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Hunter Cade is my brother’s best friend. He’s also the most sinfully sexy guy in high school. Lean, muscular, and with a tussle of chocolate-brown hair. And for the rest of my senior year, he’s living in my house. But Hunter is totally off-limits. My brother insists I stay away from him. Yet that doesn’t stop Hunter from flirting with me every chance he gets. Sending private little smiles my way when nobody’s looking. But after our flirting finally results in the best kiss of my life? Hunter abruptly leaves town without a word.

In this multi-award-winning psychological drama about finding self in a dysfunctional family, Secrets In The Mirror grapples with the imperative to save others versus the struggle to save oneself. Gavin tries to salvage his self-esteem from Dad's bullying and from narcissistic abuse by his identical mirror twin, while Mom resists spousal abuse to assert sanity into the clan. But when Devon gets into drugs and trouble with the Mob, people die.

Twenty-two-year old Boone Daniels has problems, debilitating panic attack, gut-wrenching guilt, a wendigo haunting him since age six, and now he almost killed his best friend in a joust. But when he fills in for his injured friend at a New York gig, he goes to meet the gig’s contact at his NYC brownstone. A body falls from the brownstone balcony and the place explodes with gun fire. Boone barely escapes but uncovers a sinister plot to perform a rare Paganini piece that summons the Devil to trap Baba Yaga and destroy modern-day New York City.

That’s what I am. I can feel emotions, and so when I turn 18 and start to feel this strong pull, I grab my best friend, hop in the car, and follow it. It leads me deep into the forest to him. Gunner Harding. The alpha of the Red Ridge Pack and my mate. I had no idea that shifters even existed, but I can’t deny the strong connection that I feel to him. With pack members who are less than welcoming and an old threat that resurfaces, will Gunner and I be able to find our happily ever after?

Detective Malcolm Khalaji is at a loss. For the second time in his life, he wasn't there when his lover needed him. And with Seong-Jae Yoon on leave pending an internal investigation, Malcolm doesn't know what to do with a shattered partner and boyfriend who's retreated from him into a dark and broken place. This time he's determined to be there no matter what Seong-Jae needs, even if it means taking time off from the pressures of their job to hold Seong-Jae through every moment of trauma, of guilt, of self-recrimination.

Donovan Candle is boring. Consummate husband, supportive brother, hard-working employee - a paragon of the diminishing middle class. Like so many others, he has fallen into routine and compromised his dreams for the sake of a paycheck. After a bad day at the office leaves him low, all Donovan wants is to sleep off the disappointment and start over. Donovan Candle is terrified. His body is fading out of existence. He’s seeing strange visions of the world in monochrome and horrific creatures lurking in his periphery.

A terrible accident that wasn’t even his fault has left Wren the outcast of the Black River Pack. He’s grown lonelier and lonelier over the years, but when he heads to town for supplies, he finally finds her. His mate. One look at the elk running toward her, and Luna promptly faints. When she wakes up, she’s introduced to the world of shifters and fated mates. The more she learns about Wren, the more she starts to believe, and the harder she falls for the gentle giant. Will Luna pick her old life back in New York, or will she find her happily ever after with the outcast shifter?

Herman isn’t like other teens his age. He isn’t like the academic elite, the geeky students who get all the grades and are adored by their teachers. He isn’t like the extroverts, the socially adept and popular kids who never want for anything and always have a shoulder to cry on. And he isn’t like the bullies, the ones who taunt and beat him on a daily basis. Herman isn’t like any of his peers, or indeed anyone he knows. The person Herman identifies with the most, the person he idolizes and yearns to be, is The Butcher, a brutal and prolific serial killer.

At the end of the 1930s, Europe is engulfed in war. Though America is far from the fighting, the streets of New York have become a battlefield. Anti-Semitic and racist groups spread hate. Josef Klein, a German immigrant, remains immune to the troubles roiling his adopted city. Josef’s great passion is the radio. His skill and technical abilities attract the attention of influential men who offer him a job as a shortwave operator. But when Josef begins to understand what they’re doing, it’s too late....

When Drake and Emmet get dragged along on their companies annual hunting trip, they’re dreading it. They’ve never been ones to hurt animals, and hunting foxes seems like a cruel way to spend their free time. When they head back to their cabin, they’re shocked to find a little fox curled up on the bed, but they’re even more surprised when the fox transforms into the most beautiful woman that they’ve ever seen. They both want her, but they’ve always had a pact to never let a woman come between them, so they agree to not pursue her.

Finally taken from the depths of hell, all I want is freedom. Instead, fate demands I accept a new master. A relentless alien alpha with orange scales and eyes so hungry I feel his pain.

Fallon Wright has been in love with her brother’s best friend since she was a kid. Days away from her 18th birthday, all she can wonder is if her wish will come true. Will Krew be her fated mate? Krew Dawson has wanted Fallon Wright since the moment he laid eyes on her. Puppy love, most people called it, but he and his wolf have always known that it was more than that. She’s the only one who has been able to claim his heart.

The moment Jaspyr, High Dragon of the y Draig clan, met Avyla he knew she was fated to be his mate. He sensed the magic within her and recognized that she was destined to be his salvation. She would be both his eternal love and guardian of his humanity.

Veterinarian Reese Scott can't believe it when her dossier contains vouchers to South Africa to go cage diving with sharks. And when not being intimidated by sea creatures, she's supposed to be having hot monkey sex with a stranger. So why would her best friend Cole Rayburn be involved in her adventure? Except when Cole takes his shirt off, and she sees he's filled out in all the right places, she can't help but want a closer look . . . touch. Too bad he'll always see her as the tomboy from next door.

Burke Arbor just got discharged from the military after being wounded in battle. He’s been trying to heal and come to terms with the fact that he may never be able to shift again. He’s also been hiding from the world, and even from his three best friends, in his cabin in the woods. When he finds out that Cliff went through with the Love Bites Dating Agency, an arranged marriage agency specifically for shifters searching for their mate, and that Cliff found his fated mate, he thinks it will be the perfect distraction.

Cliff Ridge is fresh out of the military and looking to start the next chapter in his life. He’s already built the perfect cabin in the woods, right next to his three best friends. Now, he just needs to find his fated mate and start to fill all of those bedrooms with cubs. There’s just one problem. He’s been all over the world while he was in the military and has never once caught her scent. He’s growing desperate, and that’s when he hears about the Love Bites Dating Agency. One drunken night, he decides to sign up. I mean, what does he have to lose? Besides his heart.

When I was fifteen, I saw something that no one could explain. I saw a man change into a wolf. Everyone thought I was drunk or looking for attention but I knew what I saw. Now I'm going to prove it to the world.

When Piper finds herself in Brazil and sets eyes on the sexy billionaire her friends have in mind for her—she's all in. Hell yes, Best Friend of the Year Award goes to . . . Except, there's a glitch. Turns out she's there to babysit his kid. Who the hell put that in her dossier? The point is to escape her normal life. Yeah, no award now. But the dark and mysterious widower is so much more than she could ever imagined, and the chemistry between them is off-the-charts. And now he's using their two weeks to try to convince her to stay.

Rule Young just got out of the military after serving for over a decade. He was sick of all of the travel, but he’d admit that he does miss being in control, being a leader. He’s still been enjoying himself, living out in the woods with his three best friends, but now that everyone else has found their mates, his life feels like it's missing something. His friends suggest that he use the Love Bites Dating Agency. Then, during one drunken night with his friends, they dare him to sign up and he’s had just enough to drink to not think too much about the consequences.

Brilliant and uptight emergency room doctor Alyssa Davenport has absolutely no desire to travel to Antigua to go cockle fishing. What the hell is a cockle anyway? But it's time for her to fulfill a ridiculous New Year's Eve pact with her best friends. Heck, maybe she'll meet a hot fisherman who isn't intimidated by her and looks at her as a woman instead of a doctor. Lord knows her body is screaming for a little attention.