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When visiting scholar Evan Austen arrives at Oxford to study ancient manuscripts, he's drawn by more than academic curiosity—something in the city calls to him like a half-remembered dream. Dr. Arthur Byrne has walked Oxford's shadowed corridors for four centuries, hiding his vampiric nature behind a succession of false identities. But when he catches Evan's scent in the Bodleian Library, he recognizes the impossible: the soul of his lost love Alexandro, who died in Venice in 1623 during a failed immortality ritual. As Evan experiences vivid dreams of Renaissance Venice and discovers he ...

Adrian Cross is the Phantom – an elite hacker who destroys the corrupt with surgical precision, exposing their crimes with meticulous paper trails. Dante Moreau is something darker, more visceral – a street-level vigilante who isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty in the name of justice. When their paths collide, sparks of animosity immediately fly, but are they destined to be something more than rivals? Vigilante Heat is a 16,000 word M/M dark romance thriller with explicit scenes and a happy ending.

Jason Kane has spent fourteen years surviving in Viktor Volkov's criminal empire, using his brilliant analytical mind to manage the financial operations of one of the most dangerous organizations on the West Coast. He's learned to trust no one, feel nothing, and keep his head down—because in a world where vampires rule through fear and violence, invisibility means survival. Everything changes when Viktor dies and his nephew Dominic inherits the organization. The new boss wants to do the impossible: transition away from human trafficking and build something legitimate. Most shocking of all...

Tim Chen built his life on silence and safety. Ten years after escaping a trafficking ring, he's carved out a quiet existence fixing cars in Portland, keeping his past buried and his heart carefully guarded. The last thing he wants is for someone to drag him back into the nightmare he survived. Laurent Blackwood has spent eleven years searching for his missing sister. Wealthy, driven, and consumed by guilt, he's followed every lead, hired every investigator, and refused to give up hope. When his research finally leads him to Tim—the only person who might have answers about Emma's ...

Marco Valentini has a secret that could destroy him. As the heir to a powerful crime family, he's spent a decade hiding his omega nature behind suppressants and sheer willpower. When his father is assassinated, Marco must claim his birthright as Don—while his ambitious uncle circles like a predator and his family's enemies close in. The only person who knows the truth? Dominic Russo, his father's loyal consigliere. The alpha Marco has wanted for years. The man who just took a bullet meant for his heart. Now Marco must navigate conspiracy and succession while his suppressants fail at the ...

Saito Takumi has spent eighteen months drowning under an impossible debt inherited from his father's suicide—working three jobs, hiding the truth from his teenage sister Mei, and slowly dying from exhaustion. When a confrontation with yakuza collectors catches the attention of Matsuda Ryuichi, the powerful oyabun of the Yamamoto-kai clan, Takumi's life takes an unexpected turn. Matsuda offers him a deal: become his personal financial advisor, live in the yakuza compound, and the debt payments pause. What seems like salvation becomes complicated when attraction sparks between the young ...

When Jason Callahan photographs the ruins of New Haven, he captures what the city wants to forget—crumbling cathedrals, abandoned buildings, and the beautiful decay that marks time's passage. Living alone and haunted by past betrayals, he's built a life documenting dead things that can't disappoint him. Then Lucien St. Clair walks into his world. Elegant, enigmatic, and dangerously compelling, Lucien sees through Jason's carefully constructed walls with eight centuries of practice reading human nature. As Jason finds himself drawn into Lucien's orbit—and the shadowy vampire society that...

He destroyed everything I loved. So I made him mine forever. Elias Reed is the hunter organization's most lethal weapon—cold, efficient, and responsible for the massacre of Dorian Ashford's peaceful vampire coven. When Dorian captures the man who burned his family alive, death would be mercy. Instead, he chooses something far crueler: he turns Elias into the very thing he's spent a decade hunting. Bound by an unbreakable sire bond, they're forced into intimate closeness neither wants. Elias struggles with his new monstrous nature while Dorian battles guilt over his twisted act of revenge....

A marriage born from duty. A love forged in fire. Joseph Vitelli has spent his life as the invisible second son—brilliant, strategic, and utterly expendable. When his family needs an alliance with their oldest enemies, the Russos, Joseph becomes the bargaining chip. One wedding later, he's bound to Luchino Russo, heir to a rival empire and the most infuriatingly perfect man Joseph has ever met. Luchino never wanted this marriage. He definitely didn't expect to fall for the sharp-tongued financial genius who sees through every carefully constructed wall. But as bullets fly and conspiracies...

Boston’s underworld runs on loyalty, fear, and blood—and Marco Rossini has built his life on all three. As heir to the Rossini crime family, Marco is ruthless, calculating, and prepared to defend his empire at any cost. But when the FBI delivers Dylan Chen—a disgraced analyst turned rogue informant—into his custody, Marco’s world tilts on its axis. Dylan carries secrets powerful enough to bring down the Rossinis, the Calabrese rivals, and every crooked ally in between. He also knows the truth about Vincent Rossini’s death, the night that still haunts Marco’s every step. But ...

When a dying tattoo master's final wish forces together a gentle kindergarten teacher and Tokyo's most feared yakuza enforcer, the ancient art of tebori becomes a bridge between two impossible worlds. Riku Hayashi chose teaching over the family legacy of traditional tattoo artistry, building a quiet life of finger paints and butterfly lessons far from the yakuza clients who frequented his grandfather's studio. But when Master Hayashi begs him to complete an unfinished phoenix on the back of a dangerous man, Riku can't refuse his grandfather's dying wish. Shin Tanaka, the Yamamoto-kai's ...

Gabriel Moretti spent five years building a quiet life, trying to forget the man he used to be—and the man he left behind. But when Nico DeLuca appears at his auto shop with news that his sister has been kidnapped, Gabriel's carefully constructed peace shatters. The ransom? A ledger buried six years ago in a remote mountain cabin, hidden during the three weeks Gabriel and Nico spent there falling in love before everything went wrong. Nico rose to underboss after Gabriel walked away, burying his heartbreak beneath duty and violence. Now, he's desperate enough to ask the one man who broke ...

When exhausted medical student Ethan Chen literally crashes into Oliver Castellano at a charity gala, he has no idea he's just spilled champagne on New York's most dangerous mob prince. Oliver should be furious. Instead, he's fascinated by the one person in the city who doesn't know to fear him. What starts as a generous tip becomes a whirlwind romance, with Oliver paying off Ethan's crushing student loans and introducing him to a world of luxury he's only dreamed of. But Oliver's "logistics" empire is built on blood, and his gentle touches hide hands capable of violence Ethan can't imagine...

Some bonds are forged in blood. Others are bought with it. When Ezra Kane's brother is dying, he'll do anything to save him—even hack the accounts of Edmund Cross, Manhattan's most dangerous billionaire. But Edmund doesn't call the FBI. Instead, he makes Ezra an offer: become his personal weapon in the criminal underworld, and Tommy lives for as long as possible. For five years, they're perfect partners—Edmund the architect, Ezra the executioner, building an empire on invisible crime and unspoken desire. Their signature "ghost trades" move billions through the global economy without a ...