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My disciplinary file at ESCU is almost as thick as my personnel file, which is saying something since I've been working for them for more than twenty years. I do the jobs no one else wants, go places no one is supposed to go to deal with monsters that don't exist. After a while, you get a feel for how a mission's going to go, and I have a feeling this next one is going to be fifty shades of FUBAR.

This movie was supposed to be my big break. There’s an enormous budget, the director is an Oscar winner, and the script is beautiful. But they want to film it in February. That’s complicated for an arctic fox shifter like me. We have a biological need for prolonged physical contact during burrowing season. I normally spend February cuddling with my family, not filming a movie in the middle of the woods. The studio said they’d find a professional cuddler for me. That seemed a little awkward, but I agreed to it. I figured they’d hire a woman or another male omega. But no.

When seventeen-year-old Patrick Roman is offered a scholarship to a top hockey preparatory school, he thinks maybe his notorious bad luck has finally ended. With a hearing for his legal emancipation on the horizon, he dreams of getting scouted and securing a place on a D1 college team. There's only one problem: Roman has serious beef with his new winger on the team, Damien Bordeaux. Roman, with his buzzcut and tattoos, has nothing in common with trust-fund-kid Damien.

Gray’s stage name is Trouble. He’s earned it. When he goes onto stage in heat, it’s clear he needs a Daddy. But that’s not all he gets the night he meets an older man with fading blue hair and a leather riding jacket. This Daddy already has a boy, and that boy wants to play with Gray too. In fact, the boy might be even more wild than Gray. The three men just want to have fun, but somewhere along the way, that fun becomes more complicated. For the first time in Gray’s life, he might be okay with that. Especially when an unexpected surprise changes everything.

I've watched from the sidelines as my friends found themselves bound to the same agathos. I've stood aside and wondered if she was mine. I've watched, I've waited, I've hurt. And I've wondered. Finally, the time for all that is over now. I've arrived in Greece and it's time to find out if a little of my soul belongs to an agathos too. And if it is . . . How can I live with that? Knowing what the agathos have done? The pain they've caused me?

By the time an agathos woman reaches twenty-five, she's supposed to be one thing, and one thing only: Bonded. I'm zero for four soul bonds, a disgrace to my family, and the black sheep of my community.

Seahorse has been given a second chance at life. But there’s a catch: he can't create any new memories with the people he loves. Every morning at sunrise, they forget he came back to life.

The red wolf thrall brings grown men to their knees. All it takes is one look from an omega red wolf shifter, and men mistakenly believe they have found their fated mate. Kings have been dethroned, businessmen have lost fortunes, and heartless murderers have fallen helplessly in love under the curse of the thrall. Kai knows his feelings for Noah, a handsome red wolf shifter, may be nothing but pheromones and magic. But what is love, if not magic? Kai’s going after him anyway….

I thought I'd lost myself . . . Until Sam found me. I'm back in Safe Harbor, where I haven't belonged in over twenty years. I'm unsure how I ended up here, yet I'm certain Sam is the key to finally healing. But it's complicated. Sam's had a crush on me since we were younger. To me, however, he was always the annoying kid tagging along. Now he's all grown-up and delightfully bossy—and sexy—as he encourages me to reclaim my health.

Lora expected many things to happen—but sparks flying between her, the new HR agent, and her manticore coworker wasn't one of them. Mich is a handsome manticore who goes into rut after a fateful encounter with Lora and Cinder. Cinder is the new sexy HR agent with secrets they can't keep for long. The office environment starts to get hot as these three fall into an affair they can't stop. Love and heat are in the air, but as the corporate enemy starts to emerge, everything changes for monsters and witches alike.

Alex expected many things to happen—but going into heat during a new hire interview with his secretary present was not one of them. Anne is a bright and sassy gorgon that has kept the Warts & Claws office from crumbling. Sylvia is a sweet arachnid creature new to the office and finding her place in the world. After months of chaos and destruction, these three are hoping for simple lives. But, when passions ignite and enemies return—they find themselves working to make it to the weekend one last time.

Gray’s stage name is Trouble. He’s earned it. When he goes onto stage in heat, it’s clear he needs a Daddy. But that’s not all he gets the night he meets an older man with fading blue hair and a leather riding jacket.

Now, the story picks up months after the end of The Undead Detective Agency, and my crew is dealing with the aftermath of...well, you know what. So, of course, I, the loving, amazing boss that I am, decided that it was time for a vacation—a fun duck-related vacation. And after hinting at resorting to possible friendnapping, I got my way!

Musical prodigy Kallos Alexandrou has played his calliope for countless visitors at Errante Ame’s Carnival of Mysteries, but his one-year residency has come to an end. Scars from a terrible tragedy in his past are the only explanation he has for his loss of speech and memory, but it’s time to move on, so when a music festival sets up next to the carnival, Mr. Ame sends him off with identification, a bottomless billfold, and a set of new clothes.

I'm a forty-year-old homeowner and former detective. My friends think a roommate is the solution to my recent funk, but I know that's the last thing I need. And even if they're right, sharing my home with Cal is a bad idea. The prickly SEAL rescue diver has muscles for miles, haunted eyes, a wounded soul, and wandering feet that won't be happy for long in Safe Harbor. Yet those fathoms-deep blue eyes have me making an offer I'll surely regret.

Creatures of all kinds go to the Barista to find love, including the ancient tentacled demon known as Meduso. After centuries of being alone, Meduso calls on a favor from his old friend the Barista. He can feel that his mate is close, but can’t seem to find him without a little help.

One day, I was a mild-mannered designer for a premiere superhero magazine. Turned down for a promotion yet again, I let loose years of repressed anger. That's how I got fired. Lesson learned. Now my career is as successful as my love life. But it's hard being upset when I storm out of the office and into the huskular man of my dreams. Sebastian is successful, confident, and the way he fills out those pants, it's basically a crime. Working as the art director for a rival magazine, I beg for him to look at my . . . ahem, portfolio.

When Chris, Revv, and Gray bond, they live thousands of miles apart. Revv and Chris live in Rixton, where Chris has tenure at a prestigious university and Revv has worked for his family business for over a decade. But Rixton is in Southern California and Gray is half-polar bear shifter. The summer heat is unbearable for him. Gray has lived in Anchorage his entire life, and he wants to stay. But that would mean Chris giving up his dream job and Revv leaving his family in a lurch. When Revv finally figures out which of his many lovers got him pregnant, the answer may change everything.

Alpha James and Beta Aiden love each other and don’t care what fate has to say about that. Mating doesn’t need to be based on pheromones and scents. And kids? There were many ways to build a family. When fate comes knocking years later, James does what any wolf in his situation would—he runs away. He has a mate he loves more than anything, and they’re about to get everything they want: a family. Omega Riley scented his fated mate once, and the wolf ran away. Everything is going as well as it can, until his fated mate’s children walk into his classroom.

I save superheroes for a living, even if I hate those egotistical bastards. My inability to control my temper got me transferred to Heroes Emergency Medical Services. These supposed heroes destroy the city trying to stop villains. When they fall in battle, it's my job to keep them alive. Work is my life, which explains why I can't maintain more than meaningless one-night-stands. My life is about to change when a dying superhero chooses me to inherit their cosmic powers. Trust me, I find it ironic, too.