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Steve wants to leave his old life behind, the life of killing and waiting to be killed. But when it's the family business, it can be a hard habit to break.

Nina Aydin will never marry again. An abusive marriage years earlier left the ballet instructor leery of men, yet she desperately wants a baby. Only one man has caught her eye: the mesmerizing master chief of SEAL Team Six. From his dance moves to his dimples, Santiago Rivera would make the perfect father, as long as he agreed to play by Nina's rules - a donation at a fertility clinic with no intimacy allowed. When he gets a clear message from God to take the traditional path, he risks losing Nina entirely.

Navy SEAL Lt. Mitch Thoreau’s vacation to Spain coincides with Catalonia’s bid for independence. On the streets of Barcelona, the tension between the separatists and the national police suggests imminent unrest - not the best time for a vacation. Meeting the proprietress of Hotel Leonardo makes it all worthwhile.

Zane Shaw needs a fresh start. After his fiancé called off their wedding, he left his failed relationship to run the family restaurant back home. And just when he thinks he’s sworn off emotions for good, a former fling residing in Cliffside Bay reignites his broken heart. Honor Sullivan thought she had escaped her abusive background. But the terror returns when she learns the man who hurt her is out of prison. And when a dead bunny appears on her porch, she turns to her old crush Zane for the protection she so desperately desires.

Major Grace Samuels, a trauma surgeon deployed to Afghanistan, spends her life helping her fellow soldiers overcome disease and combat injuries. But her own wounds are harder to heal. Wracked with guilt over the death of a fellow soldier, she finds comfort in her only friend and appointed bodyguard, weapons sergeant Jacob “Sharp” Foster. Sharp feels more for Grace than a soldier should, more than he wants to admit.

Private investigator Ava Worthington and her partners head to the mountains to solve the death of a farmer’s son. Without local cowboy Cory Mortel's protection, Ava won’t get the chance to follow leads as the killer tries to stop her investigation. But Cory seems reluctant to get involved. Cory Mortel has retreated to the seclusion of the mountains after a personal disaster. The last thing he needs is to babysit a beautiful amateur detective and her friends. But Ava seems to attract danger, so Cory has choice but to step in and protect her.

A hardened criminal. A gut-wrenching revelation. Loyalty, brotherhood, and honor will be tested to the breaking point. Austin Conrad is a study in contradictions. A decorated war hero turned jaded enforcer for a ruthless outlaw motorcycle club, the honor he once had is jolted back to the surface with a devastating discovery about the club he called home. Can this hardened criminal look the other way, or will honor drive a wedge between him and the brotherhood that embraced him?

At 26, Jenna Hardy didn’t expect to be starting over. But after a nasty divorce two years earlier, that's exactly where she finds herself - beginning again. Moving to the small town of Bakersfield was her chance at a new life. A place where her past couldn't torment her. Finn Judson is every girl's fantasy. He's the typical sexy cop with an attitude - and he loves his job. His family doesn’t understand his choice to wear a badge, reminding him every day he comes from wealth and needs a wife.

The notorious Rattlers motorcycle club didn't have an official exit policy. So, Austin Conrad wrote his own when he decided to get the hell out. Now, he's the target of the MC's ruthless president, who's hellbent to silence Austin to keep his own dark secrets buried. Set along the back roads of Southern California's Mojave Desert, the story comes to its thrilling climax among the abandoned ghost town of Amboy. When Austin is waylaid by a crew of murderous thugs from a rogue faction of the club, the hunters become the hunted.

After a decade of playing hockey, a single injury ended Trapper Barnes’ career. But when he discovers that the woman who owns the local bakery is the girl who once shattered his dreams, the painful secret she’s been harboring all these years threatens to turn Trapper’s idyllic small-town future into a disaster. Will it take a forest fire threatening the mountain village to force Trapper and Brandi to confront their history?

Sir Ezra is an Elysian Bell; he has a frightening potential that he keeps hidden deep beneath tight layers of steel armor. He secretly loves a dark queen whose touch would mean his death. Banished for brutally slaughtering the Prince of Erle and husband to the queen, Sir Ezra can only dream of seeing her again. Every night, his soul travels to distant lands, remembering the queen and a single night of horrific bloodshed. Recalled to the queendom, Ezra hopes to catch at least a glimpse of the woman. Instead, he finds a nation in rebellion and the queen to be an elusive phantom.

Their world was ending, all the heroes were dead, the leaders confused, and their enemies were head and shoulders above them. But there was no one else; they were the dregs, the last worst hopes. Nehring Ardgour has summoned Skoll and Hati from hell. They have torn through the proud and ancient country of Engevelen and the angelic Methueyn Knights that protect it. Armies have died; cities have fallen. None of the great remain. No brilliant inventors, no powerful knights, no master wizards. No heroes.

Two years after her husband’s death on a ski trip, Crystal Whalen is devastated when a fire destroys her quiet Colorado mountain home. And when she can’t keep her hands off the gorgeous divorcé who’s become her new temporary housemate, it only feeds her grief and growing guilt. Garth Welte won’t be burned again. After his ex-wife took most of his money, the downhill-skiing Olympic medalist is determined to keep things casual with the sexy woman he can’t resist. But the more time they spend with each other, the harder it is to deny his burgeoning feelings.

Property developer Kyle Hicks’s playboy lifestyle couldn’t be better. He’s overcome his impoverished past, his new resort is under construction, and he’s free of any ties. But when he’s given custody of a baby he didn’t know he fathered, he has to turn for help to the one person who hates him. Single mother Violet Ellis can’t seem to catch a break. Between the failure of her business and a developer ruining Cliffside Bay’s charm, she feels her life is in tatters. Out of work and desperate for a home, she reluctantly accepts a job offer from the man she despises.

Robert, Koria, Eloise, and Gregory went to the New School, hoping to change the world. They thought that mathematically-based dynamics, the enlightened age's answer to wizardry, would give them the power to make everything better. Their hopes were naïve. Protestors are condemning the creation of a new vaccine. The city is seeing a series of hangings; is it murder or sacrament? The cloaked man is back to stalking students. The long-absent demons Skoll and Hati reappear and begin slaughtering. But the real question is, will Nimrheal return? If he does, who will die first?

She is far too stubborn and feisty for his tastes. He is too controlling and domineering for hers. When they meet, sparks fly but it could never work. He wants a perfect submissive wife who will be a help in daily life and a vixen between the sheets. She wants an equal partner, not someone with his head stuck in the 1950s. When they are thrown together to uncover a dangerous scandal in their small town, they will finally give in to their mutual attraction. But will it last?

Life is long, especially for Arturo. Though he was born a mortal, now he’s a bear shifter and the former right hand man to a demon. He’s been alive for more than four centuries, kept alive by his connection to the demon who has enslaved and tortured him at every turn. And they wonder why he’s such a jerk.… Now, Arturo is made to endure a new kind of torture. He’s trapped with a group of seven travelers who, to their credit, are attempting to slay the demon.

Acts of genuine creativity used to bring mortal punishment. But now, wizardry is dead and Robert, Koria, and Eloise live in a world where change and invention are possible. Robert hopes that mathematically-framed dynamics will enable him to change the new world. But he keeps having prophetic dreams where his friends are all murdered by a mysterious cloaked man, and the grain protestors are more menacing than ever. Desperate to change the future, Robert recklessly pushes the bounds of both dynamics and reason.

As the nation’s youngest virologist and hematologist, Captain Sophia Perry has always been one step ahead of her peers. But there’s one thing she can’t beat - cancer. She wants to make a difference in the time she has left, so when she’s sent to investigate a breakout at a Syrian refugee camp, she goes, saying nothing of her diagnosis. But saving the masses isn’t easy when the man tasked to protect her is so irresistible.

Can a contract sink a relationship? That's the question running around in Raymond Rose's mind. As he sits in his ivory tower, the questions runs through his mind. In everyone's eyes, he has everything. He's the CEO of his family's company. He's got more wealth than ever before. He's the hottest bachelor on the market. And yet, he longs and pines over the one thing he doesn't have.