Love is not something Abby Steele is interested in. The only love she wants is the kind she can write about in her romance novels. But Abby’s best friend doesn’t take no for an answer, so Abby goes on one last blind date. That blind date happens to be Ben Richards, the hot Hollywood it-guy who starred in the viral movie about a wave of deadly hurricanes.
Abby doesn’t think they’ll have anything in common, but she finds herself instantly intrigued by how down-to-earth Ben is. They spend their first date laughing, crushing it at corn hole, and trying to divert the advances of several frenzied women. Their connection deepens when Abby discovers that Ben is a massive fan of her latest novel. They spend the rest of the summer falling in love, spending every moment together, and not discussing the future. At the end of the summer, Ben jets off to do the press tour for another movie. Abby doesn’t expect him to leave her heart in pieces as he promptly ghosts her. Hard.
Two years later, Abby’s book is becoming a movie and Ben is the director. She has a plan to keep her heart from getting broken again:
1. Don’t look him in the eyes
2. Keep your emotions calm
3. Don’t let him anywhere near your heart
But it becomes clear that Abby needs to tighten up her rules because she can’t seem to ignore the pull Ben has on her. Can Abby find a way to protect her heart, or is it worth risking it all again for a once-in-a-lifetime love?
All Izzy wanted was a happily-ever-after with her husband Jack. She didn’t expect to become a widow at the age of 26, with a toddler and a baby on the way.
Fast forward three years and Izzy finally has her feet underneath her as a widow and mom. Izzy is moving back to Breakaway Shores, on the Oregon coast, to find a house where her boys can play in the sand, and she can watch the waves.
Her brother, who happens to be the real estate king of the coast, knows the perfect house. The handsome owner, Zander, is one of his friends who is ready to move out of town. He’s a retired football star and is drawn to Izzy’s independence and strength.
The more time they spend together, the more Izzy realizes Zander might be worth the risk of opening up her heart again. He’s everything she wasn’t ready to look for and that scares Izzy. She knows what happens when a couple doesn’t get their happily-ever-after.
Can Izzy trust Zander with her heart, or will she stand in the way of the happily ever after she’s afraid to lose a second time?
Avianna is one day away from Saturday, her eighteenth birthday, when she can become an honest-to-goddess witch. Her wonky magic will finally be fixed and her coven will be none the wiser. Problem is, Anna’s living Friday on a loop, repeatedly dying at the hands of her ex-boyfriend who has fire magic he shouldn’t have.
Her only lead is an ominous find the Embers from whatever limbo place she ends up after being unalived. To add to her circular list of issues, the Embers are a banished coven and very much in hiding.
Anna’s one ally is her late sister’s best friend, Riggs, who can somehow remember everything from each repeated Friday and has a way of calming her unruly powers. Her wild magic might be the key to freeing herself, if she can find the Embers and learn how to control her powers. But Anna won’t be able to live through Friday forever. Each repetition, each fiery demise, weakens her and brings her one day closer to a final death.
In St. Henderson, a picturesque town on the Oregon coast, girls disappear without a trace. Among them is seventeen-year-old- Zelda Schulz’s sister, Jaybird. With no bodies and little evidence, the close-knit community dismisses the cases as runaways. Girls gone wild, lost, but not stolen. And life carries on as normal. But for Zelda, nothing will ever be the same again.
When a teenage girl is found murdered on the beach during spring break, clutching Jaybird’s necklace in her hands, Zelda hopes for a chance to find out the truth. She uncovers her murder board and focuses on her main suspect, the English teacher who seems a little bit too friendly. The only problem is, she keeps coming up empty and no one in town seems to know anything.
Zelda wonders who she can trust, when an anonymous envelope is delivered to Zelda’s ex-beau promising the truth about her sister’s disappearance in exchange for a favor. If she succeeds, she’ll find answers – she may even catch Jaybird’s killer. If she fails, the killer promises more missing girls will become dead bodies, and the truth about Jaybird will die with them.