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I am perfectly content with my life. I have a loving (albeit nosy and interfering) family, a fulfilling career as an environmental engineer, and I enjoy living in my quirky hometown of Winter Falls. But then Beckett Dempsey is appointed CEO at the company I work at. For reasons I cannot fathom to understand, Beckett believes that I am incompetent. He also thinks I should be at his beck and call twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. Unfortunately, Beckett is also the sexiest man I’ve ever met, and my body yearns for his.

I’ve spent the past year plotting my revenge and imagining all the wicked things I’d do to her when our paths finally crossed again. I just had no idea it would be so soon. The last thing I expected when I reentered the world was to find myself right in the middle of hers. The girl who betrayed me, the snitch who ruined me - here for the taking. While she’s been oblivious here in Rosewood, I’ve been trapped in hell. Better watch your back, Harley Hunter. You’re about to be owned by a Legend.

My next-door neighbour, Jenson, is a chef and a successful businessman. He's also a single daddy to the cutest six-year-old girl. I'm only here as long as it takes to get my parents' old house ready for sale. Then it's time for me to make a fresh start, away from the tragic events of late. Trouble is, now I've had a taste of this hot daddy's sauce, I want more.

Reeling from the death of her daring Navy SEAL brother, reserved McKenzie Prescott decides to honor him in the only way she can think of—by finishing his bucket list. Suddenly, she's doing things she's never dreamed of—like jumping off waterfalls . . . and inviting the intoxicating stranger she meets in Las Vegas to help her with some of the more racy items on the list . . .

My best friend needs rescuing from herself. She’s about to jump headfirst into a decision that’s going to change her life forever, and she’s going about it the wrong way. She’s been my left-hand woman for years, but is it possible that I’ve never seen what’s right in front of me? Did I lose myself living the high life my reputation as a fireman comes with? As things start to heat up, I soon realize this is one inferno that I’m not going to be able to put out!

I’m a nobody...until everybody realizes who I am and who I’m related to. Then, it’s like a giant target that is painted on my back. They all think they can use me to climb the Rosewood High royalty ladder. They obviously underestimate me. I won’t cower down or give in. They can’t break me. But he can...without even trying.

Everyone thinks they know me...but they’re wrong. Fearless on the outside - a lie. I’m a fraud, hiding behind a mask of perfection. My reality very different. The captain. The leader. The Queen Bee. None of it real - all just an illusion. Perception is everything and I use it to get what I want, when I want, refusing to let anyone stand in my way. Until he shows me that he’s not the man I expected. He’s not just the quiet one...the innocent one. But the one to finally tear away the mask and look beneath the surface.

I’ve been hiding away at home, focusing on work and not much else, certainly not myself. But my best friend’s about to tie the knot and forces a makeover on me. Suddenly, women are falling at my feet, including my worst nightmare, his sister, after too many drinks. Now, I can’t get her out of my mind. My dilemma? Reese is an ice queen.

They say your first love leaves a mark. For Calliope James, it didn't only leave a mark, it tore out her heart and left it bleeding on the ground. He was her best friend. Her first kiss. Her everything. Until one day, he wasn't. Zachary Messiah will never forget the girl with eyes the color of whiskey. But he's not that boy anymore. Cold. Cruel. He's devoid of emotion. Their paths were never supposed to cross again. But love doesn't always play by the rules.

Forbidden never tasted so good. He’s my daddy’s best friend, and he took a huge chance on me. I wasn’t meant to thank him by falling into his bed, I was just meant to care for his twins. But my life has just imploded and he’s the only good thing I’ve got right now. She’s my best friend’s daughter. Completely off-limits and yet I simply can’t resist. I need her to look after my babies, but I want her for myself. She’s the first good thing to come into my life since my wife died.

One minute I'm working in a bookshop and the next minute a vampire decides to kill me. Enter the tall, dark, handsome stranger who’s been hanging around the store lately. He has a deal he says I can’t refuse. I can either a) die or b) become a vampire and Queen of the Wayward. Great choices there, hey? Obviously, I choose option b. So here I am, trying to get used to not only being undead, but to my new royal role where I'm in charge of the Home of Wayward Souls. Yep, any newly dead spirits that are wild, unhappy, and out to cause trouble. All mine.

For years I've kept my secrets. Kept the darkest, most twisted parts of myself buried from everyone around me. My need to destroy those responsible for tainting my life, ruining the person I was, the person I could've been, burns hotter with every passing day. And when I finally get the chance to confront one and unleash the monster he turned me into, I walk straight into the other. The one who haunts my nightmares. The girl who torments me relentlessly. The angel who could have saved me...but damned me instead. It's my turn to use her. As bait.

Being infatuated with my childhood best friend was a beautiful curse. Our lives were an uphill struggle against every odd, but as long as we had each other...we had everything. Then it was all gone. Now I've built my life to perfection yet still yearning for that boy I used to know. Then one night, through a chance encounter, I see him. Riot James. He's an MMA fighter with a beastly body, roped and corded with muscle and gleaming with sweat. His nose, reminiscent of a Roman gladiator, was bent a little like it's been broken. A few times.

I might have been the one who walked away, but that doesn’t mean I’m not still haunted by her - by what I did to her. But that’s the thing about ghosts…they always return when you least expect it. My stepsister was an outlet for my pain, but everything has changed. Now I’ve got nothing to lose. If she thought I hated her the first time we met, then she’s about to get a shock. The rage I felt didn’t compare to the fury that now consumes me. I might be empty, but I’m going to show her how it feels by taking away everything she has...one painful piece at a time.

Owning and operating a bed and breakfast doesn’t leave me much time for men. Especially not men who aren’t from Winter Falls. Out-of-towners can’t be trusted. Trust me. I have the scars to prove it. Then Cole Hawkins saunters into the Inn on Main. One look at him and I light my rulebook about men and out-of-towners on fire before hurling it out the window. After Cole leaves town unexpectedly, I’m hell-bent on forgetting him and his adorable dimple until I discover our one night of passion has lasting consequences of the baby variety.

Losing her nearly destroyed me. Reclaiming her is something I've waited years for. I can see it in her eyes, feel it in her touch. The desire, the temptation, she needs me just as much as I need her. But there's something else there, defiance. She’s never forgotten me, after all this time, but has she forgiven me? Turns out she's forgetting one thing...she’s mine. I'm not letting go this time.

USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author Tracy Lorraine brings you this dark bully college romance collection that includes Luca & Peyton’s duet: "The Vengeance You Crave" and "The Destruction You Desire". From the lies that destroyed them to the shocking truth no one believed.

I have loved Rowan since I was sixteen and he rushed in like my knight in shining football pads to save me from a bully. Now that I’m back in Winter Falls after graduating college, it’s time for me to make him mine. There’s only one problem. Rowan sees me as his little sister who needs protecting and not as a woman. There’s no problem too big I can’t overcome it, though. Even if it comes in the form of a stubborn six-foot-five former NFL quarterback.

From best-selling author Melanie A. Smith comes the first book in a new series of steamy contemporary medical romance standalone novels about life lessons that break all the rules. Some lessons are more fun when learned the hard way.... What’s the first rule of nurse’s club? That’s right: Never date a doctor. Which Sasha Suvorin has no intention of doing anyway, since she’s a nurse at Rutherford Hospital by day and working on her master’s degree by night. Who has time for dating, much less dating someone you work with? Bad idea much?

Trey was only meant to be a distraction, someone I’d never see again. Turns out, the man starring in my wild fantasies is also occupying the desk next to mine. My experience with men tells me that he can’t be trusted, but my heart, and body, tells me something different. His demands for more weaken my resolve, and I find myself craving a man that’s over a decade my senior. I can’t escape the memories of our sizzling night together.... I don’t want to. He could be different, but was I willing to repeat my mistakes to find out?