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“I want you safe, Candace. And to prove that I’m not just out to get laid, I promise you that I will stay completely brotherly the rest of your time here, if that’s a day, a week, a month or forever. Okay?”
She nodded dazedly, already feeling a sharp loss. “Okay.”
“Good.” He pushed away from the wall. “We have a deal. You stay, and I act the perfect gentleman.”
“Yes. Okay.” She’d stay, not only because he asked her to, or bullied her into it, but because on some level she knew taking the tri...

An embarrassing middle-school incident keeps Alex Wolf and Autumn Sommers apart until they're paired on a high school project in which they must pretend to be in a relationship for their Family Planning & Development Class. Both just want to get through it until they begin working together, quickly discovering there might be some truth to the façade. But when Alex reveals a few secrets about his life, Autumn isn't sure they're able to get past them, leading to a decision that affects the next ei...

In “For Better, For Curse,” Oliver Harrington has always kept his distance—until Gabriel enters his life. As their bond deepens, secrets long buried begin to resurface. Haunted by the tragic death of his brother and the dark legacy of his family’s pact with a water goddess, Oliver struggles to keep his powers under control. But when Gabriel uncovers a journal revealing the truth behind the Harrington family’s curse, they are thrust into a dangerous world of magic, betrayal, and love that could e...

“Emma Grace?”
“Yes.”
“I’m sorry to tell you this but he didn’t make it.” The doctor says offering me a sympathetic look.
“T-thank you.” I say with a trembling breath.
My father was dead, and the man who killed him was standing right beside me this very minute. Of course, there was no way I could tell anyone this because I would be considered and accomplice for even knowing what happened and doing nothing. I was eighteen and could be looking at prison time if the truth ever got out.
Not long...

"What do you know about the ZOO?"
Born from the fertile imagination of bestselling author Michael Anderle
One might think that getting someone away from one of the most dangerous jungles in the world would be an easy task. But not if that person was Dr. Courtney Monroe.
Jeremiah Johnson needed a job, and Retired Marine Colonel Anderson needed a man with Johnson's particular skills, and a team built to get the job done.
Now.
Was this a match made in Heaven, or Hell?
The answer depends on w...

Small town, small-minded people, small expectations, and big A-holes.
Lilith Deville is the new enigma at Lakeside Preparatory Academy, a prestigious high school by a river and not a lake, which makes sense, not. Already she hates it despite its beautiful landscape.
Between riding her dirt bike through the sacred lands of the natives, plotting against those she meets, and holding greasy truckers at gunpoint, Lilith makes no time for love or friendship. Forever the walking mystery (read misery) ...

Elise Hernandez is an introverted high school girl struggling to leave her past behind. Writing is the only way she knows to ease the pain she feels inside. She has built strong walls around herself, fearing attachment to the people she meets.
As a gift for her seventeenth birthday, her friends Arya and Zara convince her to join a music camp featuring the world’s most famous boy band. Will the camp make any difference in her life? And what will she risk if the only person who gives her hope tur...

Silverwood has always been a town full of whispers. Stories of shadows in the woods, glowing eyes in the dark, and creatures that disappear before dawn. But Riley Hayes never believed in fairy tales or nightmares.
Until the night she almost dies in the forest.
One moment, she’s just another high school senior, rolling her eyes at her best friend’s werewolf conspiracy theories. The next, she’s caught between two monsters with claws and teeth sharper than any human should have. She should be dead....

"When you enter THE OFF LIMIT, you can't get out again.
The only way is to survive, and win.
There is no losing.
You must survive."
Ethan Mannon got the game THE OFF LIMIT by accident. The game significantly changed Ethan's life, who was on the verge of death. However, THE OFF LIMIT is something very dangerous. Will Ethan survive to get his wish or try to destroy THE OFF LIMIT?

Beware the eyes that stalk you in the dark. They are invisible when hidden behind a veil of ignorance, but they see all.
A dark, erotic romance filled with mystery and horror awaits failed journalist, Sarah Brixton after the death of her last living relative: her beloved grandmother.
Seduced by the promise of a financially stable life, Sarah agrees to the terms and conditions of the unorthodox last will and testament of her deceased relative. Little does Sarah know that by accepting the respo...

I was supposed to become someone else's wife today.
Standing at the altar, facing my gentle fiancé, I struggled to say "I do" without meaning it. For three years, I had been trying to forget the one who would never come back—my first love, Shawn Mitchell.
The military said he died in combat. I cried until I had no tears left, and even learned to start over.
Until halfway through the wedding ceremony, I saw that familiar silhouette.
"That's Shawn! I'm certain that's Shawn!" I screamed frantic...

What if death gave you the power to witness your darkest betrayal?
I died, slumped over client files that were still warm from my printer.
And I watched my husband Mark fuck our twenty-four-year-old assistant on my side of the bed.
While I was dying alone, Mark was planning his future with the woman I'd trained to replace me. While my heart was stopping from exhaustion and stress, he was measuring my grandmother's diamond brooch for Jessica's finger.
When the lies unravel, when my former cli...

"I don't want anything to do with her. I'd rather marry her mother than marry her."
Manny, the perfect heiress to Millicent's fashion house, is constantly pressured by her mother to get married and have a baby. Traumatized by past relationships, she decides to undergo IVF.
But what happens when she discovers that there has been a mistake, and she is now carrying the child of the arrogant billionaire Andrew Cooper, who won't let her keep the baby? Will she win this battle for her child?
And...

The story revolves around Abigail and Alejandro who were madly in love but due to unfortunate circumstances they parted ways and separated. When Abby finds out she's pregnant she vows never to reveal the truth to Alejandro due to his betrayal. But faith has something else in store when the pair crosses paths again and Abby is forced to face her past only to learn Alejandro never betrayed her.....but the handsome Spaniard is out for revenge because of Abby's deceptive ways....

Child of The Moon
“Hello sweetheart. It’s nice to finally meet you, though it’s a shame I can’t see you. Not yet anyway.”
I was totally confused, is he talking about me? It doesn’t feel like a dream. It’s real, but how?
“Yes, sweetheart, I’m talking about you and I can assure you that everything you see, hear, feel is real.”
“Who are you?”
“I won’t expose my identity yet. All you need to know right now is that I exist. Until later sweetheart.”
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Promise me, you'll let me finish before fre...

"Carrying your baby?", I asked finally surprised.
He leaned comfortably in the back of his chair, running his index finger and thumb in a circular motion over his slightly grown, sharp beard.
“I won’t go into too much detail, but let’s say , this will be the solution to your problems.”
I snorted at his words. Well this was simply magnificent but to him! Still I remained silent, not giving him the pleasure of looking once in his direction.
“So, what’s your answer?”, He went on shamelessly.

Hannah had been playing the role of a mother and father to Elisha for four years when billionaire Nate took Elisha away from her. She begged Nate to return Elisha, and due to Elisha's request, she moved in with Nate. After a few months, they became friends and developed a good relationship. However, their happiness was short-lived when Elisha's mother Olive suddenly returned, traumatized and only calming down in Nate's presence. Hannah felt like an outsider, realizing that she was keeping Nate's...

It is a betrayal, torture to love, secret baby book that has a billionaire CEO and a young not so rich lady working for him. Betrayal comes to the least you expect in the book.

Anita's life took a dramatic turn following a painful seven-year breakup with her boyfriend. In a haste to escape reality, she boarded a train which took her to another world, a place no one knew existed. Anita found out that the new world revolve around her, and it was her duty to stop the monthly bloodshed.

“You are so fucking wet.” He nipped my skin and pulled me up to sink me down his length.
“You are going to take every inch of me.” He whispered as he thrusted up.
“Fuck, you feel so fucking good. Is this what you wanted, my dick inside you?” He asked, knowing I have benticing him since the beginning.
“Y..yes,” I breathed.
Brianna Fletcher had been running from dangerous men all her life but when she got an opportunity to stay with his elder brother after graduat...

“Why did you buy me, especially for such a huge amount? There is no way you could possibly want me when I am carrying the child of another man. Wait…. You could not possibly want me because…” the last words remained stuck in Kyra’s throat. She swallowed thickly and dread curled in the pit of her stomach as she stared at the handsome face of a rumored ruthless Alpha Anton.
It is one thing to find your mate, it is another for your mate to want you back.
All of Kyra’s life, she has been th...

Aurora was rejected by Ryker, her mate, due to their impure bloodline; she couldn't bear the pain and shame so she decided to flee from her pack and start a new life.
Years later Ryker discovers that Aurora has kept a secret from him a secret of their twin werewolf babies born with rare abilities.
This got Ryker upset, hunting for Aurora seeking retribution to claim his child.
How will this possibly happen? Is it by love or by hurt? Can Ryker prove his love and protect his family or will Auro...

After getting married, my husband never touched me. I always thought he was asexual until one day, to my shock, I discovered he was having an affair!
Because he and his lover were too intense during sex, his lover ended up in the hospital!
What shocked me even more was that the person he was having an affair with was his sister!
At that moment, my heart felt like it was being scalded with boiling oil, the pain was excruciating...

"And.. you are?"
"Camila..."
Lawson frowned. "What..."
Camila’s gaze hardened. "I didn't walk back from the dead for a friendly chat or to rehash how thoroughly you all ruined what was left of my life..." She held her chin up as if trying to keep herself from breaking her fragile composure. "I came to settle the score."
Camila thought she had lost everything when she received the shock of her life. But when she was forced to fake her own death and assume a new identity, she realized she ...

"Lynn, look at me." His voice fanned into my ear, sending tingles to the depth of my stomach.
I knew if I looked at him, I'd be damned. But he was too beguiling not to. His fingers trailed my chin and I felt in between my thighs heat up for him. "Don't you ever wonder?"
"What?" I asked. My voice, in a whisper.
"When we kiss again."
"Who said we'll kiss again?"
"We will. Don't you want to know if it's the same reaction as last time? Whether we could be better?"
I blinked and drew in...

“When you think that life cannot get better, Blake Pierce comes up with another masterpiece of thriller and mystery! This book is full of twists and the end brings a surprising revelation. I strongly recommend this book to the permanent library of any reader that enjoys a very well written thriller.”--Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Almost Gone) ALMOST DEAD is book #3 in a new psychological thriller series by USA Today bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose #1 bestseller Once Gone (B...

Holly Leefe has seen it all. Being a medium keeps life interesting. Not that it needed any help. She already had a psychic for a husband and a clairsentient teenage daughter. Data analyst by day, ghost hunter by night. Unless it was football season. She did live in Texas after all.
This fall Holly and her husband Jesse are trying to help a widower and his fiancé discover why suddenly stilettos are being thrown through their TV. Plus a few other nuisance cases. As if helping the dead and raising ...

Rosemary Decker, a 27-year-old marketing executive fleeing corporate burnout in Seattle, inherits her great-aunt's mysterious bookshop in Thornwick Hollow just as her life crumbles. But the inheritance comes with a chilling countdown—twenty-eight days until a crimson eclipse that occurs once per generation. Holden Ashworth, a devastatingly compelling stranger with secrets older than the mountain town itself, seems to know intimate details about her family history that she's never heard before. A...

Years ago, after a scheme by her stepsister Fiona, Scarlett had a hot, one-night fling with Eric, the CEO of NS Corporation. After giving birth to their daughter, Elsa, Scarlett raised her alone, and later married Eric through pure chance, not knowing he was the father of her child. Believing her new husband was impotent, Scarlett always tried to give him performance enhancement pills. As they spent more time together, Eric fell for Scarlett as real love blossomed between them. But Fiona, who wa...

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The Demon Emperor Hades· Azazel, who has been sealed for 10,000 years, is about to break the seal and reappear on earth to destroy the world.
According to the prophecy, Elemental Master Isabella·Jones shoulders the task of finding the reborn Child of Light and leading them to fight against the devil.
Among the five candidates for the reborn Child of Light, four are ...

Leon Sterling — the cold, calculating heir to a powerful corporate empire — doesn’t believe in love, nor does he care for marriage. In a world where everything can be measured, traded, or bought, he chooses a different path: fatherhood through science, with no strings attached.
Anna Monroe — a gentle, ordinary woman — unexpectedly becomes the surrogate chosen for Leon’s child. But beneath the layers of a sterile contract, what begins as a purely transactional relationship slowly unravels into s...