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Desperate to escape her evil stepsisters, Lila heads west to be a mail-order bride. As she reaches her destination, her groom is shot dead in front of her. Suddenly, a mysterious stranger whisks her to safety. A former bounty hunter, Bolton specializes in retrieving sensitive government property. He discovers Lila possesses the only key that will open a stolen strongbox. Against his better judgement, Bolton agrees to use Lila to flush the thieves into the open.

Blake has spent his entire life keeping his shameful secret hidden. Storm’s secret controls her every move, which is why she has spent years running, with no intention of stopping. Not when danger and discovery wait around every corner. Blake doesn’t care what happened in Storm’s past. How can he convince her to stay? To take a chance on a future together?

Bradley can’t believe his bad luck. All because of one innocent kiss! He’ll never be husband material. Not with his past. Amanda agrees! If Bradley won’t woo her, who needs him? Until her secret, guaranteed to keep her safe from the man driving terror into the hearts of the locals, is stolen. Bradley doesn’t want anyone to count on him. Especially Amanda, even though she is the one person who understands him. The one person who can save him from his past. The one person who can teach him to love.

Brody and his brothers have a plan to save Copper Moon from their rival Hawkes, who is trying to buy up the whole town. Brody draws the short straw to woo the new school teacher who is living in Hawkes' ranch. Laura never stopped loving Brody. And when she learns of Hawkes' plans to take Brody's home, she can't stay away. She returns to Bullet and accepts the job as the new school teacher. Determined to make amends for the past, Laura will do anything to help Brody, even putting herself in the path of the murderous Hawkes.

Braydon prides himself on his womanizing skills. Then he meets Henrietta, an adventure-loving, globe-trotting, treasure-hunting enigma. Henrietta has no time for Braydon’s macho charisma. No interest in getting involved in the drama between Braydon’s brothers and their sworn enemy. Until she finds herself implicated in a murder. And Braydon is the one person she can count on.

Wyatt Hartford, Earl of Windborne, spends his days running a smuggling operation under the noses of his political enemies. Twenty years prior, Wyatt and three other young, orphaned aristocrats fled war- and weather-ravaged Earth for the Martian city-state of Utopia. Now the four friends—nicknamed the Lords of Dystopia—use their money and influence to champion citizens’ rights and progressive reforms. To the downtrodden, they are leaders. To the noble scions of Queen Victoria’s empire, they are a threat.

It’s one thing to know that the End is coming, quite another to know the exact date and time right down to the nanosecond. Such is the unhappy fate of the inhabitants of Rexos-4, a once-thriving planet that has lived under the doom of an inevitable apocalypse for millenia. Their entire philosophy of life may be summed up by the phrase “Mxtlpicam’ bnak ooligapn,” which in most languages translates to something along the lines of “What’s the bloody point?”

Beatrice Gaffney had been accosted one too many times, and had reached her limit. This time she fought back, but instead of disabling her assailant, she killed him. There would be dire consequences for her actions, but she wasn’t hanging around to find out what they might be.

Lauren Brower is traveling to Rawlins, Wyoming to marry a sheep rancher she met through an advertisement. Much to her dismay, a thief snatches her reticule, and running off with her tickets and most of her money. What she still has tucked away on her person is not enough to buy a replacement ticket. She is offered a way to earn her fare plus extra funds, but it means she must delay meeting her intended.

Embarking on a salvage mission into the heart of the most treacherous mountain range in the Barsian Empire, the pirates aboard the sky ship Warrior know things are going to get wild. However, no-one suspects this contract is anything other than lucrative. But, with a perfectly placed punt, Destiny’s Boot launches the Warrior like a particularly oblivious seagull into the path of a whirling propeller. A cascade of horror awaits them. Undead wyverns, fanatical mages, and an ancient entity so powerful it has been locked away for centuries.