Wendy Dalrymple

Amy Grimes never had any intention of settling down with just one guy. She’s more than happy on her own making six figures as an IT manager, traveling to exotic locales, and keeping her home exactly as she wants it. Her childhood best friend, country boy Owen Durant, feels the same way and has no desire to date just one woman in particular. Even though these platonic friends have harbored a mutual attraction for years, both of them have resisted the urge to explore how they felt about each other. Until now. When Owen’s wealthy, conservative uncle unexpectedly dies, the reading of the will puts him in a predicament — he must forfeit his portion of the inheritance, or find a fiancée, and fast. Owen has no interest in getting married for real, but he also can’t let the prospect of free money get away from him over something as trivial as paperwork. With some fast talk and the promise of a share in the inheritance, Amy readily agrees to travel to their hometown to pose as Owen’s funeral date and fake wife for the weekend. Even though it's just a business transaction, Amy realizes that being in constant close quarters with her long-time best friend and crush and pretending to be married is a little more than she can bear, and they soon find themselves cracking under the pressure. It’s going to take a miracle for them to make it through the funeral and beyond without blowing their cover or catching feelings in this friends-to-lovers romcom!

Two Friends and a Funeral

It Doesn't Go Away

Chelsea is vain, self-absorbed, and driven in life only by want and her obsession with being the best. Even though she is desperate to portray an outwardly perfect image, things are far from perfect at home. One day at yoga class, Chelsea meets a woman named Damaris who is exactly like her; beautiful, confident, and reaching high to be her best self. Damaris and Chelsea become instant best friends and bond over healthy eating, fitness, and their love of luxury items. As Chelsea’s heart hardens toward her boyfriend, her obsession with the enigmatic Damaris only blossoms. As one bad decision turns into another, Chelsea begins to think she is being followed by a white bird. Her new best friend Damaris suggests a girls' weekend in New Orleans to get away from it all and Chelsea readily agrees. Unfortunately for Chelsea, it soon becomes clear that she can’t run away from her problems and instead finds herself tumbling head-first into a downward spiral Content Warning: Mentions of suicide and eating disorders.

A Horror Novella

White Ibis

I Love You S'more

Full of Christmas wonder, eggnog, and endearing characters, Wendy Darlymple’s Kissing Christmas Goodbye is a charming tale of getting a second chance at love. Christmas is Lizzy’s favorite time of year; even when divorcing her husband forced her and her daughter to move back in with Lizzy’s parents. Max hates Christmas and all the pomp and candy canes that goes with it. What’s worse is the house he’s renovating is smack dab in the middle of the uber festive Candy Cane Lane. Just when Lizzy thinks she can convince her grinchy neighbor Max to participate in the neighborhood-wide decorating, her world is threatened when Lizzy’s ex demands their daughter spend Christmas with him and the other woman.

Kissing Christmas Goodbye

Her life is falling apart… like, literally.   Being a sugar baby isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. After a failed art career and a failed relationship, Baby has lost her way. She’s adrift in the post-Y2K, pre-Facebook world and stuck in her Florida hometown, selling stolen goods online and working as a sugar baby. Even though she’s hustling hard, there’s still never enough money to pay the bills, and her long-suffering roommate is ready to put her out on the streets. One night after a bad date with her sugar daddy, Baby is assaulted by a mysterious woman in a parking lot. The attack leaves her disoriented and exhausted, so Baby takes to her bed to lie there and rot, like, for real.   With every passing day, Baby’s looks and health decline in strange and horrific ways. Soon, it becomes apparent that the strange woman who assaulted her had something to do with her declining state. Baby needs to find her attacker, reclaim her life and her beauty, and get her shit together once and for all. But at what cost?   Bed Rot Baby is a pink horror meditation of self-discovery through self-destruction, and the real cost of self-image, self-esteem, and beauty.

Bed Rot Baby

Family secrets, grief and a dark, foreboding mystery... Estranged sisters Summer and Joy are forced to reunite after the untimely and gruesome deaths of their mother and grandparents.The two sisters are tasked with cleaning out their grandparents' home on Palmetto Lake in the heart of Central Florida during the hottest, most brutal time of the year. But something seems amiss in the bucolic lakefront community. Something Summer can't seem to place her finger on. Despite decades of unspoken animosity, the two sisters attempt to come together to support each other as they uncover the terrors of their unknown past. Questions about the true nature of their grandparents and the strange lakefront neighborhood bubble to the surface as Summer struggles to stay focused on the task at hand. However, with every layer the sisters strip away, with every new bit of evidence about their grandparents that they stumble upon, it becomes more and more clear to Summer that they aren't just going dealing with grief and loss... but danger. When it comes to the past, sometimes the truth is better left unknown. They Come From the Water is a Florida Gothic meditation on inherited family trauma, destructive secrets and dark dangers that lurk just beneath the surface. *Content warnings: Addiction, adultery, murder, suicide, self-harm, animal death and gore.

They Come From the Water

A Fight for Forbidden Love

Out of the Ring

Bird in the Window

Funny Valentines

Imogen Markwell-Tweed

Christmas is the perfect time of year to fall in love; especially if you're a specter or a retail employee, that is. At Holiday Falls Mall, love blooms in sweet and spooky ways for four shop employees during the holiday season. This collection features two stories from queer romance writer Imogen Markwell-Tweed, and two stories from sweet romance writer Wendy Dalrymple for a unique, intertwined anthology of paranormal romance novelettes.

A Paranormal Romance Collection

Holiday Haunts

In the town of Vista, TN secrets are shrouded in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains and people aren't always who they seem. When new-to-town housekeeper Julia stumbles upon a dead body in one of the upscale rental properties she was hired to clean, she finds herself tumbling down a deep hole of mystery and intrigue. For Julia, the murder isn’t just terrifying and unsettling, but the catalyst for a chain reaction of problems that may soon expose a secret of her own. As the town gears up for an impending total solar eclipse, bodies begin to pile up and all lead to one very suspicious source. With the help of handyman, Deacon, Julia works to uncover clues that investigators miss and lead to a killer that no one saw coming. Thanks to a keen sixth sense and a magnetic bond with Deacon, Julia finds herself fighting for a new life and a second chance at love... even in the dark. Content Notes: This is a low-heat romantic suspense with closed door sex, mentions of kidnapping, drugs and human trafficking.

A Romantic Suspense

Love in the Dark

It was just supposed to be a girls' night out... Stay-at-home mom Kris loves her life and her family but she can't help but feel as though she's lost a little bit of herself. Sometimes it feels like she could burst out of her own skin. She's starving for attention, starving for an escape and starving to reclaim her own sense of identity and place in the world again. On a rare girls' night out, Kris has a little too much to drink and gets roughed up and romanced by a hypnotic stranger. She goes home with a wounded shoulder and an equally wounded ego, and wakes up the following day with strange new cravings. With every day, Kris finds it more and more difficult to deny that something is terribly wrong with her. With the help of a new friend, Kris soon learns that she'll have to make the biggest sacrifice of all if she wants to keep her family and herself intact. Girls Night Out is a fever dream dissection of how one bad decision and a lifetime of repression and regrets can lead to a spiral self-destruction.

Girls' Night Out

Casey is nineteen, struggling and social media obsessed. When her favorite StreamVid star, Della, falls ill, Casey takes it upon herself to set up a fund to foot her medical bills. However, when Casey's online obsession bleeds into her IRL world, things go sideways and it becomes all too clear that Della might not be who she seems. PARASOCIAL is a Florida Gothic meditation on obsession, social media, and the lengths people will go to achieve online success.

Parasocial

Brittany Sinclair has everything going for her; a successful business as a wedding planner, good friends, a beautiful home. Her life is going exactly the way that she wants it, until one day a ghost from her past walks back into her life and changes everything. Thomas Gold is done living a life in the shadows. After nearly twenty years, he's done rounding up and sometimes eliminating some of the most dangerous men in the world... even if the work did pay well. He misses his family back home in Bradenton, FL, and wants to spend one weekend relaxing and reuniting with his old friends and family. Only he had no idea that the person in charge of running his cousin's wedding was his old flame, Brittany Sinclair. When fate brings these two former friends back together again, Brittany has to decide whether she wants to give up her prim and perfect existence for a risky chance with romance. However, when a big boss crime lord tracks him down in Bradenton, Tommy has to shift back into killer mode to save the woman he loves... and himself. But is Tommy really as big and bad as he seems?

A Dark Romantic Comedy

Worst Laid Plans

Brimming with hilarious tricks and heartwarming treats, My Halloween Romance is a tale of two stunted thirty-somethings that aren't ready to start adulting. As cast members of Ty Treadwell's Haunted Hike, Tabby and Donnie connect over their shared love of horror movies, fandoms, and all things Halloween. But when big life decisions get in the way of their good time, Tabby and Donnie discover that the only thing scarier than growing up is falling in love. *This book was previously published under the title "A Spooky Kind of Love" from Bryant Street Publishing.

My Halloween Romance

Sonja and her crew of shield-maidens are the last of the fabled women warriors, bent on traveling for the sake of adventure and the prospect of finding new lands. As chieftain of the longship Helle's Revenge, Sonja leads her team of widows, former prostitutes and milkmaids with a closed, soft heart and a heavy hand, vowing to only use violence when necessary. Whispers of undiscovered lands call to her, and with the intent of starting a new colony in a world all their own, Sonja and her crew set their sails to the west. Ivan is the boisterous chieftain of the longship Fenrir, and is known throughout the northlands as a fierce fighter and an even fiercer lover. With the promise of an early retirement on the horizon, Ivan has set his sights on a never before discovered land. Little does he know that his course following the westerly winds was also following a ship full of determined women looking for the very same land. When Sonja discovers that Ivan is on the same course as she is, and intends to claim her new land for himself, a long-buried rage threatens to bubble to the surface. She has a change of heart when it comes to doling out violence and revenge, especially towards her smug-faced, annoyingly handsome rival Viking warlord. The two hot-headed chieftains face off in a race for discovery and a battle for freedom, even as the high stakes at sea forges their desire, bringing them closer than they ever could have imagined.

A Viking Romance

Shield-Maiden

Brigitte Delery

Ariana Kell

A Friends to Lovers Romance Collection

Becoming

Jennifer Gibson is desperately trying to keep her Anna Maria Island ice cream shop, Two Scoops, afloat despite a recent bout of red tide that has all but decimated the tourist industry. With her ex-husband pressuring her to buy him out of his half of the business even though sales are slow, Jenn's hopes seem to melt in the summer Sun. Ryan Bourdain is a former semi-pro skimboarder past his prime, now paying the bills as a lifeguard and skimboard instructor. He's always had his eye on the cute ice cream shop owner but feels like a has-been loser who's not worthy enough for her to give him the time of day. When sandy secret admirer notes start appearing under the door of Two Scoops, Jenn enlists the help of her social media savvy friend Desi to use the sweet love letters to her advantage. Her posts go viral and business is booming again, which means Jenn needs to hire a new associate. She is surprised when out of work lifeguard, Ryan, steps in to help during an unexpected business rush. Despite old wounds that refuse to heal, low self-esteem, and life getting in the way, these two scoops find that sometimes love is where you least expect it.

Two Scoops

Tabitha Peterson is doing her best to avoid taking life too seriously, and her punk aesthetic and unwillingness to settle down are proof that she's not interested in conforming to traditional idea of adulting. She's spent the last decade after dropping out of college hopping all over the US and now, back in her hometown, Tabitha is working as a barista and taking any job she can to pay the bills. When she notices that the Haunted Halloween Hike is auditioning for actors to spook unsuspecting patrons, Tabitha knows she's just the right person for the gig. The Haunted Halloween Hike at Ty Treadwell's Family Fun Park has been a treasured annual institution in small-town Cape Coral, FL for over thirty years. Every October, Donnie Treadwell dusts off his swamp creature costume to spook hikers in the woods behind his uncles' kitschy theme park, just like he's done ever since he was a teenager. Donnie loves everything to do with horror, and for him, every day is Halloween. Unfortunately, his obsession with collecting creepy memorabilia and constructing spooky costumes sometimes makes him feel isolated in his small town. When lively Tabitha Peterson applies to work the Haunted Hike, Donnie is relieved to finally find someone to share his enthusiasm for all things Halloween. Tabitha is also surprised to be taken by such a normal guy like Donnie, and they become fast friends as they enthusiastically share their scary fandoms. With every night of scaring hikers in the haunted woods behind Ty Treadwell's, Tabitha and Donnie grow a little bit closer and a little more infatuated with one another. It's all Halloween fun and games until Donnie's uncle announces that he'll be selling Ty Treadwell's to an investor if Donnie isn't interested in taking over the reins. With the realization that this will be the last year for the Halloween Hike, Donnie decides that it's time for him to grow up and face his fears. If Donnie can't admit his feelings for Tabitha and take the plunge and accept his uncle's business proposal, he'll lose out on the one thing he loves more than Halloween.

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