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Kayla has had a pretty crappy year. Cheating husband? Check. Getting arrested for trying to drown him? Check. Getting handcuffed by the world’s hottest cop? Check. Raising four kids alone? Check. Cheating ex-husband being a complete nuisance? Check. Obviously, it makes sense that she wants to stay as far away from the opposite sex as possible. Of course, staying away would be a lot easier if a certain Viking-looking police officer didn’t seem to be everywhere that she is.

Maybe, if we met at another time - another life - he could’ve been mine. Maybe, if I were older. Maybe, if he wasn’t my brother’s best friend. Maybe, if he wasn’t my teacher. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Having my dirty little secret living down the hall had me obsessing over alternate endings and happily ever afters. I’d never wanted someone so badly, but his hot and cold behavior was giving me emotional whiplash.

After leaving her abusive husband, Katherine Marshall is out on her own for the first time. She's hopped from city to city to avoid the man who made her life a living hell. When it seems she's finally found a new place where she begins to feel safe, she slowly grows confident that her life is looking up. A chance meeting with Ben O'Leary sets her life on a course and her soul on fire.

Honey Badger Princess Rana Morn has anosmia - she can't smell a thing. And honey badger don't care, except the condition prevents her from ever knowing who her true mate is. With two so-called "mates" in her past, this shifter strictly guards her heart now. The reward of finding her forever love just isn't worth the risk of more pain.

We all need somewhere where we feel safe.... Benjamin O'Leary thought he met the woman of his dreams. But when her husband shows up, everything he thought he knew about Katherine Marshall is called into question. It isn't until she shows up at his house battered and bruised that he realizes he's made a horrible assumption. She needs his help, but refuses to accept it. Katherine wants to be independent, but her estranged husband is never going to let her walk away. After his latest attack, she considers running away from the new life she's just begun.

False leads and dead ends are taking Camilla farther away from me. The longer she’s with Adrien, the more damage he will do. I have to get her back, no matter the cost. He may share my face, but when I find Adrien, I won’t hesitate to end this. Permanently.

I had it all. Or, at least, that’s what everyone else thought. Between my husband being the president of the Demons of Hell and his club, I had a “family”. Except the only thing that made us a family was my husband’s persistent reminders that it was. But a family doesn’t turn a blind eye to things. A family doesn’t let one of their own become a punching bag for their mistakes. For all the pent-up anger and frustration for something that isn’t even my fault. My “family” was the reason I nearly died.

Mariana may have gone through hell, but she doesn’t get to make decisions right now. She was promised to me by her father, the second she was born. Our families made a pact to preserve the future of the clans. We’re the destined King and Queen of the Romanian Mob. Now, after being trapped for years at the hands of a psychopath - after I’ve rescued her, I might add - the sassy woman wants to play games.

"Will Becca save a new friend in need? Will the alien survive his battle inflicted wounds? And most of all, can a woman from Earth and an alien from space give in to the sensual feelings that has developed between them while their worlds come crashing down around them?" Becca is a young woman at a crossroads. The day after she leaves her boyfriend, who has left a lot to be desired in their relation-ship, she begins her new job.

I owed Mariana so much. I’d betrayed not only her, but The Clans - my country, my people; my own flesh and blood. With so much lost because of me, when Mariana gave me a chance at redemption I was quick to take it. I was needed in the Ukraine, and so I went. But now a vicious woman named Vera is throwing me off my game, and, despite all my preparations and all of my research, I knew nothing of this woman. I owed Mariana so much, and, though I knew nothing of her, she knew enough about me to make that impossible. She knew that I would sooner die than go back on my word.

With the kingdom threatened from dark magic within the palace itself, three sisters - two bound by blood, one destined to be queen - must choose where their loyalties lie, with love or with power.

Things are off on a promising start when Chase, just out of prison, meets Kay Stanton, a young woman with a tragic past of her own. Despite a powerful attraction, Chase and Kay are naturally hesitant to become involved. That's why friendship feels like the safest option. But when passions ignite and love blossoms, a relationship that is destined and meant to be can only be resisted for so long.

My father gave me an ultimatum. He should really know better than that. I was set to marry Isabella, the daughter of a prestigious accountant for one of the Clans. He's been pressuring me for years to get married to extend our lineage - basically, to open up a baby-making factory. I may be marrying a woman, but it sure as hell won't be a boring little virgin girl. I want defiance in the highest form, and how better to achieve that than marrying a slave?

Camilla is everything I want, but she doesn’t know the real me. All she knows is what she’s heard and read in the tabloids. If I can’t make her see the truth, there’s no telling what will happen. I want Camilla all to myself, but my reputation as a womanizer has done its work...but it’s not my reputation. It’s my brother’s that she has to be worried about. Adrien is charming on the outside, but when he gets comfortable, people get hurt. Women get hurt. But I have to let Camilla find that out for herself, no matter how much it hurts to watch her with him.

Katherine Marshall was on her way to being free from her abusive husband, Tim Marshall. With the divorce papers signed, she can finally get on with her life. That is until she finds out her husband is suing her boyfriend, Ben O'Leary. Katherine knows Tim will never stop going after the people she loves. She decides it's time to run.

Rocco has been trying to get Lavenders attention for months to no avail. Well that is until one tequila filled night in Vegas. Lavender blames tequila and possibly Declan for her current predicament. Sure, most women would be running towards Rocco with open arms and missing panties. But she isn’t like other women. Too bad for her life has other plans. Nothing seems to go the way she hopes, especially with Declan involved.

Isoline Beresford has beautiful yet haunting dreams. In them, a man she doesn't know is calling to her. She's inexplicably, inexorably drawn to him, until he's more real to her than her own fiancé. When she calls off her engagement, her enraged father sends her to live with her 90-year-old grand-aunt, the Dowager Countess Bellamira Granville. If she won't do her duty at home, he reasons, perhaps she can at least convince Lady Granville to leave her fortune to Isoline. But life at Thornrush Manor is not what Isoline expected. Her aunt is as spry and elegant as a woman half her age.

Talia has a mission. Retrieve the humans from Klaskar and pretend to be a willing surrogate while accomplishing it. The only issue, she really enjoys being with her two alien mates. They are suspicious of her intentions, and when the truth is revealed she learns far more than she ever thought.

When Chase and Kay hit the streets of Las Vegas, the goal is simple - rescue Will, Chase's brother, from making the biggest mistake of his young life. But keeping Will out of trouble turns out not to be the only obstacle in Chase and Kay's path. Finding himself back in the city that broke him, Chase's heartbreaking past threatens to derail all the progress he's made. However, Chase is determined not to let that happen.

Gorgeous and sexy Chase Gartner hopes to do just that with Kay Stanton. But when Chase's troubled-teen brother, Will, stays on in Harmony Creek, Ohio - after an unexpected arrival - Chase and Kay's bonds of love and commitment are soon tested. Chase finds himself caught up in secrets - and revisiting a past he thought he'd left behind - when Will makes a number of irresponsible decisions. Despite Chase's attempts to keep his brother out of trouble, Will's reckless behavior continues, affecting not only Chase and Kay, but other residents in town...one disastrously so.