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I am the type of woman who always plays it safe. In my professional life as a public relations "fixer", and in my personal life, especially when it comes to the opposite sex. Really, who needs the wild highs and the I-want-to-die-because-he-left-me lows of a relationship? At least, that's what I thought...until I met HIM. Damian No-Last-Name-Given is sexy as sin, and I'd developed some kind of weird, instant attraction to him the moment he settled his chiseled body next to mine on a flight from London to Los Angeles.

A lawyer’s fall from grace paved the way for an author’s rise to unimaginable success. In December of 2005, Scott Pratt was marched to a jail cell after being charged with suborning perjury. Within two years, he had written a legal thriller that was a finalist for the top mystery novel worldwide. Joe Dillard, Scott’s primary protagonist, served as a whiteboard for the author’s life, enabling him to reimagine and reinvent himself.

Jake Fox has built a small but loyal team of heroic misfits and made powerful rivals. When Emperor Cayn Vaguar XVIII forces him into a corner, he negotiates and gets caught in a double betrayal. Can he and the newly formed Order of the Star Blade survive the rise of a new emperor?

Will the reclusive, stubborn, bossy billionaire be my rescuer, or the biggest mistake of my life? My entire life has been a struggle for me. But I'm almost through the hard times. Until....disaster strikes, I'm about to be homeless, and I'll end up kissing all my dreams goodbye unless a miracle happens, and great things don't happen to a girl like me. Or so I thought...until a miracle shows up in the form of the mysterious billionaire, Simon Hudson. He makes me a bargain that's impossible to refuse

During a test flight for the world’s first warp engine, Major Noah Gantz is set to go down in the history books. Despite years of training, the mission goes sideways, and instead of a quick trip to the moon and back, Noah's ship is transported across the universe to stars unknown. Stranded in space and on the brink of death, Noah is rescued by a sentient starship and its captain. To save his life, the ship’s own biomatter must replace his failing cells. Now, Noah is different. Stronger, faster… and there’s a voice in his head.

Can Noah Gantz save the living starship that rescued him from the failed warp bubble experiment? Everything is on the line for Kayan's Crew. One thing is certain, they won't just fade away. All they must do is secure the secret weapon no one admits is real, learn to use it, and get to the party in time to save the day.

When Noah and his friends receive a distress call from a merchant fleet in Walen Prime, they respond with all haste. "Happy as a Walen" is a saying in the Gavant Reach and no one can imagine murder and mayhem in the most welcoming star system in the galaxy. It doesn't take long for Noah and his friends to realize that the people are kind, generous, and uplifting, but their neighbors are not. Even more challenging are the beautiful but harsh landscapes of Walen Prime.

Jake Fox and his ragtag band of heroes must come together, work to their strengths, and face overwhelming odds. Not even Foo Kin Great can predict the outcome of the greatest faceoff in Star Blade history. Will they usher in a new era of galactic greatness or watch society crumble into the stars?

When a new variant of Srack attacks in force, Jake leads the new Order of the Star Blade into battle. Even his Sotalorian allies show up to help. Then, right when everything is going his way, Corina's team disappears through an anomaly that shouldn't exist. Can Jake hold together an alliance of his most dangerous rivals long enough to save the day?

The Starship Atlantis takes you on an unforgettable journey through the extraordinary. From alien civilizations and rogue AI to desperate missions on the brink of collapse, these stories will transport you across the stars into the heart of the unknown. This anthology features six never-before-published novellas and short stories, plus two exclusive bonus tales.

Kilian Drake, the most renowned swordsman of a generation, has searched the galaxy for fragments of a lost star blade. Now, on a remote world called Earth, he may have found answers.

Former rock star Xander Sinclair may be out of rehab, but he's not out of the woods. Still haunted by his parents' murders, he has secluded himself in his Amesport mansion and dodges any attempted contact from his two brothers. Struggling not to fall into relapse, he believes he's battling his demons alone. That is, until Samantha arrives to work as his live-in housekeeper. Effortlessly charming and cheerful and wickedly sexy, she challenges Xander to abandon his isolation.

Lewis Carroll created a curious and fantastical world in his classic book Alice in Wonderland, but he secretly recorded the true story of his actual travels to Wonderland in four journals which have been lost to the world...until now. Celia and Tyrus discover the legendary Lost Diaries of Wonderland and fall into a portal that pulls them into the same fantasy world as the White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter. However, Wonderland has vastly changed.

Seventeen-year-old Caleb Ross is adrift in the wake of the sudden disappearance of his mother more than a year ago, and is struggling to find his way out of the small Texas border town of Murfee. Chris Cherry is a newly minted sheriff's deputy, a high school football hero who has reluctantly returned to his hometown.

A-list movie star and billionaire Julian Sinclair learned from past tragedy that life doesn't come with multiple takes. Now that he's figured out what he wants - in the lush form of redheaded Kristin Moore - he's got one chance to claim it. Between working as a medical assistant and filling in at her parents' bar, Kristin has no time for pleasure. So Julian is bringing her to his brother's Vegas wedding, where their mutual attraction can finally get a starring role.

With renovations underway at their historic mansion, Dane Staley and his lovers, succubus Maeve, dryad Cassie, and otter-kin Talise, are establishing roots and building something unprecedented: a true supernatural pride with its own structure, and sacred space. For the first time, their unconventional family feels stable, despite the chaos of construction and their upcoming wedding plans.

The vicious Mexican cartel war boils over into the Big Bend in the explosive new novel from the author of The Far Empty and High White Sun. In the Mexican borderlands, a busload of student protesters is gunned down in broad daylight, a violent act blamed on the Nemesio cartel. But its aging...

After a troubling childhood, wealthy Evan Sinclair likes his life orderly and controlled. He rarely gives in to spontaneous urges - until he begins a chance correspondence with a mystery woman who sounds like his complete opposite. She intrigues and amuses him, and the interest seems mutual...which is more than he can say for his current obsession, Miranda Tyler, the tough-as-nails, sexy schoolteacher who's made it clear she's not impressed - or interested.

When a ruthless crime syndicate takes over a declining neighborhood on Razik-doom, Lieutenant Benjamin “Breaker” Wrath is sent to lead a multi-jurisdictional task force. The Razik Police Department does things just a tiny bit differently, and so do the local criminals. Some things never change, however. Extortion, kidnapping, and murder are the intergalactic languages of lawless bullies, and Breaker knows exactly how far he’ll go to protect the innocent.

I thought I had my life all worked out. My wedding had been meticulously planned. All I had to do was walk down the aisle and get married to the man I'd been engaged to for over a year. Pretty easy and uncomplicated, right? Unfortunately, all of my well laid plans go up in smoke when my fiancé leaves me at the church alone because he found a woman who was better suited for his snobby world of wealth and privilege. After realizing what kind of man my intended groom really was, it was hard not to be more relieved that I'd dodged a bullet than I was heartbroken.