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Annalise was desperate to have a baby but was unwilling to give up her freedom to take a mate. Desperate times called for desperate measures, so she hired a stud to provide what she needed. When Annalise met the alpha hired to fulfill her needs, she started to question what she claimed to want. Liam showed her how life with an alpha could be, and she struggled to stick to the contract and keep her emotions locked away. Liam valued family above all else.

Brie doesn't let being an omega stop her, but things get complicated when she runs out of suppressants and her boss figures out what she is. Especially since he knows an omega is the one thing any alpha will fight for. ** *Zander is a retired war general who should be focused on the contracts that could save his new business. When a bar fight leads to a debt owed to a crime boss, he’s reluctant to pay that debt in blood… Until he sees the prize locked in a cage. He risks it all for a chance to win Brie for himself. Her heat is approaching, and they’re both running out of time.

My family made my life a misery, but there’s nothing I can do to escape them. I have nowhere else to go. The monster I encounter in the forest overwhelms my senses, calling to the omega in me. I can’t believe I let him touch me, but I’m so starved for affection I can’t help myself. And then I do the only thing that makes sense…I run. But the monster hunts me down. He says he gave me a choice, but he’s not letting me go. He’s going to claim me as his mate.

The little omega distracted me, and now I’ll pay the price. I wasn’t expecting a monster to stumble across me as I was bathing, I just wanted to soothe the heat burning through my veins.

The omega doesn’t know it yet, but she’s mine. I've never been anyone's first choice. I would be happy living life on my own, but that's not allowed, and my heat is coming. I have to choose an alpha before it's too late, but I don’t want any of the ones in my village, because they don't want me as I am. I’m not their idea of a perfect omega. Then the gifts start arriving on my doorstep. Things that are thoughtful, useful, not pointless trinkets. I never get to see the mysterious alpha wooing me. He comes in the night, and all I have to identify him is his scent.

Sold to a pack of alphas, Cara hadn't even known what an omega was, or that she was one. Chained in a cell, they used her body for pleasure, but her life wasn't as hopeless as it could have been. She had shelter and food, and she hadn't been reduced to selling herself for drug money like her mother. Still, she couldn't help hoping there might be something more to her new life than the alphas getting what they'd paid for. Did she have any hope of a future, or would she be trapped in the darkness forever?

When Alphas are considered a menace to society and are relegated to living in Alpha-camps, being a stud is the best job to have. Being an omega in a society without Alphas roaming free, the only way to have one tend you during your heat is to hire them. Safeguards are in place to prevent pregnancy and bonding when an Alpha is hired for heat, but what happens when one of those fail?

Moving from the city to a small town, Shailyn knew things would be different, but she didn't realize how difficult it would be. When the town leader makes it obvious he does not agree with omegas using heat suppressants, and his son decides to cancel her order for more, she's left with no choice but to make a trip back to the city to get some before it's too late.

Penny’s ex refused to accept that it was over between them. Unwilling to live in fear, she hired an alpha to protect her, but she hadn’t realized it would mean allowing him into her home. Doubt began to take hold until she discovered her ex was still stalking her. She wasn’t going to let him dictate her life, so she pushed on as usual…Until she was attacked and dragged into a waiting van.

I wasn’t looking for a mate, but I’m keeping her now that I’ve found her. My mate died, but somehow, I survived, and my body didn't get the message that I don't want to go into heat. My brother nursed me back to health, but now I've become a bargaining chip.

"I’m taking his daughter as payment, but he’s the one I’m going to kill." I knew monsters were real, but the ones I'd met didn't have horns and claws. When my father trades me to have his competition slain, I can't say it surprises me, but the creature I've been given to is a monster in the literal sense. I never would have thought fur and fangs were my thing, but when the monster promises to fill me with his seed, I find myself craving just that. He killed to have me, so who am I to deny him what he wants?

"I found her in the dark, and that’s where I’ll claim her so she can’t run." My heat is coming, and nothing will stop it. They killed my father, and now there’s no one to protect me, so I run. A cave in the mountains is the safest place I can find, but I am not alone. Is a real monster any worse than the ones that murdered my father to take me for themselves? ***This is a short romance featuring a human omega and a monstrous alpha. It was previously released as part of the Monsters After Dark anthology. ***

These alphas will fight, bleed, and claim them to keep them safe. Three special omegas. Three dangerous alphas. The fight for freedom and forever has never been knottier!

Who says an omega can't save herself? Adaria has been trained to defend herself, so when she's kidnapped and almost forced into the omega trade, she manages to free herself and another woman in the process. She knows others have been taken. Omegas are disappearing every day, and it doesn’t take much to convince her to put an end to it. Karn has been hired to find the culprit stealing Largo’s victims. He might not agree with the orders, but a mercenary can’t be picky.

Red never expected to be sold, but not everyone has the perfect family. When she's rescued from a horrible fate, she doesn’t have a home to return to, so when she’s offered a chance to do the work she loves, she refuses to risk it all for a fling with the boss—even if he looks like pure sin and drives her hormones wild. Something about the fiery new mechanic draws Rainor in, and if he can't have her, no one can. He won’t give up no matter how many times the little omega blows him off. He always gets what he wants.