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Trick and treat. Daya the nutbag decided that the best way to build a relationship with his daughter was to kidnap her. His daughter, that's me, has decided that I don't feel like having a relationship with him. He says he wants to make up time when really he wants to control my power. The lady doth protest, a lot. The guys try to stage a rescue and fail, so I decide that I'm sick of sitting and waiting for rescue. I'm going to rescue myself. One of the first things I'm going to do when I get home...I'm going to kiss the smirk off of Trick's face. If I survive my escape.

Billionaire CEO Michael Vilander needed just one date. Creating a fake profile on his own matchmaking website may not have been his brightest move, but then Sophia Baldwin’s arresting face pops up on his CHAT NOW feature. Not only is she gorgeous, but after spending half the night exchanging messages with her, he finds her to be naive, innocent, and way too sexy.

Ariel Kimber has finally settled into her life. Life is golden, shiny, and the potential for happy days - endless. Until it’s not. When the Council comes to call, you pick up the phone and answer...or you suffer the consequences. Only a fool wouldn’t answer, and Ariel Kimber is no fool. With her coven of guys, her psychotic father, and the honorable Marcus Cole by her side, she can make it through anything.... Even the Council.

As a half-witch and half-coyote shifter, I can do without mingling with the sexy-as-sin shifters that I help by lifting curses, but it pays the bills, and I can secretly gather intel on my missing father. Yet working with them means never surrendering to my passion and doing my best to keep all those handsome beasts at arm’s length. That is until I discover that I’m destined to be the thirteenth zodiac. And the shifter council orders me to mate with 12 hot shifters to keep everyone from going insane.

Twelve shifters, me, and an evil witch who just happens to be making my life hell. With the death curse nearing its promise, I have only one hope of defeating Magda and saving everyone I love - mating with my 12 shifters and taking my place as the 13th Zodiac. As the curse grows stronger by the day, my magic, unpredictable as it is, is affected even more, and I'm running out of time...and allies. The evil Magda has half of my court, my aunt, and possibly my father if he's even still alive after all this time.

Jacob is always the one who eases tension with a quick joke. He's fourth in the Blue Mountain Pack and finds himself eating lunch at the Pack Bar and Grill almost everyday, thanks to the new waitress.... Sage just moved to La Grande from Los Angeles after deciding she needed a change. Hollywood just wasn't her. When her car broke down, she found herself in La Grande, Oregon, and for the first time in her life, she felt at home. It didn't hurt the guy who'd fixed her car was super hot.

Wren has a dark obsession - to find her mother's murderers before they find her. Every new singing gig brings her closer to crossing their names from her list. When a detective shows up with a new lead, she jumps at the chance with fangs bared. But to get the info they need, they’ll have to bust someone out of jail. Sure. No problem.

Billionaire CEO Dylan Truex was burnt out. Not from his empire, Dirty Gains, but from his celebrity status. Having the body he did as well as the motivation to lead the pack was no longer all it was cracked up to be. Heading to Estes Park for a two-week getaway all by himself sounded like the perfect solution to all his problems. Until he arrives and finds that the condo has been double-booked. Sharing the condo he can handle. Cute blondie tempting him to break his no-sex bet, err....

Belle Harrison, vampire slayer, would give anything for a simple night of patrolling on her own damn terms. But the graveyard is crawling with creeps with hidden agendas. Not to mention the dark unknown that wants to take her out. And we’re not talking dates here, people. Good thing Belle has three panty-melting vampires to help her. Except one of her guys has a past that’s catching up with him. Violently. Belle’s fairly certain she can save him. But if she betrays him, she’ll gain a wealth of knowledge that could help her survive the dark unknown.

I’m already in enough trouble with my magic going crazy right when I’m opening a storefront for romantic crimes consulting. The last thing I need is interference from Kiran Singh, who failed spectacularly as a boyfriend. Now, he wants me back with some crappy excuse of helping him track down illegal, dangerous love potions. Then, one of his other exes tries to kill me in a fit of jealous, doped-up rage and ends up dead herself - with all evidence pointing to Kiran.

Abruptly yanked into a meeting with the Librarian and given an assignment she can’t refuse, Adie will have to put her dreams on hold once more, this time to complete a mysterious "quest" she has little interest in.

For some, suffering less is as close to being happy as they’ll ever get. Alessa Dean is a girl who’s used to suffering. She was someone’s daughter, sister, niece. She was whole...once. Now, she’s got nothing left to lose and a choice to make that could change her life forever. A choice given to her by three men who belong to the Wayward Kraken motorcycle club. Three men who give her a way out and a chance to start over. Will she take that chance and possibly find the ability to not only love someone else once again, but to love herself?

Billionaire CEO Zander Morgan hates to lose. To anyone. He also hates the fact that he is well-known for the architectural design app he created years ago and not for his more meaningful skills as an architect. This year, he is going to up the ante. The Architectural Award only comes out every three years and this year nothing is going to stop him from putting his name on it. With the designs he has for The Rink, he’s sure the award will be his...so long as he can keep his sexy little poker-playing opponent to stop her petition.

The problem with Belle Harrison, vampire slayer, is that she doesn’t give two shits about lakes. That all changes when she learns of a certain lake that could show her the truth about the dark unknown who wants her dead. Unfortunately, only the devil knows where this lake is. Damn it all to hell, he’s hot, sexy, wrapped in leather, and yearning to get down Belle’s pants with one lust-filled glance. But he’s also a prickly bastard. Belle’s going to need her three vampires’ help to slap some sense into the devil.

They say if one door shuts, another opens. No. Slam it closed, lock them both, and don’t touch anything. The door to the graveyard’s mausoleum won’t shut. It’s standing wide open in invitation to Paul, the dark unknown who wants Belle, vampire slayer and…uh, layer, dead. Because someone - or something - is helping him.

Embarking on an adoption journey can be daunting, but now you are not alone! This collection of true, beautiful accounts takes an honest look at the process, the struggles, and the undeniable joy that comes with adoption. With insights from all three adoption triad viewpoints, Adopting Hope shares a wealth of lessons learned and tips for every person contemplating an adoption journey.

Belle Harrison, vampire slayer, has just leveled up spectacularly. She’s thirstier. And sensier. Yes, that’s a word now. But her new dead life isn’t all bloody cocktails and hot sex with her three gorgeous vampires. The dark unknown who wants Belle dead - permanently - has been up to no good. It’s time to take him down. No problem, right? Wrong.

Talia White does what comes naturally to a unicorn: balances the scales between light and dark with hefty doses of love and joy. Faced with a string of high-profile demon possessions, Talia is determined to do her job, despite the fact that she finds herself strapped with a brooding dragon warrior as her new guardian.

So I accidentally killed a shifter. On purpose. With genie powers I shouldn’t be able to use, thanks to my curse mark. In my defense, the damn grizzly was threatening civilians and might have been a vampire as well. Pittsburgh is safer without him. Only the fae court doesn’t believe my story, and the shifters are out for blood. Now I’ve lost my job as a romantic investigator, and I’m on death row. My only hope is an oddly outgoing vegetarian vampire lawyer who seems strangely familiar. Too familiar.

Nadine Thomas is in Paradise Cove to marry her golf pro fiancé, Michael Williams. Her first love, Jeremy, is Michael's brother, who went off to war and returned a bitter, broken man. When she sees him again at the wedding he's now a firefighter and has got his life back in balance. Their attraction is still red hot. Putting a damper on the flames, Nadine is determined to go through with the wedding, to commit her love to Michael - until she learns his terrible secret. Can Jeremy win the love of the woman he once turned his back on, and will Nadine trust that their love is real?