Slice of Life

When I was eight, my older sister pointed a finger in my face and told me I'd been adopted out of foster care.

I went crying to our parents. With their arms around her, they nodded.

“Yes. Your real parents didn't want you.”

After that, I stopped competing with her for affection. I didn't dare ask for new clothes. I took over the housework and fought for the highest grades in my class, terrified...

"I've spent six years telling myself you're off-limits. Six years of watching you walk into rooms and reminding myself why I can't follow. But you stopped being a kid the day you looked at me like I was something worth wanting and now I don't know how to unsee it."

Wren Castellan has spent her whole adult life in the shadow of her older brother's best friend, the man who helped rebuild her famil...

Maisie Fable had gone to the countryside for one simple reason: she couldn't write anymore.

After inheriting her grandmother's beautiful villa and bed-and-breakfast in the sleepy town of Fable Hollow, she expected quiet mornings, peaceful gardens, and enough inspiration to break through her terrible writer's block.

What she didn't expect was for the inn to come alive at midnight.

Doors appeared...

In a kingdom where every child is chosen by a hearth dragon, Bryony Finch was the one girl none of them wanted.

Years later, she has built a life caring for dragons no one else chose either.

When Bryony inherits her aunt’s failing sanctuary, she has thirty days to save forty-three tiny dragons, fix a mountain of violations, and prove she can keep the doors open. Unfortunately, the man sent to in...

Allison Smith had just gone through a break up and was feeling suicidal. The only way she could get over the memory of her ex boyfriend fucking her rival was to do something daring.

Like taunting Kaden Blackwood, her cold brother's best friend who had literally never smiled his entire life.

She successfully ruffled his cold exterior, but that's when the problem starts. Because now that she's m...

The Plan: Travel back in time to high school, identify my insanely intimidating future billionaire boss before he gets rich, and suck up to him so hard I secure a six-figure job for life.
The Execution: Perfect. I brought him coffee, cheered at his games, and basically operated as his unpaid teenage executive assistant. He’s totally buying it.
The Problem: I was trying to network my way into the ...

"You look at me like it means something," Austin said. "Then you pull away like it scares you, Emily."

Austin Wood used to be the easiest person in my life.

Before the fight.
Before he begged me not to marry the wrong man.
Before I ignored him... and ended up getting left at the altar.

Now everyone thinks he's my fiancé.

The engagement is fake.
The wedding plans aren't.

Pretending should've b...

Sloane Deshazo is a happy and healthy teenager who loves playing volleyball. She has a close bond with her twin brother and a crush on a boy she has known since childhood. Her life is full of joy and excitement, until she gets sick and finds out she has a rare and aggressive form of cancer.

Sloane’s life turns upside down as she faces harsh treatments, long hospital stays, and an uncertain future...

Some storms you can see coming. Some you don’t recognize until you’re standing in the middle of them.
Gemma Havley has never wanted to leave Florence, Oklahoma. It’s a town of wheat fields and motorcycle rallies, Sunday suppers and gossip, and a bar her brother runs with the boy who’s called her “Shortcake” her whole life. But when a prestigious writing program in Colorado offers her one of twenty...

Nora Carter never expected to inherit a magical laundry.

She certainly never expected it to be drowning in debt, filled with broken enchanted machines, and one bad month away from closing forever.

Determined to save her grandmother's old shop, Nora puts her strange restoration magic to work. She may not be able to cast impressive spells, but she can repair enchanted clothes in ways no other witc...

I ran out of rosemary. That's it. That's the whole reason the most feared being in the supernatural world is currently standing in my kitchen, expecting worship, wearing an expression like I've personally ruined his entire day.
I don't worship him. I hand him a dish towel.
Turns out summoning the Demon Lord with the wrong herbs on an empty stomach has consequences nobody warns you about...namely, ...

What would you do if your biggest chance to become a Guardian ended with you turning a respected ruler into a bearded frog?

For Yasmine, there is only one answer: hope nobody talks about it again.

Unfortunately, the Guardians have other plans.

Instead of throwing her out, they send Yasmine to Bellwick with one simple task: restore an abandoned magical inn called Aradessa and prove she can contr...

Santa Close is a tender holiday romance about love found in unexpected places and the quiet power of simply showing up. A financially struggling man takes a seasonal Santa Claus job to survive Christmas, he never expects to become part of a single mother’s carefully protected world, or to matter so deeply to her five-year-old son. Through small promises kept, shared moments, and the honest perspec...

Virelle Solen has failed her Witch Certification three times. She’s broke, her magic fizzles more than it sparkles, and her landlord is threatening to evict her.

In a desperate attempt to look legit, she orders a discounted Familiar on WitchyWish — guaranteed companionship and a boost to her powers!

What arrives is not a cat.

It’s Rowan. Six-foot-two, silver-haired, scowling, and wearing what...

"Move!"
"Ouch!" She glared at me. "Must you act this way towards me even if you and Katherine are in a relationship, can't you at least act friendly with me?"
"Relationship?" I scoffed. "Don't delude yourself!"
"I saw you both."
I smirked and grabbed her hands. "Who was kissing Hinn today?" Her eyes dilated, I was sure she was not expecting me to see that. "You belong to me and no one else!"

R...

The day Marnie Quill is evicted from her aunt’s bookshop, the town crier reads the notice aloud in the market square while her ex-boyfriend smiles from the front row. That night, a dragon crashes through her roof and lands in Poetry.
He shrinks into a tall young man wearing a velvet curtain, looks around at four thousand dusty books and announces that the shop is now his hoard. Marnie, who can hea...

According to Plainview High, Blair Mercer got exactly what she deserved.

When her golden-boy boyfriend left her for the quiet, innocent nerdy girl, the whole school cheered for the happy ending. Blair was officially cast as the bitter mean girl—the disgraced ex standing on the wrong side of a high school cliché.

Then came Simon Adler.

Quiet, brilliant, and completely ignored, Simon is the negle...

[Welcome home, Last Heir. Welcome to the Timekeeper’s Haven. It’s time to learn how to farm hearts and time itself!]

She is the last Timekeeper elf who swore never to trust a dragon.
He is the feared Dragon Lord who has never heard the word no.

When Thalassa repairs an enchanted pocket watch brought to her by Lord Aurel, the impossible happens—the artifact sends them fifty years into the past.

...

"You're the girl who tutors. You're not supposed to matter."
"And yet here you are, sitting at my table."

Mara Delgado survives Westbrook High the only way she knows how — quietly, invisibly, alone in her corner by the rattling heater. When the school's star quarterback needs a tutor or loses his starting spot, he lands at her kitchen table with a battered textbook and too much ego. They're enemi...

The spell in her inn’s wall-hidden book reveals ghostly matchmakers, and weakens the protections keeping them safe.

At the Traveller’s rest near the Welsh border, Mabel Pemberton guards her inherited refuge, and her heart, bruised by a controlling relationship. Now a scones-versus-crumpets feud threatens breakfast, and her resident ghosts refuse to stay out of her business.

Reed Marlowe checks...