She was ready to break hearts- not the fourth wall. Our heroine, Kira, an indie game dev and self-professed romcom addict, wakes up in the body of Lady Verenia Eltis, a supposed "villainess" in a cliché magical academy setting-but there's just one catch: The game doesn't exist. Like, at all. There is no source material, no dating sim, no anime. It's not an otome game. It's just... a weirdly genre-aware fantasy world that thinks it's a romcom game. Everyone talks like they're in a visual novel. The world has routes. Love interests sparkle. Confession flags trigger sparkly music. But there's no main heroine-and Verenia is the only one who seems to notice that nothing makes sense.

Seat filler Lincoln Parker never expected to accidentally fall on one knee in front of world-famous superstar Emily Margot. Now, with his face on the cover of every tabloid, he has to pretend to be her lover-and keep hidden his real, growing feelings as their time together starts to run out. ***** When 23-year-old Lincoln Parker accidentally trips over famous actress Emily Margot, he never imagines that she would ask him to be her pretend fiancé until the scandal-of being caught supposedly proposing to her-blows over in the media. Because he's a relative nobody; just an army medic on leave, moonlighting at award shows as a seat filler. But with his name on the dotted line of their contract, he has to find a way to survive in her Hollywood bubble and also bury his growing anxiety, especially as his leave from the army runs out. Can their budding relationship withstand the distance? Is their love built to last? [ General fiction #2 chick lit #4 ] [Wattys 2015 Winner - HQ Love) [word count: 60,000-70,000 words] Cover designed by Lucas Fisher Sequel: The Game Changer

A small mountain town. And in it, one hotel called Hotel Soleil...the kind of place that feels like it exists outside of time. A storm rolls in fast and brutal, cutting off the roads and knocking out the signal. Four strangers all arrive within the same hour before the storm fully hits. The hotel receptionist delivers the bad news...only two rooms left. One on the third floor, one on the fourth. The strangers can either share or sleep in the lobby. Nobody wants the lobby. So Pond and Phuwin end up in Room 3B. Joong and Dunk end up in Room 4A. They expect maybe one night. The storm has other plans. They're stuck for six days.

You don't expect much excitement in your quiet garden until the day a dragon suddenly appears among the flowers. ONC Round Two Ambassador Pick! When Eliza Whitaker inherits her great-aunt's cottage, she expects a fresh start, a little quiet, and maybe a lot of weeds. What she doesn't expect is a garden locals whisper about, flowers that never seem to fade... or the warm pulse beneath the soil that changes everything. As Eliza settles into her new life, she discovers that the garden responds not to ownership or attention-but to care. And when its long-sleeping magic wakes, it leaves her with an impossible responsibility: a baby dragon who should not exist, and a secret that does not want to be seen. With a charmingly infuriating journalist circling for a story and a garden that seems determined to test her boundaries, Eliza must decide what's worth protecting-and what it means to stay. A cozy fantasy romance about quiet magic, chosen care, and how I accidentally became a dragon keeper. ONC 2026 Entry

When Anna's search for a fake boyfriend fails, she accidentally summons Damon-a sarcastic, six-foot-two demon from the afterlife's HR department with a deep love for fried chicken. The deal is simple: he'll be her plus-one for the wedding, she'll keep the chicken coming... but somewhere between awkward family introductions and slow dances, "fake" starts feeling a lot like forever.