Just Two Brownie Points

A Tart Most Deadly
In a quiet coastal town, a baker who notices too much and a police chief who trusts too little are pulled together when a murder hits too close to home.

Owen Harper has built his life on routine: early mornings, careful recipes, and Harper’s Hearth — the small-town bakery that has quietly held Maplewood together for years.

Until someone dies inside it.

When a visiting food critic collapses during a tasting and later dies, Owen’s world fractures overnight. The café is no longer just his livelihood — it’s the center of a growing investigation, and the source of every rumor spreading through town.

But something doesn’t add up.

As suspicion settles over Harper’s Hearth, Owen begins to notice the details others ignore — a hesitation, a contradiction, a silence that lingers just a little too long. Working alongside Police Chief Grace Miller, he follows a trail of small inconsistencies that point to something far more deliberate than anyone wants to admit.

Because in a town like Maplewood, secrets don’t stay hidden by accident.

They stay hidden because someone is protecting them.

With his reputation at risk, his relationships shifting, and the truth pulling him deeper than he ever intended to go, Owen must decide how far he’s willing to push — before uncovering the truth costs more than he can afford.

What if the only escape from hell was in the embrace of the demon holding you captive?

Our girls’ trip to Savannah was supposed to be my first real vacation. My proof that I was healing. That the shadows of my past no longer owned me.

But instead of a journey toward recovery, a hotel mix-up lands my childhood friend and me in a hidden prison — one that feeds on tourists instead of catering to them. Now we’re trapped in a house ruled by vampires, marked as nothing more than walking blood bags.

I’ve been here before. Not this place, but this feeling. Powerless. Afraid. Broken. I swore I’d never let it happen again. But old wounds have a way of resurfacing when we’re least prepared.

And then there’s Varin. Ancient and untouchable, he terrifies me more than any other creature here. So why does he watch me like I’m something that matters? Is he waiting for me to slip up… or are his intentions far darker than I imagine?

Can I ever escape this nightmare — or will trusting a monster be my undoing?

They Don’t Serve Champagne At Rock Bottom

Losing yourself happens slowly. One compromise here. One silenced truth there. One plucked petal at a time.

To the outside world, Karoline Starostik, founder of a thriving venture capital firm, looked like she had it all. But behind closed doors, she was quietly shrinking inside an abusive marriage.

Karoline learned to survive by abandoning herself, piece by piece, until she no longer recognized the woman in her own reflection. It was then, at rock bottom, that she uncovered the power to love herself.

With fierce honesty, grounded feminine strength, and a deep compassion that feels like both a friend and a mirror, Karoline reveals what healing actually looks like when it’s not curated for an audience: messy, nonlinear, somatic, and real.

Part memoir, part guide, this book is a powerful blend of the deeper work and grounded emotional healing that goes far beyond wellness trends and self-love aesthetics. Karoline shares the truth of what it means to rebuild from the inside out – true inner work, nervous system repair, and the courage to meet the parts of yourself you hid to survive.

The Declaration of Independence proclaimed liberty. Its author owned 150 human beings.

A sweeping dual-narrative historical novel about America’s founding document — for readers of The Personal Librarian, The Water Dancer, and Property.

Philadelphia, summer 1776. In a sweltering rented room, Thomas Jefferson drafts the most consequential document in American history. Two hundred fifty miles south, at Monticello, an enslaved man named Jupiter tends Jefferson’s horses and eleven-year-old Isaac shapes nails in the forge. They cannot read the words their master is writing.

The words do not apply to them.

Jefferson’s original draft contained a passage most Americans have never read — one hundred and sixty-eight words condemning the slave trade as a “cruel war against human nature itself.” Congress struck it. South Carolina refused to sign a document containing it. Georgia refused. The Northern merchants whose ships carried enslaved Africans refused.

The founders made a calculation: they could have the condemnation of slavery or they could have the Declaration of Independence. They could not have both.

They chose the Declaration.

We Hold These Truths is a meticulously researched work of historical fiction that tells the full story of the summer that made America — the courage and the betrayal, the soaring rhetoric and the human trafficking, the men who signed their names and the millions whose names were never written.

Through the eyes of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, experience the debates, the deals, and the genuine terror of men committing treason against the Crown. Through the eyes of Jupiter, Isaac, Deborah, and Crispus, witness the same summer from the rice fields of South Carolina, the forges of Virginia, and the docks of Philadelphia — where the bells of liberty rang for some and not for others.

Forty-one of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration owned slaves. This novel holds that truth alongside their courage, refusing to resolve the contradiction — because the contradiction is America.

A heartwarming opposites-attract romance about unexpected love, canine chaos, and trusting your instincts. ?

Ellen believes lasting love comes from logic — not luck — so she turns to Detailed Dating, a compatibility-based site designed to eliminate surprises. But a surprise dash to the emergency vet leads her to Henry, a charming dog owner with a playful smile and no credentials for long-term success… according to any algorithm.

Drawn in by Henry’s easy charm, Ellen finds herself enrolling in dog obedience classes just to see him again. As their connection deepens through quiet moments and laughter, Ellen begins to question if she should stick with her plan — or take a leap of faith on the man who makes her feel truly alive.

An archaeological adventure filled with lost cities, ancient prophecies, rival factions, hidden treasure, and a race against time.

Hiram Kane has spent his life chasing the impossible. Now, armed with the only known map to the lost Inca city of Vilcabamba, he leads an expedition deep into the perilous Peruvian Andes, determined to succeed where his ancestors failed and finally lay his past to rest.

But the quest awakens a five-hundred-year-old prophecy and draws the attention of forces far deadlier than the mountains themselves.

Kane’s expedition is infiltrated by two ruthless factions, each driven by ideology and bloodshed. The Condor Uprising, led by a man claiming to be the new Pachacuti, seeks vengeance on the descendants of the conquistadors and the fulfilment of an ancient Inca prophecy. Opposing them is the Eagle Alliance, a militant Catholic group determined to crush the uprising and seize the legendary lost gold to finance their own holy war.

Caught between fanaticism, betrayal, and brutal terrain, Kane and his team must race to reach Vilcabamba first. Failure will not only cost lives, it will ignite a religious conflict capable of consuming South America and beyond.