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Robin Alden Howard
Fiction drawn from truth.
Love, loss, and the long road in between.
From soft beginnings to hard endings, Four Husbands and a Bottle of Trouble trace four marriages, one woman’s survival, and the bruises left behind.
Some tales are tender.
Some bleed.
All of them remember.
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Four Husbands and a Bottle of Trouble Inspired by truth. Shaped by survival. Told without apology. The Four Husbands and a Bottle of Trouble series follows Rachel Vos, a woman who never meant to collect husbands—but life, men, and survival had other plans. From the quiet farm life of The Agrarian Idealist to the cage of a charming Appalachian businessman in The Appalachian Entrepreneur, Rachel keeps adapting, fighting, and outlasting the men who underestimate her. Then comes Antonio DeFina, The Syndicate Executive. He doesn’t pretend to love her. He simply takes her. Escaping him costs Rachel pieces of herself she can never get back. Father of No One reaches into Antonio’s past, revealing the brutal legacy that forged him into the man who would one day destroy hers. Just when Rachel believes she is finally free, she meets Harrison—the Whiskey Gentleman who sees her without trying to own her. But Rachel’s past isn’t finished with her, and neither are the men who left scars on her life. In The Shadow Gentleman, buried truths emerge and loyalties are tested as Eli Mercer steps out of the darkness to help Rachel and Harrison face the final threat. With both gentlemen beside her, Rachel is done running. The last game has begun—and this time, she refuses to be anyone’s pawn.
The Archivist Every move is a setup in Adam Sinclair’s world. He’s charming, attentive, and calculating enough to make danger feel like devotion. Cyra stumbles into his orbit at the worst possible moment, and what looks like kindness twists into quiet control. As Adam’s past bleeds into the present, everyone around him becomes a piece in a game they never agreed to play. The Archivist is a psychological descent where love is a lure, power is the prize, and nothing you trust is what it seems.
Reader Journals These journals are made for the reader who screams “I LOVE HIM” and “I HATE HIM” at the same character in three pages flat. It’s your space to unload feral reactions, gasp-worthy quotes, emotional damage, character crushes, and the dramatic meltdowns you can’t keep shoving into the group chat. Whether it’s cozy romance or a thriller that wrecks your soul, this journal catches the chaos so you can keep flipping pages like you promised yourself you wouldn’t.
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Ten-year-old Poppy Lindgren has the heaviest pockets in Park Rapids, Minnesota—filled with bottle caps, feathers, smooth stones, and treasures grown-ups call junk. When trash begins appearing overnight and a chickadee thanks her for cleaning it up, Poppy learns that six giant trolls are sleeping in the woods near Detroit Lakes. To wake them, she and her little brother Gus must follow the water, outsmart the Golden Rabbit, and remember a nearly forgotten promise: care for what you love, even when no one asks you to. Inspired by real Minnesota landmarks and the giant troll sculptures of artist Thomas Dambo, *Poppy and the Sleeping Trolls* is a magical Northbound Ink adventure about courage, conservation, and the extraordinary difference one child can make.
Lily Rose knows how to survive. Trust is harder. Told through the eyes of a feral cat, *Roses for Lily* follows one small life through hunger, fear, unexpected kindness, and the fragile hope of finally belonging. Tender, haunting, and filled with heart, it is a story about the animals people overlook—and the quiet acts of compassion that can change everything. Created in support of trap-neuter-return efforts, *Roses for Lily* reminds us that every life deserves to be seen, protected, and loved.
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Meet Robin Alden Howard
Robin writes dark, emotionally-charged fiction with razor-sharp edges and tender undercurrents. Her stories blend love and trauma, survival and obsession, with characters who don’t just break—they unravel.
She’s the voice behind the Four Husbands and a Bottle of Trouble series, where resilience is messy, love is dangerous, and control is always an illusion.
Robin lives somewhere between memory and madness, fueled by caffeine, stubbornness, and a relentless need to write the truth—even in fiction.
When she’s not tearing out the hearts of her readers, she’s baking ridiculously good cookies, sidestepping reality with wit, or pretending she has time to rest.
She doesn’t just write stories. She writes scars.
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