(09/23/25 PREORDER) Swordcrossed

(09/23/25 PREORDER) SwordcrossedHigh heat. Low stakes. Sharp steel. The cozy, low stakes of Legends & Lattes meets the scorching bodyguard fantasy of Jennifer L. Armentrout's From Blood and Ash in this enemies to lovers romance where, yes, the swords do cross. A USA Today bestseller! A New York Times Best Romance of 2024 An Indie Next pick A LibraryReads Hall of Fame pick A LitHub most anticipated book of 2024 Mattinesh Jay, dutiful heir to his struggling family business, needs to

suffer through the heat of a southern summer

The Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home—twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone—to bury Philip: husband

and what it means to be human

Fiercely devout

Those problems have yet to be solved in ours

and let the magic of Shel Silverstein open your eyes and tickle your mind

and happy knitting

Some make mud pies

and a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva’s ancestral home in Moscow

all your friends are dead

At once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration

and burning with romance