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Her nature is wild. These rough riders aim to tame. Nelly Shaw was Tacoma's ballet rising star until a grand jeté left her with a career-halting injury. Stubborn and unwilling to succumb to limitations, her life became a blur. Two surgeries. Physical therapy. Panic attacks. A desperate comeback...

She's spent her entire life waiting to die. Now, she's scent-matched to five Alphas with a death wish. Lucy has never known freedom. Locked away in a sterile facility since childhood, the fragile Omega was told she'd die before twenty-four. No kisses. No mates. No future. Desperate to survive...

I'm in love with Lucas Blaze, the player grandson of the woman I take care of. I'm nothing like the women he dates, so the chances of him noticing me are slim to none. Until the day he asks me to marry him. Lucas is the youngest Blaze Brother. He works twenty-four seven, and his only use for women is to get his rocks off when he's taking a break from putting his family's liquor brand into every store in the country. I don't mingle in the same high-profile groups, and I sure as heck don't know the first thing about pleasing a man. But to make his Granny happy, Lucas is willing to marry me.

Nick and Noah's rocky relationship is struggling through its worst moment, and it seems that nothing can go back to the way it was before. They will have to surmount a new and frightening set of challenges to finally understand if they are really made for each other or if being apart is their only chance to be happy. Love is not always enough, and forgiveness sometimes doesn't fix what's been broken. But can you forget such a strong connection? How can memories tattooed on the heart be erased? Will they be able to leave the past behind and start over?

When Noah fell in love with Nick, she knew their relationship would never be easy. They're fire and electricity, and when they're together, every kind of sparks fly. After last summer, Noah thought their passion had grown stronger than their fear, but her life is about to turn upside down again now that she's starting university. Moving again while maintaining her relationship with Nick will be a difficult hurdle, with their age difference, campus life, dangerous parties, and inner demons stalking them both, reminding them of all they still don't know about each other.

Tessa Fortune's made peace with her pain. Almost. She's survived two winters on the street, kept her cat fed, and forgotten how it felt to be touched like she mattered. Now, desperate and alone, Tessa sells her scent to a shady research lab for a night of hot food and clean sheets. She doesn't know this choice will irrevocably tie her to a pack of nearly feral, dangerously famous Alphas. Ryder hasn't stopped spiraling since that mystery Omega at the Seattle show. He knows, to his bones, she's exactly what he, Dixon, Mac, and Tray need. But now she's back.

After tragedy strikes, Flint Carswell cuts short his career as a Navy SEAL and returns home to his family's cattle ranch. Grieving and angry with the world, he encounters witty and sexy-as-sin Morgan Flemming, the woman he spent a wild week with the year before. Carrying demons from her past, Morgan is horrified to see Flint. Her uninhibited behavior with hun while she was grieving her mother is something she's tried hard to forget. And, at all costs, she must keep secret what happened after he returned to his platoon. Fate has different plans, throwing the two together at every turn.

Seventeen-year-old Noah Morgan lives a quiet, normal life with her mother in Toronto . . . until her mother meets and marries William Leister, a wealthy and enigmatic lawyer from California. Noah finds herself moving to LA, leaving her volleyball team, her best friend, and her boyfriend behind. Upon arriving in her new life of private schools and pool parties, she meets her new brother, Nicholas-a college student, and seemingly the typical spoiled rich kid. Noah has no desire to get along with him, especially when she discovers Nick's secret life of clandestine car racing and street fights.

I’d played kiss chase when I’d been younger, but never with the devil himself… Never did I dream that my big day would turn into a bloody wedding. Handsome, cruel, and ruthless, Marco Marchiano is the Capo of Chicago and is feared by all. He terrifies me with his darkness, confuses me with his tenderness…and devastates me with his touch. And with this man, I am forever falling.

A dog named Slipper almost ruined my life. The uncatchable stray snuck on the patio where I was waitressing and knocked me straight into Lee Powell's lap. My fist slammed into his junk. Then I accidentally flipped his breakfast platter onto his pants. I thought it couldn't get any worse, but when I bring my brother to baseball practice, I discover his new coach is none other than Lee, owner and founder of Powell Dog Sanctuary, and he's not happy to see me.

Falling for my brother's best friend was not on my to-do list . . . But neither was kissing him the night before he was traded to a team across the country. Clearly, I didn't think things through and I spent the past decade trying to bury the memory of him. He left and I had no choice but to move on after he seemingly forgot about me. I dove headfirst into my career and after a failed relationship left me a single mom, I had no time for any other distractions that came my way.

His voice has ruined me for real men. Low. Dirty. Addictive. Joe Hamilton's audiobooks don't just tell a story. They hijack my body, dragging me right to the edge of heat with nothing but sound. I've listened to every one of his romance books. More than once. He's a fantasy. A voice without a...

“I think it’s the only way to fix me.” One sentence. One phrase. It will haunt him if he ignores it, but his heart isn’t in the business at the moment. Aiden and his partners put their blood, sweat, and plenty of tears into making Fairford Manor a huge success, but owning a luxury resort hasn’t turned out quite as he expected. After the latest disaster, it’s time for a vacation from the Manor, to hopefully reset his life. But he can’t forget Olivia—especially once she’s at the gates having a full-blown panic attack. And what’s worse, she’s stunning and sweet and fragile.

When my evil stepfather sold me into slavery, I thought things couldn't get any worse. Then they send me to Darkstone Academy, a reform school for psycho mages. The human students here are the rejects from other academies, out-of-control young mages. And then there are the supernaturals. They hate humans and aren't shy about showing it. Danger shadows my every step—until I find myself unexpectedly soul-bonded to four powerful men.

I nearly had it all: a successful football career, money flowing like a waterfall, and women dropping at my feet. I was living life to the max until some pretty harsh weather conditions ended my career and ruined the rest of my life. I turned into someone I didn’t know and didn’t like and became the laughingstock of my family. They all expected me to knock up a hooker. I don’t blame them. I made a lot of mistakes.

Austin "Reaper" O'Brien has a deadly skillset sharpened to perfection by sixteen years as a sniper for the Navy SEALs. After the difficult choice to leave the military, he makes the slow transition into the civilian world working on a south Texas cattle ranch. A quiet man made more so by the nature of his lethal profession, he suffers in silence from the loss of his infant son and his wife's death.

After all, who doesn’t long to hear the whoosh of the crop, the whack of the paddle on a soft, fleshy behind...and the plea for mercy? Behind the sunshine there is darkness. These erotic tales feature plenty of hard, hot spanking, paddles, straps, bondage, threesomes, oral, anal and straight sex.

Lilian always had a no-dating rule. For the last twelve years, she's been the guardian of her younger sister. She did the whole PTO, soccer mom thing. But now that her sister's a college graduate and married, Lilian is taking her life back . . . and looking for a good time. I respected her "no dating" rule even though I've wanted her since the day she started working for me. Two years later and my thirst for her has only intensified. Lily might think all she wants is a one-night-stand, but I'm determined to make her mine.

I’ve spent the last year simply trying to survive but the massive amount of debt to my name and a bar on the brink of collapse, I’m quickly running out of options. The last thing I expect is to be offered an out by Sunstone Ridge's most eligible bachelor. Roman Knight is small-town royalty. Rich. Powerful. Untouchable. And as desperate as I am. He needs a wife, and I need money, what could possibly go wrong by making a deal to marry the cowboy with his own reasons to never fall in love?

Steven McAllister is a villain. Once a villain, always a villain, right? There's no one I hate more in our small town, and now that my dad is his boss, I can't avoid him. And maybe… maybe I don't want to. Because the more I get to know him, I realize there's more to him than I thought. With...