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India Jennings used to be kinky. Now she makes piercings jewelry and adds some interesting local color to the tiny community of Crawford Bay. She has a flame torch and knows how to use it, and she has no interest at all in digging up her past. Rafael Clark is here for a visit - and to solve a mystery. His good friend Matteo isn’t dropping many hints, and while Rafe is happy to fly his plane in pretty skies any day of the week, he’s kind of confused. Until he sets eyes on India.

While Reece Richards and Emmalina Crist play out their romance in the global public eye as superhero Bolt and his beautiful ladylove, they keep their biggest secret to themselves. Even if the lunatics of the Consortium have gone underground along with their leader, the cold-blooded Faline, Reece and Emma know the criminals could resurface at any time and threaten everything about the new life they’re building together.

He’s an Irish Dom, on a detour to visit a couple of friends who seem to have holed up in Crawford Bay. She’s the artist determined to keep him away from her etchings - and anything else that matters.

Mackenzie 'Mac' Cabot is a people pleaser. It's exhausting, really, always following the rules. Mac has dreams of her own but to please her parents she moves to the beachside town of Avalon Bay to get her college degree. Twenty-year-old Mac has had plenty of practice suppressing her wilder impulses, but when she meets local bad boy Cooper Hartley, that ability is suddenly tested. Cooper is rough around the edges. Raw. Candid. A threat to her ordered existence. Their friendship soon becomes the realest thing in her life.

Matteo Ignatius is a corporate consultant who teaches companies how to be kinky, although he doesn’t call it that. He’s also a rope-bondage master. One proud of his tools and in search of the best. Liane Granger is a flannel-clad artist with a dandelion tattoo and a life that doesn’t need a man, much less the new kitten she somehow acquired when she wasn’t paying attention. She makes handcrafted rope in her small studio on Kootenay Lake and runs an on-again, off-again B&B. One of her best customers is coming to spend the night and pick up a special order.

Quint is about to meet his kryptonite. Quint wears the title of hard-ass Dom with pride. He keeps fettered safe for the kind of play he needs. Meghan is tired of watching from the sidelines as everyone else in her office falls over like newly kinky dominoes. So she’s come to ask some questions, but that doesn't mean she's willing to sign on the dotted line - or strip her soul naked.

Wedding planner Sidney Dewitt is always the fairy godmother, never the heroine of her own love story - until she's selected for the reality dating show Marrying Mister Perfect. It might finally be her chance to ride off into the sunset, but when she sneaks out of her room on the night before the show begins to catch a glimpse of her prince, the man she meets is far from Prince Charming.

Life is beyond different when a girl is in love with a superhero, and Emmalina Crist is basking in every passionate, supercharged second of the dream. But lightning bolts and power pulses can’t replace the trust she and Reece need to survive as a couple - a bond that’s challenged when a significant secret is revealed. In a quest for clarity, Emma flees to New York - but Reece soon follows when learning the Consortium is ready to get back at him by targeting her. His mission to keep her safe has Emma more jumbled than ever.

Ari is a kinky goddess, a beacon and friend and trainer to others in the lifestyle - someone who knows herself inside and out and walks a path of courage and honesty; one, she’s afraid, no one can match. Jackson is a baby Dom. He’s not ready for Ari, and he knows it. He’s patient. He’s made peace with the need to watch and wait and learn. Except she can’t wait that long.

I might have a multi-million-dollar recording contract, a sold-out world tour, and more money in the bank than I ever imagined, but every time I hit a milestone in my career, my personal life suffers. Then in steps my new bodyguard, rugged and with a past I connect with. The closer we get, the more powerful my feelings grow, complicating our professional relationship. I might have a multi-million-dollar recording contract, a sold-out world tour, and more money in the bank than I ever imagined, but every time I hit a milestone in my career, my personal life suffers.

Cassidy is a librarian who spent the first 27 years of her life being a good girl. She moved to Seattle so year 28 can be different. Turcot is a Dom who’s got some ghosts of Christmas past to deal with. All he wants this holiday is to make someone happy. Which doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen - until he spots Cassidy in the sex-toy aisle on Christmas Eve, reaching for a pair of cuffs with yearning in her eyes.

Spankings and babies definitely don’t mix - and Mattie wants both. Mattie wants a baby. She also wants a Dom, and she’s a sub who needs a strong one. One who knows how to wield the tools of hand and mind and voice and drive her to that strong, silent, crystal-clear place that’s the whole reason she does this. Milo doesn't know what he wants. Building the best spanking benches in the business isn't working for him anymore, and neither is using them, and it has him questioning everything. What he likes. What he needs. Who he is.

Now that Reece Richards and Emmalina Crist have exposed the Consortium to the globe, they’re bracing for the organization’s full reprisal, undoubtedly led by Faline Garand. The woman, infamously obsessed with Reece, can’t be happy about the lovers’ worldwide announcement. But an engagement doesn’t mean instant plans of white lace and roses for Bolt and his lady, especially when a key member of Team Bolt goes rogue and destroys half of downtown LA.

Caitlyn Gregg just agreed to marry "Mister Perfect" on national television. There's only one problem: as soon as the cameras stop rolling on their whirlwind reality-show romance, she realizes she doesn't love him. Returning home to Colorado as the show begins to air, she has only her doubts for company - until she accidentally sets her apartment on fire and finds herself in the arms of oh-so-sexy fire-fighter Will Hamilton.

I might have a multi-million-dollar recording contract, a sold-out world tour, and more money in the bank than I ever imagined, but every time I hit a milestone in my career, my personal life suffers. Then in steps my new bodyguard, rugged and with a past I connect with. The closer we get, the more powerful my feelings grow, complicating our professional relationship. I thought Kane would be different. I hoped he’d be the one man to stand by my side, undaunted by the fame and attention that trails me.

Johnny and Kiera Barlow are the gold standard when it comes to relationships. Together for eight years and married for half of them, it seems they’ve got it all figured out. But Johnny and Kiera haven’t let their friends in on their secret. The relationship that seems so perfect on the outside has been rocky at best for the last year. Now, they’re getting a divorce. But there’s one thing they need to do before they share the news. They’ll stand up beside their closest friends as best man and matron of honor for a North Carolina beach wedding.

Bree Novak is so close to earning her PhD, she can taste it, but she’s supposed to be writing her dissertation, not giving lectures while her advisor slacks off. The semester gets even crazier when veteran tight end Marcus James - Bree’s celebrity crush - enrolls in her “Intro to Physics” class. The man’s even hotter in person than he looks on Sunday Night Football. So why is Bree hoping he drops out? Maybe it’s because Marcus, with his cocky smile and chiseled body, is the ultimate distraction....

Elena has always been impulsive, until one wild night on a reality dating show earns her a reputation she can't escape. She wanted to be famous, but now she's infamous and determined to redeem herself. No more impulsive Old Elena. New Elena is going to be respectable and sweet if it kills her - and her first task is attending the wedding of the woman who beat her on the show.

All through college, Blanche Carter was known as the love doctor in her sorority. Now she's parlayed her talent into a unique consulting business: she runs the Online dating profiles of Washington D.C.'s most eligible women. Armed with a battalion of rules, Blanche expertly helps her clients optimize their profiles and ace that first date. But although she'll happily message handsome strangers (and fend off dick pics) for other ladies, Blanche's most important rule is the one she has for herself: no relationships. She's seen too much heartbreak to believe in real love anymore.