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They once were lovers.... After 10 years of keeping his distance to the one woman he's always loved, Fire Chief Deke Reynolds is finally ready to set aside his grief and confess his guilt to Elizabeth "Libby" Wilson about his part in her brother's death. Libby's own guilty secret has kept her from sharing her life with the man who stole her heart as a teen and awakened her body as a young woman. Danger has forced them together again.... A fire and their odd connection to a new teenager at the local half-way house have this couple finally sharing their secrets with each other.

She hates me. And we’ve never met.... To be fair, I hate her too. I’m not a party planner. Or anyone’s best man. But that’s what I’ve become the day my closest friend draws me and his soon-to-be sister-in-law into an engagement bash that is going to be one for the books. She’s bossy. I’m bossier. She’s stubborn. I’m hard as nails. Until we meet. At last. And everything f--king changes....

For weeks, attorney Chloe Roberts senses someone following her. Always in her periphery, she's been unable to catch them. Then the phone calls and hang-ups start. The only reprieve was when she was in Westen for her sister's wedding. Now, whoever it was, they've progressed to text messages...more and more threatening ones. Six years ago, Wes Strong wandered into the small town of Westen. A lone wolf, he's looking to find a place to put an end to the guilt he carried in his soul over the loss of most of his dark ops team during an extraction of a hostage in the jungle.

The Acquisition has ruled my life, ruled my every waking moment since Sinclair Vinemont first showed up at my house offering an infernal bargain to save my father's life. Now I know the stakes. The charade is at an end, and Sinclair has far more to lose than I ever did. But this knowledge hasn't strengthened me. Instead, each revelation breaks me down until nothing is left but my fight and my rage. As I struggle to survive, only one question remains. How far will I go to save those I love and burn the Acquisition to the ground?

During a statewide blizzard, Westen sheriff's deputy Daniel Löwe finds a little girl named Lexie abandoned, freezing and terrified. He takes her to the only available place in the small town, the Westen House for at-risk teens. Daniel enjoys spending more and more time at Westen House with Lexie and the four teen boys who live there. But it's the new housemother, Melissa Davis that drives his heart faster.

Tiffany Blackburn couldn't believe what occurred during her recent vacation in Vegas. The careful, single mom decided to let loose and took a risk for once, allowing a man to buy her a whiskey sour. Regretting it the moment she woke up alone in a stranger's bed the next day. It only got worse, when she tried to sneak out and discovered something he left on the table. His wedding ring. Jagger Chance never failed to deliver when he was working undercover as a spy for the government. Women found him sexy and mysterious, which the loner preferred.

Dylan Roberts was orphaned as a child . . . Her parents died on a rural highway in a drunk-driving accident. If only she'd been able to do something. Dylan grew up with one all-consuming goal—to save others. Training hard to become a trauma surgeon, only to have her dearest friend die in a jungle, far from medical aid, once again Dylan is left feeling as useless as she did after her parents' death.

In the heart of Louisiana, the most powerful people in the South live behind elegant gates, mossy trees, and pleasant masks. Once every 10 years, the pretense falls away and a tournament is held to determine who will rule them. The Acquisition is a crucible for the Southern nobility, a love letter written to a time when barbarism was enshrined as law. Now, Sinclair Vinemont is in the running to claim the prize. There is only one way to win, and he has the key to do it - Stella Rousseau, his Acquisition.

Lucius Vinemont has spirited me away to a world of sugarcane and sun. There is nothing he cannot give me on his lavish Cuban plantation. Each gift seduces me; each touch seals my fate. There is no more talk of depraved competitions or his older brother - the one who'd stolen me, claimed me, and made me feel things I never should have. Even as Lucius works to make me forget Sinclair, my thoughts stray back to him, to the dark blue eyes that haunt my sweetest dreams and bitterest nightmares.

I became a superhero to protect my son. Now the whole world needs me. Being a single dad is hard for anyone, but I managed to make it work. I always knew my six-year-old son, Jake, was a special little guy, but even I had no idea how special he really was or the potential that both of us had for greatness. When masked men assaulted my home to kidnap him, the powers I never knew I possessed manifested themselves. Now, I must rely on the two women who love my son the most.

Three years ago, Brianna Matthews became a victim at the hand of powerful men and barely escaped with her life. From that moment on, she lived her life trying to pay the favor forward by working in a women's shelter for abuse victims. When her coworker and a former resident in the shelter doesn't show up for work, Brianna must find her. Enlisting the help of Homicide Detective Aaron Jeffers to go with her, little does she know they would end up walking in the underworld of Cleveland's homeless community.

I had it all. Killer job, to-die-for apartment overlooking the Hudson, and the successful, doting boyfriend. Well, he was successful, at least. Guys who dote don't break up with you via Post-It. After that, I did the one thing I swore I'd never do. I went home to the smallest small town there is - a place so backward my family was still engaging in a hundreds-of-years-old feud with the Tuckers. Maybe it had evolved from the days of shooting one another to slightly more benign things, like filling family stores with crickets and moving a two-ton moose around town.

He needed a purpose. The Ciphers MC gave him a chance. But then he met her. And risked it all.

The only child—the miracle baby—of bikers Jett and Luna Cocker, I was raised to be like them, a hero and a rebel. You might even say I'm the leader of the kids who grew up in The Cipher's MC and who, now as adults, save the innocent alongside our parents. But we were forbidden to think of each other as anything other than blood, even though I share none with them. Can I help it if I want to do what I do best? Ignore the rules, and break down locked doors? One rule I cannot break is my own: Never, ever, fall in love.

Finding myself over 30 and divorced, living in the same small town where I grew up, was not exactly the fast track to personal success. So I took action. I landed a job with a bigger practice in a big city where I'd find more opportunities at work, and hopefully in my social life. I was ready to move on. But when Cormac Whitewood and his adorable daughters came into my life, suddenly my big plans didn't seem so shiny and exciting. Suddenly, I was finding myself drawn to the lonely widower, wishing for more time with him.

Jace Black went from an oilfield roughneck to an overnight singing sensation. Now he's working on a duet with country music legend Krystal King, and he's determined to earn his way to the top. But the more time he spends with Krystal, the more he finds himself falling for her - and he's beginning to be more interested in her than he is in making a name for himself. Krystal King grew up on stage and in the spotlight. No matter how golden her life appears, her past left deep wounds. But Jace Black makes her wish things were different. To do that, she'd have to risk letting him in....

Everyone knows who I am: Dante Giordano, capo to the new Chicago Mafia boss and member of the infamous Four. Ruthless and bad to the bone. That's me. Don't be fooled by my good looks and charm. I'm a dangerous man and I get what I want. Women, money, power. It all comes easy to me. All of it...except her....Her ex-con ex wants her dead. I don't care who he is, he doesn't know who he's messing with. Nothing's going to stop me from protecting her. I get what I want. And I want her to be mine.

I'll just admit it right up front - I don't love the holidays. In fact, Christmas makes me downright cranky. Call me the Grinch if you must, but if your dad chose that day to decide he was wrong about that whole wanting a family thing, you'd grow up miffed about mistletoe, too. Every candy cane, ugly sweater, and falalalala reminds me of the worst day of my life. So when my uncle - a bigwig network executive - gives me one last shot to salvage my disastrous TV production career, I've got no choice but to suck it up, head to the small town of Singletree, and fake festive.

Emmy Lou King is the lead singer for the famous band Three Kings, and her whole family is legendary in country music. When her father lands her the opportunity to sing the American Football League anthem and serve on one of the AFL's anti-drug charities, she agrees. Combining her fan base and those of the AFL could do some good in the fight against drugs. But can she handle working with Brock Watson? She’d barely recovered from their breakup - and she's never loved anyone else.

Robb Horner lives fast and free as a pilot for the US Coast Guards, Air Station, Sitka, Alaska. He’ll do anything for his air crew buddies, but settling down is not one of them. Everyone in Sitka knows that Robb is a fun, sexy, one-night-only kind of guy. The closest he came to falling in love was when he was a teenager, but he’s buried those memories because they hurt too much. Courtney Marks is searching for peace. Still recovering from the trauma of being a nurse during the pandemic, she takes a temporary job for the USCG Clinic in Sitka to heal herself and find a way forward.