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Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? From the outside, librarian Megan Upton appears to live a quiet, painfully ordinary life. She's lonely, but she's content, more or less - that is, when she isn't being haunted by wolves.

Cinda has been baking cakes since she was old enough to measure sugar. A relationship with one of the sexier royal knights of Arktos City is high on the list of what’s good, but when the lady knight breaks up with her, Cinda needs a night out on the town to forget her pain. Talis has been working as a stablehand in the royal stables of Arktos and wants to be a knight more than anything else in the world, but when she gets the bad news that she might not ever get the chance to become a squire - let alone a knight - she needs a night out on the town to forget her pain...

Ella Rivers hasn't been okay since the day her mother died. One wintry night, lost in grief, Ella goes for a long, cold walk. It's three o'clock in the morning, and she decides to duck into a gas station to get warm and, perhaps, buy a cup of tea. But when the power cuts out, Ella's life is changed forever. Because, that night, she should have died. And she would have, were it not for the mysterious, white-haired woman who saves her life: Silver.

Piper once believed she'd found her happily-ever-after in Estella. Until Estella left. Piper and Estella met when they were kids. Estella was rich and spoiled, Piper was poor and curious, and - in each other - the two girls found an unexpected friendship. Year after year went by as they grew up together, growing closer and closer as time passed, until Piper realized that she loved Estella more than anything in the universe. The day Piper told Estella she loved her was the day Estella walked out the door, never to return again.... Or so Piper thought.

Guarding her heart was never part of the contract. Annie Bellfield is walking her dog early one morning when, from out of nowhere, a gorgeous stranger approaches her and starts to walk with her. The captivating woman's name is Nova, and Annie finds her intensely attractive. Until Nova pushes her into a black van with no windows.

What if the woman you loved was the one person you could never be with? Elizabeth Grayson doesn't want a bodyguard. She's worked hard for her normal life, but her father, the founder of a booming seafood empire, is a prime target for his unethical competitors. When her father hires a bodyguard for Elizabeth, she's less than enthusiastic...that is, until she meets the mysterious Layne O'Connell. Sarcastic, charming, and secretive, Layne is hired to keep Elizabeth safe. But protecting her heart wasn't in the job description.

Envy is a lucky lady with a secret vice: She's (arguably) one of the best thieves in the kingdom - something her current employer, the queen herself, has no knowledge of. When one of her more audacious gambles gets her caught, Envy thinks her luck's run out. The queen banishes her to Bran Tower, a haunted, forgotten prison of no escape. Envy thinks she’s doomed to be alone and trapped forever, but - each night - a stunning woman appears in her impenetrable prison, and Envy soon realizes that she’s falling in love with her....

Sydney is haunted by her past. Raised by a strict, religious family, she was sent to gay conversion therapy as a teenager when she was caught kissing a girl. Now only 19, she's trying to start over with a new life and a new name, but you can't escape the past.... Caroline is the most stunning woman Sydney has ever seen. Every night, Sydney hears her singing from her apartment window, and every night, Sydney's heart aches with something indescribable.

When they were teenagers, Amber and Stevie were so deeply in love that nothing could drive them apart. Until the one night, when Amber needed Stevie to be there...and, instead, Stevie disappeared without a trace. Seven years later, Stevie appears in Amber's life again with a long scar across her stomach, and a pretty fantastical explanation for her disappearance that night. Sparks fly between the two women, and they are drawn together with a passion neither of them can ignore. But Amber needs the truth about what happened that night.

Can love save a soul? Cassandra Griman was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. She'd stayed out at the bars until last call, and on her way home was cornered in an alleyway by four men. That night might have been her last...until she was saved by an angel. But first impressions aren't everything, and Cassandra soon realizes that the captivating woman who saved her life is no angel. In fact, Elle is a powerful vampire who was exiled from Boston fifty years ago. But Elle has returned now to exact revenge.

Abby Reynolds is camping alone at Allegany State Park in her family's cabin. She needed a little R&R, but what was supposed to be a normal, relaxing vacation becomes something entirely different when she finds a wolf in the shower building. But was it a wolf? Because when Abby looks again, there is a woman crouching on the concrete floor, a naked woman who Abby can't take her eyes off of. Abby is immediately attracted to this perfect stranger, but something strange is happening in the park that night. Something that Abby can't explain.

A love story about a werewolf, a witch and an odd little New England town...Amy Linden has a boring job and lives a boring life...or so it seems. But secretly, Amy is a witch who was raised by a family of witchy women who taught her how to cast spells, chat with ghosts and how to brew a truly enchanting cup of coffee. Nursing a broken heart after her girlfriend just left her, Amy's feeling a little stifled by her small-town life. When her aunt sends her a letter asking Amy to come run her café in Wolf Town, Maine, while she vacations, Amy is prepared for some strong coffee.

Haley Benson lies for a living. She created an online tabloid that normally targets celebrities with outlandish stories about aliens and the ghost of Elvis, but one day she was out of ideas...so she made up a story about a little town that no one's ever heard of. But the mayor of Wolf Lake, Kay Odell, doesn't think it's a laughing matter. She demands that Haley retract her ridiculous story about the town being overrun with werewolves. Or she'll sue. Haley finds it hard to concentrate when Kay walks into her office - she's the most smoldering, mysterious woman Haley's ever met....

Erin McEvoy tries to be an optimist, but her life is in a downward spiral. Her job as a reporter at a small Boston news station and her love life are going nowhere, but the thing that worries her most is the fact that Erin has started seeing things. Specifically, a tall, winged shadow following her wherever she goes. Afraid that she might be losing her mind, Erin ignores the shadow - until she's nearly hit by a car. It's then that she realizes it's not simply a shadow but her guardian angel, a beautiful female angel named Gabrielle.

Mandy's not having a great December. She was given a rescue "dog" (who looks much more like a wolf) by her lackluster girlfriend as a Christmas present. Mandy lives in a studio apartment and can't keep her new pet, but that turns out to be the least of her problems when she's woken up in the middle of the night by a gorgeous naked woman...who just happens to be stealing a pair of jeans from her dresser.

Trish Dalton has put her wild, adventurous days behind her. She's grown up and settled down in her veterinarian practice that she built from the ground up, but a secret part of her misses the untamed woman she used to be. Now her life is quiet, safe, and a little bit lonely. When her sister surprises her with a gift - a singles retreat at a yoga studio in the Rocky mountains - Trish is reluctant to go. While most of her happiest memories were in the Rockies, she isn't into granola-crunchy stuff and has never done yoga in her life.

What if you fell for the most impossible woman: your best friend's girlfriend? Maxine "Max" Hallwell has spent her entire life making the safe, responsible decisions. It's not that she never had dreams, but while her childhood best friend, Joanna, risked everything to start her own delivery business, Max went to work at a call center. Now, their 40th birthdays are fast approaching, and Joanna is rich, high-powered, and happy. And Max is miserable.

Can a painful mistake from the past lead to a happily ever after? When Georgia was 18, she cut ties with her life in Pine Springs, Maine. She grew up in the tiny town, and grew more and more restless as the years passed by. She never fit in. Like most of the residents, Georgia was a werewolf, but she felt uncomfortable in her wild wolf form. She wanted to go somewhere else, anywhere else. So she did, but leaving meant leaving behind the girl who'd stolen her heart, bewitching, beautiful Carol, who was as wild and graceful as a wolf herself. Now, 15 years later, on her way back to Pine Springs to visit her family for Christmas, Georgia stops to buy coffee and runs into a familiar face - Carol. But Carol is hardly happy to see her. And as a snowstorm moves over the Maine coast, Georgia and Carol find themselves reliving the past...and wondering if they might still have a future together.