Habiba Muktar and Badr El-Idrissi are a brilliant architectural “power duo” with one shared driving each other absolutely insane.Habiba builds walls with an architect's discipline. Badr lives to tear hers down, insisting her fiery presence is essential for the office ecosystem to function.Their carefully managed rivalry—one neither of them would ever dare call friendship—shatters when Habiba’s family attempts to force her into a disastrous marriage. One look at her fear was all it took for Badr to make a reckless, unforgettable choice.He marries her first. Suddenly, two rivals who never planned beyond their next argument are husband and wife.Thrown into a marriage built on panic, loyalty, and badly timed heroism, they must navigate the fallout of what they’ve done.As their lives intertwine, the distance they relied on begins to feel far less secure.And if rivalry was the only thing keeping them from crossing lines they were never meant to test, what happens when even that is gone?

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Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenager’s life. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law, Layla, gives birth. So desperate, that she has manifested a physical embodiment of her fear in the form of her imagined companion, Khawf, who haunts her every move in an effort to keep her safe. But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, Salama is torn between her loyalty to her country and her conviction to survive. Salama must contend with bullets and bombs, military assaults, and her shifting sense of morality before she might finally breathe free. And when she crosses paths with the boy she was supposed to meet one fateful day, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all. Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are—not a war, but a revolution—and decide how she, too, will cry for Syria’s freedom.

"Dear Ms. Pennigrim,Your unique services are requested by Master Marshall Merridon on August the eighteenth at eleven o’clock in the morning. Please arrive promptly.Sincerely,The Opulence Mansion Management" In a town beloved for its whimsy and magic, designer Alora Pennigrim possesses a peculiar imagination and the dream to purchase her own shop. Which is why a generous contract for the refurbishment of the enchanted Opulence Mansion couldn’t have arrived at a better time.It isn’t long, however, before she’s left wondering if achieving her dream should come with so many nightmares. Masked henchmen, memory-stealing wounds, and an intolerably attractive shopkeeper have since sullied her once charmed life. The dangerous combination divides her attention against a newfound she’s discovered something sinister seeping behind the mansion’s numbered doors.Poison has no place in her town, and Alora has never abandoned a difficult project before. But there are some things even her imagination cannot conceive, and this contract, whether she agrees or not, may just be the last one she’ll ever sign.For fans of Once Upon a Broken Heart and The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, Potions & Peculiarities is an Adult cozy fantasy novel that follows a designer from a charming town as she navigates a contract that might be too good to be true. A new series of interconnected standalones about love, enchantment, and happily ever afters.

From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Crane Among Wolves comes a warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly drawn together. As the dutiful second-eldest daughter of a poor family, society would have Haewon believe that her only hope of a decent life is to marry well. But during a time of rampant government censorship and book banning, she instead works as an illegal book transcriber in order to make a little extra money. It’s dangerous work, but she loves it―especially when she gets to transcribe the work of her favorite author, known as Black Lotus. When her older sister becomes smitten with a wealthy young gentleman, Haewon is roped into chaperoning them during their courtship. Which wouldn’t be so terrible... if it weren’t for the young man’s uptight and annoying best friend who also accompanies them. As the only son of a noble, Seojun has a lot expected of him. Wealth. Status. Respectability. Certainly not frivolous and often illicit activities such as reading fiction. But Seojun loves to do something even more scandalous: writing. He’s kept his work secret from his father and friends, but with each passing day, the pressure of being his father’s son and the dispiriting actions of the government make Seojun question the purpose of it all. The only thing keeping him going are the encouraging letters he receives from his transcriber, known only as Magpie. When his best friend falls hard for a girl of lower social status, Seojun finds himself forced to act as chaperone to the infatuated couple―along with the girl's younger sister, who is as irritating as she is judgmental. But as Haewon and Seojun spend more time together, they begin to suspect they may have judged each other too quickly...

Cornelius Shoemaker will make one last pair of shoes this Yule, and then he is shuttering his doors. He can't keep making shoes no one wants to buy. But when Gwen, a beautiful fairy, picks his shop to spend her Yuletide nights in, everything changes. The Princess and the Shoemaker is a short tale of love, family, and sweetpunk magic, where mistletoe kisses hold the promise of happily-ever-after.The Princess and the Shoemaker is a cozy, closed-door, holiday romantasy inspired by the fairy tale "The Elves and the Shoemaker." While this is a standalone novella, readers familiar with Smoke, Steel, & Ivy will notice some returning characters.