BOOK DESCRIPTIONParis, 1926. The city glitters with jazz, champagne, and the intoxicating belief that the old rules are dissolving. But for Élise Moreau, twenty-three years old and engaged to a man she does not love, the glitter is a cage with gilded bars.When Élise slips away from her suffocating bourgeois world and finds herself in a Montmartre jazz club, she hears a single trumpet note that changes everything. The man playing it is James "Jimmy" Cole — a Black American musician who fled racial violence in New Orleans for the hard-won freedoms of Paris. He is brilliant, guarded, and entirely outside the world Élise was raised to inhabit.What begins as stolen afternoons along the Seine deepens into something neither of them planned for: a love that is real precisely because it refuses to be convenient. As Élise's September wedding draws closer and the city's political climate darkens around the jazz clubs of Montmartre, both are forced to ask the same impossible question — what are you willing to lose to be who you truly are?Where the Seine Forgets is a sweeping, intimate novel of forbidden love, racial identity, and the courage it takes to choose your own life. Set against the luminous backdrop of 1920s Paris — the salons and jazz clubs, the broad boulevards and narrow alleys, the city of freedom that was never free for everyone — it is a story about the music that breaks us open and the people who teach us what we actually sound like inside.Rich with unforgettable characters, lush historical atmosphere, and an emotional truth that resonates far beyond its era, this is a novel for readers who believe that love, at its most real, is not a feeling but a decision — and that the most important identity we ever discover is the one we choose for ourselves."Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind." — Plato

Eldenmoor is the kind of town people dream about. Low crime. Long lives. Children who sleep without nightmares. A community so inexplicably peaceful that county health reports cite it as a statistical miracle.Mara Voss doesn’t believe in miracles.A specialist in cold cases involving abandoned children, Mara arrives in Eldenmoor with eleven photographs and a professional inability to accept comfortable answers. What she finds is Pastor Daniel Howe — universally beloved, genuinely kind, completely trusted. A man so convincingly good that every investigative instinct she possesses tells her he is exactly what he appears to be.Her instincts have never been more dangerously wrong.Beneath the church at the edge of the eastern woods is a room kept for three hundred and thirty years. Its walls are covered floor to ceiling with thousands of names spanning centuries. At the center are eleven names Mara knows by heart. And written deeper in the walls, in a handwriting she recognizes from fourteen years of nightmares, are clinical intake notes written by her mother — who vanished without trace when Mara was seventeen.What Daniel tells her in that basement will destroy everything she knows about justice, about evil, about Eldenmoor and every town like it scattered across a country that sleeps far too soundly. Because Eldenmoor is not alone. The agreements are not isolated. And the network of immortal caretakers who have spent centuries feeding forgotten children to something ancient and hungry beneath the earth are not hiding.They have been waiting for someone exactly like Mara.Is a monster still a monster if the alternative is worse?The Last Good Man is a story about the price of safety, the arithmetic of sacrifice, and the horrifying discovery that the people who love you have been keeping the most secret

Taken from her home in Nigeria, Zainab’s life is shattered in a single night—her village destroyed, her family lost, and her freedom stolen. Forced into a life she never chose, she is taken across the sands to Egypt, where she is sold as a slave in a world that sees her as nothing more than a possession.But Zainab is not as fragile as they believe.With her striking beauty, quiet strength, and unbreakable spirit, she quickly becomes the center of attention—desired by men who see her as something to own. To survive, she learns to stay silent, to hide, to endure.Until the day she is seen by someone who changes everything.Prince Kamil was never meant to notice her. Raised to rule, bound by tradition, and expected to marry within his royal bloodline, his life has always followed a path already written for him.But Zainab was never meant to be part of that story.Drawn to her strength and captivated by the fire she tries so hard to conceal, the prince finds himself torn between duty and desire. What begins as curiosity soon becomes something far more dangerous—something that could shake the very foundation of his kingdom.Because in a world where a prince must never choose a slave…He is willing to risk everything for her.As whispers spread and the palace turns against them, Zainab is faced with a choice she never expected to have: remain the girl who was taken… or become the woman who dares to stand beside a prince.But love in a world built on power and tradition comes at a cost.And choosing each other may cost them everything.She was taken as a slave… but she may rise as the woman who changes a kingdom.