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Who has time for crazy ex-girlfriends and witches from new worlds when you’re trying to build an empire? Shontae Carter has built her fitness sanctuary from the ground up, armed with protein bars, sass, and zero tolerance for diet culture nonsense. She’s not just helping women lift weights...

Cordelia Tremblay loves fitness, fairness, and fun facts. Her senior year of college is going swimmingly until her professor has to go on parental leave and the school is in dire need of someone to fill in. Having a borderline obsessive crush on a professor from the other Augury campus, she composes an email with a specific substitute in mind… Dr. Alitha Taylor favors logic and reasoning. Head of both the cosmetic lab and Potions Department, she is on track to become the next Dean of Augury University and has no time for romance. Especially not one that could be career-ruining.

When Mariana’s gargoyle crush Cisco kills her father, he frees her from the cycle of abuse that held her captive. Cisco urges her to flee Las Vegas before anyone can stop her. But Mari knows two things for certain: if she leaves Cisco won’t survive, and she can’t live with that. The opportunity to transform her city with the person she’s yearned for so long ignites a fiery passion she can’t resist. She decides to rule the Demon King’s criminal empire by Cisco’s side and heal the harm her father caused.

I knows things have gone ecking south when the Sky sends its full army to hunt me down. Now, I'm stranded on an adorably violent little planet with only Jerrock to rely on—and he hates me. Jerrock. Sky assassin. The Quadrants’ most renowned killer. He wasn't always, though. I remember who he used to be before and I want him to remember, too, but he wants eck all to do with me. He thinks I'm just an addict, a fool, a reaver with no instincts for self preservation. He says that reavers like me can't be trusted. He says that assassins like him can’t love.

Katarina was only looking for one night. An evening of no-strings fun with someone who knew what they were doing and wasn't afraid of getting a little wild. One look at the gorgeous bartender with the midnight skin and waving tentacles, and she knew she needed to feel all those…appendages wrapped around her before the night was out. Lucky for her, the bartender was a woman who went after what she wanted, and oh, did she want.

This 3-in-1 bundle of spicy space operas collects books seven through nine of the Xiveri Mates saga: Taken by the Pikosa Warlord, Taken to Evernor, and Taken to Sky.

A routine run. A wrong turn. A fever blooming under her skin. Xime didn’t mean to stray from the path. But something ancient waits beneath the moss of Tom Brown Park—something with roots and hunger and heat. Her skin itches. Her muscles throb. Something is blooming inside her. And it doesn’t want to kill her. It needs her alive. The Ruins but let it f*ck you. Kind of weird. Kind of erotic. Kind of horrifying.

Crash-landed on an alien planet where everything seems to want to kill me, I've got no choice but to rely on the hunter, Grizz, to help me survive, steer clear of the awful male I crashed with, and find my family missing somewhere on the island. Huge, green-skinned, with a tail, tusks, and claws, Grizz seems so hot and cold. Could it be cultural differences? Why else would he be so reluctant to help me? Or… could it be that I've unlocked a fire-breathing monster within him that wants me, not just once, but to keep?

Tereza’s life was all obligation and no pleasure, but she’d never expected anything else. When a glimpse of undreamed of possibilities propels her into a decision that changes everything, the consequences shatter her world. Fleeing, bleeding, she stumbles into the arms of four fae. With them, she feels things that make her question everything she thought she knew about herself. But the past is not so easily left behind, and old promises stalk her footsteps with deadly intent.

Vanwood is a dangerous place, even more so when you're on Kat Marquess' radar. Thankfully for me, I like a little blood with my kisses. Please be warned ya'll: This is for the V I B E S by which I mean, the S P I C E if you like it a little sapphic. Use this as a palate cleanser, a little spoonful of sugar, and hopefully you won't be disappointed.

I never thought coming home for Christmas would mean running into her—Hattie Anderson. The one who got away, the one I loved and lost, and the one I can’t seem to forget no matter how hard I try. Out of sight out of mind never worked when it came to her, but now we were under the same roof, I couldn’t avoid her even if I tried.

The late thirties in the Deep South were hard, unforgiving times. But for Henry, Tanner, and Edgar, things have miraculously turned around. The only catch is that if they want to keep their good fortune, they have to tend to a … pet.

Xavia had been content with her life as a bounty hunter. She had control over her own contracts, got to sleep where and with whom she wanted, and could drown in the bloodlust that was cage fighting. Even when blackouts threatened to leave her dead in a ditch, she took life for what it was; chaotic. That is, until her life is upended when the Angel of Wrath crash lands into Euhaven and destroys her city.