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Late autumn, 1772. Eleanor arrives at Lisnacreevy with her young son, Daniel, and a new husband she loves. The Irish estate is damp, watchful, and burdened by a family silence no one will name. When Daniel survives a violent fever, his recovery should be a mercy. Instead, the household begins studying every gesture for proof that something else has come home in his body. A child appears at the tree line. Old protections return above doors. And the people who care for Daniel most begin preparing a remedy drawn from the lake. As tenderness hardens into surveillance, Eleanor must decide what love requires when certainty is impossible—and how far she will go to protect her son from a terror wearing the face of care. Iron Above the Door is a slow-burning historical Gothic horror novel about marriage, motherhood, folklore, and the violence ordinary people permit when fear becomes conviction.

Seven years of history. One season to rewrite it. Blake Romano needs a partner. His mixed doubles season just imploded when his partner announced her pregnancy, and the only player ranked high enough to save his year is the one woman on tour who actively hates him. He's charming, talented, and the last person Maren Rask wants within ten feet of her side of the court. Maren doesn't do partners she can't trust, and she's had seven years to build a very good reason not to trust Blake. He humiliated her on national television after their college rivalry ended, and she's spent her career proving she doesn't need him. But two and a half million dollars for the year-end number one team is a lot of motivation to fake nice. She can keep this professional. Probably. They shouldn't work. On paper, they're a disaster waiting to happen. On court, they're something else entirely: electric, unstoppable, and dangerously close to blurring every line they've drawn. What starts as a reluctant partnership becomes the best tennis, and the most complicated feelings, either of them has ever played through. Then Blake's past shows up courtside, and everything they've built comes apart faster than a return into the net. Maren walked away from this rivalry before. He never thought she'd walk away from him. One of them is going to have to fight like they've never fought before, and it won't be on a tennis court. Emotionally resonant, funny, and very steamy, Breaking His Serve is an enemies-to-lovers sports romance about seven years of grudges, the partner you never saw coming, and what happens when the heart finally wins the match. The Capital Hearts series: real sports, real heat, real heart, happy endings guaranteed.

The new town librarian matched with the town's grumpy fire captain. There was just one problem. His firefighters forgot to tell him. Olivia Bennett thought she was meeting the man she'd spent the last week getting to know online. Instead, Fire Captain Harlan Rhodes sits down across from her with an apology. He didn't write the messages. His crew did. But he couldn't let her sit there alone. One disastrous blind date becomes an unexpected friendship. Soon, Harlan keeps finding reasons to stop by the library, Olivia keeps finding reasons to smile at the quiet firefighter who says more with his actions than his words, and the meddling crew of Station 17—and the entire town of Pine Ridge—decide they're invested in the outcome. But falling in love is the easy part. Trusting someone enough to stay is another story. Cold Start is a sweet & spicy small-town romance featuring: ❤️ Grumpy Fire Captain ❤️ Sunshine Librarian ❤️ Blind Date Setup ❤️ Found Family ❤️ Protective Hero ❤️ Cozy Small Town ❤️ Happily Ever After

Forward I should say up front: Macomb, Illinois is a real place. If you’ve driven through west-central Illinois, you may have passed through it. The courthouse square is real. The college on the hill is real, more or less, though I’ve changed a few things about it. The Burlington line still runs where I put it. The people are not real. Clara Bell, Harold Whitcomb, everyone in this book who does something brave or something terrible or something in between—I made them up. If anyone in Macomb thinks they recognize a neighbor in these pages, they don’t. That’s not how this works. What I did try to get right was the year itself. 1942 in a small Illinois town wasn’t just war bond posters and scrap drives, though it was that too. It was also a town figuring out who got believed and who didn’t, long before anybody in this story drowns or disappears. I didn’t want that to sit in the background. I wanted it to be the reason things happen the way they do. Clara collects broken things and makes something out of them. That idea followed me around more than I expected it to while I was writing this. Not everything broken in this book gets fixed. I didn’t think it would be honest to pretend otherwise. Thank you for reading it. — R. Vance Osmon