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What this salt-and-pepper alpha needs is a simple hookup. What he got was a complicated 20-something with a shady past.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, like seeking a mail order groom. Saul McCormick isn't the kind of man who believes in fairy tales like love or trust. After a terrible breakup left him publicly on the ropes, Saul disappeared to the mountains to find himself again. He's just not ready to do people again, yet. Kyler Nielson thought he had it made at the Tall Oaks Country Club, until he was suddenly canned. Stuck trying to keep his father in a comfortable living facility for dementia patients, Kyler needs cash now.

MMA fighter Eric lives for each match because now there’s nothing else to live for. Though he once yearned for the steady, forever kind of love - though he craved domination - he was betrayed. Walking away from the man he would have married, Eric didn’t look back. And now his future is just as empty as his past. The day Samuel was fired for wanting to marry the love of his life wasn’t his blackest moment - his blackest moment was the night before when Eric left him without a word. But Samuel emerged stronger and learned that to survive heartbreak he had to be true to himself.

Kai is a unique omega: he was bred using a surrogate mother, and then raised in an insular environment with other omegas of his kind, groomed into the perfect mate for a deserving alpha. After twenty five years in Omega Housing Unit #14, he is finally requested by Jude Riley, an intelligent, considerate alpha in need of a bond-mate and a future heir to his new enterprise. The romance that ensues between the pair is tender, as they build trust and an enduring love.

Oliver Wesson is a hotshot analyst with the state police crime lab. He believes in two things in this world: Science, and saving himself for his alpha. Getting paired up on a case with detective Nenci is both a dream and a nightmare for him - he has a chance to show off his skills, but Nenci’s aversion to omegas in the field is well known. When he finds himself unable to resist his attraction for the older detective, his entire sense of self comes into question. Sam Nenci is the official troll of the cold case squad.

Omega Noah Layton owes a lot to Heaven’s Ballroom. If it weren’t for the club, he’d have been homeless at 18, when issues with his parents came to a head and left him without anywhere to turn. So when Noah realizes that the Ballroom is under threat, he plans to do whatever it takes to defend it - including sleeping with the enemy.

A famous Hollywood omega. A hard-ass alpha SEAL. A PR assignment from hell. Kurt McNeil is a rising Hollywood star. A handsome omega, he’s got a new guy on his arm every week. He’s got it made - except that he’s still reeling from a betrayal that cost him everything. Dom Van Heel is proud of what it means to be a SEAL, but when his platoon is assigned to babysit a Hollywood hot shot for PR, he’s furious. Yet sparks and sheets fly when Kurt and Dom hit it off at a party, and neither realizes just how drastically their lives will change.

Two omegas looking for their alpha.... Oliver and Mitch are ready to have it all, but to start a family they need an alpha at their sides and when they meet Marcos Acosta, they know he’s the man for them. He’s a brooding protector who needs someone to look out for his heart, a heart that just might be big enough to love two omegas and the bundle of joy they want to create. The omegas are his haven.... Marcos has spent three years in purgatory at his brother’s bedside. He can’t move on when Pedro is in a coma.

Omega Ben Michaud gave up his life of privilege when his fiancé died. As a surgeon with the non-governmental organization Borderless, he travels between war zones patching up bodies torn apart by human cruelty. When he’s taken hostage, he figures it’s just one of the risks he accepted when he took the job. Alpha Navy SEAL Dave Hopper isn’t impressed by guys who get taken hostage without a fight, nor by doctors who’ve had everything in life handed to them on a platter – no matter how beautiful. He definitely has no time for so-called “Hollywood royalty”.

He shouldn’t want his best friend’s fiancé...After waking up from a four year long coma, so much has changed around Pedro. His best friend sacrificed his life to save their unit. And Pedro can’t understand how Jason’s omega fiancé, Charlie, seems to be over the loss. To make things complicated, the more time Pedro spends around Charlie, the more he sees what Jason loved about him. But would it be a betrayal of his best friend to claim Charlie for himself? Pedro and Charlie might be at different places in their grieving, but they both have wounds that no one else can see.

Eliot Ashton is young and starry eyed, and meeting Alton is like meeting a hero from one of the novels that he reads. But when Alton makes it clear that he’s not yet healed from the memory of his first husband, and that he wants to keep their interactions strictly business, Eliot determines to brush down the hurt and soldier on. If only he could reason with his heart.

Omega Riley Landon doesn’t go to work at the Ballroom expecting to give up his innocence, but when he meets Max, the passion between them burns bright right from the start. Unfortunately, it’s a one-night affair. But when Riley discovers he is pregnant, their one-night stand blossoms into the possibility of forever. Welcome to Heaven’s Ballroom, the most luxurious club in the city - with the hottest omega dancers.

Omega Anders Carlton enjoys his job at Heaven’s Ballroom - the dancing, the admiration, the over the top personality that he exudes. What he doesn’t love are the creepy notes and gifts he’s been finding - an ever present reminder that someone is stalking him. Allowing Blake to protect him should take a weight off of his shoulders...but while Blake protects Anders' body, who is going to protect his heart?

Duncan Rourke is a regular at Heaven’s Ballroom - but no one’s ever caught his eye for longer than a dance or two. Until one boastful, smart mouthed dancer brings him to attention. Duncan is intrigued by Kieran, but when Kieran turns him down flat, the sparks between them need another outlet - a love bet.

Francis Barclay is the omega son of a wealthy family, just wed to Prince Merritt Augustus, heir to the throne. But Francis is not content with a business arrangement and the chance of friendship and nothing more. To his shock he finds that his alpha feels the same. His new husband sets about wooing him in the quiet retreat of the country estate where they have traveled for their honeymoon, and Francis is surprised by how quickly the tenuous bond of an arranged marriage becomes something more.

Patrick's life was going well. He had his life in order at last, got himself off of the drugs that totally controlled him, and found a decent job and was paying back his dues. All of this comes crashing down when his abusive ex-lover stepbrother comes back into the picture, promising that he has changed and has nowhere to go. Patrick takes him in and eventually finds himself falling into the same abusive patterns all over again. Can he keep himself from destroying this new life he has forged for himself?