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Princess Jayda of Arath has everything she always wanted. Infertile like all Arathians, she didn’t feel the need to find mates. Instead, researching cutting-edge spaceship technology for the Arathian Defense is her passion. But secretly, there is someone who’s caught her eye…. Deian is an engineer who’s been working at Jayda’s side for months. He has a promiscuous reputation, but she can’t seem to get him out of her mind, and she knows that he’s the male she wants. As things become heated with Deian, she meets Lukas Ferguson of Earth.

Nearly 50 percent of Americans checked the "single" box in the 2010 census. Because we equate touch with sex, many of us suffer alone when we crave physical comfort and tenderness. Somebody Hold Me takes a simple, radical approach to health and relationships by teaching you how to get more platonic touch. Somebody Hold Me walks you through the increasingly fraught physical space between humans and allows for more connection and closeness through giving and receiving structured touch in your existing relationships.

For months, shy drummer Jinx Hardwick has been silently crushing on her tall, dark, and scary bandmate, Toombs Badcock. Drawn to his frightening ink and scars, she yearns to uncover the shadowy secrets lurking behind his silver eyes. But Jinx is too intimidated to even look at him, let alone talk to him. When she stumbles upon Toombs and their manipulative lead guitarist Rax in a compromising position, Jinx realizes her chances of winning Toombs’s heart aren’t just a long shot - they’re nonexistent.

When Shaye dropped out of college mid-semester, and moved to Lopez Island for the summer, she’d hoped to figure out what she wanted to do with the rest of her life. Instead, she reconnects with childhood friends Jason and Nick, and good intentions spiral into harrowing confrontations. The summer ends in tragedy and Shaye flees the Island, haunted by her mistakes. Eight years later, Shaye is forced to return to the place she’d hoped never to see again. Now, she must face the people, and the pain she left behind.

Free-spirited musician Letty Dillinger adheres to a strict “no strings attached” policy when it comes to men. After a wild night of unabashed sex in a fancy hotel room, she never expects to see the adventurous stud she dubs “Shades” again. When her all-girl rock trio books a tour at the last minute as the opening act for their archenemies, Letty’s shocked to discover she knows the competition’s new lead singer. Intimately.

Lacy's life is crashing down around her. Kidnapped from Earth, she finds herself standing on an auction block on a distant planet, facing down the scum of the universe. Kor and Ty are a mated Arathian pair who’ve come to Vox seeking otherworlders in the hopes of saving their people. They didn’t expect to find a rare Earther female up for auction, nor did they anticipate the overwhelming instinct they’d feel to protect her at all costs. As the trio attempts to save the Arathians from extinction, they discover it’s actually Earth facing imminent danger....

How deep do the levels of the underworld go? When Helena was alive she had often wondered if she'd be the one to dig her own grave. Now she's on her way to hell to save someone she loves and praying she'll be able to dig her way back out.

Helena Pierce is recovering from the shock of her life...er, death. While she’s trying to cope with her world getting turned on end once again, her best friend, Grace, comes to her with disturbing news: Boude, Grace’s boyfriend, is missing. Hel is reluctant to get herself involved in vampire affairs but can’t stand to sit idly by while her friend is missing - especially when she suspects the sinister Rasputin might be behind it.

Helena Pierce was used to death. Her life began as a tragically orphaned baby, raised by the small town cemetery caretaker. She grew up knowing that loss was just a part of life. After a chance meeting with the dark and mysterious Raphael one day while out digging a grave, Hel realizes maybe life has some good things to offer after all - until one awful evening changes everything, and Hel wakes up to the bright light of death.

How could Sadie have lived so long in this town without knowing it was harboring a very old secret? The dark side of the woods was a place she walked by nearly every single day and it seemed perfectly normal. But one day, she realized that nothing that walked in there walked back out. Curses and wolves are somehow entangled in Sadie's new romance, and a gruesome transformation threatens to change everything she has ever known. She's the only one who can save her town, her love, and herself. It has to end where it started, in the center of the forest.

As magic, scale powers, and dueling clans threaten their fairy tale beginning, turning it into something resembling a nightmare, Hatch and Blue’s hope mate bond is put to the test when the leaders of Dragonkind join forces to impose their authority over the rare half-breed, Vivian. Vivian must learn to embrace her dragon side or die trying, but staying away from the only family she’s ever known as a trade off for a guard sent for her protection who seems more intent on harming her isn’t an option. Hatch is losing control of everything, as his biggest fear turns into reality.

Karincin's life has been dominated by familial expectations, duty, and celibacy. He attended all of the correct schools, won the worthy awards, and leads a cutting edge team at the Department of Space. His life is going exactly as planned, until he's assigned a mate. Aevum is nothing like he expected. She's free-spirited, passionate, and doesn't adhere to Karincin's pre-arranged life. She challenges everything he's been taught to believe, and awakens suppressed desires he didn't know he had.

Eddy Hart is out of town, and his partner and fiancée Claire Olson agrees to take on what she thought would be a simple missing person's case. Unfortunately, the missing person believes himself to be Sherlock Holmes and Claire to be Dr. Watson. She finds herself embroiled in an intrigue that began with the Knights Templar centuries before and continues to threaten humanity as the United States comes ever closer to being drawn into World War II.

Ashlyn MacLeod's life is all she ever wanted. She lives in London, attends a world-renowned university, and is one step away from getting her PhD in archaeology. Everything is going exactly as planned, until a humiliating rejection forces her home to the Scottish Highlands. Struggling with the loss of such a huge opportunity, she begins an excavation on her family's rural property, in an effort to finish her dissertation and save her career. As she digs into the wet dirt, she unearths much more than she bargained for.

Kingdom Cold follows the impulsive, teenage princess, Charlotte, as she attempts to murder her betrothed. But an arranged marriage is only the beginning of her problems. Her kingdom faces total destruction at the hands of Merlin and Lancelot, leaders of power-crazed Camelot and the only one Charlotte can turn to for salvation is the very man she tried to kill.

Life has hit me below the belt, and I have lost those I hold most dear. On my sister's deathbed, she made me swear I'd care for her baby girl as if she was my own. After six years of loving her like my daughter, we live a quiet and peaceful life. In the midst of more loss, I meet this couple, and unbeknownst to me, they are who I need to feel whole again.

Morgan VanDolen is an accomplished athlete, but joining a softball team for the first time as an adult threatens to pitch some dents into her pride. In the face of a frustrating learning curve, Morgan finds inspiration in her new teammate: Marina Martin.

Stolen away from my idyllic life, I face horrors no living creature should ever have to suffer. At the hands of evil scientists, I find hell on Mai’CuS...as well as in the afterlife. If only they’d let me stay dead. Instead, they brought me back a completely different person.

The Fae have fallen. Our world isn’t what it used to be. Fae were once revered as saviors and now? Hated doesn’t even begin to describe it. As if it wasn’t bad enough that the elites no longer hold the power in Ancetol, the guy I love is in prison for life and my best friend? She disappeared without a trace—kidnapped—and I’ve made it my personal mission to save her. To call my life complicated would be an understatement, but it gets worse when an old enemy resurfaces and threatens to slaughter the already tenuous peace in our city.

When one of the four elite students of Gifted Fae Academy is murdered, it leaves the entirety of the student body feeling defeated... especially me. A shocking declaration shatters the fragile peace the school has barely managed to maintain and brings the criminal organization dedicated to murdering Fae to the forefront of society. Their leader is identified--a traitor we believed to be one of our own.