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Sera has operated in the information trade for twelve years. She knows how silence works: what it protects, what it costs, and when it runs out. A high-stakes infiltration of a Gramercy gathering goes wrong. Her cover breaks. For the first time in her career, she has to extract herself without a plan — and the man who helps her is Varn Tessaly, a Middton information broker who asks for no masks because he can't afford to maintain his own. What develops between them is uncomfortable in a way she doesn't have a name for: genuine, reciprocal, built on half-truths rather than whole ones. With...

She's tired of being the girl they leave. Maren Lindqvist has a problem. As the star forward for her college hockey team, she's confident, focused, unstoppable on the ice. But her love life? A series of pretty girls who use her to experiment, to feel wild for a night, to have a story to tell their boyfriends in the morning. She's always the adventure, never the destination. After yet another girl leaves her feeling hollow and used, Maren makes a decision: no more parties, no more hookups, no more hoping this time will be different. She just needs space to figure out who she is when she's ...

In the patchwork territories of post-collapse New York, where invisible magic bends the minds of nearly everyone, Sera Mercet survives by being everything the city needs her to be. Artifact dealer. Socialite. Spy. Lord Aldren Vashet suspects the neighboring Gramercy territory is planning expansion. The assignment is familiar: infiltrate the social circle of Daven Carwell — collector, gentleman, target — and extract what Aldren needs to know. Sera has done this before. She knows exactly how it works. What she doesn't expect is a man perceptive enough to see past her performance. Or a ...

She was hired to photograph them. She never expected to see so much more. Brandi Lesson has spent two years as the team photographer for the Carolina Tempest, capturing professional women's hockey players in action. She's good at her job—maybe too good. When the team asks her to shoot a charity calendar featuring artistic nude portraits, she agrees to do whatever it takes to make her subjects comfortable. Even if that means taking off her own clothes. What starts as a professional equalizer becomes something more as Brandi discovers that vulnerability goes both ways. Session by session, ...

Six days south of New York by rail, the city of Terminus operates by different rules. Nine lords share power. The air is hot, slow, and heavy with the smell of cotton and ambition. And the Architect — the architect of everything that went wrong in Book Two — is somewhere in it. Sera's mission: follow the trail, identify the Architect's Terminus contacts, and return with intelligence. Her cover: a scholar's companion, attached to the research of Jenneth Cray, a warm and idealistic academic who is unknowingly standing in the middle of exactly what she needs to find. The complication is ...

Sera Mercet has served Lord Aldren Vashet for twelve years. She understands the work, the arrangement, the price of her immunity. She is not supposed to be surprised by any of it. When a routine intelligence operation uncovers a conspiracy reaching further than Aldren's territory — an organization called the Preservers, with a master planner known only as the Architect — Sera finds herself inside something she wasn't prepared for. Her target, the operative Kellen Marsh, knows more than he's supposed to. And someone close to her has already died because of it. The Architect flees south ...

Two women. One minor league hockey team. A love story about learning to be seen. Mary Kowalski is twenty-four, from Minnesota, and working as a dental receptionist in Greenville, South Carolina. She skates as an ice girl for the ECHL Swamp Rabbits because it's the closest she can get to the hockey she misses. She's dated boys, kissed girls at parties, and told herself the threesomes were for her boyfriend. She's starting to suspect that was a lie. Elena "Lena" Castillo is twenty-six, a marketing coordinator who also works as an ice girl. She's a local with a Colombian mother and Upstate ...

The Plan was simple: get hockey boyfriends. Falling in love was never part of it. Anaïs Gutierrez has her college life figured out—premed track, solid grades, and a best friend who makes everything better. When Harper Beaumont suggests they attend every home hockey game to catch the attention of the team's hottest players, Anaïs goes along with it. After all, what's the worst that could happen? Harper's never been good at wanting things she's supposed to want. The Plan gives her permission to finally take action, to have experiences, to figure out who she is. What she doesn't expect is ...

She never forgot the night she serviced an entire hockey team. He never forgot how powerful she was when she told him about it. Lisa Matean has everything she's supposed to want: a loving husband, a thriving business, a comfortable life in suburban Michigan. But six years into marriage with Connor, a retired NHL defenseman, she finds herself wondering if "comfortable" means she's lost the adventurous woman she used to be. The one who once took on twenty-four hockey players in a locker room and walked away feeling invincible. When Connor discovers Lisa's secret browsing history—hotwife ...

The ask took six years. The answer took six months. Waverly Ashford knows exactly who she is. A large-animal vet tech who relocated from the Fraser Valley to Minnesota for a job and stayed for reasons she's still cataloguing. She reads widely, works hard, and has been carrying a specific and well-examined desire since she was twenty years old — one she's never felt safe enough to voice. Not the full version. Not with anyone who mattered enough to risk it. Cole MacKinnon is steady in the way of things built to last. A reliable, physical forward for a Minnesota hockey franchise, raised ...

For thirteen years, vampire sheriff Eve Ashford has built an impossible life with Maya and Jordan—a polyamorous family that defies every rule of her kind. They've weathered political threats, faction wars, and the daily miracle of loving across the divide between immortal and mortal. But time is the one enemy Eve cannot defeat. When Maya's beloved uncle Marcus receives a terminal diagnosis, their carefully constructed world begins to crack. Their daughter Elena, now eight years old, is asking questions none of them know how to answer. What happens when people die? Why won't Mama Eve get ...

She's been faithful for twenty-five years. He's about to ask her to stop. Kate Lewchuk thought she knew exactly who she was: a personal trainer in Winnipeg, wife to former NHL player Terry, mother to their college-bound son. But when the nest empties and the house goes quiet, she's confronted with a question she's been avoiding for years. Terry knows his wife. He knows the fantasy she's never fully admitted to—the one that surfaces in their darkest, most intimate moments. And he knows that if they don't pursue it now, they never will. What he's proposing is simple: one hundred men. ...

When Sarah Mueller discovers BDSM content online, she finds something she didn't know she was searching for—a reflection of her deepest desires. But understanding what you want and knowing how to ask for it are two very different things. Anya Volkov has always known who she is: a confident teammate with a hidden dominant nature. When Sarah finally finds the courage to knock on her door, Anya is ready to guide her into a world of submission and trust. But this isn't about control or conquest. It's about building something real. In the spaces between ice and intimacy, Sarah learns that ...

She's spent years telling herself she's too ordinary for someone like him. He's spent just as long waiting for someone real. Lisa Hampton is a high school English teacher who loves Milwaukee's AHL hockey team for all the right reasons — her late father's spirit is in every game. She doesn't expect to end up at a charity dinner talking to the most grounded man she's ever met. She definitely doesn't expect him to call. Marcus Cole is a defenseman who made peace with the AHL after an injury ended his NHL career. He's seen enough of the hockey world's spotlight-chasers to know exactly what he...

She spent three centuries building her authority. She'll destroy it all in one night to save them. Four years ago, Eve Ashford—the 311-year-old vampire Sheriff of Charlotte—did the unthinkable. She fell in love with two humans: Maya, a fearless journalist, and Jordan, a gentle therapist. Together, they've built something no one thought possible: a life that bridges the divide between predator and prey. But not everyone wants them to succeed. Harrison Wells has spent two years in exile, watching and waiting. Now he's returned with an army of extremist vampires and a plan designed to ...

Eve Ashford has spent three centuries enforcing vampire law in Charlotte, NC—and three centuries alone. When student journalists Maya Chen and Jordan Rivers stumble onto a vampire murder, Eve must protect them from a predator who believes humans are nothing but prey. But keeping them safe means keeping them close, and Eve hasn't let anyone close in a very long time. As danger escalates and political enemies circle, Eve faces an impossible choice: the duty she's upheld for centuries, or the two humans who make her feel alive for the first time since she died. BLOOD LAW is the first book in...

Nora Calloway has been running the math for four years. Three internships. Four cities. A 2019 CR-V with a paid-off title and a back seat that doubles as a mobile office. She’s twenty-six, she’s broke in the specific way of someone who is very good at her job and has not yet been paid for it, and she is three months into an unpaid internship with a minor league hockey team in Jacksonville when she makes the most practical decision of her life. Garrett Hollis is the Director of Communications for the Jacksonville Icemen. He is twenty-nine, precise, excellent at his job, and recently ...

She fixes what's broken. He's learning to let her in. Maren Kowalski is the best equipment manager the college hockey team has ever had. At five feet tall, she's earned her nickname—Twig—and the respect of every player who's watched her work miracles with tape, tools, and sheer determination. She notices everything: a worn skate blade, a failing helmet buckle, the way her boyfriend favors his left shoulder months after everyone else stopped asking about it. Jake Lindqvist is the defenseman who fell for her the moment she fixed a teammate's helmet in ninety seconds flat. Now they share ...

Bex Kowalski-Hunt has never been afraid of new ice. When the PWHL calls her name, Bex packs her life and moves to Chicago with her wife, Cam —a true crime podcaster who uproots her entire world without complaint. It’s a sacrifice Bex can’t ignore. So when Cam tells her she’s attracted to a woman she’s met—a Pilsen muralist named Nico Vasquez—Bex does something that surprises them both. She says yes. Not the yes that means “I’ll accept this.” The actual yes. The yes she has to earn. What follows is a year of building—on the ice and off it. As Bex’s game sharpens and ...

Two years ago, vampire sheriff Eve Ashford broke every rule to claim Maya and Jordan as her own. Now, as political enemies circle and time marks its passage on the humans she loves, Eve faces an impossible choice: cling to power or fight for the family she never expected to want. Maya is twenty-four, and her body is already changing—gray hairs appearing, knees aching, mortality announcing itself in ways she can't ignore. She's researched conversion, knows the terrifying odds, and has questions Eve has been avoiding for three centuries. Jordan is caught between two worlds: the vampire ...