Advanced Search

Eevi Rantanen coordinates weddings for Helsinki’s elite with ruthless efficiency. She is also a smuggler for whom champagne crates and imported lilies make excellent cover. Her careful life shatters when the influential Koivisto family demands a single, spectacular winter wedding—and forces her to co-plan it with Tuomas Aalto, a rival planner who runs his events with military precision and seems inexplicably immune to her usual tactics. The stakes are much higher than floral arrangements: both Eevi and a dangerous fringe element need access to the rare, tightly controlled 'Luoto' blooms, a proprietary hybrid flower cultivated exclusively by the Koivistos, required for the ceremony, and fiercely guarded for its lucrative pharmaceutical properties. Forced into constant proximity to pull off the high-society event of the season, Eevi must manage bridezillas, caterers, and Tuomas’s sharp, observing eyes, all while executing the biggest extraction of her career. But as Tuomas begins to anticipate her moves, Eevi realizes her rival might have secrets of his own—and that falling for him might be the one complication she can't manage.

Ishbel Vranagh has spent six years turning other people's words into safety — for touring musicians who don't speak the local language, for hosts who don't understand why an orchestra needs three encores and a hot meal by nine, for a Maestro who found her at a rail platform with nothing and never once asked why. She's the best interpreter in her profession because she hears everything: the lie under the compliment, the threat under the toast, the tremor in a voice trying not to shake. It's a gift. It's also the reason she has never let anyone hear her all the way back.

When the touring orchestra's new manager arrives to clean up a scandal his predecessor left behind, Ishbel expects another suit who'll last a season and go home. Brogan Dunmuir isn't going anywhere. He reads contracts twice, asks the questions no one else bothers to ask, and within a week he's noticed what six years of easier men never did: her papers don't quite add up.

She needs him to stop looking. He needs her to stop hiding — because the tour's opening night depends on the one skill only she has, and the city they're about to play has a custom of putting its guests' honesty on public, unscripted display.

Station by station, the tour will carry them somewhere Ishbel swore she'd never go again. But first, she has to get through the first stop without either of them finding out how much the other already suspects.

Isla hears the things people think they said in private. It makes her a very good translator, and an impossible person to lie to. But when the lease on her beloved bookstore is set to expire in exactly forty-five days, being an excellent listener isn’t enough. The developer tearing down the block, Lorcán MacAoidh, is relentlessly polite, devastatingly effective, and hiding a countdown of his own—a condition that means he cannot afford to wait. What starts as a desperate negotiation over brick and mortar turns into a race against the clock. As the days tick down on chapter headers, Isla must use her gift to find leverage against him, only to discover that the secrets he doesn't speak are the ones that could destroy them both.

When a catastrophic structural collapse and biological containment breach locks down the massive K'illu Memorial Hospital, patient advocate Sisaqa finds herself trapped on the wrong side of the highest-security blast doors. Her critically ill sister is trapped in the crushing depths of the Qhari intensive ward. Born with a fierce instinct for negotiation but holding absolutely zero systemic leverage, Sisaqa's only path forward is to strike a frantic deal with the very trauma surgeon she ruined exactly three years ago—her former partner, Dr. Pomaq. Bound by failing hospital infrastructure and forced to navigate unforgiving triage rules enforced by rogue medical factions, Sisaqa and Pomaq must carve through a hospital turned into an escalating nightmare. To execute an impossible rescue, they must leverage every stolen vial and broken rule, even as their buried history and electric tension threaten to tear them apart all over again.