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Thalia never expected her first date to end in betrayal, violence, and scars that can’t be seen. What Damian took from her still lingers in the dark corners of her mind—shadows that whisper she’ll never be whole again. But then there’s Xander. Patient. Steady. Fiercely protective. With him, she finds a fragile sense of safety… until the shadows of her past claw their way back. Damian refuses to let go, and his obsession threatens to destroy everything Thalia has fought to rebuild. Now, survival isn’t just about enduring the past—it’s about facing it head-on. In a world of fractured trust, unrelenting desire, and a love that burns against the darkness, Thalia must decide: will she rise from the wreckage, or let the obsession consume her?
After catching her boyfriend cheating, Marianne Foutin left. Left Ottawa for Boston, where she was drafted to play professional rugby for the Boston Bees. Leaving on short notice leaves her without a place to stay, so she asks her sister for help. Captain of the Boston Bulldogs, Adam Christensen has given up on love. After too many failed first dates, he’s choosing to focus all his attention on winning the trophy he’s always dreamed of. It has to be this year, right? But when his friend comes to him for help, begging him to let her sister to stay there, Marianne and Adam have to adapt to living together. She’s adjusting to a new city and way of life; he’s living with someone for the first time since his rookie year. All is well until a mutual attraction leads to one night together. No strings attached. No feelings. Just to get it out of their system. But what happens when their feelings for each other become more than just friends?
Kennedy Donovan and Dreux Edwards secretly yearned for each other since high school, but neither of them was ready to take the leap from friendship into something more.
Until one summer night in college changed everything. And they cut ties with each other.
When fate brings them back together years later, the feelings they thought had faded came rushing back to the surface. Despite Kennedy being married to her college sweetheart and Dreux navigating a budding relationship of his own, nothing can extinguish the fire that sparked between them long ago.
But when the timing has always been wrong, will Kennedy and Dreux finally take the risk? Or will they let history repeat itself, letting each other go for good?
Exodus is the Autumn Court’s most lethal paradox: a prince gifted with the terrifying power of mental manipulation who craves nothing but the silence of a common life. Bound by duty and a father’s cold expectations, he is prepared to marry for politics and suffer for the throne. That was the plan until he met Azalea. She was the Courtless assassin sent to end his life, yet she became the only heart he ever truly claimed. Then, without warning, he broke her.
Six years of icy silence shatters when Azalea returns to the palace. Hired by the King himself for a suicide mission to eliminate a rival monarch, she must inhabit the same halls as the man who discarded her. The price is too high to refuse; the proximity is a torture she didn’t anticipate. Azalea came for blood and gold, but as buried secrets of the Autumn Court begin to surface, she realizes the mission is a trap, and her past is a lie. In a kingdom built on deception, the most dangerous thing isn’t the contract she signed, it is the man she still craves.
Nia has a secret. As a seaside tavern maid she seduces anyone who might have information about Silver Stroud’s treasure. Unless she can get her hands on it, she’ll meet a premature death just like her mother did. When Roseforte Harbor is attacked by mercenaries, Nia is abducted by the very pirate who might have the answers she’s been searching for. But she may find much more than she bargained for in the gorgeous Splinter Zanta.
Splinter Zanta lost everything the night she killed her captain. Now she holds his legacy in her bloody hands. All she has left is a treasure without a key, and a heart still pierced by splinters of her old life. When Nia demands to stay aboard her ship, Zanta’s carefully guarded history comes undone by this beautiful woman. Can Zanta allow herself to heal, or will grief drive the rest of her life?
An enemy from Rowan’s past stalks him through the waters. Rowan is determined to protect what is his, even if that means going against his husband’s wishes. While Yves struggles to balance his monstrous urges with his love for Rowan, Rowan searches for Zanta to warn her of the danger fast on their heels.
She’s the key to the deadly tomb that can save his people. He’s the fae prince promising her the ultimate treasure—but only if she binds her soul to his own.
In a kingdom where magic equals power, Cynthia raids deadly tombs to feed her family. She would risk almost anything for them—just not her freedom. But when a raid goes wrong, she barely escapes with her life.
Desperate for another chance at fortune, she enters a soul-binding bargain with the brooding fae prince of a fallen kingdom: break into a king’s cursed tomb for the heist of a lifetime.
What Cynthia doesn’t know is that her frustratingly handsome boss is a ruthless necromancer. Crossing him will cost her life.
As Cynthia is drawn into a cunning guild of thieves, she realizes the tomb isn’t her greatest threat—her allies are. Betrayal festers within the guild, and she must decide what’s deadlier: the dangerous relic the prince desires, or the irresistible pull between them.
Marlowe will do anything for a taste of revenge—even if it means returning to Camp Atonement. Haunted by nine years of entanglements with a pious woman and chasing knife-edged solutions to her anger, Marlowe meets her on the lake for a final tryst. Their night unravels when a creature from the depths begins hunting them. Abandoned again, Marlowe feeds the resentment crawling under her skin since that one summer. But escape brings with it a heavy price—her chance at retribution is gone, and the monster’s sharp teeth and webbed hands breed a terrible thirst she can’t ignore. Caught between rotten feelings and a lustful truce, Marlowe must find a way to sate the creature’s hunger and destroy the relentless woman from her past before she ruins Marlowe’s future.
A nerdy geneticist. An ancient vampiress. Answers that lead to more secrets. Is true escape possible?
While visiting Romania for an academic conference, Dr. Ethan Dalton, a geneticist from New York City, doubts the local vampire legends like anything else he can’t prove–until a spelunking adventure with his colleague goes wrong. Ethan is captured by the vampiress Caterina and finds himself painfully changed in ways that shouldn’t be possible. Even if he can find a way out of the ancient cave of the Carpathian vampires, true escape will require Ethan to get back to his lab and find scientific answers about what happened to him, all while holding on to who he was and hiding what he’s become. But secrets prove hard to keep, especially from a persistent friend, and every discovery leads to deeper questions.
When reality is stranger than legend, the price of answers may be even higher than the price of escape.
Cal Hunter is a cryo, a person who was cryogenically frozen after his death in the 22nd century. Resurrected five hundred years later, he now lives in 2629 and works as a time traveler for the Temporal Agency on Mars.
After a mission goes disastrously wrong, Cal returns to his present to find that he’s seriously altered the timeline. All life on Earth and the Moon has been wiped out, leaving only a failing settlement on Mars of fewer than two thousand people. Even worse, Cal can no longer time travel due to his injuries.
The only person who can fix the timeline is Renata Carr, a teenager from the 20th century. She’s brought out of cryogenic suspension, and a reluctant Cal is put in charge not only of her training, but also her wellbeing. Meanwhile, Renata grapples with the grief of waking up in a strange century on another world while also coming of age—and falling in love with the daughter of one of Cal’s friends.
When disaster strikes the settlement, the timeline for humanity’s demise rapidly speeds up. While Cal knows he must send Renata on a mission she isn’t ready for, and which will likely kill her, he is torn between saving humanity’s past, present, and future, or the girl he’s come to see as a daughter.
As a station-born war orphan, Fianna Callan has never had choices. She didn't choose to have her independent space station colonized, she didn't choose to be a woman who was only valued for her womb, and she definitely didn't choose to be forced into the matchmaking program, where she would have to take a husband and bear his children within the year. A lifelong battle with PCOS wasn't enough to save her from her obligations to the state.
When war comes to her colony, and a new enemy weapon leaves her home destroyed and her brother in a coma, a draft notice gives her two options: She could continue to accept her life as a vessel for childbirth, or she could disguise as her brother and take his place at an elite war academy, where the soldiers are taught to pilot giant humanoid robots known as Shinkas. Without another thought, she cuts off her hair and gets on the first transport to the capital on Saturn.
But an Elite War Academy is anything but a walk among the stars, and she quickly finds herself in over her head between Elio, her Saturn-born dorm mate who immediately distrusts her and makes her life hell, Sebastian, the over achieving son of a General and her new squadron leader who has no time for her physical inadequacy, and Breaker, her sunshiny mentor who gives her only bad advice. She refuses to give up, no matter how high the odds are stacked against her, and when she's able to synchronize with a Shinka for the first time, everyone quickly discovers that her bench press weight wasn't a predictor for her ability to dole out mass destruction.
Only, her affinity for controlling these humanoid mechanized weapons isn't natural, and there's far more to the plight of war orphans in the Democratic Territories of Mictlan than any of them ever imagined.
Eighteen-year-old Ceph has been bound to serve the Crown since birth. Trained in elemental magic, all he wants is to survive unnoticed. But when a new, rare elemental power manifests, drawing the attention of a ruthless king, Ceph’s plan to remain in the shadows is shattered.
Across a rift in time and space, seventeen-year-old Nix feels more alive while dreaming than she does when she’s awake. When her dreams begin to bleed into reality, Nix is taken captive by a shadowy research institute determined to unravel the mystery of her rare abilities.
As the lines between dreams and reality blur, Nix and Ceph’s worlds collide. Secrets buried across timelines come to light, leaving the fate of two realities hanging in the balance.
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