Spotlight: Almost Mine by Sara McClaflin

Release Date: June 25

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I let him go once because I thought it was the right thing to do.

I told myself love meant sacrifice.

That he deserved better than me.

I was wrong.

Now Wes is single again, and closer than ever. I can’t escape him. Not in a town this small.

When I’m hired for an heiress’s wedding at a remote mountain estate, I expect distance. Instead, I end up needing Wes’s help.

A storm hits. The power goes out. The roads disappear. Suddenly, there’s nowhere left to hide, from him or from everything we never finished.

Wes isn’t pretending anymore.

He doesn’t want friendship.

He wants everything I took from him…and everything I still am.

And this time, he’s not letting me walk away.

ALMOST MINE is a second chance, forced proximity, right person wrong time, unfinished love, small town contemporary romance set in the same town as Almost Chosen, perfect for readers who love emotional tension, mutual pining, and second chances that don’t come easy.

The Almost: A Dark Valentine is a twisted collection of five standalone romances, each beginning with the same chilling letter and the reappearance of the man who was never quite forgotten. Whether fueled by obsession, revenge, redemption, or desire, these men return determined to finish what was almost theirs.

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Meet Sara McClaflin

Sara McClaflin writes romance about imperfect people finding love anyway. Drawn to messy emotions and complicated characters, she creates stories where vulnerability isn’t weakness and healing is never simple.

Her books explore the beauty in broken edges, the tension between fear and desire, and the kind of connection they can’t ignore. No matter how flawed her characters are, they always find their happily ever after.

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Spotlight: Massawa by Pam Webber

For fans of novels featuring strong, smart female protagonists, the first in a series about the novice female American spies in North Africa and the Mediterranean that changed the tide of World War II.

In 1942, during the height of World War II, Wild Bill Donovan, the director of the United States’ first spy agency, believes women are the key to winning the intelligence battle with the Nazis. To that end, he partners fledgling agent Kit Thomas with British MI6 agent Mark Williams and sends them to one of the most perilous places in the world—Massawa, Eritrea—to investigate the theft of millions of military payroll dollars.

In Massawa, Kit and Mark discover a conspiracy by Nazi sympathizers, known as the Vichy, to shut down the only Allied naval base on the Red Sea—which is an essential resource in stopping the Nazi invasion of North Africa. As they work to reveal the conspirators, Kit and Mark engage in a dangerous and tempestuous dance of trust versus mistrust.

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About the Author

Pam Webber is a second career, bestselling author of historical fiction. Her novels, “The Wiregrass,” “Moon Water,” and “Life Dust” have garnered multiple regional and national awards from organizations such as the Historical Novel Society, the Southern Literary Review, and the Military Writers Society of America.

In her personal life, Pam is an internal medicine nurse practitioner, an avid traveler, and nature lover. She and the love of her life, Jeff, live and work in Northern  Virginia.  Learn more about Pam at: www.pamwebber.com 

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Spotlight: The Sea Queen’s Key by R.S. Kellogg

Genres: Adult, Fantasy

At eighteen, Mira is one of the last humans in Breadcove Bay with formal training in Fire and Heat magic outside the faculty of Borealis University. Masitro has already lost a string of talented fire‑workers to failed confrontations with Shora, the Ice Queen, whose sightings creep closer to the city every month.

Mira just wants to get home for winter break.

The politics of a rogue ice queen and a missing mermaid queen get in the way.

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rskellogg/the-sea-queens-key-balancing-breadcove-bay

About the Author

R.S. Kellogg writes the Everyday Goddess Stories, the Mermaid Magic Tales, and fiction in the story realms of Breadcove Bay and Agratica, among other places. 

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Spotlight: The Dean's List by Rachel Van Dyken

Release Date: June 23

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A new adult dark academia romance with a scarred hero and a school full of secrets from #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Van Dyken

She spent seven years mourning him.

He spent seven years hating her.

Neither of them knows they're hunting the same secret.

They call it the Dean's List.

Not because of grades.

Because of sins.

At Brighton University, someone keeps a ledger of the powerful. Professors. Legacy families. Future politicians. Every affair, bribe, betrayal, and crime is carefully collected, waiting for the perfect moment to destroy the people responsible.

Delilah Quinn wants nothing to do with it.

She changed her name, rebuilt her life, and has one year left before she can finally leave her past behind.

Then Jude Mercer walks back into her life.

The boy she loved.

The boy she buried.

The boy who knows exactly who she is.

Jude spent years paying for a crime he didn't commit, convinced Delilah betrayed him. Now he's back, determined to uncover the truth and make everyone responsible suffer.

Especially her.

But revenge gets complicated when old feelings refuse to stay dead, and the deeper they dig into the Dean's List, the more they realize the ledger isn't exposing strangers.

It's exposing their families.

Someone has been waiting for them to come home.

Someone knows what really happened seven years ago.

And if the Dean's List finally comes to light...

It won't just ruin lives.

It will reveal that some secrets were never meant to stay buried.

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Meet Rachel Van Dyken

Rachel Van Dyken is the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over 100 books ranging from new adult romance to mafia romance to paranormal & fantasy romance. With over four million copies sold, she's been featured in Forbes, US Weekly, and USA Today. Her books have been translated in more than 15 countries. She was one of the first romance authors to have a Kindle in Motion book through Amazon publishing and continues to strive to be on the cutting edge of the reader experience. She keeps her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, adorable sons, naked cat, and two dogs.

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Spotlight: My Twin the Murderer by Lindsay Kent

Neuroscientist Evelyn Malcolm has built her life on reason. She believes in clean data, repeatable results, and the comforting illusion that the mind can be mapped, measured, and controlled. But when the man she has secretly loved is found dead, Evelyn's carefully constructed world collapses.

Now a prime suspect in his murder, she's forced back into the orbit of her estranged twin sister, Vivian—a volatile mystery writer and recovering addict whose life has been defined by impulse, instability, and excess. When the twin's DNA is discovered at the crime scene, the case fractures into something far more disturbing. Two sisters. One victim. Matching genetic fingerprints. And no clear explanation for what really happened.

As the sisters are pushed beyond their limits, Evelyn is forced to confront everything she has spent her life denying: the unreliability of memory, the fragility of identity, and the terrifying possibility that the mind is not a neutral observer, but an active participant in its own deception. And clearing her name may require the one thing she has always avoided: trusting her sister.

Propulsive, hallucinatory, and darkly funny, My Twin the Murderer is a mind-bending psychological thriller about the hidden costs of believing we are fully in control.

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About the Author

Lindsay Kent, aka The Hallucinarrator, is a filmmaker and psychedelic historian whose work explores the intersection of storytelling, consciousness, and psychological transformation. Her work spans decades, from global feature films and streaming series to campaigns for nonprofits and Fortune 500s. Her 2016 cult documentary Going Furthur retraced the electric pulse of America’s counterculture, while Plant Medicine dives deep into the visionary heart of an Ayahuasca retreat center in Costa Rica. With years of research into the cultural and emotional impact of altered states, she brings a rare combination of narrative craft and intellectual depth to the thriller genre. Her writing bridges art and awakening—using fiction as a way to make complex inner experiences accessible, human, and emotionally grounded. My Twin the Murderer is her debut novel. She lives in Half Moon Bay, California, with her husband Jim and their four-legged comic relief, Bodhi. Her twin lives five minutes away—and so, in a very real sense, so does she. More at: THEHALLUCINARRATOR.COM.

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Spotlight: Fault Line by Tim Smith

Pub Date: April 2026

Genre: Memoir

A powerful and deeply personal memoir of survival, resilience, and self-reclamation. 

Through a series of intimate, chronological vignettes, Tim Smith recounts a childhood shaped by abuse, addiction, and emotional abandonment—beginning with his mother’s instability and the absence of a father who never truly showed up. Raised in an environment where safety was unpredictable and trust was fragile, Smith learned early how to endure. 

But this memoir is not only a story of survival—it is about what comes after. The takeaway is that the past may shape us, but it does not have to define us. Life is not just about what happened to you but about what you choose to become anyway.

Fault Line follows Tim’s long, uneven path toward healing, identity, and personal truth. With a voice that is direct, reflective, and at times unexpectedly humorous, he explores resilience and what it means to build a life after survival—and the quiet realization that you can carry your past without letting it define you. 

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About the Author

Born in Pensacola, Florida, Tim Smith grew up in the rural South in an environment shaped by addiction, instability, and neglect—experiences that would later form the emotional backbone of his writing.

Before becoming an author, Smith worked a wide range of jobs that reflected both necessity and curiosity about the world: from short-order cook to labor in a Navy shipyard, eventually building a career in the financial sector as an executive assistant. Along the way he also developed a passion for photography, earning recognition and awards for his work behind the camera.

Smith lives in Los Angeles with his husband and their three rescue dogs. His life now stands in stark contrast to the chaos of his childhood—a testament to the central idea at the heart of his memoir: that the past may shape us, but it does not have to define us. Through his writing, photography, and creative work, Smith continues to explore themes of identity, resilience, and what it means to build a life after survival.