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What's worse than having to watch your sister marry your ex-fiancé? How about when that fiancé fires you from the family business?

Hyper-organized, event planner, Jaya Trudeaux is used to doing things by the book and never making waves. It's a strategy that's served her well until she finds herself in failure alley with no fiancé, no job and her thirtieth birthday looming. Maybe it's time to change her methods. Starting with an unlikely date to the wedding from hell.

Off the court, tennis star Jason Cartwright's playboy image is taking a public beating. On the court, he's down 40-love. A knee injury is shutting down his game, and the paparazzi are splashing his love life on every magazine. A comeback is in order, but the makeover he needs to save his faltering career is in the hands of the woman he loved and left 15 years ago. While single-mom Izzy Connors sees people for who they really are through the lens of her camera, even without it, she knows Jason isn't the star he appears to be.

Weary from her high-profile career, Lauren Winters returns to Wyoming to reunite with her old friends, the Calamity Janes, and to start over—incognito—as a horse trainer. Rugged rancher Wade Owens is a refreshing change from Hollywood—he treats her like a real person. But the wrangler has made his distaste for the rich and powerful clear. Can their stormy love endure the maelstrom when Lauren reveals her true identity?

Unalived recently? Lose your head? Need someone to help you get to the other side-with your head? Then I'm your girl—Evanora Dark at your service! During a design competition for charity Tambi Schubert, local Buttermilk Bay's star stager and designer has a little accident. Okay, it's a not so little (read big—my word, so big). I find her, relieved of her head via a power tool, in the house I'm designing for the competition, bringing a screeching halt to the contest and an investigation that leaves me as a suspect.

Endora is a woman lost, a mother all out of options. There is only one cure that can save her daughter's life, and only one way she can pay for it. This isn't really a choice, is it? Despite the dangers, Endora signs a mating contract with the devastatingly handsome Draekon Lord. She will stay under his rule until she delivers him an heir - or dies trying. Lord Aldric Darragon is a man with a frozen heart. There is no place for softness in his world. The Draekons are a race of might and power. To him, love is a trap and caring a weakness.

Xenides is searching for Lissa and out for blood. Nothng less than total destruction is his ultimate objective, beginning with the Vampire Council. After all, much of his elite fighting force was destroyed by Wlodek and his allies on a single night. Now, Xenides must regroup and looks to command the dregs of vampire rogues and human criminals to accomplish his goals.

Lissa has been transported 300 years into the future to save the High Demon world and the Saa Thalarr. But what she doesn't understand is that they aren't the only things she is meant to protect. The balance - and survival of all worlds - rests in her hands.

Rodeo Drive bridalwear designer Rayne McGrath expected her 30th birthday to start with a power lunch and end with champagne, lobster, and a diamond engagement ring from her fiancé. Instead, flat-broke and busted, she’s on a plane to Ireland—she’s inherited a run-down family castle....

Being a badass witch isn't always what it's cracked up to be. Vampire hunter Phoebe Kilsen's world is falling apart. Her shifter partner has been drugged and is in danger of turning rabid, and her brother has disappeared into thin air....literally. Just as Phoebe is on the verge of making a major breakthrough on finding her long-lost brother, a new drug is introduced into New Orleans's black market. It's Phoebe's job to find out who is responsible and neutralize them before New Orleans is overrun with rabid wolves.

After her abusive German husband left her for dead and took their daughter with him behind enemy lines, Dottie Lincoln learned it's better to be a trained soldier rather than a victim. As a newly minted squad leader in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, she spends her days moving men and materials to the front and her nights attending mandatory dances to boost the morale of the men. Despite the grueling nature of her job, she has found a sanctuary amongst the women in the Army. When Ruth, a member of her squad, is murdered, she's devastated and determined to get to the bottom of the murder.

With her brother in debt to the biggest loan shark of the slums, Marielle does the only thing she can to save him: she takes the debt on herself. Down on her luck and at the mercy of the thugs, she knows the only way she can repay it is to be claimed as mate by a Draekon Lord and deliver him an heir. She has no intention of following through with the deal, however. Her plan is to escape as soon as she's received payment and disappear far out of reach of the Draekon who would claim her.

Our magic’s gone wonky—and I’ve got a giant Venus fly trap and an extra-dead great-aunt to prove it. With everything going haywire, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out Durus and the Venom Stone are behind it.

It has to be a trap. Rogue Agent Diana Sheen has no option but to walk right into it. The Rhazdon cult has been biding its time, but their leader's life is on the line. Time to remove the thorn in their side. Everything has consequences. Avoiding the fight means more innocents die. Not an option on the Rogue Agents' watch. Diana, Cara, Rath the troll, and the RAM team will fight on to end the battles once and for all. Their trusted allies, Ruby Achera and Cali Leblanc, can come to their aid. Even Kevin and Natasha might be game to help.

Leave it to a Magical Mom to clean up the streets of the city of Los Angeles. Lucy Heron, Agent 485, is on the job, and trying to keep things together at home. It's not an easy job... Especially when pipes are bursting, your kids are trying to solve crimes, and a dangerous new monster is polluting the city. Gives a whole new meaning to the LA smog. More people, magical and mundane, are getting sick from breathing in the poisoned air. Do Lucy and her team have a way to fight back the invisible foe?

Things I want to do: Get my family's theme park ready for the holidays, enjoy my daughter’s improved cooking, and chill with my favorite ghost on the astral plane. Things I have to do instead: Spend my time trying to stay one step ahead of a vengeful pirate. And that means tracking down three hundred-year-old clues before he does. But that’s not all I have to deal with. I’ve got family drama to work through. And the arrival of a mysterious man who wants a job as the Pied Piper of the Enchanted Forest might end up costing me one of my best friends.

Diana Sheen is in the crosshairs of the military, the Rhazdon cult, and a mysterious foe on Oriceran. She's the problem everyone wants gone. Too bad. Diana, Cara, Rath the troll, and the rest of the Rogue Agents of Magic are here to cause trouble for those who use magic for evil. Time to make some enemies miserable. But not all is well for Diana and her team. Sloan is still missing in action, last seen entering the Pittsburgh. Amadeo the assassin has called on Rath for help with a mission. Can RAM deliver a counterpunch that will set their opponents up for a knockout blow?

Silver Griffins Agent 485 Lucy Heron is on the trail of a string of magical thefts. But first, she has to pick up the kids from school. Talk about trying to find a work-life balance. Dylan is in that awkward middle school phase when magic can turn a friend into a frog and back. Did anyone notice? And third-grader Ashley keeps recruiting friends for her own secret agency to fight magical crime. Kids these days. The Heron children are even training the good dog, Buddy, to track down magical bad guys. So far, the family business is still a well-guarded secret. Can they keep it that way?

It’s Halloween at the Enchanted Forest. Unfortunately, this year, it looks like it’s all trick and no treat. Thanks to my screwup, an evil pirate walks again. That’s bad enough. Then my ex-husband drops his mother off on my doorstep. And she’s not the only uninvited guest I’m stuck with. A melodramatic mermaid arrives at the park, insisting that someone is out to kill her and that our house is the only place she feels safe. The only way for us to get rid of her is for me to locate a magic key that doesn’t exist until you find it. Talk about a needle in a haystack.

Lucy Heron is a mom with three kids, and a baker with a happy marriage in sunny Echo Park. She's also Silver Griffins Agent 485. The suburbs will never be the same. Fighting supernatural crime from a minivan while keeping the magical world a secret is a full time job. Then there's the PTA bake sale and the neighborhood barbecue.

A new side has declared itself in the battle for control of the Rhazdon artifacts spreading evil through the country. It's up to Diana, Rath, and Cara to keep the artifacts out of their twitchy hands.