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Bedside Reading
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Butterly Games
For fans of Philippa Gregory and Allison Pataki, a debut biographical historical novel about a young Swedish countess whose youthful love affair with the heir to her country’s throne has profound personal and political repercussions. In some games, winning means losing everything that matters. In the opulent world of the Swedish royal court, Jacquette Gyldenstolpe walks a dangerous tightrope between romance and political intrigue. Neglected by her parents and ostracized by the people around her, the young countess falls in love with Prince Oscar, heir to the Swedish throne—but their passionate affair has far-reaching consequences for the new Bernadotte dynasty, which is already challenged by threats from inside Sweden and beyond. By the time Jacquette learns that the Butterfly Game is not for the faint-hearted, it is too late. For she has a secret—one as precious to her as it is potentially devastating to the crown—and she will stop at nothing to protect it. Based on a true story and set in stormy early-1800s Europe, Butterfly Games is a sweeping historical tale of forbidden love, fierce duty, and the cost of ambition. From the lavish ballrooms of Stockholm to the elegant manor houses of the Swedish countryside, Jacquette’s story will transport readers to a world where every whisper could lead to triumph or ruin.
For fans of Philippa Gregory and Allison Pataki, a debut biographical historical novel about a young Swedish countess whose youthful love affair with the heir to her country’s throne has profound personal and political repercussions. In some games, winning means losing everything that matters. In the opulent world of the Swedish royal court, Jacquette Gyldenstolpe walks a dangerous tightrope between romance and political intrigue. Neglected by her parents and ostracized by the people around her, the young countess falls in love with Prince Oscar, heir to the Swedish throne—but their passionate affair has far-reaching consequences for the new Bernadotte dynasty, which is already challenged by threats from inside Sweden and beyond. By the time Jacquette learns that the Butterfly Game is not for the faint-hearted, it is too late. For she has a secret—one as precious to her as it is potentially devastating to the crown—and she will stop at nothing to protect it. Based on a true story and set in stormy early-1800s Europe, Butterfly Games is a sweeping historical tale of forbidden love, fierce duty, and the cost of ambition. From the lavish ballrooms of Stockholm to the elegant manor houses of the Swedish countryside, Jacquette’s story will transport readers to a world where every whisper could lead to triumph or ruin.
Where the Heart Meets the Sea
An emotionally rich love story with themes of lost and found family in a stunning Norwegian island setting. Twenty-nine-year-old Ella Nilsen has never known her parents—or even how her mother died. Raised by her emotionally distant Norwegian grandmother, Hilda, Ella has long accepted that the topic of her parents is off-limits. WhenHilda passes away, Ella is shocked to find that her inheritance includes a summer cottage perched above the sea in a place called Lyngør, a remote island in Norway. To sell it, she’ll have to visit the cottage and take stock of what’s there—and maybe Lyngør holds the key to her mother’s mysterious passing, if she can get the locals to talk. For as long as he can remember, Leif Arnesen, a thirty-four-year-old boatbuilder in Lyngør, has carried grief and shame from his father’s death, an accident that upended their small community. When Ella breezes into Lyngør looking for answers, her very presence stirs up old ghosts and earns her the villagers’ suspicions. As sparks begin to fly between Leif and Ella and their relationship blossoms quickly, everything Leif knows to be true threatens to capsize. Perfect for fans of Jennifer Probst’s Our Italian Summer and set amid the rough and wild beauty of the Norwegian archipelagoes, Kimbra Drake’s Where the Heart Meets the Sea asks what happens when we’re forced to rewrite the stories that have defined our lives—and what we do with the next chapters.
An emotionally rich love story with themes of lost and found family in a stunning Norwegian island setting. Twenty-nine-year-old Ella Nilsen has never known her parents—or even how her mother died. Raised by her emotionally distant Norwegian grandmother, Hilda, Ella has long accepted that the topic of her parents is off-limits. WhenHilda passes away, Ella is shocked to find that her inheritance includes a summer cottage perched above the sea in a place called Lyngør, a remote island in Norway. To sell it, she’ll have to visit the cottage and take stock of what’s there—and maybe Lyngør holds the key to her mother’s mysterious passing, if she can get the locals to talk. For as long as he can remember, Leif Arnesen, a thirty-four-year-old boatbuilder in Lyngør, has carried grief and shame from his father’s death, an accident that upended their small community. When Ella breezes into Lyngør looking for answers, her very presence stirs up old ghosts and earns her the villagers’ suspicions. As sparks begin to fly between Leif and Ella and their relationship blossoms quickly, everything Leif knows to be true threatens to capsize. Perfect for fans of Jennifer Probst’s Our Italian Summer and set amid the rough and wild beauty of the Norwegian archipelagoes, Kimbra Drake’s Where the Heart Meets the Sea asks what happens when we’re forced to rewrite the stories that have defined our lives—and what we do with the next chapters.
Sacred Crossroads:
Some moments don’t shout... they whisper. And if you don’t listen, your life keeps going… just smaller. Sacred Crossroads is a haunting work of magical realism fiction for those who sense there’s more beneath the surface of ordinary life, and are brave enough to look. Sacred Crossroads is a luminous, magical realism novel that explores what happens when we reach the quiet edge of life and perception, drawn by an unmistakable pull toward something deeper. When familiar structures begin to dissolve, and certainty fades, Noble Manning finds himself crossing into a world where time folds, places remember, and unseen guides appear not to comfort, but to ask. This is not fantasy escapism. It’s spirituality fiction rooted in emotion, memory, and the unspoken questions many carry but rarely voice.A t its heart, Sacred Crossroads is a novel about choice and meaning; about the moment when continuing as before is no longer possible, yet the path forward remains unclear. Through dreamlike encounters and grounded human reflection, the book traces the inner terrain of a spiritual awakening: the grief of shedding old identities, the tenderness of remembering who you were before the world told you who to be, and the courage required to choose truth over comfort. I f you’re drawn to magical realism fiction, books that make you rethink life, or a novel about choice and meaning that honors mystery without abandoning humanity, Sacred Crossroads invites you to pause… and notice where you are standing now.
Some moments don’t shout... they whisper. And if you don’t listen, your life keeps going… just smaller. Sacred Crossroads is a haunting work of magical realism fiction for those who sense there’s more beneath the surface of ordinary life, and are brave enough to look. Sacred Crossroads is a luminous, magical realism novel that explores what happens when we reach the quiet edge of life and perception, drawn by an unmistakable pull toward something deeper. When familiar structures begin to dissolve, and certainty fades, Noble Manning finds himself crossing into a world where time folds, places remember, and unseen guides appear not to comfort, but to ask. This is not fantasy escapism. It’s spirituality fiction rooted in emotion, memory, and the unspoken questions many carry but rarely voice.A t its heart, Sacred Crossroads is a novel about choice and meaning; about the moment when continuing as before is no longer possible, yet the path forward remains unclear. Through dreamlike encounters and grounded human reflection, the book traces the inner terrain of a spiritual awakening: the grief of shedding old identities, the tenderness of remembering who you were before the world told you who to be, and the courage required to choose truth over comfort. I f you’re drawn to magical realism fiction, books that make you rethink life, or a novel about choice and meaning that honors mystery without abandoning humanity, Sacred Crossroads invites you to pause… and notice where you are standing now.
