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"Cary “Sol” Solomon isn’t just in a slump—he’s a mess. His stats have plummeted. Fans hate him. After he caps off two awful seasons with a catastrophic playoff flop, his team is done with him. Worse, thanks to his downward spiral, the addiction that’s nearly cost him his career before is rearing its ugly head. As luck would have it, though, the Seattle Sasquatches are desperate for goalies. When they snatch up Sol off waivers, maybe he has a chance to turn things around… if he can stay sober and get back on his game.

I gave up everything for Rome. The one woman I couldn't live without. But could I keep my promise and turn my back on everything? Could I really forsake being a Dom? Or will I pull her into the darkness with me anyway?

Working in retail is brutal, especially during the holidays. For Sam, it means his back and knees are killing him, his patience is wearing thin...and his own holiday plans are probably getting canceled. Again. As Sam’s hopes dim for a relaxing Christmas with his family, he also misses Austin, the man he loves and who makes him kneel. He misses submitting, and he craves everything Austin gives him and makes him do. Shame he barely has the time or energy to faceplant in bed these days.

Jackson Bishop doesn't know what's real. He had a birthday. He met a man. He buried his mother. He got lost in the woods, and then.... Jackson woke up. It's his birthday again and his mother is alive, but the man from his dream is selling him a coffee and he doesn't know Jackson's name.

Despite their good intentions, Phoebe Constance is sick of her overprotective sisters. After breaking away for a week alone, an old flame appears on her doorstep; battered, confused, and transformed into a werewolf. Now on the run, Harry’s sexy grin and delicious body may lead her down the road to another shattered heart. Phoebe isn’t sure what is more terrifying: the darkened fae who hunt them, or losing herself to Harry yet again.

Tyler Schaeffer’s whole world has been yanked out from under him. Job? Gone. Marriage? Kaput. With nothing to keep him in Chicago, he’s headed home to Seattle to lick his wounds and start over. To his surprise, his high school best friend—the man he ghosted five years ago—swoops in to help him pick up the pieces.

I know I'm never going to change. I was born in the darkness, and that's exactly where I'll remain. Rome is sweet, gentle, and vanilla. But I'll change all of that. I'll show her who I really am. And slip that black diamond onto her finger.

Marek Stetina is so close to getting called up to majors, he can taste it. Maybe he wasn’t a number one draft pick like his brother, and maybe he’ll never be a Hall of Famer like his father, but he’s almost made it. Right up until a serious injury puts his hockey dreams—major league or otherwise—on ice. Up-and-coming MMA star Carson Wrede’s career—hell, his entire life—has been off the rails ever since a mishap during a fight put him in the hospital. Now he’s trying to find his balance again, both literally and figuratively.

Cat-shifter Payton refuses to be tamed by any man. Being the adult daughter of the fiercest shifter commander on the planet does NOT have its perks. Add to that the fact she’s also a princess, and Payton has spent most of her life besting the over-protective palace guards to enjoy moments of wild freedom.

Positive. One word with a lot of meanings—but not all of them are good. When I remember my time in the Navy as a SEAL, I know one word will define me and shape the course of my life until I die. Loss seems to follow me everywhere I go, but when Benji Hoffman comes back into my life, he makes me rethink a lot of things—mainly… How can I love him and not kill him?

After being exiled by my pack at seventeen, I've spent the last four years constantly on the move trying to avoid all ties to the shifter world. Unfortunately, I can't outrun fate. When I step in to break up a fight, the shifters involved realize I'm a rare male omega. Not only does that revelation put me in the crosshairs of competing packs that would do anything to control me, it also leads me to cross paths with an Alpha who claims to be my fated mate.

For years, my life has been a nightmare. Trapped in a lab where humans use me as a test subject, they've stolen everything from me—including my memories. A careless mistake gives me the opportunity to escape, but the world outside is harsh and unfamiliar. Lost and alone, I stumble into the path of an Alpha who turns out to be my fated mate. Luke quickly becomes my anchor in the whirlwind of uncertainty and, despite my instinctual fear of alphas, he's safety, pack, and home. But I don't get to enjoy my newfound happiness for long.

Bruno Garvin has been in love with one man in his life, and he’s married to him… Trouble is, the marriage was never supposed to be real. It was a passive aggressive way for Dominic Mazzola to show his mother that denying Dom’s sexuality doesn’t make it untrue. Now, Bruno’s back in the States and Dominic’s more than angry with him for mailing the fake marriage license to the Recorder’s Office in Kentucky where they tied the fake knot with their friends on New Year’s Eve.

A trickster fae has come to Whitmore, and there are only three things he could want: tribute, trouble, or the powerful ley-lines that Wendy Connelly is sworn to protect. Even though Galen's cocky grin makes her knees weak, she’ll be damned if the pointy-eared bastard starts anything in her town.

Isaac Morris has devoted his life to preaching against the sin of homosexuality. But when his sister proposes a documentary to demonstrate once and for all that it’s a choice—with Isaac choosing to be gay as proof—he balks. Until he learns his nephew is headed down that perverted path. Isaac will do anything to convince the teenager he can choose to be straight…including his sister’s film. When Isaac’s first foray into the gay lifestyle ends with a homophobic beating, he’s saved and cared for by Colton Roberts, a gentle, compassionate bartender with a cross around his neck.

After two years together, Alex has been dreading the inevitable moment when Damon learns the truth: that Alex is a shifter, part of a small percentage of the population able to switch genders at will. Thanks to a forced implant though, Alex is suddenly static—unable to shift—and male.

It’s all fun and games until somebody falls in love. Chase has just arrived at a much anticipated leather convention, and he’s about to lose his mind.

Oren and Jerod are swords for hire seeking coin and merriment where they can. When a job goes wrong, they find themselves swept into a conspiracy involving the renowned archmage Telamon Tulthar and the mythic order known as the Storm Singers. The two quickly find themselves playing a much larger game with stakes beyond their worst fears. Their journey will take them across the face of the world and beyond, enlisting the aid of those they encounter along the way.

Widely considered a classic of the gothic fiction genre, "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately, the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards.

The director of my clinic is retiring and the job is up for grabs. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want the job for myself, but I’d be happy if any of my colleagues got the promotion. But none of them get it. And neither do I. It’s an outside hire. Atlas Beaumont. Super genius, but I think he’s a super prick. Worst part of all? My father is the one who wrote his letter of recommendation, the one that impressed my boss so much that he hired him on the spot.