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The hardiest love blooms in the rockiest soil.Danya Xiang would rather dig potatoes than wield a blaster. Raised as a member of the Greenjacket rebel organization, she's content to stay away from military glory and spend her days in food production-until her soldier twin, Nox, is injured right before a mission. Nox begs Danya to take her place, hoping to use their secret telepathic link to spy through Danya's eyes.Reluctantly, Danya agrees. But her loyalty to the Greenjackets is stretched to its limits when she's asked to capture university student Amy Ediya, whose mother's valuable genetics research has been missing for a decade. The Greenjackets are convinced that Amy has it hidden.Danya realizes that, while Amy may not have the research, she's the only one who can find it. The two of them desert the Greenjacket army and Amy's university studies to embark on a quest for Amy's estranged family. As trust grows between them, attraction blooms, too. But that only means they have more to lose when the search draws them into danger.

Holy relics are all that remain of Theron's sacred legend.Now those relics are disappearing. Lysandro knows the village magistrate Marek is responsible, and he searches for proof disguised as the masked protector the Shadow of Theron.But when Marek wounds him with an accursed sword that shouldn't exist, Lysandro must find a way to stop Marek from gaining any more artifacts created by the Goddess or her nemesis, the wicked sorcerer Argoss. The arrival of the beautiful newcomer Seraphine, with secrets of her own, only escalates their rivalry.As the feud between Lysandro and Marek throws Lighura into chaos, a pair of priestesses seeks to recover the relics and return them to safekeeping. But the stones warn that Argoss is returning, and they must race to retrieve Theron's most powerful weapon. As they risk their lives for a legend, only one thing is certain. The three temples to the Goddess have been keeping secrets: not just from the faithful, but from each other.

He's a grumpy demon prince. She's a sunshine magical orphan who's his fated mate and forbidden. But can he survive rejecting her? Demon prince Alexei is ruthless in business and deadly in battle. The mafia boss will do anything to protect his family, even consider an arranged marriage with a royal he doesn't love.There's just one problem.When the grumpy hero rescues a sunshine princess locked away in a tower, he knows she's his fated mate. She also seems to be a freakin' forbidden angel. Like the villain he is, Alexei rejects her without saying why.Despite her tortuous childhood, Jolene is determined to find her real family and win her grumpy prince. Come on-the man has wings! But loving her antihero makes him a target of her human enemies who are out to destroy all supernaturals.These two opposites attract in all the wicked ways. But when supernatural children in Alexei's hometown start disappearing, the two must work together, and Jolene will have to reveal that her sunshine-and-sparkles magic isn't what it seems. Can they find their happily ever after or will their differences and enemies destroy them both?

There's no backing away from the rebellion Alex started in Olympus. He cannot give in and let Olympians, otherworldlings, and humans suffer any longer, and now the siren he loves, Lula is at his side.The problem is, Zeus is after her and wants Alex's pledge of loyalty. But Alex won't bend.When Alex does the right thing, confessing he knew Lula long before meeting her, she runs... straight into the enemy, Moros', arms. The enemy who has a secret of his own.He's been creating chaos on Earth to draw out Lula. He wants her to rule Olympus.He demands she become as dangerous as he is.What does a siren with a broken heart do? She becomes apocalyptic.

Can a good girl witch princess and a bad boy bodyguard fight their way from enemies to lovers and stop a killer?Good girl Prys Bane is the ultimate witch princess-titled, rich, beautiful, and from the best royal bloodlines. But the STEM genius would rather hide with her statistics and crush on a forbidden bodyguard than marry a proper prince. Better to guarantee that no one discovers her true magic-powers more suited to a storybook villain than any princess.Bad boy John Donovan has pretended to be a bodyguard while hiding his supernatural double agent status from everyone-even his own sisters who see him as the villain. Crushing on Prys seemed safe until he learns she's not only the witch magistrate investigating a murder where his sister is the chief suspect, but Prys is also the matchmaker hired to force him into an arranged marriage.When John and Prys are pulled into a deadly mystery that comes closer and closer to the couple by the hour, they must work together. When Prys discovers John's kink, these enemies quickly become lovers whose passions ignite. Can this princess and her antihero find happily ever after or will the killer be a best friend whose betrayal neither can survive?

Elwyn is remarkably unremarkable, and she prefers it that way. What more could a thief hope for than to pass through life unseen? Upon fleeing a violent life with her invisible friend-a clever and capricious creature who's only grown more real with time-she is plunged into an adventure rife with otherworldly beings both beautiful and beastly. As the Greyscale' most cutthroat assassin, Brannon has a bone to pick with Elwyn-and several to break. Tasked with hunting down his errant colleague, he soon finds himself in a magic-steeped hamlet where he encounters creatures even more deadly than himself. To survive, he must rely on the very rival he's been sent to capture. Little Lydia has a chilling secret, and even she doesn't know the whole of it. Her unusual appearance has earned her the nickname "monster," and there may be some truth to the slight. When she caves to the whispers that have slithered through her mind for months, she loses everything she knows and must start anew in the company of criminals. Bored by his charmed existence, prince Aedyn slips into the lives of these three misfits only to learn of schemes that place both the Mortal and Faerie Realms in peril. If he can help the others work together to thwart the plans of two feuding fiends, they might just manage to save multiple worlds...provided they don't kill each other first.

An ancient curse has prevented astrologer Brooke Howe from finding true love. She hides her longing by matching others with the hope of someday changing her plight. When Nico Denopoulos, the gorgeous younger brother of a friend, struts into her shop seeking a soulmate, she's immediately drawn to his magnetic presence and his romantic heart. She can't deny the intense sensation drawing her to the sexy-as-sin chef.An ugly divorce has kept Nico laser-focused on the opening of his new restaurant. He's been single for years, but now loneliness has crept into the cracks of his heart. Fearing that he's grown bitter, he has high hopes that Brooke can help him with his problem, except for one thing-the more time he spends with her, the more he wants her-in every way possible.As much as Brooke wants to believe Nico is the real deal, she fears that when the seasons change so will his feelings. Inexplicably drawn together, she can't help but wonder if he may hold the secret to reversing the curse and changing her destiny.Will a secret from their shared past life bring them closer, or tear them apart forever?

Red sky at morning, satyr take warning.Jessica Moore is about to lose her ever-loving you-know-what. She did the impossible by convincing the Gryphons, the magi, the satyrs and the goblins to work together to stop an apocalyptic prophecy from coming true.The one thing she can't do? Make them trust each other-which means their plans are already falling apart. With Gryphons and satyrs making plays for her loyalty, Jess is ready to cut through the crap and kill everyone herself.The tentative alliance disintegrates even faster when a key member is murdered and Jess's supposed allies turn on her. Grieving will have to wait. Right now, she's forced to work closely with her least trusted coworker to flush out the culprit, even as she pushes Lucen away to keep him safe.Dangers that will test her freakish powers await in the Alps, and this time Lucen isn't there to guard her back. Even if she finds what she's looking for, it'll come with a fury-ous heap of trouble.

A fallen angel sentenced to a mortal life among humans.A former soldier turned private investigator who's been there, killed that.The bad guys don't have a prayer.Ronan, once the archangel Remiel, chose to fall from Heaven after breaking angelic law. For centuries, he lived and worked among humans as a bounty hunter. A chance encounter with the mysterious mage Alice Worth in the so-called Broken World forced him to violate angelic law once more to save millions of lives. Cut off from his kin with his wings and power bound, Ronan is a man without a future, purpose, or reason to live.Arkady Woodall left a dangerous job at the Vampire Court to return to the profession she loves most: private investigator. Now she's Alice Worth's business partner, and for the first time in years she's calling her own shots. Most of all she wants to find the enigmatic Ronan, who'd shown up in Alice's yard beaten nearly to death and then vanished again as soon as he'd recovered.Sparks fly when Ronan and Arkady cross paths and stumble upon a kidnapping in progress. What starts as a simple rescue turns into a deadly mystery that sends them on a wild and daring chase from the city's most depraved depths to its grandest penthouses. When their shared addiction to danger sets them against a powerful enemy, Ronan and Arkady realize their only hope of survival is each other, but a devastating secret might spell doom for them both...

Sometimes everything goes to hell. Sometimes hell comes to you. Jessica Moore has one hell of a to-do list. Number one: Bring the fury who attacked her friends to justice. Number two: Obtain the last item required to re-lock a magical prison. And number three: Save the world by actually re-locking the damn thing before its demonic prisoners escape. But with a red sky enveloping the earth, humans and nonhumans alike are panicking, and the fanatical fringe is growing violent. Anti-magers-humans who want to destroy all things magical-are waging war on Jess and her friends. And there's still the problem of the key. It's the last item Jess and her allies are searching for, but legend claims it's trapped within the prison itself. Someone will have to go in there and face down the demons to find it. Naturally, guess whose strange power is the only thing that might succeed? Even with Lucen at her side and a Gryphon army at her back, this might be too much for a misery junkie to handle.

After being kidnapped and tortured by a brutal werewolf pack, ordinary New Age witch Jo Murphy hasn't known a day of peace. With the help of the goddess Hecate, she escapes-or so she thinks. Nightmares haunt her as paranoia remains her constant companion. And now, she's developed a new power she doesn't understand. With the pack gone, apparently by her hand, Jo should be safe, but she's not taking any chances.When Ezekiel Booker answers the Council's call to hunt down Josephine Murphy, he thought it would be his last job before becoming the alpha of the St. Louis pack. However, Booker didn't account for the effect she'd have on him-or how easily she'd escape him. As he tracks her once more, he discovers she's created a magical sanctuary and occult shop out of an old building in his territory. And it's entirely warded against werewolves.Will Booker be able to earn her trust and uncover the mystery of her powers-and their connection? Or will Jo face the new threat of a necromancer alone?Werewolves, witches, and magic combine in this powerful enemies to lovers urban fantasy romance.

Wonderland must always have an Alice, and Eliza Carroll is the next.Eliza flees her parent's political machinations only to stumble into another world and the arms of a man named Finn, who declares her the next Alice. Finn, nicknamed the White Rabbit for the form he can shift into, was sent to find the new Alice and bring her to court, for only she can declare whether Red or White reigns. Not to mention he'll lose his head if he fails.For Eliza to get home and Finn to survive, they'll have to navigate two treacherous courts and their growing feelings for one another, while trying to unravel the curse that forces the Carroll women to journey to Wonderland. But a path to freedom for them both may be more than the magic of Wonderland can conjure...even for its new Alice.

Johnathan Newman is a changed man, and he has the claws to prove it.Following their bloody confrontation in Cress Haven, Vic and Johnathan flee the town in search of answers. Johnathan's human life has ended, but his journey has just begun. Grappling with violent instincts and a supernatural bond to the vampire he's falling for is complicated enough, but a dangerous new enemy is hot on their heels.The machinations of the Society reach farther than either of them realized. Their foe's dogged pursuit forces the pair to seek sanctuary. Vic brings Johnathan to the Estate, a haven for creatures nestled in the wilderness of upstate New York. Taken in by the Estate's unusual proprietors, Johnathan soon learns not even sanctuary is safe for one of his ilk. This haven provides the pair an opportunity to explore their burgeoning relationship, and Johnathan a chance to learn control- A skill he is desperate to master, no matter the cost.Because time is not on their side. The Society's Agents are catching up to them, armed with a weapon straight from the Heavens. With their enemy's plans creeping toward fruition, humans won't be the only ones they have to worry about.

We're fated mates with a love so strong that I refuse to let death keep us apart.When my mate Kiva died, I bargained away everything to a mysterious supernatural. She brought my mate back to life with a curse that would forbid her to remember me, to remember us. The spell can only be broken by true love's kiss. Not the easiest task when it took me seven proposals to convince my fated mate to say yes the first time.Two years later, I find her living as the mortal daughter of the mythological Furies. An amnesiac, Kiva doesn't remember me, my bear shifter clan, or how she died, but I'm here to remind her no matter what it takes.Except someone in Syn City is out to end her life permanently and steal her away from me forever. No way am I letting that happen.A Steamy Second Chance Romance with a Murder Mystery, a Bear Shifter Determined to Win Back His Lost Love, a Warrior with Amnesia, and Roller Derby

As Nephele, Alexus, and their faithful companions grapple with the devastating loss on Mount Ulra, the threat of Thamaos's reign rises in the East. To prepare, the crew must strengthen the Northland and Summerland armies, even if it means depending on the one being they never thought would live again: Neri, God of the White Wolf. Nephele made a deal she can't escape, a deal that not only ensures the Wolf's resurrection, but one that forces her to remain at his side, even when he returns North to bolster defenses and destroy any traitors and enemies remaining on his land. The last thing Nephele wants is to spend her days and nights alone with a seductive, arrogant god, but Tiressia's future depends on Neri being their primary weapon, one only she holds the power to wield. As Thamaos aims his first wave of destruction at Neri, Nephele finds that not only is the Wolf more difficult to control than she believed, but that he's far more human than she gave him credit for. With every passing hour, the undeniable passion between them burns brighter, until their fire becomes impossible to resist, and impossible for Thamaos to ignore. Because the only thing he loathes more than the Wolf roaming Tiressia again, is that there's a witch at his side, and her name is Bloodgood. The Wolf and the Witch is book three in the Witch Walker romantic fantasy series, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Scarlett St. Clair.¿

Lonely food developer Stella would like nothing better than to finally have a lab partner to help her create new synthetic products and share her passion for science. But her nation of Cochtonia has gone off the deep end. Fertility rates are dropping, and the autocratic male rulers have decided to turn to alchemy to produce offspring. Sir Isaac Newton has been resurrected from the dead to take a lead role in the impossible task, ordered by the autocracy. He is to work as a team to create a homunculus-a tiny person, made outside of a womb. Women won't be needed at all! Being celibate in his previous life, Newton has never indulged in romance, but procreation without females sounds crazy even to him. When Stella offers to help him fake the results to save his neck, he's more than willing. But is Newton the real thing or a genetically modified fake? As the pair collaborates, Stella becomes more and more uncertain. In proceeding with the deception, they find that chemistry isn't limited to the laboratory. In a world where love and romance are punishable by law, mutual attraction could mean execution for them both.

When it comes to magic, more isn't always merrier.Keep letting the Gryphons blackmail her -or join a goblin for tea? Jess must make some choices.Furious at the Gryphons' betrayal, former vigilante Jessica Moore is determined to cut the law enforcement agency from her life-and hopes doing so will solidify her rocky relationship with Lucen. But when a friend's soul is sucked dry by a goblin, Jess finds it's not so easy to let go of her past. Unwilling to let down someone who needs help, she puts aside her anger to work with the Gryphons and solve the case.But a stolen soul isn't her only problem. Boston's goblin leader is calling in the debt Jess owes. To find the soul and pay off her debt, Jess must unearth information about a magic she never knew existed, all the while testing Lucen's patience and stirring the wrath of old enemies.What she discovers will reveal the terrifying truth behind the Gryphons' treachery, and force her to choose where her loyalty-and her heart-truly lie.

Gilly Bettencourt is almost as fed up with writing witty descriptors for a sportswear catalog as she is with her on-the-sly workplace relationship with the CEO's son that makes her feel like a dirty little secret.After catching her boyfriend with another woman, Gilly leaps at the opportunity to head to Ireland as a writer's assistant on the much-anticipated TV show, The Chieftain's Son, an Irish historical drama based on an insanely best-selling series of romance novels.When Gilly meets Jack O'Leary, star of the series, passion blazes between them. Unfortunately, the show insists on branding Jack as an available heartthrob-landing Gilly in the type of hush hush relationship she crossed an ocean to forget.Can their love affair survive the demands of the show's PR machine, or is Gilly doomed to be typecast as the girl behind the scenes?

Sage Cashman's sister suffers from a terrible illness and Sage will do anything to help her, including dancing at a gentleman's club to support the two of them. Every night, she puts on a show for the customers, and the naughtier and more flirtatious she acts, the better her tips. Sage is just going through the motions until she gets closer to the dark, silent Adonis who lurks in the shadows during her performances. When Ryker Madsen is in her orbit, she doesn't have to pretend she's a woman easily seduced. Ryker Madsen turns out to be more than Sage's boss-he's the owner of the club. He's also involved with the company producing the experimental drug that might be her sister's only hope. Ryker is as arrogant as he is rich, and it's no secret that he wants Sage and is determined to have her. He's intrigued when Sage proposes a deal: companionship for connections. Preferring uncommitted and unemotional relationships, Ryker sees Sage's proposal as the perfect way to get her out of his system. What Ryker doesn't know is that Sage, jaded from a string of betrayals, has many secrets. Including her identity. The hotter their relationship gets, the closer the truth comes to the surface. When the skeletons in Sage's family's closet start tumbling out, they threaten both her plan to save her sister and her future with Ryker.

Natalya left the cold, privileged world of the Upper East Side's vampire elite for the Raven's Hollow police force and has never looked back.Now for the first time in her life, she's doing things on her own terms, living in a coven full of witches, and developing her gift as a clairvoyant. When she's assigned to a murder case, she's forced to work alongside her nemesis, special agent Cayden Teague of the MBI-Magickal Bureau of Investigations. The icy-blue eyed demon has been a thorn in her side from day one, challenging her, igniting her anger and her passion at every turn.Through the course of many lifetimes, Cayden has never gotten over the brutal murder of his family and his first love. Guilt and torment have become his constant companions and keep him on a razor's edge. After a night of hard drinking, he wakes up disoriented and finds the woman he went home with covered in a pool of blood. All the evidence points to someone the victim met online.To lure out the killer, Natalya must become the bait. But how can she do the one thing she dreads the most without revealing her deepest, blood-drenched secret? And how far is Cayden willing to go to protect her and get to the truth?

Having relocated to Peru to prepare for the birth of their twins and be closer to their kin, life is stressful enough for wolf-shifter couple, Taylor and Julian. But when their newborn daughter vanishes from her crib, they'll do anything to bring her home.As a clan leader is suspected of magical malfeasance, the couple must return to a world of symbols, incantations, and curses that they thought they'd left behind.Taylor never wanted much to do with witchcraft, but now she must depend on her birthright to save baby Luna. Once she dusts off her magical tome of the Coven Daughters lineage, though, a spell with a mind of its own infiltrates her thoughts just as Julian begins to have a series of baffling precognitions and dreams.While simultaneously fighting to keep their strained love alive, Taylor and Julian embark on a mission to wrest little Luna from the clutches of a shadowy occult group. But the deeper they dive into magic's dark waters, the less they understand. Will Taylor and Julian solve the magical puzzle and save their daughter-or will getting too close to the darkest secrets of the Coven Daughters system spell their demise?

Vampire queen Samira Anai Se-Bat would do anything for her family-even make promises to a clever scientist. When Samira turns Cordell Stuart into a vampire, it comes with a promise to help find and protect his daughter Kayla. But the queen wants something in return: a cure for Nirvana, the drug being used to create deadly vampire rogues.Cord stumbled on Nirvana while trying to save Kayla's life. He never thought his research would create an army of deadly rogue vampires. Now he is caught between his promise to save a race he neither trusts nor understands, and the need to find and save his daughter.With Samira's murderous brother, Antu, pitting vampire factions against each other, war is brewing, and Samira is caught between her promise to save Kay and her need to protect her people. But a vision shows both thrones blending into one until they are no more.If Sam follows the vision and sacrifices herself, will Antu subjugate the world?In a race against time and destiny, Sam and Cord discover what they must to do. But the cost will be their new found love-and their lives.Or will it?

Crime reporter Evie Hartley was at the height of her career, but a series of ethical missteps cost her everything. Now, she's working for a small-town newspaper's culture section, trying to prove to everyone, especially herself, that she's able to do her job by the book.When there's an opening for the crime beat, Evie jumps at the chance. And while she manages to impress her boss, she makes an enemy of the detective she played to get the inside scoop. Her methods may straddle the line between professional and underhanded, but they work, and Evie solves a case the police haven't been able to crack. Detective Marcus "Penn" Pennington reluctantly calls a truce and becomes her go-to police source as she investigates more crimes for the paper.Evie's thirst for the truth sets her on a dangerous path, and poking around in a cold case results in sinister anonymous threats. When she forms an alliance with someone who seems to know far more about the missing person's disappearance than he should, Penn sticks to Evie like glue, blurring the lines between protection and possession. But even with a cop watching her back, Evie's willingness to do anything to get the story might just get her killed.

Her song is a lure he cannot resist.Even after brokering a deal with the vicious merfolk who stalk his offshore fishing lanes, Captain Killian Quinn has had one too many onboard his boat for comfort. His livelihood, and life, as well as that of his crew's, depends on his ability to maintain peace. One wrong move and the Dawn Chaser could become a floating charcuterie board, and he'd never see again the one mermaid he wouldn't mind take a little nibble out of him.A sinister craving for human flesh leaves Lorelei Roth with no other choice. She must aid the study of one of her own to find a more permanent solution to protect the ones she loves. As enthralled by all her sharp edges and seductive siren song as her fiancé may be, the threat of becoming the wrong kind of snack is never far enough away.While they're close to a breakthrough treatment, doubt gnaws at Lorelei as she watches a fellow mermaid languish in a tank, enduring endless rounds of tests and denied the healing touch of the sea. Is one mermaid's declining health and happiness too steep a price for freedom? And if so, what sacrifices is Lorelei willing to make to set it right?

Being bad never tasted so good.Lane Callaghan almost died six months ago. Her heroic deed finally achieved the one thing she always wanted and finally realized she never needed-the sun fae's respect. While the fae no longer wish her dead, she has new bigger, badder enemies at large. And after inadvertently binding herself to the beast inside her sugar muffin, Teddy, possibly within her bedroom.Once again thrust into the unwanted role of heroine, Lane and her sisters are hired-some would say forced-into another job. This time, it isn't just the sun stones that are missing, sun fae are vanishing without a trace. As Lane reluctantly begins to peel back the layers of the investigation, she discovers sun fae secrets and shames that hit a little too close to home and threaten to tear her family apart.Lane must navigate a treacherous path through lies, secrets, and escaped homicidal druids, all with the jaws of Teddy's black wolf hovering at her neck.