Effing up the last job he swore he’d pull for a merciless crime boss wasn’t in Digby’s plans. Neither was reuniting with his best friend’s lippy little sister in the middle of the bungled jewel heist. But there’s no time to reminisce. Unwilling to leave Kyla at the hands of his trigger-happy accomplices, Digby risks everything to flee with her in a hail of bullets and bickering.So, now what? Despite being burned in the past by Digby’s skeevy, self-destructive behavior, Kyla hatches...

Inspiration walked out on bestselling romance author Billie Mustard the day her husband blindsided her with divorce papers, leaving her clouded by writer’s block and soured on happily ever after.Time-pressed to deliver a new manuscript about everlasting love, Billie embarks on an exotic vacation to find her muse, only to be forced to detour to dinky Janus Lake, a speck on the map known for its fishing and a bizarre statue of a Roman god in the middle of town. It’s bad enough that s...

Three sisters, a fading final summer at the Blue Canoe, and a bombshell buyer—Lake Whippoorwill doesn’t do quiet goodbyes.Eldest Pelletier sister Lark is the one who holds it all together… until she can’t. Fresh off a divorce and grieving both parents, she returns to the Blue Canoe Cottage with her young daughter, Nova, determined to clear out the century-old family retreat before its inevitable sale and finally move forward. But the lake has a way of rewi...

Three sisters, one cottage, and a secret that could upend everything—welcome to Lake Whippoorwill, where love and chaos go hand in hand.Robin, the impulsive youngest of the Pelletier sisters, arrives at the family cottage to scatter their mother’s ashes on the lake they once called their second home. Living out of a rusty van as the merch queen for a band on the verge of collapse, Robin is the first to show up with her stinky three-legged dog—and no cottag...

Prickly Marcus is unimpressed by his meddlesome sister's gift to him: a professional cuddle therapy session on Christmas Eve.Being spooned by a stranger? Ugh, no thanks.Despite his misgivings, Marcus reluctantly agrees to an introductory meeting with his assigned cuddler, grumbling all the way.Sparkly, sweet-natured Joyce gives away too much of herself, getting so personally invested in her clientele that she's cuddled herself out of a job.Christmas Eve is h...

Winner of the 2024 Kobo Originals Holiday Rom-Com Writing Contest!----------American magazine writer Zora Dunn has gladly accepted a plum assignment in the Polar Bear Capital of the World. Spending Christmas working in Northern Manitoba may not sound like the perfect holiday for some, but it's exactly what she needs to get her head back in the game after the sudden death of her beloved father. Armed with climate change research, swaddled in thermal...