Comfort Reads

A New York Times Bestseller! The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library, for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of a little encouragement. Named by The Washington Post as one of the best...

Perfect for fans of Pamela Kelley and Rachel Hanna. Escape to the beautiful British coast and fall in love with the little town of Pretty Beach. If you love stories about friendship, small towns, and community, Pretty Beach is just the place for you. Meet the lovely Sallie Broadchurch and follow along as she brings back to life and renovates an unloved old boathouse. Sallie, pretty, forty and down on her luck arrives in Pretty Beach very much looking for a new life by the sea. In the old boathouse she's inherited she's not unhappy to find the neighbour Ben Chalmers - he might just be the ...

A 2025 Audie Award winner for Best Fantasy! This program is read by the author. "Read by the author, a talented and animated fantasy narrator who also voiced Legends, the book presents a colorful cast of new and familiar characters that is sure to ensorcell and delight listeners." —Booklist...

A feel-good M/M cozy romance with fake dating, one slightly demonic orange cat and a slow burn worth swooning over! Sage Ballard needs to rescue his reputation. Kit Forrest just wants to keep his beloved local bookshop from shutting down. All they have to do is convince the world they're madly...

The delightfully romantic story continues with Summer weddings, new friendships and romance in Pretty Beach… delve back into the next part of this cosy little town by the sea, guaranteed to brighten your day and leave you pondering a new life on the coast. Who doesn't love a good wedding, or indeed more than one? Throw in an utterly gorgeous setting, a plethora of heart-warming characters and a dash of intrigue to curl up on the sofa with and dream. ♥♥♥ When dreams really do come true… Get ready to fall in love with Pretty Beach all over again this summer, where the sweeping, ...

Darcy came to Hertfordshire to find Bingley a wife. He found Elizabeth instead— Fitzwilliam Darcy has a plan. His friend Bingley needs a wife, and the eldest Bennet daughter is perfect: beautiful, amiable, and appropriately situated in the Hertfordshire countryside. All Darcy needs to do is engineer their attachment while keeping his own attention firmly fixed on business rather than a certain impertinent second daughter with muddy petticoats and devastating wit. Elizabeth Bennet has a plan too. Get Jane married, stay comfortably redundant, and avoid the matrimonial market forever. She ...

Tom & Sarah – The Beginning Book One in the Flyover County series Tom and Sarah thought they had life figured out—good jobs, a comfortable home, and a clear path forward. Then, almost overnight, it all slips away. When Tom’s construction company goes under and Sarah is laid off, their future turns uncertain. A phone call about the death of Tom’s grandfather sends them back to the Midwest—and to the small town Tom knew as a boy. There, in the quiet rhythms of rural life, they discover something they didn’t know they were missing: community, family, and the chance to begin again. ...

A Pretty Beach Collection. 3 Pretty Beach full-length books. Perfect for fans of Pamela Kelley and Rachel Hanna. Escape to the beautiful British coast and fall in love with the little town of Pretty Beach. If you love stories about friendship, small towns, and community, Pretty Beach is just the place for you. Polly Babbington is the new voice in romance fiction. ‘If you want to get lost in a whole new cosy world by the sea, with gorgeous female characters, community, and a small-town British town by the sea, you’re in the right place.’ Welcome to the Pollyverse - small town, ...

My name is Ellie, but in my Amish community a lot of grown men call me Madame Eleanor or The Amish Temptress. In private, of course. You see, I was nineteen when I first snuck out to meet a guy, and realized how much fun it is to fulfill a repressed man’s desires. Ever since then, I've been taking care of the men’s needs in my community. Giving them the space to satisfy their unmentionable cravings is what I enjoy doing most. It certainly makes my life more interesting around here. Bishop John Fisher is stressed. It’s tough being the leader of the Amish church. The one that leads the ...

He's a fox spirit who answers to no one. She's an innkeeper running on stubbornness and her mother's recipes. The building between them has plans for them both. Set two centuries before the Amazon bestselling The Inn at Thistledown Hollow, this is the story of how the Lavender Fox Inn found its first guardian — and how its guardian found home. Kip broke into the wrong garden. Now Rosemary's offering him a job, her shortbread is doing something suspicious to his heart, and the inn keeps unlatching doors he didn't ask to walk through. Ten weeks. That's the deal. Help with the spring season,...

What if Elizabeth didn't meet Darcy until Wickham eloped with Lydia that fateful summer? Thus begins Tracking Mr. Wickham... In this vagary, Elizabeth meets Darcy while in London helping her father locate her missing sister Lydia and that dreadful Mr. Wickham. Darcy is tracking Wickham for his own reasons, but when he meets Elizabeth, he can't help but feel something he's never felt before. On their journey to find Wickham and Lydia, will Darcy and Elizabeth also find true love? Read on to see how ODC finds their HEA in Hailey Jones's sweet Pride & Prejudice romance, Tracking Mr. Wickham.

He’s a billionaire. I’m a bartender. I never would’ve guessed he’d be interested in someone like me. But when he leans across my bar and tells me to call him Daddy? Well, what boy can say no to that? Billionaire's Bartender Baby is a short, steamy, instalove romance featuring a bossy billionaire, a sassy bartender, and enough sweet begging to make even the coldest Daddy melt. HEA, no cheating, no cliffhanger.

The Perfect Uplifting Gift for Anyone Needing a Dose of Hope and Comfort Discover a collection of heartwarming short stories designed to brighten even the darkest days. "It's Going to Be a Good Day" offers 25 carefully crafted tales inspired by true events, featuring beautiful full-color illustrations that bring each story to life. These accounts of everyday miracles, unexpected kindness, and gentle wisdom remind us of the beauty that exists all around us. The Ideal Gift for: Anyone searching for a great Feel Good book. Someone on their healing journey A loved one in assisted living Friends...

Elizabeth rescues a puppy George Wickham abandoned, and Darcy falls first… helplessly, with wet sleeves and soap in his hair. Beau isn’t any ordinary spaniel. He tugs Elizabeth’s skirts as she dances with Mr. Wickham while Mr. Darcy watches with hearts in his eyes. When the puppy leads Elizabeth on a wild chase into the hedgerows, it is Darcy, not Wickham, who kneels in the mud to coax the frightened creature to safety. Elizabeth becomes the worst puppy owner in Hertfordshire—dropping scraps from the table, allowing Beau to soil his silky fur with mud and other unmentionables, and, ...

Step into the magic and wonder of The Forest of Enchantments, where shadows of the past melt away and new love awaits... Olive flees a cruel marriage and finds sanctuary in the enchanted Whispering Woods. Creating a home for herself in a forgotten caravan adorned with climbing roses, she builds a cozy haven filled with the aroma of simmering berry preserves, foraged mushrooms, and the gentle purring of her feline companion. Olive's peaceful existence takes an unexpected turn when she meets Roen, a rugged woodsman with his own painful past. As they slowly open their hearts to each other, ...

"Even nonfantasy listeners will enjoy hanging out at the intersection of coffeehouse culture and Dungeons & Dragons, and hope that Baldree fails to shake his new writing habit." - The Seattle Times This program is read by the author. The much-beloved BookTok sensation, Travis Baldree's Legends &...

She woke up in a garden with no memory, no name, and hands that know things her mind doesn't. Six weeks ago, Nell Alder was someone else. She has no idea who. All she has is an instinct for animals she can't explain, a town that doesn't ask where she's from, and an empty building at the edge of an ancient, sentient forest that seems ― for reasons of its own ― to be paying attention. She's going to turn the building into an animal rescue. She's going to earn her place in Briarhold, one season at a time. She's going to discover that a three-legged crow called Spite has opinions about ...

She arranged his mother's birthday luncheon. Then she found the will they hid from her. For fourteen years, Laurel Lindholm has been useful. She knows which relatives cannot sit together, which florist Evelyn Lindholm trusts, and which tone her husband Conrad uses when he is delivering his mother's decision as if it is neutral information. So when Conrad brings home a sale packet for the family lake house and asks Laurel to sign before Evelyn's luncheon, Laurel recognizes the trap. The Lindholms have already planned the room, the witnesses, the photographer, and her agreement. But inside ...

He's sworn to the suns. Celibate. Untouchable. She makes him want to burn. Tamsin came to study Khorani religion. Observe, document, leave. She didn't expect the Sun Priest assigned as her guide to look at her like she's a revelation he can't explain. Sorek has served the twin suns his entire life. He's never touched another being. Never wanted to. Then he catches her scent. Now he can't pray. Can't meditate. Can't stop imagining what she'd taste like, sound like, feel like beneath his shaking hands. His vows demand celibacy. His body demands her. The law is clear: touch her, and he loses ...

Skyla Maxwell has a plan for everything. Her career. Her future. Even the exact kind of boyfriend she’s supposed to have. So when her sister announces a week-long destination wedding at a Colorado dude ranch, Skyla hires a professional plus-one to survive the family scrutiny. What she gets instead is Eli Crawford, a cowboy with calloused hands, a quiet smile, and no idea he’s supposed to be pretending. Stranded at a remote ranch with spotty cell service and no backup options, Skyla and Eli strike a deal. He’ll play the devoted boyfriend for seven days of wedding chaos. She’ll keep ...