It wasn’t even Thanksgiving, and all the overachievers already had their Christmas decorations up.  The Main Street holiday window display competition had become more cutthroat over the years, especially as fresh blood had been introduced to downtown. When Alex purchased The Melting Plot five years ago, she had only been twenty-four years old, the youngest business owner by far. But now, the owner of the salon couldn’t be more than three years out of high school, and the anti

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I met L.C. Maxie a few years ago through a mutual connection, and we've been writer friends ever since. I was on the beta reader and ARC...

I’ve been reading a lot lately—the BookTok, romance masquerading as fantasy kind of books. So when Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor...

I know. I know. It’s mid-February, and it’s a little too late to be sharing reflections from last year, but I finally got around to...