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When Luka Romanov burst into the bar where I work to take care of some mafia business, I was still an innocent virgin. I woke up the next morning sore, spent, and feeling much less innocent. He tracked me down to punish me for trying to run from him, but it wasn't just his hard hand reddening my bare bottom that left me soaking wet and ready to be ruthlessly claimed. I was breathless and desperately in need the moment he pinned me to the wall and kissed me.

When I claimed to be Roman Romanov's fiancé, I just wanted a Russian to leave me alone at a club. I didn't know another bratva boss was upstairs at that very moment trying to get Roman to marry his daughter, and I definitely didn't expect to end up going home with Roman that night. Or to be calling him daddy with my cheeks blushing and my bottom sore from a spanking.

Peaceable needs a man to get her parents off her tail and stop their matchmaking. Desperate, she blurts out a made-up, surprise engagement to the worst, most aggravating man in the galaxy: Joseph Moonquest. Instant. Regret. The problem is that Joseph is the most insufferable, arrogant, and wildly attractive human male she’s ever met. Worse still, he takes news of their surprise engagement in stride. He’ll play her games. Joseph and the stunning alien woman have been circling each other for months. He’ll be the best fake fiancé in the cosmos. Game on.

With debts piling at home, there's no way I can say no to the proposition. Spend thirty days with a bunch of hot men on a deserted island...Sounds good to me. Until a past flame shows up unexpectedly and complicates everything. Is a million dollars worth the drama? I doubt it, until I meet the guys I'm sharing a camp with.

Running from the past is always a risk. Letting three rough men protect me? That's a mistake that'll cost me my heart. Why? Because these men know what it's like to live by their own rules. They know how it feels to be free. A freak storm brought me to their door, half drowned and desperate to be cared for. And now, they won't let me out of their sight.

From the dark, haunted cave comes a man's plea. He’s a stuck climber in a hidden chamber inside the mountain. But as we travel to his rescue, things continue to deteriorate. Sick, hurt, and now deep underground, my worst nightmare is finally here. I’m trapped, with the dead lurking everywhere. Who can save me from ghosts? Who can heal my broken body? Who can make me never be defenseless again? Something in the dark can. Something inhuman. Something that wants to live in me, corrupting who I am. And if I want to survive, I have to let this monster live in my body.

All I need is a getaway. A rest from my parents, and the wedding they're arranging for me . . . Enter fate and a missed connection that proves different plans. Three handsome men, and a ranch in the mountains of Wyoming. I can't walk away from this. Mac is handsome and clever, seducing me with words. Donnie is the protector who will do anything to keep me safe. And Lorenzo? Well, he just won't take no for an answer. Would it be wrong to stay here forever? It sounds like a dream until my parents send out a search party and unveil secrets even I didn't know were coming.

The further he gets from Anya, the more certain he feels that he can’t let his guard down like that again. His family needs him more than ever, and Anya deserves someone who is devoted, who can be there for her the way he can’t. But in letting Anya go, will he sacrifice his heart?

He didn't ask for my surrender. He took it. Maybe I let myself get a little too tipsy this evening, but I didn't expect to wake up next to a Russian mobster without my panties on. Fortunately, Maxim Volkov isn't here to ravage me. At least not tonight... He's made it his business to look out for me, and if that means taking me over his knee with my bottom bare for a spanking with my own hairbrush, then that's exactly what he's going to do.

Dragon shifter Mal Moore has trained all his life for the fight he knows is coming. But no training could prepare him for meeting the enigmatic woman who has been obstructing his plans...and no magic can save his heart when he recognizes her as his destiny.

When you’re in trouble with the mob, there’s only one thing to do: assume your twin sister’s identity, escape to a tropical island resort, and lay low while enjoying a generous slice of beefcake courtesy of the World Mr. Shifter pageant. But wolf shifter Laura Smith didn’t expect to find the most gorgeous man at the resort behind the bar...or guess that he would be her one true mate! But as long as everyone thinks she’s her sister, giving in to her heart means blowing her cover.

When escaping, one should make a plan. Someone should have told past-me that first.... I also need to fix a little issue or four if I ever escape. "Surprise, I have a caster for mate" wasn’t exactly how I saw my wedding going. I also didn’t see this. He betrayed me. Now that I’ve found my powers, you’d think I know what I’m doing. The betrayal among the wolves is worse than ever, and I’m not sure how to end it. Add in that my past is catching up to me and I just have more questions.

Deer-shifter Mary North may be afraid of snakes, planes, tropical diseases, and strange people, but fate hands her a solo vacation at the luxurious, all-inclusive Shifting Sands Resort, and she's determined to enjoy herself. She isn’t prepared to meet her own mate - and find out he doesn’t want her.

Snow-leopard-shifter and heiress Darla Grant thought that marrying her best friend would be the solution to all of her problems: It would shelter her from a persistent and unwelcome suitor, unlock her inheritance to save the bankrupt shifter retirement home where she volunteers, and free her from her controlling society mother. Then she meets her fated mate at the tropical luxury resort reserved for her wedding, and her perfect plan turns into perfect torture.

Irish elk-shifter Conall Wright loved Christmas…when he could still hear the music that brought him joy and fame. Then, a fateful car accident stripped him of his hearing and brought his classical music career to a halt. Now, he’s looking for a place for the holiday that isn’t full of silver bells and singing Santas to remind him of everything he’s lost, and Shifting Sands Resort looks like it might be just the tropical escape he’s hoping for. At least there won’t be snow.

Panther shifter Wrench hasn't got the first frickin’ clue about poems and flowers and all that crap. But he’s gonna learn or die trying. He ain’t giving up on the best thing to ever happen to him. Lucky he’s got new friends at Shifting Sands Resort to teach him how to woo a lady right. Yoga instructor Lydia and her inner swan always knew she’d meet her one true mate, but she never imagined a tattooed, six-foot-six felon. She has to have faith that he’s her perfect match…but why won’t he let her get to know the real man under those sexy muscles?

Dragons are meant to be creatures of fire and fury, not salt water and mercy. But Bastian isn’t an ordinary dragon. And when he rescues a beautiful, mysterious woman from stormy waves, he finally finds something worth fighting for. So why does she insist that his feelings are false? Saina only meant to use her siren song to enthrall the handsome, gentle lifeguard long enough to heal and escape. But now, he wants to keep her forever.

Anders Canyon is a sleepy town full of ordinary people who are developing extraordinary abilities. Is it related to heavy metals in the water? Government officials are investigating, but their stories aren't quite believable....

Benson Bexley has always had a heart of stone. Apparently nothing has changed. When he returns home after a decade gone, I recognize him right away. How could I forget him? He's the same cocky flirt who slid dirty poetry to me in art class. With the same stone-cold stare that shielded his soul from the world. And that same sharp-edged jaw that cut straight through my heart like a dagger.

Hilarious and heartwarming, three standalone novellas and one short story return you to the beloved island of Shifting Sands Resort—or introduce you to it. In A Christmoose Story, hockey player Lars is desperate to impress the shy, bookish caribou shifter Julie. Desperate enough to lie and say that he’s a bear shifter, because who could ever love a big, goofy moose?