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Julie Atwood is struggling with the day-to-day challenges of being a single mom. She is recently divorced, financially stressed, and still reeling from a violent attack in her past. She is determined to make it on her own, however. She learns self-defense skills and enrolls in a women’s-only firearms class. The urgency of her efforts takes on new importance as society begins unraveling around her. Conservatives and liberals are at war. Then the president cuts funding to so-called Sanctuary States, including her home state of Oregon. Julie loses her job. Everyone who lives off the government gets desperate. Riots. Crime. Fire.

Princess Jayda of the Arathians has fought hard to become a respected member of the Arathian Defense, which is charged with protecting the Arathian home world against the dangers of the universe. Her pioneering work has led to the development of a revolutionary new spacecraft that travels like no other.

Helena Pierce was used to death. Her life began as a tragically orphaned baby, raised by the small town cemetery caretaker. She grew up knowing that loss was just a part of life. After a chance meeting with the dark and mysterious Raphael one day while out digging a grave, Hel realizes maybe life has some good things to offer after all - until one awful evening changes everything, and Hel wakes up to the bright light of death. 

Even if you can't meet the expectations of others on a daily basis, don't excel at anything, or don't look like a Victoria's Secret model, everyone should be treated with respect, understanding, love, and acceptance - including you.

Helena Pierce is recovering from the shock of her life...er, death. While she’s trying to cope with her world getting turned on end once again, her best friend, Grace, comes to her with disturbing news: Boude, Grace’s boyfriend, is missing. Hel is reluctant to get herself involved in vampire affairs but can’t stand to sit idly by while her friend is missing - especially when she suspects the sinister Rasputin might be behind it. 

Karincin's life has been dominated by familial expectations, duty, and celibacy. He attended all of the correct schools, won the worthy awards, and leads a cutting edge team at the Department of Space. His life is going exactly as planned, until he's assigned a mate. Aevum is nothing like he expected. She's free-spirited, passionate, and doesn't adhere to Karincin's pre-arranged life. She challenges everything he's been taught to believe, and awakens suppressed desires he didn't know he had.

Without the ability to reproduce on their own, the Arathians have been facing extinction. A decade later, they’d had their first sign of hope: Earthers could mate with them and bear Arathian-mixed babies. Ambassador Rexvan fights for his people in his own way: at negotiation tables. Now onboard the Adastra with Kor, Ty, and Lacy, Rex must convince the Grays to allow them to take Earthers to their homeworld so that they can find mates, and hopefully, create the next generation of Arathians.

How deep do the levels of the underworld go? When Helena was alive she had often wondered if she'd be the one to dig her own grave. Now she's on her way to hell to save someone she loves and praying she'll be able to dig her way back out. 

How could Sadie have lived so long in this town without knowing it was harboring a very old secret? The dark side of the woods was a place she walked by nearly every single day and it seemed perfectly normal. But one day, she realized that nothing that walked in there walked back out. Curses and wolves are somehow entangled in Sadie's new romance, and a gruesome transformation threatens to change everything she has ever known. She's the only one who can save her town, her love, and herself. It has to end where it started, in the center of the forest.

As magic, scale powers, and dueling clans threaten their fairy tale beginning, turning it into something resembling a nightmare, Hatch and Blue’s hope mate bond is put to the test when the leaders of Dragonkind join forces to impose their authority over the rare half-breed, Vivian. Vivian must learn to embrace her dragon side or die trying, but staying away from the only family she’s ever known as a trade off for a guard sent for her protection who seems more intent on harming her isn’t an option. Hatch is losing control of everything, as his biggest fear turns into reality.

Free-spirited musician Letty Dillinger adheres to a strict “no strings attached” policy when it comes to men. After a wild night of unabashed sex in a fancy hotel room, she never expects to see the adventurous stud she dubs “Shades” again. When her all-girl rock trio books a tour at the last minute as the opening act for their archenemies, Letty’s shocked to discover she knows the competition’s new lead singer. Intimately.  

The dieting industry makes it seem like losing weight is some sort of rocket science. And so it's understandable that when someone seems to stay slender, it must obviously be because they're just naturally that way. By accident, even. We assume some special innate characteristics mean they get to run circles around the laws of physics, eat junk food, and end up with flat abs. The truth, though? Nobody is naturally thin.

Lacy's life is crashing down around her. Kidnapped from Earth, she finds herself standing on an auction block on a distant planet, facing down the scum of the universe. Kor and Ty are a mated Arathian pair who’ve come to Vox seeking otherworlders in the hopes of saving their people. They didn’t expect to find a rare Earther female up for auction, nor did they anticipate the overwhelming instinct they’d feel to protect her at all costs. As the trio attempts to save the Arathians from extinction, they discover it’s actually Earth facing imminent danger....  

In The Aftermath, Julie Atwood is settling into a new normal in remote Smoky Flats, along with her son and father. While the US continues spiraling into violence and instability, Julie and her family hone their survival skills as they prepare to endure their first harsh winter in Colorado's Rocky Mountains. Meanwhile, back in Oregon, life for Julie's ex-husband, Steve, and his new infant worsens. He is forced to live in horrendous conditions while working to further a radical liberal agenda.

Heralded as the saviors of the Arathian species for their ability to procreate with the infertile Arathians, Earthers are honored citizens on Arath. Conall MacLeod's future is forever changed when he meets an Arathian male and female who make him wish for a second chance at love. But nothing is ever easy… Conall’s self-identity is entrenched in the idea that he’s a monogamous - and heterosexual - man, yet he finds himself unexpectedly lusting after two people, one of them, shockingly, male. 

Ashlyn MacLeod's life is all she ever wanted. She lives in London, attends a world-renowned university, and is one step away from getting her PhD in archaeology. Everything is going exactly as planned, until a humiliating rejection forces her home to the Scottish Highlands. Struggling with the loss of such a huge opportunity, she begins an excavation on her family's rural property, in an effort to finish her dissertation and save her career. As she digs into the wet dirt, she unearths much more than she bargained for.