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How do you get over a woman you never should have been, ahem, under in the first place? Just when FBI special agent Spencer Landry had decided to forget about investigative journalist Maxine "Max" Keller and their one hot night together, there's a threat made against her, and Spencer's protective instincts get all riled up. Again. So now they're shacking up on the Louisiana bayou and pretending to be in love so he can keep Max safe until the guy is apprehended.

Desperate to escape her tragic past, Sara Hawthorne packs up everything she owns and moves across the country to Seattle with her best friend Alexa. With the recent passing of her grandmother, there is nothing holding her back from starting over. She dreams of a normal life, one which isn’t constantly plagued by nightmares. Everything seems to be going her way until a gorgeous stranger walks into her shop, turning her world upside down. Although billionaire playboy Alek Devera is not the relationship type, everything changes once he comes face-to-face with Sara.

I’m screwed. Drew Hayes just showed up on my doorstep. My best friend’s older brother. The love of my life. My ex. He dumped me five years ago. I moved on. Got married. But when I tell him to leave, he does the opposite. He storms into my life. Tears down my walls. Demands the one thing I won’t ever give him again. My love. He’s my past. Yet every time I look into his eyes, I see my future.

She has a head for business and a body for sin. He is a coach who knows how to use his equipment. Neither is looking for love. Should be easy, right? Wrong. This might be the most important game Kendall Wales and Hunter Owens have ever played where everything is on the line. With one wrong play, they could lose it all. Hopefully, the game clock doesn’t reach zero before it’s too late.

Ashton Grey’s restaurant, Sweet Home, is in trouble. Months of empty tables have left her and her partners near bankruptcy, and her father’s prediction of her failure as a chef seems imminent. But a chance encounter could provide Ashton with the publicity she needs to save her restaurant - if the fiery chef is willing to compete on a reality cooking show. But in order to win, she needs to stay focused. No problem...until she meets the head judge.

Being a superhero is exhausting - Nicole knows that well. Since the Gods have done nothing but put her through unimaginable tortures, she’d have every reason to join the Corpse King in his quest for revenge. Yet, joining the vengeful king would be a terrible and drastic action. As she tries to stop him from leaving Olympus, after kidnapping the 12 Hours, Nicole’s power arises - revealing that she can jump through time. An ability unheard of by the Gods, because only Chronos himself can control time…. And, now that the Corpse King knows Nicole’s secret, her life is in jeopardy.

Sara Hawthorne thought she had found the man of her dreams. He was caring, protective to a fault, and desired her in ways she had only dreamed of. Her life was finally falling into place until a secret tore her new world apart. Reeling from a devastating betrayal, she ran from the only man who had broken down her defenses, making her feel alive after years of simply existing. Alek Devera risked it all to keep her safe. But when Sara ended their relationship, the evidence of his betrayal strewn at her feet, he vowed to win her back, putting their delicate future into fate’s hands.

My sister lives to ruin my life. That isn’t fair. It’s not her fault our dance instructor called me fat and awkward, and our parents funded Lisa’s training because I had a better head for business. So when Lisa went off the rails after her injury, it naturally came to me to track her down. The trail starts at the Spearmint Rhino - an upscale gentlemen’s club five minutes off the Las Vegas strip, where a group of hot Aussie soccer players are having a bachelor party. Hello, Chance Bateman!

From USA Today best-selling author Willow Winters comes a seductive and emotionally captivating, second chance romance. It’s impossible to get over what we had. He was everything - irresistibly handsome, ruthlessly elite, and seemingly untouchable - while I was nothing. Yet he protected me when I was at my lowest; more than that, he wanted me. He devoured me… and I did the same to him. Until it all fell apart and I ran as far away from Madox as I could. After all, the two of us were never meant to be together.

It's Saturday night in Santa Barbara and it seems like everyone is headed to the same destination. The reason is simple: To celebrate the end of school. But for eleven different people the motives are bit more complicated - to be noticed, to hook up, to make friends, to numb the pain, to get over an ex, to say goodbye. As each character takes a turn and tells his/her story, the eleven individuals intersect, reconnect, and combine in ways that none of them ever saw coming.

Laya Marston’s husband, Cameron, a daredevil enthusiast, was the complete opposite of her, ready and willing to dive off a cliff-face or parachute across a canyon - and Laya loved him for it. But she was different: pragmatic, regimented, devoted to her career and to supporting Cameron from the sidelines of his death-defying feats. Opposites attract, right? But when Cameron dies tragically, Laya becomes lost in denial, living in the delusion that Cameron will come back to her.

Since their forbidden beginning, Erin and Blake's relationship has been marked by deep sensuality and intense emotion. The couple is tested at every turn. They’re running out of time. Blake and Erin will have to trust each other to forge their own sexy ending.

I fell in love with a devil, and now, it will take everything I have to save him. The gates to the Realm of the Damned have been cracked open, and the only thing preventing them from being flung wide apart is my mate. Killing him will unleash Hell itself. Revelations will bring about unlikely allies, but will it be enough?

Old lore says that powerful dragons once created Andlang, ruling over it for thousands and thousands of years until man’s greed and cruelty destroyed it all. The dragons are long dead and gone, and now, her world is suffering. Crops are failing, livestock is starving, and the population is dwindling, making fertile women a precious resource—more valuable than gold.

I’m Noelle Holiday, lover of all things cozy and festive. I thought moving into my grandma’s rent-controlled apartment in New York would be a fresh start. What I didn’t expect was sharing a wall with Jacob McCallister, my grumpy, Grinch-of-a-neighbor who hates joy, scented candles, and any music with jingle bells. He’s broody, blunt, and allergic to holiday cheer. I’ve never met someone so bothered by a string of Christmas lights or the scent of freshly baked cookies. Naturally, I’ve made it my mission to thaw his frosty demeanor.

I was at the top of my game. I knew who I was and what direction my life was headed. I owned the most prestigious night clubs down the east coast yet I kept my identity a secret. I don’t like being in the lime light and my hometown was none of anyone’s business. However, making people happy was. I did that with my clubs. Until the day tragedy struck my family. I had a choice to make and it wasn’t an easy one. At the end of the day, family always comes first. I went home to take care of my mom and the ranch.

After being rescued before drowning in a glass coffin, Gwyn now knows why she ended up on the lawn to Wickmore Academy and who sent her. But now everything just got more complicated, as she is tasked with breaking out of the strange prison, not only to save herself but all the villains as well.

Gwyn has been raised at Maludom, an orphanage run by Morgan Le Fey where children were trained to become thieves. And Gwyn is the best thief of them all. So when she finds a crystal sphere in an old, abandoned house, her first instinct is to steal it.

Johnny and Kiera Barlow are the gold standard when it comes to relationships. Together for eight years and married for half of them, it seems they’ve got it all figured out. But Johnny and Kiera haven’t let their friends in on their secret. The relationship that seems so perfect on the outside has been rocky at best for the last year. Now, they’re getting a divorce. But there’s one thing they need to do before they share the news. They’ll stand up beside their closest friends as best man and matron of honor for a North Carolina beach wedding.

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