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Feels Like the First Time by Kimberly Packard

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  FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME By Kimberly Packard Romance, Time-Slip, RomCom Publisher: Abalos Publishing Publication Date: 16 June 2026 SYNOPSIS Blink and your life’s halfway over. What if that happens literally? College party girl Emily Murray bounces through majors and boys until an ill-advised art major leads her to a rebellious relationship with an aspiring rock star. When her father cuts off the college fund—and her boyfriend ditches her to chase a record deal—Emily spirals, hard. One shaved head and emotional black out later, she wakes up thirty years in the future, living a life she doesn’t recognize as a successful therapist and engaged to a total stranger. With no apparent way to rewind the clock, Emily scrambles to make sense of her new reality. With a wedding date looming and a competitive therapist threatening her fragile career, Emily is forced to question: Was this really the future she was meant for? Witty, sharp and unexpectedly heartwarming, Feels Like the First Tim...

On the Bayou by Sean Bridges

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  ON THE BAYOU By Sean Bridges Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Publication Date: 25 May 2026 SYNOPSIS A stake-out at a trafficker way-station ends with Special Agent Jennifer Nash placed on forced leave. Until a government insider offers her a chance at redemption. All she has to do is accompany an elite Louisiana SWAT team on a takedown mission. But as she's shuttled by boat into the Atchafalaya Basin, she believes some of the unit might be compromised. The raid ends in disaster. And the police find themselves outnumbered in the middle of a criminal operation, with a connected Cajun community and ruthless cartel members determined to put them down at all costs. CLICK TO PURCHASE Amazon | The Wildrose Press   | Walmart   |  Bookshop.org   ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sean Patrick Bridges is an award-winning screenwriter and film producer. He graduated from Schiller International University in Heidelberg, Germany. He’s been a Fi...

Up from Hell by Joan Moran

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  UP FROM HELL Echoes of the Past: Crimes in Central Texas Book 1 By Joan Moran Crime Thriller Publisher: Next Chapter Publication Date: April 7, 2026 SYNOPSIS Growing up in Las Vegas, Neil Dixon's future looked bleak. The son of a drug-addicted mother, he didn't have a lot of options until a police officer, Sergeant Finch, pulled him from danger and sent him to a new life in Texas. Now, years later, Neil has become the police officer he always wanted to be—steady, principled, and unafraid to stand alone. But Jarrell, Texas, is not the clean slate he hoped for. Corruption in the department is rampant, and traffickers operate across the border. When Neil’s mother dies, he returns to Las Vegas and meets the father he’s never known. He gets pulled into a deadly game with his father that stretches from Vegas to the police department in Jarrell, to cartel-scarred border towns. To survive, he must decide what kind of man he truly is - and how far he’s willing to go to stop the people...

A New Fatherland: Peace Treaties & Shattered Hopes by Natalie Bright & Manuela Schneider

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    A NEW FATHERLAND: PEACE TREATIES & SHATTERED HOPES By Natalie Bright & Manuela Schneider Historical Fiction/ Immigrant Fiction Book 2 Publisher: EK-2 Publishing Publication Date: April 30, 2026 SYNOPSIS Texas, 1840s: Drawn by the promise of land and freedom, German settlers venture into the New World—only to find themselves ensnared in deception, power struggles, and deadly danger. As the ambitious plans of Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels begin to crumble and John O. Meusebach faces a frontier on the brink of chaos, the fate of the settlers hangs by a thread. Amid the turmoil, Karoline and Rudolf struggle to build a new life in the fragile settlement of Cat Spring, clinging to hope as uncertainty closes in. Far away, Sofie is caught in a far darker reality—trapped in a fate she cannot escape, where survival comes at a devastating cost. As tensions rise and the wilderness grows ever more unforgiving, one question remains: how much must they sacrifice to claim a futu...