Cozy Reader

You don't choose the book. The book chooses you… 'A book I was sorry to finish.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A timeless story that emphasizes the healing and transformative power of books.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Long ago, a bookshop was born – the beating heart of all those who find hope within the pages...

Spicy Cozy Omegaverse · Why Choose? · Small Town Romance · Found Family I was supposed to be part of a pack forever. Instead, I walked away. After watching my Alphas fall for someone else, I do the only thing my pride will allow — I unbond and leave. No drama. No begging. Just dignity and a very bruised heart. The last thing I’m looking for is another pack. But when I escape to a snowy small town to lick my wounds, I accidentally book a room at a charming bed and breakfast run by four Alphas. They don’t have an Omega. They don’t want one. (At least one of them doesn’t.) Jax is ...

He was forced to hang up his badge. Now, a kidnapping has raced into his retirement England, 1960’s. Former inspector Tom Ramsay is taking advantage of having to step down. Invalided after getting shot in the line of duty, the plain-speaking man adopts a border collie and gets down to the serious business of hiking the scenic countryside of his ancestry. But after hearing over the radio about a missing local, the fifty-five-year-old ex-cop is shocked when a pleasant walk brings him face-to-face with the victim fleeing her captors. With the young woman reported as a runaway and no ransom ...

Life has a way of changing your path--and Claire Karadec certainly didn't plan on a fork in the road in her forties. From New York Times bestselling author Courtney Walsh comes a witty, warm, and uplifting novel about second chances, found family, and the courage it takes to become...

A tragic family betrayal. A mysterious room filled with secrets. A man with a dream. Family…however close or distantly connected…is still family. And no one knows that better than the many members of the McAdams family. David McAdams was at best a distant cousin in the vast and wide-arching depth of the McAdams family tree. And within their small, yet limited community, he’d always believed it was a somewhat generous description. Fortunately for him, Drew McAdams, one of the current trustees over the McAdams Family Trust, had never worried overly much about family connections and how ...

The witnesses agree on what they saw. Sherlock Holmes does not. Twenty-three-year-old Eleanor Vale is only days away from gaining control of her inheritance when she disappears from a closely watched London house. The evidence seems impossible. Witnesses saw her enter the drawing room dressed for travel. No one saw her leave. A letter suggests she fled willingly. Her family fears scandal. The police see little reason to suspect anything more sinister. But at 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes notices what everyone else has overlooked. The witnesses did not truly see Eleanor Vale. They saw a...

When you lose your way in life, the Elsewhere Express just might find you. Step on board the train that may take you to your life’s purpose in this wistful, Ghibli-esque fantasy from the bestselling author of Water Moon. “A delicately layered dream of a book that glimmers with the promise of...

• Contemporary-language adaptation for smoother reading • Faithful to the clues, humor, and village intrigue • Clean chapter layout for easy navigation Life in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead runs on parish politics, polite rivalry, and the unstoppable force of local gossip—until the notoriously difficult Colonel Protheroe is found shot dead in the vicar’s study. The vicar, who can’t help noticing how many people openly wished the colonel gone, is pulled into a knot of contradictory timelines, private grudges, and carefully kept secrets. As witnesses provide statements that ...

The Tower on Wren Lane (A Ravenswood Hollow Mystery – Book 1) Tucked into the fog-draped folds of the Dandenong Ranges, Ravenswood Hollow is the kind of mountain town that welcomes outsiders warmly — provided they don't look too closely beneath the surface. Tansy Gray has built a quiet life here, running a tarot and astrology studio on Wren Lane, finding purpose in the particular art of helping people say the true things they haven't managed to say anywhere else. Her only partner in this endeavour is Marmalade - an extraordinarily opinionated ginger cat who has strong views about which ...

A spooky yet heartwarming adventure about one girl's journey into the land of the undead, and the unexpected family she finds along the way. Perfect for fans of Nevermoor and the hit series Wednesday. On Halloween, it is always wise to expect the unexpected, but no amount of planning could have...

Tamsin Honeysett has finally chosen Bellweather. Honeysett & Wren is hers to keep, the old ward beneath the bookshop is stable, and life on Bellweather Lane is beginning to feel almost ordinary. There are roof repairs to arrange, customers to serve, tea to drink, and a new relationship with Nathaniel Wren that Tamsin is quietly learning not to overthink. Then a battered book of Bellweather folktales opens by itself. At midnight, new words begin appearing in its margins. At first, the messages seem harmless—strange predictions about broken cups and small events that come true with ...

Cliques clash and sparks fly in this delightfully fast-paced read that’s part fluffy rom-com, part murder mystery with a (literal) witch hunt—the perfect pick for Wednesday fans. Pretty, popular, and a total witch, Embry Woodcross is queen bee at Raven’s Head School for the Magically...

A tapestry of joyful and startling interconnected stories that celebrate how people from all across America cope with adversity and unexpected changes in a confusing world—from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg once said...

A debut novel to charm all readers, that shows beyond all doubt that it's books, along with love, that make the world go round. It all began with a correspondence between two quite different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy from the small town of Broken Wheel...

Tamsin Honeysett came home to settle an inheritance. She did not expect the inheritance to have feathers, opinions, and a talent for withholding information. After the death of her aunt, Tamsin returns to Bellweather and takes possession of Honeysett & Wren, a crooked secondhand bookshop filled with dusty shelves, old secrets, and Pipwick, a raven who seems determined to decide whether she deserves to stay. Then Tamsin discovers her aunt’s unfinished spellwork hidden behind a loose shelf and learns that the shop is protected by an ancient ward woven through memory, care, and the people ...

Family, friends, an unexpected sisterhood, the magic of new beginnings...mothers, daughters, brothers and sisters, sons and cousins...all finding their inner strength, facing life’s unexpected challenges, and sometimes starting over after tragedy and heartbreak, and every once in a while...finding the one true love of a lifetime. Everyone has a story... Amanda’s legacy was simple and unbelievably complicated...her sons were determined to make it happen exactly as she wanted. Hannah was distraught and in a downward spiral after her father’s death...her cousin Patricia understood but ...

Could a witch hunt happen again in Salem? New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader Brunonia Barry returns to Salem with this spellbinding new thriller, a complex brew of suspense, seduction and murder. When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night, Salem's chief of police...

The third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facing their most daunting challenge yet: preventing the murder of the imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Someone is trying to kill Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Esteemed aunt of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy...

Caleb and Jed return from their mission that took them to the other side of the globe, but not everything is the same as it was before they left. Anderson and Danny’s new project brings another unexpected visitor to the Mae’s hidden valley. And Barrett is once again following Joshua up the same hill the two of them climbed during their many long hikes in search of the castle, but this time it’s not quite the same and for a completely different reason. Julie Engstrom didn’t think twice when she bought the small ghost town of Mae’s Second Chance. It wasn't a completely emotional ...

When Miriam Hall arrives in Bellweather for a temporary archive job, she expects three quiet weeks, a furnished room, and a train home at the end. Marlowe House has other ideas. The newly restored lodging house has always been known for making people comfortable. A warmer blanket appears before anyone asks. A favorite chair shifts toward the light. Forgotten preferences seem to linger in the walls. But when the house begins mistaking Miriam for her grandmother—and treating an old family history as a prediction of where Miriam belongs—its welcome becomes something far more complicated. ...