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Camelot is burning the old world to ash.
Once a princess of Oléron, Tryamour has watched human conquest reduce her homeland to ruin, leaving her family dead and her people scattered. Now a healer for the Resistance, she has little left but her hatred for Camelot and a willingness to do whatever it takes to see the kingdom fall.
Even if it means walking willingly into the heart of it.
Disguised as a servant within Castle Pendragon, Tryamour intends to poison the court and disappear before anyone discovers what she is. Instead, she crosses paths with Lanval, a peasant born knight whose loyalty to Camelot has earned him everything he once dreamed of, and whose growing doubts threaten to cost him all of it.
He should be her enemy.
She should be nothing more than a traitor.
But when bloodshed forces them together, hatred gives way to something far more dangerous: an ancient bond neither of them can easily escape.

Pippa Bennett was hardened and salty after being an emergency room nurse in Boston, MA. After her mother passed unexpectedly, she inherited her mother's horse farm in Eagle Falls, New Hampshire. She uproots her life and moves back home, dealing with the grief that follows. When her ex-fiancé, Graham Maddox, ends up in her small-town ER with a bullet wound, her world is turned upside down.

Pippa was a take-no-shit, deal-with-no-shit kind of girl, but what happens when you put a grump with a grump?

Valda Odile is trapped under the thumb of her enemy, Brayden. From school years to adulthood, they hated one another.

After he trapped her with a debt, she fights for the biggest payout.

When an artist commissions her as a model, her world crashes down around her.

Now, it's a fight to survive long enough to be free.

When Liza Starr Love, an historical romance author, travels back in time with her main character, Ross York, who is a Peterson Detective in her tenth historical romance novel, she must prevent him from altering the future and try to save the life of her infamous ancestor--Belle Starr.

Liza is frantically working on her book deadline because without it, she has no way to keep her farm afloat after her husband died in a freak framing accident. She needs the money from the sale of her book, but a thunderstormcomplete with tornado prevents her from working on it when the power goes out. When she gets it back, her hero and his daughter from her books appear in her office.

Ross, who lost his pregnant wife, is traveling on a wagon train to Santa Fe across the territory of Oklahoma, to take his daughter to live with his brother and his wife, he must also protect the gold he's carrying to pay the Peterson Detectives and keep it from falling into the wrong hands of the Younger Gang. But a severe thunderstorm one night finds himself and his daughter in a strange home with strange surroundings in a future he doesn't understand.

Together, Ross and Liza must figure out how to get Ross and Sara back to the 1880s, and for them both to figure out how their love can transcend between two worlds.

July Hunter is a 55-year-old erotic romance author, photographer & new body builder who lives in Hawaii & needs a vacation. A much needed vacation from her daily life of writing, promoting & marketing, & editing as well as all the online media time suckers, so she booked herself on a wilderness getaway at a remote lodge in SE Alaska where she meets not only the owner who is her age, but his three buddies of approx same age who built the lodge & they all want to share July in this reverse harem.

Aiden is an independent omega. He has a job and his own apartment. The last thing he wants is an alpha intruding in his life... right?

An orphan and a bastard with no claim to power and no protection of her own, Enora has survived her uncle's court by being small, obedient, and forgettable. When the dragon-ruled kingdom of Dracia invades Lucind, she learns she is the daughter of their long lost heir and must participate in an ancient rite... The Trial of the First Fruit.

Enora is wed to Dracia's best warriors — Harwin and Klivan, powerful dragon shifters whose loyalty to their King runs as deep as their desire. One is hardened by loss and ruled by duty. The other wears charm like armor, hiding sharp intelligence and hunger beneath. She will split her time between them, and the one who sires her firstborn will claim the throne.

As they grow closer together, dragonfire begins to stir in her veins, and the role she was meant to play — pawn, peace offering, sacrifice — burns away. Faced with enemies creeping in the shadows, rising desire, and a crown that may demand everything she is, Enora must decide one thing: will she be consumed by the flames… or will she control them?

Rosalind Embers had everything. A career she loved, friends she cared about, a wealthy fiancé... Until she lost it all.

But in those shadows, she finds what she was truly made for and meant to do. Leading her own Shadow Team brings out the best in her, even when she's feeling her worst.

A frozen lily crosses her screen. Her father murdered. Someone is hunting for her, and she's not about to lose everything again to this faceless threat behind the computer screen.

Eight years ago, Hazel told Reid she wanted different things.

It was a lie. She's been living inside it ever since.

Now Reid is back in Briarwood - just long enough to settle his late father's estate, just long enough for the Copper Kettle to feel very small. And Hazel is about to find out what happens when the wrong story finally meets the truth.

Before the First Frost is a small-town, second chance romance set in the village of Briarwood, Vermont, where the coffee is strong, the seasons are honest, and some things take eight years to say out loud.

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Candice kn0ows exactly what she wants...or at least she thinks she does. But when an unexpected mystery involving a pair of coveted boots throws all of her careful plans for a loop, Candice will discover that love is often found in unexpected places.

The Blight kills slowly. My secret would kill me by morning.
One mistake was all it took to put me in chains and ship me to Blightwood Academy—a gothic reformatory on the edge of the dead moors. The guards diagnosed me with the Blight, a terminal magical infection.

But I’m not dying from the Blight.

I’m a Siphon—an extinct, despised creature that devours magic. In this school, being corrupted gets you beaten. Being what I am?

That gets you executed.

So I stay invisible. I keep my head down and do what I'm told.

Until an assassin’s blood-hex detonates, binding my life to the academy’s three most lethal predators: Corvus, Kaelen, and Thorne. The princes of Blightwood.

If they die, I die.

Now, I’m locked in a quarantine suite with three ruined princes who hate that their lives depend on a gutter rat.

They weren't supposed to want the gutter rat. I sure as hell wasn't supposed to want all three of them.

Alexandra Bennett thought she knew exactly who she was.

Then Damien Cross walked into her life and changed everything.

Dangerously attractive, infuriatingly protective, and unlike anyone Lexie has ever known, Damien belongs to a world she never knew existed—a world of vampires, blood bonds, ancient rivalries, and enemies who seem far too interested in her.

Because Lexie isn't quite as human as she always believed.

As buried secrets about her family begin to surface, she finds herself pulled deeper into Damien's world—and closer to the man who seems determined to protect her, even when she isn't sure she needs protecting.

But someone has been waiting a very long time for Lexie to discover the truth.

And now that she has, they aren't about to let her walk away.

Come for the vampires. Stay for…

🖤 Slow-burn romance

🖤 A dangerously protective vampire

🖤 Hidden heritage & family secrets

🖤 Blood bonds

🖤 Forced proximity

🖤 A heroine who refuses to be sidelined

The Salem Slayers: Broken Covenants. Every secret has a guardian. Every covenant has a price. When supernatural investigator Melody Whitlock is assigned to investigate a series of brutal killings, she expects to find a dangerous predator hiding in the shadows. Instead, she discovers the organization she works for has its own dark secrets that could threaten the fragile alliances between humans and the supernatural. As Melody follows the trail of bloodshed, she uncovers a conspiracy designed to destroy those alliances from within. Her investigation leads her to Caven, a powerful wolf Alpha whose first encounters with Melody are anything but friendly. Yet an undeniable bond begins to grow between them. Now Melody must navigate a world of secrets, betrayal, supernatural danger, and forbidden alliances while questioning the very institution she has sworn to serve. Because the greatest threat may not be hiding in the darkness. It may be hiding among those sworn to protect it. Broken Covenants is Season One of The Salem Slayers, a paranormal mystery series filled with supernatural secrets, dangerous alliances, betrayal, and a love that could change two worlds forever.

Broken Covenants is the first season in The Salem Slayers, a paranormal mystery series of supernatural secrets, dangerous alliances, betrayal, and a love that could change two worlds forever.

In By Her Hands, we dive into a unique love story that stretches the boundaries of what it means to be alive. Meet Gavriel Eliezer, a Golem brought to life by the brilliant but troubled Miriam Viona Cohen. She creates him as a protector, hoping to shield her family from the scars of her past. But when Miriam unexpectedly passes away, Gavriel is left to navigate a world that’s suddenly full of emotions he wasn’t designed to feel.

Enter Grace Liraz, Miriam's younger sister. She’s grappling with her grief and sees Gavriel as a constant reminder of her sister’s tragic fate. At first, she’s convinced he’s just a burden, a piece of clay with a heavy backstory. But as they face off against her sister’s abusive ex—a real piece of work, who represents everything toxic—things start to get complicated.

By Her Hands is a heartfelt monster romance that explores grief, identity, and the messy, beautiful nature of love. Join Gavriel and Grace as they navigate their way through a world that challenges their perceptions and uncovers the light that can shine even in the darkest places.

*Some love stories begin with a kiss. Theirs began with a crime.

When Anne-Marie Scott walks home alone from night class, she never imagines that one desperate act of self-defence will pull her into the orbit of the most complicated family she has ever known.

Andrew Sawyer is charming, reckless and drowning in his father's disapproval. He is a man who feels everything too deeply but hides it behind a smile. When he crosses a line he can never take back, Anne becomes the one person who makes him want to be better, the one person he refuses to lose, no matter what it costs.

Vincent Sawyer saves lives for a living but keeps his own carefully locked away. He does not do emotions or distractions. He certainly doesn’t lose himself over anyone...until Anne. He does not mean to let her in, and yet, somehow, she gets past every wall he’s ever built.

Two brothers. One woman. And a love triangle powerful enough to ruin a family.

What follows is far from a clean love story.

It is full of bad timing, worse decisions, and a love so stubborn...that even the universe, in all its cruelty, could not end it.*

Tessa Blackwell has spent years perfecting the art of looking fine.

She smiles. She dresses like she has nothing to prove. And she makes sure no one in Sycamore Ridge sees the heartbreak she still carries.

Jason has learned to live with loss in a different way. As a widowed pastor and single father, he carries the weight of his daughter, his congregation, and the life he never expected to have.

Neither of them is looking for love.

But Christmas has a way of softening old wounds, opening guarded hearts, and reminding people that hope can arrive quietly.

In Sycamore Ridge, where family runs deep and porch lights stay burning, Tessa and Jason may discover that trusting again is the bravest kind of second chance.

Christmas in Sycamore Ridge is a clean, heartfelt small-town romance about grief, faith, family, and learning to believe in love again.

Lyra spent six months loving the enemy's prince in secret — stolen nights, a name she never spoke aloud, a war she thought they'd outlast. Then an ambassador cut her mother's throat at the peace table, and the name the killer wore was his.

Now she's queen, and she has a curse that can wipe a kingdom in a single morning, and she means to send it across the strait to the man who used her.

She doesn't know he's already coming back for her.

Brother Anselm has kept spotless discipline for fourteen years: flagellation on Tuesdays and Fridays, the canonical hours recited on schedule, sermons on lust so pointed the blacksmith’s wife says they make her feel clean. Then he finds something bleeding in the November leaves, carries it home, and locks it in the root cellar under a lie about a broken gate latch.

He tells himself she’s a specimen. He builds a feeding stand at exactly twelve inches, trains her the way a falconer trains a hawk, and fills a ledger with clinical notes about antler growth and dappled skin that no priest should be able to describe so precisely. He calls her demon the way he says Amen.

She calls him by the name he discarded the day he was ordained.

Custodian details three years of confinement, confession, and a Summa theology, a collection of handwritten notes that was not intended to hold them. It tells the story of a man who aimed to civilize a creature but ultimately learned which of them was truly being imprisoned.

Sally Preston knows damaged things can be restored. She has built her life around proving it at Preston Antiquities, the San Francisco shop she inherited from her father. Her romantic prospects, however, may be beyond repair.

After a disastrous date with a funeral director who sizes her up for a bamboo casket, Sally collides with Jace Carpenter in the pouring rain. He is charming, considerate, ridiculously handsome, and armed with an umbrella at precisely the right moment. Before long, he has worked his way into her shop, her apartment, and her heart.

Then Bobby, Sally’s eccentric restoration expert, discovers that an ugly painting from an estate clearance may be a lost masterpiece worth millions. At the same time, cracks begin appearing in Jace’s carefully constructed life. His apartment looks staged. His work history does not exist. Even his name belongs to somebody else.

Their meeting was no accident.

With a suspected art thief sleeping in her bed and watching the painting’s restoration, Sally must pretend she still trusts him while a gruff detective prepares a trap. Keeping the devil convinced she remains thoroughly deceived will require the performance of her life, especially when some of what passed between them felt painfully real.

But Sally has spent years uncovering what lies beneath a convincing surface, and this time, she refuses to be the fragile thing in need of rescue.

Someone is watching her. The sheriff is determined to keep her safe. Neither of them is prepared for what comes next.

Laney Cross has built a life she loves in the small Southern town of Bayou Oaks, complete with a cozy bookstore of her own. The only complication is Beckett Hall—her brother’s best friend, the town sheriff, and the man she’s had a crush on for years.

Then the gifts start arriving.

Someone knows where Laney lives. Where she works. When she’s alone.

As the attention turns threatening, Beckett refuses to let Laney face the danger by herself. Forced into close quarters, the feelings they’ve both tried to ignore become impossible to hide.

But Laney’s stalker has been waiting a long time for his chance—and he has no intention of letting Beckett stand in his way.

In Bayou Oaks, falling in love might be dangerous.

But answering the door could be deadly.

Come for the small-town romance. Stay for…

🖤 Brother’s best friend
🖤 A protective small-town sheriff
🖤 Forced proximity
🖤 Years of mutual pining
🖤 A stalker getting dangerously close
🖤 A heroine who refuses to be scared out of her own life

​Gemma Hughes has never felt like she belonged. But maybe that's just what happens when your parents abandon you as a baby. Or perhaps it's because she feels connected to nature in a way that can't be explained and can feel things before they happen? Her little quirks definitely don't endear her to her upper-crust adoptive parents, that's for sure, so when she gets a mysterious invitation to apply to Owenmore University in Ireland, she takes it. Can Gemma unlock her past and save her future?

Aiwei Chen built her whole life out of neat edges and well-crafted lies.

At Riverside Prep, she's Ivy — the scholarship girl with perfect grades and an untouchable future, one carefully color-coded spreadsheet away from lifting her family out of the apartment above the deli. No one there knows the name her mother calls her. No one there knows how hard she works to belong.

Then she goes home to the Hollows—the neighborhood south of the river, where most people are already forgotten.

Two cops knock on her door asking about her brother. Danny is missing, and the people looking for him aren't the kind you walk away from. To find him, Ivy has to cross back into the world she's spent her whole life clawing out of—with the help of Teo, a boy the streets fear, whose rules she has no intention of following.

The deeper she digs, the worse it gets. Danny didn't just get in over his head. He played two of the most dangerous people in the city against each other — and now the clock is running out on all of them.

Every Reason to Fight is an emotional thriller about the masks we wear to belong, the families we bleed for, and the dangerous discovery that loving people doesn't make you weak. Pretending you don't is what gets you trapped.

Trapped beneath a crushing mountain of debt and desperate for a way out, she takes a dangerous gamble on an underground auction—only to catch the eye of Azrael Thorne. Wealthy, ruthless, and steeped in dark magic, Azrael offers her financial salvation, but the price is absolute: she must become his muse and submit to a pact bound by blood.

As psychological mind games, veiled threats, and illicit power plays pull her deeper into Azrael’s shadow, the line between rescue and ruin begins to blur. Surrounded by dark secrets and stalked by dangerous rivals, she must navigate a deadly game of manipulation before her freedom is lost forever.

A Sapphic series of love, pleasure, pain, and addiction. girl/Mistress follows the lives of young and entitled souls who embark on dark side of BDSM, while struggling with internal traumas and demons.

My twin is wearing my wedding dress. And my fated mate is looking at her with a hunger he has never, not once in three years, aimed at me.

Most she-wolves would scream. They'd demand a fight. They'd let a betrayal this deep break them.

Not me.

I am the Moon Twin. The diplomat. The one who reads the silences and manages the treaties. So when my mate and my sister start quietly erasing me from my own life—hijacking my work, taking my meetings, and feeding the pack a sympathetic story about how I'm "cracking under the pressure"—I don't throw a tantrum.

I quietly walk into the Council office and file a formal petition for Rejection before they even realize I know.

Ronan thinks he can replace me seamlessly. He thinks his Alpha Ascension is secure. But he is about to learn that the woman who built his foundation knows exactly which load-bearing pillars to kick out to find her own life and happiness.

Complete. New chapter every day.

Read this if you love:
🖤 Fated Mate Betrayal / Cheating
🖤 Second Chance Mates
🖤 Twin Betrayal & Pack Politics
🖤 A Competent FMC who refuses to be a victim
🖤 Karma Comes For Everyone

The House of Sagittarius is known as safe territory for hybrids and even known to take in any outcasts from other zodiac divisions. Their house is well respected and feared but the pure bloods do not take kindly to half-breeds.

When Amaya, nephilim heir to the throne is kidnapped at her coronation, chaos ensues and accusations are made but is the enemy closer to the family than what all the clues are led to believe?

After waking up from a one-night stand, Geneva wants to disappear back into anonymity. Yet, when she logs into her favorite game, he's there, questioning how they became friends. As she learns more about GlassOfOJ, she feels a strong connection with him. But when she works a jewelry event for her boss, she finds out there is more to him than his online persona. Who is the man she fell in love with?

A Cinderella-esque millionaire romance with spicy scenes.

In a tucked‑away Appalachian town where lanterns glow against the mountains, and the one‑room shul holds generations of whispered prayers, Avner Eisner returns home carrying a silence heavier than any pack on his back. Once the butcher’s tender‑hearted son, now a wandering fiddler with a haunting new sound, he hopes to slip quietly into the life he left behind.

But nothing in this town stays quiet for long — least of all the heart he thought he’d buried.

Eliza Mitzner, the rabbi’s daughter, has spent her life being everything the community expects: proper, wise, and promised to another. Yet when Avner steps back into her world, older, wounded, and impossibly changed, the careful order of her life begins to tremble. He is familiar and foreign all at once, a reminder of the boy she once knew and the man she was never meant to want.

As old tensions resurface and new desires spark, the two find themselves caught between duty and longing, faith and freedom, past and possibility. In a place where every choice is witnessed and every secret has a cost, Avner and Eliza must decide whether love is worth defying the world they were raised to protect.

A story of music, memory, and forbidden yearning, Jewgrass Fiddler blends Jewish heritage with Appalachian soul — a slow‑burn, second‑chance romance where childhood sweethearts become near‑strangers, enemies become lovers, and two hearts fight to claim a future neither was ever meant to have.

Skye Adams has no idea who she was before two years ago.

A terrible accident stole her memories and nearly took her life. Skye has learned to live with the blank space where her past should be—even if she's getting tired of being treated like she's too fragile to handle the truth.

Skye lives in a harsh, unforgiving world where zombies have been a fact of life for years. But outbreaks in her small West Texas town have always been rare.

Until now.

When EAB agent Liam Zane arrives to investigate the sudden increase in zombie activity, he starts asking questions no one seems able to answer. He's tall, unfairly handsome, irritatingly observant—and far too good at noticing the things Skye would rather ignore.

As the investigation draws them closer, so does the attraction neither of them expected. But when pieces of Skye's missing past begin to surface, she starts to wonder if the accident she's been told about is really the whole story.

And some secrets were never meant to come back.

Skye survived something she shouldn't have.

He had everything taken from him by vampires. She needs him, but... she's one of them.

Becca began life taken from her genuine family to be raised by the Eriksson Coven - vampires who love conquering and experimenting with their slaves. By the time she was rescued, she was barely alive and wasn't sure she even wanted to live at all.

Cody and his family were taken and forced into slavery. The Eriksson coven used his family to get the big ursa to fight in the pits. Once he was broken, they made him into a feeder until a vampire lord from another coven helped him escape.

Now that vampire lord is back, asking for a favor. Save the vampire he has found, no questions asked. Oh, but there are plenty of questions!

LOVE, LIES & A LYING CRYSTAL BALL

Willa Bumbles has built her career on brutal honesty. Her crystal ball doesn't sugarcoat. It doesn't comfort. People come to her desperate for devastating truth, and they always leave devastated.

Then everything changes.

Her predictions start showing good futures. Happy endings. Possibility instead of probability. Her customers are thrilled. They're coming back for more. They're leaving five-star reviews.

Willa is having a breakdown.

She's spent seventeen years telling people the hard truths nobody wants to hear. She's built her entire identity on it. And now nobody wants that version of her anymore.

But something still feels wrong. Something has shifted. And when the crystal ball starts making predictions about her own future, predictions involving someone she can't stand—Willa realizes she has to find out what's really happening.

Because if she can't trust her crystal ball, what can she trust?

Jake Decker was turning twenty-seven, single, and completely unprepared for the birthday gift he actually got: news that he's a father.
Years after a brief fling with Emily, her sudden death leaves behind five-year-old twins Jake never knew existed. Now he's got a house full of tiny socks, a son who won't speak, a daughter who never stops, and a family that shows up uninvited to make sure he doesn't do this alone.
He's figuring it out one impossible day at a time. Then Piper and Noah's kindergarten teacher walks into his life, a beautiful widow raising a thirteen-year-old daughter of her own, who knows exactly what it costs to love someone you're terrified of losing.
Tamara Bennett isn't looking for love. She's definitely not looking for a man ten years younger with two kids and a chaotic found family of self-proclaimed "uncles." But Jake and his twins have a way of getting under her skin, and some things are worth the risk.
Keep Me is a heartfelt, steamy age-gap romance about second chances, chosen family, and learning that love doesn't always arrive the way you expect it to.

Sylvia has spent nine years hiding in the Blackroot Forest, masking her Omega scent and concealing the strange magical marks spreading across her skin.

The forest is the only place she has ever felt safe — until four wounded Alphas cross into her territory.

Darius, Ansel, Cassius, and Gideon are wanted for the king's murder. But the moment they scent Sylvia, they recognize the truth.

She is their mate.

All four of them.

Possessive, dangerous, and unwilling to leave her unprotected, the Alphas awaken instincts Sylvia has spent her life suppressing. But Sylvia refuses to be owned by anyone — not the crown, not her magic, and certainly not four strangers who make her body ache with every breath.

Then the royal court discovers she is alive.

As soldiers close in and the forest begins answering Sylvia's call, she learns the markings covering her body are not a curse. They are the sign of an ancient power the kingdom has hunted for generations.

Now Sylvia must decide whether to trust the four Alphas claiming her heart before the crown burns the forest to take her — and unleashes the magic buried beneath its roots.

Anyone who tries to get lost on the Gulf Coast is bound to have a past…

Sofi and Maggie are twin witches raised on the bayou and barrier isles of Alabama. Both dream of meeting their knight in shining armor, who will save them from a life of boredom in a small town. Seamus is a delicious mystery, and his friend, Alex, is every gal's fevered dream. Neither are knights; these two are rogues ready to steal hearts. So, will the girls be rescued, or will they be the ones doing the rescuing?

Co-Authors: Rachel D. Adams and Athena Cetta

Every eight years, a carnival appears in the struggling town of Demon Den, promising monstrous thrills to anyone brave enough to remain after sundown.

For Alana, its return feels like an invitation from the happiest night of her childhood—the night her father brought her beneath its dazzling lights and a mysterious boy with brilliant hazel eyes promised to protect her. Now grown and eager to reclaim that memory, she enters the carnival with her best friend, V, expecting elaborate scares, reckless fun, and enough horror to make Halloween unforgettable.

But the blood is real. Terrified guests are dragged into the darkness, the crowds begin to disappear, and even the victims vanish from the memories of those who loved them.

Separated from V and hunted through the carnival grounds, Alana finds herself pursued by a masked stranger whose presence feels inexplicably familiar. Beneath his disguise waits the horned monster she never forgot—and he has spent years waiting for her return.

He would slaughter anyone who threatened her, defy his own kind to keep her safe, and burn the human world before allowing it to take her from him. But loving him means accepting the horrifying truth behind the carnival…and deciding how much of her humanity Alana is willing to sacrifice to remain in the arms of her monster.

She disappeared from a rave. One text, six hours late.

**hey did u leave early? lol**

She never went home.

Rachel Santos has been invisible her entire life. The middle daughter nobody remembered to pick up. The girl saved in somebody's phone as Hoodie Girl. When two strangers pull her out of a crowd and a third one feeds her breakfast like she matters, she doesn't fight it.

She sinks.

Into their loft. Into their beds. Into a world where she is photographed like a masterpiece, marked like territory, and fed like something precious. Three men, three kinds of hunger, and starving invisible Rachel finally full.

She stops going to class. She stops checking her phone. By the time the worship shows its walls, her apartment is gone, her phone is dead in a drawer, and there is no outside left. Just a lock, and she turns it herself.

Nobody Came Looking: A Love Story is book one of The Loft Duet. A descent with no ladder. It will not apologize to you.

For readers of: dark romance with actual teeth, horror that happens somewhere warm and well fed, and love stories you'll need to shower after.

Sabrina DeLuca has always been a little too much.

Too curious. Too emotional. Too obsessive about the things she loves. At twenty-two, she’s gotten pretty good at figuring out which pieces of herself fit into which rooms—and which ones are better left outside.

Moving to Los Angeles was supposed to change that.

Getting her first tattoo wasn’t part of the plan.

Neither was Kang Jiwoo.

At twenty-four, Jiwoo is everything Sabrina isn’t: quiet where Sabrina rambles, guarded where Sabrina feels everything, and seemingly incapable of being embarrassed. With tattooed hands, a black motorcycle, and a smile Sabrina quickly discovers is extremely dangerous, Jiwoo should be exactly the kind of woman she knows better than to get attached to.

There’s just one problem.

Jiwoo wants her too.

What begins as undeniable attraction quickly becomes late-night rides through Los Angeles, clothes left at each other’s apartments, doodles on Sabrina’s skin, and the terrifying realization that somewhere between wanting Jiwoo and having her, Sabrina stopped pretending this was casual.

But being desired is easy.

Being known is something else entirely.

Because Sabrina has spent years learning how to make herself easier to love, and Jiwoo has spent just as long making sure she never needs anyone enough to get hurt.

Falling for each other happens fast.

Learning how to stay might be the part that changes everything.

When the obedient wife of a powerful CEO realizes her husband will always choose his first love over her, she begins falling for the handsome escort he hired to humiliate her—forcing her to choose between preserving the marriage that defines her life and becoming the woman who finally chooses herself.

One night with First Lieutenant Tom Seaver was supposed to scratch an itch, not rearrange Naddy Brooks’s entire life.

She has an eight-year-old son to raise, bills she can barely pay, and absolutely no interest in falling for a Marine whose job can take him away without warning. Tom was supposed to be sex.

Then he kept showing up.

He fixes her dying car, wins over her kid, fills her empty fridge, and somehow turns a casual fling into motorcycle rides, Sunday ice cream, late-night arguments, and a life that starts feeling dangerously like home.

Tom Seaver knows how to compartmentalize. It’s how he survives a career built on classified work, sudden deployments, and never promising more than he can control.

Naddy and her son make that impossible. What starts as something temporary becomes the one part of his life Tom can’t keep at a distance. And the closer they get, the harder it becomes to leave them behind every time duty calls.

Off Base is a steamy, emotional military romance about a fiercely independent single mom, a guarded Marine officer, an accidental family, scorching chemistry, and two people who never meant to become each other’s home.**

A surveyor returns to the West Virginia hollow she escaped—and finds the mountain, the town, and something on the old tipple waiting for her.

Tessa Monroe has perfected the art of staying in one place. As the owner of her family's struggling diner and caretaker for her ailing mother, her dreams of culinary school melted away years ago—right alongside her heart when hockey prodigy Noah Walker left town for NHL stardom.
Ten years later, Noah Walker is at the top of his game—until a devastating knee injury has him retreating to his hometown to lick his wounds away from the spotlight. The last thing he expects is to crash his luxury car right in front of his high school sweetheart's diner, or to find himself working there to pay off the damage.
Forced together daily, their chemistry is as hot as the diner's griddle during the breakfast rush. But Tessa isn't interested in being just another conquest on Noah's stat sheet, and Noah's facing the terrifying possibility that his career might be over. With Tessa's diner under threat from developers and Noah's future hanging in the balance, they both must decide what they're willing to fight for—and whether some old flames never stop burning.
PUCK ME LIKE THAT is a steamy, emotional second-chance hockey romance featuring a sassy diner owner, the NHL star who got away, enough sexual tension to melt the ice, and the kind of homecoming that changes everything.

"He crashed into her world. Now, he's the only one who can keep her alive."

When Kennedy survives a brutal collision, she expects paramedics, not Nick Trevino. Arrogant, calculating, and dangerously captivating, Nick offers her a choice: face the treacherous dark forces targeting her alone, or take his hand and enter a realm of power and secrets. Once you step into the mafia king's world, there is no turning back.

I loved two boys before I was old enough to understand what loving them would cost me.

Prescott Alexander Whitmore belonged to one of the most powerful political families in America.

Banks Miles Devereaux was born into a royal family that had already planned his future before he could spell his own name.

And me?

I was the nanny's daughter.

The girl who grew up beside them. Fought with them. Got in trouble with them. Fell in love with both of them before any of us knew what to call what we were becoming.

By our twenties, the three of us had built a life no one else was supposed to know existed.

Then came the accident.

I woke up remembering everything.

Prescott didn't.

Banks didn't.

And suddenly the people who had spent years trying to separate us had the perfect chance to pretend there had never been an us at all. The accident wasn't the end of our story.

It was the beginning of the lie.

But some love doesn't disappear.

It remains.

Tropes: 👑 MMF / Why Choose 👑 Childhood Friends to Lovers 👑 Secret Marriage 👑 Second Chance Romance 👑 Amnesia 👑 Forced Separation 👑 Royal Romance 👑 Political Dynasty 👑 Plus-Size Black Heroine 👑 Old Money Family Drama 👑 Romantic Suspense 👑 Hidden Conspiracy 👑 The Body Remembers 👑 He Falls for Her Twice 👑 He Falls for Him Twice 👑 Found Family vs. Blood Family 👑 Love They Tried to Erase

Radek Kral knows how to skate.

As a left wing for the Milton Keynes Tempest, ice is the one place he has never had to think twice. Then a knee injury gets him benched and packed off to Calderton-by-the-Sea for six weeks of rehabilitation, healing baths and strict instructions to avoid heroics.

He lasts less than a day before finding the Silver Pavilion.

Beatrice “Trix” Gale has spent most of her life inside Calderton’s century-old ice theatre. She grew up as one of its rink rats, became one of its principal skaters, and has no patience for the injured hockey player who assumes show skating will be easy because he already knows how to move on ice.

Radek only intends to fill a temporary place in the chorus. Trix has no intention of becoming responsible for him. Neither expects an old theatre, a summer production of Return to Wonderland, and a little impossible magic to rearrange their plans.

Because at the Silver Pavilion, the stories performed on the ice have a habit of becoming just a little too real.

"In the shadow of the Inquisition, Rivkah Albotene flees a forced marriage and conversion, disguised as the cabin boy Mateus aboard a pirate ship. She discovers the captain, Oren Abzaradiel, smuggles Torah scrolls across the seas—and once shared a bond with her lost brother. As sacred texts sail under outlaw protection, exile and disguise entwine with forbidden romance, while Don Hernando hunts her across oceans. In the clash of covenant and betrayal, Rivkah must choose between secrecy and survival, love and lineage."

A woman returns to her family’s salt pans and discovers the old rules were never only superstition.

Victoria rules the Seattle underground with a scalpel and a silenced pistol. As the architect of the Mercy Syndicate, she transformed her own brutal history into an empire of female assassins who deliver lethal retribution to the city's worst predators.

Her latest masterpiece lies bleeding out on a plastic-wrapped floor—a high-profile monster who will never harm another woman or child. But before her cleanup crew arrives, a shadow detaches from the alleyway. Albert has been watching her. He knows her routines, her physical scars, and the cold void she uses to shield her mind.

Instead of killing the voyeur, Victoria drags him into the subterranean labyrinth beneath the city streets and locks him in one of her soundproofed cells.

She expects him to beg. She expects fear.

What she finds is a man entirely consumed by a twisted devotion.

Albert didn't stumble into her crime scene by accident; he orchestrated his own capture just to finally breathe her air. Behind the reinforced glass, the lines between warden and prisoner begin to bleed.

Albert weaponizes his submission, dismantling Victoria's icy defenses with an obsessive adoration that terrifies her more than any rival cartel.

As external threats from a corrupt police task force close in on the syndicate, Victoria must decide if the monster in her cage is her greatest liability, or the only man ruthless enough to stand by her side.

What if your mid-life crisis sends you to another world? What if you “find yourself” but also find a dragon?

People think of Rose Matthews as a woman who has everything. However, she sees herself as an underappreciated mother, business partner, and wife. Her husband was always on the go, and she did what was expected of her, forgetting who she was along the way.

Sick of the hum-drum, Rose looks beyond her humanity to the bloodline running through her. As a child of dragon mages, she is tempted to throw off traditional values and allow herself to be pulled to the other world, where supernatural beings rule and life is anything but boring.

Will she find what she's looking for there? If she does, what will that do to her future in this world?

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The Companions of the Dragon Stories are stand-alone paranormal romance stories showcasing the lives of enigmatic characters living and loving in our urban fantasy world, The Dragon Tasker Universe. We wrote the stories for fun and for ourselves and now we want to share them with you!

Newly divorced mother, Luana Douglas and her daughter, Leilani, are looking for a better life after divorce. Working two jobs to make ends meet, dating is the last thing on her mind. Her roommate has other plans for her. While she's working for a car company moving and driving cars off the pier once the stevedores finish unloading them from the ships, she meets the next in line to the stevedore company.

Thirty-five-year-old Kainoa Makakoa, just starting to get over the death of his fiance, works for his father as a stevedore at the Makakoa Bros Stevedore Company in Oahu Hawaii.

A mystery of who, how & why cars are being stolen with drugs involved not only thrusts them together but forces them to face the pains of their past so they can move toward their future, but will it be them--together? Find out in this second chance love, romantic suspense, HEA.

Scent of Vanilla & Old Spice, Bk 1 in the 'Scent of' series. Gracelyn Olivia Reid is in her second loveless marriage, married to a man who cheats, drinks, lies, gambles too much, & likes to watch porn on the internet. With a child addicted to drugs, she wonders where she went wrong in her life. Can she save her daughter, Shelby, from a life drugs and get her on a path to wanting life versus the alternative if she doesn't get clean before the police catch up with her and put her in jail?

Meet Eli Nash, a man Grace knew from her childhood because he was her brother's best friend, who comes back into her life as her next door neighbor. His father, who has Lewy Body Dementia, lives with him, but is that life destined to be destroyed from past mistakes made by both father and son?

Does Grace and Eli get a second chance at love with each other, or destined to stay single to deal with their own family problems? Or do they face them together and get to live a happily ever after life?

On Cane’s Folly in 1926, a seamstress for the dead opens her door to a stranger carrying an impossible bolt of cloth.

In a world where loyalty, legacy, and the bonds of family forge the strongest ties, Aiden Lockhart is on the brink of a promising future. With graduation in sight and a destiny as Alpha of the revered New Dawn Pack awaiting him, everything seems perfect—until it isn't. In a heart-stopping twist of fate, Aiden's life is shattered when a dark conspiracy leads to the brutal murder of his parents.

But the chaos doesn't end there. During what should be his Alpha Ceremony, betrayal strikes again as Aiden finds himself not only pack-less but fighting for his life. Awakening in a hidden cave, he is thrust into an unexpected alliance with those he has long despised—the Rogues.

As tensions rise and mistrust simmers, Aiden must confront his deepest fears and prejudices. Can he learn to collaborate with those he believes are his enemies to reclaim his home and restore honor to his family? Or will the weight of betrayal be too heavy to bear, leading him to abandon everything he once cherished?

13-87-22 is a mute City Elf, with hair the color of moonlight, and possessed by the spirit of a Snow Cat.

After attacking a Wood Elf, she proves her worth in the Clan. Even though she has a found-family and Clan that she loves, she wonders if she could save the rest of her people from slavery.

Trying to keep her Clan safe is hard enough without starting a war against the human slavers.

By taking over the mantle of the City Elf savior myth of “The Reckoning,” she becomes the central image of the revolution.

May the humans pray for mercy, because when the Reckoning comes for them, she has none for those who enslaved her people.

They were supposed to be off-limits.

Powerful, older, more experienced and completely forbidden.

These men were never supposed to become the ones who made hearts race, boundaries blur, and perfectly innocent relationships become dangerously complicated.

From forbidden attraction to irresistible temptation, every story in this collection explores a different kind of romance where desire comes with consequences or liberation.

One collection. Different stories. One dangerously addictive trope.

Welcome to the world of Stepdaddy Diaries.

Tessa Brooks thought moving into a new house would mean dealing with boxes, a tiny kitchen, and the usual headaches that come with starting over.

She didn't expect the locked attic door in her bathroom.

Her landlord insists the attic isn't part of the rental and claims a city ordinance requires it to stay locked. Tessa has no reason to question him until strange things begin happening inside her new home.

Then the noises start.

At first, they're easy enough to explain away. Old houses make sounds. Animals get into places they shouldn't. There's always a reasonable explanation.

Until there isn't.

What Tessa discovers inside her new home will force her to question everything she thought she knew about the world around her.

And whatever is waiting behind that locked door has already noticed her.

Some doors are locked for a reason.

✔️ A scholarship student who earned every single thing she has ✔️ A boy with a secret sketchbook full of birds ✔️ Six weeks in the wilderness ✔️ A species that came back after 40 years of being gone ✔️ A kiss in a storm ✔️ Two people who were absolutely, definitely just research partners

Once upon a curse, a kingdom bargained with darkness.

To save a dying queen, a fae lord’s stolen flower healed her—and birthed a princess bound by shadow.

Hidden away by fairies of light, Princess Lynneae grows up among lies and lullabies, until a mortal boy, Rowyn, awakens something forbidden in her heart. But when the sanctuary of spring falls, the darkness she was born from comes to claim her.

Now trapped in Maleus’s realm of ash and desire, Lynneae must resist the pull of her captor’s power, even as Rowyn crosses the Abyss to bring her back.

A tale of obsession, defiance, and doomed devotion, Taming Malice is a darkly seductive reimagining of Sleeping Beauty—where love is a curse, salvation is a sin, and the heart’s desire may be its undoing.

Forgetting her heartbreak, she turned to her ex-stepfather to make her feel better. She should have been off limits. He shouldn't have touched her. But she wanted to forget about her ex cheating on her. So one time couldn't hurt, at least that's what Cole told himself. Then Mitch, his friend and business partner stepped in.

Hazel Vance has no interest in finding a happily ever after.

As the owner of Moonflower Apothecary, nestled on the neutral boundary between human Mistvale and the territory of the Silver Ridge Pack, Hazel is perfectly happy with her quiet life, her magic, and her plants.

Then Caleb Blackwood walks into her shop.

It doesn't take long for the newly ascended Alpha of the Silver Ridge Pack to recognize Hazel as his mate. And judging by the look on face face, she's realized it, too.

But Hazel wants nothing to do with him.

Caleb knows he can't force his mate to accept him. But he's not willing to walk away, either. He's determined to show her he will never hurt her the way her mother had been hurt by a wolf shifter.

One patient gesture at a time.
One stubborn argument at a time.
And one undeniable spark at a time.

But Hazel has spent years protecting herself from the wolves. Can Caleb convince his reluctant witch that the mate bond doesn't have to end in heartbreak?

Because he's determined to show her that sometimes, the magic that scares you most is the magic that saves you.

After a painful divorce, Lauren James heads to Harbor Point, North Carolina, hoping the cottage her Aunt Jane left behind will give her room to breathe and figure out what comes next.

She expects repairs, quiet mornings, and maybe a fresh start. She does not expect Eli, the boy she once knew during childhood summers, now very much a grown man with roots in the town and reasons of his own for keeping people at a distance.

As Lauren begins restoring the cottage, she finds herself rebuilding more than an old house. Harbor Point starts to feel like home, old connections begin to matter again, and the future she thought she had lost may be waiting at the end of Shell Road.

A sweet coastal romance about second chances, unexpected beginnings, and finding home when you least expect it.

Mithradia the Elf needs a break. A break from both being both professional and parental, at least for her birthday!
But life doesn't stop and it's going to take a lot more than adding yoga classes to an already overfilled schedule to remember that a busy life can be a blessing. As she is reminded of the value of both family and friendship, Mithradia rediscovers joy in the chaos and learns that sometimes, the best moments are found right in the middle of the beautiful mess that some refer to as ‘work-life-balance’.

Everyone knows better than to bargain with the Curse Maker. Emeline does it anyway.

Desperate to free her sister from a marriage bought with their father’s gambling debt, Emeline turns to Corvin, a man feared for granting the impossible at a price.

His offer is simple, he’ll free her sister. In return, Emeline will owe him a debt to be named later.

She accepts.

Now Corvin’s mark is on her wrist, and the bargain between them cannot be broken. Emeline knows she should fear the day he comes to collect. What she doesn’t expect is the man behind the terrifying reputation, or how quickly the line between obligation and desire begins to blur.

Making a bargain with Corvin was dangerous.

Falling for him could cost her far more.

He bound a siren to build an empire. He never asked who she belonged to before him.

Five years ago, Evie Creed escaped the Sea Cities, leaving behind a broken family, a broken heart, and a world that considered her very existence an abomination. In Hollow City, she finally built something of her own.

Freedom.

Then Lior summons her.

Half witch, half demon, and entirely too ambitious, Lior is tired of being overlooked by the powerful families who control Hollow City's underground. When he discovers a forbidden ritual capable of binding a siren to him, Evie becomes his key to everything he's ever wanted.

Money. Influence. Desire. Power.

Her magic can make others want whatever Lior commands—and the bond between them ensures Evie can't simply walk away.

But her magic isn't the cruelest part of the curse.

Her heart is bound to him too.

Lior knows exactly what she feels, and he delights in exploiting it, parading other women before her while using her power to claw his way into Hollow City's most exclusive circles.

So Evie changes the game.

If Lior wants an empire, she'll help him build one. Because the higher he climbs, the closer she gets to someone powerful enough to break the bond between them.

There's only one problem.

Neither of them considered what would happen when word reached the Sea Cities that Evie Creed had been bound against her will.

Or what the Kraken King would do when he learned who was holding her chains.

A fantasy romance about elopement, estrangement, budget shampoo, and the long cost of choosing your own life. And everyone is a unicorn.

Emotional engagement is not required or expected.

Maren Santiago counts things instead of feeling them.

Drinks.

Tips.

Steps between her apartment and the subway.

Eleven minutes in an elevator going three miles straight down.

She won the Decennial Carrier Lottery...which she never entere. Under the Kovalev-Chen Fertility Accords, participation is automatic, refusal is a treaty violation, and the Bureau of Interspecies Reproductive Compliance would like to congratulate her on her civic duty.

The pamphlet is reassuring and includes a FAQ.

Four to six hours.

A clutch of four to eight eggs.

Direct genital contact with the assigned drone.

Emotional engagement is not required or expected.

The pamphlet has no question for the drone.

Seven feet of iridescent chitin. Six amber eyes.

A species that has spent sixty million years three miles beneath the surface and has no word for blue because its world has never contained one. He touches her face like he is reading it. He makes a sound she can feel in her teeth.

He looks at her like she is the first sky he has ever seen.

The procedure is scheduled for four to six hours. Ninety-six hours later the Bureau arrives to extract her, and Maren looks at the woman with the clipboard and says "There's a sixth egg".

There is no sixth egg.

Sue and Jackson have been best friends since childhood. They’ve been through everything together but nothing could prepare them for the nightmare of Jessica’s abduction.

As Sue and Jackson race to find his younger sister, Sue is forced to look at her feelings for Jessica. She's never thought of Jessica as anything other than a kid sister. She was afraid anything else would destroy her friendship with Jackson. But with every passing day, and every moment spent searching for Jessica, her feelings become clearer.

What happens when they finally find Jessica? And what will Jackson say when he discovers his best friend has fallen in love with his little sister?

Clare Good is a pawn in a dangerous game.

When tragedy strikes, Clare finds herself thrust into a world she'd never imagined, where ancient bloodlines rule and who you ARE matters. With a centuries old blood-feud hanging over her head, Clare has to figure out if it's better to be good... or damned.

Her husband controls everything-except the deputy who refuses to look away
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Jake Tropper gave up his lieutenant's bars in Arkansas and moved to Texas to keep one promise: protect the wife and young daughters his brother left behind-and never fail them the way he believes he failed Brendon.

Anniston Hillson was never supposed to become part of that promise.

To the rest of town, she is the graceful wife of a powerful senator, living the kind of life most people would envy. But now, working as a sheriff's deputy, Jake sees what everyone else misses-the way Anniston flinches when her husband reaches for her, the fear concealed beneath her perfect smile, and the practiced lies she tells to keep the peace.

When one violent night exposes the truth, Jake refuses to become another man who looks away.

But Dennis Hillson has money, influence, and a sheriff's department that knows better than to challenge him.

Standing beside Anniston could cost Jake his badge. Loving her could cost him everything else.

For the first time in years, Jake has found someone who makes him want more than survival. Now he must decide how far he is willing to go to give Anniston the one thing she has never known:

A love that feels safe.

The transition from the sterile glass of the boardroom to the decaying grandeur of Blackwood Estate should have been nothing more than another assignment.

Instead, it becomes the beginning of something she can't explain.

Blackwood Estate sits along the Potomac like a relic from another century—beautiful, imposing, and carrying far too many secrets beneath its ivy-covered walls. What was supposed to be a temporary step into a world of old money, powerful families, and carefully guarded reputations quickly becomes something far more complicated.

There are people at Blackwood who have spent years protecting what belongs to them. People who know how to manipulate a room without raising their voices, who understand the value of a secret, and who have every reason to be suspicious of an outsider.

Then there is the pull she can't seem to resist.

Between stolen glances, buried histories, dangerous chemistry, and truths that refuse to stay hidden, the lines between attraction and obsession begin to blur. The closer she gets to the people—and secrets—at the heart of Blackwood, the harder it becomes to tell who she can trust.

Because some connections don't feel like choices.

They feel like gravity.

And once you're caught in their orbit, escaping may cost far more than you're willing to lose.

Misty Hollow is the kind of town where the ice sculpture contest is a serious matter, the gossip circulates faster than the paper prints it, and the veterinary clinic is staffed by two ponies who would each prefer the other resign.

Tabitha Fershund is an heiress determined to live as a commoner — she's bad at it, she won't stop, and her magic is stronger than anything a unicorn should be able to do. Dr. Thomas Fairfax left the city for reasons he won't discuss and lost his magic for reasons he doesn't understand. He came here to be no one in particular. It isn't working.

Around them: a Bigfoot healer, an animal control officer with a flexible reading of protocol, a priest who'll perform an exorcism if pressed, a fan writing gore-fic about Tabby, and an organization that has been arranging the town's family trees since before the town existed.

The romance takes a while. The town does not wait.

She Was Born to Wield a Blade, Not to be Won...

When bandits tear through her village, Lady Kandra of Stafford rides out for blood. She finds a band of Highland warriors and doesn't wait to ask questions. She draws her sword. Only after her brother lies wounded and the dust settles does she learn the truth: these were never the men who raided her home.
Lachlan MacKinnon has never met a woman like her, a knight in her own right, fierce enough to challenge him and cut down his men without flinching. He can't let the attack go unanswered. He can't ignore what a female English hostage is worth in ransom. And he can't explain why the moment he looks into her eyes, something drew him to her.
Kandra wants none of it. Not his cage, not his gold, and certainly not the bond neither of them asked for. A wager between them was supposed to settle who bends first. Instead, it lights a fire neither can put out. A Clan war over her is closing in, her father is coming for her, and Kandra is running out of time to decide what she's really fighting for: her freedom, her family, or the man she can't resist.

Survival is a tangled web when you can’t resist the enemy.

Posing as the princess on a diplomatic mission to gain control of the legendary Land of Transcendence, bastard royal Lark Banla spends the journey entertaining reckless fantasies of escaping the convoy and her duties as a reluctant decoy.

She wouldn’t mind never hearing a word about the Land of Transcendence again – that treacherous territory awash with mysticism that once stole a piece of her sanity.

The convoy being ambushed by an enemy from Sarsyth was not the escape she had planned.

She dares not let on she isn’t the true princess, or her value to her captor will vanish. But she’s painfully aware her king won’t pay the ransom for a bastard decoy, and the brutal reputation of Sarsyth warns she must avoid reaching her impending destination at all costs.

Unfortunately, one touch from her captor sends both of them into a lustful spiral that blurs the lines of their hellbent objectives, a mating-bond that reveals a truth about Lark’s lineage that changes everything.

A truth that might lead her right back to the treacherous place she’d sought to escape forever.

In a world of ruthless opportunists, unpredictable magic, and mating-bonds mucking up political intrigue, will Lark find her true place in the world? Or will being mistress of her own destiny get muddled by her unbridled affection for the enemy?

If the madness that whispers from the Land of Transcendence doesn’t tear her asunder first…

Karros has never truly belonged at the Drakonis Academy, having only made the cut because the headmaster is his adoptive father. Desperate to escape his life as an outcast, he sneaks out under the cover of night to hunt an elder dragon and prove his worth to the world. Armed with a rough-forged blade and a volatile dark magic that burns his own flesh, Karros plunges headfirst into a brutal wilderness

Life at the remote mountain resort, The Pellington Grand Hotel is anything but spectacular for Josephine, but when a young man returns home from his city life to tackle an extremely difficult family situation, he unknowingly changes more than his life. He may even breathe a new life into the old hotel and all who live there.

In the bustling, magical city of Mythwood, Gehmorin has planned the perfect birthday surprise for Mythradia, his wife: yoga vouchers designed to whisk her back to the carefree, kid-free days of their past. But when you’re juggling toddlers, life in a new city, and the intrusive nature of modern magical communications from work, time for yoga is as mythical as unicorn tears.

Foreseeably (to anyone but him), his plans unravels, and when Mythradia gets called in to work he’s left home alone on her birthday with their two mischievous daughters, his plans in tatters, and the sinking realization that his thoughtful gesture might have been more about recapturing his lost youth than celebrating hers.

A cozy, heartwarming tale for parents who long for a little magic between the moments of the daily grind, Present Perfect Tense is a cozy, heartwarming short story about love, family, and finding happiness in all of life’s moments. Perfect for busy parents looking for a quick, relatable read in between interruptions – one that might make you wince and grimace, but smile by the end.

A princess forced into a deadly game, a masked outlaw with a dangerous grudge, and an enchanted, mechanical monster hunting them both.

In the fractured Kingdom of Stormwatch, Princess Adora is a political pawn. Thrust into a brutal contest for her hand by the ruthless Prince Nicobar, her future looks grim-until the arrival of a mysterious competitor. Wearing a plague mask and calling himself the 'Prince of the People,' this daring stranger challenges the court's tyranny. But he isn't just playing a game; he's hiding a dark secret that could upend the entire kingdom. With a relentless, enchanted metal Sheriff closing in and a magical storm brewing on the horizon, Adora must make a terrifying choice: play safe and remain a captive, or risk everything for a love as wild as the magic of Stormwatch.

Eric Lemhurst knows how to find the open.

On the ice, everything makes sense. Angles. Timing. Probability. The exact fraction of a second it takes for an opening to appear before anyone else sees it. At seventeen, Eric is already one of the most gifted young hockey players in the country, with scouts watching and a future everyone seems eager to plan for him.

Off the ice, the rules are harder.

School is loud. People say things they do not mean. Friendships change without warning. And now everyone is obsessed with prom—a night built around crowds, formal clothes, dancing, and social expectations Eric cannot seem to calculate. His brother Paul is the one person who can steady him when the rest of the world becomes too much, but even Paul has secrets Eric can’t decipher

Hundreds of miles away, Walker Blackmore is making calculations of her own.

Her life looks perfect from the outside. The right family. The right clothes. The right boyfriend. Radley Bofield is blonde, handsome, popular, and one of the most promising football players at their Alabama high school. He is exactly the kind of boy Walker's mother believes she should be dating.

Everyone thinks Walker is lucky.

Walker knows how carefully she has to behave to keep Radley happy.

As prom approaches, Eric is trying to survive a world that expects him to act like everyone else, while Walker is beginning to understand how dangerous perfection can become behind closed doors.

Welcome to the Full Moon Breeding Club.
Facing extinction through population decline, shifters have revealed themselves to the human world, seeking mates to enact their Shifter Survival Plan. But the only way to pass on the wolf is through a a virus that requires a perfect, primal storm to take hold: the adrenaline of the chase, and a primal claim — and the wealthiest packs are willing to pay whatever it takes to make it happen.

The solution? Highly secure, elite, three-day retreats where pragmatic human volunteers are paid exorbitant sums to step into the ancestral woods as "prey" for feral Alphas.

Hadleigh Stafford is completely out of options. Drowning in family debt, she signs a contract that promises one million dollars just for surviving the weekend. A second million if she leaves carrying a shifter's pup. It’s a calculated risk. She just has to survive three nights in the woods.

Grant Austen is the reluctant poster boy for the Shifter Survival Project. He expects another agonizing weekend of playing the predator, forcing himself to maintain human restraint while hunting a stranger. But the second Hadleigh walks into the lodge, Grant's dormant wolf wakes up with a single, absolute demand: Mine.

When the sun sets and the full moon rises over the Cairnwood estate, the hunt begins. But Grant isn't just looking for a carrier for his pups. He's hunting for his mate.

At seventeen, Lettie Turner thought she'd found her forever in Nico Starling. She couldn't have been more wrong.

When push came to shove, he chose his scholarship and hockey over the future she'd naively believed in, and when their paths cross seven years later, both are scarred from their shared past.

It doesn't help that Lettie's kept a secret that could destroy any hope for their future before it even begins. Nico committed the worst turnover of his life that night in 2016; can he make things right now?

Fiona Devlin has one year to save her father's life, and only one way to do it: sign herself over to Miles Kessler as his Exclusive Companion, no exit clause, no coming back the same. She learns to perform devotion for a man who mistakes her silence for surrender, cataloging every crack in his control while she waits for her moment. But she isn't the only one watching. Julian Vane, the Ledger's head of security, has been paying attention far longer than she realizes, and far closer than either of them can afford. Some debts can't be paid in money. Some cages only open from the inside, if you're patient enough to find the latch.

Amelia was at a bustling bar with her boyfriend one Friday night when things took a sharp turn. Her boyfriend, drunk and belligerent, suddenly backhanded her in front of three bar owners: Luke, Connor, and Jason. The men, protective and firm, stepped in immediately. They insisted Amelia stay at their house that night to separate her from the chaos and think things through.

That night was a turning point for Amelia. Safe in their home, surrounded by kindness instead of fear, she realized she didn’t deserve to be treated that way. With newfound strength, she broke up with her boyfriend and decided to reclaim her life on her own terms.

Meanwhile, Luke, Connor, and Jason couldn’t stop thinking about the brave woman they had helped. They wanted to show her what she truly deserved—a life filled with respect, care, and happiness. So they planned a special event at their place.

When mysterious messages began to arrive, hinting at danger lurking nearby. The three men quickly shifted into protective mode, determined to keep Amelia safe from any harm. Their watchful presence brought comfort and security, deepening the bond growing between them.

How I slept with a vampire and changed the universe.
You ever have that moment when you toss everything out the window, including your common sense?
Not me; it is rare, yet for some reason, trapped in a room with a vampire, I decide to ignore all my self-preservation.
And well... this changes everything.

After a disastrous magical test exposes her forbidden power, orphaned student Mordecai learns she is a Seeker destined to mend the fractured veil. Bound to dangerous Demon Princes, she must master her magic before the realms collapse.

Jacqueline “Jax” Hart thought turning twenty-one would mean drinks, bad decisions, and maybe finally figuring out what she wanted to do with her life.

She was not expecting to collapse, wake up in a hospital, get chased by men, and be dragged through a portal by two strangers.

Then she sees Atlantis.

Hidden beneath the ocean, the legendary city is very real, and apparently, so is the blood running through Jax’s veins.

Now she’s trapped in a world of ancient bloodlines, brutal testing, military training, dangerous Guardians, and creatures she thought belonged in mythology. Everyone in Atlantis seems to know more about who Jax is than she does, and some of them aren’t particularly happy she’s there.

But something far more dangerous is stirring beyond the city’s surface.

And whatever brought Jax home may have done it for a reason.

Rook came to the blackwater river for one thing: a way back to the wreck that killed his crew.

The river gives him Naere instead.

Naere is a Binder, a dangerous river-merman bound to laws older than the port at the river’s mouth. His freshwater world is dying as salt creeps inland, and the same treacherous shoals that keep Rook from his dead keep Naere from the source of the wound.

So they make a bargain.

Rook gets safe passage. Naere gets a road to the sea.

Neither expects the bargain to become desire.

But the farther they travel from the river, the more the balance between them shifts. Rook begins to see the loneliness beneath Naere’s possessive certainty. Naere discovers that the one man he most wants to keep may be the one man who cannot bear to belong to anyone.

And beyond the shoals waits a wreck neither of them understands as well as they think they do.

With a rival captain closing in and the boundary between river and ocean beginning to fail, Rook and Naere are pulled toward a choice that could cost them the dead, the living, and whatever has begun growing between them.

A dark MM pirate-merman romantasy about dangerous bargains, supernatural claiming, shifting power, and two men discovering that being kept is not the same thing as being chosen.

She was an unmatched candidate. He was the one who never stopped watching.

Taken from Mars Colony Seven along with four other women to save a dying alien species, Claire has watched every one of her friends fall for their Ardorian warriors — the commander, the engineer, the pilot. Even Melissa, who fights everything, is circling the medic with an inevitability that makes Claire's chest ache. But Claire? Claire is the unclaimed candidate. The scientist without a match. The one nobody's tattoos light up for.

Or so she thinks.

When a trafficking threat puts all five women at risk, Commander Ariss assigns his tactical officer as Claire's personal escort. Torel is seven feet of silent, lethal, infuriating composure — a warrior who communicates in monosyllables, stands in her greenhouse doorway for six hours without complaint, and smells like winter in a way that is becoming a serious problem.

What Claire doesn't know is that Torel has been suppressing his bond tattoos since the day she arrived — holding back the light in his skin through sheer will, because she was taken from her world without consent, and he refuses to let his biology make a claim she hasn't chosen.

A standalone novella set in the world of A Bride for the Alien. Can be read before or after the series.

Photographer Tilly Hale is spending Christmas on the tiny island of Dunbrae, where twinkling lights, snowy cliffs, and a centuries-old royal tradition have turned the season into something straight out of a fairy tale.

Her assignment is simple: photograph the Christmas Court and capture the story everyone is waiting for.

But between village celebrations, castle traditions, and one unexpectedly charming prince, Tilly begins to wonder if the most important moments are the ones that were never meant for the camera.

With twelve magical days counting down to midnight, Christmas on Dunbrae may just change everything.

I was the gentle twin. The dreamy "spare" who hid in the archives. When they forced me into my dead sister's wedding dress, they thought I would just submit to the monster she died trying to escape.

Set in the Half-Claimed universe, Twice-Claimed is a dark prequel revealing the origin story of the Moon Twin archive and Katina, the woman who built it.

Katina is the indulged but overlooked youngest daughter of a northern noble house in the Lycan lands. Her identical twin, Zara, was the Golden Child, groomed to bring honor to their house by wedding the Lycan Crown Prince.

But Zara knew exactly what kind of beast the Prince truly was. When she dies trying to flee rather than face him, she never imagined her twin would be forced to take her place. Terrified of the Crown's wrath, their family erases Katina’s identity and force her to assume her sister's place days before the wedding.

Trapped in a lethal masquerade and tethered to a sadistic Alpha whose rotting soul she can feel through her magic, Katina must find her courage to choose: freedom, or a cage.

What to expect:
🎭 False Identity & A Deadly Masquerade
🐺 Dark Arranged Marriage
🏰 Brutal Court Politics
⚔️ Rejection & Second Chance Mates

Please be warned this story is significantly darker than Half-Claimed - please heed the content warnings! (I promise, it does all come right in the end.)

She has no memories of her past—only nightmares that haunt her sleep.
Taken in by a seemingly ordinary community, she is welcomed, cared for, and nursed back to health. But beneath their kindness, she senses secrets they’re determined to keep from her. Can she trust him enough to begin a new life? And what will happen when her memories finally return? She can’t run from her past forever… or can she?

Tommy has been the unrightful alpha of the Timberwolf Valley pack since his brother died 20 years ago. The sting of Thiago’s death still hits him hard.

Malika is in line to become the alpha of the Lua pack. Her father kicks her out of the house when she disagrees with how he is running the pack. When she left the Lua Timberwolf pack, she never dreamed she would run into her true mate.

Grief remade her. Once a woman of science and wonder, Victoria now moves through a world hollowed by loss; a cathedral of smoke and silence. In the hush of her workshop, where gears turn like rosaries and glass hums with trapped breath, she seeks what the heavens have denied her: life born from death, beauty drawn from decay.

When her creation stirs beneath the storm, it opens its eyes not to the light, but to her, the mother, the maker, the mourner. Between them blooms something fragile and forbidden, a tenderness that teeters on the edge of ruin. Every touch is a confession; every breath, a betrayal of nature itself.

In a city gilded with Art Deco splendor and corroded by secrets, Victoria becomes both god and ghost, haunted by the love she has forged from grief's raw marrow.

A reimagining of Frankenstein steeped in shadow and sorrow, Victoria is a gothic elegy for the ones we cannot let go; and the monstrous beauty born when we try.

Two billionaires. One inheritance. Six months that will change her life.

Violet Sinclair inherits shares in a powerful Aberdeen investment firm — and the only way to claim them is to spend six months working between the two men who run it.
Callum Mercer and Dorian Cross don’t share. Until they see Violet flinch at another man’s touch, and decide she belongs to both of them.
She came to learn the business. She’s staying because two ruthless, protective alphas have made her safety their obsession — and being wanted that completely is the most dangerous thing she’s ever craved.

A scorching dark why-choose / MFM ménage romance with billionaire CEOs, forced proximity, a touch-her-and-die obsession, and a daddy/little dynamic. A standalone romance with a happily ever after.

The City That Never Sleeps has gone dark.

Ashlynn is stranded in a Park Avenue apartment with thirty-one pills, a grief she refuses to name, and a candle burning in the window. She tells herself the light is practical. She knows it is a plea.

Leith is moving north through Manhattan with an open wound, an empty pistol, and a deadline. He survives by planning every possible version of disaster. The version where he ignores the candle is safer.

He goes upstairs anyway.

Their fragile alliance becomes three when they find Katrina, an eleven-year-old survivor who has learned never to wait for an adult to save her. Together they cross a city full of dead, a stadium full of desperate living, and roads where every shelter carries a claim.

Ashlynn cannot promise sobriety. Leith cannot promise safety. Katrina already knows adults make promises they cannot keep. But mile by mile, the three become a “we”—and learn that love after the end of the world is not a guarantee of safety. It is a choice made without one.

Maeve Calloway has spent eleven years being capable, present, and overlooked. When she finally packs her car and drives seven hundred miles to a teaching position at a small Vermont college, she isn't looking for anything - just a town that might actually want her in it.

She gets the town. Her first night, she also gets a hole in her wall.

Rhett Danner comes to fix it, says approximately forty words, charges her a fair rate, and tells her she'll be all right here with the quiet certainty of a man who checked. He's been the most reliable person in Briarwood for a decade - single dad, his own business, a perimeter around himself so well-built most people don't notice it's there.

He didn't account for her.

When his daughter enrolls in Maeve's class and his renovation crew moves into the building next to her office, proximity does what it does. Slowly. Then all at once. But Rhett has kept his walls standing for a reason, and Maeve has spent too long waiting to be chosen to settle for almost.

What Holds is a slow-burn, high-heat standalone romance about two people in their forties who know exactly what they want - and what it finally costs to ask for it.

What She Never Said

Alana Hudson has spent years hiding the truth about her abusive marriage to Kirk, believing silence was the only way to protect herself and her sons. After Kirk's sister, Stella Richardson, once again tries to take Adrian and Allen from her, a single legal letter sends Alana into a devastating trauma response and forces the secrets of her past into the light. As her sisters uncover hidden evidence of Kirk's abuse and Stella's obsession threatens to destroy everything Alana fought to rebuild, Alana must finally find the courage to speak about what happened, protect her boys, and reclaim the life she was never allowed to have.

They say ravens come when death is near.
They are wrong.
Ravens come when something is about to be remembered.
She has spent her life hiding among healers, deliberately keeping herself at the bottom of the ranks where no one thinks to look too closely. There is safety in being overlooked.
Because she carries the blood of the Ravenborne.
They are an ancient people who can shed their mortal forms and take the shape of ravens, creatures feared for their connection to death, prophecy, and forbidden knowledge. Once, they were revered. Then kingdoms learned what they could see.
So they were hunted.
Now she is one of the last.
She has never shifted. Never spoken of her blood. Never allowed herself to wonder why ravens seem to recognize her.
Until they begin gathering.
And with them comes the sight.
A dying king.
A crown stained in blood.
An army marching beneath a blackened sky.
And a future in which she stands at the heart of it all.
The healers taught her how to save a life.
Her ancestors taught the ravens how to foresee its end.
Now she must decide which inheritance will define her.

David Jansen has spent fifteen years building the life he wanted: a Wall Street career, more money than he imagined, and access to people who seem to know what’s coming first.

Somewhere along the way, he lost everything that mattered.

His marriage is over. The conversations between David and his ex, Grace, have dwindled to their seven-year-old daughter, Margot. Grace has built a life without him on Long Island, while David has buried himself in work rather than face what went wrong between them.

Then the country begins to change.

At first it seems temporary. Checkpoints. ID scans. Curfews. Armed security in places that never needed it before. Officials promise everything is under control, and most people keep going because believing that is easier than considering the alternative.

But David sees something different behind closed doors.

His wealthiest clients are quietly moving money and preparing for something they refuse to explain. David wonders whether the people with the most to lose already know something the rest of the country doesn’t.

Grace feels it too.

As the world around them becomes harder to recognize, two people who have spent years learning to live without each other may discover that some connections are impossible to leave behind.

Finding their way back to one another may become more important than either imagined.

Spring Break.

Tijuana.

One week that was never supposed to matter… and a man she never forgot.

Kane and Allyra crashed into each other in a blur of heat, wild temptation, and promises made in the dark. They swear they’ll meet again next Spring Break.

Then life hits and Tijuana doesn't stay in Tijuana.

Now, years later, fate has brought them back together again, and Kane isn’t the kind of man who lets unfinished business stay unfinished. But second chances come with consequences and this time, walking away might cost them everything.

Will they reclaim what they lost… or let true happiness slip away once more?

Jayne is twenty, studying psychology, and has just made the questionable discovery that her new professor is very, very hot.

Daniel is thirty-two, irritatingly observant, annoyingly good at arguing, and now also her boss.

It starts with lectures, office hours and a TA position.

Then come the coffees. The late-night texts. The looks across crowded rooms. The conversations that go on longer than they should.
Neither of them has crossed a line.

Yet...