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Scotty Armstrong has spent the last twenty years running the town crematorium and keeping everyone and everything at arm's length. She lives life just the way she likes it, alone and unattached. All that changes when her late brother's best friend—and former love of her life—Ford Callahan, comes back into town and starts dredging up unwanted feelings she thought were ancient history.

On the night we were to mate and keep the peace between our packs strong, the alpha wolf I loved rejected our bond, shattered my future, and sold me to the highest bidder. Now I'm trapped in the unseelie Shadow Court, the property of its ruthless king. Cold. Brutal. A beautiful monster. Kaeleron holds me prisoner in a gilded cage, and I should hate him for it. But every wicked smile, every promise veiled as threat breathed against my skin makes me crave the one thing I shouldn't. Him. But I cannot surrender. I cannot break now, no matter how fiercely he tempts me.

A second chance romance that the Lake Spark world never saw coming . . . Should Have Been is the third standalone book in the Lake Spark Inn series, part of the Lake Spark world. For lovers of small-town romance with a hint of sports.

My mother tells me you can't run from your past. You need to face it in order to appreciate the present and plan for the future. But I'd sell my soul not to deal with mine. It's five-foot-four, has fake green eyes, and is the cause of all my torment. When I knew her—when I loved her, she was just Liliana. But now they call her Lily. The Queen of Emerald Falls. She thinks she can bully me into silence. Make my life a living hell while keeping her prestigious status intact. But a lot has changed in three years. It's time the Queen met her match.

I was so close to being free. The wolf was out, the cage was open, and I was me. Finally. I should've known better... Now, I'm trapped back where I started with my vicious and vengeful uncle on a warpath. My wolf is clawing at the cage, ready to unleash the fury my uncle awakened in me. But I can't possibly let her into this war. Not now. Not with all that I know. My only hope is to get home, back to the pack that welcomes me, needs me, wants me. Dayne, my cold-blooded alpha, is my home, my freedom.

Sheriff Daddies Little series is about a group of sizzling, red-hot sheriffs who patrol a small town in West Virginia. The town is bursting with protective Daddies who find and rescue their Littles from all the turmoil and drama that seems to follow the town citizens wherever they go. Listen to this lilting, romantic word as sweet Littles find and capture the eternal attention of their Daddies.

Adeena Devna finds herself the lone survivor of Astrari after a massacre was orchestrated by King Demir, fae ruler of Tartarus. Abducted by the Royal Guard, Adeena is brought to King Demir as a potential human bride. An attack within the castle leaves the king dead at the hands of Adeena. Her escape from the kingdom is unexpectedly aided by Dreyden, the formidable yet handsome High Lord of Fire Court.

Lilah Stone has never followed football. She grew up in one of the country's biggest college football towns, but she's a painter. She doesn't go all weak-kneed for some jock. Especially not after the sex scandal that tore apart the team and destroyed her world. So when she takes a summer adjunct job at Mountain State University, the last guy she wants to see in class is an arrogant, cocky football player. Then Riley Brulotte walks in. He's everything she's sworn to hate ... and sexy as hell. He's all wrong for Lilah. So why does he feel so right?

All I wanted was to outrun the ghosts that haunt me. But I run from my home and into the arms of a handsome alpha. For the first time ever, a shifter appeals to the human side of me and to my wolf as well. There's a reason for that. He's my mate. One night of passion led me to a mate I don't want, don't need, and have every intention of rejecting. A shifter determined to drag me back to a place I swore I'd never return. A place where old enemies have resurfaced. He's unmovable. Stone by name. Stone by nature.

What do you get when you mix a dive bar, a worn velvet couch, and a discussion about goats? The night I met Owen, obviously. I sought out my private nook in Wicked Chucks, looking for a good view of the band. Instead, I got a front-row seat to the most delicious man I've ever seen. He’s everything I never knew existed, but being with him means breaking my own rules. I didn't invent the rules, but I play by them. Now, I have a man who wants to toss out my rule book and create a new one. Together.

Widower Atlas Stark has been left to raise his daughter and his infant cousin alone, while also trying to make partner at his law firm. If things at work weren't stressful enough, his home life is getting hairy too. His daughter's acting out, eager for her father's attention, and she's taking it out on the baby. Already stretched too thin, he's one frayed strand away from snapping. Desperate for help, he takes her to see a therapist. What he doesn't count on is her being a tall, blonde knock-out with sapphire eyes and a penchant for motorcycles. Too bad she annoys the crap out of him.

From author Nikki Ash comes a new, contemporary, stand-alone romance. Live hard. Love harder. Trapped under my controlling mother’s expectations and rules, I’ve lived my life for everyone but me. My only escape—a carefully guarded list of things I can only dream of doing. One by one, I slowly find the courage to start living. And that dream becomes a reality the moment my lips crash against a mysterious stranger’s in a drunken attempt to check another item off my list. Only I wasn't prepared for how that one kiss would alter the course of my entire life. In a single night, everything changes.

Nora Buckley's worst nightmare has just come true. After years of being a devoted, dutiful housewife, she's found out her husband is leaving her for a younger woman. Her only comfort comes from her friends—the women of Ansley Court, who meet every Monday morning for coffee and gossip. Seeing Nora's desperation, her friends decide it's time to let her in on a secret. It's a way she can enter a new world of erotic adventure, and unleash passions she never dared to dream of.

Over-40, single mom Tess Howland's life is all about caring for other people. Indulging in a one night stand is just what she needs. She doesn't expect to meet anyone she would introduce to her kids—especially not some rich playboy who acts like a big kid himself. Even if he keeps giving her the best sex of her life.

I've got more pressing matters to think about. Like the fact that our wolf pack is in serious debt. If I can't find a way to secure financing for our estate, we'll lose our shifting sanctuary. My stepmother—wonderfully wicked as she is-has come up with a plan: seduce a rich jeweler who's visiting for the weekend. And then, when he agrees to bond with me and make me his forever, we'll be saved. Not such a bad deal, considering he's crazy hot, and I've had a crush on him forever. One problem: I'm not a temptress, not by a long shot.

He's a dashing millionaire who thinks everything in life is one big joke. He's also my new neighbor, and after a humiliating experience in the cemetery that is my backyard, he becomes my shadow, showing up everywhere just to annoy me. I'm not a fan of happy people. They bother me with their constant grins and rainbows coming out of their ears, and Vander Booth is the king of smiles. Despite my efforts to scare him away with both my profession as an undertaker and my general need for frowning through most of my workday, he sticks around like a bad case of poison ivy.

I don't know whose wise idea it was to send us on this retreat. I don't need rehabilitation. I don't need a bunch of hot cowboys telling me what to do. I don't need anyone trying to be my friend. I just want to go home and put this nightmare behind me. I just spent a year in prison for something I didn't do, now I have to endure this? I can't deny that the ranchers are gorgeous, and Lake is unlike any man I've ever met.

Investigative reporter Skye Sylvester is chasing a hot tip about a shadowy multinational conglomerate buying up land outside of Chicago. When she’s mugged outside of her office and hit over the head, she assumes the thieves are after her purse, not her story. She’s much more interested in what she thought she saw before she passed out: a bear, emerging from the streets to rescue her.

Ashley Kimbrough has everything a woman could want. Not only is she wealthy and successful, she has a more than satisfying sex life in The Channel, a secret network that allows women to live out their wildest fantasies. But if she doesn't find herself a husband she could be in danger of losing it all. Then Ryan Mulcahy enters Ashley's life. With that Celtic warrior's body and gorgeous face, he makes her fantasies run wild. Although their marriage is one of convenience, Ashley is starting to wonder whether she can use everything she learned from The Channel on her unsuspecting husband.

Trevor Booth's life was just thrown a curveball. When his ex dies, he suddenly goes from an every-other-weekend, fun-time dad to a full-time dad. The dad part he's cool with, but life with two teens is like a roller coaster in hell. Thank God his ex-wife's best friend, Callie, seems to have secret powers that allow her to deal with the chaos.