Chick Lit

Chick Lit

Do you want to consider issues related to women, but perhaps not with the depth and heaviness that can come in the Women's Fiction ebook genre? Are you looking for something more upbeat and more humorous?  Then, ebooks in the Chick Lit genre are just what you need.  What else do you need?  Free and discounted ebooks in the Chick Lit genre, of course!

 

Definition of the "Chick Lit Genre": The characteristics of an ebook in the Chick Lit genre are that they typically address issues in the contemporary time, and they address womanhood issues for younger women (i.e., the "Chick" in "Chick Lit").  These ebooks are more upbeat and sometimes humorous than typical Women's Fiction or Contemporary Romance ebooks.  In fact, ebooks in the Chick Lit genre don't necessarily have to deal with romance, as that is not a central aspect of the genre.  More important for the protagonist in these ebooks is her relationship with family and friends, and how those relationships help her grow as a woman. 

 

Some examples of bestselling ebooks in the Chick Lit genre are Marian Keyes (Watermelon), Terry McMillan (Waiting to Exhale), and Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones's Diary).

Protecting Abigail

by R.R. Banks


"I need you to protect my sister." 
 
Not the typical request from a best friend. 
But when I locked eyes with Abigail, there was no turning back. 
The loss of my wife left me and my daughter broken. 
A despair so deep, the billions I had couldn't come close to fixing. 
 
Abigail was more than just green eyes and gorgeous curves. 
She was a precious thing I wanted to save and protect. 
Someone's after her who would do anything to possess her. 

He might be a hunter, but I'm a f*cking beast. 
                 
 
I'll protect Abigail and my child.
And I'll destroy anyone that gets in my way.
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Touch of Light: A Baylee Scott Paranormal Mystery (The Reed Hollow Chronicles Book 1)

by April Aasheim


"Witch, witch, you make me itch. I'd like to beat you with a switch." 

Baylee Scott has the gift of touch, except it's not a gift. Being a psychic with the ability to view other people's memories and secrets doesn't make her very popular in Reed Hollow. It's why she left the small town in the first place. 

But after the mysterious loss of her husband, Baylee returns to Reed Hollow to help her brother run the family business: a defunct antique shop and teahouse. It's a dull existence that leaves her dreaming of adventures elsewhere. When a mysterious jewelry case appears in her office, followed by a note detailing a connection between the strange lights in the sky and the disappearance of local women, Baylee's life suddenly becomes more exciting.

Maybe a bit too exciting!

Aided by her animal-loving brother, her tarot-card reading cousin, and the ghost of her dead mother, Baylee must race the clock to unravel the clues to stop the strange lights from taking yet another victim. 
 
Magic, mystery, and mischief run through this enchanting series. 
 
Books in The Reed Hollow Chronicles:
Touch of Light: A Baylee Scott Paranormal Mystery
Touch of Shadow: A Baylee Scott Paranormal Mystery
Touch of Silver: A Baylee Scott Paranormal Mystery (Coming 2019)
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Flawless (A Love, California Series Novel, Book 1)

by Jan Moran


Verena Valent is at the helm of her family’s legendary Swiss skincare company in Beverly Hills. After her parents’ deaths, she becomes the sole provider for her younger twin sisters and her grandmother, rising to the challenge to guide and expand her family's business. She is in the midst of a critical international expansion when her carefully organized life begins to unravel.

While she struggles to save the business that means everything to her, she meets Lance, an executive chef at the Beverly Hills Hotel. She encounters this intriguing man again on a business trip to Paris, and soon gains a new perspective on life.

When the unthinkable occurs and Verena’s world collapses, her friends rally around her. Ultimately, Verena learns that truth, family, friendship, and love are the unshakable pillars of life. But will she get a second chance in business, or in love?

Flawless is the first in the Love, California series. Follow smart, stylish, entrepreneurial friends as they navigate the turbulences of modern life. Set in Beverly Hills with action flung across the globe, this engaging series features gutsy, determined best friends, and how they manage to live the lives of their dreams.

Rating: PG for mild language and sexual content. (No strong language, graphic sex, rape, or violence).

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A Single Journey: A moving story of love, loyalty and long-lost family

by Frankie McGowan


'The perfect epic holiday read'

- Lisa Hall, bestselling author of Between You and Me

Harriet has begun to despair of her life.

With a failed relationship behind her, a business on the rocks and a flat that’s falling apart around her ears, she could really use some luck.

Elena Banbury, née Guseva, an elderly but imposing Russian woman who is Harriet’s neighbour and landlady, frequently entertains the punters at Harriet’s jewellery stall with tales of the palaces of St. Petersburg and the treasures of Fabergé. But Harriet sometimes feels, guiltily, that she could do without the endless errands that seem to fall to her as Elena’s friend.

Then, unexpectedly, when Elena dies, she leaves all her worldly goods to a grateful Harriet. In time, however, it becomes clear that others are shocked by Harriet’s good luck, too. Shocked... and very, very unhappy.

Challenged in court by Elena’s family who live in Berlin, Harriet is forced to give up her inheritance and long-dreamed-of plans for a new business, and start her life again. But with her reputation in tatters and the memory of Elena tainted, Harriet knows a great injustice has been done.

Against the advice of her friends, family and lawyers, Harriet sets off on her own, very singular journey to Berlin.

In the weeks that follow she meets rich and poor, the glamorous and the criminal, the honest and the secretive, and begins to see that perhaps she has something to learn from them all. Something to learn about herself, and something to learn about her priorities.

She knows she has to fight for justice. But, when she meets the scholarly, perceptive Neil, who generously tries to help Harriet in her mission, but who is struggling with a complicated marriage, she must also decide if she’ll fight for love, too.

A Single Journey is a compelling and lively story, combining colourful characters with a page-turning plot and romantic highs and lows.

Fans of Jojo Moyes and Lucinda Riley will be hooked.

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Gone Hollywood: A Romantic Comedy

by Sally Mason

A comedy about getting lost and finding love. Movie star Cord McCann and farm girl Bobby Champagne collide in Hollywood (Hollywood, Texas, that is!) and start a romance that’s as sweet, sexy and hilarious as it is unlikely.

SALLY MASON loves to love and loves writing about it! She grew up on a diet of romantic comedies and is happiest when she has a tear in her eye and a smile on her face.

Also by Sally Mason: RENT A HUSBAND: A ROMANTIC COMEDY

International readers please note: this book is available on Kindle via Amazon US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Canada & Brazil.

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A Visit to Blueberry Lane: (a collection of four complete novels) (The Blueberry Lane Series)

by Katy Regnery

** The perfect binge-ready series for your summer reading list! **

Katy Regnery’s New York Times bestselling Blueberry Lane series includes seventeen magical love stories in four distinct series: The English Brothers, The Winslow Brothers, The Rousseaus and The Story Sisters. This collection offers the first book in each sub-series to get you started on your Blueberry Lane binge!

Meet BARRETT ENGLISH, the oldest millionaire brother of the five handsome English brothers, and find out if he can capture the heart of the woman he's always loved in BREAKING UP WITH BARRETT.

When BROOKS WINSLOW's sister enters him into a bachelor auction, Brooks asks his friend, tomboy Skye Sorenson, to bid on him. But when she wins him, will Brooks end up losing his heart? Find out in BIDDING ON BROOKS.

JACQUELINE "JAX" ROUSSEAU hasn't had the best luck with men. Do they love her for her money or for her heart? When she meets an injured cop who's retired from the job, will he be able to see beyond her wealth and fame? JONQUILS FOR JAX holds the answers.

And when PRISCILLA STORY discovers she's pregnant, she needs a baby-daddy. Who better to ask than her father's #1 employee, Shane? He'll be fast-tracked for a promotion and she'll have the respectability her family desires. Except marriages of convenience aren't always convenient in THE BOHEMIAN AND THE BUSINESSMAN.

Included in this collection:

1. Breaking Up With Barrett, The English Brothers #1
2. Bidding On Brooks, The Winslow Brothers #1
3. Jonquils For Jax, The Rousseaus #1
4. The Bohemian and the Businessman, The Story Sisters #1

**LIMITED TIME COLLECTION**

Critical Praise for Regnery's Blueberry Lane series!

"Katy Regnery is a fresh new voice. I eagerly await every Katy book and I tell everyone I know to read them!" --Carly Phillips, NY Times Bestselling Author 

"I have fallen head over heels in love with the Blueberry Lane series. Every book is better than the next." -- AC Book Blog

"This wasn't my first trip to Blueberry Lane and, God willing, it won't be my last. Every trip is an escape - like a spa treatment for my heart. It's relaxing and refreshing and it just feels so good." --Bookgasms Book Blog

"I am in love with all of Katy Regnery's books and the Blueberry Lane series just gets better with each book." --Kathy, My Nook Books & More

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October Snow: The Series: Books One and Two

by Jenna Brooks

You know that saying, "You abuse, you lose"?
Josie Kane gives it a whole new meaning.


Book One: OCTOBER SNOW

Winner of the 2014 Readers Favorite Award/Drama


"If you liked Big Little Lies, you'll love [October Snow]." - Indie Reader: Alike But Indie

"This is not a story for the lightweight reader." - Readers Favorite



Josie Kane is a "difficult" woman, a pure enigma - one who survives her abusive husband by honing her unnerving talent for playing mind games: She knows exactly how to manipulate a bully.

Finally divorced, she thinks the abuse is over, and she's free. She's wrong. And her cynicism is building.

Josie works with battered women, trying to rescue them from a fate similar to hers. But on the night that yet another battered woman is murdered by an abuser, crying for a hero as she dies in Josie's arms, her cynicism becomes a quiet, simmering hatred.

Her one remaining refuge is in her bond with Maxine and Samantha, the two friends whom she loves like sisters. When Samantha becomes pregnant by Jack - an abuser who makes known his intention to use the baby as a weapon of control - Josie's hatred ripens to a vengeful fury. She sets out to take on one more batterer, manipulate one more bully... And she lures Jack into the crosshairs of the ultimate mind game.

Her friends are convinced that she intends to rid Samantha of Jack. They're right.

But with Josie Kane, as always, there's a twist.

With her friends helpless to stop her - and with Samantha hanging in the balance - Josie squares off with Jack in a life-and-death battle of wits to determine which side will win Sammy's future. 

And this time, there will be a hero.


"A dark debut novel about the aftereffects of domestic violence... Tense and suspenseful, October Snow is a gripping read to the very end, highly recommended." - Midwest Book Review


*****


Book Two: AN EARLY FROST

The critically-acclaimed sequel to October Snow


Three years ago, Simon Reynolds tried to kill his wife.
In six days, he's going to try again.



"Exceptionally well crafted from beginning to end... riveting and surprise laden storyline with truly memorable characters. Very highly recommended." - Midwest Book Review


An eminent Family Law attorney, Will Remmond is fed up, burned out, and ready to walk away from fighting the insanity of the court system.

But there are two abused children left to rescue. One of them is five-year-old Alexa Reynolds. She and her mother are being stalked by a sociopath.

Her mom calls the guy "demonic."
Alexa calls him "Daddy."
And Alexa's daddy calls Will a "walking dead man."

The other abused child lives inside of Maxine Allen, the woman who Will waited decades to find. Max is becoming withdrawn, striking out at him - and he knows only that it has something to do with her father. Unable to learn the secrets from her childhood, he's watching as the woman he loves descends into her own private hell.

Between saving Alexa from her murderous father and Maxine from her demons, Will is walking into the fight of his life. One that he intends to win.

Or die trying.


"A heart-wrenching follow-up to October Snow... A riveting read that will keep you on edge." - Readers Favorite

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When Life Gives You Lululemons

by Lauren Weisberger


***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***

Best Books of Summer 2018 Selection by
Entertainment Weekly * Cosmopolitan * Harper's Bazaar * Redbook * Southern Living * Good Housekeeping * PureWow * PopSugar * Bustle * Entertainment Tonight * Star Magazine * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Columbus Dispatch * Tampa Bay Times * BookTrib *

HE SET HER UP. THEY’LL BRING HIM DOWN.

Welcome to Greenwich, Connecticut, where the lawns and the women are perfectly manicured, the Tito’s and sodas are extra strong, and everyone has something to say about the infamous new neighbor.

Let’s be clear: Emily Charlton does not do the suburbs. After leaving Miranda Priestly, she’s been working in Hollywood as an image consultant to the stars, but recently, Emily’s lost a few clients. She’s hopeless with social media. The new guard is nipping at her heels. She needs a big opportunity, and she needs it now.

When Karolina Hartwell, a gorgeous former supermodel, is arrested for a DUI, her fall from grace is merciless. Her senator-husband leaves her, her Beltway friends disappear, and the tabloids pounce.

In Karolina, Emily finds her comeback opportunity. But she quickly learns Greenwich is a world apart and that this comeback needs a team approach.

So it is that Emily, the scorned Karolina, and their mutual friend Miriam, a powerful attorney turned stay-at-home suburban mom, band together to not only navigate the social land mines of suburban Greenwich but win back the hearts of the American public. Along the way, an indispensable ally emerges in one Miranda Priestly.

With her signature wit, Lauren Weisberger offers an alluring look into a sexy, over-the-top world—and proves it’s style and substance together that gets the job done.

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Rescuing the Prince

by Victoria Leybourne

If the slipper fits...

Prince Cor of Seingalt is about to announce his engagement. The court, the country and the world are waiting to meet his fiancée. The trouble is, he hasn't got one. He needs a fake, and fast.

Rhian Rothe is trapped. With her dreams of stage stardom in tatters, she needs a new opportunity--enough to agree to play Cinderella to an arrogant prince. But this is no fairytale, and Rhian's not the one who needs to be rescued. If Prince Less-Than-Charming wants her help, he'd better start acting like it.

Sparks fly as soon as the pair meet at the palace, and it turns out that the only thing Cor hates more than lying to his country is working with Rhian. But nothing is as it seems in the royal court--and, no matter what, the show must go on.

Rescuing the Prince is a sweet modern romance novel for fans of fairytales, tiaras and happy endings.

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Dare to Love

by Carly Phillips


She arouses his dominant and protective instincts
And he will do anything to possess her …
And does.

When billionaire Ian Dare gets one glimpse of the sensual and irresistible Riley Taylor, he knows that he must have her. But any future he might have with Riley means he'll have to confront his past--a past he'd rather forget. And that's something this NFL team owner won't dare to do--not even for love.

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Enclosed in This Heart

by Regina Puckett

When Lady Margaret unexpectedly inherits her great-aunt’s vast estates and servants, this gives her direct power over Mayfield's land steward, Mr. Colin Caswell, the very man who broke her heart years earlier.

Margaret knows it would solve both their problems if she could find a way to hate him, but how can she? not when she vividly remembers the sensation of his lips pressed against hers. Of course, with that memory also comes the recollection of the heart-wrenching pain she suffered at Colin’s rebuff of her hasty proposal of marriage. She understands why the stubborn man refused to let her lower herself to his social level, but he’d been wrong. While he thought she would be demeaning herself if she joined her life to his, how could loving him be anything but the best thing that could possibly happen to her?

Will Colin ever admit they belong together, or will he break Margaret’s heart a second time?

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Fake it Baby: A Best Friend's Brother Romance

by Tia Siren


We both need a fake marriage.
But I want so much more.
This time, I'm not letting her go...
 
Avery was the girl I left behind.
My little sister's best friend.
I could never forget how she rocked my world that night.
And ever since I saw her again, her curves and sassy mouth are making me wild.
She's in this fake-relationship for the baby she wants to adopt.
I need a wife to prove I'm the perfect family guy.
But once I get her into our newly-wed bed,
I'll show her why we're meant to be together... forever.
A family.

Even though our vows are fake, I promise our happily-ever-after will be very real.


Fake it Baby is a stand-alone novel of 80000 words. The marriage might be fake but the romance is oh-so hot! I've also included some bonus novels for your enjoyment, including an exclusive never-before-published story.

xx
Tia


Tia Siren. Spoil the bad girl in you.

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Can't Buy Me Love: (The Cost of Loving Series Book 1)

by Martin Humphries

It’s the sixties, and London might be swinging, but not for our girl Edith. Raised in a miserable home full of anger and hate, life for poor Edith seems to hold little hope. But she finds plenty when she teams up with her older gay cousin, Ronnie, who makes her his mission with a plan to re-shape her into the fabulous young woman he knows she deserves to be.

Once free of her father and her weak, defenseless mother, her transformation is swift and dramatic. Suddenly, life is an exciting adventure, full of twists and turns, as Edith’s coming of age becomes a roller-coaster ride of glorious highs and frightening lows, including a father who comes back to haunt her. But where will it take her, and how will it end? Who will win, and who will lose?

‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ is the first of six volumes in the ‘The Cost of Loving’ Series. If you like stories of success over adversity, family dramas and sexual diversity, then you will love Martin Humphries’ bitter-sweet voyage of discovery through some of the most exciting years in living memory. Years chock full of changes of every kind, when being gay usually spelt trouble with a capital T.

Start traveling this fascinating journey through the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s today by buying ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, and follow Edith through London, Europe and Hollywood, over two decades, as she matures from troubled teenager to famous beauty.

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Confession of an Abandoned Wife

by Michal Hartstein


What would you do if your husband was married to his job?

Sharon Moskovitz is living the dream. She is a lawyer, mother of two beautiful daughters and happily married to a high-ranking electronics engineer. Yet, something is missing from her life. Her happiness does not feel real, and her peaceful life in an affluent Tel Aviv suburb feels like an illusion. Her search for new thrills leads her to an unbridled online addiction she cannot control.

She goes on a crazy emotional journey of self-discovery, during which she is torn between her love for her husband and her desperation to fulfill her secret desires.

And then something new comes up, and totally changes her life: true love.

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Disenchanted

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Ella Hannaford has a small business to run, an overworked father to look after and a future stepmother who wants a perfect wedding.

Can she avoid a girly night out with her clueless stepsister? Can she side-step lovesick suitors at every turn? Not if it’s up to that team of foul-mouthed dwarfs who want to forcibly drag her into her happily ever after.

Gingerbread cottages, dodgy European gangsters, gun-toting grannies, wisecracking wolves, stubborn fairy godmothers, ogres, beanstalks and flying carpets abound in a tale about what happens when you refuse to accept your Happy Ending.

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The Dating Bender

by Christina Julian

A hysterical dramedy about a woman unhinged and at a crossroad. “Julian’s debut takes an unabashed look at a failed marriage, divorce, and dating under the scrutiny of a less than supportive family.” —former San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Adair Lara.

Here I am, on my knees in front of the Trevi Fountain, hoping like hell the legend is true. That the fountain gives you solace and love by a mere toss of a coin.

Why am I here, exactly? Let’s see…

It started with my parents telling me to get married. Of course, being the good Catholic girl I am, I did.

Needless to say, that marriage nosedived, and my parents weren’t exactly happy about it.

Newly ditched and shamefully disowned, I decided to follow the advice of Babs, a tart-of-a-mentor, who offered me a job in Colorado.

Her advice? Sex…and lots of it.

The temptation of freedom, to do whatever—whoever—I wanted was too damn strong for me to say no.

And that’s how it all started. The men, the sex, the journey…

The dating bender.

Because everybody deserves a do-over.

THE DATING BENDER is a hilarious satire about dysfunctional family relationships, women who love the wrong men, and one epic hunt for happiness.

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WishCraft

by Savannah Kade


~~ Sexy, emotional, often funny, always messy, true love romance ~~

Delilah has spent the past year doing what she does best: casting simple spells and trying to get over a heartbreaking betrayal. In doing so, she's become a not-so-good witch. Picking up men and making them forget her is easier than getting involved.

Brandon can't remember anything after he left the bar. He has only a foggy memory of a blond and a craving for pumpkin muffins. When he finally figures out what happened that night, he realizes he has to find the woman and break the spell on him. He's after Delilah, even if he doesn't know quite what for.

But Delilah isn't fast enough, and Brandon knows he's been had. Still, two can play that game! Can he play it without losing his heart?

Meet the Goodmans, a family of modern-day witches in Los Angeles. Follow them from Hollywood Boulevard to the beach, from heartbreak to true love. This series has real emotion, hard won happy endings, and smoking hot romance.

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Single Chicas

by Sandra C. Lopez

Perfection is a Barbie doll, and, unless you're looking for a guy with a fake smile, a hard head, and no genitalia, then you're better off NOT being perfect―Single Chicas

Single Chicas is a collection of stories about modern Latinas being in, out, and around the zany hurdles of relationships. One woman receives strange calls from a lonely soul, another seeks advice on how to love herself, and another wakes up in a parallel universe to a man she's never met. These chicas will make painstaking effort to survive the complexities with humor and grace. Once again, López dazzles audiences with her brilliantly candid craft. Smart, witty, and funny, these stories will explore the true endurance of singlehood.

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On The Fifth Night: A Mystical Tale Of Love, Human Nature And The Afterlife

by Michael Howard

He regretted it instantly, ashamed and disgusted. But it was too late. A madman overcame him, rampaging over the last remnants of serenity, and propelling his iron fist into the soft, full lips he'd kissed a thousand times before.
The momentary violent outburst hurt more than he could imagine. And that's saying a lot... because Mark already knew all about the trials of love lost.
His energetic, blue-eyed Greta had been taken cruelly from him years before. Her suffering was not at his hand - it was beyond his control. Her abuse was a long, slow descent into the ultimate deathly embrace of terminal disease. Mark witnessed most of it from right beside her - at least until he couldn't stay any longer - until he couldn't bear the life-sucking paranoia of her dementia. Then he admitted her to a frail care home. And she descended further on her own.
After the punch, memories came back to haunt him. Guilt assaulted his mind like rabid dogs shattering brittle chains that were bound to break. In the darkness, he began a journey to find forgiveness and love again.
Mark's journey leads him to great discoveries; it takes him to the abyss where all is lost; and to where he finds what every human heart desires. It blurs the lines between sanity and insanity, between life and life beyond. His story is an eternal testament to uncharted depths of human consciousness, surprising and inspiring to the end. It is heart-warming, romantic and spiritual.

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A North So True: A Near & Far Novel

by Serena Clarke

Cold climate, hot hero...a snow-kissed escape with a twist of mystery, adventure, and Scandinavian wildness.

Love has its own latitude.

Zoe Bailey's transient childhood left her with a passport full of stamps, an ambiguous accent, and nowhere to call home. And as a grown-up, her career at a relentlessly slick London PR firm has been half-hearted at best--until she travels on assignment to Lillavik as a not-quite-legit wildlife volunteer.

The tiny Swedish village holds a smorgasbord of secrets...and Jakob Westermark. Aloof and wild, like the wolves he studies, Jakob has good reason for keeping his distance. But it's cold, he's hot, and the temptation to mix pleasure with business is too strong for Zoe to resist.

Then Jakob's wolves are threatened, and suspicion turns her way. With more to lose than she ever imagined, Zoe sets out to untangle the hidden threads running through Lillavik...and maybe, finally, find her own true north.

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