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Two truths and a lie: they met on a fall evening, their time together was unforgettable, and that was the end of their story.
The last thing Harriet Thomas expected was a surprise on a rare evening off. More determined than ever to build a bright, happy future for herself and her unborn baby, she knows what she has to do: track down Warren, the man with the sad eyes she spent the night with. Harriet makes one thing clear: you’re in or you’re out, and, to her surprise, Warren shows up, day and night.
Happy endings aren’t on Warren O’Connor’s radar. He lives life one day at a time, throwing himself into his job, trying to forget a past that still haunts him. That is, until a single encounter rewrites his entire future. She was supposed to be a moment of weakness, but Harriet ends up giving Warren more than he bargained for—a reason to hope again.
Serenity “Siri” Monroe thinks she has the perfect life. With the perfect fiancé and the perfect job, she has everything she’s ever wanted.
But when Siri discovers her fiancé is cheating on her and loses a huge project at work all in the same day, her perfect life shatters in the blink of an eye.
Desperate for a distraction, Siri indulges in a one-night stand. Stepping into The West Side, she encounters an enigmatic bartender who sets her heart ablaze, and what was meant to be a temporary escape soon evolves into something much deeper.
Imagine her surprise when Siri is offered the contract of her dreams, only to find out she’ll be forced to work with the man she can’t stop thinking about. Determined to maintain professionalism and protect their careers, Siri establishes one rule: hands off.
But as temptations and deadlines loom, the chemistry between them threatens to unravel their resolve. With each stolen glance and forbidden touch, their hearts yearn for more. Will they succumb to their desires, risking everything they've worked for?
The daughter of a former world number one, Nicola Vassilakis had two junior majors and a ticket to tennis stardom before she even turned eighteen. But since going pro, Nic has endured only injuries and losses. Seven years later, the spotlight’s moved on to younger talent, her love of the game has dried up, and she has nothing to show for it but an aching need for the adoration and belonging she once had.
When her performance coach takes an unexpected leave, Nic’s left with two choices: go without and chance falling further behind, or trust Aleksandr Morozov, her rival’s brother, to take over. He’s confident, charming, and knows how much he gets under her skin. What’s more, Nic can’t afford to depend on someone who might still be playing for the other side.
After yet another painful loss, Nic warily agrees to a trial run. Between drills, lifts, and Aleks’ push to prioritize rest, it becomes evident he understands the battles she’s been waging more than anyone, and with his steady patience (and, okay, the flash of his abs), her walls threaten to tumble.
Aleks helps shoulder the weight of crushing expectations, but Nic will have to find her own balance or risk letting the love of the public she’s desperate for slip through her fingers for good.
I’m not the same person I was two years ago. Lately life has lost its color and everything seems a bit grey.
The woman that I am today is just going through the motions – work, eat, sleep and repeat. I live in a museum of memories, desperately clinging to a past that is almost too painful to remember. I stayed when I should’ve left and now the person who has haunted my every dream since that day has returned. This time – for me.
I know I’m not strong enough to fight on my own, not when he’s taken everything that matters.
Parker
I left to forge my own path and to avoid becoming someone I couldn’t face in the mirror. Being a firefighter has been my dream and my life’s work.
I did my job and that should be the end of it. But there’s something about the look in her eyes that calls to me, seeking her out goes beyond my scope of duty but I’m helpless to resist the pull.
When her past comes back to haunt her, I make it my vow to protect her. I never thought that I would be returning back to the place that almost broke me but I can’t help but feel like I’d do anything for her.
Fresh out of college, Reece and Nick are chasing their dreams—Nick with his eyes set on going pro in basketball, and Reece balancing his love for the game with a budding modeling career. Basketball has always been their shared passion, but so has something they’ve never dared to admit: each other.
What starts as a casual agreement between friends—just a little fun, nothing serious—quickly spirals into something neither of them can walk away from. Reece has always felt more, and Nick has always known it, even when Reece tried to hide behind his words.
This is the story of two friends who want each other enough to risk crossing the line, even when it scares them. A friends-with-benefits arrangement… except it was never just that.
I know how to win. At poker. At pain. At pretending nothing ever touches me.
But Aiden Cardell doesn’t play games—he owns them. So when I challenge him to Seven Minutes in Heaven, I think I’ve got the upper hand. Until he locks the door.
What happens inside that closet isn’t about lust or love… It’s about power. His rules. My rebellion. Our shared past bleeds into every slap, every bite, every twisted memory we’ve buried.
He says to strip. But I’ve stacked the deck.
In a house filled with rigged rules, ritual humiliation, and secret debts… Winning might mean losing everything.
Two women from rival nations. One enemy to destroy them both. Desire that puts everything at risk.
When storm-mage Thea narrowly escapes a pirate attack, she makes a devastating discovery: her home is next. Alone in the arctic with pirates hot on her trail, she’s forced to rely on Fyn, a ruthless soldier from a rival nation.
Fyn lost everything to magic, and she refuses to ever trust another mage. Yet, as pirates close in and a larger conspiracy begins to unfold, her fragile alliance with Thea might be the only thing standing between her people and destruction.
As they travel through hostile territory, mistrust transforms into something much more dangerous: attraction. As their bond grows stronger, the truth could tear them apart. Because to stop what’s coming, they will both have to make a choice: save their kingdoms or save each other.
Katerina “Kaye” Grace isn’t ready to die. As “Checkmate,” her powers of energy manifestation and manipulation earned powerful enemies–including Charade, whose touch contains both intoxicating pleasure and lethal control.
When Checkmate is captured by the Confederation for Citizen Protection, a powerful anti-superhero organization, Charade is the last person she expects to save her. Now, a guest in Charade’s world of cat and mouse games and forbidden temptations, she is thrust into a city she never knew existed. One of corruption and sin, with assassins and CCP sympathizers hunting in the shadows. Kaye is willing to pay with her life to save her city, and with it her soul.
Zane Maxwell is dead–at least he’s supposed to be. He lost everything the night he saw the woman he loved die on the banks of the New Malcolm River. From those ashes, Charade was born and with him a darkness Zane struggles daily to control. A darkness that demands not only justice, but retribution.
It was impossible with Checkmate in the way. His fierce adversary, whose fiery opposition makes his blood sing. His enemies made her their hero, someone Zane desired as much as loathed, then broke her. Luckily for her, she’s the perfect key to his revenge.
But the woman behind the mask is more enticing than he ever could have dreamed, and there’s no game he loves more than pushing her buttons. As they close in on their target and the monster within him is unleashed, he’ll have to decide if vengeance is worth sacrificing the nemesis who stole his heart.
Four years ago, Ari fell in love with a stranger who never said a word—and disappeared.
She never stopped looking for him.
When obsession finally yields a clue, Ari follows it to Milan, convinced she’s finally taking control of her life. But what she doesn’t know is that her red-haired stranger is a touch-starved vampire who survives by living in the shadows—and by his rules, anyone who remembers him must die.
Except Ari would do anything to make him love her. Her devotion awakens something he’s kept buried for centuries. Desire turns feral and control blurs into surrender, until love becomes the thing they might not survive.
With a broken heart, Kiraly is swept from Earth and thrust into Atalan, a world where vampires, demons, and wolf shifters exist. Until she can find a warlock to send her home, she must remain with the Alliance as they prepare for war against demons.
When a stranger targets Kiraly, she begins training with the wolves for protection. But after being struck down in combat, she discovers her wounds heal with impossible speed. She hides the truth, unwilling to accept that her body is changing.
A growing attraction toward the prince and a hidden desire for a demon, has Kiraly torn between returning home or embracing a new life in Atalan. But her hopes are shattered when war erupts.
Thrown into battle, Kiraly must decide between saving the friends she’s come to love, or killing the one person that is supposed to get her home.
But war isn’t the only obstacle blocking her path back to Earth. A far more powerful foe lurks in the shadows, a cunning creature who knows the truth. The truth of why she was brought to Atalan. And he will stop at nothing to awaken her powers.
Torin Maddox is a jaeger – a hunter of the grotesqueries that infest the world of Bodan.
When a kraken wreaks havoc along the coasts of Vastrune, Torin joins the hunting fleet to slay it, pursuing the beast to the far reaches of Hebiwa. On those distant shores, Torin unwittingly draws the gaze of the sinister Order of Divine Balance.
The fleet returns victorious, but their glory is hollow. A curse begins picking off the survivors one by one. With the city under lockdown and descending into paranoia, Torin finds himself trapped. The gates are barred, the docks shut down, and the very kingdom he saved has become his cage.
With the Order stalking him from the shadows, Torin must break the curse before it claims him – if the grotesqueries waiting beyond the walls don’t tear him apart first.
Ten years ago the last recruitment games in Hell went up in flames. Literally. The Angels managed to sabotage the whole event and no one got out alive.
Now it's time for the next round and Hades has ninety-seven hand selected recruits to put through three rounds of interviews - each one deadlier than the last. But he's convinced the Angels are planning to strike again and so, as his ninety-eighth contestant, he's sending in his best weapon: The Death Bringer, a.k.a his head assassin and one of his most loyal demons.
For Tacita, it might be her biggest challenge yet, to go undercover as a human and figure out who the spy is amongst them. But she's a professional, ruthless, and confident that she can pull it off. Even if the shifter Hades has put in charge is a total prick and two of the human contestants keep being a big distraction.
After two months of intensive group therapy, six individuals embark on a Thera Quest Inc. session—a simulated fantasy adventure guaranteed to incite lasting behavioral change in the real world.
For thirty-year-old Elizatine, this means overcoming her beastly shopping addiction alongside five strangers with their own problems: Tanner and Lana, two middle-aged alcoholics; Amara, a young ambulatory wheelchair user with POTS mourning her loss of agency; Rowan, a thirty-something wracked by guilt from the death of his younger brother, and Felix; a charming and depressed entertainer.
Within the simulation, the six must work alongside each other to deliver a cursed book while encountering whimsical hybrid creatures, unsettling personal trials, and hulking manifestations of their inner demons.
Natalie’s life shatters just as her eighteenth birthday approaches, when her eyes open to a reality mortals were never meant to see.
Among the shadows moving unnoticed across Earth, one demon becomes impossible to escape: Carsten, an angel hunter with a ruthless reputation and a dangerous pull. As the lines between light and darkness blur, Natalie and Carsten are forced to fight for each other in a world that insists they should be enemies.
But even as their bond deepens, one question haunts them both: is what they feel destiny… or a single moment of chance that changed everything?
The year is 2162. One hundred tumultuous years have passed since Martians fled their galaxy and took refuge on Zeon, a planet whose inhabitants develop elemental abilities by age fourteen.
Terra Volaikov is determined to uphold her family's prestige, despite her long-overdue elemental ability. But when her parents—an Agent and Diplomat who’ve topped Jakonian Assembly for years—are arrested for a palace heist, Terra must defy the regime she once dreamed of serving. Iyaz Agawen, a powerful land-shifter and Terra’s best friend, volunteers to help without a second thought. But for the past year, he’s harbored a secret that could destroy everything Terra’s parents built.
Dalia Roz, a brilliant student and feisty water-shifter, joins the mission too, convinced she’s the only elemental who’ll protect Terra. To complicate things further, Terra might be the key for Dalia to solve a mystery of her own.
The three companions are determined to unmask the truth. But if they succeed, there will be no turning back. Because in a kingdom that buries its bleakest history, some identities are better left in the grave.
Barry Hawkins is the oldest child among several families living on a large, idyllic estate near the end of the twenty-first century. Fearless and precocious, he leads the children, charms the adults, and rules his little world. His future seems as wide as the sky, as bright as the sun.
But life in this strange, isolated compound is complex. The adults here live by their own rules, navigating networks of power-based relationships. Barry witnesses the tangled dynamics around him, where men trade dominance, submission and service, and his curiosity grows.
Can he access the power and influence around him? Can he play in this arena–and win? As he leaves his childhood behind, Barry must make his own choices about where he fits in the world, what he’s looking for, and who he wants to be.
In a post-apocalyptic world of gleaming towers and crumbling slums, the high-tech Inner Ring thrives while the Outer Ring fights to survive. Political corruption runs deep, and the government’s grip tightens daily. Rebels like The Outsiders are branded as terrorists—except for those trapped in the shadows, they’re the only hope left.
For Theopold Kraken, a genetically-engineered Recombinant with enhanced abilities, rebellion is more than survival. It’s a cause worth dying for. When Yin, a mysterious woman who may not be entirely human, crashes into his path, everything changes. She’s secretive, strange, and dangerous... and Kraken can’t walk away. As their fragile alliance deepens, he sees in her not just a failed experiment, but someone who longs for freedom—just like him.
Yet trust is lethal. And saving her may cost him everything he’s fought to protect.
Yin doesn’t remember much, but she knows she’s being hunted. Built for a purpose she’s no longer sure of, emotions were never part of the design. Though Kraken’s loyalty and stubborn compassion stir something unexpected in her: curiosity, respect, and the terrifying whisper of humanity. As she strays from what she was made to be, Yin faces a choice: embrace the humanity she was programmed to ignore or run from it forever.
Two broken souls. One chance at freedom. In a world where trust can kill you, choosing each other might be the most dangerous act of all.
Have you ever fallen in love with a fictional character? America fell in love with the perfect book boyfriend, Andy Creighton, but then the unthinkable happened – the author of his popular book series made a drastic decision that broke hearts across the country. And now ANDY CREIGHTON IS DEAD…or is he? That is what bestselling romance writer Sloane Rylie must decide.
Her legion of once-loyal fans resort to protests and violence after reading Andy’s demise at the end of Sloane’s latest book, All Things Must. Sloane’s hopes of riding out the angry storm while holed up at her cabin in the woods quickly fade when a real-life Andy Creighton shows up at her doorstep bearing a shocking note and causing a chain reaction of bizarre and dangerous events.
Sloane has only hours to decide whether to listen to her own instincts to stand firm, or be swayed by threats and pressure from everyone in her life. Will she agree to her publisher’s frantic scheme to revive Andy, or will she leave him dead and risk her life and the real Andy’s life in the process?
He’s untouchable. She’s untamable. Her fiery spirit is the only thing that can melt his heart of ice.
When her relatives turn the treasured Lloyd family heirloom into a prize for whichever cousin marries first, Daphne Lloyd is desperate to keep the daffodil-painted platter that inspired her own art, out of the hands of those who don’t care about it the way she does. She’ll play their game, but on her own terms, and with the man they least expect.
Luke Rushton wants to play hockey, not the part of a dutiful grandson in a feuding family. However, when they threaten his inheritance and the safety of his younger sister, he has no choice but to settle for a suitable match. But when Daphne approaches him with a simple marriage agreement, he resists. He can’t form an alliance with a Lloyd, or can he?
With their families trying to control them, they retaliate by marrying the enemy.
When Daphne mocks his lack of romance, and Luke makes a silent vow to prove her wrong, it leads to what is far too much like love for both of them. Suddenly, her marriage no longer feels like revenge, and he finds his frozen heart melting for his wife.
Brunehaut lives a dangerous existence as her village wise woman, brewing abortion potions and body-altering elixirs for women like her, despite the townsfolk's growing suspicion of her unconventional ways. When her childhood best friend Théoderic suddenly crashes back into her life after years of separation, everything she's built threatens to crumble.
Like Brunehaut, Théoderic has shed his past, but he's chosen a more dangerous path, now posing as nobility while peddling false remedies to her very clients, threatening to shatter the delicate trust she's worked years to build. Yet beneath his deception, Théoderic is captivated by Brunehaut's transformation into the woman she was always meant to be, and desperately longs for the same miraculous change for himself.
As Théoderic embraces his true identity, Brunehaut finds herself drawn to her old friend in ways she never expected, rediscovering the boy she once knew in the man he's becoming. Their time together reawakens feelings long buried, but as their bond deepens, they must navigate a world that would condemn them both for daring to live as their authentic selves.
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