The Suite Spot by Trish Doller (Excerpt)
April CHAPTER 1 Backpfeifengesicht German “a face badly in need of a fist” Maisie hops from one foot to the other, her oversized backpack flopping up and down as we wait on the front porch for Brian to pick her up. For the past two days, she’s been chattering nonstop about spending the night with […]
A Brush with Love by Mazey Eddings (Excerpt)
CHAPTER 1 HARPER “Shiiiiiiiiit.” Harper’s curse was lost to the wind as she whipped her foot out of an icy puddle and gave it an aggressive shake. Nothing screamed “perfect start to a Monday” like drenched scrub pants and freezing rain pelting down from every angle. A dull, December gray hovered over Philadelphia, making coffee […]
The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves (Excerpt)
1 Annika CHICAGO AUGUST 2001 I run into him at Dominick’s, of all places. I’m poking around in the freezer case, searching for the strawberries I put in my morning smoothie, when a man’s voice somewhere off to my right says, “Annika?” He sounds unsure. From the corner of my eye, I catch a glimpse […]
The Damaged by Tijan (Excerpt)
ONE Bailey Swish, swish. The windshield wipers were busy at work this morning. It’d been raining since late the night before, and now there was just a whole dreary feel to the day. Dark and gloomy, matching my mood. It was perfect. Swish, swish. “Are you nervous, miss?” I wasn’t responding, because this isn’t how […]
Not the Witch You Wed by April Asher (Excerpt)
1 Son of a Witch’s %$@! When most people envisioned hell, they conjured images of wicked, soul-destroying flames and near bottomless abysses bursting with spirits of the damned. The Head Honcho himself, either in his horn-to-hoof birthday suit or a red satin Armani three-piece, usually sat on a throne built from the charred skeletal remains […]
Good Girl Complex by Elle Kennedy (Excerpt)
CHAPTER ONE COOPER I’m up to my eyeballs in Jägerbombs. Yesterday, I was married to the blender, pumping out piña coladas and strawberry daiquiris like sweatshop labor. Tonight, it’s vodka Red Bulls and Fireballs. And don’t forget the rosé. These dipshits and their rosé. They’re all slammed against the bar, wall-to-wall pastel linen shirts and […]
How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan (Excerpt)
1 If she’d had to lay down money on which of her motley crew would cause the most trouble, Grace Travis would not have picked the Chihuahua. As she waited for Tequila, one of the two bullmastiffs, to finish sniffing an apparently odorous swatch of sidewalk, she looked toward the water. She loved it here. […]
Bad Luck Bridesmaid by Alison Rose Greenberg (Excerpt)
One I knew right before the violinist’s fifth loop of Ben Folds’s “The Luckiest” that I was, in fact, the opposite. I was zero for three. I did nothing to disguise my resting this-is-awkward face, helplessly peering down at a crowd of two hundred impatient strangers stuffed into the small, ancient church. I felt the […]
Girls Before Earls by Anna Bennett (Excerpt)
Chapter 1 BELLEHAVEN BAYNINETEEN YEARS LATER “There’s a gentleman here to see you, ma’am, and he has a young lady with him.” Hazel’s dutiful assistant, Jane, stood in the office doorway, her expressive face beaming at the prospect of a new pupil. Hope glimmered in Hazel’s chest. Heaven knew that her newly opened school, a […]
Booked on a Feeling by Jayci Lee (excerpt)
CHAPTER ONE The slumbering city below held no answers for Lizzy Chung, but she nevertheless stared out her office window as she sipped her black coffee. The subtle shifts of color in the sky hinted at approaching dawn and painted downtown Los Angeles in muted gray tones, leaching the impressive city of its color and […]