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Cassie Forrest has sworn she'll never let the world get the best of her again. She's chosen to believe everything will be all right. But on a journey filled with heartbreak and madness and zombies, Cassie and her friends must struggle to stay alive - and it's hard to believe in a future when survival seems unlikely.

Cassie Forrest isn't surprised to learn that the day she’s decided to get her life together is also the day the world ends. After all, she’s been on a self-imposed losing streak since her survivalist parents died: she’s stopped painting, broken off her engagement to Adrian and dated a real jerk. Rectifying her mistakes has to wait, however, because Cassie and her friends have just enough time to escape Brooklyn for her parents’ cabin before Bornavirus LX turns them into zombies, too.

Avrox was a hostile planet plagued with war and sacrifice. Now, it’s home to the hottest mating program in the galaxy. The smoldering, lonely Avroxees have put down their spears and are looking for mates, with their sights set on the lovely ladies of Earth. Secrets will be revealed and love will be tested on this planet teeming with romantic possibilities. Discover the stories of a champion fighter unlucky with love, a woman caught in a mate mix-up, and the one couple that started it all.

Jocelyn, a biologist, wasn’t expecting to be selected as an Avroxee mate. Having never been touched by a man, let alone an alien one, she’s startled to find herself in the care of Krult, a hot, muscular specimen who proposes she help him with a dangerous experiment to save his planet. Jocelyn accepts, not realizing she’s about to offer him more than just her intelligence.

A human woman destined for the lucrative meat market is saved by the very Attun trapper who captured her. Ekkatt seeks absolution for his many sins while Mari must deal with her own inner turmoil. After all, she's sleeping with the enemy. Everywhere the couple turns death awaits, either at the hands of law enforcement or the religious authorities. In this far distant corner of the galaxy, despite the dangers posed by the journey, Mari and Ekkatt search the wilderness of Attun-Ra for a rumored sanctuary. They have no other choice.

Raised to hate people, especially women, Mers avoids them by wandering the desert, scavenging as winds shift the sands. Upon witnessing a fight far off, he waits for the outcome. When all three people fall to the ground and don’t rise, Mers races across the desert to collect their now-relinquished panel truck and motorbike. He and Teah, his cow-like whake, reach the machines only to find the woman who owned the bike isn’t as dead as he’d hoped. Forced to obey the one rule of kindness his father taught him - hospitality - he agrees to hide her from the men who hunt her.

Now they’re on the run. Maxim, the Colonel and leader of the eastern states of the old United States, and Iolanthe, the Pure he wants for his own, must leave the Citadel after a Resistance attack. Forced together by circumstance, the tumultuous battle of lust that started long ago can’t be ignored any longer.

The colonel, Maxim, is the ruler of the ruins in what used to be New York. After a post-apocalyptic event, nothing is, and will never be, the same. He rules with an iron fist and has the final say in all things. He takes what he wants when he wants. Now is the time for him to take Iolanthe. He’s watched her from afar for years; now she will belong to him.

Her brilliant blues eyes and luscious curves have haunted his every thought for over six years. The guilt of his younger brother's death a weight around his heart, keeping him from claiming the one the universe had made for him and him alone. Aidan, a fierce Dragon Guardsman, now knows nothing was as he thought, and the woman he believed was unattainable is within his grasp, if only he can keep her safe from those that would use her to hurt him.

Alessia is an engineer who just wants to have a smooth trip home to celebrate Mizzentide with her family, but what are those pawprints leading into the Astral Dancer's engine room? Darmanda didn't mean to let an arctic flieff loose aboard a spaceship, but once she has, her only choice is to go after it.