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FROM AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR CASSANDRA DOON, COMES A FUNNY, WITTY, AND DIABOLICAL ROMCOM. ONE THAT WILL LEAVE YOU WONDERING "WHAT IN THE WORLD DID THE TOWN FOLK OF LANCASTER EAT FOR DINNER." Genie Alden runs the quaintest little skincare shop in Lancashire—if you ignore the tarot cards, the Death card's morning greetings, and her product line featuring Belladonna. Business is booming, especially her special consultations for women who need more than just a good moisturizer. Let's just say some problems require... creative solutions.

After trading her high-stress pharmaceutical career for the healing herbs of a Cotswolds village, Ivy Blackthorn thought her biggest worry would be winning over sceptical locals. She was wrong. When Ivy inherits her great-aunt's apothecary in the picturesque village of Thornwick Green, she's determined to bridge traditional plant wisdom with modern science. Nine months in, she's finally earning the community's trust, until the village's biggest critic, Mrs Enid Hartwell, collapses at the Spring Fair—clutching a teacup bearing Ivy's shop logo.

The longest day. The darkest secrets. A killer in the shadows. Summer has arrived in Thornwick Green, and apothecary Ivy Blackthorn is finally finding her place in the charming Cotswold village. With the shadow of recent crimes behind her, and a blossoming romance with vet Seb Ashworth, Ivy...

Elowen was born with a blood debt hanging over her head, one the Shade Lord will collect upon her twenty-first year. Unwilling to succumb to a fate of having the life siphoned out of her in order to extend the shade’s, she flees the mortal settlement and makes for the Fae Realm of Aetherya with a single dagger in hand. Leijla is bound to the Fae Queen by a terrible curse, which forces her to do unspeakable things in accordance with The Queen’s will. Her latest assignment: to hunt down the fugitive Elowen Lockwood.

On the run from their pasts, a man and a woman are forced together by the weather and by necessity. When a radio news broadcast reports that a body has been found further back along the road on which they are traveling, tensions rise and it's only so long before the truth must come out. But the truth is never quite what you imagine.

Bernie makes candles. Lovely, relaxing candles that definitely don't contain chloroform, and if they do, it's purely for scientific purposes and improved sleep quality. Many successful "experiments" have taught her that there's always a creative solution to society's pest problem.

In finding her, they might lose everything . . . Captain Valentina Cortez, and the all-female pirate crew of her ship The Esperanza, spend their days on the seas, taking on job after miserable job as they pay off their debts to the Bloodmoon Enclave–the relentless, overseeing authority, who work the pirate crews on their books to the bone, and give little back.

The Shade King has declared himself emperor, and will stop at nothing to carry out his plan of claiming dominion over all. However, the Fae are distrustful of their new monarch and refuse to militarize–not believing the shade kingdom is a valid threat to their beloved, untouchable realm. While Elowen and Teagh travel to Sadhyah to rescue Isolde, Leijla embarks on a quest to rescue her father. On her way, she encounters a mysterious being with an ominous message, an unlikely ally, and the destruction the shades have wreaked on the mortal realm.

Quistix’s life as a humble Bellaneau blacksmith is obliterated in a blaze of fire and emerald-encrusted steel when a vicious bandit storms her hillside home with orders to retrieve a mysterious artifact called "The Illuminator." Now, Quistix Daedumal must find the strength to rise from the ash-covered rubble of her former life. Scarred by unfathomable tragedy and in need of a new purpose, the half-elf vows to slay Soren Everbleed, the ruthless ruffian who shattered her world. 

The letter arrives: Ondine’s final assignment in her teaching program that will finally—finally—secure her future on the Isle of Mardona. The process has been difficult due to her father’s Neridian bloodline, but also the legacy her mother left in the wake of her death. But this final step will put all of that in the past where it belongs, and Ondine will settle into her place on the Isle. But there’s a problem. She has been assigned to teach at Regiatus: an underwater school in deep Neridia. Not only is Neridia dangerous—especially for Ondine—but her assignment throws her plans into chaos.

Lillian is a dedicated lady’s maid and is quite content in her position, but when the family she works for sets sail across the sea and the ship they are on sinks, she is suddenly thrown into an adventure worthy of one of her novels. Found unconscious and drifting alone, Lillian is mistaken as a noblewoman and kidnapped by a misfit band of pirates where she must keep up the ruse to ensure her safety. Kale is the captain of the pirate ship Stardust, and desperately needs a noblewoman to go after the largest treasure he and his crew have ever attempted.

Jonas and Yenna lead normal lives as a London pub owner and a journalist...but they moonlight as notorious thieves with their five-member crew of unlikely criminals. Since the night twelve-year-old Jonas and his feisty red-headed neighbor—who happens to be a witch—knocked over a corner shop, the two have been inseparable. Until Yenna's magick breaks and the two of them have to face the traumatic after-effects. After years apart, Jonas brings Yenna in for one last heist—to steal a diamond from the Millenium Dome on New Year's Eve 1999, just as the clock strikes midnight.

Outlaw Sarah Montgomery has spent her life robbing banks and trains along the untamed frontier of the 1870s. Known for her daring exploits and wit, she secretly yearns for freedom from the ruthless grip of her mentor, Henry Fairbanks, and the life of crime she can’t escape.

When Jess wakes up in a bathtub full of ice with no memory of the night before, she knows something has gone terribly amiss. Her maid of honor and best friend Rachel is missing, and the other girls are scattered around their luxurious suite in various states of disarray. As they piece together the events of their lost night, they uncover a web of secrets that threatens to unravel their tight-knit group.

It is the Year of Our Lord 1685 and fourteen-year-old Maude Prichard finds herself at a crossroads in life. A chance meeting with a strange woman, who never ages, sets the young Puritan maid on a path littered with fear, superstition, and witchcraft. A boy whose love is forbidden and an old man, drenched in darkness and depravity, will catapult Maude out of her well-ordered world into a life fraught with danger.

Join Quistix, a battle-torn blacksmith on a dangerous mission, as she and her endearing companions journey to deliver the knowledge-hungry esteg, Aurora, to the floating city of Apex. Quistix soon unearths a dark family history and delves into the rich mystery surrounding her wild, new magical abilities.

Amara is just trying to survive, keeping her head down while simultaneously trying to stay away from her pack’s territory and her abusive alpha father as much as possible. So, when she discovers that she has not one, but three mates and that they are all rogues, it really turns her life upside down. The pull to them is strong, the desire to feel loved for once in her life even stronger. No matter how hard she tries, she can’t stay away from them and she is torn between giving in to her desires and doing what’s expected of her.

With sheer force of will, Kayo’s brother Liam managed to crawl from the gutters and free himself from parents who treated him like a slave, an orphanage that treated him like a prisoner, and an entire city that turned their backs on him. From nothing, he rose to become a vigilante who brought justice to the corrupt and greedy when no one else would, wielding fire and steel to give everyone, from the city guard to the tyrant king, what they deserved. He stood up for the poor, the outcast, and the downtrodden, and they crowned him as the Beggar’s King.

Merrick Forrester doesn’t do relationships. Not anymore. After enduring multiple heartbreaks, he’s convinced that everything beautiful eventually starts to rot. So when he meets the captivating and mysterious Drue Hart, he does his best to avoid her—that is, until he discovers the secret she carries. It’s then he decides getting close to her is worth the danger to his heart.

A revolution is brewing. After the Desdemona fires, Quistix, Twitch, and Aurora are now wanted fugitives with hefty bounties on their heads. With a little help from an old friend, they soon become embroiled in a perilous underwater quest near the rumored lost city of Elathia alongside a forgetful old wizard named Irenas Parnix and his beautiful shape-shifting granddaughter, Violet. Beneath the raging waves of the Radiant Sea, they must join forces with an old foe to battle, Kackaroth, an aggressive water dragon.