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Sam Baker couldn’t be more normal. He’s a teacher at the local middle school and the most exciting part of his day is dealing with a classroom full of hormonal preteens. His life takes a turn for the weird one stormy night when he finds a small boy on his doorstep. A boy who growls, flashes unnaturally blue eyes, demands for Sam to call the alpha - whatever that is - and gives Sam the one name he wishes he could forget: Vaughn Jerrick.

Molly Wells is keeping a lot of secrets, such as why she's stolen her ex-husband's expensive stallion and driven him hundreds of miles to the ranch of horse whisperer Jake Coulter and why she's arrived with no job, no money, and an all-consuming fear. Molly may be willing to risk everything to save the stallion, but it's herself she really needs to save. By making a place for Molly on his ranch, Jake suspects that he may be harboring a thief. But there's something about this courageous, yet vulnerable, woman that tugs on his heartstrings.

It is enough to break any man: watching what could have been my future slip away before it was ever in my grasp. The possibility of losing someone I loved before she was even mine is something I never would have imagined. Certainly nothing I'd ever wish on anyone. I go to her every day and wait. Wait for the impossible, for a sign, for her to look at me...hoping that sinners are granted miracles, too.

America Mason, a sassy undergrad at Eastern State University, is in love with a Maddox-Shepley Maddox. Unlike his cousins, Shepley is more lover than fighter, but a road trip to her parents' home in Wichita, Kansas, could mean the next step or the end of everything.

A taxonomy of sweetness, a rhapsody of artificial flavors, and a multi-faceted theory of pleasure, Sweet Nothings is made up of one hundred illustrated micro essays organized by candy color, from the red of Pop Rocks to the purple Jelly Bonbon in the Whitman’s Sampler. Each entry is a meditation on taste and texture, a memory unlocked. Everyone’s favorites—and least favorites—are carefully considered, including Snickers and Trader Joe’s Peanut Butter Cups, as well as the beloved Good n’ Plenty and Werther’s Originals.

Tristan Love is back in his hometown. He’s left the New York food scene and an abusive relationship behind him, but he holds his love of French pastries close to his heart and is determined to put his skills to use in a bakery of his own. Before the bakery even opens its doors, Tristan’s delectable creations have the town’s mouths watering, and Jake, a cute mechanic, asks Tristan out. It all seems worthwhile...that is, until the bakery burns down, Jake’s criminal past comes to light, and Tristan’s nasty ex rears his head where he is decidedly not wanted.

Joanie Bigbee, cupcake baker extraordinaire, likes to keep her options open - and she's good at it. She's started and sold some 30 businesses in her postage stamp-sized Tennessee town, and at the moment she can be found in a short skirt and go-go boots, selling cupcakes out of the back of a converted Volkswagen van. What she moves on to next is anybody's guess. She knows better than to be tied down. In any way. She's watched every woman in her family fall head-over-heels, only to find herself wondering how to pick up the pieces when love is lost.

Flying too close to the sun, not seeing the forest for the trees, and standing knee-deep in a certain river in Egypt. That’s the cage that Aaron has wrapped around himself - the lock that Logan is about to break open. Once upon a time, Logan had a quick, wonderful one-night stand with a mysterious omega. He felt a real connection, something he’d never had with anyone else and hasn’t had again. When he invests in a dating app company, Almega, he never expects to find his unknown omega behind it all.

My fall from grace was one for the books. All it took was his word against mine for everything to topple. Liar. Slut. Snitch. Now, I wear my shame like a scarlet letter pinned to my chest. People say I ruined his life. Except he’s the one who irrevocably broke me - my heart, my body, my soul...my will to live.

Five years ago, we’d been together and on fire, but the flames burned us both. Now she’s back in my life and is all my wildest fantasies in the flesh. I want her. The desire is too powerful to argue against, but I’m not interested in what we had. This is an arrangement about pleasure and finding out who we are behind closed doors. There won’t be talk of love or any sweet nothings whispered by either of us.

Buffalo Ridge, Wyoming is a busy little town in 1889. Elsie Beaumont is settling in as a rancher's wife and loves her new life, especially now that her beloved papa is moving to town and opening a business with his friend, Blake. She has a few hiccups along the way as she struggles to get through her first winter out west, but Wyatt is there to teach, discipline and protect the woman he loves. To add to the excitement, love is in the air, as Wyatt and Elsie aren't the only people in Buffalo Ridge who've found a mutual attraction for each other. Maria, the woman Elsie has come to think of as...

My heart is split in five. The future I want feels impossible. I can’t hold back. Not anymore. Every step forward is followed by a hard shove ten feet back. I want things to work with the guys, all of them, but keeping the sun from setting seems easier and more likely to happen. Just when I think we’re making progress, the Society steps in and once again messes things up, giving the guys something else to fight over. They say the best things in life are free. I don’t believe that for a second. I just have to hope the price isn’t too high. Nothing Left to Hide is the sixth book in ...

Robyn is desperately searching for a pack, but the odds are stacked against her. Shifters don't accept humans, especially ones with a watchdog. Her fate takes a wild turn when she hitches a ride with a band of rogues who are vying for a spot in a newly formed pack. Just when she gets a taste of the good life, a menacing force threatens to rip it away.

Readers, please note that this is PART ONE of a THREE part sweet and clean mail order bride romance. After losing her mother at a young age, Emma is content to care for her ailing father, attend church, and work as a seamstress. Then one day, everything changes. Alone and penniless, she answers an ad for a mail order bride. She isn't sure what to expect when she travels from Chicago to Nebraska, but she knows it could be an answer to her prayers. Things change quickly when Emma discovers that her new husband isn't the man he seemed to be, and learns that sometimes, things do not always go ...

Realizing your life is pointless is not the motivational advice you might expect—but it could be the advice that sets you free. Sweet Nothing offers an unorthodox and radically liberating approach to creating real peace in your life.

Which is why he’s vowed never to risk it again. Instead, he’s channeled his passion and his legendary self-control into becoming a skilled protector - one who’s promised to wield his sword alongside a young wolf shifter leader on a mission from the mysterious Oracle to protect the human realm against the broken magic that threatens its very existence. He’s doing just fine without love, thank you very much...at least until his incubus ex reappears in his life.

Royalty...it was more than just a word to her. It was her life. But not for long. Marlie loved her family dearly, even when she didn’t like them very much, but their life wasn’t the life she wanted for herself. Maggie had always fulfilled her responsibilities, exactly as she was expected to...she knew no other way. Until now...until after reading a letter from her father suggesting she visit her niece, to learn how to do as she pleased every once in a while, including eating pizza at her slightest whim. The last thing Maggie expected when she showed up at her niece’s front door, was ...

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Five strangers soon find there is very little stronger than family ties. Everyone has a story... Stories of family, friendship, sisterhood, the magic of new beginnings and angst of struggling family relationships...mothers, daughters, brothers and sisters, sons and cousins...all finding their inner strength, facing life’s unexpected challenges, and sometimes starting over after tragedy and heartbreak, and every once in a while...finding the one true love of a lifetime. Amanda’s legacy was simple and unbelievably complicated...her sons were determined to make it happen exactly as she ...

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