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Married once to a Baron who needed a young bride to bear him an heir, Cordelia Astley found herself in an untenable situation after his death, until Philip Stanley, the Marquess of Dunbury, asked her to be his bride. She knows he didn't marry her for love, but he was her white knight, and once they're married, she finds herself falling in love with him. It would be a fairy-tale ending if it wasn't for her stepdaughter, Gabrielle.

She always dreamed of marrying a Stuart brother. Just not the one who meets her at the altar. Furious at the circumstances leading her to be wed to the wrong Stuart brother, Josephina Pennyworth clashes immediately with her bossy new husband. As she tests her husband's patience and the boundaries of her new life, the threat lurking in the shadows grows larger and places more lives in peril. Who among them will survive?

Behind every good man...is the love of an even better woman. Those were just pretty words before I met Claire Montgomery. Before my fairy queen burst into my life, I didn’t recognize the bastard in my morning mirror - but her love has given me the strength to face the imposter, even embrace him. With Claire at my side, I’m the king I always wanted to be, the Killian Stone I always dreamed of becoming. Which means for once, I want the mask guarding my secret to stay right where it is.

My name is Margaux Asher. Yes, that Margaux Asher. The attitude icon. The bitch in the latest heels. The princess of the PR game - at least until last winter, when Mommie Dearest revealed a secret she’s been hiding since birth. My real father is one of the world’s richest men. Dream come true, right? And now, Michael Pearson wants to help open it. My six-foot-three, golden god of a dilemma. He’s patient, indulgent - and don’t get me started on his passion - but he wants too much. He wants the secrets.

A steamy hot boxset of friends to lovers romance, work romance, and frenemies to lovers.

Bethany Bunson, her brothers, and her sister have been prisoners for seven long years. So when a band of shifter soldiers show up and save them, it's kind of a mixed blessing, especially when the leader of the shifters claims he's her mate. Yeah.... She's a 23 year old virgin who's never had a real boyfriend. The whole "one guy forever" thing is just something that she's not ready for, no matter how good he smells.

Honey Badger Princess Rana Morn has anosmia - she can't smell a thing. And honey badger don't care, except the condition prevents her from ever knowing who her true mate is. With two so-called "mates" in her past, this shifter strictly guards her heart now. The reward of finding her forever love just isn't worth the risk of more pain.

Kiara Arrio is on the run and dying when four tall, dark, and gorgeous strangers find her in a crumpled heap along the road to the hospital she was desperately trying to reach. The small herd of stag shifters are immediately drawn to the injured woman, taking over her care as she recovers from her illness. They're entranced by Kiara's strength, her sass, and her sweetness, and do their best to woo her, hoping to claim her for their own. There's just one problem: Kiara already has a mate. And she certainly didn't run away from one only to find herself with four more.

Lily Davies' first—and final, if she has anything to say about it—Season in London is mercifully coming to an end. Exhausted by the parade of balls, importuning gentlemen, and the endless dismissal of her suspicions about a certain captain, Lily wants nothing more than to return to her quiet life of country walks and intensive study. Unfortunately for this bluestocking, she is besieged en route to Derbyshire and kidnapped by a highwayman.

Nick has mastered the kitchen, but not Avery's heart. Can he throw out his preconceptions and find a new recipe to earn her sweet submission? Sous chef Avery Kzmarscki is the hottest thing in Nick Davis' kitchen and she's playing hard to get. As executive chef of Marquis, Nick is confident in his cooking skills and his working relationship with Avery, but when it comes to being a Dom and earning Avery's trust outside of the restaurant, he's got some interesting ideas and a lot to figure out.

Historian Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga draws on national archives, letters, consular records, periodicals, and a host of other sources to give voice to borderlanders' perspectives as he weaves their many, varied stories into one sweeping narrative. The tale he tells is one of economic connections and territorial disputes, of refugees and bounty hunters, speculation and stake holding, smuggling and theft, and other activities in which economic considerations often carried more weight than racial prejudice.

Tony Hsieh's first successful venture was in middle school, selling personalized buttons. At Harvard, he made a profit compiling and selling study guides. In 1998, Hsieh sold his first company to Microsoft for $265 million. About a decade later, he sold online shoe empire Zappos to Amazon for $1.2 billion. The secret to his success? Making his employees happy. At its peak, Zappos's employee-friendly culture was so famous across the tech industry that it became one of the hardest companies to get hired at, and CEOs from other companies regularly toured the headquarters.

When Brady Bunson first meets Jesse O'Neal, she's sick and dying from one of the illnesses ravaging the small shifter population. Thankfully, Jesse is actually an ideal candidate for Dr. Montgomery's work.... All the pain the Bunson family has gone through at the doctor's hands will finally save a life instead of ruining one. Although Brady is falling for Jesse, he doesn't really know what to do with his emotions. The Company is still out there, and his family won't be safe until they're taken down.

Romance doesn't end at age 50, and these three couples are here to prove it. Master Gavin and his ex-wife Leah have never gotten over each other, but she's finally ready to move on so she can enjoy her golden years with a partner. What she didn't expect was that her ex-husband wants the same thing, but he doesn't want to move on. He wants to make things work with them so they can have the future together that they always dreamed of.

In Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 5, award-winning editor Rachel Kramer Bussel takes listeners on an outrageous journey into the world of female fantasy and desire. These sexy stories offer up wild, hot, and steamy tales from today’s top authors. You’ll be swept away by the sexiest business deal ever, break the rules in a future world where skin-on-skin contact is forbidden, and discover the art of getting off by phone sex.

Once upon a time, when she was betrothed and in love, Sheila Slater believed in soul mates, fairy tales, and happy endings. Now, one big heartbreak later, she's a self-rescuing princess, kick butt fighter, and undercover extraordinaire. But to save the shifter world from the evil designs of Aiden Mansfield, she'll be forced to reunite with her ex-fiance: Aiden's twin brother, Eli.

Esme had thought she was free, but a shocking revelation forces her to return to Stonewood. There she must deal with life-altering secrets and lies, as well as face the consequences of running away. Caleb is angrier than ever, hell-bent on punishing her for what he considers to be the greatest betrayal. As she delves deeper into the past with the aid of unlikely allies, even more secrets resurface, making her and everyone around her question the very foundation of their lives.

Can a cynical mutant bunny-bear who never smiles find love with an eternally optimistic puma?Kidnapped as a teenager along with his siblings, experimented on and turned into a mutant shifter, rescued, trained, betrayed by a teammate, and brutally injured before being rescued again...any optimism Brock Bunson ever had has been hammered out of him by life. Then there's Doc - who knows all she needs is faith, trust, and a little bit of pixie dust, and is firm believer in happily-ever-afters. When they're sent on a mission together will their different natures be their downfall or set off enough sparks to set the forest ablaze?

Nothing wrecks an already bad day faster than almost getting hit by a car. But then he rescued me. My mysterious, sexy savior wore danger as easily as he wore his black-on-black clothes. And still, I wasn't afraid of him. I should've been. Because after one misunderstanding, the man I thought would love me forever showed me just how ruthless and cold he really is. I trusted him with my heart once and it broke me. I can't afford to make that mistake again.

When Darius’ newly founded colony on Umbria Prime is attacked, he fights off the raiders and finds clues that humanity’s old foes–the Iglax–are to blame. Once again, he’s got to return to the galaxy at large to upgrade his ships, advance his skills, and spread humanity further among the stars.