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Students are branded by affinity: water, air, earth, or fire. But Nessa's mark is different. A silver spiral—the mark of an unbound. It's a power so dangerous her kind were hunted to extinction centuries ago—or so the Empire claims. To survive, she must hide what she is in a castle that reeks of blood, where students kill each other for advantage, and failing to tether an elemental means death. Nessa's greatest threat may be the only other volunteer—Raith Hollow, a powerful fire affinity whose scorching gaze follows her every move and whose secrets could topple kingdoms.

When Dark Lord Kazimir Blackrose kidnaps Lady Arabella for a forced marriage, he expects an obedient, trembling bride. What he gets is a knife to the throat and a furious woman with her own terms. He may need her heroic bloodline to achieve ultimate dominion, but she's not about to make this easy for him. Arabella has already survived her father's tower prison and a lifetime of being treated like property. Being abducted by the realm's most notorious villain is just another Tuesday.

In the blink of an eye, Mallory Thorne's world fell apart. She was fired from her job, found her boyfriend in bed with their neighbor, and a phone call from her estranged sister came next, telling her that their grandmother had been murdered.

Ophelia was born into a family of Hunters, tasked with protecting the humans from the creatures of the night who feast on their fear. Except Ophelia always found the idea of monsters kind of intriguing. She even made the grave sin of committing some X-rated monster thoughts to paper—which in hindsight may not have been the best idea because her parents were mortified—but you live and learn. Well, everyone finds out your secret, you get banished from society, and then you learn.

After being forced to fight as a gladiator and survive the horrors of Graedon's colosseum, Lilliana Silverwater has emerged victorious. Now, joined by her freed companions, she's well on her way to turning their former captors into stepping stones on her path to queendom. An unexpected war erupts in Sealrite when its ruler, Marquess Sharma, returns to reclaim his captured city from the hands of a powerful Lysorian noble known as Duke Alistair. Streets burn, loyalties fracture, and the two enemies collide over the same broken ground.

My boyfriend was perfect, up until he wasn't. When Mr. Vanilla found out about my deepest, darkest fantasies, he spread them all over campus and shamed me in the worst way possible. I dropped out of college and moved to a small town, where I have just inherited a house from my long-lost grandmother. I'm determined to get my life back on track and leave my old life behind. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to be chased by a masked man through a haunted house on my first night in town. Or that he would make good on his promise to bring a friend next time.

Having lost her purpose in life, The Oncoming Storm leaves behind everything and everyone she has ever known, and takes off across the continent. But there is one thing from which she can't run. Trouble. When Shade and Elaran track her down, she manages to get them all captured by the star elves. During their stay in the star elves' capital, The Oncoming Storm must learn to navigate a world far outside her comfort zone: court life. .

Weston Ashford was determined to have it all. After a tumultuous upbringing, he'd found a family of his own and his calling: surfing. As a World Junior Champion, his future was finally bright, until his past came for him, and one mistake had him sinking straight toward rock bottom. Years later, he's fresh-out-the-slammer and stripped of his medal. When one last chance to follow his dream of becoming a professional surfer presents itself, he takes it with both hands—no distractions, no weakness. That is, until he crosses paths with his coach's daughter.

When justice has teeth, someone always bleeds. Stripped of rank but not her oath, former military judge Josephine Givens crashes into a frozen wasteland—and discovers something that shouldn't exist. Something massive. Something waiting. The AI calls itself JUDGEMENT. It recognizes her...

Hexennacht is the Night of Witches, Samhain's calendar twin. A night of revelry and dancing, of bonfires and sisterhood . . . but it had been on another Hexennacht when her fortunes changed. Cast from the ancient circle, dispossessed of belonging. A solitary witch, practicing her craft alone...

Honor made her a judge. Betrayal made her a warrior. Josephine Givens believed in the law until it turned on her. Framed, branded, cast out—she lost everything to someone's lies. Now she commands JUDGEMENT, a warship that exists in the shadows between legal and lethal. Corporations trap...

They killed her once for asking questions. She came back with answers. Josephine Givens has 4.8 million reasons to burn toward Pinnacle Station. Death warrants signed during breakfast. Termination authorizations approved between meetings. Children measured in credit deficits and erased from...

Damian Cross, the most feared man at Ashford University, claimed me as his latest sacrifice. There is no escape for a good girl like me. Not from the wealthy heir to Ashford’s most elite secret society–The Four Hundred. I’m a pastor’s daughter who’s spent her life following every rule. Good. Pure. Perfect. He’s the ruthless prince who bends the world to his will. Cruel. Cunning. Dark. I should hate him. But there’s something in the way he watches me—like I’m the only thing holding him together—that shatters every defense I have.

When I climbed out to the surface this morning, to scavenge some food for my village, I knew the odds were severely stacked against me. A mere nurse, I had no business going out into the sun, where all kinds of monstrosities roamed. As if to prove my fears right, I was only out in the open for a few minutes when a pack of Kinru spotted me. I was quickly cornered. In a desperate attempt to defend myself, I managed to hurt one in the face...right before the creature was snatched by an even bigger monster. Then everything became a blur. And when I came to, I wasn't the same anymore. 

A public rejection ignited a nightmare, but it also led me to Ryker, the ruthless, possessive wolf leader Fate truly chose for me. His promise won't ever be broken, forged by merging our two souls. Now, the real enemy emerges from the shadows wearing a trusted face, causing the sting of betrayal to run deeper than my new found family has ever known.

As a hive mind parasite threatens the entire multiverse, Jack’s going to have to pull out all the stops in order to save the women he loves and the worlds he’s come to know. With old friends, new allies, and more explosive weapons by his side, he’ll figure out the best way to kill a queen.

All Áine wants for her twenty-second birthday is a night out in New York City with her normal human friends. But when her roommate stumbles into oncoming traffic, Áine breaks the bind on her extraordinary witch-born power to save her. With Áine's magick now freed, her world shifts, and the voice of a male witch commands her to run. Hunted by dark forces, Áine is taken to Aradia, the witch realm, by the mysterious and captivating witch Daelon. A man of perfect control, Daelon needs Áine's trust to protect her and train her to wield her magick.

Tour guide Ivy has always secretly fantasized about minotaurs. So when a Beast Hunters tour to Motham City goes horribly wrong, she's thrilled to be rescued by wickedly handsome minotaur, Bryn. Until she finds out that he runs a male escort agency with the sole purpose of pleasuring humans. And Ivy just isn't that sort of girl . . . Bryn isn't looking for love. He sells it. Besides he's too busy caring for his disabled mom and four brothers and sisters to have time for romance.

It is 1941, and America teeters on the brink of war. Outgoing naval officer Ensign Jim Avery escorts British convoys across the North Atlantic in a brand-new destroyer, the USS Atwood. Back on shore, Boston Navy Yard secretary Mary Stirling does her work quietly and efficiently, happy to be out of the limelight.

Scarred on the inside and the outside, Valentina has spent the majority of her life living and working online. Online, no one can see her, so she can be whoever she wants to be, do whatever she wants to do… love whoever she wants to love. And she fell hard for the sexy thirst trap behind the devil mask. He's smart, sensual, and flirtatious, but also sweet, funny, and he makes her feel seen for the first time ever. But… he's never actually seen her. And it's better that way; someone as beautiful as him would never want to be with someone like her. Right?