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It was an odd sensation. She was standing on solid ground, but she was falling. Not physically, of course, but somewhere deep inside, she was falling. The cell phone dropped from her hand onto the carpet of her dorm room, and Amber didn’t know if she would ever be alright again.

Royce McLeod couldn’t wait to get out of Tucson, Arzona and never come back. All she wanted was a life away from the desert and her M.C. family. But ten years later, her well planned and perfect life shatters. Calling off her upcoming wedding, losing a well-deserved promotion, and having to accept that her fiancé wasn’t actually the man she thought all were too much for this stubborn woman. With her tail tucked, Royce heads home to nurse her broken heart. While welcomed back, the only thing warm was the hot summer.

My name is Jax. Well, officially it’s Jacqualina Weaver, but I hate that name. My bestie nicknamed me Jax, so that’s what I go by. Veronica (Roni) Vaughn has been my best friend and sister for the last six years, through thick and thin. She's the only one I can count on. So, when she needs me, I'm not letting her down. I'll give up everything just to make her final wishes come true.

When Pearl Aster takes a receptionist job at Wolf Motor’s, all she is hoping for is enough money to get out of her parents’ smoothing hold, and away from their rule dominated life. Her upper-class status and its expectations are nothing that she wants now that she’s seen the ugliness it conceals. Yet these rough and rowdy men aren’t like anything she’s ever experienced. Brash, bold, dirty, and completely honest, but still more respectful than the man that she’s expected to marry.

Marvel Keller is one of Hollywood’s best kept secrets. A P.A. by title, her sole job is to take on the most difficult cases and turn them into productive celebrities again. She’s worked with the best and the worst that the entertainment world has produced. Bram Stoker is just another name on a list of famous people who are falling apart under the pressure of the spotlight. As lead singer to one of the strongest Death Metal bands on the market, he has the world at his feet. But all that attention, and the trauma of real life, comes with a cost.

Silent Squall is a love story filled with beautiful locations, unexpected sexual situations, emotions as unpredictable as the tide, and love that is modern and relatable. While touched with tradition, and multi-cultural color, Zale and Dipsi’s tale is a classic love story that listeners will yearn to be a part of.

As the car had pulled to a stop at the end of the drive, preparing to make a left to head back to the city, Sage swore she heard the howl of a wolf, and her heart shattered into a thousand pieces.

Wolf's mate for life. Shifters need their mates to keep from going insane. But what happens when mates meet, and the time isn't right? Trinity has major trust issues, bad habits, a job that isn't socially acceptable, and a past that is hunting her. Dixon wasn't looking for his mate. Finding her means that he can't have the life he wants. Not to mention, she's a hot fucking mess. Fighting fate is harder than fighting the change at the full moon.

Keeping secrets in a small island town is impossible, and when the entire island is willing to overlook the dirtiest of secrets, what can a girl do? Dean, or Dirt as most of the town calls her, knows her place. She knows what is expected of her and she has accepted it. Leaning only on her best friend, Gil, to get her through the hard times, Dean continues accepting the routines of daily life of a small island town. But when two new visitors come to the island and take an interest in her, Dean has a decision to make. Does she follow her heart or her head?

Illianna was a child star pushed into exile. Having lost everything she called home; she just wants to find a safe place to be. When her best friend wins tickets to a local concert, Illy wasn’t ready to face her past, and she sure in hell wasn’t ready for a man like Ajax. Ajax Atlas wasn’t known for loyalty. He wanted hot, fast sex with the girls halfway out the door before it was over. He wasn’t a guy who wanted to see their face the next morning. But when his one-night stand with Illy has her running from him, and he can’t understand why it bothers him so much.

What is more powerful, habit or love? All Max wanted was a clean start. No rumors, no gossip, no past, and especially no love. That was exactly what she got when she started at the University and started her new job at a local bar called The Brick Wall. Leaving her past and all her mistakes behind in her hometown, the city offered her a new life, one where she could just focus on herself and her future. Unfortunately, she never bargained for Donnie Walker or Tanner Travis.

When Abbie agreed to the contract, she knew she'd be giving up a lot. She also knew she'd be given everything she thought she wanted. When Sir brings Essa in to keep her protected, Abbie finds that the bodyguard makes her feel more than just safe. As her master turns out to be someone very different than who she thought, Abbie is left reassessing her life and what she wants out of it.

Brie wasn’t happy about what was coming. She’d lived here just long enough to think of this neighborhood as home. Most people wouldn’t chose a place like Dante’s Inferno to call home. But if she was going to live anywhere, it would be here. After all, the nuns had beaten into her that she was nothing but a sinner. What better place for a sinner than Hell.

Etta James didn’t want much from life. Her only goal was to live free from the controlling hand of her family and their illegal activities. That was what brought her and her best friend across the country, from Boston to Tucson. But when her best friend is killed in a car accident, Etta James must re-evaluate her life and her goals, as well as the best way to survive. In such an uncertain time, the one thing Etta knew was that she wasn’t looking for love; and she certainly wasn’t looking for Cad Bara.

With the monsters that hunted her destroyed, Sage thought that her life was becoming all she had dreamed. Not only did she have a good job that she liked, she had a family that was closer than blood, and a boyfriend she adored. But insecurities aren’t as easy to bury as the past is, and before she can even accept her new normal, Thane’s past comes back to threaten their future.

Orla O’Brien met the love of her life when she was only eight years old. Eamon Kelly was everything she wanted in a friend, then in a boyfriend. When he’s forced to leave her behind, she knew there was no other man on Earth for her. And she promises to wait for him. Seven years later, he hasn’t returned.

Divorce, an unforeseen relationship, a powerful attorney with dark desires, and a healing process that years of therapy couldn't accomplish all come from that one event no one saw coming. Breaking Belle's Chains is a story about learning to love and accept yourself, even when society tells you it's wrong.

Her breath caught when she saw him. His dark hair was cut and styled short, but sexy. Long enough she wanted to run her fingers through it, but not long by any means. His face was turned down, focused, yet she could see the chiseled features from the doorway. When he glanced up at her, the look of annoyance in his eyes made her think of the previous night. She knew instantly that he had been the man at the strip club, the man who had held the lollipop for her to suck. She swallowed nervously. If he recognized her, it was all over.

Larkyn wasn't looking for love. She was trying to heal herself. So when she meets Braylon Atlas (lead guitarist for the hottest new band), she had to run from her desires. Of course, it turns out to be harder than she realizes when he is doing everything to pull her in. Using every excuse in the book, Braylon works this small time writer into his world. He even goes so far as to use her own desires against her to get her to stop running away. But are his desires for her real? Or should she take her story and run?

The heat rose off the highway as she drove east, away from the sun. She thought it was ironic that she was driving away from the sun and into the heat, away from the cool and into the fire. The fire; the place where people like her were supposed to go. Wasn’t that what she was taught as a child? Bad people go into the heat, into the fire, into Hell.