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This is a story about what we owe the dead, and whether we're allowed to stop paying it. Isadora has spent her entire life cleaning up her mother's messes — financial, relational, emotional. The debt to Kael is just the most ancient version of the same trap she's always been in: responsible for a wound she didn't make, accountable to something she never chose. What shifts across the book is her realization that she has leverage she didn't know she had — and that using it will cost her something she wasn't prepared to lose.

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

A girl came out of the storm with a book in a bread bag. By morning, Nana Harken knew the road had been forgetting a whole family for fifty years. Sixteen-year-old Rachel rode two buses from Texas to a Kansas yarn shop because her late grandmother's pattern book held an address nobody alive could explain — and because a pleasant man in a good-paper suit had put that book on a list. He is so nice. He brings casseroles. He knows lawyers. And he has been sitting at kitchen tables in three states, wherever a keeper has recently died. What the Corvain Institute wants, it does not steal. It counts. It copies. It files. Against it, Nana Harken has a truck, a rooster bought for his temper, a county's worth of women with work in their laps — and the oldest defense her family knows: feed first, name true, and tend the between. Some things can be bought at a fair price on a bad year. What a family keeps is not one of them. Nothing that loves you can be catalogued.

A cozy fantasy about a Kansas crochet lineage and the government school that wants to catalogue it. The Magic Circle Nine girls from nine directions walk into a government craft school. The school says it preserves heritage. The school says it wants to help. But when Nancy Harken finds a pattern deliberately corrupted—a map dressed as a shawl, directions written in wool—she understands the first rule of her family: some things are too precious to keep where anyone can read them. Her grandmother's advice arrives in shorthand, stitched into every row: Get a boring club. Meet in plain sight. Learn everything. Sign nothing. So Nancy and eight other girls form the Remedial Tension Society. They reconstruct the broken pattern. They find the vault beneath the old bank. They discover that the Anniversary Piece carries the signatures of four families, the secrets of a hundred years, and a mystery that reaches all the way back to Nancy's mother—a girl who never set foot at the school, but whose file is thick with questions no one was supposed to ask. Some patterns are meant to be kept. Some stories are meant to travel, hand to hand, porch to porch, hidden inside the work itself. This is the story of a circle that learned to hold its own.

A YA thriller where a teen hacker discovers her school’s wellness app is selecting students for disappearance.

A memoir-adjacent novel about caregiving, late-night podcasts, and the neighbor who always leaves soup.

A cozy romantasy about a failed novelist who inherits a library where unfinished stories come alive at midnight.

When a beloved book influencer dies mid-livestream, six ARC readers realize the killer is in the group chat.

On a flooded coast, a cartographer maps ghosts with an AI companion that may be rewriting her memories.

A rom-com about a product manager who accidentally falls for the rival founder sabotaging her startup — and maybe her heart.