Spark Me Tenderly

For five years, Cindy Huffman endured grueling bone marrow extractions and blood draws, believing she was saving her sister Mindy’s life. Every time they drew lots, Cindy pulled the short stick. Only as her body fails does she learn the truth: the game was rigged by her husband, Ian, and Mindy to claim her insurance. Reborn into the fifth year of this deception, Cindy finally sees the rigged container for what it is. This time, she demands Ian draw first, turning the tables on their deadly scheme.

After five years of chasing Lara Lawson, the protagonist seeks peace by marrying his lifelong friend, Celine Young. Their marriage appears flawless, complete with a young son. However, the illusion of a happy family crumbles when he finds unsent messages on Celine's phone revealing he is just a substitute for her true love. Devastated by the betrayal of his wife and son, he vanishes. Now, those who took him for granted are desperate for his return, begging him to stay.

A terrifying trip to a local attraction takes a provocative turn for one woman in the romance story Mistaken Lover in the Haunted House. While visiting a dark venue with Chelsea and her boyfriend Ivan, a case of mistaken identity occurs. Enveloped in shadows, Ivan confuses the protagonist for his partner, initiating an intimate embrace. As his touch grows bolder, she finds herself unexpectedly responding to his advances. This modern novel explores a moment of illicit tension where fear and attraction collide in the pitch-black silence.

Tortured in a derelict warehouse, Vivienne Sterling hears the devastating truth: her kidnapping was orchestrated by her best friend Sophia, while her fiancé Brant dismisses their engagement as mere business. Every sacrifice she made for him was a lie. As a steel pipe shatters her spine, her last sight is Brant’s formidable uncle, Julian Carlisle, arriving too late. Consumed by hatred and regret, she dies—then awakens one year earlier in Brant’s Bentley. Given a second chance, Vivienne vows to make everyone who betrayed her pay in blood, starting with a slap across Brant’s stunned face.

Betrayed by her lover and murdered at sea, Tiffany Glisson is reborn with a chance to rewrite her fate. In her past life, deceptive floating messages and her sweetheart Leon Wade lured her into a trap, allowing a maid to steal her identity and fortune. Now back at the moment of her engagement to the powerful Alan Palmer, Tiffany realizes the messages were lies. She rejects Leon's pleas to flee, choosing instead to reclaim her status as the Glisson heiress and face her destiny as the wife of Northingdale's formidable overlord.

A catastrophic toxic gas leak suddenly compromises a secure research institute, plunging everyone inside into a desperate, life-or-death struggle for survival. Amidst the spreading poison and growing panic, the protagonist desperately searches for a way to breathe. Hope seems within reach when they finally track down the very last gas mask in the facility. However, relief instantly turns to pure horror upon discovering that the vital life-saving device has been maliciously replaced with a useless child's toy mask.