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I think I always knew I was going to die young. Like I had this… silent, invisible clock ticking down to my final moments plastered above my head. Maybe that’s why I was so reckless, crazy. Why I sought after adventure. Why nothing scared me… Except, there was always this… feeling I couldn’t shake that something was in the darkest parts of every corner, under every bed, closet, or room, like a ghost watching me. Waiting to take me. My own, personal reaper. But it was always only during a lightning storm that I could see the outline of my reaper. No scythe.

A'ani clone Aithar has had his heart broken a dozen times on Risda III. No one wants the love he is so very eager to give. But then he meets a human woman named Michaela who runs a dairy farm. She wants to rescue her sister, and to do so, she needs Aithar's help. He's willing to help . . . in exchange for a date. Michaela warns him that she's just using him. He's fine with being used, as long as it involves kissing. Lots and lots of kissing.

In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history through her own words.

He broke her in high school. Now he’s back to finish the job, and this time, she’s under his roof. Skylar Atkinson spent years burying her past, especially the hell Tanner Holder put her through. But when her mom remarries and he becomes her new stepbrother, she’s forced to relive the nightmare… one suffocating breath at a time. Tanner doesn’t need fists to break her. He uses whispers. Touches. Traps. A well-timed smirk in the hallway. A brush of fingers in the kitchen. A stolen glance that strips her bare. And the worst part? Her body remembers him. Worse still—it responds. Now...

He doesn’t chase. He stalks—and he always catches what he wants. Sasha Bell thought surviving her mother’s latest marriage meant peace. But it came with Riley. Her new stepbrother is everything she fears—silent, feral, and impossibly observant. He doesn’t mock her like the others. He studies her. Watches from the shadows. Shows up where he shouldn’t, breathing her air, filling the house with a presence that vibrates like tension on a wire. Riley doesn’t need words. His rules are unspoken. His punishments? Delivered with quiet cruelty. Trapped in a house she can’t escape and ...

He’s not her salvation. He’s the serpent in her Garden, who plans to make her fall. Angel Sweets thought her mother’s marriage into high society would be a blessing. A step up. A sanctuary. But when she moves into Byrne Hall and meets Phoenix—her cruel, beautiful new stepbrother—she realizes she hasn’t been saved. She’s been damned. Phoenix is blasphemy wrapped in velvet. A predator in prep school, cashmere threads. He knows her faith. Her rules. Her limits. And he makes it his mission to shatter every single one. From secret gifts and twisted scripture to locked-door ...

He doesn’t hurt her in front of anyone. He saves that for when the doors are closed—and she’s too ashamed to stop him. Rory Mathis just wanted to paint, keep her head down, and survive her mother’s latest marriage. But when Maddox Briggs—her new stepbrother—shows up at their shared home and elite college, everything safe in her world goes dark. He’s wicked in the quietest ways. He doesn’t scream or hit. He violates without leaving bruises. A knock when she’s showering. A comment no one else hears. A hand that stays too long on her waist. And her body, traitorous and ...

He doesn’t guard the gates. He controls every lock inside her mind. Drew Cox didn’t choose Browning Academy. Her mother married a monster, and now Drew’s trapped behind iron gates, cold stone walls… and Brice Browning. Her new stepbrother is cruel, calculated, and obsessive. A sadistic warden with perfect control and a smile that slices deeper than knives. Brice doesn’t shout. He watches. He waits. He infiltrates her routines, her space, her thoughts—until her only escape is fantasy. But even there… he follows. Now he’s assigned her as his “student.” Overseer. Punisher. ...

Octavia Beaumont, one of the original three vampires, is determined to run the city. Red, an expert hunter, is hell-bent on getting revenge on the vampire that turned her sister. When deadly trials for the heir of the city begin, Red and Octavia are forced to work together. Octavia wants a crown. Red wants blood. But there's only one first place. To win, they're going to have to trust each other. But teamwork is not easy when their past is filled with betrayal… A betrayal Red can't remember. Someone is lying. Someone has a secret. Everyone has a hidden agenda.

Seguro crees que ser abducida por extraterrestres es lo peor que me ha pasado. Y no lo es. La nave en la que viajábamos tuvo problemas técnicos y nuestros secuestradores nos dejaron a mí y a mis compañeras abandonadas en un planeta congelado.

You'd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you'd be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they've left their cargo of human women - including me - on an ice planet. And the only native inhabitant I've met? He's big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me....

Years ago, the skies ripped open and the world was destroyed in fire and ash. Dragons - once creatures of legend - are the enemy. Vicious and unpredictable, they rule the skies of the ruined cities, forcing humanity to huddle behind barricades for safety. Claudia's a survivor. She scrapes by as best as she can in a hard, dangerous world. When she runs afoul of the law, she's left as bait in dragon territory. She only has one chance to survive - to somehow tame a dragon and get it to obey her.

When I went to my neighbor's apartment to investigate strange sounds, I never expected to fall through a portal into another world. Yet here I am, a stranger in an even stranger land...and I'm stranded. In this world, might makes right, men carry swords, and gods walk the earth. Within minutes of arriving, I'm enslaved. The one person that might be able to help me is also the one person I want to throttle most. Aron, Lord of Storms, Butcher God of Battle, is my new companion. Or rather, I'm his.

Flowers, favors, and a cake with a body in it...what a way to start a wedding! Diana already regrets saying yes to her neighbor's ridiculous wedding flower demands, but when she discovers a body in the middle of the multi-tiered centerpiece...it's really taking the cake! The man in the cake has been murdered. Diana suspects that one of her neighbors may be the killer. And she already knows that some of them are keeping skeletons in their closets. Sometimes literally.

Seasons ago, I resonated to the quietest of tribesmates, a male content to love me from afar while I was the center of attention. We could have been happy. Despite our differences, I loved him, and he loved me. But then a terrible thing happened...and my world was never the same again. Now, resonance is giving us a second chance, but...I'm afraid. What if what I have with my mate is too broken to be fixed? What if there's no hope left for us at all?

Lara Bennett is world-famous in Ribbonwood, population 907. She's the woman you don't trust your husband with: a real-life femme fatale. If there's a scandal in town, she's at the center of it, ruining businesses, marriages, and egos everywhere she goes, with her sharp tongue and that body that makes you look twice. Besides… didn't she more or less kill a man?

I feel like an outsider wherever I go. Croatoan, the Icehome Beach . . . neither place is home to me. So when a group heads off to the fruit caves to investigate thievery, I go with them. Any excuse to get away from the beach, where I've made a fool of myself in front of my ex and his new mate.

As the trials for Sangui City's throne reach their climax, Red finds herself at the center of a millennia-old prophecy. As the newly awakened dhampir, she holds the power to reshape the future—or destroy it. Octavia Beaumont, driven by her quest for acceptance, must confront the painful truths of her past to secure her place as ruler. But as ancient secrets unravel, she discovers that the greatest threat may come from those she trusted most.

Twelve humans are left stranded on a wintry alien planet. I'm one of them. Yay, me. In order to survive, we have to take on a symbiont that wants to rewire our bodies to live in this brutal place. I like to call it a cootie. And my cootie's a jerk, because it also thinks I'm the mate to the biggest, surliest alien of the group.

It should have been a one-night stand. I never intended to seduce Taushen, but things happened. I don't dwell on the past and while it was great, I'm not looking for a relationship. Of course, try telling that to Taushen. The big blue alien's in love after one night, and it's making things darn awkward. We've got bigger problems than whether or not I'm his woman, like the "cargo" of the spaceship that landed here. But Taushen's not giving up. He thinks I'm his mate.