A shooting star is no fairy godparent.The matter-manipulating alien who answers June’s wish for love is seeking contestants for an interstellar escape room through which it hopes to study emotion. Per the agreement, if she can beat five others in a series of tarot-themed fantasy trials, the star will attempt to grant her wish. However, if she fails to escape, it will keep her to study indefinitely.There are worse fates than living in a magical world, and June is confident in her puzzle-solving skills—until she realizes she’s given the star incentive to fail her by wagering her freedom.Luck evades her at every turn and the only contestant with any compassion, a handsome stranger with no memories, may not be a contestant at all. There are signs he’s as fake as the trials—just another of the star’s manipulations.Too bad June is falling for him and he won’t survive without her help.

A filthy, funny, feel-good monster romance with too many tentacles. Dr. Poppy Flynn, twenty-seven, is a sex psychologist with a humiliating secret: she's studied eight years of human orgasms and experienced approximately none worth remembering. She's done blaming herself. Maybe it's the species. So she signs up for a year in Hearthpetal, a dimension where pleasure is literally holy. Celibate tentacle priests dedicate their lives to studying, controlling, and transcending it. Poppy is here to collect data, not throw herself at the first set of suction cups that look like they could slurp her soul out through her lady portal. Father Calder ruins that plan immediately. He's the temple's golden heir, bound by vows of detachment and biology that's even crueler. Octopi get just one mating cycle. Full completion triggers semelparity and a death cascade. Which is unfortunate, because Poppy is very much in the room. Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Tropes: Academic heroine. Forbidden love. Forced proximity. Grumpy/sunshine. Touch-starved MMC. Caretaking. Worship kink. Fated-but-doomed mates. HEA guaranteed. Octopus survival rates may vary. CW: Plentiful explicit scenes with tentacles and other creative monster anatomy.

ClaraInvisibility has been my go-to survival skill since childhood. So I hide behind my thick glasses and heavy fringe, working as a teaching assistant at the exclusive Molton Prep, happy with my seven-year-old pupils and studiously avoiding their posh parents. My one secret indulgence? Watching the gorgeous but wildly intimidating Lord Sterling sweep into school to collect his son.I’m ridiculous. Not only is Rafe completely terrifying, but he’s a high-profile barrister destined to be the UK’s youngest ever judge. A girl with a background like mine should stay out of his way.RafeHow dare the school insist that I can’t meet the Miss Clara, who told my son his brain “works differently”? Nobody refuses a meeting with me. But when I bulldoze my way past the school rules to confront her, I’m shocked by how much this shy woman affects me. She might be too scared to make eye contact, but when it comes to defending my son, she’s surprisingly fierce. And after I convince her to work as my son’s tutor and she gradually stops flinching in my presence, my obsession with her only grows.As a rule, I get what I want, and after seeing glimpses of her humour, kind heart and surprising strength, I want Clara Morris with an intensity I’ve never felt before. But I should be careful what I wish for, because Clara Morris is not who she says she is.In my arrogance, I push her away, not realising that her fear runs deeper than simple shyness, not seeing the danger she’s in until it’s too late…LAW MAKER is an opposites attract, billionaire, single father, contemporary romance, perfect for fans of intense, protective heroes and heroines overcoming trauma to find their happily ever after.Content warning: this book features scenes of domestic violence.