Color Our World: Mysteries & Marvels

Iris Collins is the messy one in her family. Her sisters are all wildly successful, while she can't balance her budget for a single month. When she unexpectedly inherits a house from her great aunt, her plan to turn it into a B&B fails. She winds up renting rooms like a Victorian spinster, collecting other lost souls...and not all of them are human. Eli Reese grew up as the nerdy outcast in school, but he got rich designing apps. He's never had the same luck in finding a real community, and he's never forgotten his first crush, so when he spots her at a café, he takes it as a sign; he gets sucked into the "Iris-verse" and somehow ends up renting one of her B&B rooms. As the days pass, Eli grows enchanted by the misfit boarders staying in the house, and even more so by Iris. Could Eli have finally found a person and a place to call "home"?

The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and Hannah attracts fans by serving her lip-smacking pink lemonade desserts. But the mood sours when a retired professional MLB player meets a terrifying end. The list of suspects is long and could include Delores, Hannah's mother, who publicly held a grudge against the victim. Now, with her mother's innocence on the line, Hannah begins a dangerous investigation into the ruthless killer while balancing the demand for her popular desserts.

When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with an actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, United States/British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. 

A fresh retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale introduces Miryem, the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders. Her father is free to lend and reluctant to collect, and has left his family on the edge of poverty. Miryem hardens her heart and sets out to retrieve what's owed, and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. But when an ill-advised boast brings her to the attention of the cold creatures who haunt the wood, nothing will be the same again. For words have power, and the fate of a kingdom will be forever altered by the challenge she's issued.

In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the coal-mining town of Calumet, Michigan, where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren't coming home. When Annie decides to stand up for herself, and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she's prepared to handle.

Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she's most certainly not Asian American in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel. Author June Hayward struggled while her friend Athena Liu became a cross-genre literary darling. When June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: She steals Athena's just-finished novel about Chinese laborers during World War I. June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own work. Her new publisher rebrands her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo. The book hits the New York Times bestseller list, but June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her.