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Echo Adler hates Reign Davidson. He’s the reason the love of her life left her all alone and broken hearted two years ago. So it should be easy to stay away. It should be easy to not dream about his dark and mean eyes, or his cruel but sexy smirks. It should be easy to not think about the guy who ruined her happily ever after. Only it’s not. Sometimes his intense stares make her heart race, and those smirks of his make her breathless. But it needs to stop.

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.

A scorching one-night stand with a stranger was supposed to be my night of adventure to enjoy and move on. I didn't expect that a few weeks later my friend would introduce said stranger as the man walking her down the aisle because he's her godfather and uncle. And I certainly didn't expect him to be a famous football coach who insists I escape with him to his small town lake house for a rendezvous. He may be old enough to be my dad, but the man's charisma is a winning touchdown straight to my lust-filled mind that agrees.

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?

I came to the Rush Riders Motorcycle Club to help a friend out, get them out of trouble, and before I knew it, I became a member. Fast women, drugs, whiskey, and fights were all things I expected and was ready for. A young woman walking into the club selling drugs wasn't. C was everywhere I didn't want her to be. Her naïve personality was resilient to my asshole attempts to run her off. The next thing I knew, I wanted more than to take her to my bed.

Meet Holly Hughes, a moderately successful teen advice columnist living in a studio apartment on the Upper East Side with her boyfriend Stephen. She has it all, but at the ripe age of thirty-one, she wants more. She wants to be married, she wants a family, and she's going to have it all with Stephen. At least, that's what she thought, until Stephen announces he's gay, and the domino effect of unfortunate events begins.

My life is a hot mess. Single, working, and raising two daughters, it's a miracle I get us up, dressed, and fed every morning. Forget about dating-nobody's got time for that. Even if love hadn't left me jaded, I'm not settling for anything less than perfect this time around. Lucky for me, the perfect man just happens to work in my office. But there's just one small problem: he's my boss, and is totally off limits. But hey, if it's meant to be, it'll find a way, right?

I’m a recent college grad with an exciting job offer for the summer. Even better than the free place to live while I work? I show up the first day to find Aiden working on the property. I’ve had a thing for him ever since he and my brother became best friends. And when we get into an argument, leading to a kiss? The feeling of his lips against mine is electric.

From USA Today bestselling author, Ashley Cade comes a brand new small town romance between the sweet southern baker and her ex's surly older brother.

Dark, mysterious, and lethal . . . That's how most people describe the three men in my bed. Cold-blooded assassins who kill men they deem unfit for society. And yet, to me, they're my salvation. Rescuing me from a gilded cage and a doomed life with a sinister man. I asked them for a simple favor: two birds for one stone. What they demanded in return was something far more profound, something that would indefinitely tether the four of us with an unbreakable bond.

Being a dragon wasn’t an honor, and it wasn’t something that gave him pride. No, it was the thing about himself that he hated most. Marta Petrenko is an empathetic witch whose powers make her a great nurse but bad at relationships. Keeping people at a distance is painful, but it’s the only way she can stay sane. But there’s something about Arryn Dragomir that calls to her. He’s so alone, even amongst his brothers. She can’t help reaching out, even when getting close to him puts her in danger from the evil witch determined to destroy the Dragomir family.

He couldn’t retreat. There was no escape. There was just Joy Valdez, sitting next to him, obliviously gorgeous. Vincent Dragomir has always felt more comfortable as a dragon than a man. He's witnessed first-hand what envy can do to men, and he wants nothing to do with that kind of greed and excess. When he meets notorious socialite Joy Valdez, he’s prepared to hate the girl who represents everything that was stolen from him when his parents were killed in a royal coup. He’s not at all prepared for the attraction that renders him mute whenever she’s around.

I am going to make her laugh today, Blayze thought, suddenly determined. Whether she wants to or not. Blayze Dragomir finally has the fame he’s desired his whole life. Now that he and his brothers have been exposed as lost dragon royalty, he can be the playboy prince he’s always wanted to be. But danger comes along with attention, and Blayze needs to find out who poisoned his new sister-in-law before they strike again. And he knows just who to ask for help: no-nonsense private eye Ramona Jones, the only person in the small town of Augustus, Pennsylvania who isn’t impressed by his star power.

In this heartwarming, best-friends-to-lovers romance, two intertwined souls navigate the delicate balance between pursuing their ambitions and following their hearts. The night before her first pre-med exam, Diana Richards gets locked out of her dorm room, clad only in a towel. Her misfortune takes a serendipitous turn when the charming and brilliant Javier “Javi” Valenzuela comes to her rescue. Their unexpected and fateful first encounter leads to a profound friendship, stronger than any bond either of them has ever known.

Sometimes you need to experience what’s wrong in order to find out what’s right. As scandal after scandal piles up and her husband’s caught cheating, Jody Druger hides at the last place the non-reality TV shows expect: Sex U.

Tired of sexual norms and wanting to expand her pleasure, Amanda “Mandi” Wilkinson enrolls in summer school at San Francisco Sex University, an exclusive sex school located in the heart of San Francisco. What Mandi doesn’t realize is that not all the mysterious drop-outs are simply flunking Sex Ed.

Seriously...Christmas used to be my favorite time of year. The presents, the spiked eggnog, kissing handsome men under mistletoe. And then he came into my life. Or rather, I came into his life, under a little bit of a pretense.

Evelyn is a woman who has everything—a successful career as a TV producer, and her best friend—sexy firefighter Owen Hanson—who looks mighty fine as her plus-one to awards dinners and backyard picnics. But something is missing and it's not just the sex. Owen Hanson is living the dream—a Chicago firefighter who volunteers at a youth center on the Southside and he's got his best friend Evelyn—who knows him better than anyone. When Evelyn starts hinting about wanting something more, Owen panics.

Claude is nobody’s hero, yet he finds himself saving yet another damsel in distress. He should have learned his lesson the first time. Cat had been a major thorn in his side, but at least he hadn’t been unfortunate enough to be attracted to her. That had been Xander’s problem. Now he had a problem all his own.

Amora Joy Orlov. The thorn in my side, the bane of my existence. The woman with the loud bark and even harsher bite. Cutthroat and defiant, she's everything I don't want, but exactly what I need. And as luck would have it, she also needs something from me. A deal is struck: use each other until we both get what we want. It should have been easy, and even easier to walk away in the end. Somehow though, I've grown addicted to the pieces of herself she keeps hidden away, the little glimmers of the woman beneath the ruthless façade. But the clock is ticking for the both of us.