Hannah Swensen thought she'd finally discovered the recipe for a perfect life. But her sometime beau Norman Rhodes tosses a surprise ingredient into the mix when he phones to tell her he's just bought a house from local drugstore clerk Rhonda Scharf - which he plans to tear down in order to build the dream home he and Hannah designed. It seems the plan has been cooking for quite some time, and Hannah is shocked - especially since her ring finger is still very much bare. The good news is that the soon-to-be-torn-down house is full of antiques - and Norman has given Hannah and her mother first dibs. They uncover some gorgeous old furniture, a patchwork quilt ... and Rhonda Scharf's dead body. A little more sleuthing turns up the half-eaten remains of a very special dinner for two - and one of The Cookie Jar's famous lemon meringue pies. Now it's up to Hannah to turn up the heat - and get busy tracking down the clues. Starting in her very own kitchen.

It was supposed to be a one night stand, but fate had another plan. When Lyric Blair hopped on a plane to attend her favorite KPOP band’s concert in Las Vegas, the last thing she expected was to have a one-night stand with the hot Korean rapper, Jae-Mi. KPOP superstar, Jae-Mi, has worked hard to get where he is. He has given his blood, sweat, and tears to the entertainment industry. Now that he has reached a level of success beyond his wildest dreams - he won’t let anything or anyone stand in his way.

America meets K-drama in this rollercoaster plot with a fresh take on romance and what it means to be family. When Sydney is sent to Seoul to live with a family she’s never met, she encounters unexpected chemistry with their son, but must fight to unravel the mystery of why she was sent away. Will she be able to get home before it’s too late, or will Korea turn out to be just the thing she needed? California teen Sydney Moore doesn’t know why she’s been shipped off to spend her senior year in Korea with the wealthy godparents she barely knows. What was her mom thinking? The Kims are never even home. And their son, the guy that’s supposed to help Sydney adjust to school at the elite Daeshim Academy, is totally MIA. As soon as Sydney can scrape together enough for a ticket, she’s flying home. Korean chaebol Kim Chul knows his parents care more about company shares than they do about him. So why did they dump some American girl in his lap senior year? They must have an angle; they always do. The best way to end their schemes is to send her packing. Chul’s game plan changes when his rival, Gun, starts hanging around. Sydney thinks he’s a nice guy, but Chul knows Gun has a dark secret. Determined to protect Sydney, Chul decides she needs a boyfriend—fast. And who better than him? But there’s a problem: Sydney already saved his contact as Loser. Things get complicated when Sydney’s mom cuts off contact. As Sydney begins to uncover the devastating reason she was sent away, she’s even more determined to get home. But leaving isn’t so easy, especially when you’ve already started to fall for Korea.

Love was never part of the experiment. Brilliant, stubborn, and endlessly curious, Yoon Ha-rin has one to teach artificial intelligence how to feel. But when she's assigned to work under Kang Min-joon, Seoul's most exacting robotics director and her old academic rival, her perfectly coded world starts to glitch. He believes in logic. She believes in intuition. Together, they're forced to build a robot that can understand human emotion, while struggling to ignore the unpredictable emotions sparking between them. As long nights turn into quiet laughter and stolen moments, Ha-rin realizes that love might be the one formula she can't control. But when a mysterious data breach puts both their research and their reputations at risk, trust becomes the ultimate test. Can two brilliant minds who built the world's most empathetic machine learn to open their own hearts? Set against the neon glow of modern Seoul, The Code of Attraction blends humor, science, and slow-burn chemistry in a story about rivalry, connection, and the beautiful chaos between logic and love. Perfect for fans of The Love Hypothesis, Business Proposal, and Start-Up, This K-romance proves that even in an age of technology, emotion still writes the most powerful code.A heartwarming STEM romcom for fans of The Love Hypothesis and Business Proposal.

Left RailA K-Romance Novel by Hana Seo She plays the violin to survive the noise of Seoul.He saves lives to silence the noise inside his own heart. When street performer Yoon Ha-rin and exhausted medical resident Han Jae-min cross paths under the city lights, neither expects a story that will rewrite both of their lives. What begins with a single song in a crowded street turns into a quiet, unforgettable love that tests every rule they’ve lived by. She’s a free spirit who believes music can heal anything.He’s a man who’s forgotten what it means to be healed. Between hospital night shifts, rooftop conversations, and riverside performances, they learn to balance art and duty, grief and grace. But when Jae-min earns a life-changing fellowship in Boston, and Ha-rin is offered a breakthrough chance at the Busan Festival, they must decide what love looks like across oceans, time zones, and unspoken fears. Left Rail is a slow-burn K-drama–style romance about choosing connection over distance and finding home in another person’s rhythm. Set against the emotional heartbeat of modern Seoul, it blends music, medicine, and the quiet ache of long-distance love into a story as tender as a melody and as honest as a scar. If you Emotional, character-driven Korean romance novels The healing warmth of Hospital Playlist, Crash Landing on You, and Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha Soulful, realistic love stories that linger after the last page …then Left Rail will stay with you long after the music fades.

From the author of The Bright Years, the story of April and Leo, a couple on the brink of collapse. When their house goes up in flames, family secrets and thorny histories emerge as they are forced to decide what is worth salvaging. When April and Leo’s house burns in the middle of the night, they escape with their two young children and the quiet knowledge that the fire is not the only thing threatening their family. They retreat to April’s childhood home in Dallas, where her spirited parents and siblings provide both comfort and complication. As the family reckons with the aftermath—grief, guilt, logistics, and memories scorched and intact—the fire exposes the cracks already forming in April and Leo’s marriage. The novel unfolds in alternating perspectives: from April, who feels the crushing weight of motherhood, marriage, and self-blame; from Leo, a high school history teacher shaped by a lonely, fractured childhood; from Deb, April’s generous and no-nonsense mother who has to contend with her husband’s recent Alzheimer’s diagnosis; and from flashbacks that trace April and Leo’s relationship from its earliest days of connection to the devastating decisions that led them here. A family saga suffused with humor, longing, and heartbreak, The Burning Side is about what we inherit and what we choose, about forgiveness and the ache of being known. It is, above all, about the meaning of home and the costs of long love.