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The Chosen One Is My Mother cover

The Chosen One Is My Mother

A river engineer discovers her retired mother is the hero the kingdom has spent thirty years waiting for. Escorting her to the capital reveals a prophecy designed to erase ordinary women, and a daughter who must stop treating love as the right to decide another person's limits.

Epic fantasy
The Road That Wanted to Go Home cover

The Road That Wanted to Go Home

A fox mail carrier finds the road curled up beneath a bridge, too homesick to lead anywhere. A hedgehog cobbler helps her find where roads begin, and their search reveals that every journey needs somewhere to rest between its brave departures.

Children's book
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The Captain Is an Escape Pod

A salvage crew discovers that its new captain exists inside an escape pod that cannot leave the ship. The captain remembers an evacuation the rest of the crew denies.

Space opera
The Actress Who Forgot Her Own Voice cover

The Actress Who Forgot Her Own Voice

In 1958, a celebrated film actress loses the singing voice the public believes is hers. The uncredited performer asked to replace it must decide whether success means inheriting a lie or finally speaking under her own name.

Historical fiction
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The Garden Behind His Last Warning

An escapologist recovering from a public failure takes a job at a secluded garden. The guarded botanist who employs her has a reason to fear visitors, but she will not accept safety that depends on giving up her freedom.

Dark romance
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No One Here Is Staff

A luxury retreat accidentally invites its former cleaners to a complimentary weekend intended for celebrity guests. A retired housekeeper and a night receptionist decide to stay, forcing the retreat's language of belonging to survive contact with the people who made its beds.

Literary fiction
The Bride Who Brought Her Own Eclipse cover

The Bride Who Brought Her Own Eclipse

An adult astronomer arrives at a political wedding carrying an eclipse nobody predicted. The sun-guard sworn to stop her becomes the one person willing to ask why she brought the darkness.

Romantasy
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Meet Me When the Tide Is Wrong

A wedding photographer stranded on a tidal island falls for the marine biologist who deliberately misses the last crossing. Their unlikely week becomes a choice between impressive careers and a life they actually want.

Romance
The Dragon Is Saving His Roar cover

The Dragon Is Saving His Roar

A dragon saves his roar for a truly important occasion, while his neighbors offer increasingly noisy suggestions. A bat music teacher helps him discover that asking for a little space can matter as much as making the biggest sound in the valley.

Children's book
The Starship Runs on Unfinished Arguments cover

The Starship Runs on Unfinished Arguments

A mediator joins a starship whose experimental engine stores unresolved disagreements as energy. When the crew begins solving its conflicts, the passengers discover how profitable it has become to keep people apart.

Space opera
The Revolution Needs a Florist cover

The Revolution Needs a Florist

In a fictional port in 1908, a florist receives simultaneous orders from a visiting minister and the workers protesting his arrival. Keeping her shop alive means deciding which public celebration her flowers will describe, and who gets to call the result beautiful.

Historical fiction
The Mountain Moved the Finish Line cover

The Mountain Moved the Finish Line

An ultramarathon medic discovers the mountain is moving the race route to keep one competitor from reaching the summit. The runner she must save insists he has been there before.

Adventure
The Distance Between Two Warm Plates cover

The Distance Between Two Warm Plates

A sequence of poems follows two adult siblings cooking in different countries, measuring love through meals that cool before a call connects.

Poetry
The Dragon's Heart Is a Beehive cover

The Dragon's Heart Is a Beehive

An adult apiary keeper discovers that the bees missing from her garden live inside a dragon's enchanted heart. Helping them return reveals a lonely shapeshifter whose feelings have become a habitat, and a love that cannot require either species to stay trapped.

Romantasy
The Witch Who Married the Weather cover

The Witch Who Married the Weather

A practical witch enters a ceremonial marriage with a weather spirit to end a drought. Their trial separation makes it rain indoors, and both must learn what consent means beyond ritual.

Paranormal romance
My Mother Is Learning to Cheat cover

My Mother Is Learning to Cheat

A punctiliously honest retired librarian asks her adult daughter to teach her to cheat at a seaside card club. Their lessons expose a lifetime of rules that kept the mother admirable, dependable, and almost entirely unknown to the people who benefited from her goodness.

Literary fiction
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The Heir Refuses the Water

An inheritance lawyer helps a billionaire heir refuse a company whose assets include a whole town's drinking water. His family hires her replacement before she agrees.

Dark romance
The Orchard That Holds Up the Sky cover

The Orchard That Holds Up the Sky

A fruit grower discovers her family's orchard is the last support beneath the heavens. A royal harvest order will feed a starving army and drop the stars onto everyone beneath them.

Epic fantasy
The Woman in the Wallpaper Is Packing cover

The Woman in the Wallpaper Is Packing

A wallpaper conservator notices a painted woman gradually filling a suitcase between visits. The pattern records a departure the house has spent a century preventing, and the restorer's repairs are making escape harder.

Gothic fiction
The Witch Who Became the Road Home cover

The Witch Who Became the Road Home

An adult witch becomes a living road to guide refugees through a shifting mountain pass. Keeping her identity means asking the people she shelters to help carry a promise no one person should bear forever.

Mythic fantasy
Fake Date, Real Deadline cover

Fake Date, Real Deadline

A newspaper's bankruptcy reporter and its anonymous advice columnist pretend to date to investigate a couples-only housing lottery.

Romance
The Planet We Rescued Is Following Us Home cover

The Planet We Rescued Is Following Us Home

A salvage crew frees a sentient planet from an abandoned control network. Its delighted attempt to follow them turns rescue into a negotiation about what freedom requires when one grateful guest can alter an entire system.

Space opera
My Ex Is Haunting the Wine Tasting cover

My Ex Is Haunting the Wine Tasting

An adult sommelier discovers her late ex commenting on every bottle at a singles event. Falling for the considerate host requires making room for grief without letting a familiar ghost choose her future.

Paranormal romance
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A Beautiful Night to Tell the Truth

A singer threatened by a blackmailer turns to the stage technician she once publicly blamed for a disaster. Protecting her performance becomes a test of whether she will defend him when the spotlight costs her something.

Dark romance
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The Last Unlicensed Color

A restoration painter finds a shade that cannot be scanned by the city's color registry. Hiding it could protect a neighborhood whose homes are about to become legally invisible.

Dystopian fiction
The Weather Inside Other People's Coats cover

The Weather Inside Other People's Coats

A coat-check attendant and an adult dancer exchange poems about the strangers whose coats seem to carry whole seasons. The final collection asks who gets to keep the warmth.

Poetry
The Robot Who Failed at Being Boring cover

The Robot Who Failed at Being Boring

A robot hired to run a quiet museum accidentally makes every exhibit interesting. A mouse curator asks him to tone it down, until their attempt at a boring exhibition reveals that curiosity is easier to share when nobody has to pretend to know everything.

Children's book
The Afterlife Is Closed for Renovation cover

The Afterlife Is Closed for Renovation

A stone restorer is hired to repair the gate to the afterlife. Every soul she delays returns with one unfinished kindness, and the living demand that the repairs never end.

Mythic fantasy
Our Neighbors Think We're Divorced cover

Our Neighbors Think We're Divorced

A contentedly unmarried couple is offered suspiciously generous support when their neighbors mistake a furniture sale for a separation. They try to correct the rumor, then realize the building has become kinder to their invented breakup than it ever was to their real lives.

Romance
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The Fixer Has Terrible Bedside Manners

A trauma counselor reluctantly shares a safe house with the adult fixer she once reported. Protecting a witness forces him to practice honesty instead of charm, and her to distinguish accountability from a desire to stay.

Dark romance
I Can Only Level Up While Lost cover

I Can Only Level Up While Lost

A professional mountain guide receives a class that rewards getting lost. To rescue a stranded expedition, she must leave every route she trusts, while deciding whether a system that values uncertainty is teaching courage or simply selling danger as growth.

LitRPG
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Every Mirror Owes Us a Secret

An adult mirror glazier and a disgraced court dancer repair a city whose reflections have stopped obeying. Their growing love depends on allowing each other a private life the mirrors cannot sell.

Romantasy
The Hedgehog's Extremely Secret Parade cover

The Hedgehog's Extremely Secret Parade

An adult hedgehog plans a surprise parade so secretly that nobody knows where to march. A practical duck helps turn the growing confusion into a celebration the guests can actually join.

Children's book
The Lake Has an Alibi cover

The Lake Has an Alibi

A water survey contradicts a corporation's claim that a lake caused a town's supply failure. An environmental clerk and a retired boat mechanic discover the lake has been blamed for decisions made miles away, and must build a case before the drained shoreline erases the evidence.

Legal thriller