Romance Weekly - Short Stories of Love, Erotic and Paranormal Thrillers

Daphne Laurel arrives in Connecticut to claim her inheritance: a sprawling botanical garden, a quaint cottage, and apparently a magical gift she didn't know she had. Within hours of stepping into the greenhouse, she's overwhelmed by a strange awareness—she can feel what the plants feel. And in May, what they feel is want.The handsome caretaker isn't helping. Neither is the vine that trips her directly into his arms, triggering a bloom cascade that makes her attraction embarrassingly visible.Her aunt's notes make the situation clear: the garden wants an heir. It's been waiting. And it's chosen the gardener as its candidate.Daphne should definitely leave. She's going to stay anyway.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Nora exhausts every option—lawyers, loopholes, outright refusal. Nothing works. When she tries to physically remove Jonah from the property, the sea's claim tears him apart until she drags him back.As the deadline approaches, Jonah shares what thirty years of suspension really cost him: the year he tried to drown himself and the ocean wouldn't let him die. He needs her to understand the stakes. If she can't take the keeper role, he stays suspended forever.Her old life is calling—her boss wants to know if she's coming back, her career is waiting, everything she built is still there for the taking. But so is Jonah. And she's starting to realize that the choice isn't about obligation anymore.It's about what she actually wants.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Nora Blackwood returns to coastal Maine to settle her estranged father's estate. She expects a quick sale, a clean break from the cold man who never let her in. Instead, she finds a lighthouse keeper who's been there for thirty years without aging, a ledger documenting two centuries of impossible bargains with the sea, and a debt collector made of foam and salt water asking when payment will be rendered.Her mother's death, she learns, wasn't an accident. It was a balance collected. And her father's survival thirty years ago came at a price—a young fisherman named Jonah, claimed by the sea and bound to the property ever since.Now the debt has passed to Nora. She has one month to understand what she's inherited—or lose everything to the tide.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

The Whitmore gala should have been Elise's triumph. For two perfect hours, it is—until her mother appears, and thirty years of suppressed rage finally ignites. The estate transforms into wilderness. Trees erupt through marble. Flowers cover everything. Three hundred guests flee in terror, and Elise's career burns to ash along with her careful reputation.Roman tells her about the fire that killed him—and the years he spent believing he was only capable of destruction. He asks her to see the devastation as a controlled burn, clearing space for new growth. But Elise can't hear him. Not yet. A week later, she's shut everything down. The magic, the feelings, the wildness. Her apartment is dead, and so is she. She got exactly what she wanted. She's never been more miserable.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Elise Thorne's life is a masterpiece of control—color-coded calendars, contingency plans, an apartment so minimalist it barely looks lived in. Then the flowers start appearing. A violet in her bathroom tile. Wildflowers in her desk drawer. Morning glories climbing her lamp. Impossible blooms that no one else can see. When she meets Roman Castellanos, the landscaper hired for her biggest event of the year, he sees them too. More than that—he knows what they mean. The wild magic she's been carrying since childhood is waking up, and it won't stay contained much longer. For the first time in thirty years, Elise can't control what's growing inside her. And she's not sure she wants to.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Mira drives to Ohio, to the abandoned station she's been dreaming about for eighteen years. She explores the building where Ethan has been trapped, finds his notebook full of decades of longing and despair, and prepares for something impossible: a real-time conversation with a man living in 1987. When the frequencies align, they finally speak without delay. He tells her how to break the loop—genuine presence, not performance. She tells him she's willing to lose everything she's built on his suffering. But Ethan asks her not to do it. Not out of guilt. Not out of obligation. If she's going to free him, he needs it to be because she actually wants him in her life. She has two days to answer a question she's spent thirty-five years avoiding: Can she actually want someone?Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Mira Oxton built a podcast empire interviewing people about their supernatural experiences. She doesn't believe any of it—the empathy she performs is just that, a performance. Then an anonymous audio file arrives: a man's voice from 1987, saying her name, describing a week-long time loop he's lived for thirty-seven years. He claims she's the reason he's trapped. As Mira digs into the mystery, she uncovers a missing persons case, a grieving brother, and a dream she's been having since she was seventeen—a dream about an abandoned radio station and a voice she chose not to hear. She doesn't believe in the supernatural. But she's starting to believe in him.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

June Alcott has been reliving February 2nd for three years. The same disastrous wedding. The same vomiting bride. The same endless, numb repetition. She stopped trying to escape a long time ago. Then she sees a man she's never seen before—in 1,095 loops, something genuinely new. When she corners him, he admits the impossible: he's been looping too. For seven years. Theo shows her what the loop can be—not a prison, but a possibility. They drive to the ocean she's never seen, eat at a diner where only he remembers the waitress's name, and for one day, June feels something other than survival. But Theo has been hiding something. On the original February 2nd, he was the paramedic who held her hand while she died. And he's spent seven years avoiding her because he couldn't keep the promise he made.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

The coldest night in a generation descends, and Callum is more present than he's been in decades. He takes Vera into the deep cold—the realm where winter walkers exist—and shows her the fading spirits of those who came before him. A glimpse of his future, if the winters keep warming.Together, they find James, a grieving widower who walked onto a frozen lake searching for his dead wife. As Vera guides him back from the threshold, Callum finally admits the truth: there's a way to save him, but it would bind Vera's life to his existence forever.She chooses to stay anyway. And in the deep cold, surrounded by the ghosts of forgotten guardians, they finally stop fighting what's been building between them. But the vortex is breaking. And they have one night left to find another way.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Vera Holloway has spent five years surviving Minneapolis winters, punishing herself with cold she thinks she deserves. When a new client doesn't show for his appointment, she finds him dying in his car—and meets the impossible man who led her there.Callum is a winter walker, a spirit bound to the coldest days, guiding lost souls through January's darkest moments. He's done it for nearly 180 years. But the winters are getting warmer, and he's fading.Vera can see him. Touch him. And she might be the only person who can save him—if she can figure out how before the temperature rises and he disappears for good.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Loop ninety. Sloane remembers everything—and she's done playing by the Collector's rules.Instead of meeting Elias at the gas station, she goes directly to mile marker 47, where the loop closes. Using her threshold sight, she finally sees the truth: the debt binding them isn't one-sided. It can be balanced.When the Collector arrives to stop her, Sloane makes her choice—not to die, not to serve, but to bind herself to Elias as completely as he bound himself to her. Equal sacrifice. Mutual love. A debt that owes itself.The loop shatters. And for the first time, Sloane sees Christmas morning.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Forty-seven loops in, Sloane has developed a desperate system: writing notes on her skin, hoping fragments survive the reset. Tonight, more memories stick than ever before—and she arrives at the gas station early, ready for answers.Elias finally reveals the truth. He's a debt-walker, bound for nearly two centuries to an ancient entity called the Solstice Collector. When he found Sloane dying on Christmas Eve, he broke every rule to save her—and trapped them both in an endless loop instead.But something is changing. Sloane is remembering more. And in the moment before impact, she glimpses the Collector itself.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

The Gratitude Feast begins with forty-three seasoned guests ready to be consumed, but Nora and James's emotional immunity disrupts the ritual. When the ancient entity arrives, they discover it's been starving on synthetic emotion for decades, craving the real gratitude the Blackwoods forgot how to provide. By cooking genuine emotion together - combining their gifts with even Adrian's skill - they satisfy the true covenant and save the town. Adrian leaves to find his authentic self while Nora and James become the new keepers of Westbrook's harvest tradition, bound together in love and purpose, serving real emotion to a town learning to feel again.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com