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A Holiday Mode novella Every girl deserves a fairytale. I just didn’t expect mine to happen at that summer festival and definitely not with a rock star. My life hasn’t turned out the way I’d hoped. My wonderful dad died and left everything to my wicked stepmother. Now I’m working endless shifts at his old diner and living above her garage. And when she makes me work instead of going to that summer festival, I think my dreams can’t get any further away. But then I meet a charming guy who is so into me. He whisks me away to the music festival, and I have the time of my life.

Big-city transplant Felice Bowes is as shocked as everyone else when a controversial local official is viciously killed during the biggest festival of the season. She's even more surprised when the local police chief asks her to help with the investigation, especially when she didn't like the victim and some of the locals would like her to be the guilty party. But while gathering information and interviewing fellow residents, she's most worried about the effects of the crime on a community already on the razor's edge of solvency, and her own safety.

She came home to heal. He stayed behind to protect what mattered most. Neither expected love to blaze back to life. When Hannah Cooper returns to Ember Creek after losing her job—and her sense of direction—she plans to keep her head down and reopen her late aunt’s flower shop for the summer. What she doesn’t plan on is running straight into Jake Lawson, her childhood best friend… and the boy who broke her heart when she left town years ago. Now a dedicated firefighter, Jake has built his life around service, faith, and responsibility—especially caring for his ailing father. He ...

The Wheel of the Year Explained: The Eight Sacred Sabbats of Pagan and Wiccan Tradition BOOK FOUR: Beltane Explained: Fire Festivals, Sacred Union, Fertility Magic, and the Pagan Celebration of Life at Summer’s Threshold is a deep, immersive guide to one of the most vibrant and powerful festivals in the Wheel of the Year. Celebrated at the turning point between spring and summer, Beltane honors fire, desire, growth, and the living pulse of the natural world. This book explores Beltane as both an ancient Celtic fire festival and a living spiritual practice for modern pagans and witches. ...

Wharton's most erotic and lyrical novel, Summer explores a daring theme for 1917, a woman's awakening to her sexuality. Eighteen-year-old Charity Royall lives in the small town of North Dormer, ignorant of desire until the arrival of architect Lucius Harney. Like the succulent summer landscape in the Berkshires around them, Charity's romance is lush and picturesque, but its consequences are harsh and real.

A continuation of the Baxter family saga focuses on the lives of Katy and her movie star husband Dayne Matthews.

One daring design, one cautious surfer, and a love painted across Ballycove’s summer skies. For muralist Niamh O’Shea, Ballycove’s first Arts & Waves Festival is her dream canvas... if the town will let her splash a thirty-foot sea-dragon across its iconic cliffs. Former pro surfer Rory Donnelly, now owner of the Board & Bike shop, sees disaster in neon paint and tourist selfies. Thrown together as festival co-chairs, the pair agree on exactly one thing: they can’t stand each other. But late-night planning sessions, salt-sweet breezes, and shared secrets blur the bright line between...

Growing up in the island village of Seaview, Willow always dreamed of a bigger life. Then her childhood sweetheart, Luc, betrayed her and she ran, resolving never to look back. Now, 12 years on, her glamorous London life is a mess and the island is her only option. But she's not the only one back for the summer. Luc is now a world-famous heartthrob musician, and he's finally come home to headline the Isle of Wight's annual music festival.

The best deliveries aren’t in the bag. Nine months on the Last Route have transformed Wren Ashwick from bitter exile to capable courier. She knows every village, every path, every face along the way. She’s even started to think of it as home. Then First Frost arrives. The annual courier gathering brings reports, rankings, and scrutiny from Guild officials who see routes as numbers on a ledger. For Wren, it means defending the Last Route against budget-minded bureaucrats—and facing a rival courier who questions whether anything she’s built truly matters. Wren has never been good at ...

The Wheel of the Year Explained: The Eight Sacred Sabbats of Pagan and Wiccan Tradition BOOK FIVE: Litha Explained: Summer Solstice Magic, Solar Power, Fire Rituals, and Pagan Celebrations of the Sun at Its Peak is a deep, immersive exploration of one of the most powerful festivals in the Wheel of the Year. Celebrated at the height of summer, Litha honors the Sun at its zenith, when light, vitality, and creative force reach their fullest expression. Written for pagans, witches, and spiritually curious readers, this book blends historical insight, mythic symbolism, and practical ritual ...

Last summer in Aspen... Rhea fell in love with Parker Sherwin while on scholarship at the Aspen Musical Festival. But her dreams were shattered one week before their wedding, when a forest fire claimed Parker’s life. Unable to leave the one place she’d found happiness, Rhea remains in Aspen and struggles through the winter as a “local.” Enrolled for her second summer at the Aspen Music School, Rhea meets Trey Michaels, an outfitter, but she insists on remaining faithful to Parker, whose spirit jogs at her side during her daily runs along the Rio Grande Trail. She doesn’t dare tell...

Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is far deadlier than fiction...

When a rival baker turns up dead in a vat of lemon curd at William's Cove's most anticipated baking competition, the contest comes to a very abrupt end — and so does any hope Fanny Fairchild had of a quiet weekend. The victim wasn't exactly beloved in the local baking community, and word is spreading fast that someone had been stealing recipes right out from under her competitors. With a killer loose among the whisks and piping bags, and Buttercream hot on a trail only he can follow, Fanny finds herself in the middle of a mystery where the sweetest competitors turn out to have the ...

Rescued from a poverty-stricken mountain life, Charity Royall lives as ward to Lawyer Royall in the small New England town of North Dormer. However, Charity is bored by her job at the local library and feels thwarted by the order that governs her society–until a young man named Lucius Harney plucks her from the drabness of North Dormer life.

Here is the exciting culmination of Ali Smith's celebrated Seasonal Quartet, a series of stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories.

For fans of Jodi Picoult and Anna Quindlen, comes an “astonishingly profound…exquisitely written drama” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You) about a husband and a wife, a missing child, and the complicated family secrets that can derail even the best of...

Feel the heat of the Beltane bonfires and the pulse of ancient drums? As the Wheel of the Year turns to May 1st, the air itself thrums with the potent energy of Beltane, the great Celtic fire festival celebrating summer's return, fierce fertility, and vibrant life. Are you ready to truly connect with this powerful Sabbat? Beltane: Lighting the Summer Flame is your companion to understanding and celebrating this ancient Pagan festival. Journey beyond simple definitions and explore the rich of Beltane traditions – from its deep Celtic history and mythology, including the lore of fairies and...

A BBC journalist sets off to make the programme he hopes will uncover the truth behind his father's life. As the interviews are recorded and each layer is peeled away, the story becomes more complex than he could ever have imagined. At each step, he moves closer to meeting the recluse of the title and setting off a chain of events that will have his life spiraling out of control. "A charming and delightfully well-written novel tells the tale of extreme artistry and romance in the drug-fueled turbulent style of the late sixties rock scene. A tale for the ages, wonderfully wrought." Amazon ...

One fake date. One small-town festival. One chance to turn sparks into forever. Scarlet The plan was simple: win the Sweetwater Summer’s End hot sauce contest, impress a few key investors, and prove to my grandmother I’m ready to take over the family business. What I didn’t plan? Small-town gossip running hotter than my habanero honey glaze after I showed up solo. Enter Burke Tate—quiet, steady, devastatingly handsome. He’s the type of man who calculates risks, not takes them… except now he’s agreeing to fake date me for the festival weekend to help me save face. But as we “...

Als die ehrgeizige Charlie während ihres Klassikradio-Praktikums unfreiwillig auf ein Rockfestival geschickt wird, ist sie mit den Eindrücken dort völlig überfordert. Aber dann lernt sie Levy mit seinem Eyeliner und den unzähligen Tattoos kennen. Durch seine charismatische, impulsive Art fühlt sie sich wie im freien Fall. Sie kann sich ganz den lauen Sommernächten, den Beats und dem Tanzen im Regen hingeben. Wieder im Alltag realisiert Charlie, dass zwischen ihr und Levy Welten liegen. Er wendet sich von ihr ab, nicht wissend, dass er einen Sturm an Gefühlen in ihr entfesselt hat.