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Helena Ward has spent two decades turning Steep & Soothe into sanctuary: a tea shop where aching bones find ease, a building threaded with water wards, and a life carefully braided with rules. When her teenage son Finn begins sparking flames despite years of dampening blends, Helena’s quiet control unravels. Worse, Cal Blackwood—the brilliant, volatile man who vanished the night she learned she was pregnant—returns with classified ties and a warning: someone is attacking Maple Hollow’s leyline junctions, and the pattern points straight to a ritual that would siphon the town’s ...

One decoded ledger. One subterranean empire. One lethal monster who will burn the city to the ground to keep her safe. Tamsin Cole lives her life by a strict, unyielding set of rules. As a university archivist, she hides in the climate-controlled dark, convinced that pristine logic and rigid order are the only things preventing her from inheriting her father's legendary madness. But when she uncovers a centuries-old cipher detailing a corrupt elite's underground fighting rings, her carefully constructed world shatters. Suddenly, she's standing in the crosshairs of the Sovereign Court, ...

He was built to conquer galaxies, but one look at her brought the warlord to his knees. Chief Engineer Elara Vance is used to fixing things, but there is no patching the betrayal of her own crew. Left behind on a collapsing orbital station to manually manage the dying reactor, her fate is sealed. She expects to go down fighting the irradiated heat and vacuum of space. She didn’t expect her sanctuary to be breached by a seven-foot-tall, obsidian-scaled alien warlord whose very presence rewrites the laws of physics. She anticipates a swift death, not a fierce, terrifying protector in this ...

5 unforgettable love stories. 1 scintillating collection. Fall in love across time, realms, and small towns with Lady Heartswell’s ultimate romance anthology. Prepare to be swept away by this steamy, open-door collection where fierce independence meets irresistible desire. Whether you are craving the forbidden whispers of a Victorian estate, the ancient magic of a possessive dragon's lair, or the buzzing chemistry of rival small-town baristas, the Sweet Spice Romance Collection delivers intense passion and deeply satisfying happily-ever-afters. Bound by themes of forced proximity, grumpy-...

They are the kings of the ice. The NHL’s most violent, exclusive couple. And they just decided I’m the only thing holding them together. Mina I’m a biology student. I deal in logic, data, and cellular structures. My world is quiet, safe, and small. Then I walked into a storm drain to save a kitten, and I looked up into the eyes of gods. Mercer and Rook. The Captain and the Enforcer. They are two hundred and forty pounds of scarred muscle and bad intentions. They are famous for two things: winning at any cost, and being exclusively, obsessively devoted to each other. They should have ...

He is the warlord I sworn to kill. I am the catastrophe he swore to protect. Vea I am a gutter rat. A no-name assassin from the slums with a rusted dagger and a death wish. My mission was simple: Infiltrate the Storm Citadel. Find General Valdus, the ruthless "Butcher of the Skies." End him. But I made a mistake. I missed. And when my blood mixed with his, I didn't just fail my mission—I triggered an ancient, unbreakable magic. Now, I am legally and biologically tethered to the most terrifying man in the Empire. If he dies, I die. If he hurts, I bleed. I’m trapped in his fortress, ...

She was a century-old immortal enforcer who felt nothing. He was a ruthless cartel king who controlled everything. Their collision was bound to be fatal. Seraphina Thorne has survived a century by adhering to two rules: trust absolutely no one, and never break the Blood Oath of Purity. As an elite Enforcer for the Vampire Council, she is cold, lethal, and undeniably efficient. But when a rogue faction of bloodsuckers infringes on the territory of the city's most dangerous mortal, Sera's routine cleanup mission erupts into a violent turf war. Alejandro Vargas, known on the streets as El ...

I inherited a ruined bakery, an empty bank account, and a massive, grumpy contractor who refuses to let me fail. Ten years. That is how long I have fought every battle completely alone. When I sink my life savings into an inherited mountain-town bakery, it is supposed to be my fresh start. Instead, the contractor I hired robs me blind, leaving me with frozen pipes, a caving roof, and a grand opening looming in exactly four weeks. I am drowning under the debris, and I have absolutely no one to help me. Then Grady walks through my shattered front door. He is a mountain of a man in faded denim...

He is the criminal I’m sworn to hunt. I am the agent he’s sworn to break. Merritt They call me "The Shield." I follow the rules. I uphold the law. I bury my emotions deep, right next to the memory of my dead partner. But when a lead takes to me a cartel safehouse in Tijuana, I find something worse than drugs. And I find him. Dario Ferri. The Capo of the West Coast. A ghost my agency has been chasing for three years. He’s lethal, arrogant, and terrifyingly handsome. He should be my enemy. He should be in handcuffs. Instead, he offers me a deal: His firepower. My badge. One night to ...

The Concordance of Ink and Stars On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Ember Nightshade's quiet life in the coastal town of Ravenmere shatters when she's literally pulled into her grandmother's handwritten fairy tale, leaving nothing behind but shimmering ink droplets. Suddenly thrust into a world where dragons soar over crystalline seas and magic pulses through her veins, Ember discovers she's descended from an ancient lineage of Librokin fae—storytellers with the rare gift of traveling between literary worlds. But she's not alone in this discovery. Theo Morgan arrives in Ravenmere ...

To the rest of the world, he is an ancient nightmare. To me, he is absolute salvation. As a classical cellist, I prefer the isolation of my music to the cruelty of the world. I thought I was alone in the grand, empty theater. I never suspected a lethal, marble-pale vampire lord was watching my every move from the shadows. Severin is a monster of legend. He slaughters any man who dares to look at me, feeding on rival males to fuel his terrifying dominance and spare me from his hunger. When supernatural assassins storm the opera house to claim my life, my terrifying admirer finally steps into...

Brushes with Royalty Luna Blackwood thought the worst thing about fleeing to Paris after her life imploded was the overpriced coffee. She never expected to fall for a mysterious stranger who spent his nights debating art in hidden cafés and his days pretending to be just another struggling creative. But Rashid Al-Nazari isn't just another artist with paint under his fingernails and poetry in his soul. He's the Crown Prince of Qadir, and Luna only discovers his true identity when she finds diplomatic passports scattered across his apartment floor. Heartbroken and humiliated, Luna returns to...

He’s the NHL’s most violent player. I’m the PR crisis manager hired to put him on a leash. Hallie I fix broken things. Reputations, stock prices, public images—if it’s a disaster, I’m the one you call. So when the Boston Bruisers hire me to rehabilitate the image of their star defenseman, I think it’s just another job. Then I meet Bishop Graves. They call him "The Butcher." He’s six-foot-four of scarred muscle and bad attitude, a man who communicates in grunts and body checks. He’s reckless, unmanageable, and actively trying to self-destruct. I should fire him. I should ...

Aella died a virgin. Now she’s reborn as a max-level succubus, and virginity is the least of her problems. From a perpetually overlooked Seattle college student to a caged creature of Tartarus, Aella's reincarnation is a brutal awakening. Her new body, a powerful succubus avatar, demands a price – vital essence from her summoner. She’s ripped from her prison straight into the mortal realm, bound by dark magic to a man who might be her salvation… or her damnation. This is a dark romantasy where a reincarnated heroine discovers her true power and a hunger she never knew existed. Enter...

ELLIS: When the summit rooms go dark and treaties die like blown candles, the first thought is always the same: not again. The Proxima ghosts are not only mine; they echo through the hallways of every delegation. The station hums with secrets, and I have a briefcase full of them—old mistakes I never wanted to relive. LIRA: And when the machines themselves start to twist the facts, clinical training offers no comfort. I patch people back together and learn too late that the wounds run deeper than anatomy. We found Stella because of a mistake. We kept her because she showed us how to trust ...

Their quantum bond was supposed to be beautiful. Instead, it's killing them. Sage and Kieran's consciousness-merging Tether transcends anything science predicted—emotions cascading between minds, memories intertwining like ancient roots, dreams bleeding across the boundaries of separate selves. But when their sublime connection begins triggering violent seizures that leave Sage collapsed and Kieran drowning in phantom pain, their love story becomes a desperate fight for survival. They aren't alone. Hidden beneath the city exists the Tethered Underground, a sanctuary for others sharing ...

Some bonds transcend death. Some transcend time itself. In their mist-shrouded coastal sanctuary, Sage and Kieran have finally perfected their soul bond—until an ancient force tears them apart. When Sage collapses during meditation, her consciousness is violently pulled across centuries, immersing her in the lives of other Tethered pairs throughout history. These aren't visions. They're temporal displacements forming a pattern that transcends time itself. Her sister Luna's journals reveal a devastating secret: Luna had begun experiencing a Tethered bond before her mysterious death, ...

She danced for perfection. Now she's running for her life. Isabella Cross is prima ballerina royalty—until one morning stretch in Central Park destroys everything. When doctored security footage implicates her as a witness to international terrorism, she's black-bagged by a shadow government agency and dragged to an isolated Adirondacks facility with no trial, no lawyer, and no way out. Her only ally? Agent Gabriel Storm, the dangerously compelling operative assigned to interrogate her. Behind his military precision and stone-cold exterior, Gabriel communicates warnings through patterns ...

When quantum physics collides with the human heart, two rivals discover a connection that transcends the laws of science. Sage Winters came to Obsidian Peak Observatory to prove herself—not to share cramped quarters with Kieran Blake, the infuriating academic rival who's challenged her at every turn. But when she wakes screaming from a nightmare and hears him whisper the exact words her deceased twin sister Luna once used to comfort her, everything changes. As they collaborate on mapping unexplained gravitational anomalies during the prestigious Celestial Symposium, impossible things ...

I never believed in the family stories until the snow on my windshield spelled my name. I am Mara Bellamy: scientist, divorcée, and now, unexpectedly, a Winter Warden. I came back to Midwinter Cottage for the will and stayed because the house would not let me leave. It hummed with my grandmother’s presence and a sum of old magic that had kept our valley alive for centuries. Elias Sterling watches history the same way I once watched lab results—slowly, obsessively, and with an eye for the pattern no one else saw. When his steady maps meet my ice-lined instincts, the town’s ancient ...