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Two years after the world fell apart, I'm entirely alone, a twenty-four-year-old woman scrounging for food and barely surviving. My only choice left is to hook up with a group of roaming scavengers. They're not good people, but it's safer with them than on my own. Deck immediately makes himself my silent protector. He never speaks, but he doesn't have to. He keeps me alive, and I try to communicate with him. We eventually learn to trust each other. The world after Impact is rawer and bleaker than what it used to be, and we've lost most of what made life worth living.

Years before, Wade Rycroft fell in love with Geneva Harris, the smartest girl in his class. The rodeo star and the shy academic made for an odd pair but their chemistry was undeniable. They made plans to get married after high school but when Genny left him standing in the rain, he joined the Army and vowed to leave that life behind. Genny married the town’s golden boy, and Wade knew that he couldn’t go home again. Fifteen years later, Wade returns to his Texas hometown for his brother’s wedding and walks into a storm of scandal.

The Don’s Hostage: He’s a notorious mafia boss and a bad boy. I hated this alpha male on sight, but I’m also drawn to him. Luca Galiano told me I had to pay for holding a gun on his men. Now, I’m his willing hostage. By his side, I’m protected. He wants to know who I am, but I can’t tell him. I’m hiding my true identity -on the run from a stalker. Luca’s eyes draw me in, and his kisses burn like fire. The truth stands between us, but our passion is raging. I can’t trust him with who I am. Now, there’s a pregnancy he knows nothing about. The Don’s Hit: I fell for an ...

Running from the past is always a risk. Letting three rough men protect me? That's a mistake that'll cost me my heart. Why? Because these men know what it's like to live by their own rules. They know how it feels to be free. A freak storm brought me to their door, half drowned and desperate to be cared for. And now, they won't let me out of their sight.

My one giant step for mankind...ends in a crash landing. Go figure. When my friends and I are sucked into another galaxy, I'm sure we're about to die. But when I wake up I'm all alone on a desert planet. Or so I think. Turns out there's a giant, hunky alien warrior right there with me. Doshax rescues me from the gruesome rodents and lizards hunting us and finds food for me to eat. He even builds me a shelter. I could get used to this! But I need to find my friends. And figure out how to get home. He needs to find his own squadron. Once he does, we'll go our separate ways. Just one problem: ...

A high-heat, billionaire reverse harem romance. Fake Relationship + Forced Proximity + Why Choose Romance + Triplets I snuck onto a restricted floor and took the best photographs of my career. Then someone left a death threat on my apartment door, and the only people who can keep me alive are the three billionaires I photographed that night. The Ashwood triplets didn’t ask if I wanted protection. They moved me into their penthouse and put a security detail on me. They don’t trust me. I don’t trust them. But somebody wants me dead, and their penthouse is the safest place in the city. ...

Christy has the guy. The terrorists have been taken care of, and she has a shot at becoming popular. Life is great! Until they find her. Now she must run and leave behind everything she knows, including herself. When Christy returns home, she discovers that not much has changed. Not only is she still an outcast, but the bullies are even more persistent than before. When the guy that sends her pulse racing shows up, everything changes.

I walked into a mountain bar looking for a paycheck. I was supposed to pour whiskey, flirt for tips, and keep my head down. But I was way too sassy. I found a six-foot-seven Alpha loner with gray-streaked hair and trouble inked into his skin, riding a Harley. He acted like my smile was a loaded gun. His eyes said mate. His mouth said leave. Barmaid work in the 1950s was easy until I opened my mouth and the whole town watched. Then the hunter noticed. The one who collected shifters like trophies and called it justice. Callum hauled me to safety. He lived quiet, stayed hidden, and alone on ...

Mouse: I have no memory or what or who I am, all I know is that everyone and everything is out to hurt me. Hands slap, teeth bite, and boots kick. So when I meet a big, bronzed warrior with blue eyes whose hands are gentle and voice is kind, I don't trust him. And when he starts showing up in my dreams, a part of me I long thought was dead awakens with a passion.

Angelo You know who I am You know what I can do I met an angel at a mask ball No words just fun But then when the angel showed up as a temp at my company The tattoo on her arm gave it all away My son Ethan hurt her Plus she has a baby in her! Whose baby? He will pay for hurting an angel And she will see what it means to be with a Real Wealthy Protective Man!

Hannah Welsh needs to quit her job. But with the holidays looming and a strong sense of loyalty, she's reluctant to leave the place she's called home for seven years. Until the day she's rescued by a giant mountain man while working... King Bishop has longed to make Hannah his for years. But with a considerable age difference between them, he's reluctant to ask for more from the curvy girl he comes to town to see. Until he discovers her bent over in pain and decides it's time to claim his woman.

He might convince her to move him out of the friend zone…but only if they can stay alive long enough… All Josiah Wynton has to do is pretend to be the undercover FBI agent’s boyfriend. Watching her back while she investigates a drug trafficking ring inside the rodeo circuit will be easy. Ignoring the fact that he’s been in love with her for years and she only thinks of him as a friend, however, will not… Rayna Quinn never gives up. She will get to the bottom of this case and keep her cover while she does it. Her best friend and bodyguard shouldn’t be a distraction. She should be...

Beau Carmouche-LeBlanc. Savage. Dangerous. Crime lord. Irresistible. He was her greatest danger and also her only safe place. Beau Carmouche-LeBlanc, a ruthless crime lord, rules New Orleans as if it were his kingdom. Fiercely loyal to the few he calls friends and merciless to his enemies, he controls his empire with an iron fist and nothing happens without his knowledge. Until the day a bold, sensual woman storms into his life, tempting him to defy his own rules, even when he knows she’s lying. Amber Martin is a survivor. Fierce and seductive, she’s had to become her own hero. And when...

Beth Sinclair has a secret, a secret she’s been hiding from for three years now. She’s happy hiding in the little town of Clearwater, and even happier when she meets a hot firefighter. However, will he stay around when he finds out what she’s been hiding? Nick Kinkirk can’t figure out why the mousy damsel in distress intrigues him so much. He doesn’t like mice. His type is a fiery redhead in need of taming. However, this mousy damsel finds her way over his knee just as often. What’s with that? And when danger escalates, can he make the sacrifices needed to keep her safe? This is...

I had one intoxicating night with a chiseled bad boy… then found out he’s my new off-limits bodyguard… Christian Benson: Charming. Ex-Navy SEAL. Billionaire. Playboy. A flirty bet at a bar leads to a night of uninhibited passion where he works me like I’m his most important mission. And I’m in ecstasy until I wake up to find he left in the middle of the night without even a note. The next day, I’m shocked to learn that he’s my new bodyguard, tasked with protecting me 24/7 from my ex, who’s been stalking me. Then, Christian goes from warm and charming to cold and distant. ...

Previously published as The Beast's Protection: A Dark Fated Mates Werewolf Shifter Romance by Yara Bell (AUTHOR). One raw scent. One bloody battlefield. A ruthless white wolf king who will burn his own empire to ash for his fated mate. Willow I am a trained commander of the valley guard, not a fragile glass doll. But when a midnight scouting mission goes lethal, I find myself cornered by dark shadow assassins. I expected to die in the freezing snow. I didn't expect him—Gideon Valerius, the legendary White Wolf King. The brutal foreign tyrant who was supposed to invade my home kingdom. He...

I got pregnant and rejected by the Lycan King. Now I'm dying and only he can save me. I was just a human working at a café- pouring lattes, hiding behind books, and pretending not to notice the hot, six-foot-five man who watched me every morning like I was already his. Until one night, the sexy monster broke into my apartment, growled that I was his fated mate… and then claimed me. Rough, feral, unforgettable. By morning, he was gone. And when I tracked him down, desperate for answers, he rejected me like I was nothing. Weeks later, I found out I was pregnant with his twins. I swore ...

When financial transfers lead to offshore accounts and a missing campaign aide, Detective Greg Dickson and investigative reporter Samantha Leary are called to trace the trail. As they navigate corporate ledgers, political influence, and a web of manipulations, the truth about who can be trusted — and who is being used — becomes painfully clear. Samantha observes the subtleties that others miss, uncovering the human cost of ambition, idealism, and the invisible hands that guide them. The stakes are high, the answers elusive, and one man’s disappearance will challenge everything they ...

She saved his life, now he thinks hers is his to protect. I saved a stranger in a dark alley—stabbed, bleeding, barely holding on. I didn’t think twice. I called 911, held pressure to the wound, and stayed until help arrived. I never expected to see him again. But then the little things started happening. My coffee paid for. My broken door mysteriously fixed. The dishes I didn’t do…done. I felt eyes on me. Always watching. Always near. Until one night, he stepped out of the shadows— And into my bedroom. He says he’s been protecting me. He says he owes me his life. And now... he ...

Lady Ainsley Matthews, heiress and darling of the ton, was expected to make a magnificent match. Instead, she's hiding on a remote Scottish estate, terrified her vicious former fiance will use her pregnancy to force her into marriage. One man can help her - Royal Kendrick, son of a distinguished Highland clan. Though a mistake drove them apart long ago, Royal is the only person Ainsley trusts to protect her baby - even if that means agreeing to never see either of them again....