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In their arms, danger becomes desire. Every year, monsters demand their Offerings—women like me. This year, I thought I escaped. I thought I was safe. Then he arrived. The Viscount. Dangerous and ruthless, he declares me a late Offering. Swept into the deadly realm of the Shadowfen, I realize I’m not here by chance. They want to rule, and I’m their key. My reality crumbles, and as much as we act like enemies, they refuse to let me go. Their touch ignites a fire I can’t resist, fueling desires I never expected. They call me their little monster. Maybe they’re right.

All I want for my birthday is to find my magic and maybe get my first kiss. But that’s pretty hard to do when rumors fly around that my girly bits are cursed. I've lived among witches ever since my mother dropped me off. That was the last I ever saw of her. For most of my life, my aunt cared for me, raised me, and hid me from the world. My world. Until she can’t anymore. My mates have found me. All three of them. If these wolf shifters claim that I am theirs, that can only mean one thing—I’m not a witch, I’m a wolf shifter, too.

Fate might have PMS, and she's taking it out on me. I finally found my place, my mates, my pack, and I still can't believe my luck. Except that my luck is running out. If I understood my past, I might be able to lead the wolves into the future. Only my mom took that from me. The power of the pack revolves around me, and someone else knows this, too. It seems I'm just in time to see the unrest in the wolf shifter world growing. Rogues are attacking pack lands, and I have a front-row seat. My mates swear to protect me, but what if I'm not the one that needs to be protected?

As Savage Halo Royalty, Brick is a revered MC member, but because he isn't "blood" some Royalty members don't trust him, including Vice President King. Royalty has been breathing down Brick's neck to marry an ol' lady of their choice to prove his loyalty to the club. For three years, Brick has been undercover. He's spent every minute carefully planning his next move, watching his back, and building trust within the club to do one thing. Bring down criminal Max King. Brick's so close he can almost taste it.

I was raised to be a ruler of two worlds. One with a pen. One with a knife. Be the king of the concrete jungle at all costs. I should've simply taken a queen, not courted one. I should've forced her submission, not earned it. I should've let respect be enough, not fall in love. Someone has made a grave mistake in coming for my company. For my throne. For my Mia Bella. And for that, they will not only meet the man I was raised to become, but the one I am now, for the only woman I will ever bow to.

Just when he starts to get his act together, Mansur wakes to an empty bed and a crying baby. His wife leaves him with their infant on the day he starts a new job. Uneasy and alone, he looks across the street to Faiza for help. As he relies on their long friendship, desires for the beautiful hijabi firefighter reawaken within him.

It started the moment she passed out in my arms. Seduction. Vile. Depraved. Desire. She couldn't remember her past but looked to me like I was her future. My walls were built. My heart was cold. My emotions vacant. After being alone for five years with only my motorcycle club at my side, she was who I had been searching for. The one I had needed all along to light up the darkness surrounding my life. Just when I thought I had her, just when I thought I could finally allow myself that happiness I didn't think I deserved, she was ripped from my hands.

In a world of witches and wolves, and shifters there's bound to be secrets and lies and deceit. For Fiona, it means her life is about to get better. So much better! Binge the entire Howling for Her series!

There is nothing better than a mocha frappe on the way to the office in the morning and Sunday spent on South Beach. I'm getting closer to the big 3-0 and finding that perfect guy is getting harder and harder even though I work for a sports agency buzzing with jocks. They are married, players, or jerks.

I am going to restore my reign over both worlds. First, with a pen. Next, with a knife. Remind them who sits on the throne of this concrete jungle. Repair the structure that was shattered when my Mia Bella was stolen from me. Revenge will be had. Restitution received. And for me to reestablish order, I will do whatever is necessary. For there is no cost that is too great. For there is no sacrifice that is too sizeable. I am a different man because of the only woman I'll ever love. And that man is more dangerous than anyone could've ever predicted.

When escaping, one should make a plan. Someone should have told past-me that first.... I also need to fix a little issue or four if I ever escape. "Surprise, I have a caster for mate" wasn’t exactly how I saw my wedding going. I also didn’t see this. He betrayed me. Now that I’ve found my powers, you’d think I know what I’m doing. The betrayal among the wolves is worse than ever, and I’m not sure how to end it. Add in that my past is catching up to me and I just have more questions.

"Doc" Hayes had experienced enough tragedy for several lifetimes, but he thought he had finally found his sanctuary amidst the rugged beauty of the Guadalupe mountain range. Together with his friend and business partner, Conor Byrne, a West Point graduate with a taste for adventure, Doc was the center of what he hoped would be a burgeoning frontier settlement. With the arrival of Kathleen Ryan, a young woman cloaked in secrets, unexpected trouble soon follows. And trouble often seems to have a way of begetting even more trouble.

We were supposed to be building a world which would subjugate all other worlds to the glory of Der Führer himself. But it was brought down by my own hands. The hands of a genius. Believe me when I tell you that I was sure I was doing it all for the right reasons.

I live to race. It’s in my blood—the smell of dirt and gasoline, the fast cars, the screaming fans. I was the king of a small track in Missouri with the world at my fingertips. I had a choice to make: my dream or the woman I loved. I couldn’t have both. When an unexpected surprise shows up on my doorstep in the form of a baby, there’s only one woman I trust enough to help me. Lena Stanley, the one I left behind. But being in close proximity to her reminds me of what we used to have and what I still want. Her.

A wolf in gentlemen's clothing tracks his prey. It is 1968, and the secretive Group of 30 has resisted the new Czech regime installed after the Prague Spring. Professor Valentýn Hrubý leads this campus group, fighting for the reforms crushed by Russian tanks. Hrubý keeps lists to help his forgetfulness, and the authorities find one of these lists, one that shows the names of his associates. The new government hires an assassin to track and dispose of the group’s members. Dressed in a three-piece suit and topped by his ever-present black fedora, Karanosz Tasev stalks his prey.

London Wright didn’t know love...until she met him. As rugged as he is gorgeous, special forces soldier Loïc Berkeley is everything London never knew she wanted. Yet the harder she tries to win him over, the more he pushes back against her. What's the point of commitment when everyone leaves him, anyway? Loïc Berkeley never wanted love. For him, it was the path to pain and disappointment...until London. Spoiled, witty, and breathtakingly beautiful, Loïc fears she’ll be his undoing. As much as he tries to fight it, he finds himself falling for her.

Junior Detective Henry Ike Pierce is hired to reassess cold-case killings. On the third day of his new job, a dismembered body appears in a local park. The corpse's desecration is like slayings from over two decades ago, and his boss assigns Henry to his first investigation. Henry seeks a killer within a community of rival ethnic groups, refugees from the 1990s Balkan Wars. Rumors point to a killer called "the hooded one". As his investigation unfolds, the young man from Western Virginia's coal country discovers that "trust" has a flexible definition.

Looking back over the past few months, I never imagined I’d be standing here asking for forgiveness. Wanting her was never in the plans, but when your heart knows, you find yourself needing everything that is her. I made my way back home broken and lost, refusing to connect to my old life, to who I am. Afraid of what I might find, hating myself for hiding untold truths.

One fresh start. Two broken souls and a last chance to find salvation. They say that time heals all wounds, but they haven’t been handed a folded flag. Almost six years later, Chloe Triplett is ready to try and move on. New job, new town, but saying you’re ready and actually doing it are two very different things. Besides, what kind of crazy person would want to take on a single mom with a dog? They say that pain is temporary, but they haven’t buried someone they love.

In "The Island of Dr. Moreau", a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life. While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing “smarter” human beings or bringing back extinct species.