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Eight years after their breakup, Kaya Dela Cruz and Theo Vega start receiving voicemails the other doesn’t remember leaving—each one arriving at 12:03 am for the twelve nights before Christmas.
The messages are intimate, aching, full of things they never said. As the boundary between dream and reality blurs, Oakland hums with a strange holiday magic that seems to be pushing them back toward each other.
But some messages are meant to change you, not just find you.
And some love stories only begin when you finally call back.
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In the shadows of the swamp, fairy tales don’t end with happily ever after. They drip with moss and blood, sung by cicadas and haunted by women who came before.
Moss Mother is a spellbinding poetry collection by Maya-Gawonii Shabazz-Saleh that reimagines beloved fairy tales through the lens of Black American Southern Gothic tradition. Here, glass coffins sink in bayous, red hoods wander company towns, and witches speak in the tongues of fireflies. Each poem carries the weight of ancestral memory and the shimmer of myth, weaving together beauty and horror, grief and resurrection.
Both incantatory and elegiac, this collection asks: what happens when the stories we inherit are laced with both danger and salvation? How do we claim survival in a world that calls our magic monstrous?
For readers of Toni Morrison, Natasha Trethewey, and Lucille Clifton, for lovers of folklore, hauntings, and Southern night air, Moss Mother is a book of poems that will rock you like a hymn.
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When novelist Eliza McMillan escapes to a fog-soaked town on the Pacific Northwest coast, all she wants is quiet—an attic room, a chipped mug, and the space to begin again. But Northpoint has other plans.
A line of ink appears in her notebook in handwriting that isn't hers. A voice begins to answer back. And the woman behind that voice isn't supposed to exist— she's fictional. Created. Imagined.
And yet Eliza is falling in love with her.
What follows is a story of letters, longing, and the thin places between worlds—where fiction hums with life, and love dares to write its own ending.
The Margins Between Us is a sapphic love story wrapped in fog, memory, and the small magics that bloom when we start to listen.
Releases 3/31/26
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On New Year’s Eve, Eve Shine is working late. Which feels rude, honestly.
The outdoor mall is buzzing with champagne optimism, sequins, and people who believe a new calendar will solve everything. Eve, meanwhile, is doing inventory, smoothing sweater stacks, and fielding last-minute existential crises from strangers who want to feel different by midnight.
Then the clock sticks at 11:58 pm.
The world outside the glass freezes—fireworks suspended mid-burst, laughter caught mid-breath—leaving Eve alone inside the store with one familiar presence she’s talked to for years. Someone calm. Someone silent. Someone who has always listened.
As the night stretches into something softer and stranger, Eve finds herself in a two-minute pause that feels like hours: trying on new possibilities, testing the edges of loneliness, and reckoning with what it means to be seen when no one else is watching. What begins as a quiet anomaly becomes an unexpected connection—tender, funny, and deeply human.
Happy New Year, Eve is a sharp, observant romantic novella about retail survival, modern loneliness, and the small, magical moments that happen when time finally gives you room to breathe. Wry, warm, and quietly hopeful, it asks: what if the pause is where the real change happens?
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