town where all the inhabitants live in one building, and signs of a drug trade that's inextricably mingled with the tourist industry around Seward. Their investigation is further complicated by a police chief who's unwilling to let his friend be investigated and Louisa's feelings for Anna Fenway, the local medical examiner. When a body is identified and buried, Louisa thinks the case is coming to a close. She's wrong.

Brooks Boseman, born into privilege in an old New Orleans plantation home, could have opted for an easy life just like her siblings, but after a broken heart, she escapes to New York where no one knows her name. A call from the family matriarch changes everything. Her brother Curtis is getting married, and Brooks needs to be at the engagement party. Only she can't possibly go, not with Curtis set to marry the secret love of her youth, Fallon Goodwin. Unable to find a way to refuse, Brooks returns to discover the family business is in jeopardy. In the face of her father's struggles with Alzheimer's and her brother's well-intentioned blunders, she's forced to step in to save the family fortune. As far as Brooks and Fallon are concerned, romance is for storybooks, but as hard as they try to resist, neither can deny their feelings still linger. Family ties have never been more binding as they fight for the business, and maybe even for each other.

Nicki Russell has never been smooth. More like a bumbling, awkward mess always falling short of her dreams. Good college? She never had the money. Post-grad? She'll get around to it someday. Happy ever after with the perfect woman? One major heartbreak is enough to have her swearing off love forever. Current life plan? Avoid all unnecessary human contact. That goes double for Carter, the hot new butch in town. Unfortunately, Carter works at the town's pick-your-own pumpkin patch and Nicki's niece is obsessed with Halloween. So obsessed she ropes her favorite aunt into organizing the school Halloween festival, hosted by Carter Farms. Volunteer weekends are scary enough, but Carter seems to be everywhere Nicki goes, and it's just a matter of time before she discovers Nicki's more likely to trip over a chair than successfully flirt. But Carter can't seem to get enough of her company, and as their accidental encounters slowly simmer into romance, Nicki begins to believe she's not a complete disaster after all. The date of the festival is fast approaching, and this pumpkin spice season is turning out sweeter than expected.

Evelyne, a disowned noblewoman, and Annika, a peasant girl with unusual powers, made the choice to be together in a kingdom where men make the rules. Now the Temple elders want Annika for murder and mercenaries want Evelyne for theft. But when Evelyne is abducted and Annika believes she has been abandoned, they must risk everything to find each other again. Annika discovers the Temple has imprisoned children with abilities like hers, and she alone stands between them and death. She's forced to face her fear of her own powers and soon learns to use them with the help of Zuri, a former slave who is also gifted with magic. Evelyne, no longer entitled to the favors and respect bestowed on the nobility, must convince her beautiful captor to help her return to Annika. Doubt and questions plague them both, but one thing is for certain. The Temple has a long memory, and a familiar foe is coming for them.

When Sabine Rowan moves home to New Orleans after a family tragedy, she escapes into her favorite romance novels as she cares for her mother, a pampered former actress with a flair for the dramatic. Thoughts of finding love start to fade until her favorite aunt passes away and leaves Sabine with the equivalent of a ticking time bomb and a nearly impossible choice: to gain her inheritance she must leave home and find her own place in the world. Everyone in the tiny village of Nairn, in the Highlands of Scotland, turns to Alden Wallace when they need expert help restoring their historic homes. Still reeling from her latest romantic disaster, Alden barely notices the most recent American tourist to swan into their village. Until she buys an abandoned lighthouse and Alden is the only one who can save the crumbling disaster from disappearing into the sea. Can the windswept shores of Scotland weave enough magic to bring them together?

Heather McKenna has no idea how to be a werewolf. Her wolf might be free from its cursed cage but has shut the door between the two of them, leaving Heather still reeling from the emptiness. When Heather discovers her mother is in the hospital, she is certain that closure from the person who cursed her in the first place will settle her wolf's grudge and is quick to pack a bag. V Raines sees the problems with werewolf society all around them. Despite being a nonbinary outcast in their own pack, they still have the responsibilities of being the Alpha's only child. When their father attempts to pair them off with a dominant male pack member, V is all but ready to abandon their pack. When V is called to the hospital to take care of a possible rogue shifter, they aren't ready for the consequences of finding their true mate in Heather. V's all in as Heather worries she's not wolf enough to stand between V's intense pack and her true mate. Fate just made their lives a lot more difficult.

Elementary school teacher Cary Smith thinks she has finally outrun her secrets. She's avoided attention all her life, but the moment beautiful Tina Flores joins the faculty, Cary wants to be noticed. Although the school has a zero-tolerance policy toward anything "immoral," Cary dares to pursue Tina, and they begin a relationship nobody can know about--not Cary's friends, co-workers, or ex-girlfriend. But then strange things begin to happen, and before long, Cary isn't sure who she can trust. When someone begins leaving ominous messages and finally breaks into her apartment, Cary fears losing her job or even her life. With her stalker inching closer to the truth, she's forced to face the past she's tried desperately to forget.

Spring has returned to New Orleans, bringing with it the swarming termites! First-time homeowner Scotty Bradley is feeling like he may have made the biggest mistake of his life buying in the French Quarter. Between dealing with the Vieux Carré Commission rules, termite damage, and contractors, it's a relief when his best friend David brings the accidental sleuth a case: one of his students is being harassed by a much older man who turns out to be a big wheel politician in one of the parishes outside of New Orleans, up to his neck in corruption. When the politician turns up dead and Scotty's client is the most obvious suspect, Scotty and his friends set out to prove his client's innocence. Lots of people wanted the man dead, but someone doesn't want all the corruption in St. Jeanne d'Arc Parish exposed. And if that's not bad enough, someone from Scotty's past returns, making him question what he thinks he knows about himself and his own history...

When enemies fall into temptation, love brings out the most delicious flavor of all. Marigold Lavender lights up every room she enters. Then she's left to turn out the lights and head home alone. Soft on the inside and a go-getter on the outside, Marigold just wants to make sure everyone else is okay before worrying about herself. When an awful big-city food critic trashes her sister Aster's new restaurant, Marigold pauses her search for her own happily-ever-after to go to war with the woman, who happens to be just as delectable as she is sour. Alexis Wakefield's brutal honesty is what makes her successful. Her readers trust her judgment, and a few sharp strokes from her keyboard can make or break a new restaurant. When, on a whim, she reviews a small-town eatery getting lots of buzz, the owner's sister sabotages everything, leaving her professional world in jeopardy. Marigold Lavender has gone too far and must pay for the damage she's caused.

Tally Dewilde forges her own path when she chooses to go into veterinary medicine and ignores her mother's desire that she establish a boutique clinic for the pets of the wealthy in Manhattan. When she arrives in upstate rural New York to join Sydney Valentine's animal hospital, the break with her old life seems complete on every level. Until an unwelcome reminder of the painful past arrives at her door in the form of Roman Ashcroft. Rome Ashcroft was forced to give up her dreams when accused of a crime that cost her everything. She intends to start a new life as a PA at the Rivers community hospital, until a simple act of kindness throws all her plans into question. Her past, it seems, is not so easily forgotten when fate brings her and Tally Dewilde together--along with an attraction neither welcomes.

Life changes like the ocean tides, and Mikayla Pierce is discovering that the hard way. Recently divorced and learning more about her bisexuality, she struggles to find her way on her own. Living in a borrowed home in Oceana Mobile Home Park, Mikayla knows one thing for sure. She's done trying to be the person other people think she should be. Gem Helmstaad, the property manager of Oceana, has resigned herself to the life she's lived since she was a kid, helping her dad take care of his business. She thought she'd broken free of her family obligations, but with her father's poor health and her siblings having lives of their own, she's back in Oceana and it's up to her to keep the business going. Falling in love is the last thing on either of their minds, but when Mikayla and Gem meet, sparks of possibility begin to shine, revealing a new path that just might lead them to a future neither expected.

Cyl Waterford hates Tampa. That she's inherited a lighthouse there does little to change her mind. Of course, she's going to sell as soon as she can and return to Colorado. If there are rumors the lighthouse is haunted, that's something future buyers will need to investigate. Cyl doesn't believe in ghosts anyway. When her deceased aunt's friends Luna and Martinique convince Cyl to have a séance in the lighthouse, everything she thought she knew about the supernatural is shattered. A mystery she can't ignore sets them all on a quest to find sunken treasure and a missing dead woman. Cyl's in for more than an adventure as their quest reveals surprising attractions that have Cyl torn between returning home and following her heart.

The lands of Jeenobi and Aelshia are separated by hundreds of miles of dangerous desert, and antithetical views on dragons. Now, under a tenuous new peace agreement, Jeenobi has agreed to ban dragon slaying within its borders. As a visiting ambassador to Jeenobi and a rider to the dragon Loren, Litz expected to meet resistance to all she represents. She did not expect Kella, the kingdom's most famous living dragon slayer, and she certainly didn't expect to find her attractive. When Litz is forced into extraditing Kella to Aelshia for trial, they'll discover more monstrous things in the wilds of the desert than each other, and they'll need to put aside their differences if they want to survive. The future of both nations may hang in the balance.

Crab fishing is in Remy Miller's blood. Millers have been fishing off the coast of Oregon for three generations, so she's heartbroken when her dad refuses to give her the chance to prove she can captain her own boat. When Julia Clayman, the beautiful daughter of a rival crabbing family, offers Remy a chance to run her own boat for the Claymans, she knows the decision could deepen the long-standing rift between their families. All Remy wants is the chance to live her dream, and the more time she spends with Julia the more her dreams include the chance for a happily ever after. But blood is thicker than the waters lapping the Oregon coastline, and old rivalries may mean Remy loses her career and her heart. Will love overcome the odds for this modern-day Romeo and Juliet?