THE MYSTERIOUS LAKE THAT NEVER FORGETS Daggerlin, Ohio, is easy to miss, a forgotten town pressed against the cold edge of Lake Erie, where nothing ever happens. Until eight-year-old Samantha Reed walks out her front door one spring morning and vanishes. Her footprints lead straight to the water's edge and stop. Sheriff George Calder calls it an accident, until a second child disappears near Palmer's Bluff and he watches something impossible rise out of the black water. The boy survives, saved by Marcus Wilkins, a mechanic who has spent forty years denying that the same creature once took his own sister. As more families are attacked and Daggerlin locks its doors before dark, George uncovers a secret the town has buried for over a century: a 1908 fire, scrubbed records, and a forgotten name, Elias Bramwell. What he learns is worse than any monster story. Elias was not a killer. He was an innocent man sacrificed by Daggerlin's own founders to save their dying town, cursed and bound to the lake ever since. But deep in a sealed tunnel beneath the bluff, George finds the truth that changes everything: the missing are not dead. Elias has been secretly keeping them alive, fighting a hunger that was forced on him, protecting the very people the curse compels him to take. Now George, Marcus, and a town finally confronting its ancestors' sins have one chance to break a curse 118 years in the making. It will take more than courage. It will take a sacrifice freely given, and the truth, spoken out loud, together, for the first time in over a century. Part ghost story, part small-town mystery, part redemption tale, this novel turns the monster hunt on its head, asking what a community truly owes the people it has wronged and what it costs to finally set that debt right. Some debts do not vanish just because you stop talking about them. Some lakes do not forget. And some monsters were made, not born.

Jack Sullivan is racing through Chicago O'Hare with everything on the line. His struggling tech company, Sullivan Systems, is months from collapse, and the one deal that could save it is waiting for him on a flight to New York. Then a small hand tugs at his sleeve—a frightened six-year-old boy named Noah, separated from his mother, needs someone to tie his shoelaces. In that split-second choice between catching his flight and helping a stranger's child, Jack kneels down. The gate closes. The deal is gone. What follows is a story about what happens when kindness costs everything—and gives back more than anyone could imagine. Noah's mother, Vivian, is stunned by the quiet dignity of the man who chose her son over his own future. She has no idea what Jack just lost. He has no idea she secretly runs one of the most powerful investment firms in the country. As their paths unexpectedly cross again, Jack must confront a question that haunts every ambitious person: what is success worth if it costs you your character? Refusing to accept help that feels like pity, he forces both of them into a rare, honest connection built on trust rather than gratitude. Untied follows Jack's journey from a man drowning in deadlines and desperation to someone who rediscovers the value of human connection—finding that his worst day secretly became the beginning of his best one. Warm, hopeful, and emotionally grounded, it's a story about choosing people over profit and the unexpected family found along the way.

She dialled the wrong number on the happiest night of her life. She had no idea she'd just called her future. THE STRANGER WHO KNEW HER NAME Chen Wei Ling has spent her whole life building something out of nothing—flour-dusted bakery shifts, quiet late nights, a hard-won degree, and a family stitched together from love instead of blood. The night she finally graduates, she's too happy to check the number before she dials, and the voice that answers isn't her aunt's. It belongs to Tan Jun Hao—a man with a glass office, a cold empire, and a life so guarded that a stranger's laughter over the phone cracks something open in him he thought was long gone. Months later, Wei Ling walks into the interview of a lifetime, never knowing the man behind the desk already knows her name. As their worlds collide—late nights, quiet balconies, a friendship that grows into something neither of them planned—one secret waits to unravel everything she thought she'd earned on her own. How far would you go to protect someone from the truth? And how much do you risk losing the moment they finally learn it? A story about second chances, quiet courage, and the accidents that turn out to be destiny—set against the glittering skyline of Singapore.