Spotlight: A Winding Wave of Magic by Nicole French

Release Date: April 11

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He was fae. I was sure of it. A sorcerer, full of cool, clear-eyed control, looking for a seeress to read thoughts and tell the future. And he was here for me.

Four months from starting a quiet teaching career, Cassandra Whelan receives a message the disrupts everything. Her beloved grandmother has been killed, and she’s given Cassandra the strangest inheritance ever: the family beach house, a centuries-old secret to protect that seems suspiciously like Pandora’s Box, and a coveted position on the council of the magi: the mysterious governing body of the fae world, which Cassandra knows nothing about.

After all, it’s hard to care about your magical powers when they never do anything but misbehave.

Now, to avenge her grandmother and protect a legacy that has cost her family everything, Cassandra must embark on a new kind of education: one that teaches her how to become the most powerful seer of a generation, even if other fae don’t believe she can do it.

Fae like Jonathan Lynch, an enigmatic (and somewhat grumpy) sorcerer-shifter sent to guide her on her new path.

With every passing day, Cassandra comes closer to full manifestation, when she can take her seat on the council—unless, as she suspects, they are hiding their own terrible secret.

Love, hate, and lies. It seems everyone in the fae world has a hidden agenda—and who better to find the truth than the most clairvoyant seer of a generation?

If, that is, she can finish her training alive.

Addictive and action-packed, A Winding Wave of Magic is a gorgeous, soul-searing, and surprising romantic fantasy!

A note to readers: Parts of this book were previously published under the Nicole Demery as novellas in The Magi Series. While the story is at its heart the same, large portions of the book have been edited, rewritten, and reconfigured. The story also includes an additional 50,000 words that were never published and provides an end to this story. I hope you enjoy it!

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Meet Nicole French

Nicole French is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance. She's also a hopeless romantic, Springsteen fanatic, and total bookworm. When not writing, she is hanging out with her family, playing soccer with the rest of the thirty-plus crowd in Seattle, or going on dates with her husband. In her spare time, she likes to go running or practice the piano, but never seems to do either one of these things as much as she should.

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Spotlight: All Along the Watchtower by Harper Jackson

Release Date: April 11

Will Be Available in Kindle Unlimited April 18

For ten years, I've perfected the art of ignoring Ford Donoghue whenever he comes home on leave. You can't completely avoid anyone on Hatterwick Island, but I've made it work. Until his daughter shows up.

She's thirteen, scared, and looking for the father she's never met. And suddenly I'm the one making the call I swore I'd never make, pulling Ford away from his Navy post and into my carefully constructed life. But something about her story doesn't add up, and when a body washes up on our quiet beach, the whole island starts to unravel.

Now a teenage girl is counting on me, a murderer walks freely among us, and the only person I can trust is the former best friend who broke my heart a decade ago. And the people threatening everything I love? They're counting on the fact that Ford and I are too broken to work together.

They don't know how wrong they are.

In this small tourist town, old wounds run deep and deadly secrets hide in plain sight. And this time, running away isn't an option—for any of us.

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Meet Harper Jackson

Harper Jackson has rescued her co-workers from a hostage situation, battled ninjas, and stopped international espionage—in her head anyway. Now that she’s no longer busy devising ways to make staff meetings more entertaining, she’s pouring that imagination into tales of breath-stealing, small-town romantic suspense. She believes that peach cobbler with ice cream is the best dessert ever and has a black belt in taekwondo to back it up. She lives in the Deep South with her husband and canine furbabies. You can explore her lighter contemporary romances at https://kaitnolan.com.

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Cover Reveal: Keeping the Countless by Lille Moore

Publication date: June 24th 2025

Genres: Adult, Historical, Romance

Synopsis:

In this first installation of the DAMSELS IN DISGUISE series, a passionate clergyman on a mission to steal an earl’s secrets finds himself captivated by a cunning and courageous countess.

Charismatic curate Jonah Sinclair survived the deadly streets of south London with two well-trained fists and divine intervention. He will let nothing—not his vocation, nor his yearning to find love—stop him from pursuing the criminals who killed his father. When he learns the notorious Earl of Rochford could hold the key to retribution for his family, he seizes on the chance to become tutor to the earl’s young ward. But the only trace of Rochford he discovers at the mysterious Ravenglass Hall is his abandoned countess, a woman whose fierce strength stirs a forbidden temptation.

Faith Trenton, Countess of Rochford, is on the brink of ruin. Betrayed and abandoned by her husband, she disguises herself as a man to defend her estate from an embezzling steward. Jonah’s arrival threatens her carefully constructed masquerade, and despite the irresistible spark between them, she must send him packing, or risk having him expose the dangerous secrets she keeps hidden. But when a succession of attacks threatens everything that Faith has fought to protect, she’s forced to place her trust in Jonah, and pray he won’t unravel the truth, or her heart.

Helping Faith could sabotage Jonah’s mission. Loving her might cost him everything.

About the Author

Lille Moore writes romance with a twist on time-honored tropes and tales. Her hard-fought happy endings feature strong heroines, seductive heroes, and plenty of steam and shenanigans.

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Spotlight: Everything You've Ever Known by Jess Ames

Jenna Mitchell has spent her adult life under the control of her husband, her dreams of owning her own bakery pushed aside. But at twenty-eight, she's finally ready to reclaim her life and pursue her passion. Well… almost.

With the unwavering support of the Sensational Six—her close-knit group of friends—Jenna can finally envision a day where she is in charge of her own destiny, a big step forward for her. As she works at her friend’s café, Jenna begins to discover the strength and courage she needs to break free from her past and begin focusing on her future.

But can she quiet the echoes that keep finding their way back to her? Will the doubts they’ve created make it impossible for her to see—and trust—the path forward before her chance at a better life slips through her flour-dusted fingers?

Fans of Rachel Hanna will enjoy this warm and uplifting story about self-discovery, finding the courage to start anew, and the unbreakable bonds of chosen family.

Excerpt

I was sifting powdered sugar over a just-cooled apple strudel when my husband called from county jail. Leaning over the tiny kitchen table in my tiny new apartment above the café where I worked, I was imagining myself with my apron-covered hip propped against a gleaming stainless steel table, putting the finishing touches on a last-minute order that had come in through my bakery’s website. Back and forth with the sifter… downy, white flakes danced around each other as they floated and settled into their resting places. 

B-r-r-r-r-r-t

The rumble of the phone against the white laminate broke me from my time-worn daydream. I reached up to adjust the white baker’s cap that existed only in my mind, pressed pause on my dream, and shook my head to clear it. When I read the caller ID, my stomach folded in on itself. 

‘Collect call’

Craig.

I took a deep breath that settled in my chest and refused to return. I set the sifter down on a nearby dish and picked up my phone. For a moment, just a moment, I held it in my hand and considered letting him go to voicemail. But a lifetime of experience told me that ignoring a man who will not be ignored would only delay the inevitable.

"Hello?" I said, forcing the air from my lungs.

My husband’s out-of-touch politician's voice poured through the phone. “Jenna, sweetheart. Are you busy?” Without waiting for me to answer, he continued. “I need you to do me a favor, baby. Can you please come down here and bail me out? I can’t sit here for one more day.”

I shifted the phone to my other ear and wrapped my free arm around my waist as I paced the twenty steps it took to reach the other end of my apartment and back. He wasn’t going to like my reply. "Craig, I just don't think I can do that. I don't have the money for it right now. I'm sorry."

This was apparently not the answer he was expecting, because, as expected, his demeanor slipped from the fake, sticky sweetness of corn syrup to hot, burning rage faster than a falling soufflé. "You're sorry? You're sorry? Be sorry that you haven't already come down here to get me. I'm your husband, Jenna. Remember the vows you took? Love, honor, and obey?"

Recognizing the opening line to the endless refrain of our marriage, I pulled a chair away from my kitchen table and willed my shaky legs to deposit me safely into it.

"Yes, I do remember, Craig. But I still can't afford to come and bail you out right now. I have expenses I need to think about."

The sound of what I could only assume was the phone bashing against a hard surface assaulted my eardrum. "You have expenses because you decided to leave our home and go live above that — that woman's café."

"That woman is my boss, and my friend," I reminded him, "and she’s been nice enough to let me stay here."

"You don't need to stay there," Craig argued back. "What you need to do is come and get me so we can go home together where we belong.”

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Jess Ames is knocking on the door of fifty, but has the sense of humor of a twelve year old and the body of a fifty-four-year-old (according to her fitness app).

She is “mama” to nine, “mimi” to four, “friend” to all, an adequate wife, and living the dream of the little girl who wanted to be a writer when she grew up.

They are both still waiting for that moment, so she’s writing in the meantime.

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Spotlight: Easton by S.R. Grey

Easton

They say to marry your best friend. So that’s what I did. But what no one knows is that it’s not even real—it’s a marriage of convenience.

Yeah, I married Claire Weller to fulfill a long-ago promise made back when we were just kids. Problem is, I’ve always had feelings for Claire, and now I’ve gone and fully fallen in love with her.

Too bad she sees me only as a friend.

***

Claire

Easton Sonden was my teenage crush. But then we went our separate ways. He went on to greatness, becoming a star hockey player, while I had my own life. Until we reunited.

Now he’s my husband!

How lucky did I get? Easton is gorgeous, sweet, and has a body made for sin. And now he’s all mine.

Well, not really. Our marriage is a sham.

But I don’t want it to be—I want more. I’m afraid to tell him, though. What if he doesn’t feel the same way?

I don’t think my heart can handle that.

So I guess I’ll just go on pretending.

Until I no longer can.

Easton is the first novel in the new Glacier Hockey series.

*can be read as a standalone*

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S.R. Grey is a USA Today Bestselling Author of the new Glacier Hockey series, Breakaway hockey series, Boys of Winter hockey books, and Men of Fall football novels. Other New Adult and Romantic Suspense works of hers include the Judge Me Not books, the Promises series, the Inevitability duology, A Harbour Falls Mystery trilogy, and the Laid Bare series of novellas.

When not writing Ms. Grey can be found reading, traveling, running, and cheering for her hometown sports teams. Sometimes all at the same time!

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Spotlight: Mi Negro Amigo: An Unauthorized New Analysis of Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight by Robert. E. Eliot

The Hateful Eight is not only one of Quentin Tarantino’s most thoroughly enjoyable motion pictures since Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown; it’s also one of his craftiest achievements. This exciting unauthorized analysis exposes the compelling evidence for a truly astonishing hidden plot detail: The true underlying reason behind the presence of Civil War veteran Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) in Tarantino’s 2015 western thriller is so much more complex–and more devious–than we thought to imagine!

With a meticulous eye, this book sheds light on the power of this clever, unspoken plot point to dramatically transform our view of the film in its entirety–and to give us an enhanced appreciation of the astounding deftness of one of the most spellbinding writer-directors of our time.

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About the Author

Robert E. Eliot is the author of Mi Negro Amigo: An Unauthorized New Analysis of Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight and Nolanverse: Exploring the Greatest Illusion in Movie History: An Unauthorized New Analysis of The Dark Knight Rises. He lives and works in the state of Washington and looks forward to writing additional nonfiction books in the future.

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