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SBA Sign Ups 7/29-8/4

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On the menu today...

  • Romance (Sports, Small Town, Sapphic, Workplace, Mafia, Dark, Criminal)
  • Fantasy (Adventure, Dark, Romantasy)

Romance

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JASPREET:

Vancouver. Home. The scent of cardamom and cinnamon, the promise of my family's café reborn – that's what I needed after years of putting everyone else first. But then he walked back in. Vijay. My childhood best friend, now a world-famous shadow of the boy I knew. We're strangers, tangled in a past I thought I'd buried. And to make things worse, I’m engaged to someone safe, someone expected. But he stirs up everything I thought I’d settled, makes me question if ‘settled’ is what I truly want. I’m not the girl who left anymore. I’m stronger, I’m different, and I’m determined to find my own way, even if it means facing the ghost of what we were.

VIJAY:

The roar of the engine, the flash of the spotlight – that's my life. But it's empty. Jaspreet. She's here, but she's not mine. Not anymore. The girl I pushed away, the one I never stopped thinking about, is engaged. Engaged. The word burns. My jealousy is a fire I can’t control. I thought I could bury my feelings, but seeing her again… it’s like ripping open an old wound. I know I messed up, I know I pushed her away. But I can’t lose her again. I won't. She was mine, and will always BE mine.

Blurb coming soon. Tropes: Second Chance, Small Town, Country Music Star/Cowboy, High School Sweethearts.

Marine Biologist Mia dreamed of something more—so when a job offer from a remote island marine conservation centre arrives, she jumps at the chance. With a new home, new role as lead biologist, and her girlfriend Tash beside her, it feels like life has finally fallen into place.

But even paradise isn’t perfect.

When a journalist twists her words into a divisive headline, the small-town trust she’s built begins to unravel. Forced to lay low while the storm passes, she turns inward, until her girlfriend Tash reminds her that she needs to breathe, and spend some time back in nature, doing what she loves. It’s shared chips on a dock, windblown sketches, and the slow, surprising pull of something magical beginning.

"I just want to be single and crochet."

Since the passing of her grandmother and being dumped by her ex in the same year. Heartbroken Anylee Smith has been focused on one thing.

Becoming the best Crochet Fashion Designer. With the acceptance of having her designs displayed on the biggest runway in the world in the Virgin Islands, her dreams are on the tips of her fingers. But when one of Anylee's models cancels at the last minute, leaving her out of compliance with show rules, she struggles to find a model to fill in.

With her ex, Santoro Reeves, celebrating his birthday in the Virgin Islands, the last thing they expected was to be reunited. Desperate to stay in the show, Anylee settles for Santoro to be her model, based on the expectation of a few rules to keep her head focused on the show and clear of Santoro. But with Santoro breaking the rules, she tries her hardest to keep their relationship strictly professional. But with Santoro back in the picture, Anylee questions if her focus can stay on the show.

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Maxim Orlov is running out of time. At 38 years old, he’s spent the last decade trying to turn the Orlovs into a respectable crime family, but if he doesn’t make an heir, and quick, his horrid cousin is the next in line. With two failed engagements under his belt, Maxim is starting to feel desperate.

Meanwhile, Mary Morelli is floundering. As the youngest daughter and top enforcer of the Morelli crime family, Mary is a force to be reckoned with, but she’s beginning to crumble under the weight of trying to keep her sisters’ growing families safe. In a fit of anxiety, Mary comes up with the perfect solution: marry the Russian. The calculated union will be mutually beneficial, offering protection and power both ways, and conveniently passionless. To cement the deal, she vows to him that she will never, ever fall in love with him.

Maxim has been watching Mary for months, both fascinated and thrilled by her. A no-feelings-attached marriage to Mary Morelli is like a dream, but keeping his heart neutral proves harder than he expected as she worms her way under his skin and into his life. Can their marriage remain a business deal without feelings getting in the way?

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Blurb coming soon...
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Tropes:

  • One Vigilante Group - Five Powerful Women
  • Billionaire Hero in search of Vengeance for his sister
  • Fighter Heroine
  • Touch HIM and D**
  • They work together to find her sister's r*pists
  • Female Rage
  • Spicy
  • Dual POV
  • Found Family
  • Female Friendships
  • Diverse Cast of Characters

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June knew more than most about the dark underside of her city and the ringleaders of the malicious circus. Her role as an FBI agent made sure she saw the worst of humanity on a daily basis. She thought she had seen it all, until she’s informed of the steep uptick in bodies being found around the city, all hailing from various killers the FBI had yet to catch. All signs point to an organized group of serial killers, and she isn’t thrilled to learn the agency is offering a prisoner a plea deal in order to have an inside man.
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Carmen Leeds, a vigilante killer and one of June’s first cases, is offered her freedom in exchange for her role in infiltrating the group. Carmen is everything June hates in a criminal. Intelligent and more confident in her own justice system than the law. Not to mention infuriatingly beautiful. Carmen wants her freedom, and June needs her, not only for the sake of her job, but a personal vested interest in one of the killers they are targeting.
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As the body count rises and time runs short, June is starting to realize two things. The first being that all she thought she knew about Carmen might be wrong, and the second that perhaps the tension between them isn’t founded on mutual contempt.

Fantasy

The war between humans and fae is over...for now.

Tivre, a battle-weary fae mage, has spent years holding a fragile truce together. But when his Queen orders him to track down a half-human girl fated to become her most powerful soldier, Tivre realizes keeping the peace may cost him everything—including his life.

In the human capital, Zari, a hardworking nurse, still mourns her father, slain during the war by the monstrous fae creature known as Bloodember. Then Tivre arrives with an impossible offer: her father is alive, imprisoned by the fae. If she pretends to be the Oathborn he seeks, he’ll help her set him free.

Their journey to the Fae lands grows more dangerous as allies and enemies alike close in. As Zari navigates shifting loyalties and ancient magic, she must stay one step ahead of the Queen’s forces while uncovering long-buried truths about the war, her father, and her own destiny.

What began as a rescue may become a revolution.

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A Witch Fighting for her Freedom

Centuries after the Massacre of the Witches, Nova Aarin has clawed her way out of the dirt. Through death and destruction, she has learned that above all, blood answers to her. After striking a deal—death for freedom—Nova chases all she has ever wanted: her autonomy. For someone who has brought nothing but death, will her life ever be her own?

A Princess Vying for her Throne

Fear is the most powerful emotion of all. Elaia Zūne, the Princess of Shadow, knows that, even if she cannot admit it. Her mother and sisters are dead. Her father and the girl she has loved all her life, are all who remain. Darkness and death wait in the shadows and fear slithers within her. Will she bend to it? Or will fear bend to her?

A Queen Discovering World's End

Failure was not an option, not for Syrena Savali. The Reyn of Iyvia is dead and the crown is hers. Syrena must rise to the challenge or risk losing her position. But her world is not all that is changing—under the ocean’s surface, a rift grows on the seafloor, and something poisonous leaks. Is she strong enough to contain it, or will she fail the world?

The Descent

The world fractures and the hunt begins.

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Survival means...

Keeping your head down.

Doing what you're told.

Asking no questions.

Following the tragic death of her sister, twenty-year-old Maila Gray lives a solitary existence within the walls of the magic-free city of Cyllene. Her life is quiet. It's uneventful. And that is exactly how it needs to stay.

But one night, Maila finds herself face-to-face with intruders from outside the city walls - fierce and slightly intimidating Nyathera, and heartbreakingly handsome Kieran. While Cyllene citizens are forbidden to interact with the Strangers who lurk Outside, the threat to Maila's life leaves her no choice but to meet their demands.

One visit from the Strangers leads to another. And although she's breaking all the rules, Maila can't help but be intrigued by these mysterious people who live side-by-side with magic. Every encounter is a risk. But for the first time, Maila has found a risk worth taking. When she reaches the point of no return, she must decide if she's willing to put everything on the line for the people-and the dangerous half-human man-who have made her feel truly alive.

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