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I’m the toughest veterinarian professor at Tatum College. And I want to keep it that way. But a stunning, tough-as-nails city girl who treats sick cows like a puppy with a cold has me losing my mind. I’m pushing 40 and don’t need to be tempted by a goddamn 20-something in skin-tight jeans with a smart mouth. A mouth I want to do the dirtiest things to. When she leaves a phone number on her final exam, I pounce.

The day my human self died in a watery grave, my inner wolf took over to protect me. For two hundred years, I lived, hunted, and survived as a lone wolf. Then a voice spoke to me through the wildness in my head, calling me to him. A voice I can't deny. The voice of my true mate. He wants to claim me in the way of our traditions, but I fear him. I was claimed once before by a false mate, and it led to centuries of pain and suffering. I can't trust this new mate or the modern world he wants me to live in. So I'll hide behind the protection of my wolf until I can escape.

I've poured my heart and soul into reviving my aunt's inn after her passing, but a pixie dust mite infestation threatens to destroy everything. Their glittery trails of destruction have infiltrated the guest rooms, and the cost to eradicate them will leave me penniless. I'm desperate for a solution. Enter Thorak Ironfist, the orc who once tormented me in high school. Now a wealthy brewmaster, he's determined to expand his ale empire into the human realm.

My hands are soaked in the blood of those I love. I don’t know who I am anymore, let alone the three men who haunt my dreams. Everything has fallen apart. Am I even alive? Or will the darkness continue to seep into my soul, pulling me under until there is nothing left. First Chaos brought Mayhem, but will Bedlam save us, or kill us all? This is book 5 of 6 in a Why Choose Dark Romance Series and ends on a cliffhanger. Please see the author's website for full content warnings. This book is intended for readers 18 years and older.

When things go bad, in Michael’s world, things go horribly, terrifyingly bad. It’s been a year since the hardened Navy SEAL Michael Stanton walked away from his career. He never thought to go back. But then, his former commander calls with the news that an old friend was murdered while undercover, and he needs Michael’s help. Knowing the next dead body might be his, Michael takes his friend’s place at the home of a terrorist. His official mission is to find all he can to bring the man’s operation down. His personal mission is to find out who murdered his friend.

He says that I’m his good girl…but he likes when I’m bad. He demands that I obey him…but he likes to punish me when I misbehave. He told me I should be afraid of him…but it only excites me more. You know what they say about trouble, if you go looking for it, you’ll probably find it. And I certainly did in Cyrus Gates, the heartless billionaire of Chicago and my new professor. But then he comes to me with an offer I can’t refuse—a publicist job at the most prestigious public relations firm in Chicago.

After she takes a job at the Crooked Creek ranch, Melody Jackson quickly hits it off with handsome cowboy Luc Girard, and it isn't long before she is begging shamefully for more as the ridiculously sexy rodeo champion gives her the ride of her life. But Luc is the kind of man who expects to be obeyed, and when Melody's disregard for his instructions puts her in danger, she soon learns the hard way that he will not hesitate to punish her bare bottom both inside and out.

Dezi was a plain-and-simple type of guy. He loved working for Levi’s company and had enjoyed the jobs he’d been given so far. When a businesswoman contacted Ice over, well, ice...things got interesting. Diamond was an exclusive jewelry designer, born and raised in the industry, working within her father’s diamond company. When a custom-designed item was checked before shipment, she realized the piece wasn’t her workmanship. Somehow someone had forged her work and had slipped it in the shipment as a replacement.

Stir is book five in The Sizzle TV Series, a series of interconnected standalone novels. You may spot some familiar characters along the way. This book includes a stubborn bodyguard with trust issues, a lawyer in love at first sight, and a woman brave enough to go after what she wants. HEA guaranteed!

When several members of a search-and-rescue team die in an accident, followed by several more team members who are murdered, Jace is ordered to sort it out. Working for a large insurance company had always been great for Emily, until she is handed several files all from the same family. Men she knew...intimately. Afraid that there is too much going on in the background, she contacts Legendary Securities for help. As the investigation develops, more bodies turn up, along with jealousy, greed, and insurance payouts that just maybe shouldn’t have been paid.

Staying in is my favorite thing to do. So, if you relate, you'll understand my reticence about leaving the quiet comfort of my home for a night out at a noisy drag club. But it's for a good cause. My big brother is in town, and this is a chance to get to know his new girlfriend. I can't really say no without looking snotty like the rest of the Wright family comes across. My aim in life is to be everything my father is not. Lucky for me, there's another reason to attend tonight too. A tall, dark, and handsome piece of man candy going by the name of Banks Johnson.

Faking things with Gretta should be simple fun. Scaring off her evil ex is a bonus. She makes the fire deep inside of me rage with desire, and I need to make things real. Will she accept me if I tell her I’m a dragon shifter? Hell, I don’t even know if she’ll believe me. Wizards have come to town, and they’re up to no good. Why do they want Gretta? It doesn’t matter. I’ll keep her safe. My heart is ready to heal, and my inner dragon is sure of one thing: She’s my fated mate.

Revenge is what I seek. They left me in ruins. Hurt. Betrayed. Broken. I never saw him coming, any of them. Everyone I trusted and loved betrayed me in ways there’s no coming back from. The badass princess everyone loves to hurt but yet won’t leave alone died on that table. Beaten, bloodied, and defeated. With every death comes a birth, and these idiots set me free. Now I’ll burn everything to hell and reign as the Blood Queen he created…or perish in the same fire I ignite. This is a dark why choose college-age romance and is part of a series. It does end on a cliffhanger.

Ava Ingerson knows what she wants: The beautiful California beach house she just inherited, a career in teaching supplemented with income from her vacation guests, and a life full of friends, fun, and family - right here in Seahaven, California. She’s never moving again, no matter what, so when handsome entrepreneur Samuel Cross arrives to stay at her beach house for two weeks, Ava knows the last thing she should do is act on her attraction to him.

Even though Chase--one of my favorite authors--insists he wants to be left alone, I refuse to let him wallow in whatever’s drowning him. A local bookstore owner and author myself, I’m intrigued by the man who’s a master of the written word. Unfortunately, his social skills could use a lot of work. Even so, I’m determined to pull the irritable and frustrating man out of the dark pit he’s fallen into and back to the surface no matter how hard he fights it. I only hope dragging Chase down that fiery path just might reignite his spark and that I don't get burned in the process.

I thought I knew what I was signing up for at Prometheus labs. A living wage salary in return for terrible hours, appalling working conditions and the occasional medical trial to give me a nice end of month boost in funds. I never expected to end up pregnant and transported to a completely different world, where gargoyles taunt me, and my life is immeasurably worse.

Silas Atwood met Phoebe Baker while she was in the middle of family drama, but that didn't stop him from recognizing they were meant to be together. The Navy SEAL planned to seek her out the next day, but a mission made that impossible.

The last thing Deacon Walker expected when he drove one of his friends to the hospital for the birth of their child was to meet the woman who was meant to be his. But the Navy SEAL knew that he'd do whatever it took to claim Piper Amherst as soon as he saw her.

Ruari of Clan Dundalk knew Arielle was his mate as soon as he set eyes on her, but he had planned to court her properly. When she arrives in his lands as an uninvited stowaway, however, he decides it is time for this beautiful, headstrong female to be taught her place over his knee. As she is led to her new mate's castle naked, blushing, and sore, with only a sheet to hide her helpless arousal, Arielle's fury at being bared and spanked is exceeded only by her desperate need to be thrown to the ground and ravaged by the brute who just punished her so shamefully.

Looking into the eyes of death only to wake up in hell wasn’t the plan. Is this my karma? Being so near yet so far away, chained to a debt, felt like a punishment worse than distance itself; each day a torment.