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When my childhood best friend asked me to be her bridesmaid, I didn’t realize that meant spending a week on a yacht. With her obnoxious, conceited new friends. Sounds like a trip from hell for a 40-year-old shifter witch—until my inner bobcat zeroes in on her mate on board. The captain just so happens to be a bear shifter, and when primal need draws us closer, I end up getting a private tour of the captain’s quarters.

I fell for the enemy. A man whose actions resemble the devil so closely it frightens me. We were meant to hate each other. To despise and detest. But his appeal is so much greater than the playboy smile and body built for sin.

Combining a trip to see his grandparents with hunting down a K9 dog sounds like a good excuse at the time to Greyson. Somehow the K9 had been accidentally flown halfway around the world in the wrong direction and then lost. Finding the dog wasn’t easy, but Greyson follows the trail of destruction the same as the K9 does...and finds the female shepherd protecting a mother and child...So not what he expected.

Searc Macleod is an immortal vampire special operative with paranormal security and intelligence's "Fang Gang." He's fought for the side of good for nearly a century. But it turns out; his past is never far behind him. When his sire summons him, demanding Searc protect the master vampire's only daughter - a woman Searc has lusted after since she became of age - he knows things can only end badly. He can barely resist the temptation of Jessie Buchanan as it is. Finding out she's been subjected to testing at the hands of madmen, sets his demon on edge, and ignites his hunger for her.

Vampire and Crimson Operative Bhaltair hasn’t always played for the side of good. He’s walked a fine line throughout his immortally long life and has very few regrets. He’s always had everything he’s ever wanted - that is, until Meena. As a human descendant of the master vampire he serves, Meena isn’t on the menu. That is, until he learns he’s in danger of losing her to another supernatural male.

I love my boss. I love a man some call a monster. I love a man more accustomed to cruelty than kindness. But we both have our duties.

Eadan Daly, the blond dynamo with a penchant for magik, is diving solo into the unknown. But when Inara Nash—a survivor in the paranormal underground—doubts his claim as her savior, sparks fly, and trusts are tested. In a world where magik can be both salvation and sin, can they afford to let their guards down?

After Dean Thompson broke my heart 28 years ago, I left my hometown and never looked back. Now my adoptive parents are nearing their 80s, And even though they’re shifters, they need help more than they’d care to admit. So I packed up my life and my hormonal teenage daughter And finally headed home to Carlton. Just as we were getting settled, Mom accidentally started a fire at her chocolate shop. And who showed up to put it out? Friggin’ Dean.

Immortal Ops Team Captain Lukian Vlakhusha is having issues with his newest target, Peren Matthews. His higher-ups want her eliminated. He simply wants her. The alpha side of him demands he claim her—that is, if she’ll have him. After all, he’s what she fears most—a wolf shifter. But there is more to Peren than even she’s aware of and the enemy is closer than anyone imagined.

Living on a beach teeming with shifters wasn’t how I pictured retirement. Neither was becoming one’s mate.

Crimson Special Operative Blaise Regnier feels the darkness he carries within creeping up on him. With centuries under his skull-studded belt, this immortal vampire has seen a thing or two in his day. Not to mention he’s become something of an expert at hiding his worries and emotions behind dark wit and black leather pants. It's just a matter of time before his inner demon holds all the cards, and then he'll be the next threat his teammates need to hunt to protect mankind. As it turns out, someone has that task well in hand, and she's not playing games.

Immortal vampire operative Philandros "Landros" Mires has spent years withholding the truth from all around him. He's no stranger to lies and told himself over and over again that the ends justified the means. As an enemy from his past resurfaces, bringing with them a new threat, Landros knows everything he sacrificed to protect is in danger. He finds himself in a fight with evil and struggling to earn forgiveness, even if it means learning to forgive himself.

Have a divorce party, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. It was, until I ended up in handcuffs. A group of Karens rained on my parade at the winery And in my drunken haze, I mooned every last one of them— Along with the responding officer called in to arrest my ass. Not a good look for a teacher starting off in a new little town. When he cuffed me, I stumbled into his rock-hard body, But he softened up once he brought me down to the station, Taking pity on me and caring for me throughout the night.

Christmas is supposed to be the season of miracles. But seeing my ‘90s high school boyfriend change into a bear isn’t the miracle I’d hoped for.

When I said I needed a midlife reboot, growing pumpkins in a town full of bear people wasn't what I had in mind. Neither was falling for one of them. I should've been more specific when I asked the universe for a change.

When I got divorced and moved to the quiet Oregon countryside.... The last thing I expected was for a hot stranger to pound on my door, demanding I go with him in the middle of the night. His sister-in-law’s in labor, and he swears she’s on death’s door. The weirder part? I’m not allowed to tell anyone what I’m about to see.

They say life begins at 40.... But when infertility led to my divorce, it seemed more like the end. When I’d rather be at home in my sweats binging '80s movies, my dad begs me to go to Carlton with him for moral support as he presents my much younger sister to their unmated Alpha.

Paranormal Security and Intelligence Operative and Shadow Agent Gram Campbell is not having a great year. So far this alpha-male wolf-shifter has had his heart and his body broken. Is he beyond repair, or will his destined mate bring much-needed healing to the man and the wolf within?

My husband got into a fight and plunged off a bridge, leaving me to raise our two children on my own. After struggling for the last fourteen years, I pack up my kids and move in with my crazy old aunt in Carlton. I land a waitressing gig, and the moment I meet the head chef, his deep green eyes have me spellbound.

When a rugged stranger with soulful eyes showed up and asked me to take a round with him, I soon learned just how good this carpenter is with his hands. But there’s another side of Pax unlike anything I’ve seen. At the risk of sounding certifiably insane, when I was attacked by a client, Pax changed from the man I’d come to love to a snarling, ferocious bear.