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Brooks was her dream. Her very wet dream, but one blissful night at her best friend's wedding turned that into a reality. Unwilling to chance heartbreak, she pushes away the longing in her heart and rushes back to her old life. That is, until a frantic phone call has her racing to his side, questioning all of her old thoughts.

Night lasts a thousand hours. Forty sleeps - an endless desert of time when no one cares what happens to you until daytime. Helene has given up. Only concern for her sister's grave medical condition tethers her to the world she dreams of escaping through death. If only she could bring herself to end it. Caught out at night getting medicine for her sister, Helene is captured and taken as a slave for Gabriel, the mysterious ruler of the city.

The punishment for killing a Don is death…. I have to find Luce before our enemies do, and I lose her forever. She thinks she can hide from me. But I don’t care if I have to go to the ends of the world to get her back. One way or another, Luce O'Brien has to understand that I’m not letting her go. She’s mine to keep, mine to protect.

His royal highness Prince Alexander of Durham has a serious PR problem. His cheating celebrity ex-girlfriend destroyed his heart and spread lies about the breakup in the press. With a new crisis manifesting daily, Alex will do anything to get back in his country’s good graces. Libby needs a new beginning, and Durham seems like the perfect choice. Her ex was a cheater, and bankruptcy has brought her parents to the brink of divorce. At least her new job as a nanny will help ease her family’s financial burdens while offering her a fresh start.

Callie: I always thought at Briarcliff Academy, Chase Stone was the ultimate ruler. He had the followers. The brutal upbringing. The supplicants. I’m the nobody he tortured, then loved, then ignored. Until I became the somebody of the Virtues. Now, Chase will tell you my exiling is for my own good and that he wants to shield me. He’s wrong. Chase wants to protect his legacy as badly as I want to tear his societies down. Our happy ending has turned into star-crossed lovers. So be it. Let my reign begin. Chase: Then let my sabotage begin, too.

The Brotherhood has us in their sights. The attacks are coming from everywhere and nowhere from a seemingly invisible enemy. When we discover how the Brotherhood manages to stay five steps ahead, it’s up to me to find and stop the traitor. But it requires me to revisit a place I swore I’d never go: my past. The battle for the city we love is heating up. The Brotherhood challenges the Merchants’ right to rule, and Genny and the Savage Princes don’t give a f--k. Cinco is theirs and they’ll fight to the death to protect it. And me…well, I just might be their secret weapon.

I'm a 22-year-old virgin. Tonight, that changes. I thought my first time had to be magical. The perfect date. The perfect place. The perfect guy. I thought I wanted to be in love. But now, I'm desperate. I'll take any guy as long as he's decent looking and treats me well, at least for the night. Turns out Mr. Perfect isn't so hard to find. He's hot, dreamy, and filthy rich. And he wants me.

Staff sergeant Bea “Mic” Michaels and her black-ops team Steel Corps do what others cannot: They execute missions unbeknownst to the public they ardently defend. Over time, their orders begin to chafe and questions arise. Around every turn is another trial threatening to rip their family asunder. From Colombia, to Mexico, to Russia, and beyond, each mission sucks them deeper into the darkness.

Cole had to flee to Faerie. His best friend Flynn—my bully and tormentor—holds all the answers. My family secrets are like a noose, slowly tightening around my neck.

Decades ago, three men started a war.... Today, I win it. I had a plan. Step one: Steal the ledger. Step two: Take over Cinco City. Simple, right? Nowhere in there was I supposed to fall in love with the men who knocked my plan off course. Saint, Cash, Brutal, and Mercer are everything to me. A fact I should not have let slip. A battle rages, and only the last man standing claims victory.

Sarah Lawrence and Ryan Crawford are two musicians with a complicated relationship history, to say the least. They are former best friends who always wanted to be more. Three years ago, Ryan left for LA to chase his musical dreams while Sarah stayed home. She had good reasons, but put the possibility of a romantic relationship on the shelf. Fast forward—his band’s star is rising, and Ryan’s becoming a famous rock star, while Sarah’s still sacrificing everything for her loved ones. Now Ryan’s back in town with his band to record a new album, but they need Sarah’s help.

Wait for your invitation...Callie. A lesson I’ve learned since enrolling at Briarcliff Academy: If you don’t join forces with their elite society, you will be ruined. I didn’t join. I rebelled. They couldn’t break me how they wanted. And now, they’re after me for what I know. Worse, they're ordering Chase, the boy who helped me uncover their terrible sins, to exact their revenge. He won’t, because he cares about me. We’ve been together in this from the beginning, despite the edicts he was raised on and the society he was groomed to follow.

I love my life. As owner and chef at one of the hottest restaurants, I know how to keep things sizzling in and out of the kitchen. What more could I ask for? But I’ll tell you what I didn’t ask for...a klutzy, curly-haired woman slamming into me with a unicorn cake. Yes, you read that right - a damn cake decorated to look like the mythical creature bathed in every color of the rainbow. What could be worse, right? I’ll tell you. My brother hired her to be my pastry chef. You’d think that would be my biggest problem, but that was just the tip of the iceberg.

I’ve always known things I shouldn’t know, and seen things I shouldn’t see - things no one else sees. One terrifying vision - and my reaction to it - lands me in Brocker’s Center for the Criminally Insane. I’m convinced I can survive my time here unscathed. After all, I’m not crazy. But after spending time with three guys - a schizophrenic with two personalities, a pathological liar who isn’t to be trusted, and a nymphomaniac with a penchant for knives - I’m beginning to doubt my sanity.

I’ve been captured. Don’t even get me started on how pissed off I am. My rage is raging. Azrael is the most powerful vampire I’ve ever encountered, and I hate knowing I can’t beat him. He’s brought me to this creepy cave because he thinks he can synthesize a cure for vampirism from my pure Vocari blood. I think he’s insane.
Doesn’t really matter, though. If I don’t do what Azrael wants, he says he’s going to hurt my guys. I can’t allow that. With no other option, I decide to be a good little Rose until I can find a way out of this mess.

Gus wasn't just my president. He was the father I never had. He was steadfast and strong. I looked up to him and trusted him without question. I'd never seen the man show a single sign of uncertainty until the day August James showed up at the Satan's Fury clubhouse. None of us knew why the beautiful brunette had come knocking at our door, but it was clear that her arrival had caught Gus by surprise.

Nora: He broke me. He gave me everything I never knew I wanted then in one moment destroyed all my happiness. Now I’m back in Araminta to finish senior year before I move on and leave this town full of fake and corrupted people behind. I don’t expect him to chase me. To change the game. He wants my heart but it’s destroyed. Even as we fight back against his enemies who want to ruin his name, he puts me above all else. He wants to protect me. Fix me. Claim me. Too bad I’m not the same girl I was. I can’t forgive him...

Big shot CEO Greyson Blair can't believe he's stuck spending the holidays in the Ass-End-of-Nowhere handling the sale of a decrepit mansion he never asked to inherit. The house is a wreck, the locals are crazy, and there's a waitress at the diner pretending to be French. Allie Brooks is everything he’s not: warm, funny, and vivacious. And she keeps her sparkle even when she’s working three jobs to support her orphaned nieces. She’s also the only hired help in town, and Greyson never mixes work and pleasure. But now he’s beginning to wonder if that rule was made to be broken.

Tessa’s ill-fated date with a “hotep” (you’ll see what I mean) seems to have a positive twist when she meets “her” hot bartender - Phil Tremblay. Phil is right for her in all the wrong ways and the last guy on earth she should end up with. He’s tattooed and foul-mouthed and can use his hands and tongue to push her to the edge of glory.

Their love story began over a magical Christmas holiday and now Hannah and Kristine have returned to Norway to stay at Espen and Dani's new eco-resort. They are excited to be taking part in the festivities surrounding Midsummer's Eve, but they also have a bigger celebration to plan. This time, there will be no sad goodbyes because this time, they're getting married!