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Listen to the uber-hot, fun-in-the-sun, coming-of-age book that started it all! Ronnie, now a college freshman, has been babysitting for the Baumgartners so long, she's practically a member of the family. When Mrs. Baumgartner - who insists on calling her Veronica - invites Ronnie along on their yearly vacation, the nanny jumps at the chance.

Sibyl Blackthorne isn't afraid of anything - except maybe being sold into marriage to a man she doesn't love. A man she's never even met. A man who, by reputation, is one of Scotland's cruelest lairds in over a century. But what choice does she have, with her father dead and her uncle now married to his brother's widow, putting him in charge of not only the Blackthorne fortune, but Sibyl's future as well?

When Danielle Stuart meets the Baumgartners, her life doesn't need to get any more complicated. Studying Italian on scholarship at the University of Michigan, Dani is haunted by a horrible tragedy that her husband, Mason, simply can't come to terms with. But when she meets Carrie Baumgartner, and then her handsome husband, Doc, she finds her attraction to the couple irresistible, no matter how complicated things might get. The two women bond over being childless and yet surrounded by children.

Kirstin has never been out of her den before, but now one of her pack is seriously injured - he may even be dying. Desperate to help, she races straight to Middle March, the borderland between Scotland and England, and falls right into a dangerous trap.

For the first time in years, Carrie Baumgartner doesn't have any chicks in the nest - all the fledglings have flown the coop, and she's finally got her sexy, energetic husband all to herself! Doc suggests they take advantage of this newfound freedom, and his adventurous wife has no objections. She intends to enjoy their little nest: preferably in every room, in every position they can possibly imagine. But an empty house has its echoes.

Beneath Conrad "Beast" Beeston III's fierce, intense gaze, his brooding temperament, his knuckles scarred from fighting, lurks a wild man, his strong, broad back darkly inked with his own hard truths. He only has one mode, and "Beast" is it. He ripped through Tilly's life, tearing it to shreds, and then he was gone, giving a stiff middle finger to a life of entitlement. He left her like he leaves them all - with little more than a broken heart. But for Tilly, there was one more thing.

Dusty has always been a hothead, far more impulsive than her twin, Nick, the calm, cool and collected one of the pair. But Nick is dead, found murdered in their local cemetery, and Dusty simply can’t rest until she finds out who - or what - has killed her brother. Sure the local authorities aren’t being straight with her - or anyone else - about what’s been going on in their little upper Michigan town, Dusty delays going off to college for a semester, defying her father and stepmother and taking a job in the local bar to start doing some digging.

Poppy swore she’d never be with a vampire again, but she’s beginning to think there might be one exception. Poppy withdrew into the Alaskan wilderness to escape the immortals who wanted to drain her life, her will, her very soul...but when her long-lost sister reaches out with a desperate plea, Poppy knows she'll do anything to save her. Even accepting the help of a bold, brash, and far-too-fetching vampire stranger. 

As their son Henry gets married, Doc and Carrie have sent their last little fledgling off to fly and are ready to follow their bliss together as a couple. The whole Baumgartner clan has now welcomed Doc and Carrie's latest romantic interest, Jody, a changeable, charming Southern belle whose colloquialisms keep everyone delightfully amused. While Carrie's love for Jody goes way back, now Doc has fully embraced her, too - in so many ways.

He’s big. He’s bad. And he only wants one thing. Revenge. Ric Ryker spent years being called “Big Dick.” Ridiculed for his weight, shunned by all the pretty girls, snubbed by all the cool guys. But after a secret journey of transformation, he’s back - ready to take over leadership from his father at Ryker Arms - with an impressive new physique and a plan to prove them all wrong. Especially her. The one woman who hurt him the most. Annalesa - sweet, smart, stunning. And his stepsister. The girl he could never have. The girl who wouldn’t look twice at him anyway. 

She's a sensible, practical elementary school teacher with an uber-crush on a rock star. He's a hard-rocking, hard-living man trying to keep his band, and his life, together, with more than a few skeletons in his closet. When the two of them - literally - run into each other, sparks fly, and what happens next will rock your world.

Bridget was an orphan raised by wulvers in a secluded wilderness temple to be its priestess and guardian, but now the outside world has found her and her world will be changed forever. Being suddenly swept up in ancient prophecies and ancestral blood feuds is bad enough, but fighting off the desire ignited in her heart by the proud and arrogant wulver warrior, Griffith, the only man who has ever defeated her in battle, may prove to be her greatest battle yet.

Sheltered Cassie is off to college and experiencing freedom for the first time ever. Her stepbrother, Xavian, has been enlisted to keep an eye on her. They're going to room together, after all, in a little apartment off-campus. Xavian's even booted out his old roommate, Joel, so Cassie will have her own room. When Xavian discovers Cassie starting to spread her wings in a brief encounter with Joel, he goes off the rails in a jealous rage, forcing Joel out of the apartment to protect his innocent stepsister.

In this Modern Wicked Fairy Tale, Bart Lamplighter and Eddie Vizard are two con men banded together to avoid riding the 1930s rails by grifting. While Bart is driving a newly acquired, brand-new Duesenberg home to the city, he can’t help but stop to rescue a lovely damsel in distress at the side of the road. Elizabeth “Libby” Bancroft is a smart, sassy socialite who drinks and smokes and is an “old maid” at the ripe age of 32, at least by society’s standards.

In this modern wicked fairy tale, Dr. William Pfeiffer is a brilliant researcher who’s never met a problem he couldn’t solve - or a woman who didn’t want to make him hers. Haley is a single mother struggling to make ends meet as a waitress who quits her job to seek Dr. Pfeiffer out on behalf of her daughter, Piper. Because Will is doing the final round of testing of his experimental device that allows the deaf to hear again. And Haley would do anything to help her little girl. But for the first time, Will encounters several problems he can’t solve.

Once upon a time, Jack loved Goldi but she left to pursue her dream. Broken, bad boy Jack fought his way through his darkness in the boxing ring. But now Goldi is back, around to break his heart all over again. Just when Jack has to stay more focused than he’s ever been. Because he’s about to fight the heavyweight champion of the world. They call him "The Giant" - and he’s married to the woman Jack loves. When Jack finds out his Goldi is trapped in a dangerous, loveless marriage, and she’s planning her escape, he knows he has to rescue her.

He’s hot, he’s a rock star, and he’s a whole lot of trouble. One lick of lead guitarist Tyler Cook and that’s all it takes - Katie’s addicted. She jumps on his tour bus and into his life as impetuously as she does everything else, and no matter what happens, no matter how much it hurts, she can’t manage to quit him. After all, the man plays guitar like he loves women - plugged in, turned on, and set to the ultimate high. Every girl wants him, but Katie is the only girl he wants. Until it all comes unplugged and their world goes blacker than black. 

He’s mine. I married the sexiest rock star on the face of the planet. There isn’t a woman alive who doesn’t want my man, because he doesn’t just make guitars moan and g-strings vibrate. Tyler Cook can play me all night long, with the hottest licks I can handle.

While Bree - my best friend since forever - couldn’t get enough of “Trouble” and their lead singer, Rob Burns, I set my sights a little lower - and to the left. Rob’s immediate left, that is, at least on stage. Tyler Cook was Trouble’s lead guitarist, a tall, glorious, dark blonde, beautiful specimen of a man who could make ovaries explode and panties drop with just one twist of that smirky smile of his. Of course, it was all just in good fun, two girls going to Trouble concerts and screaming ourselves hoarse along with the rest of the fans.

When I met Tyler Cook, it was the end of a past I didn’t want to look back on and the beginning of a future I couldn’t wait to start. One lick of Tyler, and that’s all it took. I was addicted. To him, to his wild, raucous life as a rock star on the road with the band Trouble, and eventually, to most of the drugs I discovered he was taking to make that life - and the secrets he was being forced to keep - a little more bearable. But I couldn’t quit him, no matter how much it hurt. If you met Tyler, you’d understand why I think he’s so worth it.