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At your mercy this holiday season . . . Ingredients: One feisty redheaded attorney guarding her heart and her friends' business interests. One bossy seasoned negotiator who always gets what she wants. A distillery at the center of a contested year-end deal that pits two fierce women against each...

After the painful divorce from her husband, Reina Amari, wealthy mother of two, has lost her sense of self. No longer wife and homemaker, she feels low, lonely, and purposeless in her huge mansion in the Hamptons. Her life suddenly changes when she meets Belle, her new pool technician, who brings back feelings long forgotten. Her emotions conflicted, Belle roars into Reina’s life like a storm; the calm waters now a thing of the past, and Reina has no idea how to deal with the situation.

When the line between pain and pleasure blurs, everyone bleeds. Detective Jaime Baros claws her way through each night, haunted by the blood-soaked memory of her fiancée’s brutal murder. Three years of insomnia haven’t dulled the pain. Now a sadistic killer carves a path through the city, forcing Jaime to plunge into the abyss she’s fought desperately to avoid. The investigation slams her against Lady A, a dominatrix whose razor-sharp gaze ignites a hunger Jaime believed died with her fiancée. As Lady A’s world consumes her, Jaime can’t distinguish between predator and prey.

When Lori Hawthorne trades her high-powered city life for the unexpected inheritance of her late aunt's neglected fruit farm in Sedona, Arizona, she soon realizes that mending a broken orchard is only half the battle. Seeking a chance to rewrite her story, she's determined to breathe new life into both the farm and her own existence.

Dru Rae gave up everything to get away from her mafioso family. All she wanted was a quiet life with a few friends and the woman she knew in her heart was out there. Marina Summit was an uber successful realtor in a thriving housing market, and she was too busy for love. As a house stager on the first day of her new job, Dru was waiting to meet the realtor for a final walk through. Marina was set to approve a new listing when she went to check on the house staging. She wasn't prepared for what happened to her heart when she saw the woman at the top of the stairs.

Dakota's plan was simple: drive to Las Vegas, start her dream job at a luxury spa, and leave her old life behind. But when her ancient pickup breaks down in the middle of the Nevada desert, she's stranded, helpless, and alone. Enter Frankie, a charming cowgirl with a heart of gold and a big ranch to run. What starts as a desert rescue sparks into an unexpected connection neither of them saw coming.

When a series of disasters lands her living on her cousin's couch—and back in the small island town she never thought she'd see again—Neavh is forced to confront the truth: leaving Clover behind was the biggest mistake of her life, and she'd give every star in the sky for another chance.

Laurel Darby is no stranger to hard work, but most folks can't see past her family’s name and wealth. Having built her quilt shop from the ground up, she knows how hard it is to keep a business running. But that doesn’t leave much time for a relationship, and the last thing on Laurel's mind is unraveling herself and disrupting her carefully constructed life. Fresh out of long-term relationship hell, Dallas Hayes has nothing but a dream and the sweat equity for a fresh start. Opening her bourbon lounge is the only thing on her mind. But love? Nope, she won't go down that rabbit hole again.

Sofie Rosswell is a fashion school graduate working in a coffee shop when she is confronted with a difficult, demanding, and very glamorous customer—the fashion mogul and CEO of the biggest New York fashion magazine—Gabriella Galena. Sofie is intimidated by Gabriella, but entranced by her and finds herself very attracted to her. When Gabriella offers Sofie a job, all of Sofie's dreams of working in the fashion world might come true. But, Gabriella looks at Sofie with hungry eyes, and Sofie likes it. Sofie can't risk her dream job by sleeping with the boss, can she?

Follow the ladies from Melissa Tereze’s best-selling Mrs. Middleton and Jourdyn Kelly’s critically acclaimed LA Lovers series as they join forces for a wild journey to explore the deeper sides of themselves.

Alexa Knight has one more battle before she retires as an undefeated mixed martial arts champion. When ESPN wants to film her preparation for the final match, she reluctantly agrees. All she cares about is remaining the best. Kara Roberts is a documentary filmmaker who needs a few more dollars to finish the most important project of her life. Desperate, she agrees to work on the crew filming the final weeks before Alexa Knight’s last fight. All she cares about is making her movie. When their two worlds collide, sparks fly.

Wealthy and successful CEO, Genevieve Mitchell has a void in her personal life. She goes to a bar to wind down where she meets a beautiful and mysterious stranger who she is fiercely attracted to. Genevieve ends up letting herself go and having a night of passion with the beautiful stranger convinced she will never see her again. Will she ever see her again? And if she does, and the beautiful stranger's troubled past catches up with her, what will happen then?

Riley, a New York workaholic, has health issues that leave her no choice but to move to a small town to lead a calmer life. She hates the huge mansion she bought on a whim and stands out like a sore thumb in the cheery community of Mystic.

Successful and wealthy CEO, Victoria St. Clair has a string of failed high profile relationships behind her. She may be winning in the business world, but she longs for the personal connection that keeps eluding her. When she meets the stunning and sexy Alexa on a dating app, they have immediate chemistry and things soon seem too good to be true. When the truth of who Alexa really is surfaces, what will Victoria do?

Surfing high on the wave of lesbian chic, author/screenwriter Melissa Hartley is deliciously dangerous. She knows all the right people, goes to all the right parties, says all the right things. When she meets the quiet, elegant Sarah at a hotel bar, Melissa makes all the right moves to get Sarah into her bed, then makes all the right promises to convince the usually cautious young attorney to come live with her in San Francisco.

New Yorker Faith Astor is a successful fashion photographer. Living in Manhattan and parading glamorous parties, she seems to have it all, yet nothing could be further from the truth. When a female personal trainer shows up on New Year’s Day, she regrets booking the kick-start session in a drunken haze, but the woman likes a challenge and won’t take no for an answer.

Eve Sumptor is back. This time she is facing her toughest opponent yet. Herself. After a passionate affair, Eve Sumptor and Lainey Stanton had difficult choices to make. One chose fear, the other gave in to guilt. As the consequences of those decisions begin to come to light, both women must find a new direction. Will their paths once again come together?

Eve and Lainey Sumptor have faced many trials in their journey to one another. Now, after a long, hard road they are both in a place where they can relax and enjoy themselves. They’re together, they’re deliriously happy, their kids are thriving, and the demons from the past are dead and buried. It’s time to embrace their life, ripe with domestic bliss, as it unfolds before them at last. Neither woman ever dreamt they could be so fulfilled. But the problem with demons is they are tricky things that don’t always stay gone…

BDSM was never my scene. I've always thought I was too strong to be dominated. Authority and I never did get along. So, when I was dragged to a special kind of club for my best friend's bachelorette party the last thing I expected to do was surrender myself completely.

Kate Cross, a no-nonsense medic, is haunted by the loss of her partner in combat. She's built walls around her heart and has no time for romance—especially with Alexis Cole, the irresistible Combat Rescue Officer with a reputation for breaking hearts. But when they're forced to work together on a high-stakes mission, the sparks between them are impossible to ignore.