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We Share Custody of a Poltergeist cover

We Share Custody of a Poltergeist

Two divorced adult paranormal decorators must jointly care for the friendly poltergeist attached to their unfinished home. Repairing its spectacular tantrums gives them a chance to rebuild a relationship with less performance and better boundaries.

Paranormal romance
The Orchard Where We Buried Our Apologies cover

The Orchard Where We Buried Our Apologies

In an invented farming district in 1934, a fruit grower discovers neighbors have buried apology letters beneath her trees for decades. A flood brings them up unfinished, forcing a family to decide which old debts deserve repair rather than another harvest of silence.

Historical fiction
The Reunion Has Chosen a Queen cover

The Reunion Has Chosen a Queen

At an adult workplace reunion, a decorative paper crown begins selecting the person everyone would rather overlook. A former receptionist and a lighting technician must understand its rules before the increasingly desperate guests turn a ridiculous honor into a reason to abandon one another.

Horror
The House Is Moving Out cover

The House Is Moving Out

A royal castle announces it is leaving its owners and heading for the sea. The adult mason sent to stop it discovers a home tired of being a monument, while its caretaker must decide whether loyalty means helping something stay unhappy.

Cozy fantasy
A Small War Over a Very Large Sandwich cover

A Small War Over a Very Large Sandwich

A baker's charity sandwich crosses a disputed town boundary. Two councils claim the publicity, neither will pay for lunch, and the people meant to eat it begin negotiating their own terms.

Satire
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Murder in the Borrowed Greenhouse

A seed-librarian finds a dead patron inside a greenhouse borrowed for a winter exhibition. A plant flowering at the wrong time tells her which suspect moved the room before the guests arrived.

Cozy mystery
The Last Name on Every List cover

The Last Name on Every List

A municipal data checker notices the same unknown name at the bottom of every waiting list, including lists that should be private. A night-shift receptionist helps trace the identity, discovering someone has made an ordinary person's endless waiting into a lucrative and dangerous business.

Thriller
The Cinema Shows Our Unmade Beds cover

The Cinema Shows Our Unmade Beds

A failing neighborhood cinema begins screening the empty bedrooms of local people. The projectionist realizes each room belongs to someone about to leave without saying goodbye.

Magical realism
The Pianist Who Played the Wrong Anthem cover

The Pianist Who Played the Wrong Anthem

In a fictional town in 1932, a hotel pianist accidentally plays the anthem nobody is meant to remember. The guests' reactions force her to choose whether her work should soothe the powerful or acknowledge the people outside.

Historical fiction
The Witch Who Misplaced Our First Kiss cover

The Witch Who Misplaced Our First Kiss

A memory witch sells a first kiss by mistake. The stranger who returns to reclaim it remembers a relationship neither of them has lived yet.

Paranormal romance
The Care Instructions Are Personal cover

The Care Instructions Are Personal

A furniture restorer receives a chair with care instructions that describe her private habits. A former upholsterer recognizes the handwriting, but finding the maker reveals that the chair has been passed between people whose lives someone believes can be repaired by following a script.

Psychological thriller
No One Is Allowed to Miss You cover

No One Is Allowed to Miss You

A municipal grief registrar removes unproductive attachments from citizens' records. When her own sister is declared unnecessary to remember, she must preserve a relationship without turning private love into public evidence.

Dystopian fiction
The Mountain Is Moving to Town cover

The Mountain Is Moving to Town

A mountain begins inching toward a town that voted to rename it after a developer. A surveyor and a café owner must negotiate with an inconvenient landscape while deciding whether the town's growth was ever worth the people and places it made invisible.

Magical realism
The Harbor Master Is My Emergency Contact cover

The Harbor Master Is My Emergency Contact

A city glass artist returns to restore a harbor memorial and discovers her oldest friend still lists her as his emergency contact. The commission brings them close enough to ask why neither ever changed it.

Romance
Magic Is Afraid of Me cover

Magic Is Afraid of Me

A shoe repairer notices every spell in the city fleeing when she enters a room. The magician sent to contain her discovers that magic remembers a promise made before either of them was born, and being feared may be the only power she must refuse.

Epic fantasy
The House Next Door Is a Photograph cover

The House Next Door Is a Photograph

A property photographer discovers the neighboring house has no depth after sunset. The family inside keeps asking her to take a better picture before the last room fades.

Horror
The Village That Hired a Villain cover

The Village That Hired a Villain

An overlooked village in 1952 pays a retired stage villain to give it a scandal worth visiting. The postmistress who invents his crimes and the actor who performs them must change their script when genuine wrongdoing threatens their increasingly devoted audience.

Historical fiction
The Marigold Packet Witness cover

The Marigold Packet Witness

A seed librarian notices that a packet entered in the village swap contains flowers planted after its donor died.

Cozy mystery
The Saint of Misdelivered Prayers cover

The Saint of Misdelivered Prayers

A cobbler receives prayers meant for a powerful river saint. Answering one small request sends her into a pilgrimage to return the miracles people never asked for.

Mythic fantasy
An Atlas of Places We Nearly Stayed cover

An Atlas of Places We Nearly Stayed

A lyric travel collection maps the homes two adult sisters almost chose, from a ferry terminal to a borrowed kitchen, while they decide where to scatter their father's ashes.

Poetry
The Silence Needs a Microphone cover

The Silence Needs a Microphone

A public-address installer finds a silence that grows louder through every new speaker she connects. A retired radio presenter recognizes the gaps as an abandoned broadcast, and they must stop a town from applauding a voice that becomes real only when everyone agrees to hear it.

Horror
We Slept Through the Peace cover

We Slept Through the Peace

Night workers in an invented town in 1947 wake to find their shift omitted from the official celebration of rebuilding. A canteen cook and a repairman organize a daylight gathering, discovering how many people have mistaken being essential for being seen.

Historical fiction
The World Is Missing Its North cover

The World Is Missing Its North

An adult polar navigator returns to find every compass pointing toward a mountain that did not exist yesterday. Restoring direction means confronting the empire that sold the world's rotation to survive a war.

Epic fantasy
Kiss the False Sun cover

Kiss the False Sun

A lamplighter falls for the condemned magician impersonating the sun.

Romantasy
The Key That Locked the World Out cover

The Key That Locked the World Out

A locksmith makes a key that turns one room into perfect refuge. When the world beyond the windows begins forgetting its occupants, she must choose how to reopen a door that has protected a frightened household by erasing every reason they had to leave.

Mythic fantasy
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The Counterfeit Map of the Murder

In 1904, a railway draftsman finds a murder marked on a map of streets not yet built. Proving the map false could erase the only route to a witness hiding inside the construction works.

Historical mystery
My Ex Is Excellent at Emergencies cover

My Ex Is Excellent at Emergencies

A disaster-preparedness trainer reluctantly hires her ex to teach a village survival weekend. He can handle floods, fires and broken tents, but she needs him to stay for an ordinary conversation.

Romance
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The Orchard Eats the Family Portraits

A family archivist finds old photographs losing faces as an abandoned orchard bears an impossible crop. Restoring the portraits means learning which relatives were erased willingly and which are trying to be found.

Horror
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My Body Keeps the Wrong Receipts

A book of poems uses ordinary receipts to question what a body records, refunds or refuses after illness, with tenderness and occasional inconvenient laughter.

Poetry
The Women Who Moved the Feast cover

The Women Who Moved the Feast

In 1946, women who cook a town's annual feast move their tables outside after being excluded from the speeches. A baker and a flower grower discover that changing who sits where can be more disruptive than canceling dinner, especially when hungry officials start negotiating.

Historical fiction
My Husband Is on Loan from the Afterlife cover

My Husband Is on Loan from the Afterlife

An adult funeral musician marries a ghost to keep his endangered music school open. Their practical agreement becomes tender just as the afterlife asks whether either has mistaken being needed for being loved.

Paranormal romance