Come Rain or Shine – Will You Be Mine? Emilian ist ein echt netter Kerl, das finden alle. Nur bei seiner Vorgesetzten Vienna zieht sein Charme leider gar nicht, regelmäßig straft sie ihn mit einem spitzen Kommentar ab. Ausgerechnet mit ihr muss Emilian nun eine Dating-App testen und vermarkten! Doch je enger die beiden zusammenarbeiten, desto heißer, aber auch vertrauensvoller werden die Chats. Zum ersten Mal kann sich Emilian einem anderen Menschen öffnen und seine schmerzvolle Kindheit offenbaren. Und auch Vienna erfährt nach langer Zeit wieder, wie schön es ist, sich bei einem Mann vorbehaltlos fallen zu lassen. Aber gerade als aus der heimlichen Büroaffäre mehr werden könnte, bricht die Vergangenheit in Emilians Leben ein. Er muss eine folgenschwere Entscheidung fällen, die nicht nur ihn und Vienna betrifft ... Tropes: Grumpy x Sunshine, Office Romance, Found Family

Come Rain or Shine – Will You Be Mine? Emilian ist ein echt netter Kerl, das finden alle. Nur bei seiner Vorgesetzten Vienna zieht sein Charme leider gar nicht, regelmäßig straft sie ihn mit einem spitzen Kommentar ab. Ausgerechnet mit ihr muss Emilian nun eine Dating-App testen und vermarkten! Doch je enger die beiden zusammenarbeiten, desto heißer, aber auch vertrauensvoller werden die Chats. Zum ersten Mal kann sich Emilian einem anderen Menschen öffnen und seine schmerzvolle Kindheit offenbaren. Und auch Vienna erfährt nach langer Zeit wieder, wie schön es ist, sich bei einem Mann vorbehaltlos fallen zu lassen. Aber gerade als aus der heimlichen Büroaffäre mehr werden könnte, bricht die Vergangenheit in Emilians Leben ein. Er muss eine folgenschwere Entscheidung fällen, die nicht nur ihn und Vienna betrifft ... Tropes: Grumpy x Sunshine, Office Romance, Found Family

Ali Hazelwood meets Dungeons & Dragons in this enemies-to-lovers fantasy academia romcom where rival grad student wizards are forced to work together without killing―or falling for―each other. Will they conjure love, or evoke chaos? Two rival wizards are about to find out. Sebastian Walsh: twenty-four. Grad student at Lesiara University in the Mageus of Evocation program. Human. The first of his family to go to college rather than the military (and it goes over at family get-togethers about as well as you’d think). Elethior Tourael: also twenty-four. Also a grad student, but in the far more inferior Mageus of Conjuration program. Half-elf. The latest in a long line of Touraels to grace the hallowed halls of Lesiara U (what would the world do if the Touraels ran out of rich douches to lead their magical weapons manufacturing empire?). ―and the other finalist for the Mageus Research Grant. Sebastian needs that grant to fund the last few months of research for his degree, after which he’ll get a job that actually helps people. He isn’t about to let anyone snatch this from him, least of all a snob who doesn’t even need the money because his family is loaded thanks to war profiteering. But there’s something worse than having a conceited academic nemesis steal grant money from you: you could be forced to work with him. Thio is secretive, broody, and his stunning biceps take up far too much shared lab space―but even as volatile as their partnership is, Sebastian just might find himself falling for his rival―and it could blow up his whole future.

With no memories of his past, eighteen-year-old Seren awakens in the forbidden Godless City held captive by a scientist. After a daring escape alongside a hired mercenary, Seren finds himself the target of a relentless pursuit by the Novem Council, the rulers of the city. Forced to flee, Seren sets out for his so-called homeland, Lumina, accompanied by the mercenary and a runaway princess from the sinister Sanguine Sisters. Their path is unexpectedly derailed, entwining Seren in the perilous fate of the princess. Determined to save her, he faces trials that unravel the fragments of his forgotten history. Meanwhile, as the Veil's barriers weaken, the corrupted realm between the Gods and humanity hangs in the balance. With the demons of the Veil threatening to take over the world, Seren realizes he may play a pivotal role. But first, he will have to confront his past—one that is darker than he could have ever imagined.

Yasmine is a red wolf girl stuck in rural Alabama. Her world is small: pick up shifts at the greasy late-night diner and endure her pack’s petty squabbles. She’s not good at being a wolf or being human, directionless in life and disconnected from her ancestors. Blessed by a century-old enchantment, the local red wolves have escaped extinction by blending into the human world. But with the old witches’ blessing wearing thin, the wolves face an uncertain future. An answer arrives in the form of an exiled blood witch whose magic is steeped in reckless grief. Kalta rides into town in her dead brother’s truck, prophecy following on her heels. Despite the danger Yasmine can smell swirling around the witch, a fated bond tangles their futures—and those of all the wolves. After an accident threatens the wolves’ secret, Yasmine has no choice but to join Kalta on the road, carving a path through the South’s backroads and hoping the magic brewing between them is enough to overcome their bloody pasts.

"What are you?" Lora whispers. "What are you?" The wolf echoes, stalking towards her until it is close enough that Lora has forgotten to be afraid. "What is anyone? It's not a polite question to ask." After a disastrous birthday ceremony and coming-of-age ritual gone wrong, Lora flees home, taking her new lycanthrope form for a test drive on the streets of Glenhurst, and hoping to prove her worth. When she answers a local job posting at random, Lora lands in the company of two other strangers: Nic and Art. Nic has sought redemption from his own past failings on his fiancé's family farm. When that security is threatened, he takes matters into his own hands, seeking out a connection from his sister's college days, who is rumored to have experience with magic blades and killing tyrants. Art longs for the past about as often as he longs to forget it, pouring his time into cooking, mutual aid efforts, bounty hunting gig work, and studying crosscosm theory (the idea of travel between worlds). This job will pay his rent, and, if he's lucky, not give him time to think about his trauma. The job? Enter the forest and eliminate the threat that's been causing townsfolk and travelers to go missing. But the woods are dark, and they have eaten adventurers before. When their pasts come back to haunt them, can the fledgling party survive?