🎄 Clock-Ticking Thrills, Dark Secrets, & Holiday Romance ❤️
Unwrap cozy new stories from Debbie Macomber, race against the clock to solve a deadly kidnapping riddle, or get trapped in a fake marriage with a magnetic Irish mafia boss.
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A Cozy Christmas Blizzard: Two Cozy Tales of Romance, Snowfall, and Christmas Cheer
Debbie Macomber
NEW RELEASE
Holiday Romance
❄️ Grab a warm blanket and cuddle up with these holiday stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber!
Christmas Letters: Katherine spends the most festive time of the year writing Christmas letters for other people at a cozy café, meaning that she couldn’t be more different from her sister, who subscribes to the theories of child psychologist and author Wynn Jeffries. Not only is the handsome curmudgeon threatening to ruin the holidays for her five-year-old nieces, but he’s also her next-door neighbor!
Wynn’s edict to parents to “bury Santa under the sleigh” couldn’t horrify Katherine more, but as the calendar marches ever closer to December 25, the two find themselves spending more and more time together. This may be a Christmas season where they learn a valuable lesson about how accepting your differences can lead to sharing more than presents…
Let It Snow: All Shelly Griffin wants is to finally be back in Seattle to spend the holidays with her father. Unfortunately, the weather has other plans and she finds herself rerouted from San Francisco to Portland. To make matters worse, she’s forced to share the last available rental car with a fellow passenger: handsome, uptight businessman Slade Garner.
The flight over didn’t exactly warm her to the man, in spite of his good looks, and the blizzard that stands between her and her father’s house isn’t helping things. Bundled up next to Slade during their drive, Shelly starts to find her icy exterior begin to melt away, and an unexpected gift may be waiting for the two of them at the end of their journey: love.
Debbie Macomber delivers two classic holiday romances in one cozy package—“Christmas Letters” (the Santa-hating psychologist versus the Christmas letter writer) and “Let It Snow” (forced proximity during a blizzard road trip). Fans of Jenny Colgan or Emily Henry’s winter romances will appreciate Macomber’s signature warmth and the opposites-attract dynamics in both stories.
What you’re getting: Two complete romances with different flavors—one features next-door neighbors with clashing holiday philosophies, the other delivers forced-proximity tension during a snowstorm journey. Macomber is the queen of cozy holiday romance, and getting both stories in one package means you have options depending on whether you’re in the mood for slow-burn neighbors or strangers-to-lovers road trip romance.
You’ll Never Know: A Thriller
Caleb Stephens
NEW RELEASE
Kidnapping Crime Fiction
⏰ When his wife and unborn child are abducted, Grant Wilson races against the clock in this pulse-pounding thriller packed with riddles, danger, and the desperate fight to save his family, perfect for fans of Adrian McKinty’s The Chain.
They took his wife. They took his child. He only has hours to find them … or they’re dead.
Grant Wilson has never been happier. He has a wife he loves, a home in the country, and a brand-new baby on the way. But all of that shatters when two masked men abduct his wife, Avery, in broad daylight.
The instructions Grant receives are bizarre: If he wants Avery back, he must solve a series of riddles that arrive one after another—and the clock is ticking.
With every piece of the puzzle more outrageous and complex than the last, Grant knows he’s playing a dangerous game. But he’s determined to do whatever it takes to save Avery’s life … even if it kills him.
Caleb Stephens delivers a high-concept thriller where a husband must solve increasingly complex riddles to save his kidnapped pregnant wife. Fans of Adrian McKinty’s The Chain or Harlan Coben’s twisted premise thrillers will recognize the “ordinary person forced into impossible situation” setup with escalating stakes.
Here’s the hook: The riddle-based kidnapping adds an intellectual puzzle element to standard kidnapping thriller tension. Each riddle solved leads to the next, creating a scavenger hunt structure that keeps pages turning while the clock runs down. The pregnant wife detail raises the emotional stakes beyond typical kidnapping scenarios—Grant isn’t just saving his wife but his unborn child too.
Captive Audience (The Beasts of Belfast Book 1)
Julie Weaver
NEW RELEASE
Dark Irish Mafia Romance
🎙️ As a true crime podcaster, I should be able to spot a monster a mile away. Wrong.
The moment I lock eyes with Rook O’Connell, I know I’m about to do something reckless. Sharp suit, broad shoulders, and a smile that promises sin. He’s the kind of man who could ruin me, and God help me, I might let him.
One drink turns into a night I can’t forget and a trap I never saw coming. Now I’m bound to an Irish gangster in a fake marriage, and he won’t let me go until I solve the murder that haunts him.
I don’t have a choice. If I want my life back, I have to crack the case. But the longer I spend in his world and in his bed, the more I crave the very man I swore I’d never trust.
And the harder it is to remember this was ever a lie.
Julie Weaver launches her Beasts of Belfast series with a dark Irish mafia romance that combines forced/fake marriage with true crime investigation. Fans of Cora Reilly’s mafia romances or Sophie Lark’s Brutal Birthright series will appreciate the possessive antihero, the enemies-to-lovers tension, and the murder mystery that binds them together.
What makes this work: The true crime podcaster heroine who completely misreads the dangerous man she’s attracted to is a fresh twist—her professional expertise becomes ironic when she can’t spot the threat right in front of her. The fake marriage trope combined with forced proximity and a murder investigation creates multiple layers of tension, and Weaver promises the lines between performance and reality blur the longer they’re together. This is the series starter, so expect setup for future Belfast books.