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I’m one bad decision away from losing the career I love — and his name is Max Callahan. He’s got a surly attitude, survives on takeout, and has absolutely no desire to be in Colorado playing for one of the worst teams in the league.
As the team’s nutritionist, I don’t get the luxury of mistakes. So when the most stubborn, infuriatingly attractive player refuses to follow my plan, I should keep my distance. But now I’m stuck with him on flights, in dugouts, and far too close for comfort.
Max is a distraction I can’t afford. A risk I shouldn’t take. And the only man who sees past the walls I’ve spent years building. The smarter choice is to walk away, because the rules are there for a reason. And being caught with him could cost me everything. But with every look, every touch, I care a little less about the cost.
Between playful nicknames, explosive chemistry, and a growing connection neither of us can ignore, I’m quickly discovering that the line between hate and desire is dangerously thin.
And when it all comes crashing down… will Max be a lesson learned, or the best mistake I’ve ever made?
After facing grief, Rosie Hendrix ran away from Golden Harbor and everyone she loves. Seven years later, she’s navigating a endometriosis diagnosis and raising a child on her own. But when her grandma passes away, forcing her back to the small town, she returns with a plan. Though things never go according to plan.
She suddenly finds herself back in the orbit of her high school sweetheart. Beck Stone is every small-town girl’s dream. He’s tall, rugged, ambitious, loyal. As memories resurface and his tenderness for her chronic illness has her questioning: is it so terrible to be attracted to her husband?
A combination of anger, pride, and crippling anxiety stopped Beck from chasing after his wife who abandoned him. It’s because of her, he’s built a wall around himself and sworn off women.
But his wall is demolished when Rosie returns with a ring on her hand, demanding he sign the divorce papers he continues sending back unsigned. And then there’s the bigger secret she’s been hiding—her child who looks a heck of a lot like him. Accusations soar and old flames are rekindled. Yet, forgiving each other may be easier than forgiving themselves.
Rosie’s words say she’s engaged to someone else, but her body language tells him something different. As old wounds heal, one night stuck together has them questioning everything. Is this goodbye or their second chance at the life they were always meant to have.
A mantra Scythe lived by. One he killed by. It carried him through the bad decisions and the uncertain ones.
Being a contract killer for over a decade, how could he not? A legendary former Army sniper, paired with an enormous build, he is the perfect weapon.
At least that’s what he thinks the world sees him as; until a mission lands in his lap that destroys this perception.
“Nightmare.” “Weapon.” “Machine.”
“A dog.”
The one thing he never wanted to be.
“Ruby is… a woman of the people. A female Robin Hood, if you will.”
Lurking in the shadows of homes, or disguised in the corners of dimly-lit casinos, Ruby has one mission, one singular purpose. Protect and help the less fortunate.
Armed with traditional shinobi techniques and skills, Ruby’s job is to bring hope and salvation to the vulnerable.
Through casino heists, home robberies, and galas, she uses her beauty and tact to seduce wealthy scumbags out of their exorbitant riches.
But when a skull-masked Assassin threatens to thwart her plans, she finds herself working with the same evil that she’s been fighting against.
Cole Morrissey A near death experience is just another Monday when you’re a crab fisherman, but my black cloud would make anyone nervous, let alone my husband. Morgan begged me to stay home this year, but I only have one rule in our marriage: I go where you go. It’s a decision that ruins us. What happened broke me. I hurt the people I love, and I don’t know how to stop. That’s why I pushed Morgan away, and abandoned everyone else. But Morgan won’t let me go so easily, and I love him too much to let him drown with me. Why can’t he see that I’m not worth saving? Morgan Morrissey When I vowed until death do us part, I meant it. Cole can kick me out and break my heart, but I won’t let him throw away our marriage. Somewhere inside the stranger I no longer recognize is the boy who chased away the darkness after my parents died.
I’ll save him from himself, whether he wants me to or not. Why else would I follow him onto the same one-hundred-foot crab boat I told him not to go on after he asked for a divorce? But man is no match for the Bering Sea, and if we’re not careful, death will keep our vows before Cole can break them.
Since his parents’ untimely deaths, Tristan has been hitchhiking alone. Using whoever he wants to get what he needs; money, food, or something more…private.
Along the Turkish coast, a chance encounter has led Tristan into the hands of West Aevery, an egotistical millionaire and the perfect target. As Tristan begins a dangerous game to swindle the millionaire, he finds himself falling deeper into West's decadent lifestyle; blind to the picturesque view's sinister underbelly, and the orchestrated web that lies waiting for him...
How long will Tristan be able to exploit West’s generosity, before he ends up becoming another faceless victim of the filthy rich?
Artists are the ones who turned their knives inward, and called it art.
We were born with blood in our brushes, taught to make beauty out of pain before we could name the thing bleeding inside us. Some of us mold our grief in clay. Others carve it into bone.
We don’t scream, we paint. We don’t run, we compose.
And when it hurts too much to breathe, we put it on a canvas and dare the world to look away.
At Alaria University for the creatively damned, art is survival and reputation is currency. I know that better than anyone. When whispers start swirling about my past, my secrets, and what happened the night everything changed, I end up at the center of a rumor mill sharp enough to gut someone.
And then there’s Dorien. Cruel in all the right ways. Always knowing exactly where to look when I’m trying not to be seen.
We were there the first time everything went wrong. Neither of us ever said what that did. Maybe because we’d have to admit how close it came to ruining us.
I told myself I’d never survive it happening again. And then it did.
Drowning in the tumultuous waters of new motherhood and trying to find her place in Ilex Creek, single mom and cheetah shifter Kasey Rogers is instantly drawn to the town’s newest resident and firefighter, James Danning, at a pick-up baseball game. Little does she know that an innocent introduction and game of catch could change everything.
Finding solace in small town life while also escaping his rejection from Minor League Baseball, James Danning is enamoured by the gorgeous single mom with a wicked fastball. He invites her to a Halloween party, and all goes well–that is, until she bites him, claiming him as her mate.
Will James and Kasey have a World Series kind of romance, or will they strike out at the plate?
FFF domme monster romance Human x Harpy x Demoness. One anonymous night of passion. Two monster women who make her feel alive. Will her search for both lovers end in happily ever after for everyone. Or will she end up alone.
PETRIFY is a dark contemporary MF romance following Mallary, hired by a rich family to live on their estate and tutor their young son… but immediately upon arriving at the manor, things are not what they seem. There is a ghost stalking the halls, stalking her… and soon his obsession with her will become carnal.
After a brutal invasion of her village, Asiya, only seven summers old, has died. Unfortunately, she quickly discovers that no matter how tightly she clings to the Other Side, she cannot seem to remain dead.
Driven by severe survivor’s guilt and naive optimism, Asiya joins Solkana’s knights to avenge her people’s slaughter. Her fate entangles and twists with Kaius Heartwell, a fellow knight-in-training who wants nothing to do with her. However, their souls ribbon around each other’s necks like nooses, which tighten further with each attempt at separation.
Raised and forged in fire, Asiya is forced to face dukes with penchants for debauchery, messy soul ties and her own immortality, for the fate of Solkana and beyond.
From the moment Mateo Cruz sees her across the room at a party, he knows one thing: She is his. Ava Bryant. His mate. Meant to be, forever. The only problem? She stood him up on their first date months ago. Since then, Mateo hasn’t been able to get Ava out of his head. He doesn’t want to want her, but he isn’t interested in anyone else, so when Ava turns out to be his new bookkeeper, Mateo knows he has a problem on his hands.
Ava swore off men after what happened with Mateo. Eager for their first date, she was crushed to arrive and find him flirting with another woman, and decided to throw herself into school and work instead. She hasn’t given him a single thought since, until he shows up at her graduation party and won’t stop staring at her. But when she starts a new freelance gig at a gym, Ava is horrified to find that Mateo is the one who hired her.
But just as they begin navigating their awkward new situation, disaster strikes, and Mateo finds himself reliant on Ava for more than just bookkeeping. As the truth about their disastrous first date comes to light, Mateo realizes that he might still have a chance with the love of his life. Can he convince Ava that they’re meant to be? Or will life pull them apart before he even gets the chance?
Twenty-four year old Aurora Blackwater lives a rather ordinary life. She spends her days helping her aunt run their village’s only apothecary, but there’s more to her than what meets the eye. She’s a multiwielder: a rare human who wields more than just one of the seven abilities. Which makes her someone, according to the law, who is to be collected for the King’s Army.
When her secret is discovered, she meets a fate some would consider an honor. But the abduction she endures is, to her and many others, one worse than death. As she struggles to cope with her newfound capture, she meets those of similar destinies along the way. Little does she know how much these people may influence the outcome of her story.
In training for the King’s Army, she discovers who she can trust, and who only abides by the orders of the king. When the heir to the throne, the one and only Prince of Orellia, enters her proximity, tensions rise, as do the stakes. While friendships are formed and secrets are revealed, Aurora learns the wicked King Kairos may be even worse than she thought. And she soon comes face to face with challenges that will not only test her, but possibly change the fate of the kingdom as she knows it.
From an author who worked at NASA, Lunar Rendezvous is an action-packed and spicy space adventure. Deep space transport pilot Zeph flies solo in the black, never allowing herself distractions… or real connections. Lonely? Maybe, but she can’t risk revealing the hidden alien cargo onboard her ship, stolen from Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.
During a resupply stop at a space station, Zeph reluctantly saves a magnetic stranger named Stellan from catastrophe. As they team up to survive deep space disasters and Zeph wrestles with her conflicting feelings, "opposites attract" is just one of the physics lessons Zeph and Stellan will put to the test while stuck together on her ship.
When Stellan reveals a devastating conspiracy, Zeph becomes an unlikely player in a power struggle of interplanetary proportions. She is forced to acknowledge that the secret she's been protecting may be the key to securing humanity’s future. Is Zeph willing to reveal the mysteries of Europa?
Rhea Moore is a master of fiction. As a bestselling dark romance author, she knows exactly how to craft a monster, and how to make a reader fall in love with one. But when she and her husband, Paul, trade the chaotic noise of New York City for a secluded house deep in the Connecticut woods, the lines between her novels and her reality begin to bleed together.
Paul is everything a woman should want: protective, successful, and devastatingly handsome in a suit. But beneath his gray, desaturated eyes lies a history he’s spent years remodeling. He doesn't just want Rhea’s love; he wants her darkness.
Isolated by infinite trees and the heavy silence of the forest, Rhea feels the walls closing in. Every creak of the floorboards and every snap of a branch in the night feels like a warning. Paul promises she’s safe. He promises he is the only oxygen she needs to stay alive.
But as the countdown begins, Rhea must face the ultimate question: Did Paul bring her to the woods to protect her, or to finally help her become the villain she was always meant to be?
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