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This collection of four stories can be considered extended epilogues to the books in The Vals. While the main novels of The Vals can be listened to and appreciated in any order, you need to have listened to all three of those novels to appreciate these stories.

Love Ride is an extreme sports romance featuring a torturous slow burn with a heavy focus on plot. Addie and Reid are both professional mountain bikers trying to prove themselves while evading their feelings for each other. This story has adrenaline, anxiety representation, and top-tier tension. Join these two childhood friends on the road trip of a lifetime!

Camp Red Moon was supposed to be a fresh start for Kenzie—a summer of fun and new friendships—but the remote camp has quickly turned into a waking nightmare. When the camp leader heads into town, leaving the group isolated in the high Uintah Mountains, a seemingly harmless prank to summon a demon unleashes a terror beyond their worst fears.

Looking like the perfect new couple is the goal… So long as Dr. Clay Russell avoids looking too deeply into how much he can have fun with Leigh, the plan is still in play. She's charming everyone, except his clingiest ex-fling. And she's proving to him that it's not always a bad idea to lighten up and not be serious. Sex might have been a mistake, one they know better to repeat now. But each time she talks about her employment plans after their contract is over, he struggles to think about her being gone.

Noelle is just kicking off her year as a college freshman when she meets her English professor, Ryan Johnson. The two have a normal teacher/student relationship… until chaos strikes and Noelle falls into Ryan’s arms. Boundaries get disregarded, and limits get stretched far past the point of no return. As Ryan’s feelings grow too strong to control, Noelle discovers a dangerous secret about Ryan. She hides their illicit relationship from the world. Desire is a wildfire… once it’s ignited, it cannot be contained. When the heart wants what it wants… who could possibly stop it?

Wish I Wasn't is a feel-good, romantic comedy set in a small town, featuring a love story between lifelong frenemies, where he falls first, but she falls just as hard. Amid a career-threatening scandal, bestselling author Winter Evergreen is forced to flee New York City to escape the spotlight. While waiting for the spectacle to die down, she heads back to her hometown of Yule, Colorado, for some much-needed rest. Unbeknownst to her, she’s not the only one returning home.

QUINN DAVIS shatters the norm. She's successful in the traditionally male-dominated wine world. She'll do anything for a hunk of swoon-worthy cheese. And she only dates married men, a practice designed to evade love and protect her battered heart. But even as a mistress, Quinn has rules. No meddling in happy marriages. No men with young kids. No falling in love. And absolutely, unequivocally, no gigantic panties on a date. She prefers her men the way she likes her food and wine — enticing, intoxicating and utterly delicious.

Still nursing a broken heart after her split from Peter, Maybelle tries to keep her distance—especially now that he's dating someone younger and stunning. But when a deadly car accident and a suspicious house fire happen on the same night, it’s clear something sinister is at play. Peter dives headfirst into the investigation, and Maybelle, sidelined due to their breakup, starts digging on her own. What begins as two separate investigations soon becomes a tangled web of conflicting theories, clashing egos, and unresolved feelings.

It's Christmas and Hailey is headed to Montana with her friends Kelsey and Lexi. After a roller coaster of a semester, Hailey is hoping the mountain air will bring about rest and relaxation. Instead, snow, parents and three guys turn their quiet mountain Christmas into an unforgettable adventure. A Very Hailey Holiday is the second book in an interconnected standalone, new adult contemporary romance series. This is an open-door romance with a guaranteed HFN ending.

In late-1930s Europe, not everyone is attentive enough to see what the future holds—certain war. In Prague, however, prescient Jaroslav Blaschka is desperate to transport his family’s wealth beyond the reach of the Nazis. In New York, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt are still confident enough to travel on their annual trek to Paris.

THE MESSY YEARS is a heartfelt, humorous, and honest portrait of friendship during the painful years of adulting. It reminds us that the truest family is the one we choose.

Maybelle and Peter are finally engaged—and her estranged uncle, Harold Wright, insists on hosting a lavish celebration at his waterfront mansion on Lake Erie. It’s the perfect chance to reconnect with long-lost family… and enjoy a weekend of lakeside luxury.

Being married to the job isn't supposed to be a horrible fate… Dr. Clay Russell has been a committed general surgeon for many years, following in his father's footsteps and saving lives. There's no time for settling down. No opportunities to even meet women outside his grueling hours at the hospital. Flings and unattached sex has never hurt anyone, right? But when he's hoping to be promoted to head of surgery and a nurse is spreading bad rumors about him, he realizes it might look better if he's taken and not so available.

Rejoining the private eye business after taking a step back to be a mother, Jane Monterrey finds herself thrust into a complicated mix of cases. Timothy Dawson, suspected of having affair, is arrested by the FBI during her stakeout. Suspicion brews as the wife gets angry about Jane’s results. While sorting that out, a case involving a beer recipe comes to the door. Soon Jane is following a scavenger hunt of clues with a reporter tagging along, avoiding a shady lawyer intent upon finding the same brew. Add to the mix a missing goat, and Jane definitely has a full plate.

When Richard Jackson goes missing in the small town of Raven’s Point, the entire community is baffled. Helen Wright discovers his body in a freezer, revealing that Richard didn’t disappear—he was murdered. Maybelle, having been reprimanded before for interfering with police investigations, vows to conduct her sleuthing in secret this time.

After Andrew Gardener dies when sipping the wine he made at his vineyard, no one suspects foul play. But when the cause of death reveals a toxic poison, Maybelle fears there's a murderer on the loose. She tries to avoid getting involved, but the mystery is too hard to resist, especially when Helen becomes the main suspect. Needing to find the real murderer and to clear her sister's name, Maybelle goes on a dangerous sleuthing mission which not only pits her against Detective Peter Nelson again, but endangers her life.

Breaking Free: A Journey of Resilience is the true story of a girl the system failed, and the woman she refused to become. Born into poverty and chaos, CL Ball grew up in a house without heat, running water, or enough food. What the outside world never saw was worse: sexual abuse by her biological father, brutal physical and emotional abuse from her mother, and a childhood where hospitals and church dinners were the only safe places to breathe. When the truth finally surfaced, the system sent her to foster care—then left her to navigate trauma, betrayal, and survival largely on her own.

The Wright sisters, Maybelle and Helen, find their lives turned inside out when they inherit their grandmother’s stately Victorian home on East Lake. Amid their grief, they resolve to uphold their family's storied legacy within its cherished walls. However, the house's quiet grandeur is shattered when Maybelle stumbles upon a chilling scene: a woman lifelessly suspended in the dining room.

As Christmas approaches in Raven’s Point, festivities are overshadowed by another shocking murder. When Maybelle delivers a unique set of glass Christmas baubles to a local spa, she stumbles upon the crime scene—along with Peter, the town’s ever-dedicated detective. Despite lingering awkwardness from their recent kiss, Maybelle can't resist getting involved in solving the case.

It’s January 1947, and Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, well-known acting couple, invite six theater people–writers, actors, spouses–to Ten Chimneys, their rural Wisconsin estate, to work on a play. But once there, a blizzard strands them far from town without telephone service, though heat and electricity are still working.