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Hearts Ablaze

This one is for every heart. Come one, come all. Limited series.

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It was supposed to be a lovely night but things went left. Guess who! Get it here

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Excitement at every turn and love in the air, based on Bungalow in the Snow. Get it here

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Biting Cold

The winter brings threats and danger Mel and those around her will need a silver bullet to escape. Limited series.

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Mel visits her older parents and notice they are unusually lethargic. When her former postal worker father passes out mid-sentence on the couch, she checks his pulse and notices what looks like two tiny puncture marks on his neck. She and her mother get him to a hospital. Later, Mel finds similar marks on her mother and warns the in-home nurse to take special care. After cooking dinner for her fiancee, Sam, they discuss her parents' condition. He promises to look into it while conducting his doctoral research. The in-home nurse caring for Mel's mother leaves her overnight shift the next morning with a rash on her neck.

Window frost from Unsplash Biting Cold, Episode 2, preview summary

Sam brings Mel to visit her mother urgently after learning that her mother's in-home nurse died the day after working overnight. They find her barely conscious and get her to the hospital where her husband's condition is not much better. Sam comforts her and she accompanies him to the medical library where he conducts research for his doctoral studies. Mel tells him about the puncture marks on their necks, which piques his curiosity. While he searches, Mel receives a call from a medical worker questioning her exposure and describing the deceased nurse's neck rash. Mel and Sam immediately quarantine in his nearby apartment.

Window frost from Unsplash Biting Cold, Episode 3, preview summary

Panicked over being quarantined with Sam in his apartment with no way to visit her critically ill parents, Mel begins obsessively searching online for leads about bites on the neck. Sam searches medical literature to give her balance when he receives a message from an esteemed professor in his field relaying strange cases of winter neck wounds and something described as micro monsters. Mel jumps on this lead, which drops her out of her depth. She presses Sam to contact the man, known as Dr. Abe. Dr. Abe agrees to speak with them confidentially but will only do so in person. Meanwhile, Mel's parents experience an unexpected recovery, both looking and feeling decades younger.

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Dr. Abe arrives and keeps distance when Sam and Mel approach him with news that her parents are remarkably better. Dr. Abe insists that they are too late to help Mel's parents because they are already consumed. Dr. Abe advises them to check one another for bite marks and encourages Mel to forget her parents. He leaves documents for them, then flees. Each searches the other's body and finds no bites. They work through the documents together and conclude that Mel's parents were exposed to micro monsters in their home, which is the most likely danger zone. Mel begins receiving calls from her parents but she does not answer.

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Past Post Roundtable

Eager participants discuss past posts of yore, their reactions and their opinions. Limited series.

Extraordinary from Pinterest Past Post Roundtable, Episode 1: Extraordinary, preview summary

Hal: I like this one. I was not expecting audio.

Minnie: Yeah. I wasn't expecting audio or a song!

Rose: We got a serenade. And I liked the message about it. I felt encouraged or just a little more optimistic.

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Rose: I don't know how many people on the platform took advantage of this fill-in-the-poem, but they should have. This was fun and super easy. I liked that it was easy and I felt like I almost wrote a poem.

Hal: (laughing) I can do poetry when it is easy! Yeah, I liked it. It wasn't that bad of a poem, either. It was bad, but it wasn't bad bad.

Minnie: This felt like a word game that didn't require too much out of me. That was perfect. I would have loved for it to be longer. I wanted to keep going.

Rose: Nope. Perfect length. More would have been harder.

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Versus from Unsplash Past Post Roundtable: Who's the Champ?, Episode 3, preview summary :new:

Hal: You both know how I like competition. I love to pick a winner.

Minnie: Right, but I get hives when things get too competitive.

Rose: Does that mean you didn't like this one?

Minnie: Absolutely not! This was fun. I might sound like him for a second but turning reading, or stories, into a competition makes sense.

Rose: So we all enjoyed this? I actually wondered how I could do this with my son's books!

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Teen Sleuths

Teens discuss micro mysteries to discover who did what, when, why, and how. Limited series.

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Tiff: Okay, I'm starting because I know who did it. Was it Domino, Luigi, Marina? Let's discuss.

Bennie: If you know who did it, tell us who it is!

Tiff: I will. I just don't want to ruin the discussion first.

Cindy: I say that it was Luigi. He had the opportunity and he just sounds guilty.

Bennie: Based on what?

Whole episode...

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Bennie: I just want to know who thinks it was the neighbor?

Cindy: That option felt like a distraction to me.

Tiff: I think it could have been the neighbor. Why not?

Cindy: But do you think it was the neighbor? What about the focus on the change in the best friend? What was her name?

Bennie: It was Leigh or something. I really think it was her!

Tiff: I would agree but that wasn't an option. Why did she have this sudden change?

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Solve Me

Two high school seniors stumble into a gambit that will either protect their classmates or lead to catastrophe. Limited series for teens.

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Halee's close friend, Ru, tearfully confides after school that she's in trouble and will be gone for a while. Ru begs Halee to keep her secret phone until she comes back. Halee hides it in her room, but when uses it once to try to contact Ru, messages with puzzles lure her into replying. She solves them quickly at first, drawing her in more or more, until one stumps her. Dune, her classmate, catches her working on it in class and solves it himself. They begin working together as the puzzles become increasingly sinister.

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After two weeks of working together to solve puzzles, Halee and Dune receive congratulations for completing all of them. She kisses him out of joy, leading to immediate awkwardness between them. Their conflicted feelings get interrupted by new messages proclaiming them worthy to begin the real task of completing challenges in order to protect the school and their fellow classmates. Dune refuses to continue so they leave the message hanging. The next morning, reports of a death inside the school building leads to canceled classes.

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Holiday Weekend Rewind

Spend this end of the year with unique, surprising, unexpected, laugh-out-loud, and more.

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Know Your Role

A game of stealth, requiring close observation and strong conversation. Limited series for teens.

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Charmed Birthday Year

Kendra receives multiple correspondence stating, "This is your charmed birthday year until it all runs out." Limited series.

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Date Auction

Daters are on the auction block and any interested in bidding for the chance for a date must be ready to commit to a reading list. Limited series.

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Letitia's dewy face and soft features will surely bring big bids! She recently started an omnibus of Mark Twain writings and her request is for bids to begin there. Bidders commit to her request and add additional readings to up the ante.

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Lovely, sweet, outgoing Jana goes easy on our bidders by starting with the three novels in the Fourth Wing series by Rebecca Yarros. Bidders commit to her request and add additional readings to up the ante.

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Bruno, tall, dark, hulking, and handsome, knows his high-value-man worth. As such, he starts the bidding with the first ten in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. Bidders commit to his request and add additional readings to up the ante.

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Previous bidder Jones gets the auction treatment. This athletic writer with a roguish smile and a love for all genres starts the bidding with the first five in the Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson. Bidders commit to his request and add additional readings to up the ante.

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Previous bidder Lily gets the auction treatment. Both an entrepreneur and educator, Lily starts the bidding with the nine novels of the The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Bidders commit to his request and add additional readings to up the ante.

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Big Game

Bay must stop the high school football team's suddenly dangerous behavior, including her younger brother and her crush. Limited series for teens.

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OOP Retrospective

An in-depth exploration of story, characters, and themes of an OOP favorite. Limited series.

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Fic Fash

Fiction and fashion combine when readers of all ages come together to pull style off of the page. Limited series.

Summer I Turned Pretty series by Jenny Han, 2009 Fic Fash, Episode 1: Starting Pretty Fall

The Girlfriend by Michelle Frances, 2018 Fic Fash, Episode 2: The Style Friend

Down Cemetery Road by Mick Herron, 2003 Fic Fash, Episode 3: Coffin Nails

All Her Fault by Andrea Mara, 2021 Fic Fash, Episode 4: Faultless and Flawless

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, 2016 Fic Fash, Episode 5: Perfect 10, finale

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"You've got it, Lela. Roll 'em."

June said those words, and blew on the dice in Lela's hands. For Lela, time seemed to stop.

They'd both had their contracts come up but neither of them had earned the necessary numbers to win their freedom. They'd been dragged to wherever they'd been dragged. They thought they were going to meet their end. Well, Lela thought that. June seemed incapable of understanding what was at stake.

Even that, at the very moment, June seemed not to realize what was happening.

Big Dough, the one calling the shots, upon seeing them seemed to grow a heart. No, not really. He just like to play with people. He liked to pretend to give a chance when he knew they had no chance. Instead of handling it quickly, he gave them a chance to play for their lives.

But Lela had to roll for the both of them. Only one of them would go free. "Free." Whatever that would actually mean.

June said, "I don't know if blowing like that helps but I've seen people do that before in the movies."

Despite the noise, the jitters, the threat of death that caused her to want to pee, time seemed to stop.

Lela could barely see past June, the dealer, and the crowed around the table.

They had no way out.

Swallowing a glob of nervous spit and blinking her eyes, Lela made a decision.

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Dinner Or Death, preview

Kwan artfully slid the bills to the other man. Smiling and nodding, he started to speak but was cut off.

"Just remember, if anything happens, I don't know you, never seen you."

Sighing, Kwan felt a brief moment on uncertainty. He couldn't do that. He almost put a grin on his face but went serious instead.

"I've got this, cousin. Always had it."

Kwan's cousin thumbed the money. When he was satisfied, he headed for the kitchen door. "Good luck."

Scoping the dining area, Kwan wondered at how he'd so soon gone from "No doubt" to "I hope so." But he kept moving. He saw the table and he saw his target. Then he moved, trying to be swift but without a care, not wanting to attract any attention.

"Helio," he said, dropping a hand on the man's shoulder.

Helio's shoulder felt stiff as stone. His head turned with the precision of a machine, at a painstakingly slow speed, and his eyes fell on Kwan with the fear of God.

"Helio," Kwan repeat, slightly shaken, "Kwan, P-Pause, haven't seen you in a while, man. I thought I'd come over..."

Helio's tension released instantly and he glanced toward every entrance.

"Right, P-Pause," said Helio. "Well, look, I'm expecting someone."

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Let's Play, preview

Arily felt sweat run down into her eyes. She flicked it away. The sauna had just become less confortable and the other two ladies had already exited, leaving her there alone.

She breathed deeply, wondering what her test results might reveal. Something unexplainable had taken over her body. She needed answers.

The sauna door opened. Arily paid no mind until she caught a male figure in her peripheral vision and saw the towel drop. Arily sighed.

"Feels great in here."

Arily recognized the voice of Doctor Robinson, Le Med's medical director. She kept her eyes on her feet. The doctor was handsome and helpful--he'd agreed to run tests for her privately. But if this was the payment he expected... She was in no mood.

"Yes. I think I'll leave soon before I over-heat."

"Before you do that, I got the results of the test. Everything looks fine. Care to tell me what you expected to find?"

Arily did not care to tell him.

"Maybe once I've showered and dressed. Thank you again."

Arily allowed herself to look over the naked doctor's body where he laid out on the platform. She shrugged, impressed. Then she stood.

"That's an excellent idea. Dinner this evening?"

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Delwyn In Wonderground, preview

In a dark place, somewhere few people could ever identify, or find, or escape, a man's motionless body lays out like the dead. Until his arm strikes out without warning to reach for something that he does not find. Then he freezes. Then he jumps up and flies into a rage.

"Let me out!" he shouts.

"Mr. Delwyn," responds a voice immediately, "let's calm down, shall we? Anger won't get you out of here. Why don't we just discuss what will?"

Delwyn looks feverishly around himself. Where is the exit? Where is person attached to the voice? Where is the--

"Mr. Delwyn please. Can we just get down to business? You've been resourceful and creative and you've escaped all of this for many years but you are here now. You won't be released until we get what we need."

Delwyn takes a deep breath. He sits back down on the cot he sprang up from. He sees his prison, a low-lit, sparse room with a large, dark window in one wall and little else.

He says, "And what do you need?"

"The pole shift is here," says the voice. "Certain geographic locations require protection."

Delwyn's head falls to his chest. He closes his eyes. He feels the rage welling up before he slows his breathing. Delwyn lifts his head.

"Okay."

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Plain Twain, preview

Because May dropped the phone, she did not hear the ranting woman on the phone and her frantic words.

"May," the voice distantly squeaked, "I want you to come in for an evaluation. You don't sound well. Your thoughts are scattered, you are drawing wild connections, and frankly I don't know what to say. You think that you may have been cloned without your knowledge and that this identical twin of yours has been out to get you? I don't want to scare you but this kind of talk can be very dangerous if clients get wind of any of this."

"Why don't I get that for you."

The woman who only recently entered the room, reached down and picked up the phone. Without a word, she disconnected the call with a smile.

She said, "Hello, May."

Shocked into silence, May stared at the very one the caller had referred to, the clone, the identical twin, the one out to get May. The same one she'd felt stalking her.

"Who are you?" May asked.

The other woman frowned. "You mean to tell me that you don't know?"

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Pub: 06 Oct 2024 00:15 UTC

Edit: 22 Feb 2026 01:03 UTC

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