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I’ve been cursed. Not metaphorically. Not, “Oh no! I spilled my coffee!” or “I broke a heel!” No. I’ve been cursed by a book and now I’m a danger to everyone I care about.

I cross the tracks every day for one reason - to graduate from this school and get into the Ivy League. I'm not ashamed of where I come from, my family, or how everyone at Marymount thinks my skirts are too short and my lipstick is too red. Clay Collins and her friends have always turned up their noses at me. The witch with her beautiful skin, clean shoes, and rich parents who torments me daily and thinks I won't fight back. At least not until I get her alone and find out she's hiding so much more than just what's underneath those pretty clothes.

Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole lot of flirt. She knows how to get the girl. Keeping her on the other hand…not so much. Molly Parker has everything in her life totally in control, except for her complete awkwardness with just about anyone besides her mom. She knows she’s in love with the impossibly cool Cora Myers. She just…hasn’t actually talked to her yet.

Kamilah Vega is desperate to convince her family to update their Puerto Rican restaurant and enter it into the Fall Foodie Tour. With the gentrification of their Chicago neighborhood, it's the only way to save the place. The fly in her mofongo—her blackmailing abuelo says if she wants to change anything in his restaurant, she'll have to marry the one man she can't stand: his best friend’s grandson.

Jessica Aguirre doesn’t know the definition of “living” anymore. She’s a writer, yet words completely escape her when she tries to describe what sort of life she might envision for herself. So when she’s hired to work on a memoir for Freddie McKnight, famed Hollywood producer and all-around recluse, she thinks it could be a new start in life.

After a very public breakup with a media-hungry politician, fitness trainer Tori Alvarez escapes to Aruba for rest, relaxation, and copious amounts of sex on the beach—the cocktail, that is. She vows to keep her vacation a man-free zone but when a cute guy is seated next to her on the plane, Tori can’t resist a little harmless flirting.

Seventeen-year-old Callie thought climbing out of her hell of abusive home life was going to be her biggest struggle, but it’s only the beginning. Starting over in a small nowhere town in Oregon with an aunt she didn’t know existed until a week ago, she makes five new guy friends who are each something otherworldly.

Destiny Delaine has had enough. As daughter of a former high-ranking general who now served as the ambassador of Earth and a socialite mother, she has been reared to be the proper young woman and helpmate. Her parents had her life all planned out, right down to her arranged marriage with one of the planetary representatives under her father. No one asked her what she wanted. Determined as too fat and too old for the mate index, she decided to take her own destiny into her hands.

Wait, what do you mean I’m that arrogant oversexed egotist’s Mate? Prince Ral of the House of Nightclaw, Duke of Some Random Planet, Lord Master Stud may be the handsomest prince in the universe. But that doesn’t mean he can tell me what to do. I’m a military pilot with higher orders; get Prince Arrogance out of enemy territory and back to where he belongs. His Royal Cockiness wants to go back to save his people left behind. I won’t disobey my chain of command, of which he has no part.

A bullet to the shoulder. That's all it took to take me down. I thought I was f--king tougher than that. But one look at Ruby, and I realize I'm not tough at all. She makes the whole room spin, or is that the blood loss? With those lips, and the curve of her hips, I can't think straight. Damn the Banderas Cartel. I'll get revenge on them. One day. Especially once they go after Ruby. Oh f--k no. Give me a bike. And a vest. I'll protect my family to the death.

Rhys Davenport is reaching breaking point. He thought getting out of New York would have solved his problems. Unfortunately, they are still there when he arrives back home. Between his acrimonious divorce from his gold-digging ex and his ongoing family drama, his life is in utter chaos until a beautiful brunette surprises him. Except she wasn't who he thought she was.

No-nonsense executive Naomi Reyes can't believe she let her boss manipulate her into babysitting Donovan Taylor, the most insufferable creative director of all time. Worse, she'll be trapped on a private island with him, while a bevy of gorgeous models vie for a coveted chance to grace the cover of M-Class Magazine's inaugural Swimsuit Edition - and, if the office rumors are true, an equally coveted place in Donovan's bed.

As heir to my family's mafia throne, I've learned to threaten, torture, and kill. But the only place I really feel at home is on the ice. So when Mom has my coach murdered to end my figure skating dreams, I know it's time to run. With my hot but off-limits bodyguard by my side, I flee to a little town where she'll never find me. All I want is to lie low and perform in secret at the local rink. But a chance meeting with two passionate, damaged men seeking their own healing on the ice opens up new possibilities—both for my skating and my heart.

As heir to my family's mafia throne, I've learned to threaten, torture, and kill. But the only place I really feel at home is on the ice. So when Mom has my coach murdered to end my figure skating dreams, I know it's time to run. With my hot but off-limits bodyguard by my side, I flee to a little town where she'll never find me.

Will Asher thought he was going to spend his last days in a cell thinking about the one bad thing he ever did in his life. When he is tapped to be the first human to undergo a special experiment, he accepts, knowing full well it could be the end of this life and a beginning to a new one. When he wakes in a new digital world, he finds himself struggling to defend against strange creatures and the elements while surviving the virtual environment. The player will have to overcome the odds as he fights against mythical monsters, finds mysterious allies, and uncovers a mystical journey.

The first time I laid eyes on Theo Whitlock, I chased him and his frat boy friends with a bat. I’m no white knight. I’m broke. He’s rich. I destroyed his car. He chooses not to rat me out. I was never supposed to go to college, but especially not one like Savage U, where only the wealthiest need apply. One might call this a lucky break, only I don’t feel so lucky with a drug dealer breathing down my neck, and a gangster threatening to burn my house down.

The world is a very weird place, and for 17-year-old Callie, it’s gotten a whole lot weirder. The paranormal is real, and not only are her five new guy friends each some type of supernatural creature, she is too - actually, she’s the most powerful one of all. As a spirit witch, she’s part of an ancient sect of witches that were believed to have been wiped out millennia ago and have the power to control life itself. Unfortunately, her magic is bound by a spell.

I was so naive. I actually believed him and thought...it doesn’t matter now. What does matter: Kai is a Tigerlord, a shifter prince in command of one of the most ancient royal houses of tiger shifters in the universe. A fact he conveniently forgot to mention when he had been promising me forever. As well as the fact that if Kai marries me, he’d lose his throne or lair or whatever it is that tiger shifters command.

Years ago, Saint walked away from the girl he loved to fulfill his duty. Now he’s struggling to build bridges between his drifting family, take on more responsibilities at his uncle’s construction company, figure out why his daughter refuses to talk at school and curtail his mischievous abuelo’s escalating pranks. Then she walks back into his life.

Lilith Deville is the new enigma at Lakeside Preparatory Academy, a prestigious high school by a river and not a lake, which makes sense not. Already, she hates it despite its beautiful landscape. Between riding her dirt bike through the sacred lands of the natives, plotting against those she meets, and holding greasy truckers at gunpoint, Lilith makes no time for love or friendship.