A Study of Shattered Spells - a dark academia fantasy by Josiah DeGraaf

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Four years. That’s how long Kalina’s country has been fighting for their lives against a nation taken over by a cult of human sacrificers.

Eight months. That’s how long Kalina’s husband has been in a coma ever since the enemy blew up her magical cello.

The enemy has captured the few mages skilled enough to heal him. Which means the only way for Kalina to save her husband is to win the war. But the enemy has rare flintlock technology. And her nation is on the brink of defeat.

Seven months. That’s also how much longer before the prophesied hero of Kalina’s nation graduates from mage school. The prophecy says he’ll only win if he’s mastered musical magic before he’s forced to enter the battlefield.

But the school has been hiding a terrible truth: The boy isn’t ready.

Kalina has never taught before. But the school is convinced that Kalina is uniquely qualified to help the boy become the hero of legends. And when her husband’s life is on the line… what other choice does she have?

Kalina becomes a first year teacher in hopes she can save her nation and revive her husband. But she hasn’t yet realized how many other secrets the school is keeping. The teachers who would happily sabotage her to get fame for themselves. Or the administration that will require her to cover up crimes in order to stay there.

She certainly doesn’t know yet about the bullied students who desperately needed someone to stand up for them.

When she’s asked to choose between her job and her integrity, will she look the other way to train the hero and save her husband? Or will she expose the school’s dark underbelly when it could cost her everything?

She has seven months to do so before the prophecy runs out of time.

A Jewel of a Crime: A Venus Bixby Mystery - an unforgettable, immersive cozy mystery by Valerie Taylor

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Venus Bixby thinks she’s trading her dance studio for a glamorous new life recovering stolen art—until she finds the studio’s new owner dead behind a curtain.

Suddenly the prime suspect in her small town of Chatham Crossing, Venus must clear her name while uncovering a secret from her late husband’s past involving a missing emerald ring. As burglaries ripple through town and rumors swirl, she’ll need sharp instincts—and a dash of Irish luck—to catch the real killer before her fresh start slips away.

Times of Clouds and Sun - a gripping family saga by Michael Dane Hager

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Dr. Maya Simmons, a recent PhD graduate in Epidemiology is still mourning the death of her father.

While going through his personal papers she discovers a dark secret from her parents’ past. Her quest for the truth her leads her to a Tibetan refugee camp in India, where her “mother” Maggie Hunter, is hiding out from Interpol for her suspected role in a bombing incident during the Vietnam War conflict. Compelled to track down her estranged mother, Maya disguises her true identity and secures a volunteer job at the refugee camp. With the help of a Tibetan lama, Maya confronts her long-suppressed feelings of abandonment and her fear of accepting Maggie into her life. Ironically, just as they begin their journey of reconciliation, Maya finds herself at the center of having to solve a deadly epidemic threatening refugees and her own mother’s life.

Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning. - a memoir by Megan Margherio

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Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning.-- a memoir by Megan Margherio

Weaving together her present reflections with personal dialogue between her current and former selves, “Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning” by Megan Margherio invites readers into the intimate, nonlinear landscape of healing. Set largely within her inner world, the memoir is stitched from the quiet places most are too afraid to name: neglect, childhood sexual abuse, partner violence, self-abandonment and the ache of being alive but unseen. Told through lyrical vignettes and raw conversations with her former selves, Margherio doesn’t just walk readers through the trauma. She brings them into its aftermath: the shame that lingers, the numbness that protects, the grief that destabilizes, the self-blame that distorts the truth and the fragile, often resistant return to self. By personifying these younger selves on the page, she gives voice to the parts of herself where survival required silence. Moving beyond the limits of chronological storytelling, “Everwoven” reads not only as a memoir, but as an active inner reckoning. Its structure mirrors the way trauma fractures identity and how healing often begins: by turning toward the selves we had to leave behind. The result is a rare kind of intimacy. One that allows readers to not only observe healing in real-time, but feel its complexity from the inside. It’s a testament to resilience, an offering of grace and an invitation to step into the wild, beautiful, complicated landscapes of your own heart and realize you were never walking them alone.

Whispers of the Forgotten: A Casey Carson Mystery by Aimee Archer

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Her father died chasing the truth. Now something is coming for her.

When Casey Carson returns home after her father's sudden death, she inherits more than an old house. Strange whispers echo through the halls. Shadows move when no one is watching. And hidden among her father's belongings is evidence that he was investigating a dark secret moments before he died. The deeper Casey digs, the more disturbing the truth becomes. Someone wanted her father silenced. Now they're watching Casey. As restless spirits reveal clues and long-buried secrets rise to the surface, Casey must uncover what really happened before she becomes the next victim. But the force that hunted her father has been waiting for years... And it isn't finished yet. For a limited time, get Whispers of the Forgotten at a special discounted price. Perfect for readers who love haunted houses, paranormal mysteries, small-town secrets, ghostly suspense, and amateur sleuths who refuse to back down.

Violet is Blue (The Women of Paradise County Book 2) by Anne Shaw Heinrich

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Violet Sellers is blue, and for good reason. 

She’s repressing a shocking secret she won’t tell anyone, especially her comfortably middle-class parents. When she makes a new friend in school, Jules Marks, who lives on the “other side of the tracks” with his five little sisters, she is introduced to a dark world of self-abuse. As Violet learns about Jules and his shifty mother, Lee, she retreats further into her shell. Her parents, Gloria and Skip, are horrified and do their best to find out what happened to their adolescent daughter while bending over backward to keep the whole town from knowing their business. Jules has an aunt and uncle who know his desperate story, and they finally get a chance to free him and his sisters from a loveless world of poverty. Meanwhile, a spinster named Margaret Burns watches and waits. She knows all about redemption and she’s got a master plan up her sleeve. Margaret and most of the quirky characters in Violet is Blue eventually learn to dance between the worlds of the “haves” and the “have nots” in ways none of them ever anticipated. 

God Bless the Child (The Women of Paradise County Book 1) by Anne Shaw Heinrich

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When we first meet Mary Kline in God Bless the Child, Book One of The Women of Paradise County series, she is sewing, her main obsession besides eating. It is hard to blame Mary for who she has become. She’s been perpetually hungry since childhood, and as she becomes a woman, she craves something far more delicious—a child of her own.

When Pearl Davis turns up pregnant after a church-basement encounter with James Pullman, the pastor’s son, Mary and her parents swoop in and “adopt” Pearl and her baby, Elizabeth. It’s a disastrous move.

As a teen, Elizabeth rebuffs Mary’s smothering affection and winds up pregnant. Mary insists on an abortion, which they both keep secret. When she later becomes a young mother, Elizabeth’s depression leads to severe OCD. When her irrationally patient husband, David, learns about the abortion and the harrowing nights Elizabeth witnessed as a child when her birth mother was abused, more secrets are revealed that explain Mary Kline’s insatiable appetite and her desire to be loved.

By the time Mary and Elizabeth confront the twisted truths that bind them, their entire family is sucked into grappling with layers of trauma spanning three generations.

Everyone in God Bless the Child must reckon with their past as they seek forgiveness and redemption.