Sometimes the best lessons aren't learned in class, they're felt in the heart. Riley Hale's life runs on caffeine, chaos, and cupcake batter. At twenty-eight, she's mastered the art of single motherhood, sarcasm, and pretending she's totally fine that her love life has been replaced by late-night cleaning montages and her eight-year-old's existential questions. Then one morning, a frosty stranger in a perfect beige coat walks into The Sweet Spot bakery and straight into Riley's list of "people I will never impress." After one spilled coffee and a mortifying apology later, Riley is convinced she'll never see the woman again. Until the next day, when she meets her daughter's new fifth-grade teacher... Miss Emerson Miller. What follows is a year of accidental flirtations, school-event disasters, and late-night bake-offs that blur the line between enemies, friends, and something sweeter. Because sometimes love doesn't show up when you plan it - it spills all over your shoes and dares you to start over. A slow-burn, small-town romantic comedy about second chances, messy mornings, and discovering that the best lessons aren't always taught in classrooms.

The gods are real. All it takes is this one realization, sparked by a short video no one expected to go viral, to turn 21-year-old Angie Nohl and her friends' worlds on their heads. Their existence now exposed to the masses, Angie and the Greek pantheon scramble to maintain their secrecy, until they realize that perhaps this sudden rise in attention might be for the best. Not all is in their favor, however, when one grad school dropout decides the gods have been misusing their power, and resolves to take it for herself. Follow Angie, Clio, Hermes, and the Morganthau twins as they battle to keep the peace in this long-awaited sequel to The Search for Juno: Olympian VIP. -warning: strong language -Vote and comment if you enjoy ;)

The heir to the throne struggles to stay alive and keep his birthright while a tracker is thrust into a brutal hunt for a girl who can save or destroy the kingdom of Daracka. ˖⁺‧₊˚ ✧ ˚₊‧⁺˖ A frail kingdom. A dangerous weapon. A lost soldier with the power to tip the balance. Out of his obsession for learning, Kazuri, a Maestro of knowledge, recreates a destructive machine used in the last catastrophic war in the kingdom of Daracka. This weapon's only fuel is an explosive energy inside the body of an experimental soldier. Kazuri must have it, and so the hunt for the soldier begins. Jiro, a boy with the ability to fly, is a Maharlika from Aradack who only wants to live ordinarily, staying on their island for the rest of his life. But when a tragedy strikes his family, his home becomes a constant torment of memories. He joins the hunt to escape his pain and sets out to find the soldier who would change his fate. Reiji is the Matu, next in line for the throne of Daracka. He quenches his ambition to rule, but when he learns that someone he trusts betrayed him, he lets the fire inside him burn. He plays his own game of secrecy, risking the peace of the kingdom. The Master ✧ The Flyer ✧ The Heir ˖⁺‧₊˚ ✧ ˚₊‧⁺˖ Heide Reynes gives you a world influenced by the culture of her own country, the Pearl of the Orient Seas. Inspired by the Igorot People (an ethnic group from the northern mountains), the Maharlika (the ancient feudal warrior class), and the traditional Tagalog in the Philippines. ˖⁺‧₊˚ ✧ ˚₊‧⁺˖ Wattys 2023 Finalist Wattys 2023 Bootcamp Mentee Ambys 2024 (Winner) Favorite Fantasy Novel ˖⁺‧₊˚ ✧ ˚₊‧⁺˖ First of two planned Volumes. ˖⁺‧₊˚ ✧ ˚₊‧⁺˖ Genre: Epic Fantasy High Fantasy Adult FantaSci ˖⁺‧₊˚ ✧ ˚₊‧⁺˖