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Gabriel Braven is destined for a great love, but he does not believe it. His parents had a storybook romance… until a freak ocean storm robbed them of their lives and left him alone to be raised by his grandmother. With their deaths, Gabriel’s adoration for the sea turned to fear, and his belief in happy-ever-afters turned to dust. Gabriel vowed to never set foot in the ocean again and to never believe in love.

Hoping to win the hand of lovely Cleone Charteris, Philip Jettan discovers that wealth and country manners are not enough. Cleone has been exposed to the gallantries of London society and finds Philip too blunt and boorish. His sophisticated father agrees and the frustrated young man departs for Paris and an education.

Former NBA star Zechariah Aldaine's world shatters with a career-ending injury, leaving him to navigate a life outside the basketball court's spotlight. Known for his competitive spirit and charismatic presence, Zec now faces the challenge of finding purpose in a world where he's no longer the star player.

Orris Spencer is an abomination. At least that was what his father said in 1886 before banishing him from their Fifth Avenue mansion and sending him across the continent to Oregon. Now Orris must try to find a place for himself on his brother’s farm. His studies did little to prepare him for pioneer living, and when he’s called on to help protect the livestock from a predator, he’s not at all certain he’s up to the task. Then he meets Henry Bonn, a strange and intriguing man who lives in a cabin in the hills.

Wrongly accused of theft, innocent Celina Shelley is cast out of the brothel she calls home and flees to Quinn Ashley, Lord Dreycott, for safety. But the heat in the daredevil adventurer’s eyes tells Lina that the danger is just beginning.... Lina dresses like a nun, but flirts like a professional - and Quinn hardly suspects she’s a virgin! Now he knows the truth, will he wed her before he beds her?

Stranded in France, Meg finds passage to England with injured soldier Major Ross Brandon. Ross's dark, searching eyes are those of a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders... It would be wrong to fall for Ross. But when he offers her a job as his temporary housekeeper she can't refuse - and soon sensible Meg is scandalously tempted to move from servants’ quarters to the master's bedroom!

Aurora Washington is terrified! King Alex Barrington is aware that she knows about The Tacitus Coven and forces her to choose between two life-altering decisions. She can either marry Prince James Barrington, transform into a Tacitus and live a thousand-years, or choose certain death. Her decision is obvious, but it doesn’t come easy.

Time is running out and Gloria Weidman must decide if the very mysterious, much younger man she's falling for is just a smooth-talking serial killer or the vampire with a killer backstory he claims to be. When a series of grisly, inexplicable murders rocks her small East Texas town, Gloria is inspired to write again but finds her research keeps leading her back to Henry Wynter, a new student in her creative writing class.

For centuries Cole Shilo has mourned the loss of his wife, Mianna, and drowned himself in his work as head sentinel of Cornerstone Deep. But when he is sent to harvest a second-class woman who has broken curfew, her soul calls out to him. He couldn't have responded at a worse time. The Lords and the Gods are not happy.

Since Tyler Hayward was three years old he has been pushed into sports...He even committed the ultimate betrayal of the one he loved to present himself as "normal"...as life throws him a another curve when a car runs a red light and he is forced to fight for everything he has ever known. Graham Conner has been watching Tyler for the last couple of weeks and has decided that there's more to the baseball player than what the tabloids report. Taking him home to his ranch, the kinky cowboy shows Tyler that baseball isn't everything life has to offer.

In 1900s London, Francine is a ladies' maid, cast off without a character. But she is anything but a victim. Francine has a mission, to help other women survive their prescribed fates, and when she meets another cast-off - poor starving governess Miss Philpot - she transforms her into an independent woman. If she finds romance, so much the better.

In The Woman in the Mirror, Sandra embarks on a remarkable journey of self-reinvention. From picking up a paintbrush for the first time in decades to navigating the awkward—and often humorous—world of modern dating, Sandra learns that divorce isn’t the end; it’s the beginning of a new chapter. Along the way, she uncovers strengths she never knew she had, rekindles old dreams, and discovers that true happiness comes from within.

On a cold night in an abandoned construction site, a dying alien grants five brave children the power to morph into any animal or person they can touch so that they can fight back against a secret invasion of evil, mind-controlling slugs called the "Yucks." Arnold knows this because he was there, hiding behind a half-built wall, and saw everything. He even accidentally got the same powers the children did!

The Chakin teach Andrew Matthews how to transfer people between bodies. Breaking a solemn promise, he turns his daughter, Lottie, into David Walters in order to seize David's fortune - and, along the way, enjoy the carnal pleasures of the beautiful female body that was forbidden him. The Chakin cross the seas to release David from his bondage as a woman, and David is grateful to them...but the gratitude is not total. Has David, in becoming a man once more, lost more than he gains?

Captain James T. Mitchell and his co-captain, Lana King, made one of the bravest sacrifices in human history when they volunteered to have their brains scanned and bodies frozen by the US Human Preservation Service. In the event that mankind was ever in danger of extinction, they would be unfrozen to carry out their sacred mission: restarting the human race! Now, thousands of years in the future, the aliens are encouraging him and Lana to do exactly what they swore to. There’s just one problem: James and Lana have awoken in the wrong bodies!