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What would you change about your past if you had the chance? What if you didn't have a choice? Stevie Geller doesn't do conflict. She likes her job as a successful novelist and playwright because it allows her to peacefully ensconce herself in her New York City loft, avoid human interactions, and leave personal drama for the page and stage. When her agent asks her to return to her hometown of Darlington, Illinois, to accept an award, she agrees only because he promises the process will be quick and easy.

It's time for the last meow. Her whole life, Kat has been fighting for survival. For her freedom. Now, she's done. She wants peace. Even if that means having to risk everything she loves.

Voluntary kidnapping. That’s new even for Kat. Trapped, tortured, and without any sign of her sister’s whereabouts, she can only do one thing: Release the beast within and hope she doesn’t lose her humanity. Nor her family. Relationships will be broken. New alliances will be forged. And yes, there will be more kittens.

Kat is broke, so when she’s offered a job as the mayor’s bodyguard, she can’t resist. It seems a simple enough job, until someone tries to kill her rather than the mayor. At the same time, an incredibly valuable diamond needs to be stolen, a little deer needs a new home and there’s a ball to attend.

When Kendall wakes up from a night of drinking with a note pinned to her shirt, the last thing she guesses is that it was put there by a gorgeous guy who desperately wanted to see her again. Why would she? She was nerdy, more than a little awkward, and had never even kissed a guy. And it wasn’t like she had come to university to date. She had big plans. She was going to help people who were going through difficult times and she was going to be the best in the world at it.

Kat's world has changed dramatically. Her home is gone, her business destroyed, her confidence frayed. She's used to dealing with problems (mostly by killing them), but trying to cope with her newfound siblings, mysterious enemies, and three yummy-smelling men is a little too much even for Kat.

There’s something about Kendall Seers that my wolf would kill for. What is she, a shifter? Something else? She can’t be human. I could never fall this hard for her if she was. Then again, my instincts have been upside down since I left my alpha-less pack to become a rising star in the outside world. There’s no escaping my past, though. It haunts me. Kendall says she can help me with it. I’ll need her to if I’m going to make it living among humans. Truth is that I just want to be around her. I need to find out what she is.

When Crystal learns her birth mother sought witches to conceive her, the 15-year-old’s faith is shaken. God isn’t the one answering her prayers. She is. After her aunt is threatened, Crystal attempts to master her power, but flying and conjuring fireballs attract dangerous attention. A witch hunter kidnaps her boyfriend, and shamans and witches hunt Crystal, desperate to use her to end their centuries-old war.

Orion City has been on lockdown for 10 years. Courtney Spencer, a disillusioned barista doomed to live a “normal” life in a quarantined fishbowl, is certain she’ll never see over the Wall again. Until one rainy evening, Courtney unintentionally befriends W, an eccentric customer who leaves a switchblade in the tip jar. The unexpected acquaintance soon opens the door to a frightening string of questions that flips everything she knows upside down. Courtney finds herself toeing a knife’s edge between the law and justice, learning quickly that the two are not always compatible.

Cage's problem: He needs to pass his class or he won’t be able to play football, get drafted, or become the NFL star he was meant to be. Harlequin’s problem: people. Luckily, Cage is great with people. Everyone loves him as soon as they meet him, including Harlequin. And Quin is the smartest girl in the class.

Four years into being a mother, Kat needs a break. She's barely killed anyone since she gave birth and the panther within her is frustrated. She needs blood, murder and mayhem. When she's offered the chance to infiltrate a strange cult's annual festivities, there's no stopping her. Along with her three devoted mates, Kat will have to look beyond the holiday cheer to find a killer.

Kat and her family have moved to a new town, but that doesn't mean that things will calm down. New enemies, new allies and new challenges await them. To survive, Kat will have to polish her claws and trust the three guys willing to do everything for her. And not eat too much catnip, obviously...

She’s headstrong, stubborn, and perfectly content in her palace. He’s a penniless minstrel with no intention of proposing. But one fateful song changes everything . . . Princess Liesel never planned to leave her palace—especially not to marry a nobody. But after turning away one too many suitors, her father issues a shocking decree: she must marry the next man who asks, regardless of his rank or fortune. When that man turns out to be a wandering minstrel—who never meant to propose in the first place—Liesel suddenly finds herself cast out and engaged to a commoner.

Teasing a wolf usually gets you bit. That’s why I never made a move on my best friend. But when he saves me from the worst fate of all, facing my family without the fiancé I told them I had, he becomes hard to resist.

Hunter Haley is gun-shy to invite a new relationship into his life after his recent attempt to rekindle an old flame ended badly and his daughters have displayed strong reactions to his ex-wife bringing a new man into the picture. After seeing what adding someone new into their lives means, Hunter fears what adding someone else to the mix will do.

Kendal Seers might be a lot of things—weird, introverted, boyish-looking—but she’s not stupid. She doesn’t have to learn the same lesson twice. But, when her professor selects her as a counselor in an exclusive program mentoring troubled students, and is assigned the same set of broad shoulders and marble cheekbones, this time she can’t storm off. Why was Nero Roman, star running back, in a program for troubled students? Could it have to do with his small-town roots? Can Kendall lower her guard long enough to find out?

He might make her nerdy heart pound like the drums at one of his football games, but Quin needs to get over star quarterback, Cage Rucker. For one thing, he has a girlfriend. For another, she didn’t come to college to find a guy, even if he is sweet and kind, and volunteers with kids on the weekend. She has bigger plans. Unfortunately, those bigger plans require one thing she doesn’t have—the ability to talk to people. And who’s good at talking to people? Cage Rucker.

I die every night in my dreams. Add to that the hallucinations of people I've never met and creatures that don't exist, and you can see why I don’t let anyone in. People don't take well to weirdos that can't tell reality from illusion. That all changed the day a dragon attacked. Yup, that’s right. A real-life, smoke-breathing dragon hunted me down in the middle of a school day.

New school. New year. It’s all too familiar for military brat Sara Parker. After her dad gets deployed, the darkness in her mind is set free, wreaking havoc on every aspect of her life. Stuck in the bottom of a pit with no one to turn to, Sara’s world comes crashing down as everyone around her discovers her secrets, one scar at a time.

With the dragons attacking and the kingdom falling apart, Azia must find out about her history to make changes to her future. But heading up the mountains to see the dragons is a downright insane idea. Fortunately for Azia, she has never been one to let a spark of insanity stop her from doing anything. With a cast of characters including a witch, a seer, dwarves, and of course, dragons, Heiress of Embers is the second spellbinding installment of the Kingdom of Fairytales: Sleeping Beauty.