The Perfect Blend

Stella sees or thinks she sees a man she thinks she knows. In Hong Kong, Jake faces a dangerous event that changes the direction of his life.

Both of them decide to escape their lives to search for something they are missing.

Maggie O'Farrell

Shelly's tea: Smoky Earl Grey

(British bergamot and layering it with the deep, smoked Lapsang Souchong of China.)

Candy's tea: Adagio Tea Jasmine Pearls

Samantha Mackey is  a scholarship student in an elite MFA program who gets drawn into a bizarre, cult-like clique of wealthy girls who call each other "Bunny" and perform strange rituals, blurring the lines between reality, fantasy, and horror.

Mona Awad

Shelly- Bunny's tea: Abbi's Tea Strawberry Harvest Mint

Candy-Bunny's tea: Alice in Wonderland tea (Home Goods) English Lavender

In present time, Haven Ambrose is a nautical archeologist on a quest for sunken treasure in Posistano, Italy. In 1821, Mari uses her witchcraft to protect her village while desperately wishing to leave her home by the sea and join her secret love. Haven's quest leads her to unravel the mystery left by Mari.

Sarah Penner

Shelly's tea: Summer Citrus- green tea with fresh lemon and ginger .

The world collapses and any survivors are left with a decision: either take their chances surviving on the Earth's surface , or play the game underneath. Carl and what would have been his soon-to-be-ex's show cat Princess Donut take the stairs down into a whole new world. It's an deadly inter-galactic game show and the everyone is watching.

Shelly's Tea: Shelly’s Tea REV up Immunitea- Keeps the Taint away

Green tea, spearmint, lemongrass, rose hips, dried apple, pineapple, Marigold and chamomile

Candy's tea: Valhalla tea Goddess of War

Divorced, on her own and wondering what to do with her new freedom, Jessie decided to become caretaker of Ivy House. Jessie finds adventure, humor and chutzpah as weirder and weirder things happen.

The hilarity and snark are rampant in this one!

K. F. Breene

Shelly's Tea: Tea Drops Rose Earl Grey

The Caretaker’s Tonic (Mocktail)

A floral, fizzy, and slightly "moody" brew that tastes like a secret garden in a sentient house.

Ingredients

• 1 Rose Earl Grey Tea Drop

• 4 oz Hot Water (to dissolve the drop)

• 2 oz Fresh Grapefruit Juice (for a bit of "Niamh-style" tartness)

• 1 teaspoon of tyme honey- a little herbal sweetness optional. 

• Sparkling Water or Elderflower Tonic (to top it off)

Candy's tea: Adagio Tea Elderberry Wine

For a few minutes, Nora Black died on the table during her hysterectomy. When she woke up, she discovered she had then unique ability to experience someone else's memory when she smells certain scents. She uses that ability to help solve murder mysteries.

Renee George

Shelly's tea: "Ombre Mystery" (Lavender Matcha, Elderflower Tonic Water) Tea Drops

Candy's tea: True Honey Lavender Lemonade

Firemen don’t put fires out in this world where books are forbidden—they set them. Guy Montag is a fireman who is beginning to doubt why the destruction is necessary.

Ray Bradbury

Shelly's tea: Mocktail Lapsang Souschong Old Fashion

2 oz strong Lapsang Souschog tea infused with orange essence or orange zest

½ tsp of maple syrup

Serve over ice with a cherry and orange twist

S'mores

Ray Bradbury Theater

The Pedestrian

Ashley is an American student studying abroad in London in the 1980's. She is invited to a classmate's Cotswold manor house for Christmas.

Thirty years later, that Christmas is revisited through the rereading of her diary.

This is a gothic-style thriller novella packed with suspense- something isn't so merry with this supposedly idyllic visit...

Peter Swanson

Shelly's tea: DavidsTea Christmas Morning (the link is to the holiday webpage)

Candy's tea: Adagio Tea Candy Apple

Samantha Silva has managed to blend fiction and non-fiction in this tale of the inspiration, frustration, and imagination that amalgamated into the classic A Christmas Carol.

Mr. Dickens and His Carol has been added to our list of Christmas favorites.

Shelly's tea: Orange Spice Tea- her own blend

Candy's tea: Adagio Tea: Chestnut Tea

Some of our other favorites:

Jacob T. Marley

The Afterlife of Holy Chase

In A Holidaze

Maelyn Jones gets stuck in a time loop reliving the same Christmas vacation in the family Utah cabin. She has to figure out how to break the loop and possibly change her life.

Christina Lauren

Shelly's tea: The Teaspot Sugar Cookie Oolong

Candy's tea: Adagio Tea Candy Cane