Cozy mystery, hockey romance, dark mafia, small-town contemporary, and cozy fantasy — the newest series from each of our authors, collected here. Every series below begins with book one, and every one is built to be binged.
Spine and Spell by Lisa Bouchard
Five books of magic, murder, and a bookshop with secrets older than its dusty shelves.
Fiona Flanagan’s career as a forensic document examiner ended in public humiliation. Now she just wants to sell her late great-aunt’s bookbinding shop in the impossibly quaint town of Pinecrest and never look back.
But Pinecrest has other plans.
When the Historical Society president drops dead clutching a rare diary—and Fiona discovers she can see memories locked inside the books she touches—she realizes her family left her more than a failing business. They left her a legacy of magic, a grimoire full of dangerous secrets, and a town on the edge of destruction.
Something is rotting at the heart of Pinecrest. The ancient binding spell that protects the town is failing, and only Fiona’s newly awakened powers can restore it. But healing the magic means uncovering truths the founding families have killed to protect—secrets about stolen power, blood sacrifices, and a pact made centuries ago that was never meant to last.
As bodies pile up and the corruption spreads, Fiona must master abilities she never asked for, reconnect with a mother who abandoned her, and decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice to save a town that’s become her home. Along the way, she’ll find unexpected allies: a mysterious coffee shop owner with secrets of his own, a best friend whose loyalty never wavers, and a temperamental black cat who appeared from nowhere and refuses to leave.
From a masked ball murder to a conspiracy that threatens everything she loves, Fiona will need every skill she possesses—forensic and magical—to survive. Because in Pinecrest, the books hold the secrets… and the secrets can kill.
Her forensic skills can authenticate a document. But only her magic can read its secrets.
For fans of: Cozy paranormal mysteries with slow-burn romance, small-town secrets, found family, and a cat who knows more than he’s telling.
The Devil’s Ledger by Meg Shannon
They were married to merge two empires. They became the most dangerous couple in New York.
Ciro Falcone is the heir everyone underestimates — too quiet, too careful, a man who lets the room believe he’s soft. It’s the most expensive lie in Brooklyn, and he’s spent six years paying into it.
Fiora Battaglia has run her father’s numbers since she was a girl and never once been allowed her own name on anything. When the two families arrange her marriage to the Falcone heir, everyone assumes she’s a bargaining chip.
Both sides are about to learn what happens when you put the two smartest people in the room in the same bed.
What begins as a contract — separate lives, a useful alliance, a door each of them keeps locked — becomes something neither planned for: a partnership with teeth. But a marriage built on withheld secrets can only hold for so long, and the men who arranged it for the chip and the figurehead to become the two people controling the board. Loyalty will be tested. Blood will be owed. And the only ledger that matters is the one that records what you’re willing to lose.
He learned to disappear. She learned to build. Together, they’re rewriting the whole account.
A slow-burn arranged-marriage mafia romance. Three books. One devastating love story.
Tropes: arranged marriage · marriage of convenience · two rival crime families · the underestimated heir · slow burn to scorching · forced proximity · only-one-bed energy · power couple · touch-her-and-die ·HEA
Charleston ReignHockey Romance by Kennedy Blake
The Charleston Reign own the ice. Their hearts are another game entirely.
A goalie captain drunk-texts a confession to his best friend’s sister — and the marketing whiz he was never supposed to want. A face-off ace clashes with the analytics genius assigned to fix his game, until a flood traps them under one roof. A rookie hides his pro-hockey life from the baker who’s stealing his heart one slice of cake at a time. And a media-loose forward runs headfirst into the PR director whose job is keeping him out of the headlines.
Four hockey players who play to win. Four curvy, brilliant women who aren’t playing at all.
Forced proximity, forbidden lines, and a locker room full of nosy teammates who ship every couple harder than the fans do.
Spicy, swoony, and all-in. In Charleston, love hits as hard as a body check.
Falling for Evergreen by Liz Jacobson
Tucked into the Texas Hill Country, Evergreen Falls is the kind of town where the coffee’s strong, the gossip’s stronger, and everybody knows your business before you do.
Zoe matches couples for a living — until the man who left her at the altar opens a breakup consultancy directly across the street. Tessa bakes to keep her heart safe, and then the critic who could destroy her bakery checks into the inn. There’s a brewery worth fighting for and a corporate shark sent to buy it out. An innkeeper who’s stopped expecting anything. A numbers man who’s never once been surprised by an outcome. A single mom starting over in a wrecked Victorian, and a bride who married a stranger for all the practical reasons.
Seven steamy small-town romances. Seven hard-won happily-ever-afters. One nosy little town that gets under your skin and stays there.
Close Contact by Harper Aldridge
The Hartford Hawks hit like a wrecking ball on the ice. Off it, they’re the ones getting checked.
A tattoo artist inks a captain’s scars and finds the man underneath the armor. A statistics professor corrects a goalie’s math at a Stanley Cup party and never quite gets her routine back. A graphic designer builds a rising star’s brand while she disappears from her own. A photographer who leaves before she can be left meets a defenseman who’s never once asked for anything. And an enforcer who won’t be a burden falls for a social worker who won’t be saved.
Five men who’d take a hit for anyone. Five women who’ve stopped expecting anyone to take one for them.
Section 108, the XL Center, and a friend group that shows up whether you want them to or not.
Scorching, emotional, and always ending exactly where it should — together.