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Celia Lamplighter was not the typical kind of woman in whom football star Jean Luc LaTour would ever be interested. Or at least that’s what she told herself a hundred times a day as she attempted to get her crush on him under control. On the outside, they couldn’t have been more different. He was famous, athletic, desired by anyone with a pulse. She was a reclusive, curvy, tatted-up librarian. In the real world, there was no chance they’d ever find one another or ever fall in love. But they aren’t living in the real world.

When you have a chance to plan the wedding of all weddings, falling for the gorgeous groom is out of the question. How does one ignore the sparks, the attraction, and the forbidden fruit right in front of them? Trying to keep her head down, Lilac Freesia (yes, her mother had a bad sense of humor) just wants to get the job done and pretend she doesn't feel anything. Except, what if she can't walk away from the job of a lifetime - or the man of her dreams?

Raymond and Violet find themselves back in Manhattan, caught up in the love they have found for one another. Tensions are high, and not the good kind. The real world waiting for them isn't as happy to accept their union. Ray's parents are irate. No one approves of Violet. And the worst part of it all is that Ray's career is being threatened by a force that refuses to be unseen. A force that threatens to tank Ray's career as well as Violet's. Raymond is torn between his family and Violet. She is torn between her happiness and Ray's. And when storms collide, they never mix.

When you have a chance to plan the wedding of all weddings, falling for the gorgeous groom is out of the question. How does one ignore the sparks, the attraction, and the forbidden fruit right in front of them? Trying to keep her head down, Lilac Freesia (yes, her mother had a bad sense of humor) just wants to get the job done and pretend she doesn't feel anything.

With the sting from not being drafted still fresh, Dalton Boyd gets sent to the strictest coach with the most rules in summer league ball. Was it mentioned the coach also serves as his host family? No? Well, everyone knows the player staying at the coach’s house has the most brutal regime. Dalton wouldn’t be in this situation had he not followed his heart and ended up ghosted. As much as he’d like to change the past, he can’t. So, he sets a goal to stay out of trouble long enough to get through this summer. It’s an obtainable goal. Or so Dalton thought.

The complete five-book Dragon Secrets series! Includes the books: The Dragon's Secret Baby, The Dragon's Secret Bride, The Dragon's Secret Prize, The Dragon's Secret Son, and The Dragon's Secret Queen. This is a collection of paranormal romances with HEA, so no cliff-hangers!

How did that happen? When I accidentally hooked up with Brent Irvine in his private pool house, I thought I’d never see him again. That night felt like a dream, but it was over in an instant. Fast forward a few months. I meet him again, but this time, he isn’t just a man I can drool over. He’s my boss, and I’m hired to care for his six-year old son. I can’t afford to lose this job. Which means that I need to keep my temptation in check. Crawling into bed with him isn’t an option.

As the nation’s youngest virologist and hematologist, Captain Sophia Perry has always been one step ahead of her peers. But there’s one thing she can’t beat - cancer. She wants to make a difference in the time she has left, so when she’s sent to investigate a breakout at a Syrian refugee camp, she goes, saying nothing of her diagnosis. But saving the masses isn’t easy when the man tasked to protect her is so irresistible.

Costume designer Teagan Lanigan only has time to love her work and the young son she’s raising by herself. But when she decides to give up the glitz and glam of the film industry for a quiet life near her family, she’ll face two unique challenges: reconciling with her estranged mother and trying to forget her fling with a very famous country music star.

Major Grace Samuels, a trauma surgeon deployed to Afghanistan, spends her life helping her fellow soldiers overcome disease and combat injuries. But her own wounds are harder to heal. Wracked with guilt over the death of a fellow soldier, she finds comfort in her only friend and appointed bodyguard, weapons sergeant Jacob “Sharp” Foster. Sharp feels more for Grace than a soldier should, more than he wants to admit.

Can a contract sink a relationship? That's the question running around in Raymond Rose's mind. As he sits in his ivory tower, the questions runs through his mind. In everyone's eyes, he has everything. He's the CEO of his family's company. He's got more wealth than ever before. He's the hottest bachelor on the market. And yet, he longs and pines over the one thing he doesn't have.

She is far too stubborn and feisty for his tastes. He is too controlling and domineering for hers. When they meet, sparks fly but it could never work. He wants a perfect submissive wife who will be a help in daily life and a vixen between the sheets. She wants an equal partner, not someone with his head stuck in the 1950s. When they are thrown together to uncover a dangerous scandal in their small town, they will finally give in to their mutual attraction. But will it last?

Meet Josh Sterling - gorgeous, arrogant, rich as sin, and heir to the Sterling Empire. And now, my new boss. Josh waltzed into my hometown. I even changed my schedule to show him around. He seemed sincere at first, so I let him have me. Did you hear that? I slept with him. Big mistake. And then, I found out that he was playing me all along.

I’m the brutal Mafia Boss that people fear. They do as I say. But she’s the woman I can’t control. Claire teaches my niece at school. I was obsessed the second I lay my eyes on her. I wanted my hands all over her soft curves. In my world, when I want something, I make it mine. When she refused to privately tutor my niece, I was left with only one option. Kidnap her and bring her to my lakeside mansion. She stays until my niece passes her test. Claire hates me, but I see the warmth in her eyes. She wants me as much as I crave her.

Breck Stokes is back where he belongs. After years at university, he’s returned to Emerson Pass and taken over his mother’s veterinarian practice. He loves the small ski community, spending time with his buddies and healing big and small animals. The moment he meets lovely but reserved Tiffany Birt, he’s drawn to her in ways he can’t explain. Can he break through her walls to win her heart?

Sir Ezra is an Elysian Bell; he has a frightening potential that he keeps hidden deep beneath tight layers of steel armor. He secretly loves a dark queen whose touch would mean his death. Banished for brutally slaughtering the Prince of Erle and husband to the queen, Sir Ezra can only dream of seeing her again. Every night, his soul travels to distant lands, remembering the queen and a single night of horrific bloodshed. Recalled to the queendom, Ezra hopes to catch at least a glimpse of the woman. Instead, he finds a nation in rebellion and the queen to be an elusive phantom.

Their world was ending, all the heroes were dead, the leaders confused, and their enemies were head and shoulders above them. But there was no one else; they were the dregs, the last worst hopes. Nehring Ardgour has summoned Skoll and Hati from hell. They have torn through the proud and ancient country of Engevelen and the angelic Methueyn Knights that protect it. Armies have died; cities have fallen. None of the great remain. No brilliant inventors, no powerful knights, no master wizards. No heroes.

Property developer Kyle Hicks’s playboy lifestyle couldn’t be better. He’s overcome his impoverished past, his new resort is under construction, and he’s free of any ties. But when he’s given custody of a baby he didn’t know he fathered, he has to turn for help to the one person who hates him. Single mother Violet Ellis can’t seem to catch a break. Between the failure of her business and a developer ruining Cliffside Bay’s charm, she feels her life is in tatters. Out of work and desperate for a home, she reluctantly accepts a job offer from the man she despises.

Two years after her husband’s death on a ski trip, Crystal Whalen is devastated when a fire destroys her quiet Colorado mountain home. And when she can’t keep her hands off the gorgeous divorcé who’s become her new temporary housemate, it only feeds her grief and growing guilt. Garth Welte won’t be burned again. After his ex-wife took most of his money, the downhill-skiing Olympic medalist is determined to keep things casual with the sexy woman he can’t resist. But the more time they spend with each other, the harder it is to deny his burgeoning feelings.

Robert, Koria, Eloise, and Gregory went to the New School, hoping to change the world. They thought that mathematically-based dynamics, the enlightened age's answer to wizardry, would give them the power to make everything better. Their hopes were naïve. Protestors are condemning the creation of a new vaccine. The city is seeing a series of hangings; is it murder or sacrament? The cloaked man is back to stalking students. The long-absent demons Skoll and Hati reappear and begin slaughtering. But the real question is, will Nimrheal return? If he does, who will die first?