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When Chip met Jai during All-Stars weekend, their hookup should've ended there. At the time, it was no big deal. As the assistant coach for the Phoenix Ice Rays, Chip can't be in a relationship with a player from his team. Lucky for him, Jai plays for the Red Zones. That is, until the Red Zones make a surprise trade.

He was a season away from a peaceful life until fate stepped in. Andrei is the jokester. The one no one takes seriously. The one who is darker than anyone could've imagined. He spent years hiding behind a wall of humor and bitterness. In spite of his personal issues, Andrei is always willing to help out a friend. Handing Andrei a walking disaster.

He's hockey's bad boy. Alex's reputation as one of the meanest defensemen in the league is nothing compared to his notoriety off the ice. After spending too much time and energy chasing someone who'd never feel the same, Alex is through playing games. He's content with his self-indulgent nights of alcohol and strange men.

Noah has been in love with his best friend, Troy, for as far back as he can remember. There is no one else he can picture spending his life with. After signing a contract with the Blue Fires, Noah heads to New Orleans, ready to start his new life as a pro hockey player. But nothing could prepare Noah for how being the star player would change his life.

She’s a magic scientist with a mission to heal, but when her passion project is twisted to create the world’s first wolf shifter and her entire world comes crashing down, she’s thrown from the lab and onto a path filled with changing—and dangerous—unknowns. With her life’s research on the line, she’s forced to work with the wolf, an infuriating man who was bossy enough before he went furry. Worse still is their cover story: fake dating. Their deadly pursuers are looking pretty good in comparison.

Dr. Raisa Montefiore, magic scientist, is on a mission to find the woman who messed with her research to create the world’s first wolf shifter. Unfortunately, her first move lands her in handcuffs for murder. Oops. But Raisa won’t let a little setback stop her. With a new job and her deathbed promise to her sister on the line, she sets out to convince Gideon Stern, bossy werewolf and ex-cop, to quit ghosting her and join forces. Together, they’ll hunt down their common adversary and put an end to her dangerous schemes, once and for all.

Ever since he was turned by his ex-girlfriend, Xander and his panther have been one homicidal rage away from having to be put down. Now, his only goal is to leave his beloved crew before they're the ones that have to do it. Jenny will do anything to keep her baby son out of the hands of the Broken Hill Clan, who wants to raise him to be a killer. Her last hope is to beg for protection from her old friend Xander, the wildest of the notorious Bad Blood Crew—and the man who broke her heart. But Jenny's keeping secrets—secrets that can rip Xander's life to pieces all over again.

I've got big dreams of a career on the stage. Unfortunately dreams don't pay the bills. Working as an exotic dancer for a mysterious monster client sure beats being groped by some of the sleazy humans I've danced for. Performing alone on a rooftop for a statue sounds strange, sure. Then the statue comes alive and turns into a huge, sweet protective gargoyle. My dance frees William from his rocky prison, but he tells me if I don’t stop, he'll have no choice but to claim me forever. Beneath the rough, stony exterior, my powerful gargoyle mate has a tender heart. But he's holding back.

Welcome to the complete anthology of the Emily Monroe Is Not the Chosen One novella series. You will find the entire trilogy of Emily Monroe's misadventures as a normal girl in a superpowered world in this book.

Would you make a deal to dominate the werewolf at full moon? Maurice is a lone wolf. Rejected, half-feral at full moon. Unable to control himself when he goes into heat. That's not what scares me. Even as a beast, he's a very good boy. All that need gets channeled into pleasing me. You see, we've met before: one night a year ago when I ran from the way he looked at me as if I was his whole world. As if he was mine. He can't be mine. Because if he was, he'd be in danger too.

The Stryx offer EarthCent help in reaching out to the wide-spread human communities, but as usual, it comes with a catch or two. Kelly see an opportunity to increase her book hoard, just as publishing on Union Station begins to take off and Donna's daughters enter a friendly competition. But who will publish the most expensive book of all?

Kelly heads to Earth for the first-ever Conference of EarthCent Ambassadors, but while the cat's away, the mice will play.

A new species has jumped into the Sol system for a quick look, leading the Stryx to assign humans to the greeting mission. Dorothy and Kevin leave on a trading mission in his new ship, bringing the dog, and Samuel and Vivian start at the Open University.

Kelly has served as the ambassador on Union Station for more than two decades, but humanity remains on probationary status. When the Stryx inform EarthCent that their membership status is under review, Kelly goes all out to prepare for the test of her lifetime.

My afterlife has sunk to a new level of desperate, all because some badass demon banished my friends to the fourth dimension of the fiery pit. When I signed up for this rescue mission, nobody told me about the bugs, hives, and sweltering heat. That I could handle. Add to that a sinfully sexy boyfriend with serious ex-fiancee issues, three temperamental giants, a psychotic demon dentist, and a really hungry soul-sucking dragon, and this trip to Hell has become the trip from Hell.

Anika DuPont—Annie to her friends—is entering the final semester of her Superpower Studies degree at Tokyexico University. All she really wants before school starts is a nice, normal Christmas with her family, clear boundaries between herself and her superhero persona, and no shop talk. Anyway, despite her efforts, Annie's schoolwork has been taking a backseat to her career as a superhero on an alien reality TV show using her city as a set and her friends as Extras.

Kyra has been charged with a sacred duty—to wipe every filthy, blood-sucking vampire off the face of Terra’s earth. Starting a war with the vamps means she needs help, but her allies are scattered and squabbling amongst themselves. When the vampires attack Montreal and Kyra’s family is threatened, she has no choice but to force the battle that will change their lives and the very shape of their world forever.

As the leaves fall, an enemy rises. All is peaceful at West Side Sandwiches… until Zelda’s mother shows up, suitcase in hand, for a surprise visit. When an outing to Broadway goes up in flames, and a new threat bubbles up from the witches’ swimming pool, an old-fashioned seance seems like just the thing to settle the spirit world—but in magical Manhattan, nothing is ever that simple. Ghosts. Magic. Mothers. This time, it’s going to take more than spells and sandwiches to save the world.

Jane Devereux is adjusting to her new life as a nocturne fabulously. She runs the most popular nightclub in the French Quarter and is married to the hottest vampire in New Orleans. When she accidentally runs over Santa Claus and has to turn him into a vampire to save him, her perfect undead life begins to crumble like a week-old sugar cookie. Whoops. Jane has three days to teach Santa the ways of the vampire and get him back to the North Pole in time for Christmas Eve.

Crimson Oliver is a bad witch. She's not wicked, but every spell she tries to cast goes awry in one way or another. After her last screw-up, the high priestess has threatened to bind her powers and turn her human for good. Crimson's solution? Challenge the priestess to a battle of magic she can't possibly win. Not without a miracle, anyway. Enter hotter-than-hellfire demon Mike Cortez. He's a devil's advocate who can make anyone's dreams come true…for a price. He's had his eye on the seductive witch for a while, and Satan is in the market for a new assistant.