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“Big Country.” That name—my name—had Dodger Stadium shaking when I won the World Series. Now they’re talking suspension? Please. I’m a national legend. The pride of NOLA. But the only thing dragging my six-foot-four frame into my Creole restaurant is her…Journey. That woman’s a walking challenge—sharp tongue, soft smile, and eyes that promise trouble. One look from me and she fumbles that cool facade. One look from her and suddenly I’m reconsidering every rule I’ve ever followed.

I’m Natasha Resnova. The miracle child. The one who lived when doctors said I wouldn’t. The one who hides behind a camera instead of facing my violent bloodline. The Resnov bratva thrives on brutality. I survive in stillness. Until one photo puts me in the path of Lachlan MacKenzie—Dodger’s star batter and son of a Scottish crime boss. Lach sees me. The broken parts. The girl behind the blood-soaked legacy. Then he appears, and everything unravels.

When Keke starts looking into secretive stripper Monaka’s grisly death, she’s instantly caught between her past and her present. Through The Honey Pot club owner “Honey Mama’’ Thiboudeaux, Keke found refuge from the streets, earned much money from her stage persona “Brandy,’’ and got a chance at a new life all her own. At Honey Mama request, Keke goes undercover as Brandy to find the truth before political pressures shut the progressive club down for good. But Keke has to watch more than her back.

I’ve always been the outcast in my cloistered Canadian village. So, after an especially humiliating rejection, I sign up for a Bridal Exchange trip to Scotland, a wolf kingdom desperate for she-wolf brides to reverse their zero birth population crisis. But even the threat of extinction isn't enough to make any of the Scottish Wolves want a 6-foot-tall, plus-sized she-wolf with a quirky whittling hobby.

Xylia has revealed herself as a wolf in sheep's clothing, infiltrating the Alexander brothers through Stone—the man who believed he had finally found his happily ever after. Love can be tricky. Love can be dangerous. And sometimes, love can be so intoxicating it pushes you to do things you never imagined. But will love be enough to keep the Alexanders strong when everything is on the line?

Loving someone with demons is hard but leaving them is harder. That's a lesson I learned roughly a decade ago when I left the love of my life. Choosing the child we made but weren't ready for over any hope for what could be. Trading in potential for reality, my dreams for motherhood and the warmth of his embrace for a lonely world. Despite how tragic it sounds, everything turned out okay. I made peace with my decisions . . . until now. Now, I'm back in New Haven and nothing is the way it should be. The man I left behind is not the one I keep running into around town.

I’m not truly one of the devout, bonneted brides who traveled to my sister’s wedding in Scotland hoping to find a pious mate in her adopted kingdom pack. Honestly, I only signed up for the free plane ticket and a place to lay low until I could sneak off and start the academic life I’ve been secretly planning for years.

Layla Jackson isn't looking for marriage or her own happily ever after. At least, not at this point in her life. And especially not with notorious playboy and single dad, Seth Wakowski. He may be a baller on the court, but off—he's immature and the total opposite of the kind of guy she would ever want to be involved with.

She wanted to start again. To be someone--anyone--different . . . Freedom. When Carleigh Stanger thought of college, that was the word that came to mind. Freedom from her unhappy home life. Freedom from high school mistakes. Freedom from the memory of that terrible morning. Only instead of...

My new neighbor, Waylon Stryker, is Jepsen's most eligible bachelor—gorgeous, built, and kindhearted. I stick out like an LA-shaped thumb in this small town after inheriting a dilapidated house and a tiny dog. But when I need my ex to back off and he needs his family to stop pressuring him to settle down, Waylon comes up with the perfect solution—a fake relationship. It would have been perfectly transactional if I hadn't drunkenly told him about my spicy bucket list. I prayed he'd forget about it. Instead, he vows to help me check off each task.

Love is an unfamiliar feeling for me. But after a beautiful nanny saved my life, I know that's exactly what I feel for her. At no other time has another woman touched me this way. For this reason, I know for sure that I've never loved Taliyah on this level. I don't know how to manage these new emotions for the nanny, but they have me moving ruthlessly and recklessly, even got me stepping outta character and crossing a line that I wouldn't ever thought to cross. However, under no circumstance have I ever needed a woman before, but I definitely need this nanny in my life.

I never wanted to be anyone's mated anything. I wanted to be in control of my destiny, not held down by the shackles of my biology. My father, unfortunately, had other plans. I was supposed to fall in line like my sisters, but I ran. The night of my mating ceremony I rejected my four Alphas and got as far away as I could. I gave up everything and walked away from my family and never looked back.

Jaxon Jennings is the second of the Jennings Mafia Family. He's levelheaded and mild-mannered by nature. Unlike his oldest and youngest brothers, he thinks before he reacts. That's why he's the family's negotiator. But when the Elites call him to the table, the deal on the floor isn't business. It's personal. He has been given an order he cannot refuse. Either give up the love of his life, or she dies. Now Jax is stuck between a war he can't win and a woman he can't lose. And for the first time, words might not be enough to save him.

If the plan doesn’t work change the plan not the goal. Those words become the anthem to Soraya Gault’s life in ways she never could have imagined. Soraya sacrifices a lot to secure her future and take care of her family but it never feels like enough. Zamaseon Hendricks works hard and lives by his own rules. There is only one woman in his life who he is willing to risk it all for. Even if risking it all means completely altering his life’s plan, what is required of him is as good as done.

After eight years with her husband, Shalaine Brunson has reached her breaking point. Without a job, she knows her exit has to be strategic. However, before she can leave on her own, the decision is made for her. One traumatic event is all it takes for Shalaine to realize that the person she was married to wasn't who she thought he was. Becoming a single mother overnight is far from easy, but that's not the worst of the curveballs that are thrown at Shalaine. One of the changes in her life consists of moving to a less than desirable neighborhood.

Anissa Dent is experiencing heartbreak like none she’s ever felt. Her husband of nearly twenty years has fallen victim to crack cocaine after a devastating loss. All her efforts to help him have failed, and to protect herself and her sons, she divorces him and has him removed from their home. That doesn’t stop him from popping in and out of their lives with promises of getting clean. Anissa desperately wants to move on in her life, but her love for what once was is holding her back. However, attending a family barbeque with her son proves to be the restart she desperately needs.

When a swarm of mail-order brides and his ex-fiancée invade Alban Scotswolf's small shifter town, no one can blame the giant war vet for deciding to retire to his centuries-old cabin in the mountains. This is a tranquil place meant for him, and him alone. Per tradition, no she-wolves are allowed there, and that’s the way he likes it. All he wants to be is alone.

Returning to my small hometown after I crashed and burned in the city is bad enough. Having my lifelong rival, Wes Stryker, rub it in my face doesn't make it easier. Even worse, I'm hired to help him pull his family's distillery out of a rough patch. Oh, and I'm forced to be his roommate. That means dealing with his annoying flirting and one-upping all day, every day. He's unbearably cocky, and his dimpled smile charms everyone with a pulse—except for me.

New city and a new job with my best friend Mercy. We'd both overcome the odds and came out stronger. I have a pack of adoring Alphas and an obsessive male Omega, my true mate. Everything I never thought I would have. I was no longer just a Beta who hid in the shadows away from a family who disowned me. I had finally found my place in this world. My designation didn't define who I was, I knew my worth.

I fell in love with Koa Mahina when I was twelve years old. Years later, he broke my heart with one word, and I've been trying to get over him ever since. It hasn't been easy considering he's my brother's best friend and is always hanging around. When I think I'm finally ready to move on with a guy I met online, Koa says he wants a second chance. He's saying all the right things, but I'm not sure if it's enough. Do I risk my heart a second time or give it a shot with someone new?