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Holly Vanderbuilt is running. From her past, her present, her future - everything. Baking is her only solace. Cookies, cakes, ingredients coming together, they make sense. A professional fighter walking into her kitchen? Not so much. Vince Steele is focused on his future. The next fight. The next win. Nothing else matters except feeling the weight of the Light Heavyweight belt around his waist. Until Holly. He has what it takes to win the belt. But will Holly’s past prove to be an opponent he can’t beat? He’s never backed down from a fight.

Caleb Hallow doesn’t need anyone. All he needs is to dominate in the MMA cage and become world champion. His plans are derailed when he wakes up with a mysterious tattoo of his ancestors after a one-night stand with his opponent’s ex-girlfriend, Meg Riley. Sharing the mark with her joins them as mates for eternity. Can Caleb deal with Meg for the rest of his life? Can he keep her safe from his past as he falls deeply in love with her? And will she stay by him when she finds out he is actually a werewolf? It was just a fling, a chance to get revenge on her cheating ex.

Thea Redgrave doesn’t believe in things she can’t see or touch or taste. She’s a sexy, hardworking, take-no-prisoners kind of woman. The only thing that could have ever made her leave her homestead in Montana was a promise she made to her dying grandfather to follow a treasure map he’s had since childhood. She just didn’t realize that she was following it straight into the most passionate attraction she’s ever felt in her life.

I've always been her shelter in the storm. Hockey players. MMA fighters. Rock stars. The boys in blue. Even sexy SEALs have all offered to slay my dragon - or in my case, my stalker. Why can't they get it through their thick, stubborn heads that I can take care of myself? I'm no damsel! But...what if the real villain in this story is me? Now the one person I've never been able to resist has appointed himself as my protector.

Ivy Greene is a strong, confident single mother who, honestly, doesn’t need any help. She’s got this. All except for one thing. Her five-year-old son Lincoln has a terrible secret that she’s determined to keep until the day she dies. She’d do anything for her son. Including traveling to Spokane to search for more information about people like her son. While she’s there, she crosses paths with someone who was supposed to be a one-night stand. Little does she know that he’s playing for keeps.

And through the sleepiness, Inka sensed a man in her presence. He was standing there but she couldn’t see him. He was hunting for her, but he couldn’t see her either. Inka Keto - Sexy, curvy and full of vigor, she's a bear shifter from a very close family of shifters. As open, kind, and as whimsical as she is, she's also tight like a steel trap. Her family has been trying to save shifter slaves from the powerful, yet evil regime, on Herta for some time.

Phoenix Wolf hates being human. If it were up to him, he'd stay in his wolf form in the wilderness for the rest of his life. But it's not up to him. It's up to the forest fire that nearly killed him, forcing him and his siblings to venture into Portland, Oregon for medical attention. While he's healing, his body forced into its human form, Phoenix does everything he can shut out the world. But he can't shut out the hot little redhead who has been assigned to be his mentor while he acclimates to life as a human.

I’m the brutal Mafia Boss that people fear. They do as I say. But she’s the woman I can’t control. Claire teaches my niece at school. I was obsessed the second I lay my eyes on her. I wanted my hands all over her soft curves. In my world, when I want something, I make it mine. When she refused to privately tutor my niece, I was left with only one option. Kidnap her and bring her to my lakeside mansion. She stays until my niece passes her test. Claire hates me, but I see the warmth in her eyes. She wants me as much as I crave her.

Reggie Christian asked something of me that I’ve never done before: to lie to his brothers. In the grand scheme of things, he asked much more than that. The first was to deceive both Jordan and Logan, but the next was something I never expected. He wanted me to protect his little sister. Madigan is the hidden love child who’s been their father’s best-kept secret for all these years, even from his own sons.

Valentina: sexy, confident, and a true warrior. It wasn't that she didn't like Kain Keto. He just annoyed her. The way he lazily lay around just put her teeth on edge. And she happened to think that freeing enslaved shifters from Herta was very serious business.

In Alanya's mind, she'd never been free a day in her life. First, she'd been chained to her father by his manipulative and controlling ways. Then she'd been stuck in Herta, struggling always against the urge to fall slave. And now Griff was back in her life. But she knew it would not last! Torn between her feelings for Griff, was this gift really a curse to drive them apart? Together they were a force, but apart, the final mission to free the captives could fail. What would this mean for all those shifters on Herta they needed to protect and set free?

Celia Lamplighter was not the typical kind of woman in whom football star Jean Luc LaTour would ever be interested. Or at least that’s what she told herself a hundred times a day as she attempted to get her crush on him under control. On the outside, they couldn’t have been more different. He was famous, athletic, desired by anyone with a pulse. She was a reclusive, curvy, tatted-up librarian. In the real world, there was no chance they’d ever find one another or ever fall in love. But they aren’t living in the real world.

Charlotte Wilde's life is a flop. She gives her heart to the wrong men and her first published book is a failure. Desperate to pay the bills, she takes a job caring for an elderly woman. Yet as Charlotte gets to work, dutifully helping Mrs. Lanigan sort through a box of old letters, distractions abound. For one thing, both women immediately become consumed with a mystery unfolding in the correspondence. And to complicate matters further, Charlotte finds herself drawn to her charge's son, Ardan, like they've known each other forever.

Noah Scotch is revered in Boston, a veritable god on the ice. I’m a nerdy, newly minted college professor who would rather color code my planner than hit the club scene. Noah shouldn’t look at me twice but when he does, I falter. Who can blame me? The sweet talker with the deliciously chiseled abs and sinful chocolate eyes is a force. On and off the ice. One hot and intense night with Noah has me second guessing my lack of a dating life. Friends with benefits? He offers, I dive in headfirst.

Mark Norman can’t catch a break—until he’s hired as a live-in home health aide for two elderly siblings who live at Alden Manor, a run-down mansion mired in the past. His charges, former stage magicians Roy and Alma Walgrave, give off an eerie vibe, but they are also wealthy and careless with their money. Seizing the opportunity, Mark soon makes himself indispensable to the old folks, losing himself in fantasies of inheriting the Walgrave fortune upon their deaths.

Tre Sullivan has never met a woman like Caroline Clifton. In so many ways, she’s everything he’s not. She’s bubbly, effusive, affectionate, filled with wonder, and - oh, yeah - she’s not a bear shifter, like him. Tre, along with seven others, has found himself catapulted into a new adventure where their souls are at stake and a demon is haunting their every footstep. Their newest quasi-ally, the demon’s former right-hand-man, Arturo, is creepy, ornery, and not making things any easier for the group.

The man sitting by my hospital bed is my husband: the kind of man a woman doesn’t forget. And yet, I don’t recognize him. I can’t remember anything of our life together, or the love we shared. Even as his touch sets my body on fire and I learn to crave his discipline, my memories remain hidden from me. I need answers. But the more I search for them, the clearer it becomes that remembering may cost me everything.

Anton - dark, quiet, serious, and a loner. He's scarred physically and emotionally from having been experimented on by the Belarusian government. He prefers being in bear form in the mountains. He only shifts back to human form for work and to make sure he's there for the family. He decides to seek out the agency that is tracking him and would be putting his family in danger. Then, he meets AJ who changes his mind. She convinces him to stay and fight.

When you have a chance to plan the wedding of all weddings, falling for the gorgeous groom is out of the question. How does one ignore the sparks, the attraction, and the forbidden fruit right in front of them? Trying to keep her head down, Lilac Freesia (yes, her mother had a bad sense of humor) just wants to get the job done and pretend she doesn't feel anything. Except, what if she can't walk away from the job of a lifetime - or the man of her dreams?

Little do they realize, they're falling in love on borrowed time. Something is up with the shifters in Portland, Oregon. And if there's one person who's going to get to the bottom of it, it's Diana Paul. As the executive director of a center that offers all sorts of services to shifters, Diana is extremely protective of her clients. All except for one extremely annoying - extremely attractive - wolf shifter named Orion. Orion is used to taking care of his siblings, he's been the protector who's been doing it his entire life.