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Caleb is a man with a singular interest in revenge. Kidnapped as a young boy and sold into slavery by a power-hungry mobster, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. For 12 years he has immersed himself in the world of pleasure slaves searching for the one man he holds ultimately responsible. Finally, the architect of his suffering has emerged with a new identity, but not a new nature.

Only my fated mate's touch can satisfy my raging hunger...and, as Alpha King, I will claim her at any cost. As Clarion's formidable ruler who shifts effortlessly into a wolf, bear, or lion, I pursue my treasonous twin and find the gorgeous human he attacked. Though forbidden, I'm compelled to take Crystal to my kingdom for healing. When she awakens demanding to leave, I refuse. I must unravel why she was targeted and why I burn for her so fiercely. Every heated exchange makes me want her more, and the need to protect her consumes me. Under the chaos of the Blood Moon, our bodies ignite into...

Richard de Claiborne, the dark earl of Dunsmore, serves King Edward Plantagenet well. Sworn to obey his king's every order, he nevertheless chafes at the command he wed the daughter of his enemy - a man who slew his father in cold blood. But King Edward wants peace in his lands, and he will stop at nothing to get it. If he has to order his most powerful Marcher lord to marry a Welsh princess, he considers it a small price to pay. Princess Gwenllian is a political pawn. When she's forced to marry the evil Black Hawk de Claiborne, she quakes at his fierceness and brutality.

I unraveled Miriam's world with a single eviction notice. She never saw it coming. Desperate and out of options, she found my carefully crafted snare, an ad for room and board in exchange for help with my college thesis. To her, the opportunity was heaven-sent. To me, it was just another ritual for my coven, The 12 Knights of Adika. She was one of many blind, Christian lambs I'd drawn into a world never to be escaped. But as I engaged in my facade of philosophical debates, her unwavering faith clashed with my cold atheism, sparking a dangerous fascination. Her remarkable defiance and ...

Thea Landry has always known her place in modern-day society. It's somewhere just above the trash can her mother dumped her in as a newborn, but below the class where much comes easy. With her tattered shoes and bargain-bin clothes, her life has never been full of glamour. So when a rich and charismatic man takes interest, she doesn't fool herself into thinking their encounter is anything more than a one-night stand. Months later, she's kicking herself for not getting his phone number. Or his last name. She's given up hope of seeing him ever again.

Rafael De La Cruz has spent centuries hunting vampires with his brothers. With each passing year, his capacity to feel emotions has grown weaker and weaker, until finally there's barely a memory of one left - only sheer willpower keeps him from turning into the very abomination he hunts. But it'll take more than will to keep him away from the woman who is meant to be his and his alone.

Brothers Gavin, Slade, and Dex fall hard for Gavin's new secretary, beautiful Hannah Craig. The oil executives know they must give her time to get to know them before she can choose one...who will seduce the virgin and keep her for his own. But when a dangerous predator begins stalking the small-town beauty, they work together to protect her, abducting Hannah and spiriting her to an isolated hideaway. Once alone with her, none of them can contain their burning desire.

Father of cyberpunk William Gibson’s original script for Alien III, written in 1987 as a sequel to Aliens, never made it to our screens, although it went on to achieve cult status among fans as the third instalment that might have been after being leaked online. This terrifying, cinematic multicast dramatisation - directed by the multi-award-winning Dirk Maggs - is the chance to experience William Gibson’s untold story and its terrifying, claustrophobic and dark encounters between humans and aliens, as a completely immersive audio experience.

It’s the oldest trick in the book: a random guy in the mall offers a naive eighteen-year-old girl a job as a model. I should have known better, but I fell for it, and now my life is one of captivity. I’m a slave to my master’s every whim. I hate him for the way he possesses me—especially when he’s determined to make me like it. He might own my body, but he’ll never have my heart. I have to escape him, but when he threatens the only thing I’ve ever cared about, how can I? This is a dark romance. The H is an antihero at best. If possessive, over-the-top villains who will do ...

Rescued from sexual slavery by a mysterious Pakistani officer, Caleb carries the weight of a debt that must be paid in blood. The road has been long and fraught with uncertainty, but for Caleb and Livvie, it's all coming to an end. Can he surrender the woman he loves for the sake of vengeance? Or will he make the ultimate sacrifice?

I was hired to apprehend a monster - a dom who'd been sentenced to life for killing his submissive. I've seen what he's capable of, and the images will haunt me forever. I swore I'd stop at nothing to put him behind bars. But then our plane back to the States crashes. We are the only two survivors. And the monster will make me wish I'd died along with the rest of them....

Reuben has been cast into a sinkhole for the terrible things he did. Which would be bad enough, but he's also Immortal and the ones who put him there have no intention of letting him out. Ever. They may not even try to take care of him while he's down there. And why should they? He wouldn't. He would toss them and leave... except to maybe return for a bit of torture. Oh, yes. That's why they imprisoned him. Those naughty, yet delightful, things that he loves to do. The one positive: they've given him time to plan. And plan he has. Big plans. Wonderful and terrible plans. And he will get out...

My brother is the leader of the Two-Headed Dragon, a vicious new mafia clan in the city of Chicago. He is out for vengeance against the leader of our crime syndicate: Jaxon Pace. The man who also happens to be the father of my child. I used to want vengeance too. Why? Well, because I got sick of Jaxon’s whoring and did what any resourceful and royally pissed off woman would do: faked my own death

It started innocently enough. Beautiful Harper gave Sean those eyes...those eyes that meant, yes, take me. But Harper didn’t know Sean’s secrets.... She didn’t know that he liked it rough. More than rough. He liked to dominate. To punish. To degrade. It was the only way that the black hole in his soul wouldn’t swallow him up.

Nothing could stop River from safeguarding the woman he loved, especially after witnessing her being shot right before his eyes by the very man he despised more than he despised himself. But confining Harper in a gilded cage, trapping her with his overprotective instincts, wasn’t the solution. Nor was pushing her away under the crushing weight of his guilt. As he felt Harper slipping through his fingers, what was meant to be a joyful, carefree day with her friends turned into the gravest mistake he had ever made. Learning that the Cosa Nostra was behind her kidnapping could cost him to ...

She thought captivity would break her. He never expected she’d be the one to break him. When a brutal mafia war threatens her life, Eden Foster is forced under the protection of Dorian Kane—a man whose name is whispered with fear and respect across the city. In Dorian’s penthouse fortress, walls are meant to keep her safe… and just as surely, to keep her his. But the harder Eden fights for her freedom, the closer Dorian pulls her into his world—and into his arms. In the dangerous game between them, passion flares hotter than betrayal, and loyalty becomes a battleground where ...

The Wolf in the Window is a rejected mates, shifter romance, dark fantasy novel. Wren was kidnapped at a young age and has been residing with her captor for nearly ten years. She has failed countless attempts to escape and has suffered the consequences for it. Just when Wren decides to accept her fate and become complacent, the reality of her world is changed forever when a strikingly handsome man rescues her. Except he's not a man at all. He's a wolf. As Wren falls deeper for this brooding savior, she begins to realize that he may have ulterior motives. She may have very well traded one ...

I was bored. Attending the same parties, seeing the same faces and even more familiar bodies dolled up in the latest fashions straight from the runway. But one night in Capri changed everything.

The Sick Boys feed on the order they create. They rule Eastpoint University just as their families have for decades. But their power doesn't stop there. The three of them are heirs to some of the largest fortunes in the world, and behind that kind of wealth lies an underworld of corruption. On the surface, they're perfect princes and he is their king. But underneath it all, they're filled with blood, lies, and secrets. With all of their connections, they have the power to crush anyone who gets in their way.

Monique might just be a small town girl, but she knows what she wants. She wants a nice little life with a nice black man from her town. At least, that is what she thinks she wants until sexy white man Damon and his gang of White Knights ride into town and turn her world on its head. Can Monique fall for the man who is everything she never wanted? Or was her momma right that white men bring nothing but trouble?