The Starfish Blessing

Send us Fan MailIn Tudor Yorkshire, Eleanor Whitcombe has lost everything: her brothers to the King's headsman, her name to attainder, her fortune to the Crown. Alone in a crumbling manor, she waits out a winter that seems eager to finish her. Then a scream at the gates brings a beautiful, dying stranger with hunters only hours behind. Saving him might cost her everything she has left.

Send us Fan MailBellamy Thorne has always been restless and always heard things others didn't. Raised by his grandmother in a quiet English village, he's been warned since childhood to stay away from his great-uncle's abandoned garden behind its towering iron gate. But the dreams keep calling, and on one sleepless autumn night, the latch gives way beneath his hand. What waits inside is nothing the village stories prepared him for.

Send us Fan MailOn the misty shores of Makah land in Washington, seventeen-year-old Talon watches his grandmother return stranded starfish to the sea and dismisses the effort as pointless, until her answer reshapes how he sees the world. That night, something extraordinary finds him at the water's edge. What follows spans a decade of love, a life devoted to the ocean, and a growing sense that the sea has been calling his family for far longer than he ever knew.

Send us Fan MailThree months after her mother's funeral, Ava Martin carries a stopped pocket watch into a narrow Parisian clock shop she's never noticed before. The horologist, Grayson Bellamy, opens the jammed case with ease and recognizes something in the engraving she can't explain. Behind a hidden panel in his workshop lies a room full of clocks that run backward — and Grayson claims they do more than just keep counterclockwise time. 

Send us Fan MailLouanne presses marigold seeds into the soil and tries not to think about the doctor's words — damaged tube, other options. She and Marco have tried everything: timing charts, acupuncture, IVF. All of it failed. Now there's one frozen embryo left, the one the clinic called a poor-quality prospect. In the garden, things grow when she tends them with patience. She's learning to extend that faith to the rest of her life.

Send us Fan MailIrene has always heard what no one else can — the songs inside seashells. Her grandmother called it a gift and never explained why. Now Gran is gone, and Irene walks the shoreline alone, collecting shells that hum and whisper. Then she finds a conch unlike any other, warm to the touch and swirling with impossible color. When she holds it to her ear, a voice speaks her name. 

Send us Fan MailThe Magnolia's GiftAva runs a small flower shop on Main Street, arranging wedding bouquets while unpaid bills pile up. Her son Micah has just been accepted to Vanderbilt, and she has no idea how to pay for it. Then one autumn evening, her late mother's magnolia tree does something impossible. The next morning, a stranger walks into her shop with an extraordinary offer.The Secret RecipeIn the coldest winter Chicago has seen in decades, a widowed laundress sorts through abandoned sheets to find coins for milk. Instead, she finds a leather-worn cookbook with gold lettering. Its recipes call for ingredients like patience and faith alongside flour and salt. That night, with barely enough to dust a countertop, she follows the simplest recipe in the book. 

Send us Fan MailAfter finding her fiancé in bed with another woman, Emmeline Roche ducks into a bookshop she's never noticed on a street she's walked a hundred times. The man inside knows her name. He hands her a velvet-bound book with blank pages and a silver clasp shaped like a crescent moon. When she opens it at home, the pages are no longer empty. They show her a future she never imagined, with a man she's only just met.

Send us Fan MailWhen her sister Lyra vanishes, Soraya disguises herself as a courtesan and infiltrates the Crimson Court — the underground sanctuary of the vampire order she suspects took her. But Lord Aric Nerezza sees through her mask from the first moment, and the dangerous attraction crackling between them threatens to unravel everything. Soraya came for answers. What she finds instead is a trap centuries in the making, baited with the one person she'd die to save.

Send us Fan MailCordelia has ruled the seas for centuries, her magic flowing through every current and tide. Then a storm sweeps a mortal captain overboard, and she breaks the most sacred law of her kind to save him. Now haunted by his lute music drifting down through the waves, she seeks out a banished ocean god to strike a terrible bargain — her voice and a body that walks in constant agony, in exchange for three lunar cycles on land to win his heart.