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To escape and save the lives of herself and two-year-old Alina Mirabaud, Flicka von Hannover walked into the arms of her ex-husband, who wants only her title and her genes in his family tree. She is whisked away to Monaco and held prisoner while her ex plots how many children she will produce for him and his throne.

From an early age, Emily lived for the violin. Practices were a joy. Recitals were a celebration. She only felt truly alive when the meticulously crafted, finely tuned string instrument was in her firm grasp. You could say that Emily lived for the violin, and that it was her true love. You would have been right...but that all changed the day she met Xander Rothschild. Emily Rampling thought she understood the nature of power. But she didn't know the unexpected forms power could take, bending and adapting to suit its needs.

I love falling in love. Only I’m the worst at it. My friends call me a serial first dater and I can’t blame them. All I want is a happy ever after, yet all I find are happy ever nevers. This is my last chance. After this set up with my friend’s tattoo artist, I’m done. No more dating. No more chances. If I don’t fall in love with Leo Johnson, I’ll give up on dating. Even if it shatters my dreams in the process.

People say that being in love is the best feeling in the world. What a bloody lie! I hate that I'm in love with Serena and that she used me to get what she wanted. What good is it that my heart and body is a twisted mess of longing for her when I'm also furious with her for hurting my sister, River? I don't care if Serena is a Hollywood star - no one messes with my family.

Rain's family has summoned her and if she doesn't turn up, they intend to use her little sister in a dangerous ritual. Rain know she can handle the magic. The problem is extracting herself from New Orleans afterwards. Luckily, the alpha female of the Wyvern Pride owes her a favour or 10. When Luke is sent to Nola as one of Rain's bodyguard, his instincts tell him that the witch is far more powerful than she appears to be. One ritual goes wrong, showing him just how right he was.

Touring as an opening act for a huge rock band and landing a record contract means you’ve hit the big time, right? Sadly, neither of those things gave Rusty Crawford, lead guitarist of the band Black Addiction, worldwide fame and fortune. Which was a shame because he had the lifestyle down to a fine art - without the clichéd stint in rehab. Even being back in the Bronx paying his dues didn’t rattle the charismatic axe man. Alison Williams had the perfect life. Or at least she did until her world came crashing down around her, in the most epic way.

Billionaire Liam Manning has been too busy building his internet security empire to care about romance. So when a death-bed promise to his brother forces him to prove he can properly seduce a woman, Liam relies on his strengths. Hacking into an online dating site to find a suitable "love tutor" is as easy as it is logical.

Beth Rhodes has always had a game plan: go to college, get the perfect job, get the perfect guy, and get the happily ever after she's always wanted. It's just her luck that everything falls into its precise place in her life. At least it seems that way until her blueprints go up in smoke. She loses the job she loves, and her Prince Charming is turning out to be the villain of her fairy tale instead. With failures and mistakes piling up on her doorstep, she knows something has to give - or she could very well end up paying for those mistakes with her life.

The Color of Trauma follows Kiera, a memory surgeon with a haunting gift—she can experience and extract other people’s traumatic memories. While she’s spent years helping others, she struggles to confront her own demons. Now, a relentless Chicago homicide detective named Dean needs her unique ability to breach the mind of a coma victim to catch a ruthless serial killer.

The rules are simple: Humans from Enom are allowed to cross the forest, Jereena are killed on sight. Double standard, but as Jereenan had taken their land, not many Wilderlings have questioned it. Lana, an enforcer sworn to obey the alpha, doesn't like it, but never has she considered saying or doing anything about it until now. Then things become complicated when the prince of Ennom comes through with a battalion of Jereenan soldiers....

Aurora Stephenson is the ultimate lady, the picture of grace and perfection. She’s distant, detached, and consequently, no one thinks she has a heart. They’re wrong. For years, she’s cared for, and cared about, one person beyond anyone else. Nevermind the fact that King Rupert isn’t exactly what one would call alive.

There is a hatred born of betrayal and rooted deep throughout the centuries and I loathe him simply because of his ties. That will never change no matter the circumstances we find ourselves in. While bad blood may have started in our home realm of Brevala long before I was ever born, I am expected to stand strong with my people against our sworn enemies. And given that we're both immortal Light Fae, we have centuries ahead of ourselves to continue hating each other.

Vampires don’t have one true enemy. They have a hundred. But Stefan’s hatred of demons was forged by a century of torture at Lucifer’s hand. All because a Lepidan - a beautiful, winged creature with no conscience - consigned him to hell. His escape is the stuff of legends. As is his hatred of all demon-spawn. So, of course, when he follows a mysterious map to the mountains outside Stuttgart, what does he find? A Lepidan.

Her blood is unlike any other. Dr. Riley Scott is dying. Heavy metal poisoning is slowly killing her. Declan Bonney was turned more than 300 years ago...When he sees Riley for the first time, he must taste her. Her blood is intoxicating, but it is her ability to resist his glamour that makes her truly beguiling. Declan isn't the only vampire hunting her, and when Riley's taken, he will do anything to find her - and save her...If he loses Riley, his very existence is over.

Dylan Allen presents The Sun and Her Star. Contains mature themes.

A mad man has unleashed unthinkable magics, creating a hellscape on earth and a new parallel world known as the Echo. Carnage is everywhere. Monsters rampage. Who will take on the insurmountable task of saving the world? A librarian. A disgraced British earl. An ex-sheriff’s deputy. A former Marine. A computer geek. And one mysterious amnesiac who might hold the key to it all.

For 1,000 years, being born with magic was a death sentence. Hart and his twin have survived by hiding who they truly were until their time came. It started as a whisper, rumors, but when they find out there truly is a mage uprising, they join the fight, tilting the balance in the mages’ favor. The era of magicless mortals has passed in their multiplanetary kingdom. A war has started, and the mages will win it.

Parker has been running on autopilot ever since she lost her friend, mentor, and the only family she’s ever known, Bert Stein. Armed with junk food, tequila, and her big, lovable dog, she’s prepared to hole up and mourn - and determined to mend a fence Bert had never been able to with his estranged and bitter brother. But Parker didn’t count on the handsome artist she’s been fantasizing about for nearly a year walking in on her grief-induced drunken night.

When she's hired to adapt the blockbuster novel, Beautiful Darkness, for film, screenwriter Jessica Yates sees an opportunity she can't pass up. The only thing standing between her and a guaranteed hit movie is the author. Lynn Baldwin’s rise from Midwestern housewife to literary superstardom has gone straight to her head, and she’s not willing to see her creation hit the screen without her total approval.

OCD kindergarten teacher Johanna hates Valentine's Day. She hates romance, hates commercialism, and definitely hates her school's annual charity date auction. She never expects her pre-auction night of drinking to land a sexy Brit in her bed. Or for that Brit to show up at the auction, bid thousands just to talk to her again, and get down on one knee in front of everyone and ask her to marry him.