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Pearl enjoys living in luxury, from the leather couches to her high pillow-top mattresses. Her friends’ joke, “you need a ladder to climb on top” of her towering princess style bed. After a party among her closest compadres, she finds herself sleepless. Upon further inspection, she finds a bejeweled butt plug and before discovering who it belongs to, uncovers more sexual treasures…

No stranger to adversity, Antonia Larson is a survivor who has learned to keep her distance from men. With her ex-husband's dangerous obsession looming as a constant threat, she definitely isn't looking for love. But thanks to an unanticipated coincidence, handsome investigator Niall McLaren has found her anyway. Now all she knows is if the man who brought her back to love ends up hurt because of her past, she’ll never forgive herself.

The last eighteen months have been the most tumultuous—and the most gratifying—of Hunter Bailey’s life. With Angus at his side, he thought he could endure anything, but Hunter is still reeling from losing Leigh. How is he supposed to live with himself, knowing he caused his friend's death?

Victory has been bought with a bracelet; Tohmas Galanth is to be married. With Arnika Trulin's hand comes the Princedom of Trulin, freeing Tohmas to continue his conquest of Espar. But even magical love is real, and Tohmas is blind to any betrayal from within his ranks. As he marches, his enemies from this word and beyond plan a unified strike meant to stop him and free the conquered princedoms. Arnika is not the only target.

Haley Campbell is caught in a snare: longing to run wild but terrified of her secret violent urges. When she finds her grandfather’s diary in the attic, she discovers her insatiable hunger is an inherited trait. The ancient frail man who used to chain-smoke in her parents’ living room is responsible for countless unsolved murders in the 1930s and -40s. Fearful of following in his bloody footsteps—her birthright, after all—she travels to Wharton, a beachfront town, hoping to find the Alpha who may have a way of curing her hunger before someone else gets hurt.

When one is blind, trust is important, but who can you trust when someone is trying to kill you? Wealthy, blind and grieving, Amelia Hastings-Bedford would gladly give away her fortune if it would bring back her beloved, Joshua. Knowing her money can’t, she forges into a marriage of convenience with Gareth, family friend and law partner.

After decades of longing for his long-lost teenage love, Samson “Stx” Denver is given another chance to profess his love for August “Sol” River. But Sol has had her heart broken by Stx before, and she's reluctant to open up again. Still, passion prevails and the two rekindle their love, letting their lives intertwine.

Ten years ago, Stephen Matheson was a troubled 19-year-old Alpha who struggled between living in two worlds. Although his Type 4 Status should have placed him among the elite, he was the lone exception to a Lower Type bloodline. With his family’s reputation keeping him from the preferred lifestyle, and his Type 4 Status isolating him from the community he was born into, Stephen decided drugs were his only answer.

With Mikaél’s newfound status as a Type 6 Omega, the first of his kind, his pregnancy is an unprecedented phenomenon. Fearing a dismal death rate, both men's Alpha fathers urge their sons to move to the Western Territory under the renowned care of Dr. Ehan Zang. But Roman and Mikaél refuse. Misfortune and tragedy strike when people who want nothing more than to see Roman and Mikaél fail begin threatening their partnership. When word of Mikaél’s unique Blood-Type becomes public, the acts committed against them grow more heinous.

Bound by a vow of vengeance against the murderous and psychopathic Dr. Hayashibara, a fortuitous message from his cousin on her whereabouts takes Xerx and his crew to the distant orbital colony of Tophanavar. A charity Gestalt tournament becomes the cover for his crew’s investigation into the colony’s seedy dives to find his prey, who has left a trail of occupied hospital beds in her wake. Meanwhile, Paige, the captain of the Shadow Star, is wracked with guilt when her newest job may rob the Reckless’ neophyte captain of his long-hunted quarry.

Returning to his hometown in Tennessee, Samuel Campbell is searching for absolution. He made a promise in Wharton to never hurt another human ever again. Coming home is the ultimate test. There are dark memories here, a trail of bodies left behind by a once-rabid wolf. In Sevierville, he discovers the hardest part of confronting his past is facing his own conscience. Kindergarten teacher Nadia Montanari is accustomed to whispers and stares.

Fresh out of jail, Russell Siriano, boss of the Siriano Organization, is kidnapped. He was supposed to be safe in U.S. Marshal Kelly Chambers’s custody. Now it’s her responsibility to solve the strange crime. Using the lessons Kelly’s “Uncle” Frank taught her, she knows she must track down the perpetrators before the Siriano family finds them first. While Kelly navigates media embarrassment and accidentally falls for the only reporter willing to hear her side of the story, rival crime boss Pablo Jimenez takes control of the Siriano Family's neighborhood.

The consequences of Renaldo’s death reverberate through Gabriella’s life. As his mother seeks answers, she learns just how far she is willing to go to get revenge for her son’s murder. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Gabriella, Cattle Cop Frankfort Corbin is on the case. After meeting Siriano in prison, Frank is tasked with uncovering what happened to Renaldo in order to destroy the organization he built. Frank quickly becomes ensnared in events that exceed his original mission.

The discovery of a dead body is nothing new for Detective Simon Grave, but when the body and the murderer are both invisible, well, that's another matter entirely, even in the futuristic town of Crab Cove. The question is whether he and his human and android team are up for the challenge, which also remains to be seen. Making his job even more difficult is the sudden retirement of Captain Henry Morgan, who taps Grave as acting chief.

One specific patient opens up his eyes to another mindset that he didn't know existed—there are gay men who refuse to top. Dr. Cage dives right into this lifestyle to help these men figure out what it is about topping that they don't like, and even performs some exercises to help them out. Will these men change their minds and decide to stick the pole in the hole? As always, Dr. Cage vows to help them figure it out, no matter what he has to do...

CEO Debbie and demon Shaker’s first year of partnership was a smashing success for both Pandora Productions and their own new intimate relationship, ending with the announcement of their engagement last New Year’s Eve. Shaker now inhabits a human host, Pandora’s rising action star Jett Black, putting the possibility of a family within Debbie’s tentative grasp as the couple pledges their love at the altar.

When the head of a hovercycle club inexplicably calls in news of his own murder, Detective Simon Grave and his team are drawn in to Crab Cove's hovercycle underworld, a world of loyalty, betrayal, greed, and-yes-irony. As if murder weren't enough, the bombing of an election debate stage has the mayor pressing for a quick resolution to both crimes. It becomes increasingly clear that the crimes are connected, and that the solution will require the unraveling of an elaborate criminal scheme-and more.

Faced with losing Pandora Productions as well as her best friend Rebecca to the smarmy Paul, savvy film executive Debbie makes a pact with the demon Shaker, agreeing to bind herself to him as his human master in return for killing Paul and securing Pandora’s future. Yet even as Pandora gains accolades and renown, Debbie’s strong resolve begins to crumble under the weight of her actions. And the pleasure she finds in Shaker’s arms is becoming more than sex. Is Debbie doomed to lose her heart as well as her soul to a demon who has only been waiting for the chance to claim both?

A demon hound haunts Crab Cove, taking its victims as they come. When a mutilated corpse is found in the marshes, Detective Simon Grave rises to the challenge. Everything points to the hound, but it is quickly apparent that the body has been stabbed repeatedly, in a way that suggests serial killer Chester Clink also may be involved. Or maybe not.

Blood ties. The family we’ve been given, the friends we make, the loves we keep, and those we lost. The 26 stories in Family and Other Ailments teeter on the brink, hover at the periphery, or even the possibility, of crime. Under a soft light and at an angle, they're all love stories. The collection opens with “Spy Head”, a tale of friendship after a crushing trauma. In “Texas Two-Step”, brotherhood leads to a wicked double-cross. “Razorbills” shows a young woman seeking freedom from the prison-like caring of her sibling.